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(...) Because FK are firmly rooted in what I see when I fantasize about Castle stuff, both in style of construction and "historical" period. And Ninja is not. Wrong place, wrong time. Same reason Wild West aren't Pirates imo, and as obvious to me. (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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OK, first off the pics are at (URL) if you havn't seen them. Now to the topic at hand... Some things I havn't seen in new sets for a while! Those new hemets (I've seen them before in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, they're pikeman helmets) are (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I'd say definitely Adventurers for the plane. It's got a couple of pterodactyls flying around it. Pterodactyls! How cool. -Pete (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.adventurers)
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(...) Are you sure they're not cow-paddies that they're lobbing at the enemies? :) <insert flying cow sceen The Holy Grail, "Moooooo!"> --Mike. (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Sweee...eeeEEEeee...eeet! (Except for the milenium falcon, that stinks!) Let's start with futbal. It's soccer, and all they show is a field. Heh. Now Star Wars! The sets look great, great, great! great, great, great!great, great, great!great, (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Shoddy MF
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It's true. The worthless picture that was posted a few weeks ago is the MF that will be released with some minor changes. For all of those who claimed we should have more faith in TLG... now what?! I gave TLG the benefit of the doubt when it (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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Did you all notice that the futbol field is a pseudo foosball table? (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yaaaaaaaay!!!...!!! Cherry Picker Buckets!!! Finally! Quick thoughts, I'll add more tomorrow afternoon. The Soccer sets look good, and I can add my World Cup sets to 'em. I love the AAT, and check out all the brown on the MTT. And the MTT (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Wow, maybe I ought to hold onto that 4558 after all. I guess I'm halfway to being able to make as many Club Cars as I want with these sets. What do you figure on cost for 3401? I'd say $10 or less except for that goofy action-keeper thingie. (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Er, Um, Football is the European name for Soccer. If I'm vaguely remembering my Spanish lessons in highschool correctly, Football was spelled "Futbal" or something along those lines. I could be wrong though. Kya (25 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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On this page: (URL) display light poles similar to the one in the soccer sets (#3313) in the upper right hand corner... Does that mean they'll be new ones this year? :) And the guy down in the bottom right hand, in the Cherry picker thing; does that (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Millennium Falcon close-up! (was: Re: Sorry to spoil it KL, but 2000 catalog posted!)
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(...) What the heck is up with the tail end of that Falcon? It looks OK until you get there...sigh. And that castle looks magnificent...but the MTT...do I see grey 2x2 steep-slope *corners*...? I thought it was gonna be red, but I think brown and (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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You might not want to go to bed just yet, I'm almost done with the Direct catalog, which has some other new sets. KL (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Nah, those aren't Ninja. Cow-pack sounds good. I like 'em, tho. 2x2 round bricks in smallish sets. Mmmm.... (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) This kind of doofus. *points to self* I happen to find Japanese culture and Japanese related items facinating. As for European Castles, you've seen one, you've seen them all. CL (25 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) castle (...) Let me try again, why is Fright Knights "real" castle and Ninja not? Whether they both collectively suck or not is beside the point. Bruce (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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Hmm, I wonder what frequent trips to which city inspired the raised road construction set? I saw we call it the "big dig" set! KL (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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Well it's twenty to five in the morning UK time so I'm off to bed. It was great to be able to see the new sets. Overall though I'm slightly disappointed. About a quarter of the catalogue (on page count) is now devoted to Starwars which is starting (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Phleet Photos Phublished (Was: Re: My fleet is (emphatically not) bigger'n your fleet!)
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(...) It was an older style, originally, but I think the term enjoyed something of a new genesis in the 19th century--but in what context, I'm unsure. As for my fleet, well, I have a few things up, now that my old B&W scanner is working again: (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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As a fan of LEGO before Town-Jr how about "A FOOL" Adult Fan OF Older LEGO" ...Allan John VanZwieten wrote in message ... (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Cool! There is a bit of juniorization in the 2000 castle sets, but overall I am very pleased. I love the large blue roof pieces and the new shields. The best part for me, though, is the princess minifig in the big castle set, 6091. I only wish (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Vague Lousy Page is Finally Up
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Hey, all- I finally have a few scans of older (1997-1998) warship constructions up: (URL) accidentally misattributed two of the images, but at least they're out there. Hopefully I'll be able to work on them, and get some colour scans as well, in (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.build)
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(...) Um, hmmm... does kinda look like a new arm. Might just be a visual trick though. Can't see her hands, either, but they'd just be behind the battle droids. ;) Right now it *DOES* look different than the Knight's arm on the same page, looks (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: OZAFOL's unite!!
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(...) Good man!! We have a very big rail division, which is always on the look-out for new engineers as we have a lot of rail work on at the moment, particularly as we are part of the Alice to Darwin Railway Consortium ;) Where are you working with (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Yup! (...) Nah, assuming all the Artic sets are listed in the Artic page (page 23, c00am-23), that leaves Adventurers, which the new ones arn't listed. Also, it's along with the other Adcenturers stuff, not the Artic in the mural. And in that (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.adventurers)
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The ones in the soccer bus look white. compare the gray to the white in the grandstand, and then look at the bus. KL (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Well - if they are limited edition, then they'll sell-out, which is good. But not as good as if they weren't limited and they sold out as well! Ie - by limiting the numbers TLG will never *really* know how popular they would be. (...) Blame (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Cool! Where'd you get all those garage doors? Are you going to build a warehouse behind those doors? Or is it just a facade? It'd be interesting to make a whole freightyard, where crates and other stuff could be transfered from giant ships to (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
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Also check out the new plane and pterodactyls in red and tan that are on page 10. (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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(...) Is it just me or is her arm "robey"? Check it out and tell me that I don't see a wrinkle on that arm... -- pn (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) You mean the one at (URL)? Finally, the pantoon plane is done correctly! However, it might as well be from the Artic theme. I don't know. Doesn't it look a bit too modern to be an Adventurers flyingboat? Either way, it is a cool plane. Overall (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Talked to LEGO today
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(...) They were at both places (all three if you count Birko). I distinctly remember one at Centrepoint, it had a space theme, and still influences alot of my space MOC's (if I could just find the %$&#@*$ exhibit catalogue!!). I also remember the (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.au)
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I'm going to be clearing quite a few models ... here is what I have. If you are interested let me know. I'm not quite sure what to charge but I want to do this without an auction. No reasonable offer (what I consider a reasonable offer:) will be (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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Simon Robinson wrote in message ... (...) My guess would be to charge more. They figure if they market to adults, they can charge adult prices (as if they don't already). (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) jur-abs-ic park!? later ~ craig (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Millennium Falcon close-up! (was: Re: Sorry to spoil it KL, but 2000 catalog posted!)
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(...) Ah, cool. Thanks! All I wanted to know... Strange feature to include, if you ask me. 'Specially since it was never SEEN in the movies (mentioned...). That was my first impression of it, too... Oh, well. Maybe I'll be lucky this thanksgiving (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) ~ LOL!! cow-pack! i love it! i won't be able to call 'em anything but! they're surely not ninja though. definitely european villains for the knights. later ~ craig (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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I'm not so sure they are gray... look at the caption picture that shows the action shot of the minifig kicking a ball. Those look white :-( Maybe Kevin can clarify for us, but I'm not optimistic. They look gray in the one shot but it is shadowed and (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Millennium Falcon close-up! (was: Re: Sorry to spoil it KL, but 2000 catalog posted!)
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I tried a 300dpi of page 8 and you still can't really make out the action box. My best guess is that it is an escape pod coming out the back. My scanner isn't the sharpest as you can see. KL (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | One good town set for 2000 (maybe?)
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6600 looks like it has pretty good vehicles, and the first raised road plates! I hope they sell them seperate (probably not...). Page 26, BTW. And if you don't have the site by now it's (URL) :) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=...=-=-=-=-=- jmbrown@mines.edu (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 2000 Scans are Online!
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Jason Brown wrote in message <38273E75.5BDE6C8D@m...es.edu>... (...) I feel the same way. There is no way to beat the ones I have seen. I noticed the single person cockpit also. As was the case with you, I too am now disappointed in the MF. All (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 2000 Scans are Online!
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(...) That does sound like really good news - I assume these are pretty much the first Lego sets for which the suggested age range is basically an adult range. What puzzles me though is *why* they are marked as from 16. They don't look especially (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: More news on 2000 lineup!
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(...) Are those Ninja or "Cow-pack" (like Wolfpack, but with that steer emblem). They look kinda European to me, like a band of bad guys to put your new Knight's Kingdom castle under seige. That swords don't look very ninja. I think I'll just call (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I assumed those were more castle - the enemy for the Knights to vanquish :) But if it works in Castle *and* Ninja themes then all the cooler! Richard (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Millennium Falcon close-up! (was: Re: Sorry to spoil it KL, but 2000 catalog posted!)
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(...) Good deal Kevin, that helps a bit on judging the MF... but I'd still like a close up of 8 of the Falcon, and maybe the A-Wing, please. Both have strange things going on in the cartoony pictures above their set pictures. Or if you can just (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Millennium Falcon close-up! (was: Re: Sorry to spoil it KL, but 2000 catalog posted!)
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(...) it's supposed to be... it's on page 8. Looks like something big falling out of it or something... :/ Although the new close up of page 12 adds insight into the model... only 1 minifig in the cockpit, looks like. (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Ninja vs. "real" Castle (was: Re: More news on 2000 lineup!)
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(...) ^^^...^^^ RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!! Mike's on the loose!!!!! (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Hey, wait! There *are* more Ninja sets: (URL) more! --Todd (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) LOL! That Han is such a little rascal! Richard (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Millennium Falcon close-up! (was: Re: Sorry to spoil it KL, but 2000 catalog posted!)
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heh, try page 12a... KL (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Hmm... no I didn't. I don't think they've ever done 16 or above before! Wow. :) Finally some recognition of older LEGO fans. Um, expesive, LOTS of pieces. Hmmm... Kevin posted a close up of the Falcon (not from the page I wanted, but good (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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I just added c00am-12a.jpg, a 300dpi close up of the MF It doesn't exactly fit on the page like the rest of the scans, but oh well. KL (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Another fan of large projects (and there are quite a few these days :) As a LEGO purist I cannot condone the mutilation of LEGO parts in model construction, but it is your LEGO, and farbeit for me to tell you what to do with it. I can offer (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Millennium Falcon close-up! (was: Re: Sorry to spoil it KL, but 2000 catalog posted!)
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(...) There's a big closeup on page 12! (URL) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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Jason Brown wrote in message <382739DC.77E70887@m...es.edu>... (...) :) Anyway, (...) Did you notice the age on the "Ultimate Collector's Series" from 16 years? Has Lego listed an age 16 or above? They look expensive to me... (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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Page 11 of the new year-2000 U.S. LEGO catalog! (URL) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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Woo Hoo!!!...!!! Gray train windows in the 2000 sets! 3 gray windows in a SMALL set. We can get all we want now. Set #3401 has probably 50 pieces and 3 are gray 1x4x3 train window frames. Also, in set #3405 we will be able to get 6 white train (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) The look on her face, to me, says "I wish he would stop pinching me." Julie (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) And of course the new dinosaurs can be mixed up with Wild West for that "Valley of Gwangi" feeling. Hooray! -Pete (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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All I have to say is..."LEIA IS HIDEOUS!!!!!" Thank you. Done ranting. (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Dinosaurs!
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Proceed immediately to: (URL) behold. So we go from mummies and spiders into "The Lost World". Let me be the first to say (and I'm sure many agree) that this is a pretty darn swell thing, a great direction for this theme to go. I can't wait for (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: 2000 Scans are Online!
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I know one thing I'm buying a lot of!!! The elevated road plates #6600.That set is pretty neat by itself. Not much of a selection for town this year is there? (The elevated road plates, I think is the best idea TLG has had in a long time.) and I'm (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Well seen the Castle on locks server!
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First of all thanks for the photo Kevin! :-) Second the sets stick just like I thought..... But there is a new prefab piece for brefab castle builders and the new helmet is in small sets too. More horse bardards and plenty of brown wheels and more (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: 2000 Scans are Online!
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I still don't think the Falcon looks THAT bad. Cockpit to "saucer" could be improved, though. Still on my list of sets. :) The dinosaurs look cool, did you see the big prop plane in the mural in the middle of the catalog?? Coooolll. Looks like it (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Sorry to spoil it KL, but 2000 catalog posted!
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Jason Brown wrote: D'oh! Beat to the punch. :) Hey Kevin, if you read this, can you do a closeup of the Millennium Falcon? I can't make out what that sub-picture is showing it does. Um, it's on page 8. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=...=-=-=-=-=- (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 2000 Scans are Online!
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(...) What a night to be sitting in a hotel room with a 14,400 connection!!! Argh! Anyway looks like the Falcon is just about as bad as we thought although the cockpit looks a bit better than previously thought and it is still good for pieces. Still (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.castle)
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Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! 2000 looks like a much better year than 1999, though I still wish they would un=juniorize town. Artic is way COOL. And now we have polar bears! Yahoo! It might be juniorized, but I really like the new highway pieces. (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Ooh Ahh!! Big Thanks Kevin!!! Julie (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Sorry to spoil it KL, but 2000 catalog posted!
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Check Kevin Loch's site at (URL) (great site, btw :) ), under the catalogs section, 2000. :) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Ninja vs. "real" Castle (was: Re: More news on 2000 lineup!)
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All I want is pics of the new sets! That would make me happy. :-) Just to see whats useful for parts as for sets, I dont think A Empire can ever reclaim the glory they once held. I fear the glory days of lego are over...... But the good news is they (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) WOO WOO WOO! :) YES YES YES! It's gonna be a long night! Booting the coffee server now! :) --Todd (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 2000 catalog FOUND!
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Let me be the first to say that the sets look really good. Thanks Kevin for getting them up so quick. In case Kevin's still scanning, look here. (URL) Whytcross b_whytcross@hotmail.com (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Richard (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Futbol 2000
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Just checked out the new scans for 2000. While Town may be dead and resting in pieces Futbol certainly offers hope for any Townies that are still around. The Bus (the first of any kind since 1979) and the TV crew set are certainly on my want list. A (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 2000 catalog FOUND!
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(...) Shhh!! Julie don't distract him, the mans busy scanning...... (it does seem to be taking a long time though doesnt it? Perhaps he has fallen asleep....perhaps if we all yell REALLY loudly at the same time we will wake him up?? What do you (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(URL) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf)
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(...) I am using the motors that came with the RCX. (...) Hmmm - do you propose to ensure the delay in the relay circuit or programmatically? If in the circuit, how? (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: $40 Night Lord's Castle
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(...) *sigh* I almost went out to check on these tonight, but when we were leaving work today I was carrying an armload of stuff, lost my footing, and ended up taking the most delightfully funny-looking spill onto the parking lot. Boxes flew (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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Wes, relays would work pretty well. (Still, how much current do your motors draw???) The LEGO motors draw about .35 Amps (350 Milliamperes) You could connect two 5V coil relays , each with a diode in series with the coil, connected oppositely to (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Lego vs. Pokemon
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So how many other parents are going to have to battle the kids over which fast food place to go to? Hubby's gone for the week, I'm thinking "cool, I don't have to cook, the kids will be happy with McD. & we'll get our fill of the sets." But nooooo, (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| | Re: 2000 catalog FOUND!
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(...) Hmmm...this seems to be taking awhile. Kevin didn't go into cardiac arrest over the high quality of the sets, did he? :-) Julie (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) To sleep or not to sleep.. that's the real dilemma! 3am in the UK - anyone else from this side of the Atlantic doing the vigil too? [Followups set to lugnet.off-topic.snooze so that we can help keep each other awake ;) ] Richard (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Freight Terminal
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I started mocking up a Freight Terminal for my bookshelf town layout and liked it so much, here is what resulted. (URL) welcome. Paul (URL) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: 2000 catalog FOUND!
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(...) The funny thing is I actually did say this, to myself, then I decided to post it. :) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Futbol
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(...) Oh.... oh well theres still the new castle, Dinos and arctic Thanks for clearing this up. Rachel (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 2000 catalog FOUND!
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(...) Scan or scan not. There is no talk. (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Model Team 2000
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Heya ! I'm big fan of Model Team. Don't you know what will be new in 2000 besides Star Wars in Model Team ? Thanx. e-mail: virsik@sco.svf.stuba.sk (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Communication with PC using NQC
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(...) Could you be more specific on "querying its state" and "high-level commands"? If you're willing to write custom C++ code, you can pretty much do whatever you want on top of the rcxlib stuff from the NQC source base. Its pretty easy to send (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Arriva il niubbi! :))
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"iant" <iant@libero.it> wrote in message news:382764EC.FA0279...bero.it... (...) Come promesso, benvenuto! (...) Intendi dire che i motori vanno in stallo dopo 4-5 secondi? Tutti e due contemporaneamente? In effetti i cingoli sono il sistema di (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.it)
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Futbol means Soccer. It's Spanish, I think. If, however, they put American before it, it means Football as in NFL. (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 2000 catalog FOUND!
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LMAO! I could just hear this being said, in a patient but firm voice, with only a minor undertone of threat. thanx Mike for giving me a second thing to smile about today; thanx Kevin for scanning, but should you be reading this now? (thanx John, for (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Cricket info
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The link for more info on the MIT Cricket is: (URL) Eddings (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: More news on 2000 lineup!
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In lugnet.general, Alex Roode writes (...) Yeah I'm with you on this one Alex, I cant wait to see what the hell it is! And want to see the look on someones face the first time I say "Hi I collect Futbol!" Wonder where they got this name from, is it (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Cool! Thanks to Terry, Jacob, Steve, and everyone else whose time is generously volunteered for this project! Do you have any guess as to how "concrete" the pieces in this update are? i.e. would I need to re-align pieces in my DAT file if I (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Making Fake Pieces?
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WARNING: "purists" or those horrified by Lego part mutilation should read no further... ...safety zone... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... I have had excellent experience with attaching 32x32 baseplates to 3/4" pine boards with (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: More news on 2000 lineup!
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(...) Ooh! Knight's Kingdom. How magical and shinny. I was hoping for something maybe like Turok. (heh heh.) Get some dinos! Okay, so I know they will be in the Adventurures sets... but the whole indian-with-the-lase...f-dinosuar thing is pretty (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Ninja vs. "real" Castle (was: Re: More news on 2000 lineup!)
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(...) Um? If you are in your 20's, then you are likely to have been around during the best time of LEGO right at the peak of your childhood too :) I Have a yellow castle that was new to me as a kid :) and I'm 22 (for another week!). If you are say (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Top Ten Toys on A&E
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(...) It seems to be. At least, I still see it around, in various forms. But the 'top 10 list' seems to not be based on sales figures, so it is logical to assume that it is an attempt at identifying the 10 'best' toys of all time. Slinky is (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: My Lego Obsession & Philosophy
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(...) :) I printed one of these out (with the 8 drawn as an eight-ball). I haven't taped it to the vacuum yet--I'm waiting until no one is looking. Steve (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Three Cheers
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(...) Hip, hip, hooray! (3x) I am very encouraged by these steps. I hope they prove fruitful for the MINDSTORMS group, and other product groups at TLG see the benefit of having interaction with their customers and fans. Steve Bliss (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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