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(...) Nope, but my prediction was that if Adventurers continued, we would not see a return of Pirates. We may never see a return in any case. One can hope for 2001, but perhaps Pirates is just too out of style, and something hipper makes more sense (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: Dinosaurs!
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It´s great! I´ll finally be able to build Jurassic Park from lego! --Tobias (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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(...) some (...) There's a very large caveat I would add to Tuesday Morning: their discount is not figured at MSLP, but at what some stores charge. For Lego, we are talking mall stores that charge 10-20% (KB, FAO Schwartz) over list in the first (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | RE: Microfigure wheeled vehicles
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Fredrik wrote: <snipped logic behind mircofig vehicles... (URL)The URL only has one image and one animation, so it isn't anything very (...) I think its great! What about using the 2x2 turntable for a trailer? It only allows rotation, but it works! (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.build)
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We're having a Duplo Madness sale. There's too much Duplo piled up here, I can barely move ! I think the various Duplo sets I have are getting lost in the clutter of the System stuff, so.... These are all new and factory sealed unless otherwise (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) That's a good truck. I like how you did the back wall of the cab! If nothing else, working in microfig helps you think "outside the box" and come up with innovative new building techniques. (...) How about: a 1x2 plate with arm (LD#4623) on (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.build)
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Don't get your hopes up. I've been to exactly one Tuesday Morning sale, and the selection was poor but the prices were worse! It seems that they marked everything up to the FAO Schwartz (+10%) levels or higher, before applying the "discount". KL (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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Dennett wrote in message ... (...) Tuesday (...) through (...) some (...) Here's the website I found, it will give you locations. (URL) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) some (...) It is a chain. Here's a link to their web site: (URL) don't sell anything online, but you can see if a store is near you. Julie (26 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Arctic is Town (was: Re: My Analysis of the 2000 Sets)
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Todd Lehman wrote: <snipped well mapped out discussion of set numbering theory> (...) OK, I have looked at the new catalog in some detail but I can't see where everybody is getting the label "Futbol" for these sets. I am obviously overlooking (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town, lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Re: What might have been...
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(...) than (...) turns (...) really (...) This happened with the Sith Infiltrator exactly- a lot of AFOLS changed their stripes when they actually had it in their hands. chris (26 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: My thoughts on the new Castle line
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(...) I agree (...) I think it might be transparent. Look at the way the one in the knights training dummy set looks. It appears to have light coming from behind or it would be darker. (...) Or Bull's Eye Barbeque sauce. I think there is a beer (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Is this store a chain, or just an individual store. Location(s)?? Thanks Ryan (26 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Dates picked for Cleveland Lego Get Together
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(...) Either dates are good for me; probably better on a Saturday, however. Thanks again for hosting this, Troy; let us know if we should bring pop or snacks... (...) Sounds like a good idea. I'm looking for anything castle related. I've got a ton (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.loc.us.oh.col, lugnet.loc.us.oh.cle, lugnet.loc.us.oh.cin)
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(...) I don't know anything about saving the data structure to disk. However, I think that the reason for the parser to take som much time and memory on L3P'd scenes is that the format L3P generates is not best suited for POV-Ray. I think there (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Scout Questions
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James C. Jones <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:v01540b01b44f12...121.26]... (...) It got out. (...) to (...) Your wifely problems of off-topic ;-) The reason the Scout is now interesting is because LEGO has announced that they will (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: More news on 2000 lineup!
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(...) I think you and I may be the only ones who caught onto the whole "silly" part... (26 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Scout Questions
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I don't own the scout, but I'll bite, having followed the Scout discussions fairly closely. If given the choice between the Scout and the RCX, the RCX wins. The discussion of late (which seems to favor the Scout) can be summed up merely by saying (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Outback Airstrip Elements @ THE BRICKYARD
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Those Daring Young Men in Their Flying Machines! A Brickyard Update: (URL) Brickyard just posted the contents of several 6444 Outback Airstrip sets as well as some 6582 Daredevil Flight Squad! Both of these sets feature airplanes to good effect and (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Shoddy MF
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(...) fit (...) and (...) What (...) Yeh, I learned the technique from Jeff Christner, "the Father of Six Wide Fire Trucks". They just sit there on a flat surface. The only way you can use seats and have it be 6W is if you do what TLG did on the (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | RF communications
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Has anyone ever implemented a RF 1bidirectional communication link with the handyboard? If anyone knows of any good information concerning this topic and how to implement this please let me know. (26 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Train windows in red white and black.
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John Warren <warren71@webtv.net> wrote in message news:FKytMs.4q3@lugnet.com... (...) step (...) don't (...) I managed to get my hands on a 7745 in the late '80's from my late grandpa and that set comes with four pair of red train doors. Call me (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Sadly a look at this group...
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Sadly a look at this group, and I see there is no mention of the year 2000 catalogue. This can only mean there will be no pirates this year. Role on 2001! Scott A (26 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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Some time ago, I thought: Why should the space fans have all the fun of making microfigure scale models? For those who don't know: Microfigure scale is anything smaller than minifigure scale. So I thought about making a wheeled vehicle in a scale (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Big brother IS watching you!
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(...) Is this really going to happen?! (...) It is too easy to build your own. (26 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.duplo)
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| | Lego close-out sale at Tuesday Morning
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According to an advertisement that I received in the mail, the store Tuesday Morning is having a Lego closeout sale from Wednesday, November 17th through Tuesday, December 30th. I believe that the ad said that sets would be discounted from 33% to (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Help identify this catalog
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This sounds similar to a catalog that was out last year. It was a 25th anniversary catalog which contained the general product line, but I think was missing S@H stuff and and may not have had any price info. I have two different versions. One of (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: #6991 (Monorail Transport Base) from DYA
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Well done Emmanuel! (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: KBKIDS 6441 Deep Reef Refuge for $18!
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(...) Doyle (26 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | GATS Show GA this Weekend
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Hi! I'm planning on driving sown to the GATS show in gwinnett GA this weekend with some of my friends. I was wondering if the NGLTC was still going to be showing their layout and if any other LUGNETers were going to be there. Thanks! Patricia (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Even more 2000 comments
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(...) From a purely architectural view, extreme slopes make for great Mansard roofs. Those are the ones you see all over Paris, as well as American Victorian, Empire, Italianate, Beaux Arts, and other historic styles. The 1x2x3 and 2x2x3 regular (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Another mention of Lego
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If anyone's interested in seeing Wrox Press's interview with me - in which I did manage to get a brief mention of Lego, it's at. (URL) need to scroll down to question 10. I think this interview should be read by a fair number of people, mostly not (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Help identify this catalog
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Mark Koesel wrote in message ... (...) Is it a yellowish-orange color on the cover? If so, I also have one of these. It was lying on a register counter at a TRU and the cashier told me I could have it. About the only thing of interest in it that we (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Did anyone else notice...?
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(...) looking guys are called) seemed to be exclusively Dragon Masters Helmet with one bullet helm. The Retro-Royal Knights included a number of styles with cheers to the kettle-helm, but again, I didn't spot a bat helmet. I would have prefered a (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | The THING (Re: 2000 Artic theme = space)
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(...) You want hostile environment? Check out the movie, John Carpenter's "The THING". It doesn't get much more hostile! ..joseph g (26 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Help identify this catalog
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While at Toys R Us this past weekend (in Novi, MI) I was given a mysterious Lego catalog by a very nice cashier. In fact, she even cut the coupon out of the back of the catalog for me, so that I could get $2 off of my purchase 8448. The catalog is (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: shop at home news
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(...) prices in US dollars? And then tax/import on top of that? (...) Hmm, I never checked the Lego Direct flyers, so you might be right. I know our store prices are a few points lower, even after currency conversion, so I assumed S@H reflected (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | A new respect...
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After seeing the LEGO 2000 catalogue, I find myself with a new respect for Johnny Thunder. I'll admit, I've kinda thought he was a wimp, but seeing him striding confidently from his cage-hauling truck towards a Tyrannosaurus with nothing but a (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | WTB/WTT for Original Instructions
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I’m looking for original instructions for the sets listed below. I will pay handsomely for any of the originals you may be willing to part with. If you’d like to trade, I have an extensive lego collection from which I’m sure we can find just the (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: What might have been...
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A microcosm of this sequence was what happened with the McDonald's sets. When the first online pictures appeared, all I could read was 'Is that pink ? Is it really purple ??' Then, when the sets came out, we find that they are not all that bad, yes (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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