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(...) Thanks for the tip. Right now, however, $99 seems like quite a lot for me. :-) /Vlad (26 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hey all, I was just thinking today, I wonder what the alternate models will be for the "Ultimate Collector" sets? Perhaps for the TIE Interceptor we could build a regular TIE Fighter? For the X-Wing perhaps a Z-95 Headhunter? What do others out (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: [MN] More Mini-figs posted to eBay
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(...) My question is, who is Helmut and why are you selling him? <g> kevin (26 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | [MN] More Mini-figs posted to eBay
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I've posted some more mini-figs and other stuff to eBay. [MN] Lego 15 Blue/White Mini-figs w/Helmut No Bids Yet [MN] Lego 15 Green Mini-figs w/Wizard Hat No Bids Yet [MN] Lego 19 White/Blue Mini-figs w/Top Hat No Bids Yet [MN] NEW Lego 10 (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Email Address
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(...) Yeah, I'm trying to get around using hotmail and yahoo and geocities cause alot of sites that want "real" addresses won't take those and I REALLY don't want my father reading my email off of the netcom account considering he has this tendency (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Found a Gray Lego Auction
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Yep, my thoughts exactly. (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: I'm Through Coloring Inside the Lines for Awhile...
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(...) Does that make me the second? ;) (...) <snipped stuff> (...) I almost invariably build the model first. There is typically something there that gives me a neat idea, or a springboard for similar ideas, and so forth. The only exceptions to date (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Winnies a Pooh!
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(...) to (...) too (...) Yeah, Im with you on Winnie, and I really dont like the Forest friends sets, I have actually been disapointed with this years range of Duplo, and for the first time ever, the quality as well. Did anyone else notice that the (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.duplo)
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| | Re: Animated Space Station
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(...) Cool Space Station!!! Works well on my machine, almost too well. Have to really watch for the minifig and the docked craft, as they must be pulling 5 or 6 G's with the rotational speed ;) Love the still pics the best as you can really see the (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Homemade LED Bricks
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(...) [snip] The light pipe dohingus in the "Extreme Creatures" add-on, Space Shuttle Technic kit and a few others does this very nicely, it even adds a rotating display to the works. Its one of the few cool things in the Extreme Creatures expansion (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: I'm Through Coloring Inside the Lines for Awhile...
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(...) I always build the main model even if it is a very small set that I bought just for parts. My interest is in Technic and MindStorms. Even though I have been building my own models for quite some time, I can find a helpful building tip even in (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: New Castle Idea
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(...) Your ideas are excellent! My only change would be to substitute Smaug for Ancalagon. How about Bag End? A big, rounded green hill with windows and doors sticking out. Comes with Bilbo and Frodo. The Prancing Pony: A medieval-looking inn with a (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Robot for sale
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I have a General Robotics RB5X I'd like to sale for $1000, it was just refurbished by General Robotics a year ago at a costs of $1200. I know this doesn't have anything to do with Hand Boards but I thought maybe someone from the mailing list would (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | FA(eBay): 6571,6982,6949,1752 (Flame Fighters, Explorien Starship, Robo Guardian, Crossbow Boat)
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6949 Spyrius Robo Guardian 1994 UIB (URL) Explorien Starship 1996 MIB (URL) Crossbow Boat MIB (URL) Flame Fighters 1994 MIB! (URL) Email: kwilson_tccs@compuserve.com Web page: (URL) Page: (URL) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Sadly a look at this group...
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(...) Hope springs eternal, James. =) -- Richard (who needs either more Pirate/Soldier sets or his dose of Lithium!) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | New rendering of Rebel Blockade Runner
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Just finished this new collection of renderings. The following link is to an image containing all of the orthoganlo views of the model. (URL) also posted the dat to the dat.model group. Check lugnet.space for some other renderings (of MOCs) that I (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | I'm Through Coloring Inside the Lines for Awhile...
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I'm the first to admit that I buy LEGO sets just for the parts. I never actually build the model in the instruction booklet. Until a recent post by Ralph Hempel about the 8226 Mud Masher that sent me on a bit of a building rampage. The Mud Masher (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Need black drop down train wagon plates
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This has got to be the stupidest sounding thread ever. I didn't realize that the larger news groups contained all the more specific ones. I saw my original post in marketplace and thought I had mis-posted when in reality I had it right the first (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Lots of new renderings and DAT files
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I have finished three CAD models recently. I'm posting the dat files to the dat.models group, and posting information concerning the finished Rebel Blockade runner on .starwars. Here are links to three rendered images of my XP-21 model Perspective (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Need black drop down train wagon plates
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Sorry, this should have been posted to Buy/Sell/Trade. My apologies. Steve (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Tricerablock's horns
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(...) I have Fort Legoredo and Amazon crossing. I think they may have just been loose pieces. I'm not certain, though. I can, however, say with a fair amount of certainty that they weren't on a ring with that feathery piece like in the Islander (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: legOS-0.2.2
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Hi Markus, sorry for the delayed response, but finally i'm back: (...) i found a way that may be somewhat cleaner, by separating the lnp related header files needed by the utilities from the libc stuff: created a directory in legOS/include named (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Orange bricks in Artic 2000
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Ben Gatrelle <ben@yellowcastle.spam.com> wrote in message news:FL042B.HLA@lugnet.com... (...) than (...) year. (...) pieces (...) pieces, (...) sets. (...) I like the approach that that LEGO has usually stuck to, perhaps right up until this year: to (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: What colors do bricks come in?
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Never mind -- the plate under the tree *is* a lighter green. Weird, I never noticed that before. -- Paul Davidson, aka Tinman (URL) "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine." Paul Davidson <tinman@direct.ca> (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: What colors do bricks come in?
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I don't think the green in the speederbike set is any different from normal green -- I'm looking at the set right now. -- Paul Davidson, aka Tinman (URL) "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine." Simon (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Another mention of Lego
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(...) No, no! Q was a fantanstic answer!!{:^D Great job, Simon! (I assume you did a good job on questions 1-9, which were Greek to me;) Speaking of Q, the episode where Q loses his powers was on last night. Corbin Bernson a Q!! a classic. But then (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Age average
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(...) Ok, let's try this: I guess he's using a new (to us) manner of speaking. It's like if I say "I'm Russian" and I mean "I was born in Russia". By saying "I'm 28", he's saying that he was born in 1928. :) (ok that was a bit of a stretch) Ben (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.people)
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| | Re: $40 Night Lord's Castle
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(...) I went by the KB toyworks tonight to see if they had gotten any other shipments in and found the 6441 for $29.99(same as the kbkids website) There are 8 of those sets still there and the "buy 1 get 2nd half off" was still in effect but I had (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: What colors do bricks come in?
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Simon Robinson wrote in message ... (...) ... (...) kjmrr (...) No, the Purple in the Belville set I was refering to is the same as the McDonalds Set Purple. You called it Indigo above. (...) .... You can add a Trans-Pink to your Transparent colors (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Age average
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(...) How'd you work THAT trick? Gerald Ford was a child in the 1920s, I think. (26 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.people)
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| | Re: Homemade LED Bricks
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(...) Thanks for the enlightenment. I remembered it went something like that. But don't you have to allow for the forward voltage drop across the LED, typically 1.6 volt (still from memory)? That is, the voltage should be 9 - 1.6 = 7.4 volts. So the (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: FOTW!
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(...) They've gone down again then! They were 19.99 at the Lougheed Mall Wal-Mart (Burnaby, near Vancouver) last week - but only there, haven't seen them at any others. I have been sending my Technic class kids down there to get themselves some <g>. (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: Blue Hopper Car Mania...
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(...) I have no idea. I'd happily split hairs with you on this but we've gone below the power of my scope to resolve, hairsizewise... :-) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Blue Hopper Car Mania...
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(...) Just nitpicking here but the amount the retailer nets as profit may be slightly more, or slightly less. It depends on a number of factors such as what the cost to take an order is, the cost to fulfill an order, how much less one box costs than (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: LEGO Queen Amidala
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Thanks y'all for them kind (and humourous) words. I've got some more pictures, including one with yours truly for size comparison. But I'll include it when I feel more extroverted. Craig, your Queen Amidala and other creations are marvels to (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Homemade LED Bricks
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grrr.. I flubbed.. instead of r = .01/9 make it r = 9/.01 ----- Original Message ----- From: Keith Miller <kmiller@talon.net> To: <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 10:23 PM Subject: Re: Homemade LED Bricks (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: RIS 1.0 to 1.5 software upgrade
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Hi! I got a RIS 1.0 in October. I called up Lego Consumer affairs to ask for an update kit for $3.95. They said it is only possible if I had bought from S@H. They also say that it is available to only those lego RIS which have a sticker on the box. (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Chicago Legofest
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In lugnet.loc.us.il.chi, Tim Courtney wrote about: <Hopeful Chicago Legofest-Wheaton Academy for free on December 3rd> WOW! I live in New York, but, I will be in Wisconsin that weekend. COUNT ME IN (assuming it comes together.) I'll hop a bus or (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.us.il.chi)
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| | Re: New Castle Idea
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(...) The Bat Lord's helmet keeps reminding me of "The Mouth of Sauron"'s helmet seen in the animated version of "The Return of the King". :-) Elliot (26 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Homemade LED Bricks
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basicly.. it's i*r=v where i = current in amps and r = resistance in ohms and v = voltage in volts.. so.. If we want to find out the resistor's value.. we re arrange it like so.. r = v/i so 10 millamps (typical led current) = .01 Amps.. And at 9 (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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