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(...) All Star Wars Books are considered canon, including comics. They must be consistent with the established universe and their plot becomes real in that universe. In the event of a contradiction order of precedence is: Movies, Novelisations of (...) (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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Mark Hodge's note in another thread reminded me of this subject I wanted to bring up too. Has anyone else experienced poor / slow service from this crowd? In my experience their service is abysmal. Ian Bishop, Ayrshire, UK (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) thin rubber band around the protruding axle - it pulls out easily then. Chris (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Is this the original criteria, or an extra one? It takes creativity (and admittedly, in some cases, stupidity) to to find non-normal hard to remove combinations :) (...) Usually I find these quite easy with a brick seperator, or maybe I just (...) (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) As far as "normalcy" goes, I've drawn blood a few times separating two tighly-sealed 2x2 plates. Any bigger a plate and you can bend them just enough to create a seam into which a fingernail will fit. 2x2's are just too small, and God forbid (...) (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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Quick question: is there a way for the rcx to send data to the PC (and possibly vice versa)? I have a scanner base built, and ideally I would like a way to communicate with the RCX, with the PC controlling the movement of the scanner. I could (...) (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Larry! You go to Germany, shops will open only at around 1000am... at least most of the small ones (...) I guess, you are referring to the US sets, right? In Germany, we had some others (see (URL) for details; Keyword: McDonalds). Apart from (...) (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.de)
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I bought a 8299 Search Sub on discount yesterday and the pneumatic workcylinder was leaking right the first time I used it. I replaced it with one of my own, but will call LEGO Benelux monday. Rengenier (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I meant in a basin of water. It has to be left for an hour or so. This makes sure the water gets in side the bricks. Scott A (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Don't try this at home kids! The hardest parts I ever had to disentangle were two: (URL) you recall, they have a handle underneath with another three holes on the underside as well. Just idly playing with them, I wondered how tightly they (...) (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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15 min von Frankfurt? Welcher Ort ist das? (...) Bad Homburg (sorry Doe, war nur gerade eh hier) (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.de)
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Hi Doe, Good to see you got awake. I was about to call you and ask why you hadn't answered to Larry. Let me know when you set up you minifest. Not much chances that I will be able to stop by, but you never know. Larry, if you shoot over your list (...) (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.loc.de)
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <383FECF5.A050031@vo...er.net>... (...) Larry is correct, I just did this and had to click on a bright red "Redeem Coupon" button. $20 credit showed up in the shopping cart. I ordered the Mindstorms book and the (...) (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Not a big problem. Thanks for correcting it though. Sometime I've gotta get to my Zacktron planets section and also do something with a space map of their territory. That image helps TREMENDOUSLY. Thanks for everything, John! -Tim (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.space)
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Christian Gemuenden wrote in message ... (...) <snip> This is merely speculation. Nothing from Lucas or TLC has confirmed it. (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Which leads to another question. If you make a model with Lego bricks mixed with Byggis [1], how will the model be identified as such, and how will the individual clone pieces be identified as such? Obviously someone with a Lego-only (...) (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Theoretically it would. I'm still holding on to the notion that (URL) should remain Lego-pure and the Lego aspect of it should not be shoved aside. Also, I wouldn't want to do all the work for each of the other sites, there would be a (...) (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.cad.dev)
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Aaron West wrote in message ... (...) I (...) What has always worked for me is turning the stick horizontal and giving it a slight twist. I have yet to bend any that way. I always have problems removing 1x2 plates from any other plate. The tiles (...) (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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Very cool. However there is a step 2.5, you have to click on the "redeem coupon" at some point before you check out or it doesn't show in your shopping cart and you don't get it. (...) (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) athlete's foot. The small black wrench accessory can also be helpful getting bricks apart. I vote for the antenna/control stick. It is a bear. Aaron (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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