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The Mindstorms Books A Comparative Review by Jack Gregory The Unofficial Guide to LEGO MINDSTORMS Robots, Jonathan B. Knudsen, O'Reilly, 247pp., $24.95 Dave Baum's Definitive Guide to LEGO MINDSTORMS, Dave Baum, Apress, 385pp +CD-ROM, $24.95 (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: What category is Arctic?
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(...) I'd bet on town, though I don't see any penguins to populate it. Aaron>maniac@vol.com (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Set ID help needed
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(...) Should have been more clear in saying that I don't recall a plate with dots on it from the lot of LEGO which I'm dealing with here (which incidentally does seem to have a 555 in it). (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | What category is Arctic?
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Does anyone know if the forthcoming Arctic theme is a sub-species of an existing theme, or is it a whole new or semi-new animal, a la Rock Raiders? Dave! (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Rarity
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(...) Rarity, hmmmmmm, there is no website that lists rare sets or any other rarity measurement. There are a few European collectors that I talk to that each has their own idea of what sets are rare. But this info is not divulged because people (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Set ID help needed
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(...) Some of the early to mid 1970's sets did have the dots on the baseplates. Here is an example (from Brickshelf) of Fire Station set 555, with the dots on the green baseplate. (URL) Istok (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Oh my Gawd!! These sets are awesome!!
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(...) If you look in lugnet.general you will see an almighty stink has broken out about whether these scans should have been posted. As a consequence, they have been removed from HUW's site. Sorry, but I dont seem to have them in my cache anymore, (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Dreaming of a European Legofest
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This is a very well put out plan for a get-together (and 4th message to .tr group, besides the fact that other three were from me..:-) It is always fun to see the faces of people that I share a hobby, besides many other things, and meet with them in (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.org)
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| | Re: Pictures of Star wars Bucket
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I missed this, I was too busy with my Lego. If you e-mail me the pic, I'll email you a MISB 4558 straight back (the box is in good condition). Scott A (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: COMPLETE LIST OF NEW SETS FOR 2000
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(...) Did you look at the site BEFORE or AFTER Huw pulled out the scans of sets that are NOT in the 2000 catalog scanned by Kevin Loch? Yesterday afternoon when Huw first uploaded his scans there were pictures of dozens of 2000 sets that have not (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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| | Looking for!!! Can anyone help?
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I'd like to get my hands on the I'm guessing Europe version of the Advent calendar that's shown on Huw's Site. set number 1076, I didn't realize there were different ones! Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Can It Be?!?!?!?!?!
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(...) no its TLC....they changed it. (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Increasing the range of the radio signal
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(...) Mignon batteries are batteries of size R6 like used in CM. (...) You are right the nominal voltage of this recharable batteries is 1.2V but I tested the voltage of a just refreshed batterie under load and then the real voltage was about 1.25 (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.cybermaster)
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| | ***update from dya***
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Hi Legofans, Ready to see, a last time, set 4532 and 4539 ! If yes, connect you at this web address in 2 minutes (french hour: 14:11): (URL) you later and good luck, Emmanuel. (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Increasing the range of the radio signal
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(...) of the CM. On using the rechargable batteries the control shows a low battery status also on just refreshed batteries... So the action radius was about a maximum of 3...4 meters an d the connection was interrupted seveal times. My measurements (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.cybermaster)
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| | Re: Dream Themes...
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(...) Not to mention the pressing need for large quantities of scantily-clad female minifigs... Nope. They can't touch this one. (...) Two things come to mind immediately here -- the "Matthew Looney" books by Gahan Wilson, and those stories that (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: possible lego club???
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(...) I'd be interested in participating in a club like this. The Legofest was a blast Friday, and I'd love to do things like that more often. Keep me posted, Mike! -Tim (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 If you don't believe in Gosh, you'll go to Heck, (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.il)
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| | What some people will buy!
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Hey there, Get a load of this: (URL) pieces, currently going for... $71.00. Is the calendar software over at eBay having some kind of Y2K problem? Does somebody over there think that it's 04/01/2000? O.K., so the set is "rare." But I haven't paid (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Line in the Sand
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(...) Seems Geocities is having some trouble, and the shortcut URLs won't work. Try these instead: (2 URLs) Steve (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | This dropped out of the papers this weekend...
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This dropped out of the papers this weekend... Is is a little flyer, which takes the form of a photograph, and it appears to confirm that TLG (TLC?) is now actively marketing their products at the adult market: The front: (URL) back: (URL) if this (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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