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(...) How does this sound as a new charter for lugnet.dear-lego: lugnet.dear-lego: Online communication-to-LEGO channel; formal dialogues with the LEGO Company; suggestions, opinions, likes & dislikes, questions, etc. [Brad, is there anything in the (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Oooh, bad precedent. They won't sell it? We'll just wait a few years and take it! (...) The jury's still out on this one. (...) That didn't last long. (...) ...thus dooming Taiwan to the brutal martial rule of a siege state. Granted, this (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Russell wrote back earlier today and said that the machine running his list had stopped communicating with the network for a few hours. So that's why messages stopped being exchanged between LUGNET and Russell's mailing list. Russell rebooted (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.admin.general)
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Brad Justus wrote in message ... (...) towards (...) world (...) responding (...) Please let this infer that LEGO is going to move some of their line back to the center to attract more girls!!!!! Rose (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) My 7,652 X-Wings, 5,293 Snowspeeders, and 2,043 Landspeeders. Where else? :-) Now I just need about 20,000 TIEs and a Death Star (minifig scale) and I'll be set. As a (slightly off-topic) side note, I looked up K-Mart's cost for all the SW (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Geez! LUGNET is just too exciting!
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(...) Unfortunately, my NLSO is imperturbable towards my affinity--as I said in another post, she considers it "the one really weird thing you do." I get a lot of smiles and nods and semi-phatic congratulations on exploits, bargain-finding, trades, (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Heat and stretch the drill? -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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All- Ack! I go out for a night at the bar, and LUGNET explodes! That'll teach me to have a social life, shame on me. To Brad and TLC/LD, welcome. It's been a long time coming (coming as it will just as I'm moving to Europe, darn the timing!) and (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: 4561 sale at kbkids
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Hey Will- Forget about alternate models-- create your own! Find a train book and model a prototype. And while you're at it, make it 8 studs wide{;^D -John (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Creating Illustrator like files
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Hi all, With MLCad you can print out the models, right? It seems like the output is some postscript or vector drawing. Would it be possible to (directly!) convert the LDraw-file format in an Illustrator-like vector format? Now we would, or could, (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Proof of TLG's Concern for AFOL?
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(...) No, no. I posted that first, before Brad's momentous announcement -- albeit but mere hours before it. I am thrilled at the crack in the facade of TLC, at last! I hope something truly fruitful for all concerned may come of it. If all goes well, (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Hi! I have tried a method for 2D positioning, and it works if you don't need a high precision. It might be refined for higher precision, but I didn't try it. It is a variant of the gradient fill pattern. There are several ways to do it. The (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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To Brad Justus and all at LEGO Direct, Greetings! It is terrific that LEGO wants to deal directly with customers and to discover what they want. From the early responses it ought to be pretty clear what the "Top Ten" list should look like (bulk (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) <snip> (The original message DEFINITELY deserves to be in the Spotlight section.) I have never seen so many responses to single a message. Brad, you have come to us bearing great news, and I'm sure we're all excited about it. With this move, (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: LEGO Outlet @ Potomac Mills Mall is now shipping!
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(...) Pity you don't have the natural gift of *stating* the obvious like I do;-) -John (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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Well, in the meantime, i built one on WinNT. The build always failed on Win95. Tried Canadian cross on Linux and i too gave up in frustration. But now that i have one built, i'll put it up on a webpage tomorrow. First, i'm gonna check the files it (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Brad Justus <legodirect@lego.com> wrote in message news:FMHtE5.Kp2@lugnet.com... (...) <snip> (...) These that I've just read are unbelievingly wonderful. I hope you won't forget there are Lego fans living outside of Central/Western Europe and USA, (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) DECEMBER 9 On this day in history, 1845 U.S. President Polk offers Mexico $25M to buy California (Mexico refuses offer) 1865 The New York Stock Exchange has new home on Broad St. 1940 British launch their first major offensive of WWII in North (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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If you need them for a skyscraper, remember to get extra for the maintenance man's repair room ;-) (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: LUGNET Memberships
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(...) Shucks! And there I was hoping that it was some intense math-geek thing. "Take the set number of the LEGO set released closest to your birthday and convert into 4 digit format. Interpolate these digits with the first 5 digits of your phone (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.people)
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