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(...) I'd gladly close my auction's door for bulk ordering. I doubt anyone will have to, though, simply because I don't see them being able to do bulk ordering to fit every single AFOL's needs or wants. Still, it would be cool to be able to order (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: New 2000 sets in Lego.com European catalog!
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(...) [snip] I hate to followup my own message, but I just want to point out that these were discovered nearly the same way that set 1886 got into the Pause list. See (URL) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Juniorization -- too simple even for kids?
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Hi, folks, Get ready for a rambling post. But there is a point. As some of you know, I'm a recently-revived LEGO enthusiast, who has arrived at this happy state as a consequence of having a 3 1/2 year-old son. Thanks, Spencer! I was quick to buy the (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | New 2000 sets in Lego.com European catalog!
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I was looking at the (URL) official LEGO web site and checked to see if any catalog entries had been updated. Sure enough, there were plenty of them in Europe! I'll admit that I checked most of these numbers by typing them at the end of a (URL) of (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Cats and pigeons...
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(...) If I had such info, I'd be happy to pass it along to you. But unfortunately, I don't. I wish I could be of more help. Personally, if I had a question about say, a price list or maybe the propper wording of a disclaimer, I'd call CT and tell (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Line in the Sand
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Steve Bliss wrote in message ... (...) Remember BFC must be disabled for transparent parts. That's what If 32 <= Color And Color <= 47 Then AccumClip = FALSE takes care of. Frankly I can't think of any situations where double-sided sections are (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | ** GREAT QUICK SALE FROM DYA**
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Hi Legofans, Today (10/12/99), this french afternoon (at 14:30 french hour), keep an eye on Dya website : great quicksale ! IT' S CHRISTMAS !!! You searched ! We found for you ! (URL) you later, Emilie and Emmanuel (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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Hi Legofans, Today (10/12/99), this french afternoon (at 14:30 french hour), keep an eye on Dya website : great quicksale ! IT' S CHRISTMAS !!! You searched ! We found for you ! (URL) you later, Emilie and Emmanuel (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: 2D positioning ???
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Some more info at (URL) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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This is my first crack at a logo for the site. I'm not a graphic artist by a long shot. Can someone add a shadow effect a-la google? (URL) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf)
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| | Re: Introducing LEGO Direct
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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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| | Re: What happened?
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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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| | Re: Extra Endor Lukes
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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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| | Re: Reason for no stormtroopers
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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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| | Re: 2D positioning ???
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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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| | Re: Introducing LEGO Direct
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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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| | Re: LegOS 0.2.2 on Win95
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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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| | Re: Introducing LEGO Direct
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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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| | Brickshelf.com Updates for 12/09/1999
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Updates for 12/09/1999 (last update was 11/28/1999) Recent additions/changes to this website: [12/09/1999] 0211 {Mother and Baby with Dog} 0183 Complete Train Set w/ Signal 0122 Loco with Tender 0156-1968 2 signals with automatic stop/go attachment (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf)
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| | 7715 ist verkauft
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Liebe Leute, das Zugset 7715 ist verkauft. Sollte der Deal je nicht klappen, biete ich ihn wieder an. Gruß, Bine (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.de)
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| | Re: LEGO Outlet @ Potomac Mills Mall is now shipping!
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Oh, I caught it. The second I started reading Brad's post, I thought "so THAT was what Buffie was talking about". Just didn't think it needed commenting on ;-) (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | chaning the host address in LNP
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OK. The initial stuff I have done with the Java interface to LNP just addresses different "ports" to the host address 0. Each of the RCX's on the Lego Network Protocol network had host addredss 0 and port 1,2,3,4 depending on which brick they were (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Source for 4561's CHEAP
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(...) Even better, go to Toysmart.com, which now carries lego, and take advantage of their 20% sale, coupons, and free shipping for $25+ orders. They have the 4561 Railway Express on sale for $103.98, and if you use the 30% off coupon at (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: LegOS 0.2.2 on Win95 (almost)
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Peter Van der Beken wrote in message ... [snip] (...) from (...) . Yes, the compiler I built doesn't have the patch - it's also egcs 1.1.2 rather than gcc-2.95.2. This isn't going to change quickly because unfortunately I don't have access to a (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Introducing LEGO Direct
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(...) convention (...) Along the same lines: make your parts available in LDraw format, or some other format that you already use and publish the details so we can convert them to LDraw format! Welcome! I'm a recently revived AFOL (I gave up when (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Introducing LEGO Direct
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And I"m not kidding! KL (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) You're absolutely right! What I need is 1x4x6 three-pane trans-lt-blue or trans-green windows with black frames. KL (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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You forgot to note what color frames ;-) And add 50-100 for me ;-) (...) -- 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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