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I've got email addresses inside of LEGO too, and I guarantee you Brad is for real. What he has expressed is the manifestation of many ideas I have heard before, privately. Make no mistake, LEGO direct is for real. KL (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Nieuws...!!! Read all about it!!!
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Op 9 december in de lugnet.dear Lego heeft een zeker meneer Brad Justus zich aangemeld als een vertegenwoordiger van Lego. Lees even mee!! (URL) is al een berg commentaar opgegeven, dus neem er even de tijd voor!! Ik dacht dat dit wel interessant (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.nl)
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Allo Hopefully someone can help. I'm sending the following code to my RCX when I click on a vb menu item: Private Sub mnuFiveHundred_Click() SetDatalog 500 lego.SetVar 12, CON, 500 End Sub ie setting variable 12 to 500 in immediate mode. Variable 12 (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: This is just funny.
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Later last night (or this morning) I kept thinking about this... Could this be the beginning of bulk ordering... ? (mythical future conversation) Me: Yes, I would like to order 300 tan 2x4 bricks. LD: Oh, you want the 3001-65 set. Each one has one (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) No, what he built *is* a railgun. A railgun is just two rails connected to opposite poles of a (usually powerful) current source, with a conductive 'bullet' between them. Hence the name 'railgun'. (This is something that our Physics II prof (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(URL) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: possible lego club???
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(...) I have had many responses to my posting, mostly people from the Milwaukee area. Thanks to everyone that replied. I will try to send out e-mails to everyone that sent me one and I want to have a meeting sometime in January. Mostly everyone that (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.il)
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| | Re: possible lego club???
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(...) I have had many responses to my posting, mostly people from the Milwaukee area. Thanks to everyone that replied. I will try to send out e-mails to everyone that sent me one and I want to have a meeting sometime in January. Mostly everyone that (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wi)
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| | [FA] [eBay] UFO 6979
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I've got an Interstellar Starfighter posted at eBay: (URL) These are available on clearance for $40.00 at Meijers, and probably other locations. That's where I got mine. Steve Bliss (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: 2000 Sets found in the US
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(...) I imagine you're feeling quite blissful! ;-) I just might have to stay up all night and make the rounds at the local toystores tomorrow morning! Woohooooo!!!! First stop, TCS in Waltham! --Todd (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Deja.com & Switchboard as sleuth tools
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The following may be useful. 1. Deja.com (URL) Replace x.x.x.x with an IP address. 2. Switchboard.com (URL) Replace xxx with first name, yyy with last name. --Todd (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: 2000 Sets found in the US
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Sorry to reply to my own post, just want to clarify/correct a couple of things. (...) And Technic sets, as listed at the bottom of the message. I don't think of Throwbots as *real* Technic, and the droid sets feel more like Star Wars than Technic to (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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[follow-ups to lugnet.market.shopping--that seems as logical as anything else] Weee-haaaa! I just got back from Meijers, and they had a *ton* of new LEGO sets. :):):) I restrained myself, mostly. I only spent about $180, and $40 of that was for a (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.town, lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Technic Scale F-14
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Got the details, not just pics? (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Introducing LEGO Direct
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(...) Yeah, I'm usually not a big fan of "me too" posts, but this is gonna be one, because I'm too tired for anything else. So: Yeah, me too. (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: What is 'LDraw?'
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At 12:18 AM 12/12/1999 , Larry Pieniazek wrote: [...] Snippety-poo (...) Ok... I'd take a shot that there are maybe 1000-1500 LDraw users. There are a lot of hits to ldraw.org, average of about 70 pages/hr from a couple weeks ago. I don't have up to (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [FA] - eBay - Lego CUSTOM: - Unique 4 axle custom Hopper
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(...) Cool! I stand corrected. Did you LDraw your instructions as well? Were they listed on eBay or some other public venue? Anyway, what matters is that the time for this activity has come, not who did it first. I'm keen on discussing how best to (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) 3 months pass... Today I wondered (not for the first time) if anybody has tried to organize a Lego get together around NYC, and I found this thread. Ed, if you want to try organizing again, I'll put my name in. I live in Queens. That might (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.nj.new, lugnet.loc.us.nj.tre, lugnet.loc.us.ny.ny)
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| | Re: Clearance Sale at Shopko
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Thanks for the message, Mike. My wife noticed the clearance sale at the Shopko here in Layton as well. You beat me to the post! It looks like this is a Shopko-wide clearance. Ashley (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ut)
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| | Re: [FA] - eBay - Lego CUSTOM: - Unique 4 axle custom Hopper
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I'll be very interested to see how this goes. It's something I have been contemplating doing too. I wonder how TLC will react to this - after all, it's competition for them, in a small way. I also wonder about the possibility of forming a group or (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Pics of FIRST Lego Leage Competition in Chicago
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I just scanned in the pictures I took at the FIRST Lego League Mindstorms competition at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago last Saturday. I couldn't get to zacktron.com's FTP server, so I threw em up on ldraw.org. The URL is: (URL) is a (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.people)
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| | Re: [FA] - eBay - Lego CUSTOM: - Unique 4 axle custom Hopper
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urrghh... did it again! I swear this Lugnet interface is about as Mac- unfriendly as you can get. Apologies fot the previous blank posting. OK, in light of recent postings to Lugnet.Trains, viewers may think I'm getting on Larry's arse, which is not (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Hello all (next WAFOL location)
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Welcome to WAFOL, Todd. Jeremy, Joseph and others...I am thinking our next WAFOL meeting could be in Bountiful, near or at my office. I will check into this. Joseph...great WAFOL logo! Ashley (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ut)
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| | Re: What is 'LDraw?'
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(...) It's a SWAG. Probably exaggerated by one order of magnitude, on reflection... Fairly educated, though. Let's work the LDraw side... how many LDrawers do you think we have? I'll let you make that guess, you'd know better than I, but I'd be (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: WAFOL url (Re: WAFOL page??)
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Way to go, Joseph...the WAFOL site looks great! I am happy that we now have a place online! Ashley (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ut)
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| | Re: [FA] - eBay - Lego CUSTOM: - Unique 4 axle custom Hopper
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(...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: lego in het BB huis
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(...) Tjonge... verwachten ze bij Veronica dat de BB'ers nog te stom zijn om met echte lego te spelen? Niet dat ik veel gezien heb wat in het tegendeel wijst.. Jasper (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.nl)
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| | Re: Time to update the old roll call
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(...) Good point. (...) Why not a real 12? Jasper (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.people)
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| | Re: Gelukt!
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(...) Yup. De voornaamste bottleneck bij geld naar de states zit hem in de verwerkingstijd van Larry. Nr 113, net confirmed. Jasper (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.nl)
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| | Re: Horrible quote from the Scala web catalog
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Matthew Miller wrote, commenting on Lego's Scala marketing: (...) And about how to buy stuff. After all, isn't that what life's all about - buying stuff? Gotta get them started young... Sometimes I despair when even Lego does this! Kevin (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.scala)
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| | Re: What is 'LDraw?'
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(...) Is that an educated guess of a figure? ;) (...) Yeah... .mpl (Multi-Part LDraw) ? (...) Agreed. (...) That would be a good thing. The only argument I see against changing them is tradition, to which I say, 'poo.' -Tim (URL) timcourtne ICQ: (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New Dave Baum Book?
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(...) Send me your snail. And post what parts you most hanker after. I'll see what I can do, and I invite others to do the same. If all goes well I have a few (1) technic shuttles coming that I will be parting out. 1 - ordered 20 but not all will be (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Wild West Trains posted!
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <3852BA1D.EEECFB3C@v...er.net>... (...) I remember always drooling over the big boy every time I picked up an AHM catalog. I've never broke down and bought one though, primarily because I've never been into big iron (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Wild West Trains posted!
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(...) Actually all of the above are completely doable. When I built my locomotives I actually built a prototype with three articulated sets of drive wheels (in pairs, but bigger combinations are possible). I plan on building larger, "over the road" (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: RIS 1.0 vs 1.5: which more "desirable"?
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(...) That's not true. Neither NQC nor LegOS require any vbx files. (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Lego Railguns
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Sorry, but you just built a gun with rails, not a railgun ;-) I remember seeing a REAL railgun at a science competition in DC once - the boy built it right - electromagnets would accelerate a bolt fast enough (in about a foot) to dent a piece of (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Donation Fun: Christmas toys
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(...) This is not a SERIOUS suggestion (this IS .fun... after all) but who's to say that we could not, with our community resources, create packaging that would look like a sealed package, sufficient to fool the mundanes. Actually I am NOT (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.fun.community)
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| | Re: Lugnet's security (Was: Re: What the F.......)
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Matthew Miller wrote in message ... (...) he is (...) in (...) I've thought about this many times in the past, and realize no test is at all necessary. When I post to Lugnet from work, I post using my Mindspring userid (which is what I've (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: What is 'LDraw?'
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(...) I think he was being sarcastic. Project is probably installed on 4000 times as many PCs as all the LDraw compatible tools put together. If you do anything that has to be planned, you can't live without Project and there really isn't a good (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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