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Tom Boucher wrote in message ... (...) I believe what he is referring to is that the ship is flying with its main wing horizontally instead of how it is seen in jedi in a couple of shots at the vertical position. I believe the ship is able to fly in (...) (26 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: New Gears
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Mike, These gears can also be found in set 8448, the red supercar. There's even two sizes of the 'tire' gears. I think they mesh a lot better than the ordinary technic gears. Have fun, Arjen "Mike Kory" <kory@advancenet.net> wrote in message (...) (26 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Introducing LEGO Direct
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Hi Brad, Welcome, this is indeed a big moment for us, so lets hope that something will come out of this proposal. First some good news : A local newspaper wrote that Lego was the most sold toy in the last century !! Now the question : Will those (...) (26 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: What lego animals are there?
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(...) Here are some other animal-elements that you can use: Color variations: Alligators Yellow "parrots" Sealife: Clams Crabs Starfish Eels (by using red snakes) Lobsters (by using the upcoming frozen fossils -- red scorpions of the Arctic sets) (...) (26 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | New Gears
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My kids and I are putting together the new Battle Droid (#8001) and we seem to have two new gears. At least, new to me. One is marked Z20, 32198. It's a 20 tooth bevel crown gear and is used to mesh with a normal sized 12 tooth crown. The other is a (...) (26 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | FA: Ebay - ending today: 40 lots of parts - Lego, Technic and Mindstorms
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Hello, I have 40 lots of various Lego, Technic and Mindstorms parts running on Ebay. Please check out this link: (URL) are the lots: LEGO 2 brick separators LEGO 5 windshields + misc. auto parts LEGO Duplo large red baseplate 15"x15" LEGO hinges and (...) (26 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: [FA] - eBay - Lego CUSTOM: - Unique 4 axle custom Hopper
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(...) Exactly. It's so far away from selling clones that in the worse case, it's like the kinds of set-design (not parts design) issues that clone- brand manufacturers have to worry about. In the best case, it's so far away from selling clones that (...) (26 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: NW Fest
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dakershaw <alan@kershawcomputi...rve.co.uk> wrote > Just a quick thank you to Tony for the organisation of yesterdays event, and (...) Seconded! It was a great do! I'll try and get the photos on-line tomorrow night. Huw (26 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | WTB: Black 2x4 apex low slope (3299)
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I am nearing completion on my 2 stall engine shed and am a few elements short. I am looking to buy or trade for about 10 of these: (URL) (in black). Thanks in advance, John (26 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: [FA] - eBay - Lego CUSTOM: - Unique 4 axle custom Hopper
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(...) I see it as light-years away from selling clones. I get what you're saying, but, clone manufacturers have to take care not to violate any of LEGO's patents. Since we're not manufacturering bricks, that's not a problem in the least. There is (...) (26 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: What lego animals are there?
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(...) (26 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: 4561 alternates (was: sale at kbkids)
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(...) OK, now we can at least see the experts moving around in the brushwood. But look how they are now desperately trying to de-rail (!) the thread about the issue if they can build 4561 alternates... :-P Martin E. (making tracks(!) very (...) (26 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Horrible quote from the Scala web catalog
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I agree, Tamy. I've discussed this general topic with a few Danish women and they hardly saw anything wrong with such statements as the one quoted. There is an interesting book, which I'm sorry to say I've only read a fraction of, titled: Americans (...) (26 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.scala, lugnet.general)
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| | What lego animals are there?
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Can anyone help identify what animals have been included in lego sets, and which sets? I started on a Zoo So far I have A jungle setting with:- Coloured and grey Parrots Monkeys Crocodiles (using Indigo Island as basis) 'Seaquarium':- Sharks (...) (26 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: vb variable size
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correct me if I'm wrong here, but the datalog size maxes at 50 also. CLINT RUTKAS OUT (URL) MIME ATTACHMENTS DISCARDED: 1. Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Length: 607 (26 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: TRU has 8448 and 4561 for $99.99
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ARGHHHH!!!!!! I really dislike the TRU site. I tried to order an 8448 and my shopping carts continues to show up empty. This has happened before. When will they ever fix their website. Complaints don't work, I have sent numerous ones in the past. (...) (26 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: "If it were my toy company..."
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(...) This also -- to my non-laywer mind, of course -- partly reduces the legal issue. If submitted designs are publically available on the web site for a year or so before being considered for production, that seems like ample time for the (...) (26 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Lego de-lurks!
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Marco, Many (most? all?) of your wishes can be easily fulfilled with the HandyBoard and its expansion board. It is programmed in Interactive C ... so if you've been using Dave Baum's NQC there is only a very small learning curve, it has more I/O (...) (26 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Super Car on sale
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Uh oh...more bad news for those of us on a budget: The Sunday Los Angeles Times has an ad from Toys 'R' Us listing the 8448 Super Car for $99.99 (regular $129.99). If the MSRP really is $130, then it's not as good a deal as the Space Shuttle from (...) (26 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Custom lego Kits group (was 4 axle custom Hopper)
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(...) Actually, I'll bet they actually couldn't put any restrictions on the parts. Unless each part is individually marked with a unique serial number (like paper money), there's no way to track what happens to the pieces after sale, and therefore (...) (26 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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