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(25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: Update on Technic Box #1 (Canadian Tour)
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Phil Watt <wattsup1@earthlink.net> wrote in article <3851F2F1.13B68040@e...nk.net>... (...) Hello Phil, I am very disappointed to say that there seems to have been absolutely no response to my email that I sent to the person to whom I mailed the (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: Custom lego Kits group (was 4 axle custom Hopper)
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(...) Agreed. It *might* be trackable for large-volume sellers - i.e. audit them and track how they spent there money - but that gets horribly expensive and has all kinds of legal strings and red tape to go through before you even can try. I don't (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: want list (was: Re: SPACE AUCTION -- Many Rarities!!!)
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(...) Did you ever get a backing card for the 6801/6822/6823 3-pack, or did you decide that it isn't a set since it doesn't have its own number, or is it just not "cool enough" to actively search for? Just curious, Steve (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Boba Fett
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Check out the pics of Fett over at the fine Star Wars Lego website, "From Bricks to Bothans:" (URL) see the disturbing news that Fett's helmet & backpack are CONNECTED. Aaaargh!!! (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Introducing LEGO Direct
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(...) Not to mention that, especially for people here, it simply Won't Work. If the US prices are cheaper than EU prices by more than shipping (shipping, BTW, is reasonably constant across all countries for service sets - food for thought), there (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: vb variable size
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Clint Rutkas <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:19991212195749....ail.com... correct me if I'm wrong here, but the datalog size maxes at 50 also. The size may be larger than 50, but any single UploadData block call must be 50 or less. (...) (25 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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(...) Why would they do that but not care about people doing the same with the 4532, 5571 or 8480? They have all sold on eBay for a ton more than they were at Shop @ Home while S@H still had them in stock. I personally think that they have no right (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Introducing LEGO Direct
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As a first step, we at LEGO Direct want to participate actively in these newsgroups from now on - that is, if such participation is something that you want. Please realize that it will take some months for all our new efforts to be fully visible - (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | FA: Classic Space and Other Space Sets! Going Twice!
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Classic Space For Auction: 6845 Cosmic Charger - MISB - $7.00 (URL) Lunar Rocket Launcher - MISB - $13.50 (URL) Walking Astro Grappler - MISB - $26.50 (URL) Terrestrial Rover - MISB - $10 (URL) Seismologic Vehicle - MISB - $6.00 (URL) MoonRover - (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: 2000 Star Wars sets are out in US
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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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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) (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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 (25 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 (25 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 (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: What lego animals are there?
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(...) (25 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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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 (25 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. (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Update Auction 9 Volt Train Sets
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* * * Auction 9 Volt Train Sets * * * L Set Name St Bid Bidder 1 - 9v Trains Start Set - 50 min. 2 4537 Twin Tank Transport - 34.5 Scott Arthur 3 4544 Car Transport Wagon SD 25 Mark & Milissa Millere 4 4548 Speed Regulator SD 20 Jan-Albert van Ree 5 (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Custom lego Kits group (was 4 axle custom Hopper)
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Personally, I would boycott any bulk purchasing (...) Todd, (and everyone else too!) I would think that they -might- put a stipulation on that you cannot resell directly (Ie auction on E-bay for 3x the money). I would agree with a limit like that. (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Reklam för lugnet.loc.se?
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[ Også sendt til lugnet.loc.no, lugnet.loc.dk og lugnet.loc.fi Hvor er Island (og F¦røerne, Grønland og Åland? ] Tobias: (...) Det må I jo hellere få gjort noget ved. (...) Jeg tror ikke det er en god idé. Det sker at jeg h¦gter en "reklame" for (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.se, lugnet.loc.no, lugnet.loc.dk, lugnet.loc.fi)
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| | Glass Globes for Underwater Displays
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A year or so ago, I was buying garden supplies online when I came across this item. A handblown glass aquarium for display of flowers. It has a rubber seal (removable for reuse) that the whole thing sits on in a black plastic tray. The end result is (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.fun.crafts)
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| | Re: TRU has 8448 and 4561 for $99.99
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Nonono, I wasn't denying the fact it is in the Sunday ad - I KNOW it's in there. I was arguing over the fact that the website doesn't list it. As of last night, I didn't see it on the website. I searched on "Super", "Street", and "Sensation" (each (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Looking for Lego "gray dock" pieces.
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(...) I am looking for the light gray ones. Nate (25 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'm not worried about it. People have been selling custom LEGO models via auction for more than 5 years and as long as you don't infringe on any of TLC's IP or accidentally misrepresent the models as being official, it's really no different in (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Supercar Sale
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No, it's the 8448. Bummer since I know my wife bought mine (for Christmas) about a month ago. (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Millennium Slizer
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The Millennium Slizer set number 8520 is now available in New Zealand and is being sold exclusively by "The Warehouse". Price is $39.95 NZ (that's about 20 USD). Elements of note include the gold Slizer disc and the gold Slizer head piece (?). (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.nz, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Custom lego Kits group (was 4 axle custom Hopper)
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(...) Sounds like the time for this has come. Shall we create a .market.custom newsgroup for this? (I realize of course that when you say 'group' above you mean a different kind of group than a newsgroup, but you're still going to need a place to go (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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