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That's incredible! Too bad we don't have a dat file of one of the AT-AT's from Mindfest. KL (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: [FA] - eBay - Lego CUSTOM: - Unique 4 axle custom Hopper
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Larry, Thanks for the mention! In fact I wish that I could cotinue to sell MOCs after about 6 Chessie System engines I plumb ran out of parts! I have been discussing at length with some of the other club members how to start a small company that (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: What lego animals are there?
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(...) ... (...) Hahaha! Oh, Obviously! I remembered a thread about this set, starting with: (URL) figured I'd post a link to it here just for completeness when it comes up again in a few months. :) Ben Roller (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 2000 Star Wars sets are out in US
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(...) I know about this, but it's never utilized in the games nor demonstrated in the films. I guess you could say it spurs the imagination as far as playing with the model when you're done, but I guess I really would prefer it if the ships were (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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| | Star Wars Set Auction Almost Over!
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Hi everyone: My Star Wars sets on eBay are nearing their cutoff. Idiot that I sometimes am, I forgot to post the picture URLs in the "pictures" section, and as a result they've been overlooked. I have restored the pics to get my little "photo" (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Pentapterigoid Star Fighter wallpaper
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That Box Rocks. How'd you do that? (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Millennium City - Millennium Airport
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The final teaser image has gone up at the Millennium City homepage at (URL) time it's a pic of passengers at Millennium Airport heading for their flight. Design Notes: Millennium Airport is walking distance from City Central Transport terminal (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: PNLTC layout
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(...) I LIKE the older(more modern looking) logo. Perhaps you can keep it for the eurotrashier parts of your layout (it evokes LEGO's own <-o-> and the britrail double arrow) and keep the new (older looking) logo for the US areas. (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Boba Fett
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(...) CONNECTED. (...) Thanks for the pictures. I guess I'll be busting out my Dremel so I can "fix" the helmet and backpack. TLG, sometimes you make me want to scream so loud you could hear me across the Atlantic! Dave (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | LEGO on Slashdot (again)
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There is another article on slashdot: (URL) one is about the Y2K Star Wars sets and has links to the catalog scans on Brickshelf. The server may be a little slow for the next couple of days :) The comments are similar to recent LEGO articles on /., (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | New Star Wars Lego in Canada?
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I was wondering if anyone in Canada has come across the new Star Wars Lego sets? They have been just "discovered" in the US but no one from Canada has said anything. Anyone found anything? Anyone even looking? (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: PNLTC layout
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Hi John, All the rolling stock gets rotated. When the members are there. When the OMSI volunteers are staffing the layout we let them run either stock or robust MOCs. The other train clubs show some of their stuff in the cases and this year we (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Dan's Lego Parts Auction Update: 12/12/99
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More parts have been sold, and only a few more are left. The open lots are at; (URL) Lots are here; (URL) Summary; (URL) M. Ok-Ok I'm recycling last night's update ;>o (Again!!) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Pentapterigoid Star Fighter wallpaper
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(...) I love it. I love the background space graphic you used, too. Did you paint that, or is it rendered somehow? -- jthompson@esker.com "float on a river, forever and ever, Emily" (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Anyone out there?
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Yippee, message traffic! One more post, and the top 4 will be less than two months old! December is gone, anyway. Though NELUG has got its December meeting set on time. In Jan/Feb there will be 2000 sets to look over... On my calendar for Feb 11 is (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.nj.new, lugnet.loc.us.nj.tre, lugnet.loc.us.ny.ny)
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| | Re: Pentapterigoid Star Fighter wallpaper
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(...) Hmm, I usually just stand it on its engines. The original version could balance rather well on one wing, but it can't in the new version. I suppose you could build a rack sort of like Eric K's B-wing racks to hold it... (...) If you build it, (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Meijers in Grand Rapids
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(...) I'm glad to hear this. My wife and I are going to be spending Christmas with her family in Sparta, and I told my wife two days ago that I was going to be making a trip to that very Meijers. In fact, I think that I have stopped at that store (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: What lego animals are there?
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(...) Thinking about it, it's obvious that that's a Jedi Master dolphin who has ascended to a higher plane and become more powerful than we can imagine. (...) Yes! I'm still laughing at this, minutes later. I had to bring my wife in here to show her (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: "If it were my toy company..."
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(...) It's true. A "Lego Classics" (not to be confused with "Lego Classic"!) line would do extremely well. (...) A lot of pieces aren't being made anymore -- I doubt you'll be able to order those. (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Inversine sine function
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(...) You might give this a try (for -1 < x < 1): ArcSin(x) = x + a(1)*x^3 + a(2)*x^5 + a(3)*x^7 + ... etc. with a(1) = 0.1666666667 a(2) = 0.0750000000 a(3) = 0.0446428571 a(4) = 0.0303819444 a(5) = 0.0223721599 a(6) = 0.0173527644 a(7) = (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: "If it were my toy company..."
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Wow! Todd, those were GREAT ideas! The only things I might add if it were my toy company are: 1) To (maybe) re-release discontinued items that are exteremly wanted. I mean, think Demand and Supply - people are willing to pay a heck of a lot for (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Supercar Sale
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IF she bought it at TRU, have her take it back and return it for Geoffrey Dollars credit, then go back, grab one off the shelf, and buy it. Or better yet, order it from toysrus.com, use the January deal they have there to save $10, and sign up for (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Horrible quote from the Scala web catalog
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(...) Of course. But is that the message you see being presented by Lego? (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.scala)
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| | Re: What lego animals are there?
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(...) Cool! That would look great as an element in the facade of a building. The Dolphin Multi-Plex or Restaurant or something. BTW, is that a scorpion about to crawl into the girl's shoe???!!!??? Ben Gatrelle (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: What lego animals are there?
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(...) Ohmigod! I never saw that in a S@H catalog. I want that dolphin! Drool. (I'm a sucker for transparent or shiny pretty things.) My eyebrows are raised, thought -- what a sadistic set: it comes with a scorpion, so that you may terrorize the (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: What lego animals are there?
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(...) My thought was that those animals are big enough that they could be made out of bricks and still be at minifig scale. (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: What lego animals are there?
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(...) Check out this set: (URL) comes with a trans-blue dolphin. It would look silly in a minifig zoo of course. I guess it's supposed to be an inflatable pool toy in that set. Did anyone actually buy this set? I would guess that it's still (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Looking for track
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Hehehe, 4552 is ANOTHER one I'd like to get too ;-) (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Horrible quote from the Scala web catalog
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(...) LEGO has two obligations - one, to themselves, to make money, and the second (I'd like to imagine) to make toys that help children grow. You can't make people buy toys that they don't want. LEGO may have accurately defined the girl's toy (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.scala, lugnet.general)
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| | Expert Builder Website - December 12/99 Update
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I'm happy to announce the latest addition to the Expert Builder website. It is the unique and compact 'Pneumatic Engine' built by C S Soh. (URL) model puts LEGO(r) pneumatic parts to the test, by using the pneumatic cylinders to convert (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Pentapterigoid Star Fighter wallpaper
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I think it SUCKS! Now that I have your attention, that's a b;atamt lie ;-). What can I say, awesome. Now, uh, suggestions for a cradle to display it in? ;-) Look like I'll need to crack out all those spare Snow Speeders for parts! (...) ***(URL) (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Anyone out there?
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(...) You and I both. The problem is that I'm leaving on 23 December for a month--heading back to Michigan. But I'm game. best Lindsay --- Lindsay Frederick Braun (Mr) Department of History Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.nj.new, lugnet.loc.us.nj.tre, lugnet.loc.us.ny.ny)
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| | Re: What lego animals are there?
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(...) Do you mean, made from scratch or using the Freestyle animal head pieces? I know I have a blue elephant head, I think I have seen a giraffe, but I've never seen a Hippo or a Rhino pre-formed head piece. Ben (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | IR Tower on E-Bay...
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Hi All, I ran across a new IR tower for sale on e-bay. Has anyone come up with a good way to switch between IR towers on the fly? (for example, moving from one room to another) Here is the link: (it's over in 3 hours) (URL) M. (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Strange "cartoon" gears?
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I posted a couple of pix of these at: (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: What lego animals are there?
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(...) <clip> (...) Don't forget the pony from set#6404 Ben (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 2000 Sets found in the US
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(...) It's heavenly. I can't wait to get back to Michigan--but I won't be there until 23 December. Furrfu! (If you want to find a Meijer, look for the largest building within 500 miles...) best Lindsay (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Horrible quote from the Scala web catalog
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(...) It brings up a thorny question of cultural relativism. Do we just shrug and say hey, difference of culture, or is it okay to say, no, that's not right, no matter what culture you're in there are some basic principles of human equality which (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.scala, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: What lego animals are there?
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(...) Actually, there is another set in which the yellow parrots appeared - A medium sized Adventurers, 3722. I saw this set only once, at the Construction site in Waltham - I was pretty surprised to see the two yellow parrots, but there's no doubt (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: What the F.......
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(...) From MediaOne's "Terms and Conditions": (I am only posting the relevant portion; I don't think Todd would want me to post the entire document...) 10.3 You agree to abide by the policies of the Road Runner Service as they are electronically (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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