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(...) Wow. You think it is such a bad idea you had to let us know twice? You must really hate the idea, then. ;) Jeff (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Yeah, but just think, with a Pikachu Lego Piece, you'd have a new "Evil Monster for Knights to Slay(TM)". :) Although, I think I'd save that spot for Jigglypuff. On the upside, I'd have a Jesse Minifig(1). ;) (...) Ick. Is that show still (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: BEWARE of John DiRienzo
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(...) As someone who has dealt with John in the past (and currently still owes him some LEGO), I can say that he has had a tough time (medically) and I won't go into details. But I honestly believe that John will make everything right. I hope that (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: 1x3 red arch?
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(...) Yes it does exist, I have about 12 of them. Some of the earlier castle sets I believe, Knights or Kings Castle? Not really sure. Gary Istok (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Revised: Sets I'd Like To See
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(...) Thanks. (...) Definitely. Maybe put a dewback or two in there, call it the Tatooine Stormtrooper Unit. (...) Mmmm... the Naboo fighters were mostly yellow, with just a little chrome, so swapping the chrome with gray wasn't bad. But Amadalia's (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: 2000 Star Wars sets are out in US
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Hey Scott, you didn't even ask me to go along! (Heh-heh, we work about 2 miles apart). We should get Mark Koesel and meet for lunch again before (or after) the holidays.... I got the largest set from the 1950's (700 - the 1950's Town Plan) from a (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 'Fest pics are up
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(...) else) that I just ain't interested in Space lego... I looked at this pic: (URL) the first thing I thought was "Hey neat! I could build that doorway." ;) James (URL) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | FOTW!!!!
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In un supermercato EsseLunga vicino a me, vendono 8462 a L. 99.000 !!!...!!! (MSRP 122$) Un big turntable + 2 air tank + 6 ruote con un grip eccezzionale + altri 764 briks. Ce ne sono ancora sei......... -- Cheers Carlo. LUGNET member page: (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Future New Castle Weapon
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The castle theme has a very nice variety of weapons that have been made for it over the years, but one conspicuously absent from the theme has been the mace. In my opinion, maces are friggin' awesome, and I think it would look pretty cool if lego (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Set #7940?!
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(...) I'm pretty sure that it's not MegaBloks; the minifig looks like TYCO to me. (...) Well, he was engaging in a little artistic license, I think, referring to the dreaded nuclear "button" of the 80's and thereby alluding to the differing role of (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | 'Fest pics are up
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I'm first as usual :-) (URL) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Horrible quote from the Scala web catalog
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"Matthew Miller" <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote in message news:slrn855j5l.1bu.....bu.edu... (...) Hmm, I wonder if the mispelled word was supposed to be "fanciest" or "fascist"? ;) (...) building (...) (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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When you said 'blue elephant head', something went click. I had to run out to the storage room and look thru the various empty FreeStyle buckets I have. Yup, Bucket # 4146 has: one horse head, one blue elephant head, and one dog head. In addition (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Introducing LEGO Direct
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"DaveG" <peagreen@intergate.ca> wrote: <MASSIVE CHOP WITH LARGE CLEAVER> (...) ...An excellent parallel I can note here is Games Workshop and their Outriders groups. GW actively supports these groups to basically go places and champion and talk up (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Set #7940?!
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Hmmm... Is that the Construx Space Shuttle ? It looks vaguely like the one I saw on a store shelf last week. Ray (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | 4990 -- Rock Raiders HQ
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Over the weekend, I picked up set 4990 -- the Rock Raiders HQ. While lots of people complain about the Rock Raiders line being "juniorized" and having too many specialty pieces, I found the HQ to be far more pleasing than most of the other sets in (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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| | RE: "Fixing" movable dividers in Plano boxes
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Frank Filz said: (...) I think that the boxes you're referring to are called "Tuff Tainers". They're made by Flambeau. One of the nice things is that you can order extra dividers. Up here in Canada, they're carried by Canadian Tire and I'm pretty (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Wo sind deutsche Mindstormer?
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Hallo Carsten, du *mußt* ein Neuer sein... wenn Du auf Mails vom August antwortest... :-))) (...) Oha. Ach so. Hm-hm. Angebeamt. Yeah. (...) Rein-fizieren hört sich wirklich irgendwie sauberer an als wieder anstecken. Und solange Du Dich auf dieses (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.de)
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| | Lego gadget thing
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Have you all seen this, someone forwarded it to me. ---...--- This message was forwarded to you as a service of Tipomatic To receive your very own copy of this tip in your email box each day, visit (URL) - (URL) Presents The Gadget of the Day Monday (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: broken motor
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(...) Not that I can see... (...) Cool. You might still contact Steve and see what he would trade you for the broken motor. I wouldn't stop playing with the set, after all that's what LEGO is for. I would just set about securing another spare or two (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Set #7940?!
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(...) Yes, I thought it might be a competitors set. It doesn't look like LEGO minifigs at all! And the guy said no box or instructions, so it is a really bad scam anyhow! Scott S. ___...___ Scott E. Sanburn CAD Operator Affiliated Engineers, Inc. (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Set #7940?!
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Looks like some mega-blok ripoff or something, I have seen this set before somewhere. Definitely not LEGO (Not you, Bryan, auctioneers)! I wish people would know what the differences of building systems! >:( Scott S. (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: "Fixing" movable dividers in Plano boxes
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(...) This is one reason I stopped buying the Plano boxes, and instead buy my boxes from Target. I forget who makes the ones they sell, but the dividers stay in a LOT better (sometimes too well, I've had to struggle occaisionally to get a divider (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Set #7940?!
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(...) Nope, its a MOC. The lights & Sound are a give away...look at the rear and it looks just like a Launch Command rocket...with lights and sound :) Seems like a scam to me! James Powell (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Errata corrige
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(...) qualcosa (...) quel qualcosa di simile è K'NEX o KINEX Domenico (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: Looking for track
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(...) OK, As a general information post: I have 2 spare 4555's on order. Lego Canada still has them at $65 cdn each now (on sale). If anyone wants one at cost plus or trade, LMK. James Powell (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: No 2000 stuff yet
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(...) A week and a half? Is that normal or fair? Say it ain't so! I looked around Oakland and towards San Jose California early Sunday morning myself -- nothing! -- Richard (::weeping big globby lego tears awaiting the arrival of his new castle (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.tx)
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| | 2000 Castle - Royal Joust in Salem, NH
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Dropped by the Salem, NH TRU over lunch. Only one 2000 LEGO set: the Royal Joust. No time to put it together, but some first impressions from looking it over: * I thought the king had a black beard from the catalog pics. Maybe there are two kings, (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Set #7940?!
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I highly doubt that this set really existed. According to the title, it's a NASA Space shuttle made by Lego: (URL) mean, I *know* this set doesn't exist. Bryan (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | S&H Technic Sale via MindStorms e-mailing
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I just received the following e-mail titled LEGO MINDSTORMS News. It was sent to General.Release@mindstorms.com so I'm sure a few of you also received the same.... Christopher Good (I snipped the details for each item.) Happy Holidays! As a member (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Suzanne Rich v The Thread That Would Not Die!
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Hey Y'all: Suzanne despite all the warmth and good fun feeling of her lego website has been coming off as less than warm and good fun feeling here on lugnet of late (I was even bold enough to say that she was "frosty"). Well, I wondered why -- it (...) (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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To All, I did manage to go to Meijer on Ann Arbor Saline Road in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and sure enough, there they all were. I got a B Wing, a A Wing, the Green Speeder, the Slave-1, and the Skiff, along with some Arctic sets. Some came up (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LEGO Speelgoed van de Eeuw
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(...) Jasper (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.nl)
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| | Re: "If it were my toy company..."
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(...) issue. If TLG were to go to the expense of reissuing sets they'd have to: 1) begin production of parts that haven't been available for some time 2) print instructions and boxes 3) sort the parts into poly-bags and the poly-bags into sets 4) (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | How did you made nqc?
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Hello ! Being a fervent user of NQC, (thanks mr Baum!) I'm asking myself how nqc has been made. I know it's a very complex topic, but some explication for non programming-specialists could be very interesting. And because the rcx has quite limited (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | How to make a Lego club work?
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If we all agree that starting a Lego club in Missouri would be good, how do we start? Do we get together a see how many people show, and what do we do on a first meeting, build or try to plan a layout or both? I would hate to see this die. I think a (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mo)
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| | Re: Minifig box 2 :)
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(...) Thanks, I'm looking forward to getting it, probably sometime in the summer (in the Northern Hemisphere) the way these boxes are going. :-) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Comments on models
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I have just finished looking trough all the old posts in lugnet.cad.dat.models. And off course I kept some of the models I really liked. Maybe I will try to build them later. I now fell the urge to give at comment on those. I haven't actually seen (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Minifig-Scale AT-ST
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Hi all, I posted the .dat files for my minifig-scale AT-ST (All Terrain Scout Transport) to lugnet.cad.dat.models. Let me know what you think! thanks, Shaun sullis3@mit.edu (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Minifig AT-ST
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Oops, that's lugnet.cad.dat.models. Sorry :) (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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