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In lugnet.castle, Steve Bliss writes: 7 (...) Excellent. I've got a character just waiting for a face like that. (The smiley w/bangs just doesn't cut it as a 'tough medieval mercenary') James (URL) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: BEWARE of John DiRienzo
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Not do do a ME2, but, uh, ME TOO ;-) I'd definitely deal with John again. I can understand what it's like to fall behind on responsibilities, for any reason. (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Introducing LEGO Direct
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Eric Kingsley wrote: <snip> (...) <snip> I know I'll prolly get lit up good for this, but here goes. Generally speaking, I don't see LEGO as being a toy sought out by girls. Now before you ignite the torches, let me explain. First, take an (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Female Knight for Castle 2000
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(...) set (...) from (...) All Right! Yes! Finally, lego seem to be (at least a bit) evolving from their "boys are fighters, woman stay at home" theme. Also, two females in one castle set is great for me, especially considering the only castle girl (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Parts/Sets WANTED, and for TRADE
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See my Wants/Trades page at (URL) - all pieces/sets I want or have for Trade are shown there, including pics (links to Pause db for sets pics). -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: 2000 Star Wars sets are out in US
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Hey Gary sounds cool to me! Hey BTW, for anyone that lives near a Meijer, not only do they have the new sets, but they are 25% off!! I actually stopped to talk to the cashier at the "U-Scan" isle after checking out, thinking I was undercharged, and (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 2000 Castle - Royal Joust in Salem, NH
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(...) Isn't the King's beard black and grey? It's hard to describe, but there's a definite two-tone aspect to it. The upper part (above the jaws, I guess) is gray (maybe white), with black vertical lines (not parallel, more like rays projecting from (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: 2000 Castle - Royal Joust in Salem, NH
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(...) White beard?!? Wow, cool! I could have an old, wise king and a prince just waiting to success him... The possibilities are endless... :-) (...) This sounds better and better... (Too good to be true? I hope not) (...) Damn... I'm back to (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Female Knight for Castle 2000
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(...) About the female knight (see (URL), set #6091, the knight in the lower-right corner, as you look at the castle). It *is* a woman mini-fig. The armor, printed on the torso, is nothing compared to the new maiden torso's tight corset, but it (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: The wife problem
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Ian Bishop <ian@goodlife.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:JEjHttAuJWV4Eww...n.co.uk... (...) <stuff snipped> Excellent Ian! I think Jason knows all the tricks of the trade, but even he may learn from your post. Huw (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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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 G1 34.5 Scott Arthur 3 4544 Car Transport Wagon SD 25 Mark & Milissa Millere 4 4548 Speed Regulator SD 20 Jan-Albert van Ree (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: How to make a Lego club work?
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(...) I'm planning on putting together a LEGO fest here in Kansas City sometime over the holidays. We'll make sure to brainstorm ideas for MALUG (Mid America LEGO User Group) or whatever it will be called. So....anyone who wants to get together in (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mo)
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| | Mechanoid model
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If anyone's interested, here's a .gif of a robot I made using LDraw. If I can animate it, I might donate it to the POVray competition. This period/season the category is robots. (URL) I'll create an MPD when I can figure out how to do it (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Future New Castle Weapon
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(...) it (...) mace. (...) Maces would be my first choice - flanged, but I'd take spiked. A wavy-bladed flamberge would be cool. I've pressed the Adventurer's pick into service (gotta saw down those legs to make dwarves). I suppose it's too small (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Help with MPDs
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I need help learning how to make MPD's. I don't know how to do it, and all my models have sub-groups in them. (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Brad Justus is real
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(...) Why not? BO2K runs on Windows NT and Win2000 boxes. (The new version of Netbus does too, but I'm not sure if that's publicly available yet.) (...) But if you anticipate what packets the remote side will return, you can generate the appropriate (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Set #7940?!
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(...) I'm not sure she's really up on her LEGO, although assigning it a "set number" is suspect. Check out this Castle fig auction by the same person: (URL) operative quote is "I'm not sure if these are put together correctly". It implies that she (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: The wife problem
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I also find that a carefully (mis)balanced barter systems works passably well. For example, when we are in a shopping mall, for every twenty mintues we spend at stores of her choosing, I get five in one of my own. The same can be applied to LEGO: (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Reason for no stormtroopers
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(...) The Droid Blasters have a barrel that lights up as a bolt is being fired. (See any toy store for the sound effect, light up toy) I belive that is what the cone is representing even though it should be RED. Just like Vaders's Tie should have (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: "If it were my toy company..."
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(...) Easier than designing and making new parts. (...) Ditto. (...) They do this anyway. (...) Ditto. (...) Ditto. (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | What Happened to The Advent Calendar Fun?
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Hey! I was enjoying Thomas Main's 1298 Advent Calendar posts. Thomas, are you still doing them, or has the 2000 catalogue brouha overwhelmed the posts? I'd still like to see them. best, Lindsay --- Lindsay Frederick Braun Department of History (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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| | The wife problem
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Scott's amusing post prompted me to start this as a new thread; Basic deception Keep the new stuff in the boot of the car (or some other place she doesn't look, eg the garage, shed etc) until she's out - difficult if you buy stuff while out (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: NW Fest
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(...) Great idea eh?! Suggest we agree on length / width (diameter?) and build more than one if it gets too high. My suggestion is 20*20 or 20 diameter. It's official! Ian Bishop, Ayrshire, UK (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: NW Fest
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(...) Ahh - the guilt thing. It gets murderers etc like that too, they just have to tell someone :) Ian Bishop, Ayrshire, UK (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Lego Direct post
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Looks like my newsreader missed the Lego Direct post while I was away. Can some kind soul mail it to me or point me at it? Thanks. Ian Bishop, Ayrshire, UK (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: NW Fest
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Just to add my tuppence worth. Many thanks again to Tony for hosting a great event, and good to meet those of you I hadn't met before. I found the whole thing pretty exhausting, and I'm glad we (Richard Franks and I) drove down from Scotland the (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | "Forening af nordiske LEGO-byggere" (Was: Reklam för lugnet.loc.se?)
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Tobias: (...) Nej, vi bør nok bruge de nordiske sprog, når det er "nordboer" der er målgruppen. Skete der noget med at starte en forening af svenske/nordiske LEGO-byggere? - hvad skulle formålet være? - hvilke aktiviteter skal der være? Jeg kan (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.se, lugnet.loc.no, lugnet.loc.dk, lugnet.loc.fi)
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| | Re: Future New Castle Weapon
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(...) I like outrageously exaggerated weapons, like the HUGE scythe I made for my Grim Reaper (based on an idea I got from someone else). One weapon I've made is a giant mace for a mounted warrior. I took a black flag pole and attached a dark gray (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: No 2000 stuff yet
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I grew up in Oakland, were you there on business or for fun? (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.tx)
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| | Re: Ship Power Core
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(...) Hmmm...I operate with cabrionic engines, which operate on a slightly different theory--basically deriving energy from the 'flow' of spacetime in the gravity well of stars. Between the stars, energy loss isn't an issue--the superluminal drives (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Introducing LEGO Direct
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(...) A good point. And arguably (perhaps unfairly, but that's a further debate) a traditional male testosterone-driven worldview. Why does "play" mean "conflict"? (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: almost did it!
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(...) I haven't used MLCAD extensively (yet), but I'm wondering if breaking a model up into several submodels would help? That way, you'd only be faced with editing a big scene in the last step, where you're putting all the sub-models together. (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | pictures of 2000 sets?
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Okay, not all of us do live in the US :) and over here the new Star Wars sets are not out yet. So might it be possible to put up some scans of the new boxes. Larger pictures would be great. I have seen the ones on: (URL) those are cool. I am very (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: MLCad wishlist
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(...) The box is the dialog. But it's still a 'mea culpa' -- I was talking about the newer version of LDAO, which never came out of beta. There were some healthy (in the sense of both good and sizeable) changes in the Inliner interface between 2.0.4 (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Från mig till Er: En riktigt God Jul!
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Jag önskar er alla en Riktigt God Jul och Ett Gott Nytt År! (URL) Isaksson (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.se)
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| | Merry Christmas everybody!
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I whish you all a Very Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year! (URL) Isaksson, Sweden (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: "Fixing" movable dividers in Plano boxes
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(...) Yep, that's the brand. Hm, I hadn't paid attention to being able to order more dividers, not that I've needed to. At the closest I've come to needing more dividers, I still had one or two left. (...) Down here in the US, Walmart carries Plano. (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Alternate 8888?
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Hello Mark Koesel <koesel@umich.edu> schreef in berichtnieuws FMHBAG.D6u@lugnet.com... (...) This picture is from a Technic Folder. But as far as I know this book has the same frontpage as the US one... greetings from the Netherlands -- (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Future New Castle Weapon
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(...) I'd second that on the mace, and now with the advent of Lego chains we could also have a mace and flail!! I also think they could do a couple of variations on the Halberd as well. Any other weapons people would like to see? Daggers, (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: 'Fest pics are up
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(...) ...and to think that set was once mine... and before that, my mothers. Scott A (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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