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(...) I think perhaps the parts are assigned to days at random. The one we've got is different still. (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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(...) Check 6195 and you will find that that set has this piece as well. -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: WAMALUG Train Pics
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Well that crossing is just SICK ;-) (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: What are the 10 worst pieces ever made by TLG?
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1.BURPS 2.BURPS 3.BURPS 4.BURPS That about sums it up. Eugwe Coral (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Inventory: Set #8480 - Technic Space Shuttle
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Finally, here's my inventory for set #8480. Sorry for the long delay, but it took some time to build up the courage to take the model apart and recount all 1300 pieces (my current count is 1373, with 21 extra pieces when building the primary model). (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.db.inv)
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| | Inventory: Set # 7141 - Naboo Fighter
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---...--- Set #7141 Star Wars Naboo Fighter Year: 1999 MSRP: US$19.99 Pieces: 177 (4 extra) Figures: 1 n(xtra) # color description ---...--- 2 2357 tan brick 2 x 2 corner 4 2412 tan tile 1 x 2 grille 1 2419 grey plate 3 x 6 without corners 2 2431 (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.db.inv)
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| | Re: Advent Calendar Fun!
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Your little series got me into actually buying a lego advent calendar for myself yesterday - I just HAD to get that cute little Santa minifig. (Making it the first advent calendar I ever bought for myself - what with being 34 now and son on). Since (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: What is the largest lego steam engine ever built?
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(...) total number of wheels, then. -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: WAMALUG Train Pics
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(...) LOL! I love the pink level crossing! Is the young lady in the lounger the crossing staff? Kevin (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Look what I found in the Lego aisle! (Was: Re: Anyone out there?)
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Yay! I've met my first LUGNETter! And of all places in the Lego aisle at Wal-Mart. Nice meeting you, Laurajean, I'll know now who you are if we do have a meet/go en masse to NELUG. Anyone else run into LUGNETters at the store? -LFB. (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.nj.new, lugnet.loc.us.nj.tre, lugnet.loc.us.ny.ny)
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Here's the fixed link: (URL) course, these are copyrighted material so don't look at them. They are for my own use only. :) (...) had (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(URL) admire the chutspah of this guy! (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: RCX Output (Train applications)
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This sounds interesting, but trying to understand it in the middle of class has my head swimming ;-) Any chance of diagrams and pics? I ust picked up my first trains and RIS last week, so I want to hook them together and have some fun with my cats (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yeah, I know. But I've got, like, 40 moving parts and I have to do this many times for an animation. It's a *pain*! (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | The "Which Set Should I Buy" FAQ
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Well, it took me less than an hour from preliminary announcement to posting, but the "Which Set Should I Buy" FAQ is now ready for viewing. It should be considered beta quality at this point, and I'd like to recieve comments (and/or donations :-) ) (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: What's Off-Topic?
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Found this while browsing www.lugnet.com/reviews/ looking for a review of the Lego R/C Racer. The entire thread is (URL) . Very amusing! It starts off well, but digresses in directions of castle sets, Larritarianism, Monty Python, etc., etc. While (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: sticky proggy?
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(...) Sub-models. You can make a sub-model DAT file for your model, say an arm, and have it centered on the axis of rotation. Then you insert this sub-model as a regular LDraw part in the appropriate place, rotate it, etc. with all the sub-model's (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | RE: RCX Output (Train applications)
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Wow, what an excellent description. I look forward to trying this out over the holidays. I had one other idea that may explain my initial failure. The track layout I was using was rather large, in fact it took up the entire living room using nearly (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Is there a program available suitable for animation where I can load the LDraw file (converted to *.DXF or whatever) and make the hinges move as they would in real life? It's a pain to have to realign each part manually and not have it automatically (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | RE: Lego & Grade 4 Science Projects ...
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Cool post. I like to here what other's have done. MG (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | building walkers
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Hi. As I recall, there is a video clip of a six or eight leg walker in the CD rom for Baum's book and on the Mindstorms CD rom as well. Does anyone have the parts list for a walker of this or any other type? Thankyou. Barbara Nostrand +---...---+ | (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Fair warning. if you get this rolling, I'll probably come. Factor that into your planning. ++Lar (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu)
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| | spectre update #2 12/16
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There's not much to put in this one, but there is something: I've been putting off doing much real work on Spectre lately, but I do have most of send.c factored. I'll be posting it along with a beta-quality Seance spec tonight or tomorrow, depending (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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The posting about the shuttle mentioned that it was available in the UK for 40 pounds. Does anyone know where its available from? JB (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Mandtal
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Jeg er blevet opfordret af John Jensen til at kigge på denne danske gruppe. Så nu må jeg hellere give mig til kende. Jeg regner ikke med at deltage i jeres diskusion om en Nordisk Lego forening. Jeg kan ikke lige se formålet. Men jeg vil følge (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.dk)
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| | Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece?
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(...) Must have been a slow news day! Last time it happened to me, I just called Consumer Affairs and got a replacement. I forgot to call the local news crews. =) Seriously, I've had malformed elements, but the only missing elements I've found in (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Non c'enta molto con la Lego...
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Juda ha scritto: (...) Ehm...scusa Juda, un piccolo richiamo all'ordine e alla netiquette: questo genere di post, quand'anche interessante e/o divertente, non è particolarmente attinente con l'argomento di questo NG, non trovi ? ... Ciao Giulio (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.it)
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(...) Dave> Set #8448 is on sale at TRU for $99. Another good deal on a Dave> large Technic set. Dave> I believe set #8286 is also a good set for parts. Its on sale Dave> now for $44: (URL) the 8286 and/or the 8448 have the differential and (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) is (...) I think I remember the price being something like $159.99 when I bought on at TRU in 1993. (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Lego Deals/Off Topics
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Todd - I read what I want from the list, and delete what I am not interested in. But, more often than not, I really enjoy the sensor emails, etc., as I am learning more and more about Legos, RIS, etc. So, this list is WONDERFUL, as is. Also, has (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: advice: which Mindstorms system?
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From: "Andreas Stabno" <stabno@megsinet.net> (...) My (...) Personally I would buy the following: * 1 RIS ($200) * 1 Space Shuttle from Zany Brainy ($75) * 1 Rotation Sensor and 1 light sensor ($25 for both?) * A couple of the gear parts packs The (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Slave-I factoids!
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(...) Thanks for the inventory. Question: Do we have the same wife? (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece?
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(...) Pulling from memory of the past (which could cause problems itself) sometime probably in the 1970s (or early 80s), but wasn't there a case of a boy who bought some Legos with a piece missing? It received national TV attention and TLG (or (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | laser Safety and cats
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There have been several discussions concerning diode lasers (laser pointers) and the potential of harm to cats. It is useful to keep in mind several things. The laser safety standards that classify lasers are worked out for the human eye. The (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | NELUG meeting
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For those not paying attention: NELUG meeting in approx 2 hours at Boston University. See you there. :) PS -- Pizza. (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Slave-I factoids!
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Well, it appears the new stuff is popping up everywhere now. The usual selection of 2000 sets mentioned in prior postings has appeared in CT (near Enfield, no surprise there) at Wal-Mart stores. I was told by my wife that I was only allowed to buy (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Mi presento brevemente:
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(...) affermare (...) scatolina (...) Benvenuto Guido, a quale "scatolina" ti riferisci? Saluti Domenico P.S. Anche per me il terzo millennio cominicia nel 2001 ;-) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: 2000 sets at Bluewater
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jon How could you? I had my day all planned and you have gone and ruined it totally! See you at Bluewater ;-) M (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | RE: What's Off-Topic?
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(...) eheheh ;) IMHO, *any* lego robotics aware topic, is a "good" topic. Sale postings (although I will never benefit from these, 'cause I'm in Portugal...) ==leads to==> Get Price eficient/Cool/Weird/Useful LEGO sets ==> More LEGO parts for (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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