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(...) -Tom McD. (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: What are the 10 worst pieces ever made by TLG?
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(...) You're right. Those pieces are good if used for their purpose, but not anywhere else. Somehow I meant that but it just didn't come across that way. Pirate ship hulls are the worst pieces IMHO. They look really good on ships like the BSB or (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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Hey guys, just letting you know that I have sent out the new Adventurer scans to about 200 rabid AFOLs and I'm still willing to help others who have yet to see them. Email me for enlightenment. Cheers, Mark (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Partial review of 6600 Highway Construction - Comments on the Highway System
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Did you pay $80 fpr the 6600? (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: (Failed) Getting LegOS 0.2.2 working on Windows
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Hi, thank you all for your help. (...) works now. I think the problem was that I used MS Command Prompt and called bash there instead of using the cygwin window directly. (...) Could fix that as well. I used Winzip to unpack legOS instead of tar (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Here are your coupons
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Here are some coupons for you. No need to register your E-Mail address or anything else. Just print and save. Merry Christmas !! (URL) you feel that you have received this in error, please forward it back to sender and you will be removed from our (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Looking for 4565 Review
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Michael, I purchased 4 of these today at the local Zany Brainy, and just finished putting one of them together. I am very happy with it. I've not had alot of experience with trains, but this set seems to have alot of interesting parts. My one nit so (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Emmanuel - Thank you!
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Here's another "Me too!" I was quite pleased to find a card from Emmanuel and Emilie in my mailbox. I don't think I've ever gotten a Christmas card from a store I bought something from, much less a store overseas. You've definitely made a loyal (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 4565 is $50 off at Zany Brainy
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(...) after (...) I stopped by my local ZB last night and, much to my dismay, they were out of the 4565. The lady I spoke with said they were quite popular. They did happen to have a 4559 behind the counter that I noticed. When I asked, another lady (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I'm definitely a Lexingtonian, born and raised there but now I live out in Paducah Ky. It's not by choice but you got to go where there's money. I haven't been home since thanksgiving and I didn't see any legos on sale at Meijers. I'm (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ky.lex, lugnet.loc.us.ky.lex)
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| | Help with IR receive
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I just added the Sharp IS1U621 to my handyboard. That is apparently a substitute for the ISU160. When I run the simple test program: while (1) {if (4 & peek(0x1000)) fd(0); else bk(0);} my lights continuously flicker. When I put my logic proble on (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Updated again
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I've added some more Battle Droid Instruction scans and also box scans of the Skiff, Pit Droid, and the Gungan Patrol. (URL) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | RR MoW Equipment
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Over the weekend I crashed my 'puter and lost all my bookmarks. I do remember seeing several pieces of MoW equipment but I seem to be unable to find them now......HELP???? I would like to attempt to build some MoW equipment now that I have convinced (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | RE: 2000 sets ?
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(...) I sure hope so, but I haven't seen any mentioned in the 2000 set lists. At least I have the Star Wars Collector's sets to look forward to (and the Technic droids). Doug p.s. For anyone who cares, I've added four new links on my Model Team (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.modelteam)
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| | Re: Arctic 2000
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Hey...who cares if Arctic is listed using the town numbering system? It seems we AFOL's have no problem trashing offerings from TLG ( read all the criticism of the millenium falcon in the star wars group) I say lets have an arctic group. It would be (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 4565 is $50 off at Zany Brainy
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(...) after (...) Just found out that Zany Brainy has a 20% off one LEGO item sale starting this Sunday. Does anyone know whether this can be combined with the 4565 at $99 offer? Also, somewhat off-topic, how long will the Shuttles be marked down to (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Review of 6575 Polar Base
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(...) <big snip> The tracks on the snowcat were seen in 1999 on the Spaceport 6456. They were on the lauchpad transport unit. They are MUCH slower moving than the Technic series tracks, but also much smaller. You could motorize them, but you would (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: making your own LEGO parts
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(...) I am at art school and we have just won a grant to purchase one of these units at around the $200,000 mark (Australian) Previously we had to send our files away for production at a cost of around $1000 (Aus) per item depending on size. The (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: building walkers
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Check out: (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Arctic 2000
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(...) division (...) It was just a thought, since I can't figure any way to incorporate an Arctic theme to my town sets. It's just completely out there, you know. I suppose I am making mini-fig class divisions now, but my pizza chef has nothing to (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | 2000 sets ?
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Heya ! Do you think that there will be some new MODEL TEAM sets in 2000 ? Rene (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.modelteam)
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| | Re: Acronym definition?
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(...) The only thing that comes to my mind is Invisible Infra Red Control....of course...that's just a wild guess as I have no idea the context it is being used in. Pat (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: What to start out with?
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(...) #8286 pre-dates some of the "new" style steering parts shown in the book. There's a listing of the parts in #8286 at: (URL) pretty sure it has some steering parts, but not the exact ones used by the book. I didn't see a differential listed, so (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Acronym definition?
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IIRC = If I Remember Correctly (IIRC) Kevin (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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Can somebody please tell me what "IIRC" means? I keep seeing it and can't, for the life of me, figure out what it stands for. I even tried to find it in the recent "dictionary of terms" that someone pointed out, but it wasn't in there. Thanks, in (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: SW Lego Contest Winners Announced and Voting Available
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(...) Congrats to all who won! Thanks, Pat, for a great contest. I know it must have been hard choosing winners, especially working only from photos. --Bram (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Robot Challenges
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Start with (URL) Gregory Barbara Nostrand <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:l03130309b47f3c...42.230]... (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I wonder if he just read an autobiography by P. T. Barnum ? :) Ray (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Do you like monorails?
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(...) Heh, here in Canada. Myself (28) and my wife (31) go buy lego all the time. We get asked the same questions. "Oh, is this for your ____?" Nope, I say it's for my Wife. GRIN. She has almost every Castle set ever. She has all the Adventurers (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Motor-powered 8880??
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I know I asked this question a bit earlier this month, but it was in a message specifically on modified 8880's and I thought a more descriptive title might get more response. Has anyone ever added 9-v motors to an 8880 and gotten it to move? I have (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.technic)
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A while back I posted the RCX Challenge at (URL) preparing a new challenge for the holiday season and for all the newcomers who have joined the list this year. Stay tuned... (...) Joel Shafer joel@connect.net (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | SW Lego Contest Winners Announced and Voting Available
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Check it out! (URL) J (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: sensors (was: Re: New newsgroup lugnet.loc.eu)
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(...) But that's _not_ how it works. Jasper (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.admin.general)
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Sorry to digress, but I just wanted to ask a question: is "equal sign B 4" supposed to be a code for the apostrophe? (They're not translating to apostrophes on my viewer.) How then would you make other symbols? Does this code reference some (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece?
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(...) Been there, done that. Duh. Jasper (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Seen the new SW sets around central fl?
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Yea, i checked my TRU and Target (daytona) the other day and no luck. (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.fl)
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| | Re: Slave-I factoids!
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(...) I've got BOATLOADS of this piece. It was very prevalent in Ice Planet, Aquazone, and RoboForce. (...) One of the UFO 'figs had black hands. I think one of the one's from the large saucer with the vehicle in the middle. (...) be (...) mini-fig (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Number one request for LEGO
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(...) Not necessarily. I suspect they make the basic brick molds to last much longer than special piece molds. Simply a matter of cost-effectiveness of titanium-alloy diamond-coated molds ;) Jasper (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Introducing LEGO Direct
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(...) _completely_ gratuitous figs thrown in. Ignoring for the moment the absence of "Lego" and the conspicuous presence of "TOMY". Jasper (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: More studs in holes...
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Todd Lehman writes : (...) Interesting. I tend to measure pieces in terms of plate heights, but I have almost the same measurements. Except that the stud height is NOT equal to half the plate height. I discovered that last night and I'm still (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.build)
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