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(...) 1) Thanks for the scans. Unfortunately.... 2) Lego just made its policy clear. They are well within their rights as I understand the situation. 3) One last look, and then I wipe the scans from my system. Sigh. I'm looking forward to the real (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Wanted: Mindstorm IR Tower & cable
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(...) PITSCO sells it - item number N979713, $25. Call them at 1-800-362-4308. JohnG, GMLTC "Just happy to save Christmas, Sir..." (dump the '.nospam' to reply) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: 2000 US in-box Technic catalog
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Mark Koesel <koesel@umich.edu> wrote in message news:FMu5Jv.AuM@lugnet.com... (...) You are correct. Sorry :-( Huw (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.general)
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| | Wanted: Mindstorm IR Tower & cable
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Argh! Our RIS is unable to get it's instructions because... we lost our IR tower (hanging my head in shame). (URL) says they can't sell me one in the US. Dave's book is under the tree, the oldest boy is starting to get interested in building with (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Transparent Yellow -- dead or alive?
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I was going to post a lament on the apparent death of transparent yellow in lego, and its replacement by that ugly (IMHO) transparent fluorescent yellow. Trans-yellow goes a lot better with my creations, especially non-space creations, than that (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | The end of the Technic beam is nigh...
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I picked up 8238 Speed Slammers today. In it are new straight beams, in the same style as the now-common bent ones (i.e. full width), in length 5 and 15 (holes) Huw (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Millennium City - Go Live
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(...) I'll answer how I keep the dust off of my city-table layout. I keep a old king size bed sheet over it when I'm not displaying it. This keeps it practically dust free. John Warren (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: 2000 sets at Bluewater - details 8-)
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(...) One trip to Horsham later... The big sets were quite a bit dearer: 6098 was 69.99, 7180 B Wing was 29.99, for example. I bought only sets that were roughtly comparable - I couldn't hang out any longer :-) 8000 £16 8238 £14 7104 £6 7124 £9 7134 (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
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Thanks for the extremely clear (and reasonable) policy on catalog scans. It is now clear that the retailer catalog is not to be shared (even old ones, I guess those need to come down) in any form. I hope that everyone who has continued to offer to (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: 2000 scans
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I love the Internet. :) Man, I dreamt last night that I found a store that had accidentally received and stocked the 2000 Adventurers Lego. Too bad I woke up... -- Paul Davidson Mark Lindsey <markwars@fcmail.com> wrote in message (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Good starting train set
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Neil Ford wrote in message <385A6E6E.7F106A75@b....co.uk>... (...) Trains are hard to find on the (loacl) used market. However, when you do find one they are quite well looked after. Sets like the 4559 can be had for ~£50 or less. The good thing (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Getting LegOS 0.2.2 working on Windows (Oddities)
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To Peter, Luis, and everybody else who put together the LegOS-on-Windows installation instructions: bravo! In most ways, everything worked perfect -- and on a Windows 2000 laptop, no less! There are, however, two glitches: 1 - When I run firmdl3 on (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Policy clarification regarding catalogs
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Questions have been raised recently regarding our stance toward the publication (scanned and posted) of our catalogs, both those intended for consumers and those for retailers. During my visit earlier this week in Billund, and also following (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.publish) !
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| | Re: e-Commerce, Entertainer, Exchange rate
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Because they shouldn't have processed the charge in the first place (IMO). It's probably true that the credit card company would probably not take an actual loss anyway so that probably makes more sense. Perhaps just a peeve of mine but I don't (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: TRU.com slow response
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I placed 4 orders with TRU when they had their Star Wars lego sets on sale. All of them took longer then I think it warranted to get here, and some of them just got here a couple days ago! I believe (IMHO) that they listed stuff as in-stock that (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: LGEO homepage ?
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(...) If for some reason he has gone offline, it would be nice to be able to keep distributing the LGEO library. We could do it from ldraw.org, but 1) anyone have suggestions on getting permission and 2) anyone have the LGEO zip file? -Tim (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hmm, that's interesting...I just noticed yesterday that I got a bounced mail that was addressed to Lutz's address at that server... --Todd (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: e-Commerce, Entertainer, Exchange rate
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(...) Why should the vendor pay? Again, I don't think the credit card company exchanges money on a daily basis. I don't think they even bill the vendor on a daily basis. Also, the vendor is dealing with their local branch of the credit card company. (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Here's another absurd auction....
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(URL) minimum bid, $6 shipping handling?! For a set that could be had for at most about $2... Interestingly, the same seller only charges $5 shipping and handling for a book: (URL) the difference is that they send the book book rate. (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: 2000 LEGO
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(...) I seem to remember that last year, distribution sort of took the form of a wave. It started out in the east and slowly (too slowly) worked it's way west. I haven't seen any yet in northern Denver (Broomfield). -Duane (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.co)
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