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I do not have any inside information from Lego on when these sets were supposed to be released, but I'd bet that the stores were not supposed to put them out until January. This would explain why they are not on the Lego site yet (and possibly start (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Questions about Sensors
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O'Reilly has been serializing "The Unofficial Guide to LEGO® MINDSTORMST Robots". The chapter on sensors is availble now at: (URL) Kory (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Arguably, that's a flaw in the implementation, not the concept of frames themselves. There should be some way to reference a given set of framed documents using a single URL. Hmmm; actually, that could be done with cgi. So arguably, that's (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Tower Building (was Re: 'Fest pics are up)
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(...) It is indeed 080 8-) ...I found it at a toy fair a couple of weeks back. It was definitely incomplete, although the four special baseplates were there, but slightly different from those shown on the box and in the instructions - 4 studs (?) (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Instructions for 371-1972 and 1550
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I just found 315 in a better condition than the one in the db. No holes, not crumpled and not yellow of age. This could have been my first set :-) And I found the box for 1550. On it is printed the name of this set: Sterling Super Caravelle. Djelle (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.db.scans)
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| | Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
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(...) Yeah. Right. Color me skeptical. Jasper (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: 2000 Sets at local Targets
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Target at 183/620 - Pit Droid, Arctic sets as of Saturday Target at 183/Ohlen - Pit Droid, A-Wing, Flash Speeder, Gugans as of Saturday Big K-mart at183/620 - nothing as of Saturday Walmart at 620 north of 183 - nothing as of Saturday Toys R Us at (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus)
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| | Re: AT-ST POVRAY Rendering
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Wow! Very well done... Eugwe Coral (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | 2000 sets are everywhere
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I have found them at the Target that Naji mentioned and at Wal Mart in Halls, Wal Mart at Knoxville Center Mall - and many more ... Also - If you go east on 640 and exit off onto I40 east exit off on the first exit - go left - there is a Kmart that (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.tn.knx)
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| | Re: Minifig box 2 :)
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Thanks for the updates, Tom and Paul. It is great to hear these comments. And such fast turn around! -Phil p.s. I only wish we could get some news of the other boxes (specially the Technic box that is "lost in Canada") (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
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(...) I have to agree wholeheartedly with Tom. When done right -- and it's rare -- the benefits of frames do outweigh the drawbacks, IMO. Check out Joshua Delahunty's review archive if you've never seen a site that does frames right. Joshua gives (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Minifig box 2 :)
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(...) I got this box from Tom yesterday, and traded about a dozen or so figures - took out mostly western types, put in original Blacktron (2 or 3) and some town people. Fixed a broken bike and added an extra one, as well as a few other accessories. (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | 2000 sets
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I have hear a lot of talk about how much dislike there is towards the 2000 line of LEGO. I just wanted to put my two cents in. I now have the Technic Pit Droid, The Flash Speeder, The Desert Skiff, and The B-wing. I think that the B-wing is one of (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Enough already
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(...) Hear, hear! IMHO, all of this backlash is ridiculous. The LEGO Company is being *extremely* generous in allowing scans of any their copyrighted materials up on websites *at all*[1]. Yet, all some people can do is complain that they aren't (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: making your own LEGO parts
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(...) The nearest 'practical' equivalent I can think of, are the 'micro' CNC milling machines, these allow surfaces to be very accurately milled, and start at anout 10000 dollars. I have access to one used for making 'one off' prototypes of stuff, (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Futaba or Hitec servos
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(...) As always with the "what is better" question, I must ask... What do you mean by "better"? They will operate the same, I think they have the same cable pinout. The Hitec ones are cheaper usually, but a little larger for the same specs. At the (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Exploration Mars missing?
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(...) Absolutely. Together with the long delays on delivery dates, and the mysterious 'disappearance' that has now taken place, this makes a product that is exactly in this spirit... (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: hex values (was: Re: Loader)
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Michael, I can understand the need to use hex to define custom (non-TLC produced) colors, and I'm sure that you'll find a way to fix this. What I'd like to know is why the transparent versions of the standard colors are now saved in this manner. Now (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Tallest LEGO structure...?
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My wife recently gave me the DK 'The Ultimate LEGO Book' as an early Christmas gift. I seem to remember there being talk of what the largest LEGO structure is. On page 73 There is a 'tower' being put together by a crane in August of 1988. It was (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: broken motor
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(...) Oh, that's fine. But the suggestion was that he try to get a free one as a spare. (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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