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Thanks Tony for the fine explanation :) so it depends on just what you want to do with the bricks after they are together. Works for me :) now to ponder just which I need :) Tamy (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Enough already
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(...) materials (...) <snipped to conserve bandwidth> You are certainly not in the minority here. I'm quieter than I used to be, (and I wasn't very loud to begin with.) TLC has done a whole wide world of service to all of us, just by coming up to (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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Hi again, I changed the custom colours to the already pre-selected colours in MLCAD. Hope it works! Mladen Pejic, over and out! P.S. The reason this robot is in a sitting position is because I really can't make good rotations, but I guess most of (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Fair Play (was Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs)
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(...) Not given the softer re-clarification, no. (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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Langleys (Toymaster) in Norwich, to be precise. I only noted the prices of the SW stuff: 7115 Gungan Patrol: 11.99 7124 Flash Speeder: 7.99 7134 A-Wing: 11.99 7144 Slave 1: 17.99 7180 B-Wing: 27.99 8000 Pit Droid: 14.99 A little above the odds, (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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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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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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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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| | Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
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(...) No, they are not. One cannot give a URL to take a person directly, one has to quote navigation path. That's bogus. Followups to .publish, this is a pet peeve of mine that I have expounded on there before. (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Ebay - On the rise, indeed
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Pawel Nazarewicz wrote in message ... <snip Todd's answer to rhetorical question> (...) miniscule (...) e-bay (...) days. (...) it (...) (as he (...) up (...) that be (...) and (...) The purpose of my belated post is to answer the question Pawel (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Loader)
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(...) I suggest defining the custom colors the way LDLite does, ie: 0 COLOR ... That way, you can still use the color numbers in the .dat lines so that the file will still work in LDraw and LEdit, except that the colors will be off. --Bram Bram (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: OMR Planning - Almost There
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(...) Maybe that's where the model editors would come in. But it's a headache nonetheless. (...) I was thinking along the lines of people impersonating others. But there are probably other rules too... (...) I was thinking that if you want ldraw.org (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Transparent Yellow -- dead or alive?
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(...) Seems like trans. yellow (amber) pieces have been used as the lights on vehicles within the past year or two. I have vague memories of 1x1 amber tiles. -- jthompson@esker.com "Float on a river, forever and ever, Emily" (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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Robin, Yeah I'll have to see what I can do. I tried to make it to the Tampa show, matter of fact I was in Tampa all this past week, but had to come home before the weekend. I was really trying to find an excuse to stay over the weekend. Good luck (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: Ebay - On the rise, or ... ?
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Mike Poindexter wrote in message ... (...) past (...) Thats amazing! I like 'em! Speaking of #1, I still relish the fact that I was the first person to have an auction end in that category back in April (or was it May?) Kinda like a first post or (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: MLCad wishlist (was Re: Ice Cream
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(...) LDraw (...) I like it very much thank-you. (...) I think that: 1) The file format should be .mlc to retain 8.3 compatibility for those of us who are used to it. 2) You should not have to export the file to save as a DAT. Simply make DAT an (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Availability of new castle?
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(...) Roboforce, Star Wars, and Wild West ("Indian") minifigs also have printing on their legs. Both Spyrius and Islander were introduced in 1994, so I think they share the honor of being first to introduce decorated legs. I suppose it's going to (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: FOTY!!!...!!!
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Congratulations! I wish I could find something similar, in Space, but somehow, everyone seem to know how valuable old space stuff are... --Tobias (...) married (...) So (...) Then (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: directional lighting
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In my opinion, that would ruin the feeling of LEGO. If you wanted things like that, then you could build them yourself (like a lot of people makes MindStorms sensors). LEGO is a toy for children, and I doubt that a 6-year old would have fun with (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Pile
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(...) Le malattie da batteri NiCd si curano facilmete con gli scarica batteri, quelle difficili da curare sono quelle che ti portano a fare errori di battitura :) Marco (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Sound patch for 0.2.3
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As somebody painted out today, the frequency settings for PITCH_Gm2 through PITCH_Am3 (or 23-37) are erroneous. I copied and pasted these from Martin's "Wir sind die Roboter" demo, which seems to be in error, too. A patch to alleviate the problem is (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Auction Feedback (was: Re: 6067 with an added bonus!)
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David Eaton wrote in message ... (...) <snip> (...) might (...) was (...) plate (...) colors. (...) I (...) dollar (...) on (...) I have always wondered about people who skimp out on the horse backings as you call them. Bein' stingy, not givin' up (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: broken motor
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But if he says he wants to buy them? Why would LEGO want to *keep* the motor, if they get *money* for it? --Tobias (...) break (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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