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(...) No this cant be the case as Lego themselves are selling the sets, in their UK store at least. regards lawrence (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Bull ;-) TLC will just price the bulk pieces high enough so that this is not economically viable. I just can't imagin them selling bulk parts for less than $.10-.20 on average, as that is what they cost in sets these days. -- Tom Stangl (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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I am new to collecting Lego. I played with them a lot as a child, but now want to collect as an adult. Anyhow, I came across a large amount of old sets (Gears, Small vehicles, Windows and Doors, Building sets, etc.) There is one set that I cannot (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Jasper Janssen wrote: [RE: my hopeful dreamin' that LEGO will redesign their site for better usability and not for better security with obnoxious bells and whistles] (...) Well, to be honest, with the crew of designers they (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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I now have GB 5 in my possession, and have sorted through it. I'm going to figure out what to put in it and repack it in a sturdier box later today. Once I get Thomas Main's address, I'll send it on. -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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(...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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(...) you bet we could, todd! if only such a thing existed... ;-) i had trouble trying to crosspost this tho'. when i typed lugnet.org.us into the follow up box, the message wasn't acceppted. later ~ craig~ (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ga, lugnet.loc.us)
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(...) Yah Rose! I'll add my support behind everything she said. Three cheers for Rose for the courage to write it! Kevin Loch has done wonders with his site, and his self-imposed restrictions make perfect sense to me. When I read Brad's note, I (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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Todd Lehman wrote in message <385ce0d5.267874625@...et.com>... (...) Well put, Todd. After reading all this, including my wife's post, here's my "boiled-down" philosophy: 1) Brad (and his employer, TLG), have begun a dialog with us. Hasn't this been (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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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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(...) 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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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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(...) 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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