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(...) Sure, when a company tries to stop the dissemination of information on the net, that information usually goes underground. But that's besides the point, in my opinion. I don't want to have to beg people to send me instruction scans by email, (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: WOO HOO...2k SW found in western NY
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About 2/3 of the way to rochester from you. Newark area. I pretty much cleaned them out (except for the new castle stuff, only got one little set, still 5 or 6 others there). Oh, I only got one of about 5 Gungan Patrols too. (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: ZB deals
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(...) You'd think they'd be ecstatic, as they have cleared a LOT of floor/shelf space by selling off those large-boxed sets. Last year when I bought out 18 5571s in one go, the mgr was very happy to sell them to me, even though they had to ship them (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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I agree totally with Robert...Which brings me, once again, to point out an address EVERYONE should look at. Todd is, in my opinion, trying the best he can to *follow* the words in this website: (URL) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.admin.general)
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On Mon, 20 Dec 1999 01:00:41 GMT, "Robert M. Dye" <robdye@writeme.com> wrote: . (...) They'd be in their rights to demand it. It would not happen. The web simply doesn't work that way. Did you miss the dozens of posts screaming "someone email me the (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.admin.general)
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This is my last word in this thread. God grant I'm not tempted to break that. ---...--- (...) So...what...? Since you did not write it, it was not rude? My original post on this topic was not addressed to you. I said, speaking in general to the (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.admin.general)
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Hi All, I just added a 3rd round of pics that Kim took of the OMSI layout. www.pnltc.org under Galleries SteveB (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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Consumer Affairs told me that after talking to many focus groups that they decided it was not used and thus cut for cost savings again (standard good corp practice)... and good for them, it seems like they need to cut some corners to stay in (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Outlet Mall Locations?
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Definitely Michigan! But in Kalamazoo, since it's a lot closer to me than Detroit and it has a cool name. Fred. (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: FS: 6979 UFO Interstellar Starfighter w/ Fibre-Optic MISB
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(...) That's a great deal, folks, if you like the set. Meijer here in MI has these for 39.99 and someone (at least in some stores) taped a 2 dollar off coupon on to each box. However that is NOT as good as L's offer because he includes shipping and (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Catalogs, Justus and Lego
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(...) Ah, but the thing is, except for second-hand, we'll never be able to undercut Lego from the things _new_: bulk parts, and the hypothetical free copying of current instructions. You see, Set-breakers exist now. What do you think they do with (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Cross posting in eu (was: Aaargh!)
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(...) [this was about the loc groups and unreadable things] (...) By the way, I did notice a babelfish option where you type in a URL, and it provides a translation. Witrh a bit of naughty reverse-engineering by me, the following URL will result in (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Leo's castle-- number mix up?
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(...) I hadn't even noticed the set numbers. That's really messed up (in terms of LEGO's old habit of numbering similarly sized sets together in the same xxxy range. For example, you could expact that the entire 608x range would be somewhat similar (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Stange auction on ebay
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(...) This terribly bad joke was brought to you by the letter "M". (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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In article <3858EEA1.3794267E@s...on.co.uk>, lego@songtwo.demon.co.uk says... (...) I assume it's a Euro-version, no setname or piece count? (...) Yes, the 2160 was on the discontinued price list given out by LEGO Denmark. (...) What Insectoids did (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: ZB deals
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Everyone should know that the $48 space shuttle price comes from 50% + 20% off and they'll only do the 20% on the first set so any additional sets are only 50% off. Still a very good deal. Just ordered two. :) brian (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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Sounds like a good date. What would the venue be? (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ny, lugnet.loc.us.nj)
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I would tend to say that when we are talking "longest train" that there ought to be two categories: The "pure" category should require all motors be on contiguous units located at the front (so as to allow multiple units but not allow spacing the (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Cross posting in eu (was: Aaargh!)
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In article <Fn18nI.81s@lugnet.com>, mario.ferrari@edis.it says... (...) Spanish is taught in some schools as the easier option for the educationally challenged :-) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu)
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In article <38b85aeb.436875145@...gnet.com>, jasper@janssen.dynip.com says... (...) That's what I meant in a way - you would really have to standardize in the local currency of the location. (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu)
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(...) < much snipped > (...) Well, if zanybrainy.com would offer the same thing that the stores do, then this would be routed to a more efficient channel. One that is designed to handle a 'thundering herd' :-) Ray (who has no Zany Brainy store (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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Just another minor point here and I'm really just nitpicking so don't sweat it... (...) True. We've had people who said they were designers, people who related experiences working in a model shop, we sometimes have lurkers from various departments (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) contacted (...) they (...) ...forgot to mention - I found one in the Littleton, CO store. Much friendlier staff. They couldn't honor the additional 20% off, however, but 4565 shipped UPS ground at $99 flat rate is good enough for me! Check (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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D. Jezek <danjezek@REMOVEaloha.net> wrote in message news:Fn0J0G.MvJ@lugnet.com... (...) wasn't (...) one (...) the (...) Thanks Dan. Not the most complete, but its quality over quantity. I think I know what stuffing is, and needless to say, I (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) The thread was a little hard to follow... Didn't it start in .oh, jumped to .oh.col, then to .oh.cle, then back to.oh... Talked with Troy via e-mail; things started to get busy with the holidays and all -- very understandable considering that (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.oh.col)
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| | Re: Leo's castle-- number mix up?
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(...) Wow. That's *two* errors in the new Castle sets box printing. The other one is on the 6095 Royal Joust, which has the Portuguese name for 'Guarded Treasury' instead of the correct one. Bizarre. I wonder what happened? I wonder if LEGO changed (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: 12/1 Lego article in Ohio
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Paul, (...) Any chance of you scanning the article in? --Mike. (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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| | Re: 50 stud all porpose flat car ( rtwx.mpd )
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thomas burger wrote in message ... (...) For some reason I expected it to look like a turtle... (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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(...) at (...) are (...) ...I reached someone of similar description - her name was Shelia - and she wanted to "thank the person who gave out my number" (dripping with sarcasm. Anyway, they're out of 4565. Ed (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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I'd guess that they use a template for their auctions (Like i do) and accidentally posted a bunch of auction with just the "blank" template. Troy Scott-A <s.arthur@hw.ac.uk> wrote in message news:385E6218.2EBDA4...w.ac.uk... (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: ho trovato un miniera di LEGO...
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"Domenico Franco" <acubens@tiscalinet.it> wrote in message news:Fn297J.D25@lugnet.com... (...) informare. Cosa intendi con "se qualcuno è interessato" ???? ;-))) Pubblicare lista e prezzi, please......... -- Cheers Carlo. LUGNET member page: (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: Lego scontato in un negozio di Roma
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Mario Ferrari <mario.ferrari@edis.it> wrote in message Fn1Kx4.FKp@lugnet.com... (...) i (...) a (...) Legofest. (...) Dov'è questo negozio??? Per il trasporto, penso che si possa fare molto volentieri. Comunque ho trovato in un negozio l'8443 a (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: Cross posting in eu (was: Aaargh!)
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In article <38b45681.435745144@...gnet.com>, jasper@janssen.dynip.com says... (...) I thought that might be a problem but I asked anyway. (...) Maybe difficult when trying to read whole threads but it'll do for now. (...) More reasons not to (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.admin.general)
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Michael Edwards <medwards@ukonline.co.uk> wrote in message news:Fn1uqD.5JD@lugnet.com... (...) Are they selling it yet? Huw (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: The end of the Technic beam is nigh...
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Jason Fabisch <jfabisch@alphawire.com> wrote in message news:Fn269G.LIE@lugnet.com... (...) A new 15-hole beam slots into back of the vehicle. A lever pushes a pair of axles downwards at an angle which in turn pushes the vehicle along the beam. Push (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Pirate Gaming
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(...) ...and two Megabloks Viking Longships. Hey, they are a progressive cannon-armed but clinker-built lot. :-) Bruce (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | ho trovato un miniera di LEGO...
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... in un sale&tabacchi!!!! Veramente incredibile, ha confezioni di tutte le serie (in tutto circa ottanta scatole) specialmente le più "antiche" (con tanto di scatole ingiallite dall'età) di molte serie. Tra queste ho trovato anche il bellissimo (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: DUPLO Animals (Was Re: What lego animals are there?)
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The lions in this link are orangey light brown on my monitor. (...) Carolyn Cheney (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.duplo)
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Gary Istok wrote (...) fly to, (...) It is a (...) Damn right Gary. And putting down treasonous behaviour like this is part of the standing orders for the Governor of Port Block (as well as being one of his sublime pleasures). Duty Officer! Duty (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Enough already
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Sturm und Drang. Cool word choice by Rob, IMHO. You don't need a German dictionary, it's in English dictionaries, synonymous with turmoil. It is literally translated as "Storm and Stress" and it comes from a "German literary movement, characterized (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.admin.general)
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