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(...) All human LEGOfolk are yellow, including Asians and Native Americans. Why should LEGOfolk of African descent be any different? Was there a fuss when the Islanders showed up, and they were yellow? I'm not entirely sure what racial group they're (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Garage Door Parts for TRADE, parts wanted
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I have pics of the parts I have available for Trade (TRADE ONLY, I will NOT sell!) at: (URL) I'd like to turn this into a "ClearingHouse" for garage door parts - if you have parts available for trade/sale, let me know the type, color, and quantity, (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Barcode set
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WOW! This set ranks right up there with the space shuttle set. The green parts are awesome! Green motor mount plates. Green technic beams. Green axles. Green. Very cool. ...and you get TWO clutch gears. Awesome. It will be fun adapting the RCX to (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Longest MOC
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(...) When do we see it???...??? (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | 2000 Lego in Cambridge, MA
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The TRU in the Fresh Pond shopping center on Alewife Brook Parkway (R16) had the following sets when I went in to finish up some Christmas shopping today: 8001 Battle Droid - saw 3 6095 Royal Joust 6094 Guarded Treasury - saw 1 6026 King Leo 4806 (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Mindstorms spirit.ocx programming = RCX ASM coding?
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I haven't looked at programming the RCX with Visual Basic or other MS Win languages via the spirit.ocx control, but someone (sorry -- I'm terrible with remembering names!) at the NELUG meeting asked me why people seem to like NQC when they could be (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | 2000 Sets in NW Houston
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Just wanted to let everyone know that Toys R Us on 1960 in the Willowbrook area had some Slave 1, Desert Skiff, Flash Speeder, and Gungan patrol sets. They also had some Arctic and Castle sets as well. There were even a couple of Wild West sets (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.tx.hou)
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| | Re: RCX onboard timer and motor pulsing
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(...) It is 1/10 of a second for the timers. However, in case you don't know. The RCX's Motor ports PULSE their signal. They always put out the same voltage. At level 8 it's 100% at level 4 it's an even on/off. I use it for my trains and it's great. (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Thanks for the welcome
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Brad, I'm really glad to see this second post about Lego Direct. To keep the rumors down, could you do at least a monthly posting to keep us abreast of progress? Regarding direct sales you said: (...) The part about finalizing initial offerings is (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Cybermaster 1000 spänn
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För att svara på min egen fråga, så kan det bero på att seten verkar vara av 1998 års modell. Alla papper i ett av seten är det i varje fall. (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.se)
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| | Re: AFOL
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How about FOL? -- Have fun! John The Legos you've been dreaming of... (URL) weird Lego site: (URL) L F Braun wrote in message <38613D24.E7619CF1@p...su.edu>... (...) those (...) (As (...) AFOLs. (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Idea for if Lego ever revives Imperials
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(...) Ditto for 6067. But not 6071. I can't see myself buying more than about 20. :) I agree - I'd guess that the vast majority of AFOL's go for parts, not profit. James (URL) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Idea for if Lego ever revives Imperials
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(...) Ah, who cares about preserving the value of older sets for collectors? I think you could make the argument that blue or red torsos would be better or cooler, but I for one wouldn't give a flying rodent's behind about the effect revising older (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: To som tu sam ?
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Heya Dan (Landa?:)) (...) No to som aj ja rad, ze sa tu niekto nasiel ! ;))) (...) Ja mam najradsej MODET TEAM ! Tie modely (hlavne posledne) su dost pekne ! Potom na druhom mieste sa mi pacia Star Wars a Adventures. Tiez nie su zle tie NAJVACSIE (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.sk)
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| | Re: Longest MOC
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My ship is exactly 219 studs long right now but when i finish the drive at the back it will probably have and additional 40 or so studs. Palmer. Bob Jackson wrote in message ... (...) of (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Ship Power Core
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In lugnet.space, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes: [snip] (...) [Snip] (...) Ya'll might want to try a product called nevr-dull, it comes in a small blue tin can and has the "polish" suspended in a kinda cotton wad. you ought to wear gloves of some (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Does Anyone Know Where Pix Are? HELP!!!
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Does anyone know a site where there are pics of all the 2000 SW sets (either boxes or finished models)? If so, please reply ASAP! Thanks, Sonny Sidhu (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: How old are you?
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I'm 28, been playing with legos since before I can remember. I started out with classic space, something like the Galaxy explorer and a few others. The first "Technic" set I can remember well was the expert builder car chassis. I guess that would (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Je tu nekdo?
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(...) No presne tak. Mozno aj niekto u nas (nechce sa mi stale pisat v Cechach a na Slovensku ;)) LEGO zbiera a mozno aj ma pristup k Internetu, ale je otazne ci pozna linky, na ktorych je o LEGE najviac. Napriklad LUGNET. Ja som prve LEGO dostal v (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.cz)
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| | Re: Thanks for the welcome
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(...) Phew. *as fingers start to come off of the red button at TLC* Just stopped WWIII before it started :) -Tim (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Longest MOC
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(...) Hello, I suppose that the new 2000 Arctic sets will fit in with your plans now. They can witness an iceburg encounter, and finally these behemoths will have rescue available (or is that RES-Q). Merry Christmas! Aaron>maniac@vol.com (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Constructing Bay Doors
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(...) On my current LDraw project, I have an airlock which features 2 of the 3 stud wide doors - slightly modified. Tom McDonald came up with this cool system to make a sliding door fit in 2 studs wide. I included the 3rd stud row for extra (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Longest train?
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(...) I -know- that the train would not make it with HEP only through a curve like that. My upper level is a straight oval, about 25 straights each side. The figures I have seen seem to indicate that a 10 Degree curve has as much drag added as a .3 (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | RCX onboard timer and motor pulsing
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Hi All, Since I am and train head I don't read .RCX (this topic might be well exhausted) I just read thru a third party book on the RCX and in one place he said the timer granularity in 1/10 sec and in another it was 1/1000 sec. My goal is to pulse (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: H-Town has 'Em!
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Nah, I can't find 'em here in the Northwest US either (Washington State, Seattle area). If anyone around here finds them, please post! -Zak (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.loc.us.tx.hou)
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| | R2D2 (DDK) with RCX : First Look
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Hi all, I'm glad to introduce you a first draft/beta R2D2/DDK with an RCX done tonight. You can have a look at (URL) Quite Perfect (NQP :-), but I think it can be a good way to do something nice for all of us, and get it as an idea start something (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | R2D2 (DDK) with RCX : First Look
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Hi all, I'm glad to introduce you a first draft/beta R2D2/DDK with an RCX done tonight. You can have a look at (URL) Quite Perfect (NQP :-), but I think it can be a good way to do something nice for all of us, and get it as an idea start something (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: How old are you?
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I'm 34, and while I played with Legos as a child I haven't really been involved in them for the past 20 years or so. The reason I'm getting back into Mindstorms now is that I was about to rebuild a 6.270 board that my cat broke, and decided to go (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: IR Control
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(...) Perhaps I should add Apple Event support to MacNQC - it wouldn't be too difficult. On the other hand, it may be more appropriate to build a smaller stand-alone app that serves as a bridge between Apple Events and RCX communication. Dave Baum (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Roboarm.nqh
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(...) I'm glad you're enjoying the book. Not including more information about where to put include files was definitely an oversight - I'll update the book's web pages when I get a chance. Dave (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | FOTW: Tchnic Space Shuttle
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At the Golden Gate Zany Brainy (I didn't even know it existed), they have Technic Space Shuttles for 50% off (so, $80.24 incl. tax). There were 5 left when I was there. They also had set 8000 Pit Droid, but no other Y2K sets. --Bram Bram Lambrecht / (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.oh.cle)
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| | Re: Longest MOC
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(...) I guess Seaborn Brick wouldn't count, right now she is at 6ft (Longer than Terry Cruise's Titanic). And the dock I built for her, only reaches a little way past the bow. Right now I have $100.00 (ahhh Grandparents, so nice of them to give me (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Why not wait
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(...) Ran out of time is most likely -- I know they certainly were frantically rendering scenes for it on the supercomputer here at BU only three weeks before it was in theatres. (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: 2000 Lego
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(...) Well, if you don't mind a bit of a drive, the Whitehall and Easton Walmarts both have had smatterings of 2000 sets, including at one point or another, all the Star Wars that's out, most of the castle, some Arctic, Millennium Throwbot, and Pit (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.pa.phi.swb)
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| | Correct Castle 6098 (not 6091)
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Well, I found all of the new 2000 sets at Wal-Mart under $60, and all the $60 and up sets for 2000 at Toys R Us. I have picked up all of the Castle series, including two each of 6026, 6094, 6095 and all the Bulls. I have finally put them all (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Mindstorms Wishlist
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(...) It only seems that way. What you're getting in the midway point is a 'flutter' as the contact is not quite made. It's not something you can do much useful with. (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Why not wait
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(...) Watching the previews or end credits or something (I don't remember - I *tried* to put that movie out of my mind), you see that the Spacemonkey grows up to be a big monstrous space monkey when they cross continuums. But either they ran out of (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Longest MOC
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(...) I've built a surface vessel that was about 80 studs long, which is the biggest thing I've ever built, but I know, it's puny by many others' standards. I wish I would've finished the thing, I was almost done with the exterior when I tore it (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Mindstorms Wishlist
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In a message dated 12/22/99 9:26:45 AM Central Standard Time, connorbd@yahoo.com writes: << > > 8. Touch pressure sensor > > > > "How hard am I gripping this thing? Am I about > to crush this minifig to > > death?" And this should replace the basic (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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