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(...) holographic (...) going (...) No such luck I'm afraid. The DVD version of the original Trilogy will not be released untill the completion of Episode 3. This new DVD version will be called (tenatively) the Archival Edition. (So goes the rumor (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Brad Justus' Comments - Why Complain?
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(...) I honestly don't think his comment there deserved the harsh reply. Not trying to jump on you, but I just see [his comment] as simple sarcasm used in the context of a flame message alone. I would assume that people here at Lugnet would know we (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: KC Lego Fest - tentative date
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(...) I mite not be able to make this, I am still trying to convince my wife that we or I need to go to the Gats Show. Andrew Reynolds (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mo.kan)
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| | Universal Joints
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While building the 8448, I was dissapointed to see universal joints used in the drive for the suspension system. My experiance with these in the past was not the best. The axel holder end will crack under stress. I am leery to motorize the model (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Anyone get Lego for XMAS?
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(...) Hi Michael, I bought her a motorbike. You seem to be a Technic wizard....which ones of previous years do you recommend (remember my Birthday !!!!) regards Tim (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: AAT & MTT
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(...) LOL :( We were looking at the 2000 in-box catalog the other night. Upon spying the centerfold spread, Kristin (my SLSO) asked, "where's the set with the battle droid army?" I just smiled weakly at her. Steve (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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My Mouth Drops!! (...) Mindstorms Now that is Xmas, if i had that, that would be a very good xmas., Never mind i will complete my collection next year. What did you buy the wife for xmas? - Michael Please reply on medwards@ukonline.co.uk Home of the (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Default offset for special parts
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(...) Try using the fine grid. A good thing to remember is that you usually have to move the piece an even number (2, 4, 6, 8, etc) of times. To place axles, I move the axle so that it interects the hole as close as possible to where it should. Then (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Anyone get Lego for XMAS?
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(...) cylinders (...) cheap. (...) Hi Lawrence, Yes I got Lego for Christmas....all of it....all of the Technic sets available in Toys R us in Zurich. I had just bought Mindstorms 3 months ago and got hooked on Technic so she walked into the shop (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Lego vs. Pokemon
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(...) Hello Kitty is still popular in Japan, and there is a small market here in the US. According to Animerica, the TV show is on Toon Disney. Jeff (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| | Re: Experimenting with Brasso (tm)
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(...) I agree with you about the stickers-vs-printing thing, but stickers for the quarter-hulls would have been terrible. Kids would have been very frustrated, because there'd have to be a number of individual stickers for each part. Not that I like (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | RCX "locking up" when trying to use dll
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Has anyone experienced the RCX "locking up" when trying to use dll? When I try to download a .lx file with dll, the brick freezes. It won't respond to any buttons and I have to take the batteries out and re-load the firmware. Any ideas why this is (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Droideka
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I just pre-ordered a Technic Destroyer Droid from Lego! I called the number in the "direct" flyer! (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Can't open serial port in Linux
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Check the permissions on /dev/ttyS1. I think the default is for it to be locked down to superuser only. If this is the case, then running nqc from a normal user account would cause the error you got. You'll need read/write rights to /dev/ttyS1 in (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Geometry Pages
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I am looking for pages that have good representations of brick geometry and their applications. Eric's "LEGO thoughts on my mind" is a good example of what I am looking for. Obviously, however, there are only so many ways to stack two plates on a (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Mindstorms Wishlist
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(...) Hmm. Could have been a customer-service problem. Little Timmy's mom calls LEGO Consumer Affairs, reports that little Timmy's RCX doesn't work anymore. Consumer Affairs sends a new one, with a return shipping label so mom can ship back the bad (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: How old are you?
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Hi all ... I just turned 65 a week ago and have been doing LEGOs for about twenty years ... a whole lot better than the Lincoln Logs that I had as a kid! The day after Christmas my two sons (11 & 12 y.o.) and I went to LEGOLand ... it was great! And (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.legoland, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Problems with legOS-0.2.2 on Windows 95
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Hi, I followed the instructions on (URL) install legOS-0.2.2 on my Windows 95 PC. I downloaded all the files, installed the packages, and modified the makefiles. And was finally ready to compile, the results of the compilation is shown below... (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Anyone get Lego for XMAS?
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On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Lawrence Wilkes (<FnI4w7.Any@lugnet.com>) wrote at 12:19:19 (...) I've had mine for a while, but I only got round to building it the other day. It's certainly the best *looking* car that they've done, but it *still* doesn't have (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Carved Lion Head Block?
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(...) Well, I'd comment, but Tony's already said what I would've said (snipped from another recent castle post): (...) I agree that it would be nice to have them in grey AND tan... as a matter of fact I think I'd PREFER grey, but I don't object to (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Slim Pickings at Target
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(...) What you speak of seems to be *very* dependent on the particular store and their philosophy of markdowns. My local WM-sc seems to be of the mind "don't clearance it until we have tried ever other way to sell it. Once we start marking down, do (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.fl)
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| | Re: 2000 sets now on-line @ LEGO.com
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"JS" == Jeff Stembel <Dragonelf1@aol.com> writes: (...) MM> I was checking out the LEGO.com site and noticed that the new 2000 MM> line LEGOs are now listed in the catalog. This includes the MM> Soccer, Town, Technic and Star Wars (I didn't check (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: touch sensors - two at a time ?
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(...) It's not a race condition, strictly speaking. It's more of a data sampling error. If you run that it a tight loop you will test the sensors hundreds or thousands of times a second. In order to see a simultaneous press you'd have to hit them at (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Anyone get Lego for XMAS?
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(...) The steering rack has two small cogs. One is connected up to the steering wheel. I put the micromotor on the back of the other, and used a plate on top to hold it. I had to remove the grey triangle as it was in the way and use a L piece (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: touch sensors - two at a time ?
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(...) If I understand your problem correctly, it has nothing to do with legOS specifically. Therefore, I will answer, even though I have no experience with legOS. The problem is, there is a very small amount of time where, while you're pushing on (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: 2000 sets now on-line @ LEGO.com
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(...) There isn't anything new in the "Advanced" section. Try looking at System or Belville; I saw some new sets in those categories. Jeff (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Pattern #'s
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OK, after just getting into this, and finally getting the hang of how part numbers are found, I've hit another snag. I pulled out an old set (circa 92) and found a part that was printed on that wasn't in the parts list. I'd like to "dummy" it up in (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Slim Pickings at Target
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(...) I've seen you advocate this, but I have to, to a certain extent, disagree. Suppose you don't buy any, the price doesn't drop, and someone else buys them all? Or worse, it drops, and someone else swoops in and buys them all. Now what do you (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.fl, lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Michigan STATE is second RATE (was Re: For Sale: Mindstorms RIS 1.5 $160 inc. shp.
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(...) Yes, MOST Michiganders, being U of M fans (1), find Spartans rather trying. Let's review... MSU got its start enabling folks to study animal husbandry. (2) I, at least, went to a school that got its start enabling folks to study rocks. Much (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Design wanted: Touch sensor for passing trains
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(...) Hi Carl, I tried some time ago, way before the mindstorms, to use read contacts. The magnets of the wagon/engines will close the contact each time they pass. I guess that the RCX can see this as 0 and 1. With this you can, I imagine, count the (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains)
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| | Threaded axles.
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Hi all! I've recently gotten hold of an 8862, Backhoe Grader, from 1989. This set contains one threaded axle, length 10, and three nuts for said axle. Now, according to several sources (such as (URL) and (URL) a length 4 threaded axle also exists. (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Slim pickings everwhere
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(...) Yes, *they* are listening :) (...) *sigh* [climbs on small soapbox] The retailers and TLC are cooperative partners in the situation that exists. Each has its own turf and wants to keep it that way. Perhaps Lego product should be thought of as (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | touch sensors - two at a time ?
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I'm trying to build a sensor apparatus at the front of my bot, and it works, mostly. It's made up as a pair of touch sensors. The idea being that if one is activated, it turns around slightly, to avoid the sensor, but if both are activated, we (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Bulk Pieces suggestions
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(...) Actually, I did make a taginental reference to this once ((URL) I was talking about staging civil war battles (not that far from the Pirate era) and the requirements of troops. Think about staging Gettysburg. Ray (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | sets: 2126 and 3225
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Hi, I am wondering whether sets 2126 (Train Cars) and 3225 (Classic Train) are still available in germany? If so, where and how much? I recall that sets are limited editions. Guido (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.de)
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| | Re: sets: 2126 and 3225
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(...) I guess you better ask the lugnet.loc.de newsgroup, anyway I saw tons of both two months ago in Frankfurt. Mario Web page: (URL) member page: (URL) member of ItLUG: (URL) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LEGO Racers demo
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(...) ha! I think it's safe for me to say that that wasn't it. just funny to me how much it looks like the minifig generator on steroids... I like how their characters move. Anyway, my work was more like product concepts of the plastic kind. ..and (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.games.lego.racers)
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| | Re: Question regarding motors
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(...) Yes, it is perfectly possible. There shouldn't be a huge difference, but small ones are quite possible, and annoying if using the motors to power a vehicle. James Powell (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | sets: 2126 and 3225
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Hi, I am wondering whether sets 2126 (Train Cars) and 3225 (Classic Train) are still available in germany? If so, where? I recall that sets are limited editions. Guido (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Design wanted: Touch sensor for passing trains
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(...) hmmm. Why don't they just hide the sensor(s) in trackside terrain, like crossing gates, non-rolling stock, etc? (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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