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(...) Hello Emmanuel I saw on all these pages that you are a Lego wizzard. I'm looking for a railroadcrossing 4532. Can you help me? Greetings Hans. (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Pneumatic tube sources
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Where is a good place to buy Pnumatic tubes (and T sections/length extenders). Dacta only sells the pumps, pistons, and switches and Lego worldstore seems to have gone downhill with no spare parts that I can find. Thanks! -Gavin (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Other Castle Guard
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(...) Don't worry, you're not missing anything. It's only a stupid parrot, but it's brown. That's all. I say that TLC makes a new bird, with it's wings spread so it can actually look like it's flying. It could look like this(kind of): /\ ( ) ---- (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Future Wild West Possibilities
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(...) faces? (...) That is where TLC will run into a problem. All minifigs are yellow so that any child, of any race can relate to them. no other toy on the market is as neutral as lego. for example the are 4 diffrent types of the same barbie doll- (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.western)
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| | Catalogue
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Hiya I found a 6278 Indigo Island set in the Entertainer in Southampton (£20 - the same price as on the website, but obviously no postage charge) - inside was a 1995 Japanese catalogue - I don't know if all the current 'clearance' sets have these (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: 2000 Set Observations
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(...) Town? Yes. Artic? I have to disagree with you. There is very little simplification. However, I am comparing with US prices. In the US, the big Artic set is $60. (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Anyone get Lego for XMAS?
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(...) No. This model traveled on the major Auto Show circuit to the world's major auto shows (which are, in no particular order, Tokyo, Seoul, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Turin, London, Paris, Barcelona, Detroit, Chicago, Miami, New York, Los Angeles). (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: NELUG meeting report from 12/16/1999
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(...) I would truly hope that someone hosting a meeting would be allowed to have their children present so long as they behave (which should be standard hosting protocol for ANY social event at a home - it's up to the parents if they want to allow (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.org.us)
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| | Re: New castle minifigs--in which sets?
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(...) Someone else has no doubt observed this, but what's the connection between the Princess and Gail Storm, our intrepid Adventurer? Do the faces resembe each other at all, inasmuch as minifig faces all sort of resemble each other... 8^) Dave! (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Other Castle Guard
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In lugnet.castle, David Eaton writes: [snip technical details] (...) Whoa, whoa, wait! Brown Falcon? Green jewel? Rare knight? (you mean the brown mustached one?) I didn't see these anywhere... Can someone send me a picture? (I sent for the S@H (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: A great cleaning method for lego
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(...) In the commercial, they show the person using this magic wand to clean her computer keyboard. Are these static brushes safe for such use? If so, I've got to get one! Dave! (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.storage, lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Future Wild West Possibilities
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(...) faces? (...) Go to the .starwars group, they've been debating the race issue for at least a week. Karl Martinson raymart@jam21.net (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.western)
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| | Re: Future Wild West Possibilities
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(...) left (...) I do!!! Cool... An Abraham Limcoln minifig... Black slaves... Black? There's a problem here. How would TLC deal with the issues of racism, slaves, etc.? Up till now, there weren't any black-white-minorities issues, since all (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.western)
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| | Re: Divers set 6560 Plus others For Sale !!!
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I think that I had better stick with the price I have listed for this item for shipping anywhere. I am not trying to rip anyone off since that is not who I am. But I don't want to lost money on the deal, either. Kevin Salm Frank Filz wrote in (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: 4811 Defense Archer!
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(...) TLC really needs to figure out why their pages are getting caught up by web caches. From two different machines at work, I see two different US catalogs, one with the new sets, one without. Unfortuanately, the machine which sees the new sets (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | railroadcrossing
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If the 4532 is ot longer available is there another crossing for the 9 volts train available? Hans. (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: A great cleaning method for lego
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(...) I find that letting them soak for three weeks in soapy water will do it too. :) And you don't even have to scrub! :) Jeff P.S. Found this out by accident. I didn't have time to rinse and dry the pieces, so I just left them in the water. ;) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.storage, lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Divers set 6560 Plus others For Sale !!!
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(...) All three of these sets use the same baseplate. Only difference is color. (...) In the US, I have seen this set in at least Zany Brainy and K-Mart. eToys has had them also (got some on sale there). If you're in the US, I reccomend watching (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Just a question.
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(...) ___...___ (...) Sean Frantz (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: A great cleaning method for lego
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(...) rinse (...) that's my method (only i'm not particular about the detergent brand.. i typically use liquid woolite... gentle, ya know) and scrub them (gently!) with the softest, largest oral-b you can buy J (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.storage, lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: A great cleaning method for lego
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I think he is talking about those wands that look like rainbow colored fuzzy cat tails. You run them across the screen on your television which charges the bristles (static electricity). They pick up dust pretty good. -Nick Steve Martin wrote in (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.storage, lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Sorting
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I should add that it's not literally the "putting away" that the kids hate (with regard to keeping parts in bins), but the sorting prior to putting the parts away. Putting things in drawers goes quickly, making sorted piles does not. -Ted (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Leo's Castle... flags?
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(...) Well, as far as I can tell, that is the only instance of five flags. I know mine only came with four. S@H only shows four, also. Jeff (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | red tags at WalMart
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While shopping at the WM sc (Chiefland FL) I noted the following sets were now red tagged. I'm not going to list the prices (because that will be outdated shortly), but the clearances were generally in the 20%-45% off range. 2253 X-Large Tubes 2803 (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.fl)
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| | Re: Design wanted: Touch sensor for passing trains
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Carl- We designed some that worked very well with the 4561 Railway Express sets that we used for the Orange County Festival of Trees earlier this month. The mechanism uses one of those 5 sided aircraft wing pieces held horizontally flat near the (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Instruction Books for Technic
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Hi, I am a newbie and have bee reading the discussions on instruction book scans etc and am confused. Why can't you just telephone Lego and ask them to send you the instructions. It works for me and they have sent me original books. Regards Tim (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: A great cleaning method for lego
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(...) I've found that a children's soft bristle toothbrush (which is softer than a soft adult's) doesn't leave scratch marks. It does take some time and is better when wet. Wayne (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.storage, lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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| | Leo's Castle... flags?
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Ok, I had it out in the living room the other day, and upon taking it back into my room, I noticed that of the 5 towers, 1 was missing a flag... Naturally, I assumed that I had bumped it off, or the cat had tackled it and it was somewhere in the (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Divers set 6560 Plus others For Sale !!!
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So I guess that this set is not so hard to find after all. I may want to reconsider my price or simply hold this item for a while. I bet I could get good money for it on Ebay if I listed it right now, but I hate Ebay so that is not an option for me. (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Sorting
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Since my older son received his first LEGO set at age 3, we have been keeping the parts in plastic storage bins made by Emplast. We are up to 18 large drawer bins and 9 small drawer bins. The large ones have 18 drawers and the small ones have 60 (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | WTB/TF Samsonite 311 Remote Control Supplement
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I need the remote control from Samsonite set #311 from 1960s. Will pay handsomely. -- Have fun! John The Legos you've been dreaming of... (URL) weird Lego site: (URL) Hooray! Hooray! Its Y2K! A new decade starts next year. (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Future Wild West Possibilities
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(...) If (...) Now were talking. Who else wants a Civil War theme? David (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.western)
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| | Re: Divers set 6560 Plus others For Sale !!!
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(...) These are all over the place in Canada (Edmonton, at least), for ~30.00 CAD. My local Walmarts have stacks of these on the shelf. James (URL) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Future Wild West Possibilities
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(...) A Civil War theme would be great!! They can have little forts, or some of the armored ships that started to appear then! Tons of playset possibilites . . . . -Jonathan (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.western)
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| | Re: The Invasion of Strombrachter Page
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(...) I plan on buying a *lot* of 4811, and none will be kept complete. Unfortunately, the only hand-held weapons it comes with are crossbows, and crossbow wielding 'figs look much better with a shield, IMO. Luckily, I have a lot of extra bows and (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Just a question.
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(...) Yes! I think the official date is December 26th, the day after Christmas, at least by TRU. However, most stores already sold out of their initial 2000 shipment, simply because they put it out during the holiday season. Scott S. (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Divers set 6560 Plus others For Sale !!!
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Kevin Wilson is correct about the contents. I am not sure, however if the 32x32 decorated baseplate is similar to 6416 Poolside Paradise, but it is similar to the one in 5978 Sphinx Secret Surprise. I think that there are some differences as to (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Future Wild West Possibilities
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(...) I think they will go back to Wild west within the next three to four years. For now they are too busy with star wars and some of the other new themes. If we show more interest here for the western theme than in the past maybe they will take (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.western)
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| | Re: The Invasion of Strombrachter Page
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(...) Well, the archer comes with one, and if you use him per se, you will have one extra shield for every archer that you purchase. On a side note: I could not be more pleased with the weapons and minifigures in these new sets (the king's torso and (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Just a question.
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So have the 2000 lego sets been officially released in the U.S.? Most importantly in Georgia. (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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