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To all, I went to TRU last night on a rare night off to get some LEGO. I went there, the store is finally calming down, it looked decent (Well, they moved to a new store, but it is still TRU) and went to the LEGO aisle. They restocked it to some (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Calling for Box Status and New Rule to vote on
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(...) I have sent this one along to Canada quite some time ago. (...) I believe John still has this one. At one point he said he would ship it to me but it hasn't arrived. (...) Sounds like a good idea (though there may occaisionally be good reasons (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Future Wild West Possibilities
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(...) I see your point - I know that in Israel nobody learns about the U.S. civil war in schools, especially not in elementary (the age to which LEGO is directed- 5 to 12) and I think not in High or Jr. High schools either. I definitely didn't (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.western)
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| | Re: Red tug boat question
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(...) I think I saw an auction for a different tug last night on eBay, no it was a 311 ferry. I think the hulls might be compatible. I do see these hulls every once in a while on eBay. (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: how does a bar code reader work?
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(...) track (...) Well, I have for the time being a lot of 12V track, with automatic points and stop signals. I am not going to buy 9V points before they are automatic. I hope that TLG gets into train-mindstorms (computer controlled track e.g. (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: detecting goal objects at a distance
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(...) it (...) a (...) systematically) (...) darkened (...) barely (...) target in (...) on (...) make (...) This is a thing I'm interested in too. Those of you who were at the mindfest might remember the soccer playing robots. The bots were really (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Future Wild West Possibilities
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(...) Regardless of what the Civil War *was* about, a lot of the current study and, more importantly, social relevance *is* about slavery. If Lego were making Civil War sets 135 years ago, maybe they wouldn't need to represent slavery. But now, to (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.western)
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| | Re: Catalogue
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Interesting Same story for the 8480 Space Shuttle from the website one, i got a Japanses catalogue. I wonder that the Enterainer brought these from Japan at cheap prices or a mixup by Lego? -- Michael Please reply on medwards@ukonline.co.uk Home of (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Are the Accessory Bricks Going to be canceled? to Brad, or lego rep
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(...) Actually there is a small picture right next to the base plates that states "Limited Quantities, Order Now". :( Elliot Hyde (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Future Wild West Possibilities
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(...) neutrality. (...) Thinking from a marketing stand-point, The school history teachers (2-4th grades), not to mention college professors would grab this stuff right off the shelves, not to mention AFOL's and adult and KABOB history buffs. -John (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.western)
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| | Re: Future Wild West Possibilities
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(...) Who's to say they would need slaves? The Civil War was more than slavery, the could just concentrate on the battles and not the causes. (soap box mode et drifting off topic) The war was fought over the opression of the North on the South, (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.western)
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| | RE: how does a bar code reader work?
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(...) Hmmm, this might be another practical pbForth application. I don't have time right now... <snipped excellent barcode type description> (...) I'm not sure about the clock thing. Any single sensor is sampled at about 333 Hz. If you write some (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New Castle Sucks (so far...)
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(...) I just wanted to say that I agree that the new castle line may be a lot more juniorized, and I think that those juniorized parts seem to make it more expensive. One of the things I have always looked for in my LEGO purchases (since I was a (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: eudora thread bug
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GREAT write up! crossposted this reply to .faq because it's that good. (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: First Y2K LegoFest
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(...) OK, verso marzo ne faremo uno, ma secondo me ce ne sta uno anche in gennaio! Direi che un raduno ogni due mesi non è troppo. Poi non è detto che si debba partecipare a tutti, anche se io personalmente conto di esserci sempre :-) Ciao Mario (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: New Model: The Devil's Gap
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(...) Thanks Rick I hope this will begin to answer your question (kinda long acutally - scroll to the bottom if you want to see the sets that I think should inspire most castle creators): Working on my storyline, I knew that I wanted to make (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | GB 1
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I screwed this one up a bit in the beginning. I got GB2 first, and sent it along to John K. When I got GB1, I knew John K. was on the list as well, and thought he was next, so I mistakenly sent GB1 to John K. as well. GB1 skipped Paul F. and (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Dan Strikes Again...
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(...) night you brought him over to GMLTC? As for the caboose, though, try using a flat roof with roofwalks the way I did. Much more prototypical looking. (...) right way and the big box lantern headlight is spot on! I like the passenger car (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Calling for Box Status and New Rule to vote on
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(...) I have not heard, seen or speculated as to where this box is. Sorry but I have just about given up on ever seeing it. (...) Seconded, I like the rule. (...) Given up? Yes at the moment although I would still love for this to work so I hope (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Few Comments on 7124 Flash Speeder
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(...) How about starting small and building a STAP for the 'droid to ride? Chris (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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