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Point your browser to: (URL) got all their catalogs in PDF format in their site. You can also request hard copies - the appropriate contact info is there as well. It'll take a bit of fiddling, finding a local distributor, but they make LOTS and LOTS (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Speed of RCX interpreting bytecodes: slow
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While working on the barcode scanner I decided to see just how fast the RCX could loop. A simple NQC program can do about 1000 counter loop iterations in about 100 ticks, or 1 iteration/ms. This is shockingly slow. The native H8/329 is clocked at (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Toys R Us Experience
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(...) If you want to question the manager's behaviour, it's best to go over his head. It's a corporation, so find out who his superior is--at the very least, you'll get a complete explanation of why he behaved the way he did, straight from the (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Question How do we know if Brad is for real?
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(...) But I see taking it to this extreme after many people have come up with evidence in Brad's defense childish. (...) You're absolutely right. I guess I was too tired when I posted after getting less than 2 hours of sleep before to word it that (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Interesting Castle on Ebay
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Actually, there is a Chinese company that sells rip-offs of some of the smaller sets here in dollar stores in Canada. The boxes look enough like Lego to fool you, but the pieces themselves look to be of much poorer quality when you take them out. -- (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Idea per ELF. Riassunto.
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(...) OK (...) Guardando il manuale di NQC mi sono accorto di un problema che forse ti costringera' a rivedere un po' l'impostazione del progetto: PlayTone("frequency", "duration"); Plays a single tone of the specified frequency and duration. The (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: Ever notice this?
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(...) I've also noticed that Arctic, save the orange, comes very close to the Galaxy Commander colour scheme. best, LFB (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Storylines
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He has totally inspired me! I always had some ideas in my head, but looking at his site has inspired new ideas for my castle projects. -- Paul Davidson Karl Martinson <raymart@jam21.net> wrote in message news:Fnn9y8.FnF@lugnet.com... (...) story, I (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Not Craig-0 Lego, but still not bad...
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(...) some people aren't that lazy; they're just not that creative... it's a bit sadder than being lazy! later ~ craig~ (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Not Craig-0 Lego, but still not bad...
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(...) It's not bad, but look at some of his other auctions, those aren't customs, i mean take a look at ki-adi mundi, how hard is it to make that, and someone is BIDDING ON IT!!! And can someone please explain to me how: a normal town girl head, an (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Swearing?
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(...) "leaked 2001 scans?" :) (...) [dashing out of word is mine, and made only because my newsreader won't allow me to insert an extra screen of carriage returns.] I have to agree with Tony on that particular word and its ilk. However, it's not a (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Not Craig-0 Lego, but still not bad...
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Passing along an observation (1) (URL) wasn't sure where to post this .auction? .theory?, but observations are fine for .general, so I posted it here. (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: New sets, pictures at lego.com
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(...) Don't ask me - I stopped searching for reason in TLC long ago... :-) BTW, SPUD stands for...? (...) Yeah, I mentioned those faires in the other posts. (...) Is it just me, or does that wall look like it could rotate? That would be cool. (...) (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.belville)
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| | Reopening of LEGO Fusion!
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Hi, All of the files of LEGO Fusion have been reuploaded and the page is looking awesome. Here is the link: (URL) ! ~Z. Unger (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Futbol anyone?
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Has anyone gotten the Futbol sets? If so, can you tell me if the numbers on the backs of the minifigs are stickers or not? Thanks, Erin -- (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.town)
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| | RE: Calling for Box Status and New Rule to vote on
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(...) Box sniping? Please define. Doug (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Proud New RIS owner... tires wanted
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Sorry, I got the wrong source. Holiday shopping can get very confusing. I bought the 8445 Indy Storm from toysmart.com with a $10 discount coupon I found on flamingoworld.com : "$10 off $20. Code: HC099910 $10 off $20. Code: AV079911" for a net (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Element Count Trivia
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"2,172 is the total of different moulded elements in 1999. There are 97 LEGO PRIMO elements, 399 LEGO DUPLO elements, 157 LEGO SCALA elements, 903 LEGO SYSTEM elements, 357 LEGO TECHNIC elements and 137 LEGO DACTA elements – and that’s not counting (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Happy New Year!
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(...) And to you ! I tried to stay online, but the university servers failed... 13secs after midnight ! This is a worldrecord, wow :) dö (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Help The Homeless In Legoville!
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Laura, Calm down... calm down. There is a solution to your problem. May I suggest that you buy a few of the basic brick buckets? With such, you can build all the housing for your minifigs that they could ever want. Since there are no minifigs in the (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: On the subject of gluing
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(...) I brushed the glue on. The glue came with its own brush in the cap, but this was a bit unwieldy. Instead I used one of the small brushes typically used for painting models. In general, I had good luck brushing the glue onto the cylidrical (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Roboarm from Dave Baum's super book
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(...) We haven't decided yet. I'd like to make them available for other hobbyists, but I'm not sure I want to give them away to my competitors if I decide to write another book. We really haven't dug into the legality (or enforcibility) of making (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Blue Spears and Samurai swords?
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(...) Yes, after a close inspection, Craig is right *sigh*. Wouldn't have been cool to get red spears, oh well, I can always get the blue ones :0) Karl Martinson (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: On the subject of gluing
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Harvey's MP-6 MultiPurpose Cement has worked well for me. Its label says that it is for ABS, PVC, and CPVC pipe ... and contains methyl ethyl keytone, tetrahydrofuran, cyclohexanone, and CPVC resin. It's thick enough that it isn't necessary to add (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | 483 Alpha 1 Rocket Base Question
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I got this set for christmas in the late 70s. It's still in great shape after all these years, but I'm looking for replacement black hoses for the fuel truck: (URL) seem to remember that they were flexible rubber, not a hard plastic. I was thinking (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Storylines
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(...) until (...) Me too! It's amazing! I started thinking of my own storyline too... but it's so boring in comparison... (...) I HAVE a digital camera, but I DON'T have the time to build or the web-page to put it in. (...) (probably because trains (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Blue Spears and Samurai swords?
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(...) He doesn't mean the S@H page 32, but the regular catalog. Search for the set numbers and you'll see what he means - those are technic sets, not ninja sets. And they do look cool... -Shiri (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Welcome to the Ohs
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(followups redirected to lugnet.off.topic) (...) (nitpick mode on again.... :) Yes, there was no year 0. Yes, the 21st century does not begin until January 1, 2001. Howeever.... Where in the world did you get the idea that 2000 would be *ANY* part (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Welcome to the Ohs
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Mike Petrucelli wrote in message ... (...) 0000 (...) Logically (...) curiosity, do (...) While I can agree with the thought that we have not yet entered the new millenium, we have definitely left the '90s. Of course on another angle, we almost (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Blue Spears and Samurai swords?
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(...) i haven't seen the actual sets yet, but going by the illustrations in the 2000 colector's guide catalogue, it appears as if: #8511 ~frost~ has a pair of trans lt.blue spears. #6513 ~onyx~ rather than trans red spears, these appear to be trans (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Ultimate Collector series (different pics)
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(...) Great pictures. The three speeder bike designs really illustrate that Lego made an actual decision not to use SPUD's. *Thank you Lego* JMC (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Just throw in set #4930 for some dwarves. ;) (...) The light-pink fairy in #5823 also has the moon pattern. Can someone tell me *why* they didn't use minifigs for the fairies? These non-poseable SPUDs are terrible! (...) And this fairy has a (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.belville)
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| | Re: Blue Spears and Samurai swords?
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Bryan Wong wrote in message ... (...) spears (...) It looks to me like the blue spears in 8511 might even be trans blue... The katanas in 8509 looks like they might be teal. Definitely not black for either of them though. Frank (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | "Just Build" at www.lego.com
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I don't know how long this has been in place, but it's new to me. In the members area under "what's new," there is a live, on-screen brick builder app. It contains many of the elements seen in the LEGO Advent Calendar set. Drag and drop. Two-button (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: Question How do we know if Brad is for real?
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(...) I think neither one was childish - Doyle was just checking, while David (I think) was trying to make a point, mainly that you never know anything in this uncertain world, sometimes you just have to believe... (...) And if he is new, so what? (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Blue Spears and Samurai swords?
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(...) Are my eyes wrong too? Because I see blue spears. Just look at what's holding the spears, now that's black. I don't know about the swords, but i do know that I also see red spears, which IMHO I think they're pretty cool. Karl Martinson (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: 5903 Johnny Thunder & Baby-T
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(...) Africa, Dutch, French, and Finnish catalogs. No Americas. But maybe we'll be able to order it through US S@H. -Suz (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Building a Mini-fig Army, how much to pay
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(...) I'm in the same boat as you, but at least I have my experience of building up my pirate hoard to guide me. Rule number 1: snag minifig packs when they are on heavy discount while you can. The Fright Knights Minifig pack is about the best way (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | RE: best tape to mark a line on the floor to follow? - friction.jpg [0/1]
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Re: Friction Tape Found the graph, attaching it here as a very small JPEG; hope it's readable, don't want to take up bandwidth. If someone wants a better res. version, email me... (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Question How do we know if Brad is for real?
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Doyle, I think David's point is, how do we know anything with 100% certainty? Without going too deeply into epistimology (we HAVE done just that on off-topic.debate, you could review it if you're interested) I'd claim that we know things in general (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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