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I just wasted a couple of hours trying to build the Minerva robot from the book "The Unofficial Guild to Lego Mindstorms Robots". If you have RIS 1.5, don't bother trying to build it as that set does not have enough parts even though it can be built (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Design for 9v Train Light Sensor
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I've put up a design for a sensor which can identify and count traincars at (URL) web page is long enough so I won't repeat it all here... --Ben (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Dome elements, first use of? (was Re: Ever notice this?)
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(...) Space Boy here. :) Jeff -- you were right the first time. The 10x10x12 convex dome corners did first appear in 1987 (in transparent dark-blue) in the LEGOLAND Space System / Futuron set 6990 Monorail Transport System. They then appeared again (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Defense Archer and K-mart
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(...) Yup, the new legos are at mine, it's in Minn. if that helps. Oh, and those darned throwbots won't be in until July 1st. Karl "I want my ice spears now!" Martinson (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Bulk by Color/Size & other cool stuff
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I have some auctions on Yahoo! as well as eBay at the moment. Bulk by color & size (18 tubs worth for most colors), at about .01 per stud, some a little more, some a little less. (URL) on Yahoo! are some black slopes, plates & 40 clear 1x2s. On eBay (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Dome elements, first use of? (was Re: Ever notice this?)
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(...) Yes. I swooned when the Unitron sets came out. A return to classic space colors! If only they'd used transparent amber for the canopies rather than blue. (...) and (...) TLG's (...) Discontinued (...) space]. (...) Minor nit - the large 1/4 (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | FS: 25 drk gray chains
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Dungeon builders et al: I've got a lotta chains here-- $27 shipped to you anywhere in the US. First one to email me gets it. John (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Suggestions for Lego: My two cents
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Nephilim wrote (...) The technical term is fluted (?) And I agree. If they have to do it, go at it with style. Richard Still baldly going... Check out Port Block at (URL) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Looking for a sealed 6337 Fast Track Finish
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(...) Doh! Thought I'd finally find a home for this 6335 I have sitting here. Oh well, close but no cigar, sorry. :( (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Do you want $50 for a $20 set?
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(...) Mark, I just got off the phone with s@h. They have 6557 in stock for $22.00. -Rich (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains)
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| | Looking for a sealed 6337 Fast Track Finish
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I am looking for a sealed 6337 Fast Track Finish for a decent price. I would also like to buy 6546 Slick Race to go with it. (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: How many sets?
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(...) Geez! You must have a big house or a lot of storage space to display all that Lego. How do you handle that financially? I've been trying to keep my total lego value under $500 because well...this might sound silly but there ARE other things (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Will someone send me LDLite 1.5?
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Can't seem to find a version of 1.5 anywhere (only 1.6)... anyone have their old .zip archived that they can mail me? J (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Defense Archer and K-mart
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(...) ... and even longer to wait till there is another "Buy one, get one 50% off" at K-mart. Can we say 2 archers for $3.00? I might have to stock up... On the same note - are the 2000s in at K-mart yet? I might get some King Leos if they are. (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: How many sets?
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(...) It's not how many bricks you have, it's what you do with them. I have so many that it's getting hard to do anything with them... seems all my hobby time is spent organizing, thinking about what I have, buying and selling, etc. and not enough (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Check my math? 8448 gearbox ratios
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Pat <patrickemerson@mindspring.com> wrote: :>I've also worked out the gearbox ratios for the 8880 Supercar. I can post :>them if anyone is interested. :> :>== Steve : yes, please! I'm interested! : Pat Ok, if my math is correct: GEAR ENGINE : AXLES (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | contacting me
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Note: Right now it appears that my email server at Novera is stuck. No doubt it will be fine Monday but there's no one there right now to bother it/kick it/whatever. So if you're hot hot hot to talk to me, send it to voyager, or wait till Monday AM. (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Element Count Trivia
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People! No doubt many of the people that write this copy are E2Lers and didn't spot that mistake. Me, I'd rather they rushed it out and got it out sooner. It can be fixed later. (although it does detract from the image to make obvious mistakes. Not (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: FA: $4000!!! (Tiles)
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sorry brain dead! $12,400! (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: FA: $4000!!! (Tiles)
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$1240. (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Suggestions for Lego: My two cents
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(...) oarsmen. (...) Technic axles do allow very stable columns. I can imagine appreciating the 11-tall column elements for their smoothness (rather than having their clean lines interrupted every brick-height) .... but having a bunch of 2x2x1 (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Tough to find pieces
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(...) Use Brasso to remove the faded white "planet" logo from an old space torso. =) (Or just take the arms off a yellow torso and put them on backwards, and give the figure a cape to wear to hide the logo on his back. -- jthompson@esker.com "Float (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: FA: $4000!!! (Tiles)
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(...) Oh, I just remembered. BTW, AucZILLA I (five whole years ago now, wow!) had a lot called "Fort Knox" which consisted of a single lot of 496 gold pirate coins. What does that add up to in LEGO money? (496 / 4) * (10 + 20 + 30 + 40) = ? --Todd (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Acronym Question
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(...) My long-standing offer to get involved in a FAQ project still stands. But I don't want to step on the toes of existing FAQ efforts, and I understand that is one underway? -- jthompson@esker.com "Float on a river, forever and ever, Emily" (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Is the tower piece new?
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(...) And profoundly ucky. (Got my hands on it today.) The element would be almost OK if they'd shaved one stud off of its depth, so that you could use two of them to make an octagonal tower. I see why they made it the way they did - with the rear (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Speculations on bedtime stories (was:Re: New sets, pictures at lego.com)
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(...) I'll do my best to keep her mind off thinking she's Joan-of-arc, too... ;-) (And yeah, that's three sisters...) [snip] (...) and (...) that (...) that (...) next (...) The Munchkins! And the witch will be the wicked witch of the west, the (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.belville)
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| | Re: How many sets?
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(...) my (...) *Gulp* Oh. My. God. I feel so.... tiny now (^: Iain (user slowly shrinks into a corner and transforms into a 1x1 tile with no stud) -- tokama (URL) UIN 5362826 AIM Linjerflyg h e n d r y j r AT o x f o r d DOT n e t (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Do you want $50 for a $20 set?
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A few weeks ago I started dreaming about this set and the three brown inverted brown slopes it contains... Hoo Boy!!! I sure would like them slopes. -- Richard (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains)
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| | 50% off Lego, BOGO 50% off.
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It's true and it runs until the 8th. (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.general)
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| | 50% off Lego, BOGO 50% off.
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It's true and it runs until the 8th. (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Do you want $50 for a $20 set?
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(...) over (...) Wow - I'm surprised that S@H ran out of that set (although I wasn't watching to see if/when it was put on sale for a weekly special). What, did all the train geeks buy dozens of copies to get the white train canopy? -- (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: How many sets?
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Mark Herzberg wrote in message ... (...) chart (...) I've been working on this, but I buy sets faster than I can get them into my system. What is currently entered into my system (which may be less than half of my collection, and doesn't include (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Defense Archer
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Earlier today I called s@h to inquire if 4811 was in stock. It is not to be in stock untill July 21,2000. hummm, thats a long time to wait........ :( -Rich (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: What I did for the Y2K weekend...[lego phone]
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I still have my Lego phone. It was made by Tyco. It has a small drawer in the side of the phone for storing a few bricks and the top of the phone is like a large baseplate. Even the phone's buttons have studs. I didn't know it was rare. I'm actually (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: What should be in the next version of RcxCC
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You can also choose "show code/error listing" under the compile menu to get the variable assignments. Mike Uwe Denzer <Uwe.Denzer@munich.netsurf.de> wrote in message news:386F928E.984386...surf.de... (...) like to (...) up in (...) and I'd (...) (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Check my math? 8448 gearbox ratios
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(...) yes, please! I'm interested! Pat (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: What would a lego stormtrooper be?
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(...) And to further burst Paul's bubble, scout-troopers carry their gun strapped to their leg which is why it may look like he is reaching down to the bike in the movie. (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Concepts, Details, etc.
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Subthemes tend to have subtle yet in-your-face details by which they are characterized. It's the same for people's building styles and methods. For example, I constructed a spacecraft last night with my red, black, blue, gray, white, (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Installing LegOS tools
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(...) I would definitely love such an installation package too. I think that will really help users without high-level computer systems background to start experimenting with LegOS. Unfortunately I cannot help you but will surely wait until you get (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: John E. Doolittle
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Bruce Schlickbernd wrote >The pirate babe is his older ex-partner's daughter - she just didn't want to (...) fooling (...) ya (...) Too (...) I'm (...) hostage, (...) So not only is the honest, brave, shrewd Capt John E. Doolittle pursued by the (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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