 | | TOYSRUS.com Order Finally Arrived
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To All, Well, I finally got my order from TRU.com last night, after ordering it on November 22nd. I can't complain too much, since I got 100.00 worth of free LEGO! After all my bad experiences with TRU, I seriously doubt I will be doing my LEGO or (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: What all has TLC done?
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(...) but (...) Nonetheless, no one's happy that Space is cancelled. And, even if they created it in the first place, that knowledge still doesn't make anyone happier. They create Lego System Space, and, over the course of the next 20 years, slowly (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: I Felt Insulted!
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(...) Desecration of the Lego logo is probably against the Fair Play statement, huh. :) (...) Psh. He just doesn't know. The most important thing is: I hope you're using NQC (or LegOS or at least RoboLab) in your class! (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: awfully quiet here.
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In lugnet.space, Ed T. Toton III writes: <snip> (...) The hope is for enclosure on the fighters, with doors that will open. I haven't decided whether to make them operate with motor or pneumatics yet. I haven't sketched up the plans yet. The tough (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | I Felt Insulted!
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Today was the first class of a course that used the Lego RIS. And my teacher made two comments that insulted me greatly (you guys will feel the same!): 1) Each group has their own kit. Each kit is labelled with A, B, etc. corresponding to each (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: USB->Serial converters and IR Tower
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I have the same problem with a NEC 2730. (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Scale?
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(...) Huh? That question is a little vague. I'll try to be more specific. Lay a minifig down on its back. You will see that it's five studs high. An average adult human is about 1.7 meters (or 5 feet, 7 inches) tall. Divide 1.7 meters by 5 studs, (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: NQC wishlist
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(...) IMho, the best thing which could be made is a firmware replacement, backward compatible with standard bytecodes (and thus with nqc) with all the new features needed being added as new bytecodes... But who will do that? :-) Phil (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Next BAYLUG Meet now March
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(...) He was going to be away for the holidays. Hopefully he can look into it soon, and let us know more about the opportunity to meet in another new location. :-) (...) The meeting room hours are driven by the hours that the library are (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: Newbie's questions
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(...) Annual (Primo) pass holders get a 10% discount on 4 restaurants and "merchandise" which specifically excludes LEGO sets. OTOH, they sent us "locals" a 20% discount good for one purchase (which we used on a bunch of sets) that we used on (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Other Vermonters
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I'm WAy... over East, in West Topsham (20 miles past Barre).. Doing Robotics with kids here in school, and sometimes in Jericho with my Grandkids. (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.us.vt.bur)
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| | Re: Problems with RCX Robolab and PowerMacs 6400/200 and 5500/225
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Sigh.... ... . How the $%^&* will we ever get smart, interested, technical professionals to really make a difference in the schools when they run into this. THis. This...! Sigh... I am using RIS1.0 on 6 old 486 machines with WIN95. The school was (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.edu, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.edu, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | 8246 Helicopter instructions
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Has anyone taken the time to document the steps to build the helicopter on the back side of the 8246 Hydro Racer? I know it seems petty on a $4 set... :) My son just started with Technics at Christmas and he likes the step by step instructions and (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: How many sets?
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I salute you, Gary. You have done well in acquiring Lego. Now that I am sick to my stomach, I must console myself with the ONE large classic window that I have........ ~~~...~~~ Kevin Salm ....No Yellow or Clear macaroni to leave for posterity.... (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Ebay: Soldiers from 375???
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(...) They aren't from 375 but from the minifig pack of knights. But they are the old figs (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Scale?
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(...) Is that lengthwise or heightwise? (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: What all has TLC done?
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(...) My goodness. Awfully negative! I mean, they created those things in the first place, yeah? (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Interesting Castle on Ebay
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(...) or (...) The wall corners are round take a close look its as obvious as day! also the lego corners are one piece, his corners look like the old mega blocks castle pieces. Doyle It's not all lego but maybe 75%, but still I wouldn't pay those (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Scale?
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(...) It depends what you mean by "scale." If you mean a scale that translates between human size and minifig size, 3.5 stude per foot is clearly wrong. Minifig scale is about 0.35 meters per stud -- or, in Imperial measurements, 13.8 inches per (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Mini-Figure accessories
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Mini-Figure accessories have been added to the Nugator Company ((URL) Ok so they were there all the time i just never noticed that the search was not working right... But they are up now, ever thing from town hats and tools to space helmets (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Most valuable pirate ship?
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(...) 2. Black Seas Barracuda 3. Redbeard Runner 4. Carribean Clipper 5. Imperial Flagship 6. Renegade Runner, Armada Flagship, Crossbone Clipper Any individual set might go outrageously high or low - CCs have often gone well over $100 especially if (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Lighting Up Legoville.
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Hey, for all thoseout who have built a Lego Town ever tried to "light it up". You know like with the lighting bricks they sell in the S@H catolog. If so, can you tell me the best way to do that. Or would it be better to "light it up" with some other (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | What all has TLC done?
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I'm fully aware that the Lego group has commited some pretty heinous acts, but I don't know exactly what those evil doings would be. All I can think of is that Lego completely juniorized [by 1997] and destroyed [by 1999] Lego System Space [that (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | Grecian Urn
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Over the Christmas holidays I built a Grecian Urn using only basic bricks from blue tubs and purple buckets. Images and details are at: (URL) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Ebay: Soldiers from 375???
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(...) Mine look like the ones on the instruction sheet: (URL) J. Ladasky Jr., Ph.D. Department of Structural Biology Stanford University Medical Center Stanford, CA 94305 Secretary, Californians for Renewable Energy (URL) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Arctic sets are awesome!
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(...) They are pretty good. I think I'll get some to make a ARTIC RESEARCH FACILITY. Neato sets. (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: (no longer Failed) Getting LegOS 0.2.2 working on Windows
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Salve Paolo, Yahoooo! It finally works. After applying the the patch file you sent me by e-mail, everything seems to work now. Thank you all for your great help. Ciao, Carsten (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Idea for if Lego ever revives Imperials
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(...) Oooh, it's been a long time since I've played that game. But, weren't most of the out-of-print powerful cards removed because of being broken in some way or another? That's not a problem with lego sets, is it? (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Arkansas AFOL Rollcall
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(...) I do. I live in Hot Springs. And yes I eat, sleep, drink, and I also build with my Legos. LOL.........But I don't exactly fit in to the AFOL section. I'm only 15. BUT I have been playing and modeling with legos for about 12 of those years. I (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ar)
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| | Re: WTB small pneumatic cylinders
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(...) I also may be in the market to experiment with some pneumatics... prefer the later generation small bore types... please email me as well ***I won't skim the good ones Jonathan!*** Dave (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Arctic sets are awesome!
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(...) I just got 6569 (snow mobile with trailer, also comes with a smaller box of a snow-hiker) .. I *love* this set - it was $9.50 at Wal-mart - and it comes with: 2 Arctic Minifigs (identical) 1 Polar Bear (woohoo!) 1 Trans-blue Ice-rock (similar (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Another way to market Lego Bricks
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(...) AAAAHHHHH!!! Dear god, no. I would really hate to ahve to stop buying Lego just because they went encouraging spam. (And yes, any sort of MLM encourages spam. Especially of the type you describe) Jasper (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: LEGO Calendar?
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I have a 2000 Calendar from Lego Japan. one page (first 6 months) with shots of the new starwars sets, second page (last half of the year) with the dinausor theme sets. Gilles in article MPG.12db1c58bd26d49f...ugnet.com, Richard Dee at (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Idea for if Lego ever revives Imperials
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(...) Wizards of the Coast has never really had any reason to preserve "value" of old OOP trading cards. Yet do you really think it'd be a good business idea to rerelease all the powerhouse cards? Jasper (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Legofest 22 gennaio 2000
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(...) Mario ha proposto una cosa molto carina, d'altronde la proposta di Carlo e` per me piu` fattibile nell'arco di tempo che potro` dedicare alla costruzione. Quindi io voterei per quest'ultima. Comunque, visto che forse saremo in molti, potremmo (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Lego Media: RTS with Castle Lego!
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Lego Media, I would like, no, *LOVE* to see a RTS (Real-Time-Strategy) done using the Castle Theme (esp. the new Knights Kingdom sub-theme). Something in the vein of Warcraft II or Age of Empires II or the excellent German game Knights&Merchants... (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.games)
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| | Call for Discussion - Northern CA Lego Train Group
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Attention all LEGO Train fans: It looks like there might finally be enough people in the San Francisco Bay area now that have the train addiction to get an actual LEGO Train Club going. I would like to propose getting an official train club put (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.loc.us.ca)
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| | Brickshelf on Slashdot!
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Hey cool. More Lego on Slashdot. (URL). (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Legofest 22 gennaio 2000
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"Mario Ferrari" <mario.ferrari@edis.it> wrote in message news:Fnw2v2.FwI@lugnet.com... (...) conduttore :-) (...) nostri (...) e (...) ottenere la (...) di (...) e un (...) opzionali (...) messaggi (...) che gli (...) certo (...) Bello. Che rapporto (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: New Minifig Pack
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(...) I bought my Rock Raiders minifig pack (4930) today at Kmart (I also got 6032, Catapult Crusher for 50% off...) This is my first Rock Raiders set . One thing I noticed right away was how much personality all the faces had (to go along, I (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.underground)
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