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yeah, i'm just getting started (as in bought a set two days ago and haven't had the time to build anything yet), and i expect the first several months of experimenting won't be worth remembering anyway. but for those people that have had time to (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Tigger's Treehouse spotted in Utah
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FYI...I saw Tigger's Treehouse (set 2990) for the first time last night in Layton, Utah. This set comes in a cool, clamshell box that doubles as a backdrop unlike any other I have seen (including Western theme). The packaging is similar to a hexagon (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.duplo)
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| | Re: Automatic decoupler designs?
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(...) picturing this right, since if you inserted those slope-out I'd think you'd derail one or both cars before they separated. --Ben (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Young Obi-Wan's Head
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I was looking at the new Desert Skiff Luke's head and it occurred to me that it is the same head of the young Obi-Wan from the Gungan Sub set. Has this already been mentioned before? Also, I am a little disappointed with the fact that none of the (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Automatic decoupler designs?
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On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Ben Jackson (<Fnx0A5.L6I@lugnet.com>) wrote at 13:03:41 (...) Has anyone thought of using an electromagnet at track level to overpower the magnetic coupling? I've no idea if this would be practical, and it's non-LEGO, but it (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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I would very much like to customize MLCAD, but it is not clear to me what these plugins are going to allowed to access. Don't you need an API or something? What am I missing? See also detailed comments below. Michael Lachmann <m.lachmann@xpoint.at> (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: RCX onboard timer and motor pulsing
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A few (Hah!) years ago we used to get that realistic slow train speed by running our Lionel "O" gauge and American Flyer engines on DC. We used an AC Gilbert rectifier that was a full-wave selenium unit. By adding a switch we made it be only (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: B-Wing Review
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(...) Your B-Wing is definitely superior to the Lego one. As I said, the set is a fair representation of the ship (minus the engine compartment), although the ship itself is a bit unsubstantial compared to the "real" thing. The Lego version just (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: How many sets?
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(...) Wow! I actually come kinda close on some of these! I have 30 Blue and 19+ gray ones! Cool! 'Course, I have no Clear or Yellow ones, but I do have four Green and four Dark Gray! Dunno my totals on Red, Black or White. (...) Woohoo! I have more (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: question for Canadians
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I don't know of a Superstore in the Ottawa area, so I can't speak for price comparisons with them, but I find variable pricing between each of TRU, Zellers, & Walmart - one being cheaper on some sets, and more expensive on others. If you have the (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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