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Thats pretty cool Mike, I've been thinking about going to one of the meetings of the Piedmont Division which is the NMRA chapter in Atlanta. But I wasn't to sure how they would respond to the LEGO trains. Maybe I'll be inspired by your actions and (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Space stations?
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(...) Works better how? (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Has any one else noticed this lately?
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(...) Agreed, CA is swell. But my question to you is, you asked for a discount and got it. Was that just to cover the hassle of getting the replacement parts? Or did you argue that because there were parts missing, you should get a discount for the (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Space stations?
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HEY! What's going on? Why does a space station have to be some butt-ugly assembly of modules? I think a space station, ship, etc. should be designed and built as a single unit. It looks so much better that way, and it works better that way too. Z (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: What a bunch of minifigs
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(...) approach (...) This is the previously listed Luke in Jungle Guerilla Uniform. I think Steve's list is complete. (...) Eric Kingsley The New England LEGO Users Group (URL) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Review - 8002 - Star Wars Destroyer Droid
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In lugnet.starwars, Keith Blumenthal writes: I put together the Destroyer Droid last night. I'm a good builder and (...) Four and a half hours!?!? Wow, that's massive. I can't wait to get the Droid, it looks like the sweetest set yet. Joel (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Calling all FansOf CW lego (was Re: Civil War Theme)
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(...) I (...) Sorry my reply took soooooo long, this discusion got out of hand. I currently (in my WW set-up, mid 1870's for me) have a left-over confederate. I use drk grey legs, drk grey torso (ADVENTURE's 1999 bad guy), a union soldier type face (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.western, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Do you build sets you buy for parts?
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Let me tell you how it works with us younger modelers... whenever I but a Lego set, I ALWAYS build the first (main) model in the instructions, even if it's some small useless set. It simply interestsme to see how all the parts are working together, (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: A new pirate ship.
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"the top London commercial firm Waite, Fidget and Doolittle" hahaha, great stuff. -- Paul Davidson Richard Parsons <rparsons@hinet.net.au> wrote in message news:FnwvCu.Hx7@lugnet.com... (...) a (...) high (...) used (...) still (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: Technic Box #2
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(...) Depends on the size of the box at the time but a fair upper bound is somewhere in the 5-8 dollar range (8 is enough for a pretty BIG box) for the mail itself. Insurance adds about 2 bucks, and delivery conf (so it's sort of trackable) 35 (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | RE: Motor output multiplexing
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I have built two prototypes of an output demux. I take the three outputs as BCD, run each through a diode bridge, filter cap, and current limiting resistor to tickle the base of an NPN transistor. Use the output of the three transistors to drive a (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | [WTB] - Grey parts pack (er, ah.. Sith infiltrator) in bulk
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I just got back from a business trip to Detroit and I hit a number of Targets. I was happy to see the level of interest by the GP in our fair brick. Wish I had more of those Lugnet cards to hand out but I did maybe get us some new readers. I got a (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) I'm not sure. There seem to be quite a few people who do both, also. I'm a "sets are parts packs for my MOCs" kinda guy, though. I think the only sets that are staying assembled right now on my shelf are 6067 Guarded Inn, 928 Galaxy Explorer, (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: awfully quiet here.
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(...) other (...) A-Wing) (...) make (...) (or (...) 2 (...) Baylit ((URL) sells these individually for $3 each ... their stock of them isn't that big yet, though. (...) like (...) inner (...) clips - (...) That's a cool idea...I like the robotic (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: What a bunch of minifigs
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(...) If small variations count... (...) -->Luke Skywalker in Jedi Black w/black glove (speeder bikes) -->Luke Skywalker in Jedi Black w/no glove (desert skiff) <snipped bulk of list> James (URL) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Bulk Sale Prices
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(...) Well, I know you don't normally like 1x4x3s, but I think I have about 100 of them at home, brand new, from Dacta packs - red, of course ;-) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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Out of curiosity, am I one of the few who buy the sets for the sets. I don't typically build to many MOCs, and if I do it is from an old carrying case full of misc. pieces. Also, I store all my sets in their original boxes with instructions. Am I in (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Will's Small Castle Auction
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(...) I will open the bidding with 8.00 for set 6010 and 8.00 for 6021 respectfully, don> (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Review - 8002 - Star Wars Destroyer Droid
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Hi! I thought I'd share my experience with the newest of the Star Wars sets. I had a hard time finding one of these in San Jose, CA. On Wednesday, I tried 2 WalMarts & several TRU's but got lucky by asking a lady at a Target if they had any in back (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: 8448 Login Help
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The LT8448 password is correct, but due to a scripting flaw on the web page, pressing enter in the password field on certain browsers just brings you the same page again. Instead, try clicking the ENTER next to the password field. That worked for (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Yellow Supercar on Lego.com
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Correction : (...) from any publicly available Technic sets. The 8445 set (yellow F1 racer) of course includes six yellow flaxles. Sorry, Jepsen (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | What a bunch of minifigs
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So do the Star Wars playthemes (see next paragraph) hold a record for the most unique figures introduced in a one-year period? I count 26 distinct minifigs (including the Gungans), and an additional 11-12 non-minifig characters - droids and aliens (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Bulk Sale Prices
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(...) Heh... Not really. I like the wall pieces too; 6080 is my favorite castle, not least because it has 30(!) of these... But there's only so many of them I can use... (last count put me (and my wife) at (well) over 100 grey, over 50 black and (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Is something wrong with eBay?
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(...) What is going on??? I have the same problem (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Knights Kingdom King as a soldier?
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(...) Good thing about the royal knights is they have different uniforms: the King torso the Knight torso red torso white arms white torso blue arms I am going to use the Leos as a different regiment in the royal knight army respectfully, don (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Is something wrong with eBay?
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The main Lego page at eBay is only listing auctions that ended last month. What's going on? Not Y2K-compliant? -- Paul Davidson (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: awfully quiet here.
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(...) You've got the concept down pat. My idea was to regenerate the configuration several times to build an entire navy - with only one main model to build. Excellent suggestion! But where would I (or anyone) get the 64 needed to make a proper show (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Anyone in the US find the Destroyer Droid yet?
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(...) I saw 4 at a Target in California this morning, so they must be plentiful on the East Coast. John (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Here's an idea: Remember Lando Calrissian's Cloud City on Bespin? Something like that might look cool... Z (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | Anyone in the US find the Destroyer Droid yet?
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Called SAH and they said it was backordered until the 14th. Don't know if that means they ran out or that they are not out. Jason F. (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | RE: Robotics help laserscanning of 3D environment.
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As stated it is not directly Lego related. (I'm using a PC104 platform; I just remembered the Laser discussion earlier.) I prototype In Lego. Just wondering since people on this maillist are from very diverse backgrounds. This seemed as a good a (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Slim Pickings at Target
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Robin Werner wrote in message ... (...) (1298) (...) I (...) Wow - I was at two Wal-Mart stores today and saw exactly zero Advent Calendars. The last store I saw them in scanned at $16. Mike Mike - mike_walsh@mindspring.com (URL) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.fl)
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| | Re: Bulk Sale Prices
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(...) I'm a Town person, but I guess this must be the Castle version of the "Juniorization" argument. Castle Junior? :-) Gary Istok (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Will's Small Castle Auction
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I acquired the following sets in a lot I purchased over the holidays. As a townie I have no use for these so I've decided to auction them off. The rules are pretty simple: This is a G1, G2, SOLD auction with advances occuring approximately every 24 (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: B-Wing Review
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In lugnet.starwars, Steve Bliss writes: <snip> (...) The SW answer: Astromech droids are used for more than just co-piloting starfighters. They are also programmed to assist with computers, repairs, and other mundane tasks that humans may not want (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: Motor output multiplexing
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Has anyone come up with an electronic solution to the problem of only having 3 out ports? It seems it would be possible to control many more motors if some sort of a multiplexor was constructed, maybe the motors could use their own power supplies (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Bulk Sale Prices
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(...) majority of us would get the wall pieces. I think it'd be cheaper, and for me, that makes a big difference. Jeff (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | 60 white tiles added to ebay
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I just added 60 new white tiles to ebay, 15 1x2;25 1x4 & 20 1x8. Other tile lots include green, yellow & blue ending soon. (URL) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | History of LEGO Windows...revisited
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When I get some time, I want to generate an entirely new HISTORY OF LEGO WINDOWS document. But in the mean time, here are some brief updates...... Gary Istok ---...--- LEGEND CA= Cellulose Acetate - plastic used for windows from 1957-63. ABS = (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: What all has TLC done?
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(...) #6457 (...) I don't care if a minifig is a man or a woman, as long as it looks cool. Z (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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