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(...) Look at the date on the shelf tag. If it has a 01/05, it's not clearance. I had an interesting experience today, at the picked-clean NJ Target stores: I found someone who actually knew how clearances worked, and could tell me how decisions (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | The complete Gryphon's Nest
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Well - I got all the pictures us. There is a link from it on both my main site: (URL) then go to "structures" or directly here: (URL) with this model I tried to fix one main problem: accessibility. As you will notice, there are really four main (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Wal-Mart Clearance Question + K-mart Question
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(...) In my experience in Northern California, WMs are extremely unpredictable when it comes to discounting. I have seen or heard of a number of cases where a store will have a huge number of one set, but instead of marking them down they'll keep (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: pbFORTH needs better uploading, docs
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(...) This, IMO, is the biggest problem with pbForth as it exists. Although I have no idea why, Ralph seems reluctant to take pbForth to that point at this time. (And it makes even less sense to me when I think about the idea that most of this (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: ldraw reference
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(...) Tim, I'd be willing to edit. I can't promise 100% perfection for commas and other punctuation, but I'm willing to give it a shot if you want to send the stuff to me. If you decide to, please note the email change. I'm currently working on some (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: where are the scans...
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(...) That was probably James Mathis's scanning of the spare parts section of the 1998 Pitsco-LEGO Dacta catalog: (URL) the new catalog for 2000 is out. You can order a free catalog on-line from ((URL) if you'd like to see the whole thing. Just (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Belgian Electric Locomotive (Serie 16) [DAT]
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Hello, Here i am with a model i create a few days ago and made a drawing from it with MLCAD. Its a model from the Belgian State railroad (NMBS/SNCB)in the color design of the "Memling" trains. I like it and want to build me a second one. Here's the (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: WTB small pneumatic cylinders
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(...) Or at least they did. They are no longer available. (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: RCX-IR Tower Communication
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(...) They will fail if the rcx has to send messages and the tower "sleeps". The tower can always send messages, but enter into sleep mode after a few seconds (to the group : correct me if I'm wrong:-). The rcx can send message only if the tower is (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | new commercial
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S'up! I was watching FOX Kids this morning, and i saw a commercial for the new knights Kingdom. Can you say cheesey? It has real people in it, and they're supposed to be guards and cowpack guys. The cowpack fly over the walls of the castle. You have (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | SV: Set spotting
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Ja den så jeg også sidst jeg var forbi - jeg kan personligt anbefale en legetøjs butik der ligger på Frederikssundsvej - jeg kan desværre ikke huske nummeret - men 350S holder ikke så langt fra butikken - der ligger 2 legetøjs butikker - men kun den (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.dk.kb.kob)
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| | Re: Wal-Mart Clearance Question + K-mart Question
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(...) They _can_ keep going down, and usually will. Not always in the organized, across-the-country fashion Target does, though. And no, the NFF will drop, I'd say, to $25 or less if given time. I got 6 or 8 6769's for $25 at WM. (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: FS: 8880 Super Car, $135 shipped in the US
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(...) Yup, and on an item this big ($100) PM makes more sense simply because of the ease of calculation. (...) others, though. (...) Don't mind at all - I order so many other things on the net and hold onto boxes that my need to turn PM boxes inside (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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| | Re: Is something wrong with eBay?
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(...) Sometimes I agree, sometimes I don't. My first 6769 just went for $130 + shipping. Considering what I paid for it on clearance last year, that strikes me as absurd. Considering they are hard or impossible to find now locally (have no idea (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Set spotting
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Jeg har i dag set et enkelt sæt nr. 8480 (Rumfærgen) til 1249.- i Legetøjsafdelingen i Magasin ved Kongens Nytorv. Jeg havde selv købt det hvis ikke jeg allerede havde et i forvejen. Jeg kunne ikke finde det nogen steder tidligere på året, og endte (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.dk.kb.kob)
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| | FA ebay: 5122 pirate acessories, 6023 Maiden's Cart
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5122 pirate accessory pack, starting bid $7: (URL) Maiden's Cart, starting bid $25: (URL) HATE EBAY (when I'm the bidder): (URL) in all it's just another brick in the wall..... ***...*** (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: 2 Motors -> 1 axle
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(...) For example, why does Lego put those piston-things in all of their cars? They certainly don't contribute much power. :) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Mandtal (blank formular)
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Mogens: (...) Det er afhængigt af hvilket program man bruger. Jeg mener blot jeg skal vælge artiklen og taste 'D' (eller 'CTRL-D'). I krisetilfælde kan man altid bede Todd om at slette artiklen. Ideen var at hjælpe lidt på overskueligheden, men nu, (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.dk)
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| | Re: mini treads
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(...) I haven't found one that works well. They're a new size. It seems like a really silly decision! (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | RE: 2 Motors -> 1 axle
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(...) <snip> (...) OK, enough people have replied along these lines that I have to assume it's true. And the more I think about it, and about how electric motors work, the more I'm convinced it must be true, even with all the internal gearing and (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: 2 Motors -> 1 axle
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(...) Too true! The niftiness factor is a major motivator, at least for me... Dave Johnson (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: What the...
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(...) FUnny how you were complaining about Star Wars sets earlier, and now Star Wars is a major source of inspiration... --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Is something wrong with eBay?
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Paul Davidson wrote in message ... (...) There's lots wrong with ebay: 1) Ridiculous prices, often bordering on the absurd. 2) Bias towards sellers. 3) Inaccurate descriptions of items for with no accompanying punishment. (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: No new space sets?
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(...) I don't buy it. I think it far more likely that Lego has _decided_ that Star Wars is filling the role of a space theme. (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: How many sets?
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(...) That's the shame. It'd be nice if he participated here. Hell, how baout BOTH him AND his uncle Chuck? (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Priority mail rates
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(...) Never knew the USPS would ship Depleted Uranium... but hey i gues what they dont know cant hurt em right? ;o) Jason M Normand The Nugator Company www.nugator.com (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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| | where are the scans...
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sometime in the last 4 months, someone posted a note about having scanned in the Pitsco lego pages and made them available on the net. I am not talking about hughe's registry, rather the one that's a straight scan from the back of the catalog. (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: FS: 8880 Super Car, $135 shipped in the US
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Priority is flat for wieghts under 5 lbs. After that there is a 8 Zone system (Zones 1-3 are all consider local with a single rate). It should also be noted that for weights under 13 oz first class is the best deal since priority startes at 3.20 for (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Has any one else noticed this lately?
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(...) While it is true that Target's security is pretty bad, it is also true that Lego's packaging is substandard in terms of preventing theft. (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Slim Pickings at Target
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My Wal-Mart (Katy, Texas) has them at 19.95 yet. They say they aren't marking them down because they will return them. George Mike Walsh <mike_walsh@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:FnzEvp.GzG@lugnet.com... (...) but (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.fl)
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| | Re: ldraw reference
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(...) [reply-to set to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, and message Cc: tburger666@aol.com] Tom, If you are referring to the post you made a week or so ago, I never received reference material from you at that point. You did send me a zip file last night, (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Review 7124 - Flash Speeder
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(...) and (...) (but (...) I (...) plate) (...) this (...) Well the picture makes the laser cannon look like it is positioned dumb. In reality the cannon clears the top of the guy's head. Just don't stand up. -Lord Insanity "A little nonsense now (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Rack-and-pinion steering line tracker
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Okay, maybe I have been just a leeeeeeetle too proud of that assembly. But I spent so much time prototyping and debugging a fairly simple concept ... I was thrilled to finally get it to work. If you think _that_ was bulky, wait 'till I find the (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Looking for 3225 Classic Train
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(...) I found two off them in a German store, just across the border, for $US 125. If anybody is interrested just let me know. (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Accessory Color Question
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(...) available (...) There are tons, all trans.: Yellow, clear, green, dk. pink, lt. blue, and maybe more. (...) Yep. The belville towers have blue gems all around them. There is also a pink-purpleish gem in 5824. There's also a turqoise gem in (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Accessory Color Question
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(...) Sorry, but I have no idea. All of my yellow, green, light blue, and blue gems came from a gem lot I bought on eBay about six months ago. I have no idea what sets these gems came from. Rick Kurtzuba (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: B-Wing Review
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(...) ship. Funny, I thought the fact that the set included another RED astromech was great. With all the RD-D2s it is nice to have a set (other than the Y-wing) with a red one to add variation. 4 different astromechs can be made with 2 blues and (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: 8235
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(...) Possibly just the ebay-factor. Someone sells it, someone wants it. A someone is born every minute :) Or it could be the one they need to be complete etc etc Richard (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Review - 8002 - Star Wars Destroyer Droid
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(...) Darn it, I haven't seen any of these in stores yet, and I desperately want one! The set has 553 pieces in it, according to the S@H catalog. Really, at 9 cents a piece, this set is a pretty reasonable deal. Aside from the 5571 truck, I haven't (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Wal-Mart Clearance Question + K-mart Question
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Just out of experience ... Do Wal-Marts have a 2nd reduction phase, or will the prices tend to stay the same on all clearance items? Will the Ninja Flying Fortesses stay at $59.00 until all are sold? Also - the only SW sets at K-mart right now from (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Preview of New Fortress: The Gryphon's Nest
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(...) fresh (...) Cool, very amazing. The face looks great. I can't wait to see the interior. How many wolfmen do you have? It seems there's place in there for hundreds :-) -Shiri (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Calling all FansOf CW lego (was Re: Civil War Theme)
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(...) hope (...) to (...) I have Fort Legorado, a weapons wagon, a fig pack, a sherrif's office (spare parts),a Indian thing (rain dance ridge?)and a bandit's wheel gun. I have built a: saloon small mine train depot(SMALL!) w/ windmill I use the (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.western, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: FS: 8880 Super Car, $135 shipped in the US
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(...) My experience is that PM is a flat rate for the low lbs (4-5), then it becomes variable depending on the distance. Heavier items (like two buckets) seem to vary based on distance to destination (the post office calls it zones). I have event (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: various parts, adventurer items...
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I forgot to mention the reserve price: $7.50. Hope this helps.... Thanks, Eugwe Coral (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: What is clearance fodder and what isn't?
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(...) In the case of Target, I believe that 'clearance' pricing is generated by three corp parts: national, regional, & store. Most of the prior Target clearances seem to have been 'regional' (possibly suggested by national), with certain regions (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | S@H Note
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I called Lego S@H on thurs (1-6-00) during normal business hours and the sales person told me that the specials were discontinued on the 31st of December. Needless to say i was kinda surprised. I waited about five minutes, called back, and this time (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | 8235
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Is this set really worth $49?? (URL) have one. I do not consider it to be a particularly good set. Is there something I'm missing? Scott A (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: mini treads
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Can you use a different hub with those treads? Build On! John Matthews Chris Magno <cmagno@home.com> wrote in message news:387567A4.D037B4...ome.com... (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Will's Small Castle Auction - Update 1
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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, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: No new space sets?
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(...) So, since Paramount calls THEIR spaceships "starships" rather than "spaceships" it would be OK for LEGO to license the Star Trek universe and sell models of the Enterprise? Space shuttles fly thru space. I'd call them spaceships, even if NASA (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Legofest 22 gennaio 2000
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(...) Mannaggia avete gia cambiato idea. Siete peggio dei bambini :-))) Con i dragster non posso competere, mi manca il terzo motore e qualche pezzo. Poi scommetto che qualcuno utilizzera' i mattoncini lego in friba di carbonio per avere un carico (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: No new space sets?
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Matthew already responded to this, but ... (...) Patrick, this is *way* uncool. It's called trolling or posting flame-bait - posting something inflammatory or provocative just for the pleasure of watching other people get upset. Trolls (people who (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Legofest 22 gennaio 2000
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(...) Bello. (...) E qui mi trovi preparato, ho construito solo cingolati per ora. Ad dir la verita' i gommati non riesco ad farli andar dritti. Mah ! Forse sbaglio a far la convergenza :-) (...) Ok il mio cingolato 2 motori ce l'ha, un sensore di (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: Questions from a newbee
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(...) Firstly you should have posted this to lugnet.cad or lugnet.cad.dev. lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw is for discussion of the ldraw.org web page only. As for your question, what you want to do with the submodels is fine. For posting to your home (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: legofest o non legofest
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(...) Si si, ho gia controllato latitudine e longitudine sull'atlante. Diciamo che non e' proprio dietro l'angolo :-) Un modo lo trovero' per venire. (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: No new space sets?
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(...) Oh yes, they are good for parts. Go hit Target (if there's one in your area) TODAY and see if you can find any Star Wars sets on sale. They seem to be selling off the Y-wing and Tie set for about 40% off, and the Gungun Sub and Sith (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: No new space sets?
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(...) They are not spaceships. Does nasa call the space shuttle a spaceship? I think not. -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: No new space sets?
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(...) Yup - I realized that seconds after I posted it, but didn't have time to go and cancel and edit my message. Sorry! (...) What restriction? Where did we hear about this? Why were the Spaceport spaceships not covered? -- jthompson@esker.com (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | WTB or WTF to obtain white train front.
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I'm looking to buy or trade to obtain 2 white train fronts from set 6559.. Please respond with a price or a part that you are looking for to jrosco@yahoo.com. Thanks Jim (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Questions from a newbee
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Hi, I do have some questions, and i'm sure someone can answer those. I made a .DAT model,using the MLCAD program, of a passengercar, and made a second one from an other passenger car. I made some Minifigs too (standing and sitting position of a (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Accessory Color Question
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(...) Dark pink and clear gems in Belville. (A white glow-in-the-dark jewel would be kinda cool...) Was the blue gem from a Belville set? If not, where was it from? J, trying to track down gems himself. (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: NFPA article
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(...) I would tend to think that it was not as well supressed as the store. I'll take another look at the article on monday. James (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: WTB Propeller from 8855
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(...) Ooops... stayed up too late again it seems. Sorry guys, was supposed to go to Tony privately :-) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Interesting observations... (TLG business/marketing practice)
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I have noticed 2 things about this years lego: 1.TLG normally releases sets in about 2 batches: january and july. TLG seems to be doing everything possible to keep the details of the july sets for this year secret for some reason, probobly because (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Airport Project
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Sounds great so far. I hope you have the Lego to build this thing so I can see it. :) Since you asked... (...) Monorail might look best, probably would have to be elevated to allow other vehicles (baggage, emergency, etc.) free passage. (...) For (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: dragster race
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(...) :-))) (...) Grazie! Ricordavo che avevate detto che il RIS limita la corrente in uscita ma avevo proprio dimenticato che lo fa per ogni porta e non in totale. Mi sembra che la dritta di attaccare un motore per porta sia un ottimo consiglio. (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Got the Norwegian LEGO catalogue
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OK, so Norway is probably an outpost for most of you, but let me say that the Norwegian 2000 catalogue looks pretty bleak. There's no Mickey Mouse, no town racers sets, no ultimate collectors edition, no MTT or ATT (if I got the names correct), no (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Profile editing question
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Brian- Go to the members page and click on "sign in" key in upper right hand corner. You will need your number and password to get to your page. There you will find the edit button. HTH, John (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.people)
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| | Re: Priority mail rates
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(...) Actually, priority mail is only flat rate [1] up to around four or five pounds [2][3]. Above that, the cost of shipping coast to cost can be almost triple the cost of shipping the same weight across town. Check it out at postcalc.usps.gov. (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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| | pbFORTH needs better uploading, docs
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So I've just been crawling over some broken glass, ERR, I mean, uploading pbFORTH text files to the RCX! It's hard to tell the difference! At the least, pbFORTH needs to: 1) accept \n, \r, \n\r or \r\n all as it does a single \r now. 2) have a mode (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | FS/FT MINIFIG ACCESSORIES
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MINIFIG ACCESSORIES ---...--- A lot of good pieces available here. All are USED and most are in good to excellent condition. Further descriptions send upon request. Your satisfaction is my priority. Email me if interested in anything. Cut and paste (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | FS/FT MINIFIGS
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MINIFIGS FOR SALE OR TRADE ---...--- A lot of good pieces available here. All are USED and most are in good to excellent condition. Further descriptions send upon request. Your satisfaction is my priority. Email me if interested in anything. Cut and (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: dragster race
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Per marco beri Ah quella della Opel era una battuta? Io pensavo che tu avresti davvero telefonato al concessionario :) Riguardo al ris io credo che (a parte che abbiamo stabilito unlimite di tre motori, percio' perche non li metti uno per uscita?) (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: dragster race
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(...) Capisco allora serebbe giusto dire cosi' - il sensore deve trovarsi entro 5 cm dalla parte iniziale del dragster (...) Non mi sembra giusto escluderti : nelle gare di dragster su percorso rettilineo di 5m la conoscenza del percorso nonmi (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: Best hardware for MLCad?
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(...) i'm running a PIII 500 with 128M and a voodoo3 3000... *love* the performance i see from MLCad (and *love love love* the voodoo 3000 for Q3, unreal, etc)... running the VEC creation in LDAO is also a dream.. i used to start it and leave it for (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Post-Christmas Sales Huh?
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Santosh Bhat wrote in message <3876D508.F1FA18E4@s...edu.au>... (...) Nope. All these tales of Adventurers going for 5 cents and 22 cents (for the big sets) just gives me the irrits. I have got to go to America (for a few moments). Regards Richard (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: New meaning for "factory sealed"
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(...) It is a Euro-Only service pack. Item #510 I think, though this one does not look factory-sealed. (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: New meaning for "factory sealed"
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I sent a query. Didn't get an answer yet. Actually sort of not expecting one, but we shall see. To make my query real, I bid what they are worth to me, in fair used condition. (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: New meaning for "factory sealed"
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(...) They must have. I'm not sure they've ever "sealed" a 16x32 baseplate. But I also wouldn't be surprised if they're using "factory sealed" like people use "nice" or "mint condition." At least the picture is there for the buyer to query about. (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: NYC Legofest
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(...) Again, I'm probably out for the 29th--I have to be in Toronto. But if that falls through, I'm there! best, Lindsay (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ny, lugnet.loc.us.nj)
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| | Re: FS: 8880 Super Car, $135 shipped in the US
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There is no difference in shipping price by Priority Mail. Anywhere in the US is the same. As for the supplies i use the web site all the time (plus stamps.com so for shipping i never have to go anywhere). But the site is geared twoards bulk, boxes (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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| | Post-Christmas Sales Huh?
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Well Anyone Else in Australia spotted any Post-Christmas Bargains? I know I haven't! (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: The Motherlode! (Was: Re: Target second round of reductions)
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(...) Too late, I did the first--consolidated at a 2 set : 1 box rate among like items. It all fit, and I could even see out my back window and into my blind-spots. The stores were 8 Mile and Van Dyke, Detroit (8500 8 Mile), and Northland Mall, (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.mi.det)
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(...) That's the first level of discount. Tie/Ys and DDKs are at that level; wait a week. (...) Those Droid Fighters were not popular. When nothing else remained, the Droid Fighters were still there--darn brown wing POOPs (hmmm, that doesn't sound (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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Excellent! I just ordered a bunch of Priority and Global Priority Stuff. That should save me more than one trip to the post office......... ___...___ Kevin Salm ....The biggest fan of the Gray Lego brick.... ___...___ (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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This applies to Target only. Well maybe everyone else knew this... but at all the detroit area Targets, the shelf tags tell the tale. The "real" LEGO area has shelf tags. At this stage of the game, it seems that if a set had a shelf tag (either in (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Review 7124 - Flash Speeder
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(...) made the Landspeeder float: mirrors, and also vaseline on the camera lens. (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Calling all FansOf CW lego (was Re: Civil War Theme)
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(...) Glad to hear back from you. This really sounds like a good thing. I just hope that we get some more feedback from others out there. I am currently trying to build a WW set up in the years after the war with some hold out confederates. Trying (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.western, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Voice Recognition
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Hi Sonny, I've played with Voice Direct and also with the HM2007 chip. Both of them work fine in a quiet environment, but in my limited playing they were both overwhelmed by the ambient noise of a moving robot. They both are speaker dependent, and (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: What the...
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(...) Its a good thing you are able to step back and realize your own shortcomings. Really what I see you lacking is restraint. The volume of posting and the lack of thought [that appears to be] put into them is what can annoy people [like myself]. (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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(...) No ... I started out collecting all sets in most themes from the early eighties up to the noughties. However the earlier demise of the Wild West theme prompted me to start building MOC's (my own creations). With the appearance of Town-Jr MOC (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 2 Motors -> 1 axle
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Dave Johnson <djohnson@sirius.com> wrote in message news:0FNZ00K0NMSRQ3@...pbi.net... (...) There is no "differential force". At least nothing you could measure. The teeth are skipping because of inertia in the things that are connected to them. (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Anyone in the US find the Destroyer Droid yet?
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(...) Well if people would read ALL the posts, they would know that the US one I bought earlier this week has the Errata sheet in it :^) I was surprised that I only got one email inquiry about it, and THAT was from Canada! :^) Mike (and yes it was (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: FS: 8880 Super Car, $135 shipped in the US
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(...) He may not be planning to ship Prio. At that weight and girth, regular parcel post is cheaper than Prio, but I think the rate varies by distance. I could be wrong as I hardly ever use parcel post, precisely because Prio is easier to calculate. (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.shipping)
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| | Re: New meaning for "factory sealed"
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Mike Stanley wrote in message ... (...) Well, as far as I know, the firestation baseplate has never been sold separately... I'm assuming the seller mixed up his text with another auction. Frank (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: NQC beta test release policy
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I'm combining two replies in the thread into a single message... (...) I agree completely that philisophically a beta release of free software should also be free software. I have been cutting corners on this with NQC out of praticality. There is a (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: What the...
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(...) think (...) caused... (...) Yes, in fact I do have some starcarrier ideas. To start, hull designs. The Mon Calamari MC80 Starcruiser from Star Wars has excellent form, especially the winged variant. That's where I got my idea for my (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: WTB Propeller from 8855
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(...) I am in an auction now, where they have a 8855 up, but with several parts missing, prop OK though. I should know more tomorrow night. If I get it, what's your proposal? You rip open one box, take out the propeller and ship the rest? Sounds (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: The Weeks box round two - who wants in?
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Christopher Weeks wrote in message <3876B39B.8F75C483@e...se.net>... (...) Sign me up. Raleigh NC Frank Filz (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: FREEBIE: "The Ultimate LEGO book" from DK
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(...) Ah - my mistake! Thanks for the info though! (...) Thanks for the re-translation too :) Cheers, Richard (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.fun.community)
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