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Hi, the Dacta dealer for Germany and Austria (?) is TECHNIK-LPE GmbH. The web site is (URL) site has some problems with accessability but they are aware of it. Be patient. This is a german language site, btw. The guy responsible for Lego sales just (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Accessories from other themes...
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(...) Hey Cool! Mind if I snitch that idea? ;) (...) My Heralds use King Leo's body and wear the peasant coif. They are also equipped with WW Bugles. (...) Never tried that one, but Darth Maul's head looks really evil in that helmet. The eyes almost (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Ordering pieces might be possible for you too!!
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I have been doing this for a few years. Its been talked about before here on Lugnet and on RTL. I didn't know this service was available anywhere other than the US, but it makes sense. -- Have fun! John The Legos you've been dreaming of... (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Do I want a micromotor?
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Yes! And if you don't, just let me know, 'cos I do. They can be very useful for putting power in small spaces. The small pulley (not the very small bushing sized pulley) clips onto the micromotor (backwards) and provides a drive for a standard (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: DixieLUG!!
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(...) wow! how big is she? and I am also willing to bring a (...) sounds cool to me! i've never seen an actual lego monorail, so this would very exciting for me! I (...) _definitely_ a topic for discusion! i just got my first train set (#4561) for (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ga)
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| | Re: Accessories from other themes...
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(...) I personally like the black helmets for Dragon Master figs, and my only dark grey helmet fits on a Jedi Luke figure with black cloak as a wandering adventurer... (...) nobleman's (...) I tend to think of these hats as being more peasant-like, (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: History of LEGO Windows...revisited
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On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Remy Evard (<8EB7E4871evardmcsa...gnet.com>) wrote at 04:27:45 (...) It's probably the same reason as minifig heads changed. The proposed reason is that it reduces the choking risk when small children swallow them. That doesn't (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: John E. Doolittle.
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On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Richard Parsons (<Fo5yxv.3nE@lugnet.com>) wrote at 09:13:50 (...) Report in 'a London newspaper': DUTCH EAST INDIA COMPANY LOSES FACE It is reported that a ship of the Dutch East India company was attacked in the South Pacific, (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: Will's Small Castle Auction - Update 3
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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, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Accessories from other themes...
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(...) Yes, I have done this to some success IMHO. Check out this pick for an example. (URL) Kingsley The New England LEGO Users Group (URL) My Creations At: (URL) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Sanscript & Spirit.OCX
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(...) I registered Spirit.OCX on my system (simply install the LEGO software). Then inside Sanscript, I used the File | OLE/COM Wizard... option, clicked the BROWSE button, navigated to the folder where the spirit.ocx file is, forced the "*.ocx" (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Review - 8002 - Star Wars Destroyer Droid
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Keith Blumenthal <Keith.Blumenthal@wcom.com> wrote in message news:FnzG7D.1pM@lugnet.com... (...) and (...) 500 (...) sore (...) 4.5 hours? I just built a Super Car II and it took 4-4.5 hours. What kind of a set is this?..:-) Seems quite (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: What set should I get next?
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More Lego's! Tell me more about 8479 - Barcode Multi Set -- Richard Clemens clemens@wvwc.edu ----- Original Message ----- From: Karl Monaghan <swinehund@hotmail.com> To: <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 9:38 AM Subject: What (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Insane prices.... nothing new
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D. Jezek wrote in message ... (...) So (...) described. I remember paying him for shipping, but your right - he has a great reputation, and, at the time, he had far and away the best selection of sets in his auctions. eBay seems to have eliminated (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Sentimental Journey (Was Re: What all has TLC done?)
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(...) This is one of the best "real" ships I think LC (TLC, TLG, LG, etc.) ever produced. The cockpit is massive, with tons of room for the pilot and computers, the rest of the ship can easily hold many minifigs, along with computers and equipment. (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Death of the studded brick
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(...) Dan, I think you're definitely overstating the problem. First off, the Star Wars sets you mention are Technic sets - which have always had far fewer bricks than System sets anyway. There are some things you just can't do with the brick. (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Any suggestions on a homepage?
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(...) *Iff* you are familiar with HTML.[1] If not, then I suggest a WYSIWYG HTML editor - I think both major browsers include one.[2] I realize that the editors are inelegant and that they don't make the code in the 'best' way possible. On the other (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Picture of 5919?
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Can anyone help me with a picture of the box that the North American version of the 5919 The Valley of the King's comes in? The picture is missing here: (URL) if you have the box and a digital camera or a scanner your help would be appreciated. (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Insane prices.... nothing new
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Your right John! eBay has played a BIG part in the price reduction, infact... think about it, 6086 on ebay could very well sell for $250 or more a year ago, now though I doubt you could get half that price. Also I played it easy in this last (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.market.auction)
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| | 2995 and 2996 from Shop-at-Home
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I just got a 5900 from Shop-at-Home. It turned out to be produced in Europe. It just has a label added across the front warning about the choking hazard. See (URL) pictures. My question is: Does anyone know if it is the same with 2995 and 2996 from (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: What set should I get next?
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(...) I cannot comment on the other 2, but the barcode truck is a heck of a neat model in and of itself. Mindstorms would make a great adition to it (then you could have a self aware garbage truck :) Lots of gears, and the flex tubing parts. 2 (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Datsville Police HQ [DAT]
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Here is a repost of the datsville police hq, with police officers to staff it. I have also made several fixes to the vechicles, mostly fixing the color of the steering wheels. I don't suppose anyone is working on the motorcycle piece so my (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | RIS coverage on DNJ.
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I received the JAN/FEB 2000 issue of "Developer Network Journal" (MSDN). At page 45, Jon Honeyball says: ..... The second item you really need is to get hold of the new O'Reilly book titled The Unofficial Guide to Lego Mindstorms Robots. The (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.it, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Police Airwing Test [DAT]
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Here is a repost of the datsville police airwing, now with police officers to staff it. 0 FILE polatst.dat 0 Police Airwing Test 0 Author: Jonathan Wilson 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 6099P45.DAT 1 2 0 0 480 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 polair.dat 1 2 0 -32 -50 (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Datsville PD on Parade [DAT]
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Here is the datsville PD on parade for the first time The datsville PD is now on duty You will need the new police torso pieces from lugnet.cad.dat.parts to view this model. (they were too large to put in the MPD) 0 FILE parade.dat 0 Datsville PD on (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Any suggestions on a homepage?
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[ XFUT lugnet.publish ] Shiri: (...) [...] (...) We are supposed to discuss web design and such things over in lugnet.publish, so I have cross posted the message there. I use "vi" as my HTML editor, but I will suggest that you just use your (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Interesting Castle on Ebay
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(...) I don't know if it is appropriate to dig through someone's posts but in case you want to read them, try using dejanews: (URL) can also read his one and only post here on lugnet by typing in his name in the search box on the main page :-) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Velux House (1854) Update.
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Some time ago I offered to import a number of these into the UK, and then sell them on at cost. Today I have had a response from the seller. This is what I got: (...) $20 is more than I expected, so I may not go ahead with the deal. Scott A (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Insane prices.... nothing new
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(...) 800 bucks for a 6086? Wow! That must have happened during my dark ages. Matt's final auction bids are insane because he has a well established reputation over the years and also includes free shipping and insurance. So if you buy something (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Post-Christmas Sales Huh?
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I can't say i've ever seen any "Toy Kingdom" in Sydney as far as I know the only places that offer Lego on shelves in sydney are Kmart Target Big W Grace Bros Toys R Us Unlce Petes Toyworld Plus a few one-off toystores scattered here and there. (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | What set should I get next?
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I'm another one of those people who got a Mindstorms set at Christmas and I'm wondering now what Lego set to get next. I'm looking for a set that has a lot of gears (I never seem to have enough of them) and gives me a bit more experience with using (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Death of the studded brick
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Yes, that's what I was thinking when looking at the scans of the new star wars technic droids. There doesn't seem to be a single studded brick in these sets! These sets look nice and have a great functionality but they don't _look_like_ lego at all. (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Insane prices.... nothing new
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(follow-ups directed to lugnet.market.theory) I was looking at old RTL auction posts via Dejanews, and at Matt Chiles past auction realizations on his site, and thought to myself that prices have dropped quite significantly in the past couple years. (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Accessories from other themes...
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Well, let's see: 1. I'm waiting for those new technic sets to show up so I can grab some trans-blue spears for my Alpine King's men. 2. I'm using black dragon wings, Ninja facemasks, and maybe some Ninja glide wings for the Army of the Dark Tower (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: RCX "locking up" when trying to use dll
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(...) 1.1.2 (...) Ok, I got egcs-1.1.2 (plus patch) and rebuilt legOS.srec. Now it works. I did confirm that the compiler is tripping over something in the libs rather than the kernel (at first I only rebuilt the kernel sources and the problem was (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Scan your stickers
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Dean Husby wrote in message <387ABC22.A44A9E78@a....bc.ca>... (...) Dean: I try to always do this. I just sent a bunch of older scans to Kevin @ brickshelf. Eric (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LDraw-Mode vs. BezGen... problems?
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(...) Yep, I've used it for the Flex-System hoses and the ribbed hoses from the Technic line. But I'm sure it can be used to model most kinds of flexible elements in LEGO, possibly even the 11L chain links seen in many LEGO themes, if you are a bit (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: GP2D12 Pinouts
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(...) Just visit: (URL) are some modifications to the handyboard required, because the sensor does not work with the pull-up resistors on the handyboard. You have to cut some traces on the handyboard. A detailed description and a picture of the (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Palm Trees: old segmented vs. new one piece
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Frank Filz wrote in message ... (...) clearance. It has an old palm tree (currently would get you at least $1 on auction, 4 blue 2x2x3 steep slopes (to go with the new castle 2x2x3 steep slope corners) which should get at least $1 for the 4 on (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | A Jsme Tu!
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Tak jsme tady v loc.cs a ani to tak moc dlouho vytvorit netrvalo :) Jsme tu dva a mame 3 skupiny na ktere muzeme psat. Vic skupin nez lidi :)) Taky je tady v pravidlech ze se nesmi mluvit sproste. Velmi zaujimave :))) Napsal jsem spravcovi jestli by (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.cs)
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