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The WordMeister wrote in message ... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) use (...) I am actually okay with the fact that TRU charges more. That means that TRU will tend to have older stock longer than Wal-Mart, Target, and K-Mart, etc. Anytime I am on the (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Rite Aid Sale
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Heh heh, I hit the Target and KB ToyWerks near my office at lunch today, I had my choice of about 4 (!) sets at Target. *grin* Looks like I'm not the only Maniac around here. Though I did manage to grab a Slave I, and I could've gotten a couple of (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.or.por)
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Heh heh, I hit the Target and KB ToyWerks near my office at lunch today, I had my choice of about 4 (!) sets at Target. *grin* Looks like I'm not the only Maniac around here. Though I did manage to grab a Slave I, and I could've gotten a couple of (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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Joel VanAtta wrote in message ... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) My local TRU (Cary, NC) is very diligent about checking ID on returns. I recently returned a couple things and how to show my NC Drivers License before I received my merhcandise card (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: New CAD spaceship!
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(...) file, Cool! When can we see them? (...) I can understand that :) (...) That's an exchange I'll take any day :) --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.cad)
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| | 6746 & 6706 sighted at KB Toys
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I'm admittedly new and not a conneseur of the western themes to be sure, but if these two are rare or desired at all, let it be known that I saw 'em at the local KBToys this evening and am willing to pick 'em up & send 'em your way. They were priced (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.western)
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| | Re: NQC default output file
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(...) I just added the error check to nqc. I haven't changed the directory yet, though. Using the source directory was strictly from laziness. Assuming there aren't massive objections, I'll switch to using the current directory. Dave Baum (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Shoulder Pads
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(...) ROFL! <cross-posting to .general, 'cause everyone should see this!> James (URL) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare
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(...) Hmmm...so lets see,the store accepts an item they carried even though it is now out of stock, and this makes the first one returned to them after a car was broken into stolen? Yes, more likely than not it was PROBABLY the stolen items, but (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: WTB: Gray egg shape shields!!
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Scott-A wrote in message ... (...) wait. Yep. My mistake. They are white. Sorry. Scott A (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Target - surprise finds!
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Oops, sorry, must have hit the wrong button. (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: WTB: Gray egg shape shields!!
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Frank Filz wrote in message <387F8EC9.59E2@minds...ng.com>... (...) This point was raised. I can't be sure if they arr grey or white. Just wait. (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare
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(...) Receiving stolen goods: They can't keep something that belongs to someone else. Proving that or getting them to admit to it or getting them to return the item or payment is something else entirely. Bruce (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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Dave Schuler wrote in message ... (...) lawsuit. (...) That (...) it (...) warn (...) the (...) which (...) at (...) time, (...) be (...) coffee (...) I also recall that one of the big issues which always gets left out is that McDonalds had (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare
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Wait a minute. How is TRU responsible for what happened to your Lego set after it left their store? They certainly could not (not would they be expected to in any case) have verified that the receipt holder was _not_ you. There is something, (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | FS/T 7850 Straight Rails (4.5V Gray/Gray Track)
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Howdy, I have several (10+) sealed copies of the above set for sale or trade. At this time I would prefer to trade for other train things, like: 9V straight track 9V switching track 9V Crossing track Or other train cars/sets/combinations. Make an (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | LEGO.com has some updated links...
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For all of you have not seen it yet, there are several new links, some of them have at least changed: www.lego.com/city (rather boring) www.legoworldshop.com It has been closed for a while, but now it has a better text however and the pictures show (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Night Lord's Castle (6097) on sale at KBKids.com
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G** almighty Larry! Are you some sort of trust fund hippy or corporate CEO?!?!?!?!?! 20 sets!?!?!?!?!? :) Regards, Mark (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Shoulder Pads
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(...) I have a printout of this picture hanging up in my cube with the caption: "Are you talking to ME?!" (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Lego Reference Related to Boston's Big Dig Project
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The "Big Dig" is a massive public works highway project currently going on in Boston, Massachusetts. (Ironically, the traffic levels for which the Big Dig was designed were exceeded in 1983, so the project will be close to 20 years out of date when (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare
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(...) Well, how were they supposed to know it was stolen? If he's got a receipt, that means somebody bought it. Most cases, the person returning it was the person who bought it. I know, they should have checked ID, but the returns area (at least in (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Diesel Instructions
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(...) Here you go... (URL) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: batterie nicd
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E state sempre a guardare il capello ... ... e senza errori stavolta :) Marco (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: Diesel Instructions
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(...) What kind of engine are you looking for? Eric Brok has a very nice 0-4-0 SiK engine on his page: (URL) have some ideas on my page, but it doesn't work right now...I erased the lego index(again!) due to stupidity... Try the PNLTC website for (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Diesel Instructions
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Hey anyone know or have instructions for a diesel engine. Give me your address if you have instructions or if you have a LEGO Town / Trains page. Thanks -J.W.Hummer www.geocities.com/spincity999 (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New CAD spaceship!
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Patrick Justison wrote in message ... (...) about (...) Pat: Very nice! Could you send me a DAT file to animate?? I have some new Colonial Viper animations from Bram Lambrecht's DAT file, but would like to animate another spaceship. In exchange for (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.cad)
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| | Cybermaster Expansion ( Mission ) 8450 Wanted:
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Is this available anywhere? What price? (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Useless parts?
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(...) Skeletons make great decorations for Adventurer and Pirate settings and can be used to assemble an undead army. I like those and would trade for lots. (...) This piece is useful for skirts for other female minifigs. I just wish it came in more (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Rechargable battery questions
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Greetings, I am yet another lucky person graced with an RIS this holiday season. I already seem doomed to buying more Lego sets for extra parts. I was quickly thwarted trying to build examples in Jonathan Knudsen's book which I assume is based on (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: HELP WITH LEGO CAMERA
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Didn't looked yet, but this sems to scan a picture trough a lens. I have some informations about the nipkow disk, an old system invented prior to real electronic tv. Have a look at : (URL) is another solution, not really easy to do with lego but... (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Keep in mind... (was: My Toys R Us Nightmare)
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(...) I noticed....I didn't say anything because last time I got jumped on for being a over-sensitive jerk. also :( James (URL) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Adult lego sets.
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(...) Not a bad idea :) Have you seen any of the old 'blueprint' instructions? They're like a puzzle in themselves! Richard (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Garage Door Parts wanted, parts for TRADE
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I have pics of the parts I have available for Trade for other Garage Door parts (TRADE ONLY, I will NOT sell!) at: (URL) I'd like to turn this into a "ClearingHouse" for garage door parts - if you have parts available for trade/sale, let me know the (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: What should I do with my 8855s?
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Hi, I am looking to buy a set of instructions. Please let me know if you are interested in selling a set. thanks, john (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Useless parts?
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(...) I'll swap you some real dog food for all the skelingtons you want to get rid of :) Richard (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Adult lego sets.
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(...) adults (...) of (...) Steve, you're really on to something there! By only providing simplified instructions, Lego would be tapping into the puzzle market!!! 3D, 1000+ piece puzzles for whole-new crossover market possibilities. I smell a hit! (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Useless parts?
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I have been wondering if anyone has found a use for all the useless parts that seem to be included in sets to jack up the price and the parts count. Some that I plan to feed to my dog include: skeleton (maybe I can use his head) witches legs (she's (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Mindstorm firmware C compiler for W95 platform ready for download.
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well it has some flaws.. it gives several errors when tryin to run it on win 98 se.. one the download bat doesn't work properly.. I had to change the .srec to .sre and then firmdl still says, open: permission denied.. ----- Original Message ----- (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Anyone want to go in on some 6097's?
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(...) I'd be interested in the grey huge full arches (1w by 14l by I dunno how high), the grey half arches and the black column posts from the sets. However I dunno how good of a deal I can offer, I just got 20 copies of it myself so I don't want to (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: GP2D02 conversion
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(...) Actually, the GP2DO2's output is not at all linear. Plotting the output against the actual distance will show an exponential curve. Each one is slightly different so what I do is to make up a little table in Excel like: 0,0 70,10 116,15 142,20 (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Adult lego sets.
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(...) Have you checked the suggested age range on the upcoming "Ultimate Collector's Series" Star Wars sets? The Y2K US inbox catalog labels these as "from 16 years". That qualifies as an adult lego set to me. (...) Stick to basic bricks and (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: What is the best sticker paper
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Can anyone explain why this URL splits (URL) And the one in this message (URL) doesn't split? I'm using the web-interface, on the same computer, same version of Netscape etc in both occurances! Richard (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Night Lord's Castle (6097) on sale at KBKids.com
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(...) Nice. And I ordered 20 for about 650 or so. ++Lar (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: NQC on Windows CE platforms
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(...) I've got a utility for my P/PC called CERemote that controls my entertainment center via the IRDA port. This software was written by Hiromu Okada (okada.hiromu@nifty.ne.jp). There is a website at (URL) Perhaps this gentleman could help you to (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare
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(...) hehe. I was in a Target the other day, I inadvertantly left my wallet in the car. I had a bunch of Droid Developers and one RIS in my cart, took it over to Cust Svc and asked one behind the counter person to keep an eye on it (it was unpaid (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: What is the best sticker paper
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(...) Except for that time, nevermind - d'oh! Richard (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Shoulder Pads
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(...) What? You all push your leaders' heads all the down? But then how can they stand tall amongst their followers? ;) Cool idea with the shoulder pads. :) Steve (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: What is the best sticker paper
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In lugnet.general, Rob Doucette writes: (URL) The brackets help it stay together :) Richard (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Keep in mind... (was: My Toys R Us Nightmare)
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(...) I didn't notice - talk about de-sentistisation! :( Richard (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: 5561 $40 at kbkids.com - train windows/doors
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Is that a stupid search db or WHAT? Actually, it's the fault of the person that entered the data into the db, if they would have entered LEGO MODEL TEAM instead of MODEL TEAM, it would have properly shown in the Lego search. Thanks to LarryP for (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: batterie nicd
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(...) Pazienza. (...) magazino di Milano ...) Capita a tutti qualche errore di battitura. Quattro in due righe... conosco una persona sola capace di tanto, anzi la conosciamo tutti :-))) Mario (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: What is the best sticker paper
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Try this: (URL) may have to cut and past the link if it gets cut up... This is a list of "Avery White Ink Jet Labels" although some of them are clear. I haven't tried these yet but this is where I'll start (I've got some minifig projects to do). You (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Mindstorm firmware C compiler for W95 platform ready for download.
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Having trouble getting the Hitachi H8 Mindstorm firmware compiler to run on a W95 platform? Francesco Ferrara has a ready to run installation on his website! (URL) . Download, un-rar, add c:\qc\bin to your path and you're all set. You can have your (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Keep in mind... (was: My Toys R Us Nightmare)
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(...) Tim, next time in the future could you not swear? (Just recently there was a huge debate on swearing on Lugnet) So please in the future keep it to a minimum. (Man, am I sounding like Todd or what?) Erin -- (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Anyone want to go in on some 6097's?
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(...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal views with my employer (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) That's interesting; I hadn't heard that previously. (...) What people generally regard as frivolous, I think, is the fact that she held the coffee between her legs--do I recall correctly? To many people's view this seems to be simply asking (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: LEGO Film Festival (Was: Re: Two new LEGO pages)
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We need to have it at the same time as a 'real-life' film festival that has a name which can be 'punned' with a Lego term. Many thanks, Nick Allan ======== Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change. Richard Franks (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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Grazie amici mi avete commosso con il vostro interesse per le mie batterie ... pero' non so se potro' accontentarvi portandovele domenica perche' quei birichini della Sanyo Italia mi hanno giusto oggi la consegna del mio ultimo ordine entro la (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare
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(...) The you have a legal case - but by the time all is said and done, it won't have been worth it. Don't ask for a refund: demand the item back. Be prepared with a police report. If they won't budge, my advice is to move on. It's a minor item. (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Using a 293B/293D combination
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The HB FAQ mentions using the LM293B and LM293D chips in parallel (e.g., one L293D and one L293B) to gain increased current-carrying capability. My question is, if I do this am I losing the function of the spike-protecting diodes on the motor (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare
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(...) I am glad to hear that, as I thought the dumbass spilt it on herself, but it was still "frivolous" regardless of how much she got. She should have been jailed for wasting court time and required to pay all of McDonalds' legal fees. Timbo (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Jan/Feb Mania
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I got the most recent Mania magazine today. The cover theme is Artic. It also has a little story on Knight's Kingdom and a little information on the 1st annual LEGO club national convention this summer. (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: directly from NY ....
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(...) Sì. Però è molto più efficiente, perché finché non slitta non hai perdita di potenza, mentre con le puleggie ne hai sempre. Con le puleggie, d'altra parte, puoi realizzare rapporti di riduzione notevoli senza costruire "treni" di ingranaggi a (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare
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(...) Most stores are pretty flexible on returns because many people want to be able to return gifts. How do you propose that be allowed? The illegality of buying stolen goods is an interesting one. If it is clear that the goods are stolen, I can (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare
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Dave Schuler <orrex@excite.com> wrote in message news:FoCFKn.FLt@lugnet.com... (...) spilling (...) would (...) I am tired of hearing about that coffee incident being a frivolous lawsuit. The lady got $300,000 which was later reduced to $100,000 in (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | VS
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I have a couple of RCXs and of late my preoccupation gas been friendly and not so friendly competition. The first attempt at a battle of the bots was a simple touch sensor with bumper on top of each bot and see who can build the better design. Now (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare
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(...) While I and the other vocal on-lookers don't see any wrongdoing on the part of TRU, I'd bet any judge in Michigan would find for you on this one. Their track records seem to imply that they have some sort of agenda against corporations. Not (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Anyone want to go in on some 6097's?
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I'm willing to order several sets of 6097 if there are others out there that want specific pieces from this set. Maybe we can work out a mutually beneficial deal before hand. I am mainly interested in the minifigs from it. Or if someone else is (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: What kind of motor comes with the 4559?
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(...) a (...) This is due to the relatively light gauge of metal used in the track rails. Over a long layout they have a significant resistance. If you are seeing slowdowns at the far end of the layout, just run some heavier wire (12ga or even 14ga (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: WTB: Gray egg shape shields!!
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(...) but I'll be watching for that. Will it be on eBay? (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Castle etc. for Trade
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(...) I could almost trade this, unfortuanately, I don't think I have the stickers. I do have the instructions, and was figuring on breaking it down for parts, so if you find a copy w/o instructions, perhaps we could swing a deal (or if you can find (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Multitasking
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From: "David Leeper" <david.leeper@destiny.com> (...) the (...) I was planning on doing this with LegOS, which uses a different scheduler (and John said). With the standard firmware it might work as well, it really depends on how slow the thread (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare
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(...) I have already done that. But buying stolen goods is not legal and reselling them is even worse. It doesn't matter if they "know" or not. The reason they should check ID is so that they verify the person who they are giving the refund to is (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare
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(...) The beauty of the coffee lawsuit is that you _know_ that same person would have brought the coffee back if it was just a little too cold! Dave! (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare
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(...) This is a very good point. Many stores don't even require a reciept any more. One somewhat funny story I have is of a warehouse worker at a company that I used to work for got caught stealing some relatively expensive consumer product. The (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: John E. Doolittle.
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On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Mr L F Braun (<387F7F9F.766BF76@p....msu.edu>) wrote at 19:57:19 (...) I *knew* there was something about it that made me uneasy :-) (...) Absolutely! Spell checker overridden on that one. (...) Hmmm. Interesting point, but not (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: Controlling pneumatics
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(...) I have use valves this sort of size, but the costs are so high, that they are impractical for the RCX. (twice the cost of a complete Mindstorms system for just one valve...). Best Wishes (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare
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(...) I'm not sure that you are blowing this entirely out of proportion, but file a police report and demand the return of the stolen item. That's about as far as you can go with it. Bruce (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare
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(...) A friend of my father's had his window broken so someone could steal two quarters once. (...) How are they supposed to check? How would they know who purchsed the set? For all they know, you could've given the set to that person. They aren't (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare
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(...) Are you serious? That's not as ridiculous as suing McDonald's for spilling coffee in your own lap but is still pretty out there, IMO. Yes, they screwed up. I thought their attempt at damage control ($100 gift certificates) was a fine gesture. (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: John E. Doolittle.
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(...) Snipping all that stuff that I didn't write.... (...) Kind of like someone from Boston, "I have to pahk the cah." Even my Boston Terrier has to bark, "Bahk, bahk!" :-) Canadians are hard to pick out, but I can usually do it (and these are (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Capisco... pero` io ero serio... :-))) Se non sono buone magari ne prendo anch'io... Ciao. Marco. (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.it)
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No offnse, but how was TRU supposed to know the item they were refunding was stolen? I agree that it sucks you were robbed, and I hope you find the culprit, but I don't understand why TRU should lose money in the deal. That is what you wanted (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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Mario Ferrari <mario.ferrari@edis.it> wrote in message Fo8psn.634@lugnet.com... (...) stupide), (...) applichi (...) ingranaggi. (...) presa. (...) Allora, se ho capito bene, assolve alla stessa funzione delle puleggie collegate con elastico? -- (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Controlling pneumatics
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pneumatics are fun stuff, but they are also hard to control. I have devised a pressure regulator made out of lego that control my presure to be in-between 0.5 kg and 0.9 kg. Too high, it would pop out the hoses, and too low, the pneumatics don't (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | What is the best sticker paper
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Hey, I'm trying to reproduce some stickers from some scans. Can anyone recommend a brand and/or type of paper for my inkjet printer that works best on Lego ?(I have an Epson if it matters). Appreciate any help. (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece?
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On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Richard Marchetti (<FoC7C7.GCu@lugnet.com>) wrote at 18:00:07 (...) No. And I think they're changing the formulation of the plastic as well. (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | My Toys R Us Nightmare
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A couple of months ago I bought some Lego from Toys R Us. Later that afternoon some sleazebag broke the window of my car and stole it. (They broke a $165.00 window to get $15.00 worth of Lego, the asshole) Anyway, what is even worse is, since it was (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Technic tank
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Check this site. This will fill your head with great ideas. (URL) Fay rfay@we.mediaone.net The Shop (URL) Hagan" <rhagan@vt.edu> wrote in message news:FoC9y2.ADG@lugnet.com... (...) a (...) just (...) it (...) (maybe (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Multitasking
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Hi John, Thanks for for clarifying the differences between the RCX capabilites and the default firmaware capabilities. LegOS sounds like thge right to for true multitasking. But while I'm using the default firmware, it sounds like the sleep task (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | WTT: MISB 5561 for MISB 6560
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I'd like to trade a MISB Model Team 5561 Big Foot 4x4 for a MISB 6560 Diving Expedition Explorer. I'd prefer to trade with someone in the US to keep shipping costs low. (URL) Stroot (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Finding Set 3107
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(...) Thanks for the tip. I found their website (URL) But try to visit but the page was blank. (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.scala)
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| | Re: Interesting article
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(...) Even more interesting one of the links links back to LUGNET!!! Another shot in the arm for LUGNET way to go Todd! The link is in the third paragraph titled "Lego wants to be free" under PlamPilot and it links to: (URL) Kingsley The New England (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Re: Rite Aid Sale
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(...) I hit another Rite Aid this morning on the way to work. They had only one Lego set in the whole store and it wasn't on sale. Rite Aid is not going to be another Target type clearence opportunity for us Lego fanatics, but you might get a few (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Shoulder Pads
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I liked the look of the UFO shoulder pads for armor, but I, too had had trouble with fit issues. *twirls ends of handlebar moustache* Now I shall RULE THE WORLD! I find that the grey Ninja armor looks cool for either a) leather or padded cloth armor (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: John E. Doolittle.
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DISCLAIMER: I'm a little loopy today. Medication. (...) It also has the LEGO edge--"brik" to me brings to mind "blok," something about which no more should be spoken. 'Nuff said. *suppressing shudder* (...) I hope you mean to get at the (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: 5561 $40 at kbkids.com - train windows/doors
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Frank Filz wrote in message <387F79DD.41C6@minds...ng.com>... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) Thanks for the tip. Couldn't find the Extreme Team Challenge set, must be sold out. Mike - mike_walsh@mindspring.com (URL) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Diana's town & train auction, update 2
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Welcome to Diana's town & train auction, Updates are emailed to all bidders and anybody requesting to be on the mailing list. set condition varies. n = new in box b = used with box and instructions. u = used with instructions but without the box. s (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Rite Aid Sale
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There is a RiteAid mere blocks from my house; it never occurred to me that they stocked LEGO. *smacks forehead in disbelief* I shall peruse their offerings forthwith! Thanks for the tip, Timbo! -Cheese (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Interesting article
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Hi, This is an interesting article about LEGO mindstorms. (URL) Cotsford (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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