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(...) I don't think that stores are that interested in stocking lots of large sets right after Christmas. The general retailers are in the process of cutting their toy footage in half (or so). That's why e.g. Target sells off so many clearance sets (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Adult lego sets.
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(...) kind of like lego meets puzz-3d? -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Shoulder Pads
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(...) new (...) the (...) barbarian-type (...) Can anyone tell me which sets came with this piece? Thanx, Bill (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Rechargable battery questions
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(...) I prefer rechargeable alkalines myself (such as Rayovac Renewal). They have the same nominal cell voltage as alkalines, charge quickly, have excellent shelf life, and no memory effect. The downside is that their total charge is somewhat less (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: NQC 2.1 b2 in beta test
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(...) the exec (...) The answer isn't pretty.... As near as I can tell (sorry, not much of a Windows expert), the command line gets passed in its entirety to the executable, which then is responsible for parsing it into separate arguments. For the (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare
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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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| | 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)
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| | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare
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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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| | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare
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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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