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(...) Wow, I've never seen this set before, and the town jr. bank does not only pale in comparision... it's fading away... it looks more like a ghost now... :-) BTW, great job, Sanjay! -Shiri (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Inventory: 8462.
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(...) I just finished building it (what an awesome set!) and there are about 10 extra pieces left over after you build the main model. Notably 1 8t gear, 1 pneumatic T, 1 very short length of tubing cut as indicated on the inside front cover, the 3 (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.db.inv)
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| | Re: Anyone want to go in on some 6097's?
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(...) I'm really just interested in the castle wall segment that's at the top of the big tower--the 3x6x6 half-octagon with the window. I use them to simulate ship casemates, and I have an odd number atm. If anyone has some of these...they're much (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Check out this unusual auction...
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(URL) wish him luck. I would never ever pay that much for it, though, I don't know, maybe it is worth it since I have no idea how much the pieces in the collection are actually worth (though I don't see many rare ones). I wonder what the reserve is? (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Dan's Star Wars Parts Auction
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Many regular bricks and plates are still unbid. Great selection of Star Wars Torsos and special elements. (URL) M. (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: HOTW! (Yeah, that's an H.)
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(...) Well, sounds like you were lucky. I tried that with FAO Schwartz and their torn box of the royal knight's carraige (too lazy to find number now) but the salesperson just said that the bags were still complete and that she'll take off ten (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Pythagorean Triads and Almost-Triads
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Geez, Paul, This is the second time I've bumped into you ,doing a project identical to one of mine! (The other one was the 3-D map of nearby stars, in case you've forgotten.) (...) Emerging from my LEGO Dark Ages last fall, we opened an Exploriens (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: News on the 2000 space line!
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(...) <sarcasm> "Oh goody, it's *just around the corner*!" *happy dance* </sarcasm> Retch. At least the SW sets are good parts-wise--if I had to choose between the Star Wars sets and more Insectoids crud, I'm so far in favour of the former that I (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | lugnet.belville has got on it's feet!
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Hi all lego fans! Four months ago, lugnet.belville opened (1) and it was pretty empty. For a while there were only 12 or so posts, and no one seemed to have new ones... But recently, people have been getting interested in Belville (2) and I'm happy. (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.belville, lugnet.general)
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| | HOTW! (Yeah, that's an H.)
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Hi, everyone. I have a FOTW, but it's less an FOTW than a "HOTW," for "Haggle of the Week." I've watched this K-B ToyWorks near my favourite Wal-Mart in NJ sit on three Aquashark 6190 Shark's Crystal Caves (MSRP $50)--a pretty nice set that I (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare
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Paul Davidson wrote in message ... (...) Reasonable question ... My son (who just turned five) received two copies of the Ultimate LEGO Book for Christmas. We returned one copy to TRU in exchange for a merchandise credit (used to buy LEGO of (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare
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(...) Perhaps he meant *centigrade*. ;) (this would be a trick--those newfangled coffee machines that produce coffee under 12 atm pressure...) best Lindsay (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Ooops! 6086
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This is not the first time I have done this. The title should read 6086. (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare
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(...) Well, that's part of the catch. You see, Michigan's not really much of a socialist state--so this kind of comprehensive coverage does cost me. However, it costs me less to have full coverage with all the bells and whistles from Michigan that (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | GMLTC Module Construction
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A while back I saw a post about how the GMLTC modules are put together. (As far as internal supports, ect) Does anyone have that info handy? (link, photo, or other) A few of us here in St. Louis are exploring something along the same lines and a (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Quick review of the Belville Yacht
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Set #: 5848 Price paid: $44.00 (1) My sister finally opened her birthday present, after a month of hiding it in the closet and ten more days when she "couldn't find time". (Being a 10-year- old, she's *very* busy ;-) We built it together (I let her (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.belville)
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| | Re: Bulk Ordering - Results Revealed
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Good spotting. That's the bank set from 1988, #1490 sold only through Shop at Home in the US. If you think you still have it I suggest you hop on the next train/plane/bus back to Mordensville and get it as it's worth quite a bit now. It's one of (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.town)
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| | My city plans
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12 January, 2000/LRNewswire-“Fun World announces transit alliance” Fun World™ Enterprises and the government of Hills Valley County have announced a new alliance today. The alliance has to do with mass transit. In the first have of the deal, Fun (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Most recent animal list
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(...) Thanks for those corrections. (...) Since it was a design and not a real animal, I did not include that one. (...) I can't believe I forgot that one! It is one of my favourites. (...) I did not include these animals because I don't think of (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Price at local Value City Store
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(...) I live in Southern Indiana, just a few minutes north of Lousiville KY. The value city has only a few lego sets. But they all seam cheap/ I was thinking of buying that set to make peasants for my Castle themed Kingdom. I haven't checked any of (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.western)
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| | Re: Most wanted color other than those in the brick packs
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(...) Tan. And Dark Gray. Oh, you said ONE color. =) Also Transparent. -- jthompson@esker.com "Float on a river, forever and ever, Emily" (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Adult lego sets.
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Jonathan Wilson writes: Even more at fault are several (...) screen (...) wire (...) wont (...) makes a (...) rosco (...) Random aside - so Mario and Pikachu are Nintendo mascots, and Sonic is Sega's mascot. What's Sony's (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Most recent animal list
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It was a Belville set. John Neal answered this question for me before, and the set number is 3117: (URL) Have fun! John The Legos you've been dreaming of... (URL) weird Lego site: (URL) Simmons wrote in message ... (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: missing boba fett
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(...) A set with stolen pieces? Only once. A returned set with missing pieces? A few times. (I consider this a different affair if the set is OBVIOUSLY a return (ie the pieces aren't in their plastic bags).) I usually don't ask for replacements in (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: What are your 10 most wanted pieces from LEGO Direct?
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(...) [snip] (...) Hi there, I'm a little surprised that this thread wasn't at least cross-posted to lugnet.dear-lego. I'm sure that TLG is capable of reading the entire newsfeed, but I'm not sure that they are actually doing so. So, I'm making that (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Parsing Pause database
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(...) Done. I wrote a little C program, which grabbed everything I needed from the bynumber.txt file almost instantly (for 168 sets). For some reason, it couldn't handle 3 digit numbers, but there were only three of those, so I copied them manually. (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | FA(eBay): Slope lots in green, light grey, brown, clear, orange, more!
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Auctions ending on 20/01/2000 ---...--- 28 ORANGE medium roof slopes (URL) 48 CLEAR medium slopes (URL) 96 GREEN! medium roof slopes (URL) 72 lt grey medium roof slopes (URL) 38 BROWN medium roof slopes (URL) 48 yellow medium roof slopes (URL) 166 (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Updated Want List
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Here is an updated list of parts I need to complete sets: Set # Qty Description 369 3 complete blue minifigs with non-moveable parts 1 gray TV antenna 1 blue 24X32 baseplate 2 clear 1x6 bricks 373 2 red minifig torso with non-moveable arms 2 blue (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | FA(eBay): Technic parts lots and Adventurers Zeppelin ending Sun
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Auctions ending on 16/01/2000 ---...--- 550 connectors, many kinds (URL) 440 Technic Axles many sizes (URL) 55 Technic plates (URL) 4 White wheels, puffy tires (URL) Adventurers Zeppelin airship (URL) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Brad - TLC needs to minimize packaging
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Let me add my voice to this chorus. Small is beautiful -- particularly when it comes to cardboard boxes. Consider too, that smaller boxes would allow a toy store to stock more LEGO sets, providing more retail throughput in the same amount of space. (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Useless parts?
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(...) Oooh, Yeah! Way Cool! (forgive the preppy talk, this just sounds "totally rad" ;-) -Shiri (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Any suggestions on a homepage?
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(...) Don't worry, I won't tell anybody ;-) (...) I used NoteTab for a while. I actually liked it, but it stopped working. I liked the fact that you didn't HAVE to know the language, but if you did, you could use it for more complex stuff. Since I (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Cowboy hat - not a Town Jr. thing!
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Frank Buiting wrote in message ... (...) from (...) you think the hats were easy to find - that set is a really tough set to find. I am glad they brought back the cowboy hat. In Idea Book 250, there are some Cowboy hats and other weird pieces that (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: New policy for LS@h
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(...) How is TLC responsible for Canadian taxes? I think this is something you should take up with your federal and provicial governments. -- David Schilling (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Most recent animal list
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(...) 3117, a scala flashy pool set. See here: (URL) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Most recent animal list
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(...) Thanks for the list. I've noted some difference, including adding s'more animals. (...) Not discountinued, appears in 7161 Gungan sub. (...) Not discountinued, appears in 7161. (...) More animals follow. I haven't put extremely full details (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | RE: My Toys R Us Nightmare
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(...) I believe it was closer to 190 degrees. Doug (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | New policy for LS@h
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Hello, I'm very desappointed about the fact that TLC has decided to close the warehouse in Ontario, Canada. Now when I want to buy from LS@H, I have to pay the US$ price + 15%HST (harmonized sales tax)! At least, before our prices were lower than in (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare
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What about people without ID? (like kids) -- Paul Davidson Mike Walsh <mike_walsh@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:FoCq40.JFK@lugnet.com... (...) receipt, (...) the (...) returns (...) to (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Scoop what?
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(...) Neat. IS there such a piece? I thought that there were only round 1x1 *plates*. and the only round tile was the 2x2. Can't comment on scoopability but these are used a LOT by GMLTC for stuff like "spilled coal", "dirt clods", "animal waste" (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.technic)
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