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LOL. That is exactly what I bought (except I got $72 worth of power packs). Can't pass up a good LEGO deal... --Ron "David C. Pyatt" <dcpyatt@netzero.net> wrote in message news:FoGs8w.BMp@lugnet.com... (...) and a (...) full (...) this (...) Packs (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: LEGO box
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(...) If the box has reasonably strong walls (eg, a big set like 8880 or 6982) I often cut off the flip-top and use the box for sorting/storage. The smaller trays from medium size boxes are also good for storage. --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.storage, lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Danger Do Not Read - May Shock (was: Which is the "best" Technic model?)
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AAAAAARRRRHHHHH!!! I guess you warned us. Michael (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Scott Sanburn's MISB sets on E-Bay: Update 3
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To All, I have posted several sets MISB on E-Bay to support my ever growing collection. Most auctions are still at reasonable prices, and these are some really good sets. The Shell sets are only at 63.00, which is a good price for those sets. Sets (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: LEGO box
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(...) I don't think there's a reason to. The boxes are useless. The LEGO parts are what are useful. I don't know why so many people keep useless LEGO boxes; they're good for keeping the parts in place at the store, but once buy it, the box has (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.storage, lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains)
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| | eBay: A variety of lots listed today...
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Here's what I currently have going on Ebay: 60 New Lego 1x6 Yellow Tiles wood pattern 20 New Brown Lego Corral Style Fences 8 New Lego 1x6 Trans Blue Windshields 8 New Lego 13 Rung Lt Gray (Grey) Ladders 110 New Dark Grey Lego4x2 slopes w/44 corners (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Do I want a micromotor?
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(...) I've used it to controll a geerbox and a check differential (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Controlling pneumatics
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This is NOT the pneumatics robot kit which contains the valves but it does have a compressor. You will be really disappointed if you order that kit expecting to find the valves. The pneumatic robots kit is an extension of the mobile robots kit. (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Droids (8000, 8001, 8002)
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I just got the three droids in the mail on Thursday (Let's hear it for Shop at Home!) and all I can say is, "Wow!" Lego did a spectacular job on these three sets. The Pit Droid, though simple, is just neat. The Battle Droid can best be described as (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | WTB: Quarter-dome UFO Hulls, No Print
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Hey I'm looking for two Quarter-Dome UFO Hull with no prints, found in the 6979 Interstellar Starfighter. I'm willing to pay $10 for it, but if you have a wishlist, let me know and I'll be sure to look for your things. Thanks! -- pn (URL) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Houston Area Lego Group:
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(...) Mine just has two bookcases, a futon couch and end table, a couple of beanbag chairs, a small TV table, and several large, full Target bags. Oh, plus the train and the box of pieces that I'm currently sorting. I spent all of my free time this (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.us.tx.hou)
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| | Re: Adult lego sets.
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(...) I sure would like to know, but it doesn't seem to matter to much as of right now. Besides, i have to use my existing collection first, anyway. And when i am done, maybe I can look to the new LEGO direct, or whatever! Scott S. (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Useless parts?
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(...) piece...look (...) Tell me where there are pictures of your theater, and I'll look at it. :) This reminds me of another way to look at odd or 'useless' pieces: sometimes, using a a whole pile of identical pieces together gives an unexpected (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: trade value of an RCX?
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I think that would be a little much, I like the idea... though a little much, considering they cost over 100.00 from S@H even at half that because of the clearance sales, that's a lot to put into a box. Of course all the other clearance sales could (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: Question about 6332
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(...) Pre printed. Ugh! Scott S. ___...___ Scott E. Sanburn-> ssanburn@cleanweb.net Systems Administrator/CAD Operator-Affiliated Engineers -> (URL) Page -> (URL) Page -> (URL) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.town)
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| | Sending RCX message using the PC
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Hi, I've seen in Dan Baum's book that the PC can be used to send messages (as if it was itself a RCX) to other RCX. Does anyone knows the procedure? Please send details so that I can myself program this. If you have code lines, that's even better (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Adult lego sets.
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(...) Yep - besides which, the reason I posed the question in this newsgroup, was to see if TLC wanted to supply us with a reason for the whole juniorisation movement. Not that they need to defend themselves in any way, of course.. but the question (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Looking for 3225 Classic Train
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I posted this to .trains yesterday, but forgot to cross post to .market.shopping. Sorry. On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Tony Priestman (<wSIT$MAIWgg4Ewf0@you- rang.demon.co.uk>) wrote at 17:53:12 (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: MOC: Aquaraider Wavechopper
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(...) Very nice indeed! (...) I know Jeff a little from NELUG and if you are talking about "Jeff - The non-minifig version" I can tell you that is his hair. Totaly unmodified :). As for "Jeff - The minifig version" that would be Qui-Gon Ginn's hair (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: 34° iscritto ItLUG: Francesco Ferrara
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Mario Ferrari ha scritto: (...) Oddio, mi si è fermato il cuore per 5 secondi !!! Gulp... Ciao Giulio (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: Mindstorm firmware C compiler for W95 platform ready for download.
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(...) This seems very interesting! But I fear that having two different C development environments will split the development efforts... As a developer I wouldn't want to have to write my code for two platforms, so it would be nice to have some (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Will's Small Castle Auction - Update 8
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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, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: MOC: Aquaraider Wavechopper
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[FUT lugnet.build, since I'm really not commenting much on the Aqua part of the message] (...) (URL) , since your .sig is properly formatted and my newsreader works correctly. ;-) (...) Cool little MOC. I like the second picture best, where it (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.aquazone)
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| | Re: Useless parts?
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(...) Since this "face" is what I'd label as "Ugly [Androgynous]" (as opposed to "Ugly Female" or "Ugly Male"), I've been using this "smiley" for some of my Pirates (pirate men). Franklin (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Destroyer Droid Found!
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I live in NJ and TRU had them in stock on Saturday. PA TRU stores get shipments from the same distribution location as NJ, so they should have them by now. I noticed that they did put them in an unusual section. All the TRU in our area have been (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Adult lego sets.
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(...) adults (...) of (...) Hmm. That's not what I was thinking, but it sounds cool to me! :) I was thinking more about repeated sections (once the instructions show how to build the first floor, and floors 2 through 10 are duplicates of 1, don't (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: John E. Doolittle
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Mr L F Braun wrote a truly epic story. It needs a bit of a beginning. How about..... So, at the height of their (John E. and Aurora's) success, while Waite is broken and penniless having blown his not inconsiderable fortune in vain (and often comic) (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: Destroyer Droid - Help w/ unrolling
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(...) I posted a fix earlier. If the grey pin pops out even a little, the head will have trouble. The grey pin passes through a technic element that is always attached to the head. Wrap a small rubber band around this part. Now, there is also a (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Shoulder Pads
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(...) The shoulder pads appeared in these sets as well. Mix of black and dark gray pieces. Maybe gray, I couldn't tell from the pictures. Only one pads-piece per set. 2964 - Space Spider (anyone ever see this set after the initial spotting?) 2965 - (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: What set should I get next?
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(...) It would be perfect... £40 :( (...) Good! :) I'll check it out (...) Thxs Richard :) ___...___ Marco C. aka McViper (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Ldlite for OpenGL and Linux (and uppercase filenames)
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If anyone is interested, I've started a port of Ldlite to OPenGl and linux. So far I've only gotten the rendering part working, and only with a fixed viewpoint, but the images look pretty close to ldlite for windows. I suppose the next step is to (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Adult lego sets.
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(...) Crash Bandicoot, If I recall right. And I have to disagree with the video game thing, but alas, another debate.... Scott S. ___...___ Scott E. Sanburn-> ssanburn@cleanweb.net Systems Administrator/CAD Operator-Affiliated Engineers -> (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Minerva 1.5 robot model [DAT]
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Hi all, This is a redesign of the Minerva robot from _The Unofficial Guide to LEGO MINDSTORMS Robots_. It's been redesigned so it can be built with the pieces from RIS 1.5. Raytraced building instructions will be going online in the next week or so; (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Danger Do Not Read - May Shock (was: Which is the "best" Technic model?)
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(...) I got my boxed copy for UKP10 (~$16) in a local private sale. Scott A (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: LEGO box
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Ron Atkinson <rlanet@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:FoHFxo.It6@lugnet.com... (...) I thought "no" a year ago, now I'm trying to replace the boxes I've thrown away, to make it easier to store them, etc. Here's a clip of the post I've already sent (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.storage, lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 4x2ReVu: B-wing (slightly off topic)
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(...) you (...) Not really, Zahn also described turbolasers as a continuous stream instead of bolts. This is clearly overridden by the movies. Such errors are ommitted from the Encyclopedia/BTM CD. Zahn also described communications as sub-space (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Cowboy hat - not a Town Jr. thing!
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(...) Hmmm.. I never heard of the cowboy hat / town junior link. I think the original cowboy hat was from a black minifig car, with on minifig, in the early days of the minifig era. I know the exxon station (6375) had a black one, which was my first (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Help for hard to find sets
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(...) Time and time again I place FS postings on both LUGNet and RTL and get zero responses. I'll then put the same item on EBAY, only to have a LUGNet/RTL regular buy +20% over my FS price. MAD! In the UK we have a phase : "You can take a horse to (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.market.theory)
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| | LEGO box
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Is there any reason to keep Lego box? Ron (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.storage, lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Which is the "best" Technic model?
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Scott-A <s.arthur@hw.ac.uk> wrote in message news:3882FAE4.8013AF...w.ac.uk... (...) WHERE did you get this set from - I've been looking for one for ages, no luck. E-Bay prices seem to be a bit too high - is there anywhere else I could lay my hands (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic)
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