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I have a brand-new in-the-box Space Shuttle 8480 that I'd like to trade. I'm looking for a 8485 Control Center II set. New or used ...will negotiate. Any takers? I live in the San Fransisco Bay Area. Thanks, Phil Watt wattsup1@earthlink.net (25 years ago, 22-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Idea for Bulk Ordering ANY current Lego piece
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[moving to l.market.theory] Do they move unsold sets in that direction ? With the various oddball sets that show up at S@H and other vendors (ZB.com ?), I always thought it was the unsold euorpean sets being sent to the US. The back of the S@H (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Technic box #1 update
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Thanks Martin. I just sent my address by email. Please let me know if you don't receive it. Thanks, -Phil Watt wattsup1@earthlink.net (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: 8480 Space Shuttle have hit $56.25 or less!
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Not everyone has a ZB store nearby. I don't believe that there any ZBs south of Atlanta. For me, that would be at least 300+ miles each way. Ray (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Idea for Bulk Ordering ANY current Lego piece
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Of course there is always the obvious, that TLG might decide to break slow moving sets from the previous year or two and sell those pieces individually instead of their current practice of reshipping unsold sets back to Europe for markdown in that (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | New mod to double decker passenger train
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I sure am glad every else keeps posting interesting items to this trains group. I've been pretty uninpired lately. Thanks for keeping the reading good. I've just got a modification to my model of a German red double decker passenger train car and (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New MOC's on my websites
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The round table came from the smaller Hovertron set in the Explorians line, I bought a bunch of them just for the round "Table" in them :) and the "arches" in the stream are the rounded 2x3 bricks, I got a bunch of them in one of the Freestyle Poly (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Non-textured slopes.
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Last night I confirmed something I had long suspected; some of the non- textured slope pieces that TLG is packaging with current and 1999 sets were fabricated using moulds from Tyco. Last night I was building a 4950 Loader- Dozer, and came upon two (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Next BayLUG Meeting / First BayLTC Meeting
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I am somewhat confused now. Here is my current understanding: Sunday, May 12th from 1-5 pm we have a booking in the Fukaya room in Fremont. Is this correct? If so, I would like to make that the first meeting for the BayLTC, if there are no (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.org.us.baylug)
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| | Re: dragster : tempi
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(...) Tanto ci stiamo lo stesso alzati per fregarti :-) (...) Non barare eh! Le tue "alcaline" le voglio controllare molto da vicino... Ciao Mario (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Mercatino su ItLUG
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Ho aggiunto la pagina (di prova) relativa al mercatino. Apprezzo suggerimenti, commenti e critiche (queste ultime un po' meno :-) ) Ciao Mario (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: 4x2ReVu: B-wing (slightly off topic)
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(...) I'm not sure the Mon Calamari were internal to the Empire, were they? At the very least, none of them served the Emperor, and that explains why they suddenly "appeared" among the Alliance ships. I could be wrong, however. best, Lindsay (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Yellow Bird?
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(...) Can't help you there, but I believe it was in an old Fabuland set (the cage did, at least). Maybe some who has that set can help. (...) The extra red bows from the Belville Sprue (one is used to hold the wings on the fairy). (...) Magenta (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.belville)
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| | Stone Tower Bridge FOUND
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Hi all, I've sent out an email but with no reply--but somewhere, someone was pining for a Stone Tower Bridge for under $30 (in one of these two fora). If it was you, please contact me immediately and let me know where the message was, so I can (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | RE: Technic Wheel/Tyre Question
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The outer diameter of the tyre 49.6 x 28 VR is 49.6 mm. In general, the first number is the diameter in millimeters, and the second number is the width of the tyre in millimeters. The wheel (or hub) has 3 different diameters depending on where you (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: review: Set 7134: Rebel A-Wing wih mechanic
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(...) Kevin: I'm honored that you chose my review to modify. I agree with your review of the A-Wing. You know, I really don't expect too much accuracy from Lego regarding SW model design any longer. IMO, the only ship that was done accurately was (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Idea for Bulk Ordering ANY current Lego piece
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Timothy D. Freshly writes: Cool idea! (...) This might not be a problem if TLC allow bulk ordering to take up to 3% of piece A, and 5% of piece B etc. So however they distribute the excess is up to them? I don't think we'd make (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: 8480 Space Shuttle have hit $56.25 or less!
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(...) Well, I'm going to try tonight--I know where a few are, and I know where the big discount is. Has anyone had recent luck with the shuttles (in the last 24 hours)? best, Lindsay (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Can we have a Newsgroup for KIDLUG?
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(...) First, one question and one request: 1) What exactly does KIDLUG stand for? a) Kid (singular non-possessive) LEGO Users Group b) Kids (plural non-possessive) LEGO Users Group c) Kid's (singular possessive) LEGO Users Group d) Kids' (plural (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.org)
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| | Yellow Bird?
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I was wondering if some hlpful soul out there could help me in finding a good picture of the yellow bird that comes with #5808? Also in #5823, what's in the drawer? One last thing, in #5824, what's in the blue bag? Thanks very much, <<KM>> (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.belville)
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| | Re: The Challenge (was Re: Train Control)
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Mike Poindexter <lego@poindexter.cc> wrote in message news:FopEn1.Kp7@lugnet.com... (...) tell... (...) Heheh.. I already read the group (I'm interested in trains obviously, I just haven't got any yet). Half the reason I *would* get into lego (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | version 1.5
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Aloha I recently purchased and installed the Mindstorms RIS purchased direct from Lego. It is version 1.5. I was surprised to see no external power connector on the brick. It is interesting that the software CD supplied comes with a spot already (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | FA(Ebay) 6302 NEW!, 6655,6347 NEW!, 6361WBox + More
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Hello to all! I currently have a few auctions running on e-bay. The auctions end around 11:00 pm - 12:00 am tonight Friday 1/21. If you are interested please go to e-bay and type in "6302" under lego as the key word. This should allow you to view (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Using an RCX
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(...) You should post a few pictures of your clock mechanism. I would really like to see how you incorporated the RCX with the pendulum in your design. This idea seems more practical for a long term running clock then having to wind up weights every (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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| | "Face" Packs
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One of the things that I would like to see is a "face" pack. Taking a couple face types and putting different expressions on them (Happy, sad, laughing, crying, surprise, anger, etc.) I think they would be easy to make (yellow bricks and some ink) (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: PRICE GAP????
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The Wal-Mart in my area I think has the set at full price. -J.W.Hummer www.geocities.com/spincity999 (...) much (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Cauldron Born Battle Mech - (Ultra Modified)
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There were only a few pieces that were not from the Star Wars sets. Most of the parts were from X-wing, Y-wing/Tie Fighter, Snow Speeder, Sith Infiltrator, You can download the .DAT files from (URL) only modification I need to make is to the (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Robotic Programming
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We use robots at work and this URL is in our database. They have a free demo version that some may find useful. It is a windows based robot programming program. The full version is not that expensive either. (URL) A. Donaldson (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Nosepiece
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Does anyone have an extra nosepiece for the excavator from #6473 that I could beg, borrow, buy, or steal ? I finally noticed that it is the same piece (in black) as the nose piece to the #4559 Cargo Train... (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Train Control
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(...) Matt, how about setting the max. voltage of the decoder to 9V? I know some of the digitrax decoders (and the Lenz/Marklin) ones you can do this. James P (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: MF Figure list
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Nice offering with the MF, but I agree: where are the freakin' Storm Troopers!? :) -sW Eric Kingsley <kingsley@nelug.org> wrote in message news:FooxrA.JoM@lugnet.com... (...) list of (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: NELUG 01/10/2000 is up
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(...) Agreed - I think I recognise some of the faces *fear*, but I'm curious about some of them! Although, even just doing a left-to-right of selected pictures would satiate that curiousity: (3 URLs) :) Richard (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: PRICE GAP????
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Those our the prices at Shop-at-Home. At the stores there 79.99 and 59.99. I bet in the summer Highway Construction will be like 50.00 at maybe Wal-mart (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: newbie question
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Speaking of this, does anyone know whether the Star Wars sets will follow the new 2 year cycle or the old 3 year cycle? Or has Lucas negotiated something else. It would be a shame if the first five sets (especially the X-Wing and Snowspeeder) went (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Handyboard C library for m6811 gcc port
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Curt Mills, WE7U writes: > I was going to get to modifying it for Stephane's port, but haven't > gotten around to it. Thanks! I knew about this library, but I was hoping to prod some other porters to the surface with my comment. I guess I'll be (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Idea for Bulk Ordering ANY current Lego piece
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Dear Brad: As you can see, one of the AFOLs primary concerns is the ability to bulk order a wide variety of pieces in vastly different quantities. Wouldn't it be great if an AFOL could order ANY piece currently in production in ANY quantity (at (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Ldlite for OpenGL and Linux (and uppercase filenames)
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(...) No, but infozipped is. Actually, InfoZip (executables are called zip and unzip) is pkzip compatable, and freely available on Unix, Win32, Mac, VMS, DOS, etc. It can zip / unzip through pipes, and has support for multi-volume or split archives. (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Update: Which Set Should I Buy FAQ
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(...) fyi- NQC already supports CyberMaster, and support for Scout is in beta test. Dave Baum (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | More pics' on my site
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Page three is finally active and the "Saga" of the rescue begins.....does the stranded team get rescued, or do they become polar bear pops?????? Thanks for all the input on the first page I posted, and the next project will be to build the base (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | PRICE GAP????
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Does anyone else think there is a major price gap on the new 6600 Highway Construction set? $88.00 & all you get is 3 trucks a crain & some road. Now look at the 6575 Polar Base its $66.00 & you get 2 buildings 1 truck 1 chopper 1 snowmobile & it (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.town)
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