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| (...) Besides what others have said, the Belville castle wall piece is a rounded half-circle. It looks like new piece in castle 2000 is half-octagonal. (...) Don't they? Great detail for most any kind of building. Steve (25 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Meccano Vs. Erector (WAS:Top Ten Toys on A&E)
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| (...) TRU the (...) does to (...) Comments you ask? O.K. I do have a few. :) A not-so brief commentary on the Meccano vs. Erector Question Well, I figured that I'd better get some more facts, so I called my dad tonight. :) He somewhat disagreed (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| It seems like most people don't like the new half-octagon tower wall pieces. Well, I like them, so I guess I'll be buying them from some of you :) I also like the new tan(?) lion's head sculpted elements. They'll be great for adding some detail to (...) (25 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) I particularly like the shoulder shaping, though it's missing an important DOF (degree of freedom). The sheathing of an internal skeleton adds an interesting new dimension to models, makes the building process more realistic and adds to the (...) (23 years ago, 26-Nov-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: Does 5808 The Fairy Castle, qualify as castle
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| (...) well it might depend on what sort of castle your are building, but if it was a chateau style as opposed to a middle ages grey, defensive fortress style, then I could see using some of the elements like the pillars, the green base for a formal (...) (25 years ago, 7-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Different Idea over CastleDastville
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| (...) Regarding the unifficial parts can people who have them please send them to me? I am going to make a package containing all the unofficial castle parts I have and any I get sent so that everybody is using the same version (if there is more (...) (25 years ago, 7-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) That's a nice little gondola. It looks like those parts come from the Scala set 3110 Four Animal Friends (which comes with one of them and costs USD 7.00 from S@H). No if only there would be a matching wall section so that one could make a (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| It sounds like you want a maze that you can build on any given floor, such that the floor itself forms the floor of the maze and all you actually supply is the walls. I would suggest buying some 2x4s (as we call them in the U.S.) -- the type of wood (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | My thoughts on the new Castle line
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| General Comments (mostly negative): 1. The Maiden appears to come only in the largest set (6091) - arghh! 2. Visored helmets are back!! 3. Why did they do the tower peaks in blue again - I'd kill for those in red!! 4. Stained glass decal - there is (...) (25 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) My university competes in a maze robot competition, and the maze construction they use seems pretty decent. Start with a flat piece of wood of whatever size you need, with holes drilled on a grid. The holes should snugly accept dowels, each (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Hapless WinNT user
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| That's me, trying to use legOS 0.2.2 on WinNT with CygWin. I'm using the same tools that worked for me for legOS 0.1.7. Make complains when it tries to build dll, specifically when it tries to compile loader.c. I get a bunch of redefined symbols and (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Pieces that have returned!
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| Here is a brief list of parts that we haven't seen in a while, at least since 1997. I'm sure a made some mistakes, feel free to add to the list. 1x4x2 Spindle fences in black (pg 20) 1x5x6 Castle Wall Sections (pg 17) 2x2x3 Extreme Corner Slopes (pg (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 2000 Scans are Online!
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| (...) Yaaaaaaaay!!!...!!! Cherry Picker Buckets!!! Finally! Quick thoughts, I'll add more tomorrow afternoon. The Soccer sets look good, and I can add my World Cup sets to 'em. I love the AAT, and check out all the brown on the MTT. And the MTT (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 2000 Scans are Online!
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| I know one thing I'm buying a lot of!!! The elevated road plates #6600.That set is pretty neat by itself. Not much of a selection for town this year is there? (The elevated road plates, I think is the best idea TLG has had in a long time.) and I'm (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) If you mean the tower elements from 5808 (which is Scala, not Belville) shown here: (URL) then no, they aren't. The Scala piece is much larger - something like 6x6x12 (probably wrong - I haven't actually measured it), whereas the new castle (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | More castle 2000 set comments
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| OK, with all the posts nitpicking the new sets, I though I'd add my .02 cents (making it like $3 laying around now... :) ). 6095: Cool looking training dummy. A king and some kind of boring throne (some nice pieces in it), two knights. Arms totals: (...) (25 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: More castle 2000 set comments
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| (...) Ok, I'll see your $0.02, and call! 4806 - (Bull) Mini Siege wagon nothing too exciting, rather small, only 1 fig... But worth it if it's cheap 6026 - (RK2) Mini-tower w/king & soldier Depending on cost, this might be worth it... Also depends (...) (25 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: 2000 Scans are Online!
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| I too had hoped she'd be in a cheaper set so I could get a bunch of her :( Only thing I'm not happy with... they're still using those awful Iguana helmets :( and putting islander bones in them :( THOUGH... the 6009 visor helmet is back!!! I noticed (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Better sets for adults
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| (...) One of the old regular-posters on rec.toys.lego found a factory that would produce similar-to-LEGO bricks (but not similar enough to infringe on patents) in massive quantities. We were planning on making a number of bulk purchases, but then I (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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