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| Alas, someone beat me to the BIG LEGO idea.. Behold - the totally cool (URL) RP moonbuggy> Stratasys showed at SIGGRAPH this year, handled by L-PRIZE's own (URL) Tim Courtney>. Made of ABS, with some removable parts and rotating wheels. FYI, the (...) (20 years ago, 28-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
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| (...) Aside from an a box of as-yet unidentified elements from pre-1980 that were found at yard sales, I have the following anecdote to share. I think I might have written this story a while back (like so long ago it was probably on rtl before there (...) (22 years ago, 22-Oct-02, to lugnet.general)
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| Greetings, fellow non-Conformists ;) I'm not a frequent lurker of this particular forum, so perhaps my observations are old news, but I thought I'd share them anyway. I've purchased clone bricks over time, first for cost reasons, but also I have (...) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| (...) I did something like that myself, a couple of years ago there was a yellow giraf in a commutetrain advertisement for Legoland - almost the same size the width and length of set 8860 (which is where I keep them in storage ;) I waited till (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-02, to lugnet.general)
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| It is very tall from behind. Initially that side was going up against a wall, so it wasn't going to matter as much. Transporting SCLTC layouts is getting easier. We have built crates that hold fully populated 30 inch wide tables. The crates have (...) (22 years ago, 28-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc)
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| Having acquired and built the new Harry Potter sets, here's a brief review of them. For each one, I give the prices I paid about a week ago through local retailers with the S@H price shown for comparison. The price per piece (based on S@H prices) is (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter)
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| Hi, folks, I'm on a quest for empty blue tubs of the kind used to package set #3033. I have a bunch of these already, and the perfect shelf to store boxes of this dimension. Our family's Lego collection has expanded, so I need more empty boxes. Set (...) (20 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Hi, Here is a link to my homepage, where you can find couple of pictures of my Lego cross. (URL) for history of these crosses - It’s thought that these Lego Crosses were made for the Christian group "Indre Mission" back in the 50’s. There is a (...) (22 years ago, 28-Oct-02, to lugnet.general)
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| Hey folks, First off, I want to thank everyone for helping or offering to help: attending ECRG (Derek), supplying demo robots (Derek and Dave), just offering support (Dan O'Connell) etc. ECRG, the Eastern Canadian Robot Games was a well attended (...) (22 years ago, 29-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) Thanks! I was planning to use the helmets for a while, and really happy when I found both the helmets and visor in black! (...) In progress... (URL) does fit in the ship at this time, but I have to figure the wall behind the organ. I got an (...) (22 years ago, 4-Nov-02, to lugnet.aquazone)
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| Tobbe! I figure I need each leg to preform two functions, Side to side swing and lift. So each leg will have two drive trains, for a total of 12 drive systems. Each drive train may require more than one motor. So a minimum of 12 more motors are (...) (22 years ago, 2-Nov-02, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) When you separated the wall from the dike, did you peel the baseplates off of the bottom of the Tycos? The reason I ask that is that the problem might not be one of fit, but one of slight differences in size. If you put a single row of (...) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| Comments. . . (...) There's a problem here, in that there are (at least) two standards for what constitutes believable design. TLC has traditionally made many concessions to playability and cost---for example, rooms and buildings with only three (...) (22 years ago, 3-Nov-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: not *that* odd (was Re: how very odd)
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| richard marchetti" <blueofnoon@aol.com> wrote in message news:H52Hr6.tJ@lugnet.com... (...) in (...) Knight's (...) you (...) True, but hateful though it is it serves a purpose that cannot be done without modified bricks. You can't get a portcullis (...) (22 years ago, 4-Nov-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle)
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| (...) My honest opinion is that these are bad examples. These are all Star Wars parts and almost had to have been made because of the license (I know Lando and Mace should be done as well but that is another issue entirely). As for you examples I (...) (22 years ago, 4-Nov-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle)
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| Lego always makes new parts. They have to balance the cost of creating a new part with the eventual use of that part. In normal production sets, new parts can be used often, and the creation costs recovered. The Star Wars line has lots of new parts (...) (22 years ago, 4-Nov-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle)
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