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| Hi, I was sorting some old bricks and plates and was amazed to find so much Pat Pend Parts (3P). I've found mainly 2x4 and 2x3 bricks because they are easy to distinguish (they don't have ribs). I've found also some 2x2 and 2x8 bricks and (...) (20 years ago, 15-Mar-05, to lugnet.parts)
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| | Parrot from Bricks
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| I remember a LEGO Parrot model from one of my sons' old Brick Kicks magazines, but now I cannot locate it. Alas my storage consists of a file folder. The kids closets have been given over to camping equipment for scouts, and Mom is forced to admit (...) (26 years ago, 7-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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| | Thousands of elements auction
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| Greetings: This is a sort-of midstream combination of my second Lego brick auction and a bunch of other elements that I was trying to figure out how to auction. I have taken the bricks from the auction and put them along with some other bricks into (...) (26 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Special Boxes
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| (...) It had originated when a newbie had posted binary files. (I do not use newbie in a derogatory sense, as I am technically still one myself!) There were the usual related flames, and then someone, as an aside comment about the flames mentioned (...) (26 years ago, 30-Sep-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Thousands of elements auction
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| Greetings: This is an update for an auction of thousands of bricks and other elements. This announcement and auction updates will go to rec.toys.lego and lugnet.market.auction in addition to the bidders via email. I am offering the elements listed (...) (26 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Free (empty) silver buckets!
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| (...) Silver are smaller than the old red ones? I would be interested, btw, in some of your silver ones (just not all 20 :) ) I can use a very few that size just the tubs are more convenient. I understand though. Tubs are more expensive, per piece, (...) (26 years ago, 7-Oct-98, to lugnet.loc.us.wa.sea)
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| | Q:Window and door terminology
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| As a fairly new LEGO maniac, I am wondering what the proper terminology is for windows and doors. I understand standard bricks, i.e 2x4x1 (If just 2x4, the third value is understood) but I am unsure as to door and window descriptions. It looks like (...) (26 years ago, 5-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LUGNET logo
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| Todd Lehman wrote (...) The "impossible triangle" has been my favorite shape/design since the first time I saw it - an old OMNI magazine cover I think. Great to see my favorite shape used as the symbol for what will probably be my primary Internet (...) (26 years ago, 7-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | SSS - Steve's Sealed Sets Auction
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| If you haven't already heard, my fourth auction is underway, and I've got my web-site (URL) running smoothly. (For now it's just one page with the current standings, and links back here to the photos of each set. I plan to add more though.) There's (...) (26 years ago, 7-Oct-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | SSS - Steve's Sealed Sets Auction
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| Well I guess I get to be the first one to announce an auction. 8-) If you haven't already heard, my fourth auction is underway, and I've got my web-site (URL) running smoothly. (For now it's just one page with the current standings, and links back (...) (26 years ago, 7-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Old style 2X4 bricks
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| When did the newer style of 2X4 brick (with the "ridges" on the inside) first appear? I just bought a bag of Lego which contained a number of these and wondered how old they might be. -John Van (26 years ago, 3-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Thousands of elements auction - update
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| Greetings: This is an update for an auction of thousands of bricks and other elements. This announcement and auction updates will go to rec.toys.lego and lugnet.market.auction in addition to the bidders via email. I am offering the elements listed (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: SW sets you'd most like to see
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| (...) Even if the sets don't quite live up to our expectations, we'll at least get some great new minifigs, new elements, and old elements in new colors. I'm excited about what this will mean for my own creations. BTW, I'm a big fan of the Lego (...) (26 years ago, 8-Oct-98, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: my storage methods.....
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| Wow, I never would have thought there would be anything like this on the internet. Speaking of storage for the anal retentive, I have set up my own private building area in the study of my townhouse. I set up a system of about 10 chest of clear (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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| | what's this piece???
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| as formerly mentioned, i recently got set #375 (1960s Samsonite brick set) at a yard sale for $1. not too special -- it's just a "universal" style set -- but it has a lot of clear bricks and old-style windows and doors and wheels and whatnot, which (...) (26 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: New vs. old (was Re: More 1999 Figs... ?)
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| (...) I don't see much in Insectoids. The main reason is that they have so many specialized pieces. If they built the same shapes with the pieces they had five years ago, I would be all for them. Lego can't really go anywhere with Ninja, what other (...) (26 years ago, 25-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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old, bricks
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| | Thousands of Elements Auction - update
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| Greetings: This is an update for an auction of thousands of bricks and other elements. The auction is thus titled "Thousands of Elements Auction." This announcement and auction updates will go to rec.toys.lego and lugnet.market.auction in addition (...) (26 years ago, 9-Nov-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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