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| Guys, Everyone seems to be missing one point: The RCX does have ROM code (this is what loads the firmware the first time, right?). If you were to "jam up" the firmware, you could just simply remove the batteries, let the firmware (which must be in (...) (26 years ago, 25-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Konnichi wa!
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| Hi there! Long-time LEGO lover, first time poster. Name's Fred (duh); I live in Sedro-Woolley, WA, which is pretty darn close to the middle of nowhere. I'm staying with my folks, but I'm employed and working towards getting my own place, so I can (...) (26 years ago, 27-Nov-98, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Old Lego Space set - identify?
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| Mike Stanley wrote in message ... (...) Actually, it's a gem if you ask me. One of the first space sets and all. Solid and stuffed with bricks. Very happy to have one. Never mind, though. Eric (26 years ago, 14-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Old Lego Space set - identify?
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| (...) Well, a couple of people let me know I ought to consider going to get it and even though I figured I wouldn't want it I guessed someone would so I sent my coworker after it. Almost wish I hadn't, though. $40 became $45+tax, so I'm out about (...) (26 years ago, 14-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Help...what piece or pieces?
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| I'm sorry. LEGO '98 bricks are not backwards compatible with your old outdated plates. We suggest you upgrade to DirectBrick7.0 technology and reinstall. Isn't it comforting to fall asleep at night knowing there are idiots ruining the company? The (...) (26 years ago, 22-Dec-98, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Lego Design Contest?
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| (...) S'cuze me, but try reading what I really said, rather than what you have read into it. I did NOT say that a good model has to have a lot of bricks; in fact, my favorite self-designed model is a spiral staircase, consisting of 2x6 plates, 1x2 (...) (26 years ago, 4-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Lugnet Train Newbie
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| Hello, Just wanted to introduce myself. My name is Bryan Kinkel. I'm 28 and collected Lego's all through my childhood. My favorites during that period were the early Space and Town series. But what really made me excited were the Castle and Train (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Where do the old models go when they die?
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| Tom McDonald wrote in message ... (...) that (...) the (...) the (...) Hmm..Let's look at this way..Every set has "souls"...So just grabbing some sort of pieces randomly and stucking them each other would not be resulted in a "set". Bricks are the (...) (26 years ago, 22-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Most common brick
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| I remember back in the old days (the 70's) my brother and I sorted all of our pieces (~3000), all from regular sets. The winner was 1x2 red bricks. Now my piece count is heavially biased by brick buckets so I'm sure the contents of those buckets (...) (26 years ago, 27-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Lego Find!
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| I just got my hands on a box of old Lego, looks like mostly late 70's, early 80's stuff. (Gotta love relatives with grown-up kids) There was a bunch of stuff I'm planning to use, and a few things that I'm just not interested in, but thought that (...) (26 years ago, 27-Dec-98, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Help With Set Identification
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| A friend of mine came across his old Lego set while cleaning out his parents house. I have been trying to help him identify the set, but with very little luck. As he recalls, it was the biggest Lego set in the Sears Wishbook. This was about 1968. (...) (22 years ago, 1-Oct-02, to lugnet.general)
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| | Thoughts on 1999 Train Sets
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| Here's my opinion on the new sets (in descending order) 1. 4519 Cross track. Very cool. Really the only 99 set that is in the same league as the original 1991 train sets. A Must Buy 2. 4557 Container Crane. Nice set, with almost no Town Jr (...) (26 years ago, 4-Jan-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Mystery lighthouse model
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| About 2 years ago now when I first got on line, I saw instructions from someone for a lighthouse MOC. I remember that it was big, red and white and slightly connical though made with mostly 2X bricks. I don't have the URL anywhere. You might try (...) (26 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Mystery lighthouse model
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| On a flee market in the Netherlands I bought a huge model of a Lightouse. It was definitely no official LEGO model; my question is whether it was made by a hobbyist or by LEGO as a window display. It's a cylindrical structure, about 40 cm high, 20 (...) (26 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | First Night Lego Buildathon!
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| Howdy All, Renee from First Night called me about two months ago. She invited me and my wacky team of staff to participate at Boise's FIRST NIGHT celebration...the family oriented version of New Year's Eve. "What a great way to ring in 1999" I (...) (26 years ago, 4-Jan-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: Official and Unofficial theme categories
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| OK, so here's my whole spiel on themes... This is a medium-term planning thing (1-3 months) and a background task while other stuff goes on. I don't expect we'll have the new theme tree completely worked out before the end of January or Februrary. (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Re: What's the worst Lego-related thing you've ever done?
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| (...) I gavethis guy in my Lego club a whole tub of old bricks to go through, and I told him they were Lego, but they were really clones that I had stamped "Lego" onto using a special tool I created that stamps the Lego logo one stud at a time. Boy (...) (19 years ago, 21-Nov-05, to lugnet.general)
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