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| | Re: Small annoyance with seller
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| (...) Here is an excerpt of my first email to him: "I found some problems with my order -- mainly that some of the items were in unacceptable condition (i.e. NOT in the "great condition" as stated in your descriptions). To make things easy, I will (...) (23 years ago, 31-Oct-01, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: LEGO Company announces poor performance in year 2000
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| (...) Didn't LEGO address this in the 1980s? That is, I recall that at least one or two of the US medium catalogs from c.1985 [1] pitched "Basic" sets as a series of graduated steps: there were sets with the "finger puppets" and mostly blocks that (...) (24 years ago, 4-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Enter the Dragon... or a fun teaser part deux
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| (...) Uh oh... details time... [I love these, sorry to nitpick, but it just got me thinking] :) Just to be 'fairer' on length, avg. people are 5'6" (men/women/ethnicity/etc). Now, a way back in Medieval times, people weren't very healthy-- and (...) (24 years ago, 14-Apr-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Lugnet - the talk-back radio of the world of Lego?
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| (...) At one time Lego was messing up. They were losing money and for a private company, that is bad even if only for a couple of years. They tried to get back into the swing of things with Galidor and Bionicle. Bionicle was a hit and probably saved (...) (17 years ago, 15-Feb-08, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | LEGO name branding = Builder's Reverie
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| (...) I agree that TLC needs to accomplish this to remain competitive. How and why this will prove difficult is a big subject. Here's a short list of problems: 1. Quality control of the brick has dropped -- to be number one, the product itself must (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Saturday, Nov. 10, get-together in Ithaca
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| Hi. I'm cross-posting this from lugnet/org/us/lucny. There will be a get-together for central NY-ers this Saturday, Nov.10 at my place in Lucny. Details are below. I wouldn't mind an RSVP if you plan to attend. I've also posted my trade interests (...) (23 years ago, 9-Nov-01, to lugnet.loc.us.ny.syr)
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| | Re: MOC: RCKillough Mk III
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| (...) It's a five channel Sanwa in the 27 MHz band. Here in Sweden that's an open band and all radio controlled toy cars etc. use 27 MHz (but some go really crazy if I switch on my transmitter *evil grin*). My father gave it to me when regulations (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: new lego sets? are they crazy?
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| (...) At the prices LEGO charges for any sets, it is hard to imagine classifying any of them as loss-leaders. Generally this is a sales tool used by retail stores as 'bait' essentially to lure you in with an item being sold at or below cost. Usually (...) (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)
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| | End effector that can "feel"
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| Hey everyone. I have built a realistic grasping end effecter that can feel when something in is its grasp (without touch sensors). I have attached a deconstructed version that I use. (URL) principle is pretty simple. As the end effecter closes and (...) (17 years ago, 18-Jan-08, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: How about "Technic Tubs" ???...???
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| (...) I most emphatically did NOT suggest anything regarding a universal set. While I also have more than a few copies of both the 8277 and the sub - and paid an obscene amount for a some large vintage sets, this is NOT what I had in mind. I WANT, (...) (23 years ago, 14-Oct-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Markets and juniorization
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| (...) Not that they would spend much R&D money on such products, but I see your point now. (...) I guess I try to look at it with both my kid brain and my adult brain. Neither one likes it at all. :) (...) We're not their target market for only one (...) (23 years ago, 7-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Saving the Xtian Church From Itself
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| (...) Yeah, I wouldn't be too sure about that either. The Dead Sea Scrolls supposedly have lengthy sexual passages like one where Noah speaks lyrically in the first person about the beauty of his wife Sarah's breasts. To me, nothing could be more (...) (21 years ago, 8-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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