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| (...) . . . . (...) I wish to add my $0.02 worth also I think this story can be told by many Rafe, just change the names and ages and you have summed up my history with Lego Trains as well. (which has now made me a bit paranoid, is someone watching (...) (18 years ago, 6-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Trevor the steam traction engine
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| Now that the Thomas Weekend event at LEGOLAND CA is over, thought I'd start posting images of my engines and cars. First up is Trevor the steam traction engine from the Thomas and Friends railway series. It uses old style wheels. With almost the (...) (19 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX) !!
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| | Re: 10027 is now sold in blay.... :-(
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| (...) Hi Dustin, no - we asked for the changes and got the answer for the sets I quoted. Therefore I expected the 10020 and 10027 to remain in old SYSTEM gray. And I was shocked to find out I had to dump 75 Eur into the trashcan (or at least half of (...) (19 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.color)
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| | Pick a Brick - Potomac Mills, VA
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| I will be in the Potomac Mills area this weekend and I might be able to stop by the LEGO store there. How is the Pick-a-Brick selection there? In particular I'm looking for gray, dark gray and brown bricks (old or new colors) in 1x2, 1x3, 1x4, 1x6 (...) (19 years ago, 23-Mar-06, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Moonbase2: Electric Boogaloo
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| Thought I'd take another shot at moonbase design. There is no backstory, or purpose to the structure...just an excuse to use all those 1x2 trans green bricks again. Mocpages: with the standard disclaimer (URL) *warning: the word "elitist" is used in (...) (19 years ago, 26-Mar-06, to lugnet.space) !!
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| | Re: 4562 Revealed! (was Spring Cleaning...)
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| Peeron's inventory for this set is SO screwy, I can't trust it. It is listing 8x8 bricks, and teal 2x4s, that none of the 9 I've gotten have. It would be nice if the inventory ONLY listed the [standard] bricks from the set, as many people parting (...) (20 years ago, 4-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego)
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| | Re: New street
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| (...) I'd noticed that. It's very effective. Looks to me like you do the same thing with old brown with sprinklings of new brown too. If you look a misterzumbi's work ((URL) he throws in dark orange too sometimes. (...) Oh that sounds excellent. (...) (19 years ago, 20-Mar-06, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: CN engine WIP
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| (...) I would agree with everyone that the long hood is too short for the train, but at least in person, it feels proptionally too long compared to the Cab/nose. But from what I've been told, building it as a 6-axle SD would be much harder. So I (...) (19 years ago, 20-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 4562 Revealed! (was Spring Cleaning...)
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| (...) That would be me. (...) If you read the notes at the bottom, there is one small standard bag per box. I encountered two varieties. (...) That is the only difference I could find between the two small standard bags. Note that none of the (...) (20 years ago, 8-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego)
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| | Re: Redesigned models (looking back on 2005)
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| (...) snip (...) I used to make the japanese crystals out of wood. They look so good done with LEGO bricks! Nicely done! Dave K -who is now inspired to make a few of his old wooden puzzles out of LEGO bricks (19 years ago, 14-Mar-06, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | Re: Spring Cleaning Goodies
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| Snippage) (...) Snippage 2000 Quatro bricks? The tub would be huge! Please let that be a typo and its really regular LEGO. Please......... Mike (20 years ago, 29-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Re: 4562 Revealed! (was Spring Cleaning...)
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| (...) Over the past few days, I parted out and listed most of the variable parts from the bonus bags as found in my first collection of 4562 boxes (I'm still sorting the basic bricks). Today, I hit some different stores and bought some more of (...) (20 years ago, 4-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego)
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| | Spring Cleaning Goodies
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| Some of you (ok, all of you) may be familiar with the 4679 set, the bulk tub with the random 500 elements. Or its DUPLO brother, 4296. On the <www.bricksonthebrain.com/blog BIP Blog>, I've written up some description about where those "Spring (...) (20 years ago, 29-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego.announce, lugnet.lego, FTX) !
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| | Report: NBC10 Tech Expo
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| (URL) DelVaLUG's> first public exhibit, at the (URL) NBC10 Technology & Lifestyles Expo>, was a great success. The annual Expo (#4) is organized by a local TV station and features a wide variety of vendors, nonprofits and schools – Comcast, HP, (...) (20 years ago, 2-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.us.delvalug, lugnet.loc.us.nj, lugnet.loc.us.pa.phi, lugnet.org.us.gardenslug, lugnet.events, FTX)
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| | Re: 4562 Revealed! (was Spring Cleaning...)
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| (...) The one I just opened was similar to all of the pictures in this thread, but still at least 25% different than any of them. I didn't find anything unusual that hasn't been seen in other pictures from this thread though. I bought three tonight, (...) (20 years ago, 31-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Re: Spring Cleaning Goodies
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| (...) On the label there is the slogan: More Variety Better Versatility More Colors And there's two things that made that slogan jump out at me. 1) It seems to me as though somebody at LEGO finally got 'it'. The 'it' being the whole reason I buy (...) (20 years ago, 29-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Late 1980s Space auction
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| Hello there, I'm cleaning out my parents' house and selling off some of my old space-themed sets- Futuron, Space Police I, and M-Tron. All sets are in good condition, although they lack the boxes. Space Police 6886 and 6895: Galactic Peace Keeper (...) (20 years ago, 9-Aug-04, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Studless hopper design #2.
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| (URL) pics of my latest studless hopper design. A big improvement on the old design, although there is still a lot of oddities encountered trying to piece it together. This one feeds plates and therefore doesn't actually feed basketballs, the slope (...) (19 years ago, 3-Mar-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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