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| Hiya I don't know if this is old news to everyone here but I only just found it... Hope Education in Oldham are having a sale which includes several Lego products. I found their website as a link from the Lego Dacta website (www.lego.com/dacta) (...) (25 years ago, 8-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Uncouple Train Cars
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| Hi again, I heard somewhere that one should never ask a question that one is not prepared to answer oneself. So I took up my own challenge and, built a decoupler as well. Mine is 6 studs wide (facing the track) by 14 studs long (perpendicular to (...) (25 years ago, 8-Aug-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Bulk Ordering - Secrets Revealed.
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| (...) Yeah, I could see me now. Going to Billund with some pick axes and air hammers and dismantling part of the company headquarters complex looking for the classic window & door molds. (They dispose of their old molds by incorporating them into (...) (25 years ago, 5-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Two decades past...
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| Hey Jeff, Congratulations! (It's a slow day on the net today.....). When I was your age (Nixon was President in his last full year before getting the boot), I was in the 6th year of my dark ages. You're very lucky that your dark ages (if you ever (...) (25 years ago, 10-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Bulk Ordering - Secrets Revealed.
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| (...) So they are all chimps. Ooh ooh... More bannanas... ooh ooh... how?... ooh ooh... alienate our customer base?... ooh ooh... mmm... bannanas. Seriously though, how can TLG not understand that many people go to the toy isle, see mega blocks with (...) (25 years ago, 13-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: General Box #1 Log
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| Name: Tamyra Teed Place: Waukesha Wi. 18 Miles West of Milw. Occupation: Student Date Received: Aug 7th, 1999 Date Sent: Aug 10th, 1999 Local color added to box: Couldn't find anything good this week :( Pieces taken: 2 Grey Snaking brackets, 2 blue (...) (25 years ago, 10-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: CFD: lugnet.lego.* newsgroup hierarchy
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| (...) Hmm. Well, there really are have been about 30 or 35 or so major categories over the past 30 or so years, right? So it may not grow much. In the past 10 years, for example, only about 10 major categories have been added: : 1989 - LEGO® SYSTEM™ (...) (25 years ago, 9-Aug-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | The LEGO history - Interesting book found at the library
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| Hi all! Last time I was at the library I found an interesting book about The Lego Company! It's called 'LEGO and Godtfred Kirk Christiansen' (but in Swedish, of course). It is about GKC, LEGO A/S, and The LEGO Company. It's written by a Danish (...) (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Give me strength...
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| Blimey! How did you build up a collection like that???? You must have spent a fortune on it. *envy* The only reason I got 5 bricks was because I had a lucky break back in the 18th century. An old friend of mine was in danger of getting caught with (...) (25 years ago, 17-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: The History Of LEGO Sloped Bricks - Part 1
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| Gary Istok: What about the old green 2*4 roof bricks my grandparents have? They look roughly like this from the side: |\ |\ Despite the look of the ASCII art, the dimensions are the same as of a 2*4 brick. The sloped side is "wigly" like a tiled(?) (...) (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Lion Brand?
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| I found a small box of an old-looking squishy-block Lego-Clone in Goodwill. The bricks all have vertical serrations and the packaging looks as if it dates from the 60's or 70's! I'm guessing that it isn't actually that old, but I really don't know (...) (25 years ago, 28-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | HandyBoard
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| With respect to the recent level of interest in this device and it's inclusion into the "Lego fold", I wonder if we/someone shoudn't look into packaging issues. Maybe some kind of long bricks and/or old style baseplates, epoxy and a hacksaw type (...) (25 years ago, 7-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Why I love my NLSO....
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| So my SO is 'cleaning her room' when she discovers in the back of her closet a box. This box, to the uneducated masses, would not appear to be significant. However, to my now semi-LEGO-educated SO, this box was a trove... (URL) 103! She had probably (...) (21 years ago, 6-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: 10x20 green baseplates
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| (...) Black! Wow -- that is wild indeed! So they were as boxtops! Ahh, now that explains the goofy mold shape. I think the gray one (10x10) with the super-thin perimeter on the bottom is the exact type I cut my foot on as a child: the edge just (...) (25 years ago, 30-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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