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| (...) Here's my nightmare, and it's true - it happened about 2 years ago. I'd been reading RTL for a few months, and the SHELL bit comes up. I recall that I gave my kids my old LEGO. I dig around, come up with a white 2x4 with SHELL on it and a red (...) (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Egyptian Theme in Town
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| (...) Hey Mark, Besides the Egyptian Theatre (still in the planning stages), I currently have under construction 2 other theatres. They are the FOX THEATRE in a Art Deco style with nothed arches, and the GRAND THEATRE, in the "Palace" style. This (...) (25 years ago, 22-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: lack of interest in basic stamp and basicx
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| From a somewhat-less-technical background: I think I have enough electronics tinkering experience to breadboard together some of the "home brew" sensors--if I do build 'em, the first would probably be the $3.50 temperature sensor, although of more (...) (25 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Lego/playmobile ramble
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| Hi all, At the risk of being jumped on simultaneously, by thousands of AFOL's (or having thousands of Timmy's thrown at me) I just finished having a look at the playmobil site, and came away with much food for thought. Firstly I was struck with the (...) (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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| | RE: External Power Port Problem..?
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| To be safe, you could use a small 1A fuse. You can buy in-line fuse holders in electronics parts stores. It's a little black tube with a screw on cap, and wires or solder tabs on both ends. Just tape it to your battery pack. Another possibility is (...) (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | FOTD (Day or Decade? You Decide)
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| Hello, Wahoo! Went to my Aunt's house for Thanksgiving. And raided her attic. Found one medium sized box full of Lego, including: 6080 King's Castle 4021 Police Patrol 6540 Pier Police 6375 Trans Air Carrier 6257 Castaway's Raft Plus a few small (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | FOTW then...FOTY!!!!!
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| We made a quick trip (Virginia Beach) home for Thanksgiving and I decided to spend a few hours yesterday prowling the used toy stores and thrift stores to see what I could see (and perhaps buy :-). The FOTW (actually month considering how often I (...) (25 years ago, 26-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Dimensions of a SD40 and GP35
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| My thinking was this: I did not want to give up on the SD 40-2 because of the six wheel per truck issue, but I knew I would need a four wheel per truck to provide power for my train if I made the SD 40-2 a dummy engine which I did to make the six (...) (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Lego: Toy of the Century! (according to Fortune)
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| (...) purchased. (...) think I have somewhere *around* 50,000 split between my old stuff at mom + dads house and here at home. The problem for me is what are the proper names of all the bricks? How do I inventory them so other people know what I (...) (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | 1715, 1867s??
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| Anyone have any old 1715 (400 pc box) or 1867s (400 pc blue buckets) they want to unload? These where my fav for bulk bricks. Also need 2 dk grey 666s. (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: What is a set, philosophically
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| (...) I always have fun when I buy a set from EBAY. Many times the seller isn't LEGO knowledgeable, and they may have assembled a set. I recently won a few auctions where the sets were 1970's sets. Among them I sometimes find Cellulose Acetate (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Wheat Thins vs. LEGO
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| I picked up some Nabisco Wheat Thins at the grocery store the other day, and I noticed that it "sounds" JUST LIKE LEGO! Try that next time you're at the store. Shake a box of Wheat Thins and listen. IMO it sounds exactly like a box of LEGO! This box (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Amazing Animals & Fabulous Figures
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| About a week ago my backorderd books arrived: *Build Amazing Animals* and *Build Fabulous Figures* by DK Publishing, Inc. (C) 1999. List price $4.95 (US) each These are the newest LEGO books from DK, and the first two in the LEGO Modelers line which (...) (25 years ago, 5-Dec-99, to lugnet.books, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: TAN castle walls? It CAN'T be! But what IS it?
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| (...) 8 years old in1961. The Samsonite LEGO catalog of that year also had a color problem (as do a lot of recent LEGO catalogs). The set in question was the very first Model kit outside of the Town Plan series (Town Plan was the only LEGO System (...) (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Aaaaggghhh! My dog has a taste for ABS!!!!
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| (...) <Pulling up suspenders and preparing "old Yeller" voice> Walp, thar's only one thing what can be done afta' a dog has a taste for ABS...y'all might hafta do something right horrible...*click* </hick voice> Seriously, there *is* something to (...) (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Geez! LUGNET is just too exciting!
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| Aaron West wrote... (...) Get (...) building, (...) Did just that, and it worked pretty well. She was thinking back at the old times when she and her brother were putting sets together together (Yes! I managed to mess it all up again). Then she (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Juniorization -- too simple even for kids?
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| John, I feel you are in err a bit on the idea of age recommendations for toys. It seems as though I see this happen with everyone. "It says 5-7 on the box. Our child is almost 4, but he is really bright." The agre recommendations are for safety, not (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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