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| (...) usable (...) No tomato here! I have to agree, the old space theme was beautiful, coming out of the 1980s into the last "true" theme-Exploriens. Starships and bases revolved around a similar design that I think needed a change. I like the fresh (...) (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| (...) Seems like trans. yellow (amber) pieces have been used as the lights on vehicles within the past year or two. I have vague memories of 1x1 amber tiles. -- jthompson@esker.com "Float on a river, forever and ever, Emily" (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| I was going to post a lament on the apparent death of transparent yellow in lego, and its replacement by that ugly (IMHO) transparent fluorescent yellow. Trans-yellow goes a lot better with my creations, especially non-space creations, than that (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Castle (...) Marathon (...) I (...) is (...) three (...) shower, (...) last (...) That is a nice ship. Well designed, I like it. It is a little small though. I don't mean to sound rude but it would not survive one hit from my cruiser. (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.space)
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| As my journey from the Dark Ages continues, I have noticed some variations in the basic brick... o Old CA bricks have the plastic 'tear off' (aka the umbilical) on one of the short ends of the brick. Newer bricks (ABS) have the 'tear off' on one of (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Dear Dave, what is so hard to understand about this (sarcasm warning lights on!): You know, there are these focus groups and they tested the new stuff hard on kids and those kids LOVED the new bright colours so unbelievable hard.... This is (...) (20 years ago, 13-Feb-05, to lugnet.color)
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| Today I recieved my much-needed order of the Super Rescue Complex, McDonald's Restaurant, Town Accessories, and Street Signs x3. Using these, I have nearly completed Legoville. But I have a few...dead ends...which I must overcome. 1. Hospital - (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.town)
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| It appears that the download protocol and control structure bytecodes are identical between the RCX and Scout. This means that NQC can be used as-is to generate some Scout code. There are a few caveats, however... 1) You'll need to put the Scout (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.scout)
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