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| (...) Nah. Pressing the OFF button is OK. It's when it starts pressing the ON button that you have to worry. That's why one of my personal rules is "the deadlier the robot, the shorter the extension cord." BTW, not only is the 'bot nice, simple and (...) (17 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) But that's exactly the point. It's not that they weren't aware of us at all. It's that they thought we were an inconsequencial fraction of the total market, and thus not worth catering to at all. And strictly in terms of the total customer (...) (17 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Honestly, my impression of the Lego hobbyist community is that there was a boom in growth of AFOL purchasing around 1998-2000. My honest-to-god guess is that AFOLs weren't worth marketing to back in, say, 1992, but we WERE worth marketing to (...) (17 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.general)
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| (URL) inspired by the obvious shortcomings in Travis' MOC - I present a Hover-Hog worthy of the title Space Chopper! vroom! vroom! VROOOOOOMMM!! -Lenny PS. look at that super-sized exhaust - for that extra Hog noise!! (URL) Deep Links 1-9> (22 years ago, 29-Sep-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, FTX)
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| (...) That's exactly it. If you're looking for black 2x4 bricks, the market is flooded with them, so BL prices have settled pretty low (and the rarer parts in a given set help offset those low prices so that sellers will still find it worth parting (...) (17 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I'm not sure that's really a fair assessment-- or, rather, the tone implies that everyone else at Lego was clueless until Jake showed them how it's done. But that's not really the case. I think it was more true that certain groups within the (...) (17 years ago, 15-Sep-08, to lugnet.general)
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| Hi everyone: I have designed a NY Metro car using two 4855 sets and metroliner set. My goal was to create a train that I can use in my railways. I am very happy with the result because it's something very simple and works ! therefore I wanted to (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) The image of an adult playing, designing or building with legos will always be what it is, regardless of how much it wants to be glorified as a design specialty. In and out of the professional environment. We did some desk accesories for Lego (...) (17 years ago, 15-Sep-08, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Thanks for the input, guys. Right now I'm stuck waiting for NI to act on my request for the student edition of LabVIEW -- they don't seem to be very speedy. How long do they usually take? -dave (17 years ago, 16-Sep-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) First off, I'll offer you the suggestion that the answer isn't "no", it's "yes!" Not to get all psychological, but if you answer "no", but still claim some sort of personal association with Lego, their assumption may likely be that you're (...) (17 years ago, 14-Sep-08, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I didn’t say that they should stop selling the normal sets. I just asked for an additional service above and beyond that... But of course you have a point regarding the need for profit. Perhaps such an offer should be available only to certain (...) (17 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I think that's not quite the point that was being made. The point is that selling individual bricks to individual consumers is *grossly* more expensive for the company, not that it's cheaper, and hence would need to sell sets to keep their (...) (17 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Here's a link to a post by Derek R. in which, in passing, he mentions what sounds like the same or a similar issue. David K's reply also mentions what sounds like potential difficulty. (URL) (21 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Wow! How tall is this thing? I get the impression that the pictures don't quite give me a sense of just how big this thing really is. (17 years ago, 3-Sep-08, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | AW: Primer on writing NXT-G blocks?
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| Well, they sometimes need to be inquired after a while - in my case, I never got an answer to my first request. Only when having asked about it on some "informal" channel, they sent it rather quickly. But that's just my personal experience and (...) (17 years ago, 16-Sep-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) I have been asked these questions numerous times by co-workers...especially after we put an ad up on the bulletin board saying we wanted to buy used LEGO. Usually when they ask if we still play with LEGO, Stacy and I enthusiastically reply (...) (17 years ago, 14-Sep-08, to lugnet.general)
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| Good thread with a lot of responses I relate to. I'll tag on Dave's since he scratched the most on what I wanted to add... In lugnet.general, David Eaton wrote: (snip) (...) The comparison to model railroading is one I have long used to describe our (...) (17 years ago, 16-Sep-08, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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