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| | Re: New Shop-At-Home Fall 2001 Catalog
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| Good Lord....a 74 page catalog?? That's amazing! I remember in 1986 when it was a 3" by 8" flyer... I still have all of those old flyers. Innocent days. Those innocent 80's...new wave, cocaine, street-legal automatic weapons. Sigh. Back to sleep. (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: what makes a legend?
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| The Legend idea was thrilling to me in June. I've since had some time to realize how bad it is, though. Problems: 1) Your mail-order-only / internet market is a bunch of older people like me who already have five Galaxy Explorers and thirteen Yellow (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: 2002 catalog scans at FBTB
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| (...) They're doing the same thing for the Ewoks (and Yoda someday?) that they do for Anakin and Harry and all child-sized characters since the beginning. They're going to just make them the same damn size as everyone else. Looking at the flying (...) (23 years ago, 30-Oct-01, to lugnet.year.2002)
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| | Re: I miss the old LUGNET...
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| (...) <major snippin'> (...) I have to agree with Nick here...Todd and I talked on several occasions about this and that; mostly "orbiting" around Classic Space stuff. I'll definitely miss those conversations, since I'm not about to go bugging him (...) (23 years ago, 30-Oct-01, to lugnet.general)
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| lovelace (score: 0.935) |
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| | Re: I miss the old LUGNET...
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| (...) BAH! I smell a typo in my past. Sorry about that. (...) Just checked 7320 and I see you've updated the image...thanks, Jennifer! You own some of these, I also see! Could you tell me where the numbering info for these li'l dudes came from? I (...) (23 years ago, 30-Oct-01, to lugnet.general)
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| lovelace (score: 0.935) |
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| | 2002 Episode II Lego pics online!!
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| These are REALLY, REALLY AWFUL QUALITY images. Someone took black and white snapshots on a $20 digital camera, of a distributor catalog, from the looks of it. You can barely make anything out at all, but there's lots of set names and numbers, at any (...) (23 years ago, 6-Nov-01, to lugnet.starwars)
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| lovelace (score: 0.934) |
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| | Re: A code by any other name
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| (...) Ada Lovelace (whose Biography all programmers should read BTW) called it 'coding'. She was the very first programer who was writing programs for the (never completed) Babbage 'Analytical Engine'. She invented things like subroutines, (...) (24 years ago, 17-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| lovelace (score: 0.932) |
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| | Re: It's brawl night in the kiddie pool
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| (...) Hooray! I read all eighteen hundred posts in all seventy threads, and this is the only solitary one that actually refers to LEGO BLOCKS! Thanks, Frank!! You win!!! How has this perfectly fun little toy brand come to be a means to an end for (...) (23 years ago, 27-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| lovelace (score: 0.932) |
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| | Re: It's brawl night in the kiddie pool
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| (...) Ah, OK...sorry...you're right! Man. Talking to people about (or not about!) Lego is so, so much harder than just playing with Lego. I think I'll stick to the latter, and leave Hell to the demons. --Dave (jot and jab) xxx...xxx (23 years ago, 27-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| lovelace (score: 0.932) |
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| | Re: New MyOpinions area of www.LEGO.com!
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| (...) It was very easy to use, and well thought-out. The trackability of opinion popularity and views was excellent. I can now look forward to supplying more ideas and opinions to TLC directly, rather than hoping someone like Brad happens to read my (...) (23 years ago, 29-Nov-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | BT1 contest entry
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| Here's my first entry into the building contest (category V: Large Air): Panther-X This vessel has two detachable pod ships, and a compartment in the middle which hides a worker robot. I definitely would've paid $39.99 for this set. :-) (URL) images (...) (23 years ago, 11-Dec-01, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space)
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| lovelace (score: 0.930) |
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| | Re: What are all those lego companies?
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| (...) Yes - that's true - but currently, I can't think of a single language that does that, so as a practical answer to the original (and very valid) question, this is an irrelevent comment. (...) Woaahh. What I *said* is absolutely true. You may (...) (24 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| lovelace (score: 0.930) |
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| | Re: Blacktron I Contest Results
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| (...) Oh, well. Guess I'll take this year off, then...I don't have any IP2002 sets any more because I thought they were all ugly as sin. Wake me when the Futuron contest hits, or maybe another Classic Space contest...? Is there some rule we can't (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jan-02, to lugnet.space)
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