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| Hey, I read recently in an ebay auction for a 6951 that this set, the Robot Command Center (from 1986), was a based on a concept designed for a contest...some sort of "design a space set" contest. If this is untrue, then please ignore. I was looking (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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lovelace
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| | Jot and Jab's Space Auction
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| Jot and Jab's Space Auction going on right now on ebay! Lots of rare, unusual sets, most with their boxes and manuals! Some are unopened! Rarities and amazing finds include: 1704 un-named Ice Planet Value Pack set 2543 SHELL UFO Zipper (non-US) 3015 (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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lovelace
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| | Jot and Jab's Space Auction
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| Jot and Jab's Space Auction going on right now on ebay! Lots of rare, unusual sets, most with their boxes and manuals! Some are unopened! Rarities and amazing finds include: 1704 un-named Ice Planet Value Pack set 2543 SHELL UFO Zipper (non-US) 3015 (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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lovelace
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| | Will trade 6807 for 1593
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| Possibly the rarest-ever space set for the other rarest-ever space set! :-) I just won my second 6807 un-named Space set (1985) on ebay. I only need the elsusive 1593 directions (or was it a boxed set?) from 1983 to complete my Space collection. If (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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lovelace
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| | Will trade 6807 for 1593
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| Possibly the rarest-ever space set for the other rarest-ever space set! :-) I just won my second 6807 un-named Space set (1985) on ebay. I only need the elsusive 1593 directions (or was it a boxed set?) from 1983 to complete my Space collection. If (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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lovelace
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| | SPACE AUCTION -- Many Rarities!!!
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| Jot and Jab's Space Auction going on right now on ebay! Lots of rare, unusual sets, most with their boxes and manuals! Some are unopened! Rarities and amazing finds include: 1704 un-named Ice Planet Value Pack set 2543 SHELL UFO Zipper (non-US) 3015 (...) (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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lovelace
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| | Re: Wanted: Monorail and parts
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| (...) I just won a #6347 Town track extension set for about $70 last week, and a #6991 monorail system for $150 about three weeks ago, both from ebay. Last month there were five monorails up for auction all at once, so the value dropped and the (...) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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lovelace
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| | Re: Slave-I factoids!
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| (...) Yow. Where did I see the black head? Was it Darth? Was I just hallucinating the whole thing? Come to think of it, a black mini-fig head would be perfect for Darth, given the vocal talent that personified him... Dave xxx...xxx (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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lovelace
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| | Re: wishing upon a star
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| (...) It's odd timing that you guys are discussing this now. There is an idea in its infant stages right now that I'm trying to develop with my father and wife, both of whom are programmers. The idea is a complete database of every single Lego part, (...) (25 years ago, 22-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.inv)
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lovelace
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lovelace
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| | Panaka is yellow?
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| I'm sure the topic of race amongst mini-figures is an ancient one, but I just wanted to hear theories from the more informed AFOL's this time. I'm pretty sure TLG just wanted to circumvent any racial issues by making ALL the heads "yellow." There've (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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lovelace
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| | Re: Panaka is yellow?
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| (...) Indeed, this would have been an easy way to circumvent racial issues, this particular time. Still, there are four thumbnail pictures from the movie towards the top of the instruction pages, and the human portrayed most clearly (in two of the (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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lovelace
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| | Re: Panaka is yellow?
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| (...) Well spoken, Scott. This whole skin-tone thing must've started back in the 60's..what'd they have for part color back then? Red, Yellow, Blue, Black and White? Given those choices, I guess it was easy enough to just crank out the yellow heads, (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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lovelace
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| | Re: Panaka is yellow?
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| (...) Perhaps Lego could just say they were all Danish before. ;-) At any rate, whatever political condemnation TLC might get, not only would it be minor and virtually unheard by the REAL target market (i.e. the kiddies' parents, which may be more (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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lovelace
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| | Re: wishing upon a star
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| (...) Pardon my inexperience. I am neither a program designer, nor a person with any business logic whatsoever...perhaps I should have footnoted these factss before sticking my idea out here. I think that 90% of the users of a would-be (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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lovelace
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| | Re: wishing upon a star
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| (...) Thank you for the kind words, John...and the insights. I am a two-month old "newbie" and have very little to offer gods of thinking such as yourself, and also of course the other geniuses involved in this discussion, other than simple hero (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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lovelace
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| | Re: wishing upon a star
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| (...) Har! No, really...you brains good and my bad and me grammar good too! I got exactly what I wanted...a flurry of responses, in a simple endeavor to find out if the best and brightest have come up with any solutions to a part search and (...) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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lovelace
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rico
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| | Druglords just can't Lego
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| "Druglords just can't Lego" (URL) were the building blocks of a drug empire - Federal agents said Tuesday they busted a ring of Bronx drug dealers that stuffed cocaine into buckets of Lego toys in Puerto Rico and mailed them to New York." Sad... -- (...) (16 years ago, 24-Sep-08, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | SPIED! #6998 Hyperspace Flagship! (not)
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| This is a truly rare set! Only one built! By myself ten years ago when I was in high school! ;-) Sorry about that. I just dug up some old pictures of this crazy-looking spaceship I built out of about 1000 pieces back in 1987 (it's neat to see a (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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lovelace
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