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| | Auction: 4564 and 4555 Train sets; Update 1
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| I have'nt received any bids for this sets. Are there anything wrong. Maybe it's a problem that I want the bids in NOK (Norwegian Kroner)? I have one used 4564 Freight Express and one new 4555 Container Depot for auction. Auction starts today. #1 (...) (25 years ago, 27-Apr-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | The Golden Ages of LEGO
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| REPRINTED FROM RTL: lego fan wrote: Like John said when you first started out building .... those were the best years .... which is why I think that the golden years were 1961-65, my early years. That was when the Town Plan (set 725) with 1150 (...) (25 years ago, 21-Apr-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Auction: 4564 and 4555 Train sets; Update 2
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| I am changing the rules a little for this auction. Asking for bids in NOK (Norwegian Kroner) was a bad idea. Please place your bids in USD from now on. #1 4564 Freight Express (1994) Open; 100 USD; Larry Pieniazek #2 4555 Container Depot (1995) (...) (25 years ago, 28-Apr-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Yellow Low Sloped Corner Bricks?
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| Gary Istok (gistok@umich.edu) wrote: : I just won an auction assortment of LEGO that includes (18) 3x3 low : sloped outside corner bricks in yellow. I checked with our Rob Farver : (the LEGO sloped bricks expert), and he also had never heard of (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Picture of Mos Espa Podrace box
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| My thoughts on the Pod Race: Definately buying the set. Wal-Mart accidently put out Hasbro stuff today including Anakin's Pod (24.95) and my first thought was : Too bad it's not the Lego version! Where are all the colored flags? I see yellow, green (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Piece sorting (was: building exhaustion)
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| I sort mine by color and piece type. I'll give a little bit of a run-down, so here goes. (1) I have a box(shoebox size) for green(very few), yellow(few), tan(fewer), gray, black plates. I stack the 1xY in an offset manner, with the larger plates I (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: putting a 9v motor in 7722?
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| The 4.5 V motor is taller that the nub on the 9V motor so any train in which the 4.5V motor fits the 9V motor will also fit. Actually, you will need to add bricks to make the 9V motor fit. When adding a 9v motor to set 7720 I added two 4x4 plates to (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | 7171 Mos Espa Pod Race Comments (Sebulba's Pod)
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| I just finished Sebulba's Pod. This thing is heavy. Very clever use of a variety of parts to get something bears significant resemblance to the real thing (at least in comparison to the Galoob Action Fleet version of Sebulba's Pod). Lots of (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | US style couplers
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| I will preface this by saying I spent a good amount of time trying to come up with an alternate coupler design that excludes buffers as we have here in the States. Feeling frustrated, suddenly it occured to me like an epiphany [1]-- just <gasp> cut (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | - - - FS/FT: Misc. Lego
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| Lego For Sale/Trade Lego: 1 Royal knight with red legs, red/white torso, red bearded head, no helm or shield EX $2.00 1 Police Man with white helmet and green visor NEW $1.00 1 Fireman with helmet and axe NEW $1.25 1 Bank Guard with white police hat (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: **WTB Orange 1x4s**
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| (...) Mostly regular bricks, but they also included (sorry, can't remember quantities) 1x2, 1x3, 1x4 regular orange bricks; 1x2, 1x3, 2x2, 2x3 orange slopes; and 1x2, 1x3, 2x2, 2x3 inverse orange slopes. Orange plates, tiles, etc. are proliferating (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Auction: Model Team/Technics/Town
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| I've decided to take the plunge - unbelievably though it may sound, I actually appear to have more Lego than I want at the moment - so it's time to auction some off. I'm offering the following 5591 MODEL TEAM Mach II Red Bird Rig bids opening at $50 (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Auction: 4564 and 4555 Train sets; Update 5
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| I am considering a withdraw of the 4555 since 50 USD is less than I payed for it. #1 4564 Freight Express (1994) Open; 140 USD; Larry Pieniazek #2 4555 Container Depot (1995) Open; 50 USD; Matthew Richards DESCRIPTIONS: Item #1 4564 Freight Express (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: 5151 Steep Sloped Bricks (45 deg)
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| (...) My red roof pieces come in two kinds of plastic: the ones I had as a kid in the 60s are slightly translucent and the moulding is marginally less crisp. The newer ones I bought for my daughter about 1990 are a more opaque red plastic. I just (...) (25 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Circle/Disc terminology
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| (...) I think I see what happened -- the source of the confusion is in the terminology -- and I made the same mistake that Tom made when I read his post (I just saw the words "quarter-circle" and "white" and glossed over the "4x4" part). The (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-99, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.admin.database)
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