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| ***...*** THE 1998 GREAT CREATE ***...*** Annual Build-A-Thon with LEGO® bricks to benefit the Greater Minneapolis Area Children's Crisis Nursery. when: Saturday, November 7, 1998 9:00 am–4:00 pm where: Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Downtown (...) (26 years ago, 16-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: sort your .... off
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| (...) Oh yeah. Those work well too. Got one of those I forgot about that holds my 2x8+ plates and hitch couplings. Also, after me and NLS devoured the contents, I confiscated a transparent jelly bean box that we received one year for Christmas. It (...) (26 years ago, 5-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: How many bricks from San Francisco to New York?
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| (...) Well, you know, I typed that while eating a sandwich. And while it's generally safe to bring food near the keyboard, we have strict no-food rules about handling the LEGO we ship out. We even scrub our hands after handling any rubber LEGO (...) (26 years ago, 17-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: CFD: lugnet.clones
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| (...) Yes. There's plenty of interest in the new clones, and whether things like hats and whatnot fit in with Lego bricks. (...) Oh, I don't think that matters too much. -gyug (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | color correction for decals?
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| Hi, all, When scanning and printing out Lego decals, has anyone been able to successfully get the colors correct? One would think that scanning in the bricks themselves could give you enough information to eliminate color casts due to the scanner, (...) (26 years ago, 10-Oct-98, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: LUGNET logo
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| Todd Lehman wrote (...) The "impossible triangle" has been my favorite shape/design since the first time I saw it - an old OMNI magazine cover I think. Great to see my favorite shape used as the symbol for what will probably be my primary Internet (...) (26 years ago, 7-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: Free (empty) silver buckets!
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| (...) Silver are smaller than the old red ones? I would be interested, btw, in some of your silver ones (just not all 20 :) ) I can use a very few that size just the tubs are more convenient. I understand though. Tubs are more expensive, per piece, (...) (26 years ago, 7-Oct-98, to lugnet.loc.us.wa.sea)
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| | Re: Raising baseplates
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| (...) works pretty well. All of my monorail is 4 bricks higher than the supports. That means that I had to raise the monorail station baseplates 4 bricks as well. Here's a rough graphic: ###### <- Plate (2x4) ###---...--- <- baseplate (## is a 2x2 (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: 3722 - Adventurers
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| (...) Oh, I should have answered the question as well. I'd be interested in the green chairs, the yellow birds, and the long gray and dark gray bricks, and the tiles (non-decorated). (26 years ago, 10-Oct-98, to lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: Chessie Caboose
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| Michael, I used dry transfer decals for my steam engine ((URL) You can find these at most train hobby stores. A word of caution though, they are not easy to put on. And, it's going to put a foreign substance on your LEGO bricks. I'm not sure what (...) (26 years ago, 7-Oct-98, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Raising baseplates
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| > did you have to tun the bricks far under > the baseplate so you can attach things to it while it's up there. or are the > baseplates sturdy enought to do it?? Thanks for the info. I have done a similar thing with a building I made -- I have a (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Sorting
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| What I have done so far with the pieces I have sorted is: 1. Put all pieces which currently have a classification in my system in one pile and all unclassified parts in another. 2. Sort all of the classified pieces into three catagories a) bricks b) (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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| | last update for piece auction?
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| Greetings: I am offering the bricks listed below for auction. Every block is brand new ? has never been in my mouth, or been part of a construction. The number listed is the opening or current bid in $US. For each lot listed, the highest two bids (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: How do you build an elevator?
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| Though it messes up your already nice measurements, try making your shaft 5x5 and put plates or tiles vertically on the outside of your 4x4 car so it doesn't flop back and forth so much. And/or try some rounded or sloped pieces on the roofplate of (...) (26 years ago, 6-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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| | SSS - Steve's Sealed Sets Auction
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| If you haven't already heard, my fourth auction is underway, and I've got my web-site (URL) running smoothly. (For now it's just one page with the current standings, and links back here to the photos of each set. I plan to add more though.) There's (...) (26 years ago, 7-Oct-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | KLUTZ book with LEGOS
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| LEGO Crazy Action Contraptions, A LEGO Inventions Book by Don Rathjen & the editors of Klutz I found mine at the local book store in the Klutz section of the kid's department. 10 fun and clever machines to build, with good pictures and reasonably (...) (26 years ago, 7-Oct-98, to lugnet.reviews)
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| | SSS - Steve's Sealed Sets Auction
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| Well I guess I get to be the first one to announce an auction. 8-) If you haven't already heard, my fourth auction is underway, and I've got my web-site (URL) running smoothly. (For now it's just one page with the current standings, and links back (...) (26 years ago, 7-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: What's your current project?
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| I'm currently working on a big spaceship...certainly not the biggest out there, but probably the largest Lego project I've ever undertaken. The idea is that it's been taken over by a band of space pirates, repaired and modified beyond recognition. (...) (26 years ago, 8-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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| | Got a letter from Susan Williams
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| I understand the weird catalog I received now. After I sent pictures of my Huge Gothic Cathedral to Lego, I received the "Lego, Like You've Never Seen It" catalog a couple of weeks later. A week after that I received a letter from Consumer Affairs' (...) (26 years ago, 7-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: SW sets you'd most like to see
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| (...) Even if the sets don't quite live up to our expectations, we'll at least get some great new minifigs, new elements, and old elements in new colors. I'm excited about what this will mean for my own creations. BTW, I'm a big fan of the Lego (...) (26 years ago, 8-Oct-98, to lugnet.starwars)
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