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| (...) I hear you. My kids are really bad about building from sorted bins. For about a week after I've done major sorting, they'll come up with creations made from all 1xN plates, or only round pieces. Thought about sorting by colors vs sorting by (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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| (...) Because it really messes up using Lego dragons for Pernese dragons when the wings are a different color! I've been forced to create my own dragon! Out of blocks! And I have not figured out yet where I am going to get bronze or gold blocks! (Or (...) (26 years ago, 23-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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| > Ah, the canonical sorting debate has arisen. There is a camp > (myself among the adherents) that feels that sorting by color > is a total waste of time (except for green :-)). Far more > important to sort by size and type. Yes, yes, we've all (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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| (...) Yup. I had 4 of these at one point as you got one with each box of wheels/axle bricks you bought. I only have one now. I distinctly remember one was destroyed by my chewing on it when I was about 8. Sigh. I also remember trying very hard to (...) (26 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | New Service Packs for 1999..
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| Dear LEGO, You've gotten some good new 1999 service packs. First of all the black sloped bricks are great (even though 2 important black sloped pieces are missing from this set). The green bricks as a separate pack are great also, as are the black (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| LEGO Creator is not perfect. It is a whole lot slower 'loading' than LDRAW. (Extremely slower. I have a P233 and the techie had a P2 300 and he was complaining about how slow it was.) However, once it loads it's speed seems unaffected by the number (...) (26 years ago, 25-Oct-98, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Numeral Files for LDraw
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| (...) Not exactly the same, but here they are the numbers and letters that I've made on 1x1x1 bricks: (URL) this is a sample of how they look: (URL) have replaced the call to the obsolete box4t primitive with box4-1 and a type 2 command line in all (...) (26 years ago, 30-Oct-98, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New vs. old (was Re: More 1999 Figs... ?)
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| (...) I don't see much in Insectoids. The main reason is that they have so many specialized pieces. If they built the same shapes with the pieces they had five years ago, I would be all for them. Lego can't really go anywhere with Ninja, what other (...) (26 years ago, 25-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Thoughts on 1999 sets
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| Wow. wowwowowow. The Star Wars sets look really good, I think. The snow speeder is great. You know, those Insectiod 4x4 half-domes are starting to look a lot like Star Destroyer shield generators, don'tcha know. The speed bike set is a fantastic (...) (26 years ago, 31-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Hate the current boxes
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| (...) the (...) hey, this is one of those "why didn't i think of that" ideas. EXCELLENT, gary! thanks a lot for this inspired idea that is going to save me from a lot of stress (and incidentally save a lot of bricks that could have gone missing). (...) (26 years ago, 26-Oct-98, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Modulex Bricks
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| (...) I have hundreds of these bricks, they are tiny. (...) The problem with these bricks is that they don't fit together as good as LEGO bricks - if you build a wall it can easily be pushed over. (...) Some of the colours are better than LEGO's - (...) (26 years ago, 19-Mar-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: New vs. old (was Re: More 1999 Figs... ?)
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| (...) I like the variety of newer faces for lego minifigs, but in some cases, I think TLG's gone too far*. I mean, printing a very intricate face on the standard yellow LEGO head seems a bit like putting a spoiler on a Model-T IMO. That's not to say (...) (26 years ago, 25-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Announcing my newly completed website
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| Actually, I had decided to go very big on a pyramid, which I finished last weekend. After building a pyramid on a 48x48 baseplate (nice sounding drum, by the way), went for an 80-stud wide pyramid, built upon a 48x48 surrounded by a ring of 16x32's. (...) (26 years ago, 26-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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| as formerly mentioned, i recently got set #375 (1960s Samsonite brick set) at a yard sale for $1. not too special -- it's just a "universal" style set -- but it has a lot of clear bricks and old-style windows and doors and wheels and whatnot, which (...) (26 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Fort Legoredo Piece Auction
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| My auction of pieces from two Fort Legoredo sets is underway. Bidding will start advancing tomorrow night, and then every 24hrs thereafter. Prices are very competitive and many lots still have no bids. Highlights are 45 total log walls, 8 16x32 tan (...) (26 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Update info for Pause database
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| Hi all, Todd, I dig all my catalogs and the internet recources, and find some missing information in the database. I try to upload the missing set pictures to ftp.lugnet.com/incoming and the total scan of the to the ftp.kl.net, from time to (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-98, to lugnet.admin.database)
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