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| Last night I had a chance to stop by the LEGO Outlet at the Colorado Mills Mall in Denver. In the middle of the store was a table with a couple boxes of bricks and a sign advertising a "Make and Take" offer. There were four Easter models, two eggs (...) (21 years ago, 31-Mar-04, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Design wanted: Touch sensor for passing trains
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| Carl- We designed some that worked very well with the 4561 Railway Express sets that we used for the Orange County Festival of Trees earlier this month. The mechanism uses one of those 5 sided aircraft wing pieces held horizontally flat near the (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Custom Built LEGO Sets in 2002
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| I am cautiously optomistic about this entire revelation, but I am skeptical about whether or not they will have an extensive part/color inventory for us to use. If so, here is a scenario that I would consider: ---...--- For those of you who have (...) (24 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Making accurate Y-Wing engines
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| (...) Would you really need two layers? I don't have any macaroni bricks handy, but from what I remember (and from LDraw), you should be able to replace the second-to-last 4x4 cylinder brick with 4 macaroni bricks, and then put the final 4x4 (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: what makes a legend?
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| (...) The solution here seems obvious... and free. Use more plain old regular bricks in the design of future sets. No need for new molds. No debates over specialized/juniorized parts. And best of all, more good old fashioned bricks with which to (...) (23 years ago, 24-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Is 12v compatible with 9v???
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| (...) Yes and no. You have to file down some plastic on the inside of the 12v electrified rails to get them to snap onto the 9v tracks. Also, the wheels on the 12v trains knock against the 9v power supply bricks, and can eventually knock the 9v (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Parts as volumes (instead of surfaces)
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| If you're interested, take a look at my old Rayshade libraries that made the bricks from scratch using CSG. I'm especially fond of the L3G0 40-tooth technic gear. I've thought it would be nice to have "bounding boxes" for the bricks, for collision (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Small cutter bows (6x7 bow pieces)
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| (...) Well, it's not annual until the 2nd one happens.... (...) I need to process my (3) 6543s, build one for my town and a couple cutters for the pirate game (well, one pair of red bow bricks might get used with a pair of black bow bricks for my (...) (24 years ago, 28-Oct-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: Need help to guesstimate the size of my collection!
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| Dave, If your collection is 500K, then I'd better not even THINK about how large mine is ;-) Take your Iris cart collection, and multiply it by 3. That's all my new bricks. If I can get all the rest of the bricks into Iris carts, add at least what (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: peeron inventory update
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| (...) Martin: Thanks for the post. I am making a master file of all the variations and your comments help. Lego certainly does not make it easy. I have found in the old Samsonite sets very mixed eras of bricks. Actually some sets have the two (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.inv)
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| | US S@H...Poor Selection
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| Why is the US S@H selection so poor compared to some of the European sites? Many of the items that are no longer, or were never, available here in the states are still available in Europe. Some good examples are: Service Packs!!!!!!! (UK has these (...) (22 years ago, 27-Aug-02, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | 4400 Tubs - Parts lots
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| Hi Everyone, Recently I got a few 4400 tubs to get more earthy colors for castle creations. I want to sell or possibly trade the pieces I do not want. I have divided the bricks into lots: (URL) Each lot contains bricks from 9 tubs, so you can check (...) (21 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, FTX)
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| | Re: Orlando PaB -- Initial Report
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| (...) Keen! I take it by 'packing' you mean assembling the bricks together in the cup instead of just pouring them in there loose? Do you have any other tips on how to maximize brickage? :) I want to stop by there later today and see how many (...) (21 years ago, 7-Sep-03, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | the not-so-incredible BOX-4-BLOX™
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| In lugnet.general, Matthew Gerber writes: ... (...) ... (...) ... Sometimes I buy time-savers that are so clever that I cannot dream of a way to improve on them. While Box-4-Blox is useful, and I use mine every time I part something out, it's far (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: rcx unit
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| (...) Actually, I have found that the RCX can "see" infrared through bricks. A long time ago, I tried to cover up the RCX by building a box around it out of LEGO and was very surprised to find that I could still control it with the remote. I think (...) (21 years ago, 17-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Does anyone accually like 4561?
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| Yeah - I like it, and my mate Chris (a non-Internet AFOL) does too. I just got my 4561 on Friday and it looks a lot better built than it does in the catalogue. I won't say it's perfect - it has it's good and bad points. The obvious bad point is the (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: I need some 'modding' expertise
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| "Larry Pieniazek" <larry.(mylastname)@...e.DOT.com> wrote in message news:I4Er9o.u7H@lugnet.com... (...) Suggestion 2 is a good one Lar. I would have suggested that myself. The only caveat would be to be very careful on placement and prying. Some (...) (20 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.parts.mod)
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| | How well would this go over?
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| Hi all, I've been thinking (with ideas from Mark Sandlin) about starting up a new contest centered solely around minifig scale racing vehicles. I know the Design a Civvie contest had a racing category, but I am talking about a contest with beefed up (...) (24 years ago, 21-Sep-00, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space)
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