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| | Dinosaurs/Castle/Ninja crossover ideas
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| I've always thought the dinosaur sets were crap, big dinosaurs and nothing more. But now, I see that you can fit bricks on their backs, which gave me an idea. You coud use the dinosaurs and castle bricks, to build a fantasy medieval world, where (...) (23 years ago, 9-Sep-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle)
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| | Sideways tiles
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| Need some help..... Something I've seen on a few MOC's, notably a yellow open hopper at TVLF 2001, placing 1xn tiles sideways to bricks to give the appearance of "ribs". How is it done? I've tried using technic 1x2 bricks with a technic half peg but (...) (23 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: New LeoCAD version
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| (...) Hi, I tried it whith drag and drop the wing 8 x 4 to the space group but find this part then in the bricks group. I tried it with the brick curved 3 x 1 moving to the slope bricks group and then find it in the tiles group. So I get confused (...) (19 years ago, 22-Mar-06, to lugnet.cad.leocad)
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| | Re: Quality of Clone Parts
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| (...) I build and collect Lego, but have bought a number of the pro-builder range of Megabloks. I was after a source of cheaper grey 2 x 4's for building large castle walls and larger buildings. I find them acceptable. (...) At least a six, possibly (...) (24 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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| (...) Marc, Yes, volunteers pay their full way. In the spirit of full disclosure, as an organizer, I recevied one embroidered shirt from Joe as part of an effort to place all coordinators in one common, distinctive shirt, so that they could be (...) (18 years ago, 12-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: Current Town Projects
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| Sanjay D'Souza <sds87@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:FIBsDA.173@lugnet.com... (...) more. I'm planning a large combined railway/monorail station - but it's not based solely on trains - a large part of it will be the buildings around it so I (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Parts I like to see for real
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| (...) I remember that thread Allan, great thread! I especially liked your regular/low sloped concave corner brick. Yeah that 4x4 corner brick was pretty cool. It was introduced by TLG in November of 1954 (no tubes underneath), got tubes in 1958, and (...) (19 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: Macaroni Brick Patterns
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| (...) Very interesting. I did not know about those sets at all. Both for the headlight mosaics and these macaroni patterns, one really needs a lot of bricks of said type to make a real-life version of these. Fortunately in this day and age of (...) (20 years ago, 4-Apr-05, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | Re: Brick Counter
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| (...) Well why didn't they *say* that then. :) O.K. I guess I was reading into the statement only what I wanted it to mean, rather than what it might really mean. But it does point out how tricky semantics can be. What I thought it meant was, (...) (22 years ago, 30-Nov-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Landing Gear Troubles
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| (...) Great suggestions guys. Thanks. I just took a glance at the Lego website and I think the Adventurers' car hubs will work. I've been in the dark ages for about fifteen years until recently, so there are many "new" pieces I am unfamiliar with. I (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Color confusion regarding 4755 Kinght Bus
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| (...) I get that a lot too. If two bricks of exactly the same color are at different angles to the light source, sometimes my digital photos look like they're two different colors. In this case, though, I suspect that there are some older and some (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.harrypotter, FTX)
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| | Re: A Question for all you CAD Mech builders...
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| (...) MLCAD, L3P, and (...) how to use (...) my models (...) present (...) much of a (...) Why should I sit in front of the computer when I could be in the other room building stuff? I already spend 8 hours every day in front of the computer (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Early Lego 1949-56
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| I know that a lot of folks have been waiting for the upcoming Lego CD on the History of Lego. And I have been teasing you mercilessly. It has been taking longer because I kept changing the begin and end dates (encompassing more Lego history). Well (...) (20 years ago, 31-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: FOTY - Xmas in July
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| (...) Nope, sorry. I'm gonna keep it right here. (...) For the fun of it? To irritate you? But no, actually I don't believe in collecting -- only in building. Collecting is only for those without imagination. I recently asked someone else what the (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: NWBrickCon Thank You's
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| (...) LOL, I still get a kick out of this, Ever since I saw your bricks I've been looking at them thinking how cool that was. (having done some machining I do appreciate the work) So I get to meet you (Bram) at the con, check out his bricks and end (...) (22 years ago, 12-Oct-02, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon)
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| | Re: what makes a legend?
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| (...) I hope the Wayback Machine has settings for the 70's. :) (...) Are you referring to the 2x4 black bricks with the 'plug in' wheels that could go on the long or short sides? Or are you meaning the 2x2 black bricks with the preinstalled smaller (...) (23 years ago, 20-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Is ABS plastic made with oil?
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| (...) Whether it is mold release or splattered lubrication, there is definitely something coating new bricks. After finishing a bout of sorting new sets, my hands always feel somewhat irritated. They never feel this way after handling used bricks (...) (23 years ago, 12-Feb-02, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Novice builder needs help!
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| Hi Tommy, Great start :) Here's my suggestions: - Go on bricklink.com and buy the technic bricks you need to get the hinge to lie across the entire spine. - For the latch, a couple of technic pins and technic bricks or plates should work :) Hope (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.build)
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