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| Biff has landed on Mars The LEGO minifigure Biff has landed on Mars and became first "man" on the red planet. (URL) Biff Starling - or at least a picture of him - is on board the the rover which landed on Mars on Sunday morning after a seven months (...) (20 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2004, FTX)
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| (...) Glad you posted this, Eric! LEGO has actually done quite a lot with space exploration recently, and I'm sure once the LEGO PR department has had a chance to catch up they'll release some publicity. I hope so, anyway - it's a great tie-in, and (...) (20 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.year.2004, FTX)
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| One can clearly see the DVD disc on the lander. See: (URL) The disc is in the middle lower portion of the picture (light circle shape) with the minifig (darker oval shape) clearly represented in the middle of the disc. The top of the DVD is facing (...) (20 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.year.2004, FTX)
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| Oops...I meant: (...) and: (...) -jeremy <www.pnltc.org> (20 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.year.2004, FTX)
| | | | | Spirit on Mars
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| Also of note, transparent red and green bricks (specifically the larger windshield pieces) make great 3D glasses for viewing 3D mars images: (URL) (20 years ago, 6-Jan-04, to lugnet.year.2004)
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| (...) Sorry for bumping, but... There are new pictures up on the Mars/Opportunity site ((URL)) and in this one: (URL) you can not only make out the brick/DVD mounting, but you can clearly see the stud pattern, from 300 million miles away. How cool (...) (20 years ago, 27-Jan-04, to lugnet.year.2004, FTX)
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| <snip> Sorry for bumping, but... (...) hehe...Take that, Megablocks!!! Lego beat ya to Mars! sorry, couldn't resist.... I wonder if Biff and/or Sandy has found "Life On Mars" yet... Scott Lyttle (20 years ago, 27-Jan-04, to lugnet.year.2004, FTX)
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