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Finally got a new US Technic catalog, and I had to wait entirely too long to see a 99 set in the stores, maybe if people actually bought the CyberSlam stuff the Lego rep would have had to put new technic stuff out earlier. oh well. ThrowBots 8500 (...) (26 years ago, 20-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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Scans!!!! Please!!! (...) (26 years ago, 20-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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Richard Dee wrote in message ... (...) Pictures of all sets, except 844x, can be found at www.lego.com. If you can't be bothered to wade through the multiple catalogues looking for them, check out (URL) a consolidated list of 1999 sets and links (...) (26 years ago, 21-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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(...) I've only seen the image (URL) really makes me wonder how the thing works. If that some new pneumatic elements? Or is it something completely new? The thing that closes the grabber looks like a large suspender, which doesn't make sense, I (...) (26 years ago, 25-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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(...) This is now up at (URL) does seem to use the same windshield, wheels and doors as the 5571. Fredrik (26 years ago, 25-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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Fredrik Glöckner wrote in message ... (...) Looks to me like the top end of the suspender rotates around the end of the triangular plate, so you get a spring grip effect instead of having to stop closing when you hit something. So perhaps there (...) (26 years ago, 26-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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(...) I don't know, but reading the Dutch text (no, I don't speak Dutch), I get the impression that the hydraulic cylinder is used to raise the "roof" of the vehicle. Just like the 8448 "Supercar", and like the engine cover on the 8445 "Indy Storm". (...) (26 years ago, 27-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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Fredrik Glöckner wrote in message ... (...) Don't tempt me... Moz (did you realise how hard it is to get from NZ to NO? And presumably from No to NZ? ) (26 years ago, 27-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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(...) D'you mean by plane? Well, no, but I assume that it will be extremely expensive, as you need to go almost to the other side of the earth. Or do you mean that it is hard to book a flight to get you from NZ to No and that you need to do many (...) (26 years ago, 28-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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(...) I got curious and started to research this and started planning a hypothetical trip from Auckland, New Zealand to Oslo, Norway on 14 January, with a return on 28 January. This is what I found: Thu 14 Jan Auckland 22:35 Air New Zealand 2 13:45 (...) (26 years ago, 29-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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(...) I do speak Dutch, so my translation of (URL) would be: New 'cool' Hydraulic system! With the new hydraulic system, the cabine opens incredibly easy. That's cool! You can use this part in other models aswel. For instance, try to make a car (...) (26 years ago, 29-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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Thanks for the translation! Snipped for brevity.... (...) Great. The juniorization of Technic. Perhaps 3 seperate, pictured poly- bags and individual instructions for each section. (...) Interesting......... (...) The wheels on the '98 Technic sets (...) (26 years ago, 29-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Front wheel drive? Is that steering wheel drive? This puzzles me. (...) This seems to confirm my suspicion that the hydraulic piece simply provides a damped spring, pretty much like when you press eject on a cassette deck. But I'm only (...) (26 years ago, 29-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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(...) They are? So they are not simply chrome coated plastic? In that case, I apologize for the erroneous article I just posted in followup to Wouter van Wageningen. Fredrik (26 years ago, 29-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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Fredrik Glöckner wrote in message ... (...) I dunno about the Euro ones, but the US and NZ CD Car/Tow Truck have plastic wheels. You can see the moulding marks on the one I'm looking at. Moz (26 years ago, 29-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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No, the 8417 has plastic wheels, and they aren't that chrome either - they are a slightly shiny grey/silver. At least the 2 I have at work are that way. (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | | Please do not (...) (26 years ago, 29-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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(...) The above is clearly the work of a man with too much Web access. (26 years ago, 29-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Or a secretary worth his/her weight in Airport Shuttles. From Tom McDonald Anti-spam block in place. (URL) what you can, but behave yourself. We'll have more, right after this. (26 years ago, 29-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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Also sprach Larry Pieniazek: : The above is clearly the work of a man with too much Web access. What do you mean 'too much'? That isn't possible, is it? Jim (I want all the bandwidth:) / _ _ / _ _ Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off (...) (26 years ago, 29-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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(...) I can't see anything from the picture to indicate one or the other. So we'll have to take the description for what it is. (...) It does say: "New hydraulic system". But judging from the pictures, I guess you're right. (...) Sorry, that should (...) (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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(...) My 8417 wheels are plastic with a shiny coating. ____ |oooo| Cheers, |oooo| Wouter van Wageningen ¯¯¯¯ (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Wait... hold it up to the light.. a little to the left. Nope. Maybe YOU can, but I can't... my antipodal binoculars seem to be malfunctioning again. Can you fly to the US and show me? (note to the humor impaired, I am playfully picking on a (...) (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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Larry Pieniazek wrote (...) Sure. Let me just check... that would be $NZ2764 return, leaving tomorrow and arriving back Sunday night. Got a spare dollar for a poor kiwi? (...) That would be the infamous "US English", then. Uz bro's use "you" where (...) (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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**I** could be mistaken too! They do seem to be cheap, die-cast metal, though. Lots of chrome-plated pieces show evidence of the plastic underneath, but I couldn't find evidence of that on these, and am really making an assumption.... Fredrik (...) (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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(...) I work for an airline, and could do the LHR-AKL section of the above itinerary on my firm's flights, for the knock-down price of $0.00! (An award ticket for not being sick. Or being masochistic, going into work when I should have stayed in (...) (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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Amateurs .... go for an OC-24 (2.488Gigabit/sec) ... (...) -- Lee Jorgensen, Programmer/Analyst - Bankoe Systems, Inc. mailto://jorgensen@bankoe.moc <-- reverse moc mailto://ljorgensen@...uswest.ten <-- reverse ten (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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Also sprach Lee Jorgensen: : Amateurs .... go for an OC-24 (2.488Gigabit/sec) ... That would be an OC-48 ... the 24 is 1.244 Gbps ... / _ _ / _ _ "Sit down, you foolish mortal fish! ()(-(//((-/ -- overheard at Backstreet ===...=== Jim Baker -- (...) (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Here, Here! I want a T3!! (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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(...) <snip> (...) sure is....jet streams. though, trying to remember (ouch that hurts!), i believe, starting at singapore, you fly into a jet stream first, then it switches directions south of the equator. My father twice made that trip around the (...) (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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Hmmmm ... as Homer Simpson would say ... DOH :) -Lee. (...) -- Lee Jorgensen, Programmer/Analyst - Bankoe Systems, Inc. mailto://jorgensen@bankoe.moc <-- reverse moc mailto://ljorgensen@...uswest.ten <-- reverse ten (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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I've got a different scan -- much more detail and easier to see. I put it on my web page (primitive, more a place to transfer stuff than a real web page). Check out (URL) must apologize in advance for the GeoCities junk that pops up). Just scroll (...) (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Interesting. I would guess that the crane can be rotated (through the use of a large Technic turntable) and tilted. It looks like you need to flip the device holding the large suspender to close the grabber. This isn't too nice, IMO. (...) (...) (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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(...) I think that that is a real understatement. The thing (IMHO) looks awful! ____ |oooo| Cheers, |oooo| Wouter van Wageningen ¯¯¯¯ (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Oh, and one more comment on the image of the 8446: Notice the grey gear below the right hand side of the green 12-beam to the rear of the vehicle? The one just inside of the Slizer "ski"? This looks remotely like a differential, but not (...) (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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I was gonna announce the same thing when I saw it. From what I can tell it is a new crown gear but I figured everyone would have known because of the cybermaster gears so I kept quiet. However it IS a new crown gear (I think) (...) (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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(...) But there are no new gears in the CyberMaster set, are there? True, there are the yellow 3 stud diameter wheels which the tracks go round, but I would hardly call them gears? A new crown gear? Sounds plausible to me. Fredrik (26 years ago, 1-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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Yeah, but at the time, I thought that the gear in the cybermaster kit looked alot like the new crown gear. I also have some other evidence... (A post will follow with some proof when I can get a make-shift website up together) (...) (26 years ago, 1-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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Don't think I'll bother now, it's not really evident enough. (...) (26 years ago, 1-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Catalogs (was Technic 99)
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('k, I'm pretty new to lugnet and rtl, pls forgive this q that's likely to be frequent) From whence does one get a catalogue? Do you mean the 8-16page booklet that's inside the sets, or is there a "real" catalog to be gotten from TLG? -- -Steven | (...) (26 years ago, 3-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) (IMO) there is no definitive "LEGO Catalog". In North America, there are four different flavors of catalogs, with different purposes and levels of completeness: 1. In-box catalogs. There are basically two different versions of these: the small (...) (26 years ago, 4-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Good list, good descriptions, but I only counted 3. the three you did were FAQ quality answers, though. (26 years ago, 4-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Doh! 4. Online catalogs can be found at (URL). All specific geographic regions are available for viewing. The N.A. catalog should include all currently-available sets, even the S@H-exclusive ones Recently, this catalog has been very timely, (...) (26 years ago, 4-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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Thanks, Steve, very lucid and helpful replies. -- -Steven | Smile, Mickey's Watching | TDC TTAguy Think "Up" - "Down" will take care of itself (26 years ago, 4-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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