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(...) I'll take a full set. And another for my father. And possibly some loose sets for my high school Latin teachers. And I think I can think of a lot of other places I could give that. Presuming they're done rtight, of course. The Colosseum. (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Mindstorms Wishlist
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Mmmmm.... Crickets.... I too would like to see those go GPA. Perhaps powered by those little 12V camera batteries? And make them cheap! I'm visualizing robotic army ants with coordinated group behavior. Perhaps using one of the flocking algorithms? (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) But for using it as a verb, on the other hand.... Jasper (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Please take this to another newsgroup, guys. You're waaay off-topic. --Todd (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Software makers have hardly "given up". Do you know how much money goes from MS to BSA every year? How many millions of warez CDs get confiscated every month? Jasper (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Introducing LEGO Direct
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(...) I have been thinking along these same lines. One curiosity is the Playmobil set I noticed the other day at a TRU. Playmobil actually made a small Civil War set. I believe it had one soldier from each side, a confederate flag and sevel guns & (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) The same size? Cool! I'd love them to be available via a service pack. Dave! (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) It was more a light-hearted speculation than a comment on what bricks can and cannot represent. (...) with (...) See above! 8^) (...) foreshadow a (...) Me, too, probably, though I've already got about a gross of "conveyer belt links" waiting (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) For what? Rifles, six shooters? Why would you want LEGO ammunition? 1x1 cyl. bricks are great for multiple ammo for various applications. (...) Unless it doesn't use ammo and uses lasers, missiles, etc. (...) I know I am going to use them for (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Minor correction: Those treads are not new. They were featured in the 1999 set 6456 Mission COntrol. (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) We (rest of the world) are probably pretty ignorant of what went on in World War II as it relates to Denmark. I wonder what TLC chairman KKK's father (GKC) and grandfather Ole witnessed in the war. Perhaps what they saw when Nazi Germany (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Mindstorms Wishlist
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1. RCX Pro Like the current yellow RCX brick, but with more inputs and outputs. Basically the same size, but could be a tiny bit bigger to fit more connectors. Is _square_ on the bottom, and of course has an AC adaptor. Perhaps has both radio and IR (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Introducing LEGO Direct
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(...) **snip** (...) Maybe there's no ammunition in the Lego universe, though we still have to deal with the blades and light sabers. And I guess you could make a tank with no ammo... Do you suppose the new, smaller treads on the Arctic sets might (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) TLC lost its moral high ground on not modelling war toys a LONG time ago. Otherwise we wouldn't have six shooters and rifles (that are essentially the same today as they were a hundred years ago) in the Wild West theme. Spear = sword = musket (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Catalogs, Justus and Lego
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(...) That too, if I can find my shredder. (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Catalogs, Justus and Lego
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(...) Use 'em for packing material. Steve (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Introducing LEGO Direct
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(...) Superheros, (...) favorite (...) scale (...) I'm sorry but I personally would have to respectfully disagree with modelling millatry items on ethical grounds. Modelling classic items maybe. It is one thing I admire about The Lego Group is that (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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Um.... "Busing children...?" "Yes, '"busing" children.' Not 'busting,' 'busing.'" "Oh..... "Never mind!" ---...--- Well, then, sorry about all that. I have GOT to find a better way to decipher all these (convoluted) threads. Todd seemed (to me) to (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.admin.general)
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Wow! Tom, they must really like you there. I have called a day after I made an order and they said, "Oh we'll just put that in your current order!" That was cool with me at the time, but when it comes to costing them money, I thought it would be (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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With the speed of their ordering system some days, calling 30 min later would make it a different box. I've called to add something on, and missed the original order - one time, I called only FIVE minutes later, and the first order was working it's (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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