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Tonight there is a new newsgroup area on LUGNET dedicated to discussions about LEGO as a company and to being an "online communication-to-LEGO channel." It is starting out small, with the option to grow it as needed over the coming months/years. (A (...) (24 years ago, 11-Apr-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.lego, lugnet.lego.direct) !!
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| | Re: Women's Soccer
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Ah, now that the Futbol sets are widely available, I can let my nefarious plans be known to the world!! Mwah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! <*ahem*> I have to get a digital camera, so that I may photograph my women's Futbol team, the Marauders. They are M-Tron (...) (24 years ago, 10-Apr-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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Dear Lego, I recently purchased two #3501 Black Racer ZNAP sets at Toys R Us. I expected to get the parts to make the black and yellow car. Instead, inside the box were the pieces and instruction book from set #3502 Green Jet! Not believing Lego (...) (24 years ago, 10-Apr-00, to lugnet.dear-lego) !
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Frank Filz <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:Fsq63E.C9K@lugnet.com... (...) 6 (...) though, (...) Thanks, I have ordered a couple. The hair is hopefully on its way to us. Shiri Dori mentioned this pack not that long ago and I let it (...) (24 years ago, 10-Apr-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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"sheree rosenkrantz" <srosez@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:FspvKD.2qq@lugnet.com... (...) set (...) buy. (...) women's (...) but (...) I completely agree with Sheree's points. I bought two 3401 sets and gave one to my son on Saturday. He was (...) (24 years ago, 10-Apr-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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Hi I just bougth a town wood plate. It have a Blue Lego mark and it must from 50´s. I saw in your message that you mention a 1957 German Town Plan #700, where I can found a picture of it?. Or from the other Town plans? The second question is where I (...) (24 years ago, 10-Apr-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Agreed! Mars needs women. ...er, wrong movie. (...) Put a belville head on... ++Lar (25 years ago, 9-Apr-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Yes, one can. And that only emphasizes Lego's modern enlightened attitude that sophisticated construction toys are for boys, while toys for girls are specially made with more pre-fab parts and less building potential. (25 years ago, 9-Apr-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Well, you can rip the head of a belville lady and jam it in the neck socket of a decapitated technic guy. Alan (25 years ago, 9-Apr-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) And how about some female technic people? (25 years ago, 9-Apr-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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sheree rosenkrantz wrote in message ... (...) but (...) Call up Shop at Home and see if they still have service pack 5393, it has 6 pony tail pieces and 3 shoulder length straight hair pieces. I agree though, TLC, let's see more ladies (or at least (...) (25 years ago, 9-Apr-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) They could just be women with short hair:) Alan (25 years ago, 9-Apr-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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Dear Lego, My 10 year old daughter has today become the proud and happy owner of set #3401. I see it as the first of many of this theme we are destined to buy. She has been playing with it for the last 5 hrs. Thanks for the extra ball. Women's (...) (25 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.dear-lego) !
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Frank Filz wrote in message <38EDE013.446B@minds...ng.com>... (...) Some of the Mickey sets show up when you do a standard search on Mickey. Rose (25 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: O'Reilly book news
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(...) There's tons of precedent on using trademarked names in titles of books. I don't believe my publisher was ever seriously concerned about losing a court case. But they didn't want to bother going to court, and there's a lot of value in a good (...) (25 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Ummm, obviously that page isn't visited much by LugNuts. I found it by accident about a month ago after trying to log onto the forums after someone emailed me that they had rendered my compressor in MLCad. The hoops I had to go through to get (...) (25 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.dear-lego)
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"Dave Baum" <dbaum@spambgoneenteract.com> wrote in message news:dbaum-FAB69A.18...net.com... (...) Get both books, cheaper, from Varisty Books: (URL) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) When I signed my contract with O'Reilly, they indicated that net income on a book was approximately 50% of the cover price, so yes, if they make a profit it's negligible at best in these cases... (...) In my case, the contract was based on net (...) (25 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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In lugnet.robotics, David Schilling writes: [...] (...) From what I understand, Amazon makes no profit when a book is 30% off list and then grants a 15% referral fee.[1] The 15% is a maximum. A visitor to their site would need to buy directly (...) (25 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Not to mention, of course, the whole thing where these books are nothing but beneficial to Lego, and much more beneficial if they actually use their name in the title. (To make another analogy: a book called "How to use Linux" is nice for Red (...) (25 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.dear-lego)
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