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(...) ha! I think it's safe for me to say that that wasn't it. just funny to me how much it looks like the minifig generator on steroids... I like how their characters move. Anyway, my work was more like product concepts of the plastic kind. ..and (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.games.lego.racers)
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| | Re: Loading Lego Loco
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(...) No prob... the way to figure out where a post should go would be to look at the newsgroup hierarchy from the web interface... read the group charters to get a sense for what is and isn't OK. Reading the lugnet.cad charter would have quickly (...) (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.games.lego.loco, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Loading Loco
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Hi, We bought an unopenend Lego Loco at a discount store and I can't get it to load on the computer. Install shield comes on, runs for awhile, shutsdown and then my computer runs super slow until I reboot. Any ideas or suggestions for me to try. (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.games.lego.loco)
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| | Re: Lego Racers too violent?
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(...) The cannon is there because Lego doesn't make military toys! Dave! (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.games.lego.racers)
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Oil slicks, faster engines and shields, perhaps. But why the cannon? Nik is in the test track as we speak, firing cannonballs at the grandstand audience. Sigh. At least they didn't simulate blood and guts. I do like some of the effects (if you (...) (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.games.lego.racers)
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(...) Fess up, was THAT the consulting gig you did? <grins, ducks and runs... Suz will probably never tell what she did, that would be a violation of contract, I imagine> (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.games.lego.racers)
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I'm not sure when LMI put up the link, but it was news to me. So I did a search here before posting. I did find this from a while back: (URL) this download site lacked the extra info of the developer's dedicated area. Looks like it's been getting (...) (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.games.lego.racers)
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Wow! The demo is finally available on the LEGO site? I d/l'd this *weeks* ago on a 3D game site... Build On! John Matthews Suzanne D. Rich <suz@baseplate.com> wrote in message news:FnFtJ0.LLw@lugnet.com... (...) available at (...) commercial: (...) (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.games.lego.racers)
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| | LEGO Racers demo
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A downloadable demo (12.7 MB) of the PC version of LEGO Racers is available at (URL) The download actually comes from developer High- voltage software's site where there's a summary, reviews and a US TV commercial: (URL) (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.games.lego.racers, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: I got a Friends demo CD in the mail
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(...) I have the full version. We tried it last night on our Mac through Virtual PC. It ran fine (mostly). I think the concept of an audio/performance construction kit is neat. The girls' dialogue however, was disappointing. A very weak and (IMO) (...) (25 years ago, 25-Dec-99, to lugnet.games.lego.friends)
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Taya's playing with the real thing as I type this. Seems OK, I guess. Very not at all brick related, but we knew that. So far it hasn't repeated a sequence, stuff seems to be happening, so I guess it's like an interactive adventure of sorts. (25 years ago, 25-Dec-99, to lugnet.games.lego.friends)
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| | Re: LEGO Racers on Playstation
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Greetings and Best wishes for this time of year :) Played LEGO Racers a fair bit today and well it is extrememly enjoyable :) If you've played Mario Kart on Nintendo 64, its very similar style of game. With the exception that you can of cours ebuild (...) (25 years ago, 24-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.au.nsw.syd, lugnet.games.lego.racers)
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Hi, I got Lego Rock Raiders today, maybe someone else mentioned elsewhere on lugnet before, but the new CD-Rom is totally based on a new space theme idea. The story is that the Rock Raiders crew is just cruising around IN SPACE and suddenly gets (...) (25 years ago, 28-Nov-99, to lugnet.games.lego.rockraiders)
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I bought it for my 7 yr old Daughter for Christmas, on the grounds that she likes Scala and is into pop music in a big way. Its also fairly unusual to find games for kids that are not drawing/painting/story books/adventure type things, so it should (...) (25 years ago, 26-Nov-99, to lugnet.games.lego.friends)
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| | lca to vca & editing
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Hi, I've noticed the lca files are really vca files. Does anyone know of a shareware 3d editor that can handle vca files? RSJ (25 years ago, 25-Nov-99, to lugnet.games.lego.creator)
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(...) Only sort of. I mean, they're only sort-of Scala characters. I'm not making any comment on the mouthiness part. The characters do not directly represent any Scala doll I've seen. Heck, they're multi-racial. Scala doesn't do that! (...) I'm (...) (25 years ago, 25-Nov-99, to lugnet.games.lego.friends)
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(...) We got one. Now I am wondering how they knew who to send it to? Did they pick names at random? Or did they look for girls names (though mine was adressed to me, not my daughter). Anyway, I played it. My overall impression is a ggood game, even (...) (25 years ago, 25-Nov-99, to lugnet.games.lego.friends)
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(...) We got this. Seems kind of surprisingly savvy marketing which one just doesn't *expect* from the company we all know and love (to complain about). (...) I posed that question to Taya, and she pondered a bit, then said "well duh, these are (...) (25 years ago, 25-Nov-99, to lugnet.games.lego.friends)
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(...) I didn't get a copy of that software (did see it yesterday at Office Depot), but I think your sound problem could be remedied by going into Quicktime in Control Panel and setting the "sound out" feature to from Directsound to waveOut (or (...) (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.games.lego.friends)
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| | I got a Friends demo CD in the mail
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So, did anyone else get a demo copy of LEGO Friends? It's pretty cheesy, but the worst part is that the subject matter has *nothing* to do with LEGO. The only associations I can find are: 1. 'LEGO' in the title 2. The falling-bricks animated credit (...) (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.games.lego.friends)
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| | When is it due?
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Yesterday while placing some final Holiday orders over at S@H, I wanted to order the LEGOLand CD-ROM game. The rep said it isn't due until April. Now, what I was wondering, and forgot to ask, was if this is due to a backorder, or if the game was (...) (25 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.games.lego.legoland)
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| | Question about chess crdom king minifig
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Can someone please either scan in the instrucructions or make me a parts list? I have just got to have this set sitting in my ldrawn castle -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 21-Nov-99, to lugnet.games.lego.chess)
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| | Re: no minifig in my Island game
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(...) I almost got Loco during the KBKids.com clearance, but I picked Chess instead. I figured at worst I would end up with a chess game that looked cool, along with the king minifig. Still haven't opened it to install it yet, tho... (...) I didn't (...) (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.games.lego.island, lugnet.general)
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(...) Nope. The 'first edition' of LEGO Island included both the limited-edition InfoManiac minifig, and a manual/comic book. I'm not sure if that's the same comic as you mentioned. But the minifig was definitely in the first wave of the software. (...) (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.games.lego.island, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: no minifig in my Island game
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(...) <snip> (...) I bought this game and played it for about 10 mins. before scratching my head and giving up on it...but I tried it again every couple of months or so until one day it clicked :) with me. This is really a wonderful game for (...) (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.games.lego.island, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: no minifig in my Island game
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(...) Dunno about you but if I had gotten a minifig that sucked I would have kept it... <GD&R> (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.games.lego.island, lugnet.general)
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(...) You just had too high of expectations. Personally, I liked running over minifigs with my virtual motorcycle and watching them fall to bits and come together again. I thought the opening movie was very cool too. (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.games.lego.island, lugnet.general)
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(...) Bought it the day it was released to stores - had a minifig. Returned it 2 hours later because it sucked, along with the minifig. (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.games.lego.island, lugnet.general)
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Matthew Miller wrote in message ... (...) Lego (...) a (...) came (...) Thats very possible - I think I worded that badly ("by the time the next three games were released, mini-figs were the chosen premium" would have been better). I think its safe (...) (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.games.lego.island, lugnet.general)
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(...) Matt, I think your right on the order of things, I bought LEGO Island soon after it first came out and it had the mail-in offer in it. A while later I started seeing the boxes labeled "Minifig Inside". Later I started seeing the ones labeled (...) (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.games.lego.island, lugnet.general)
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(...) I'm not sure this is correct. I know I purchased the game when it first came out, long before they had any other games, and it included a minifig. (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.games.lego.island, lugnet.general)
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Sorry for another late response. Awhile back I started scanning old Mania magazines, and learned something about this Lego Island game. Lego Island was the first Lego video game. When it was first released, it included a comic, which I thought was (...) (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.games.lego.island, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Has anyone used Lego Chess with success
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(...) When I first installed LEGO Chess, the movement of the cursor and response to key presses was so slow that the game was unplayable. The purchase of an expensive 3D video card enabled the game to run correctly. Grahame Reid (25 years ago, 16-Oct-99, to lugnet.games.lego.chess)
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(...) I saw this the other day. There is a downloadable patch for the english version. I don't know if this will correct your problem, but it might. (URL) Gatrelle (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.games.lego.chess)
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| | Re: no minifig in my Island game
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(...) Yes -- It was included in the box I bought. There was a sticker on the box which said "Minifig inside!", or something to that effect. (25 years ago, 13-Oct-99, to lugnet.games.lego.island, lugnet.general)
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Paul Mison wrote in message <38043C6A.C548D5A@so....co.uk>... (...) The last time I was at the Orlando LEGO Imagination Center they had mouse pads for sale. I was going to pick one up until I noticed the price - $9.95! Hard to justify $10 for a (...) (25 years ago, 13-Oct-99, to lugnet.games.lego.island, lugnet.general)
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(...) not (...) figure (...) only (...) set. It had a specified end date, it took a while for me to get the fig, I later saw boxes marked "special figure included" or whatever the phrasing was. The newest boxes I've seen have had a free "LEGO comic (...) (25 years ago, 13-Oct-99, to lugnet.games.lego.island, lugnet.general)
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(...) It was a separate promotional item- I have one from ECTS (European computer trade show) that a friend picked up for me. This would have been in September 1998, I think. I don't have the game though. There are also a few Lego mouse mats in the (...) (25 years ago, 13-Oct-99, to lugnet.games.lego.island, lugnet.general)
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Hmmm, I can honestly say that the very first copies received in-store did not include any kind of figure. Is it possible that the bagged Infomaniac figure was a promotional item that could have been handed out to buyers and then only in specific (...) (25 years ago, 12-Oct-99, to lugnet.games.lego.island, lugnet.general)
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| | Has anyone used Lego Chess with success
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Hello all- My son purchased Lego Chess from Scholastic Book Club. We tried running it on our windows 98 box... but it crashes after signing in. (The audio plays, but the graphics freeze). Before I spend hours on the phone with customer support, I (...) (25 years ago, 11-Oct-99, to lugnet.games.lego.chess)
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