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(...) Well, I'm emerginf from a mini-Dark Ages, so the number is a bit skewed but I made it over 1% just in auctions, and I think with the stuff I've bought for my niece & nephews (and me) new, the total probably is close to 2%. Regards, BOB!! (URL) (26 years ago, 5-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I don't have them yet. Another person also offered me some of their old Lego, but still haven't received those either. I am thinking maybe they were just humouring me. Fingers crossed, though! ___...___ richard.dee@nospam.virgin.net remove (...) (26 years ago, 5-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) what (...) I think that age might be closer to 30..... Another common factor is the fact that many people here buy for themselves, and for their children. The other, probably more interesting factor is that many people here could probably (...) (26 years ago, 5-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Judging from the french and Spanish, they want to say - It's so magical, or something along those lines. Jasper (26 years ago, 5-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Wizard? Huh? What? Last I knew that was a NOUN. And it didn't mean anything that makes sense in that sentence. (26 years ago, 5-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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front page - on the front of the X-wing, there's a part that hinges up. Anyone think they know what that's for? page 2 - Vader,Luke, Leia, Han mini-figs in the Sw logo, at least, even if they don't turn up in sets. Personally I think We'll see (...) (26 years ago, 5-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) EXCELLENT! Just looking at the cover it is plain to see we are getting at least 2 grey inside corner medium slope bricks! Not to mention some 2x2 and 2x4 grey slopes. As if that weren't enough, the snow speeder appears to have 2 grey OUTSIDE (...) (26 years ago, 5-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) No problem. Bugs happen. I am just naturally a very, _very_ curious person, and when that happened, well, I got very curious as to what was causing it. And I figured I'd let you know in case you didn't know yet. You could, of course, just (...) (26 years ago, 5-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Any word that ends in 'er' is currently gacking it -- so if you search for "Galaxy Explorer" or "Pooper Scooper" it'll gack too. It's a bug in some low-level DB stuff that's going away soon. (I suspect a buffer is overflowing somewhere because (...) (26 years ago, 5-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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[Crossposted to lugnet.announce & lugnet.general; followups set to lugnet.general] Richard LaCalamito <docrich@gte.net> of Florida is producing 150 dpi JPEG scans of the new 1999 catalog, which is out now at the LEGO Imagination Center in Orlando, (...) (26 years ago, 5-Dec-98, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
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Hi. (URL) me an internal server error.... Weird doesn't begin to describe it :) Jasper (26 years ago, 5-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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Hi: (...) The purpose of putting all of the images into a large graphic had two reasons First, to have the element labels directly associated with the element and have similar elements grouped for easy comparison. I liked the idea of having no call (...) (26 years ago, 5-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) The Cherry Picker Truck set number 4541 is part of the Trains theme. It has both rail and road wheels. Grahame Reid (26 years ago, 5-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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I live pretty close to the Lego Imagination Center at WDW so I went down this morning to pick up a set and get the new catalog. The scans currently posted to LUGNET are a little blurry so here are my descriptions: Tech Play: 8252 - Blue and white (...) (26 years ago, 5-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Getting there. :) Except for the burn I've been down all those roads as well. :/ (26 years ago, 5-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yup. A massive change in my diet brought that to an end, thankfully. Now I just have to eat things like green vegetables, citrus fruits, caffeine, peanuts, and other things in moderation. 10 times total - 8 times in 2 months. (...) Morphine (...) (26 years ago, 5-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Richard LaCalamito of Florida reports that he has just returned this morning from a 90-minute trip (45x2) to the LIC in Orlando and has a catalog in hand and is scanning it in now. So we should be able to see more details soon -- hopefully in (...) (26 years ago, 5-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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I don't know about anybody else, but I really like the cherry picker truck and the fact that us Town fans will have some road signs. The cherry picker doesn't look like Town Jr. at all, and I kind of like the new fire engine. As a Train fan, I'm (...) (26 years ago, 5-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) jasper (26 years ago, 5-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) contents on single images, and to put the names of pieces on the images, thus making the names unsearchable. And another issue: I've never seen the author discussing the names of the pieces with other people on the newsgroups. That way, we (...) (26 years ago, 5-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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