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OK, folks, I was on the phone with my favorite toy store today, trying to find out when the new Ninja sets would arrive. They didn't have an arrival date, but, I got the guy to give me names and prices. (I won't promise that these prices are MSRP - (...) (26 years ago, 12-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Lego Design Contest?
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(...) S'cuze me, but try reading what I really said, rather than what you have read into it. I did NOT say that a good model has to have a lot of bricks; in fact, my favorite self-designed model is a spiral staircase, consisting of 2x6 plates, 1x2 (...) (26 years ago, 4-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | TECHNIC 8448
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Heya all ! What do you think about this new TECHNIC set ? I like it ! But what do you think - what of mark is it ? In my opinion Chevrolett Corvette. It has this GMC sign in front part of model. What do you think ? Bye. Rene (26 years ago, 12-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Lego Design Contest?
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Mike Stanley wrote in message ... (...) amorphous (...) another (...) topic (...) submission, (...) hmmm, I have seen some other contests ran where while contest one is occuring the topics for contest two are allready available. This gives twice (...) (26 years ago, 12-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Lego Design Contest?
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Richard Dee wrote in message ... (...) smallest (...) I agree. In fact, when I first started playing with Lego's again I was trying hard to think of small things to build, figuring that I'd learn more in a quick time building lots of small projects (...) (26 years ago, 12-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Lego Design Contest?
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(...) Wrong! Most of my best Technic creations were built when I had only the red motor, blue pneumatic and yellow flex sets! Now that I have 20 times that many bricks and pieces, it is soooo much harder for me to build anything decent! Too many (...) (26 years ago, 10-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Lego Design Contest?
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(...) That sounds great. I wouldn't be worried about burnout as much as I would just not giving people enough time to work up and complete a design. But I think this works for that. (26 years ago, 11-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 8868 FOS space shuttle
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(...) Heya ! How many batteries needs this LEGO ? Thanx. Rene e-mail: virsik@usaf.org (26 years ago, 11-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Should RTL be hosted on this server?
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Speaking for myself, I feel RTL should not be carried here, and membership should be sought other ways (1). (...) I am not particularly sympathetic to this, and for me it is not a concern. (...) Too much work to configure two readers? But not to (...) (26 years ago, 11-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 8868 FOS space shuttle
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <36717CA7.4B0988A0@c...AM.com>... (...) They're great - I only have two, but for a while I had both assembled (built the alternate as well) and they're great models. The space shuttle is a lot of work to build, and (...) (26 years ago, 11-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 8868 FOS space shuttle
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Linc Smith wrote in message ... (...) Similar. The clutches etc are, but the gear lever and H-plate are different. Moz (26 years ago, 11-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 8868 FOS space shuttle
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(...) Oh, ya, it has one micro, one big (oldstyle) regular motor, a BUNCH of gears, a big black turntable (the one you get from Dacta/Pitsco is grey) a boatload of black and white beams in all sizes, but especially long ones, some of those (...) (26 years ago, 11-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 8868 FOS space shuttle
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(...) I have 4 or 5, I forget which (I think 5) 3 or 4, I forget which, went straight into my parts bins. I've never built one so can't say how the gear shifter works. Maybe over winter solstice holiday I will build one, but I doubt it, no time. I'd (...) (26 years ago, 11-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 8868 FOS space shuttle
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I believe I have seen this posed before and it was confirmed to be the same setup as that on the Super Car 8880. It allows a shifting mechanism to engage one of four positions at a time. It uses a gear with teeth on the outside but allows a rod (...) (26 years ago, 11-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 8868 FOS space shuttle
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Jasper Janssen wrote in message <36715fd5.156096339@...et.com>... (...) I would like to add a question: Is the gear shifter the same as in the Super car? Same components (slipping clutch mech. or ver axle extenders)? LINC (26 years ago, 11-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | 8868 FOS space shuttle
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Is the Space Shuttle worth getting? It looks like it has some cool stuff, but how many useful Technic parts are there? Gears? Motors? Beams? Thanks, jasper (26 years ago, 11-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Hmm
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(...) I once gave a windsurfing minifig to a professor (1) with a shark biting the board. He was very amuzed since he was an avid windsurfer. But the fun stuff happened latter. When students came to his office they would always figet with the (...) (26 years ago, 11-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Should RTL be hosted on this server?
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Earlier, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote stuff, most of which I agree with. (...) I don't think cross-posting all groups is a good idea. Particularly, groups like - lugnet.admin.database - lugnet.admin.statistics - lugnet.robotics - (...) (26 years ago, 11-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Should RTL be hosted on this server?
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(...) I'm against having it here too, but I'd prefer the messages NEVER expire. (26 years ago, 11-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Anti-Lego People
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(...) I don't consider you to be anti-Lego, Tony. You still have all your older sets, don't you? You're still participating in Lego discussions and such. I'd like to know what you think of Mindstorms, too. This set is made to promote building. There (...) (26 years ago, 11-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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