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Sorry - wrong URL: (URL) Carbon 60 ICQ # 5643170 (26 years ago, 17-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) You mean Tyco and Lego are compatible? *drool* why can't we get that here? anyway: Lego also makes.. or ahs made, at least, 2*2/1*4 hinges of 1 brick high. 375 comes with 8 yellow ones, and some other castle sets come wih grey ones... I've (...) (26 years ago, 17-Jan-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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I know the lego instructions say you can hand wash Lego bricks, but in a garage sale buy recently I got a lot of very grubby white bricks which I was not about to start handwashing, especially when scrubbing one of them with a veggie brush had no (...) (26 years ago, 17-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: TLG - Online Ordering
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Online ordering...... There was a press release or e-mail I had seen from TLG recently, which stated that online ordering would be available soon, and introduced in stages. US first, Euroland, etc. Problems were preventing an initial global launch. (...) (26 years ago, 17-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Minifigs and Music
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(...) There is an organ in the Choir Loft picture of my Cathedral. (URL) was very simply made with 1x1 side stud bricjs and a 1x4 white tile with black lines (form the old space and police sets). (26 years ago, 17-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | New newsgroup lugnet.announce.lsahs
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[Followups set to lugnet.market.shopping] -- A very special new newsgroup lugnet.announce.lsahs has just been created. Here is the charter: lugnet.announce.lsahs (group): Unofficial announcements pertaining to LEGO® Shop-At-Home Service: summaries (...) (26 years ago, 17-Jan-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: MiniFig Ponderings?
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(...) Thanks, Selçuk, but I think I will have a hard time buying a set with the name "girl friend" or "princess" on it. Just not "Macho"(1) enough. :-) -- Terry K -- 1. Slang term from the Spanish "Machismo", which is something to do with excessive (...) (26 years ago, 17-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: MiniFig Ponderings?
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(...) I have a bellvilian female child, but her head has a smaller connection for a technifig neck. It should be an adult female bellvilian if you want to try. In the current range, adults only comes with larger sets, so you'd better to wait for new (...) (26 years ago, 16-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: MiniFig Ponderings?
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(...) So does the Belville head pop right on like the Technic head does? Cool motorcycle as well. :-) -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 16-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: When is a set a set?
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(...) Primarily, Element Count rules. Whichever set is larger, that's the complete set, and the set to which the Mini-Figure belongs. If the sets are close in size, or if the element is sufficiently rare, then a very rare element will of course (...) (26 years ago, 16-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Hi, and the meaning of life...
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(...) which (...) Well said Jim. You make a strong point. If TLG did not continue to make new pieces and themes it would have lost sales a long time ago. The Lego we knew is just what you said... nostalgia. With the addition of new pieces we can (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Mad magazine & LEGO
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I discovered a reference to LEGO in the Feb. 1999 issue of Mad magazine: In the "Slam's End catalogue of pro wrestling merchandise," there is an "advertisement" for LEGO tables and chairs that are less damaging than real chairs[1]: (URL) and that (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: US S@H Phone Specials 1/11/99 - 1/17/99
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They are in the back of the Spring 1998 S@H catalog. (...) look (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Hi, and the meaning of life...
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Hello all! I'm somewhat new to the group(s), and I must say, lugnet is most excellent! I tried to follow RTL many years ago but just couldn't manage. I have to commend all of you on the high level of both quality and tone in these groups! Anyway, (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Argh! I waited too long
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... I feel your pain ... a couple of weeks ago, I tried to get a 8425, but not no avail ... What would really be nice, is a listing of tentative release dates, and tentative 'retirement' dates for sets ... of course officially from Lego. So one (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: MiniFig Ponderings?
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(...) That'll teach them to mess with the mob. "Mr. Bricks doesn't like it when a guy walks outta the room when he's talkin'. You ain't gonna be walkin' nowhere no more!" Regards, BOB!! (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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Eric Brok wrote in message ... (...) <snipped reference that says Steve is paraphrasing someone else....> That's funny. I was born in Germany, and have definitely inherited the follow instructions gene. But since I married an Irish-Canadian, and had (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Argh! I waited too long
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Drat. I just called S@H, and the Diving Expedition Explorer, #6560, is no longer available. Double-drat. In somewhat better news, the nice S@H operator said there is some hope that they will be getting more Giant Model Sets, #8277, so I ordered 4. (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Bug in pause..?
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(...) Well, it doesn't handle it at all well if you have your hands shifted over one letter. It returned no matches for: hs;scu rc[;ptrt Not that I expected it would, or think it should. Regards, BOB!! (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Bug in pause..?
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(...) Actually, it did find it along with 18 other things; it just didn't find one thing like the first example. I must be fair about this, though it did include Saucer Scout in one of the possible answers. -Tom McD. (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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