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If you had the chance to buy a 8480 Space Shuttle or a 8880 Super Car for approximately the same amount of money, what would you choose? And why? I can't buy both, so I have to decide soon. Laurentino Martins [mailto:lau@mail.telepac.pt] [(URL) (26 years ago, 31-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: TLG == Lego ? "Yes" : "No"
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(...) runs, (...) American (...) I agree. For what does the acronym stand? -- Steven | svore at mindspring .com | kf4fbk | TC++MS++#15LS+M+HalYB64m (26 years ago, 31-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Okay... I'm lost here.
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(...) I wasn't aware of them. I thought usage of "microfig" (as well as "minifig") is pretty much unofficial. Has "microfig" been used in Lego marketing already? (...) It's my understanding that physical scale is variable and up to the modeller. (...) (26 years ago, 31-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: TLG == Lego ? "Yes" : "No"
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(...) I suspected as much. Is TLG, then, the family-owned comany that KKK (1) runs, or does TLG own that company? Cheers, - jsproat 1. What a horrible acronym! At least, for those familiar with the American cult labelled such. (26 years ago, 31-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: TLG == Lego ? "Yes" : "No"
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(...) The Lego Group (a.k.a. "TLG") is a multinational conglomerate (if that's the right term) and is the "parent" company of approximately 40-50 companies. Companies in the Lego Group have names like LEGO Systems Inc., LEGOLAND California Inc., (...) (26 years ago, 31-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Okay... I'm lost here.
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(...) If they are micro-fig scale then what are the small non-minifig promo polybags then? Do I have to invent the term milli-fig scale? Millifig scale proposal: Uses a 2x2x1 45 degree slope piece as a window Uses the inverted piece as part of a (...) (26 years ago, 31-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | TLG == Lego ? "Yes" : "No"
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Folks, What is the difference between the Lego Group (TLG) and Lego as a company? The latter (I assume) manufactures Lego products, while the former sounds like an investment group. TLG seems to hold all the copyrights, etc. Isn't Lego privately (...) (26 years ago, 31-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Numbers and Letters set, anyone get this?
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Pitsco in their new catalog has a set N779816 which is 276 tiles with sans-serif single letters. The description says they "connect to Duplo building plates and bricks". Anyone get these? How big are they? If they are 2x2 duplo studs that may be a (...) (26 years ago, 31-Jan-99, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: My new lego web pages
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This page is art! I think we have a Cool Lego Site of the Week contender, here. Todd? Greg (...) (26 years ago, 31-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Sorry to tell you this....Throwbots.
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All the throwbots in this area have sold out. Beside the throwbots display were all the discounted half price sets. I know this event does not affect regular collectors or does it? If Lego knows they can sell these sets easier than regular sets, I (...) (26 years ago, 30-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Okay... I'm lost here.
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I don't recal seeing the Bears in Belleville but Bellville adults and technic fig are almost the same scale if not (sorry I can't check now ) (...) round (...) Martin (26 years ago, 30-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) What scale would you call it if you were building for the little Belleville bears that stand up? Are Belleville adults the same size as technic adults? (I'll check this tonight at home.) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 1970's-'80's collection FOTW?
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FOTW nothing, more like a FOTY. You wouldn't by chance be interested in selling the 0918 Space Transport, would you? -John Van Mark Harrison wrote in message <36B1BB36.E6FFBDD9@o...net.au>... (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) (Whiping the drool from my face) Congratulations! Any chance of an auction? Mark (26 years ago, 29-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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Hi All, Just picked up a collection that appears to be complete and in excelent to near mint condition, which is great as the majority of the sets were released between 1973 and 1982. It contained plenty of classic lego sets, with instructions and (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Adventurer (Egyptian) sets
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(...) These are the new 'Amazon' ones. Details and pictures of all Adventurers sets at: (URL) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Pyramids
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For any of you interested, here's how I came up with the slopes formula: Layer 1 and 2 have no 2x2 slopes, they start at layer 3. Layer 3 has 4, layer 4 has 8, 5 has 12, etc. (add 4 to each layer). This gives the series: sum(0,0,4,8,12, ... (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Thoughts on having preferred customers in auctions
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Michael Ulring wrote in message <36AE9BC8.CC361301@e...uc.edu>... :2. My preferred bidders will bid higher than they would otherwise :because they are always mentally including their discount in their bids, :thus driving the price higher than it (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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Great job! You knew all that algebra and geometry had to be good for something someday. Sure enough - for building toys. Rob Farver wrote in message <36b1be61.7834646@lu...et.com>... :Incidentally, while writing Tom on this subject today I came up (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Old Window in new color!
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(...) (Gasp!) You forgot 6375 Gas Station! ;) BTW, it had a clear pane. Jeff (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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