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(...) Yeah, you should what I've got planned for Islander canoes... (...) And at current auction prices, they'd only cost me like $700. :O (...) Yep. Kids had a great time with them. Then they got taken apart, and the pieces all ended up scattered (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) 20. 16 yellow, 4 grey. Also a few 1*1's with holes, and a lotta long axles. Lotta other useful stuff. (...) That's for those who didn't get it at $22 SAH weekly. Of course, I can't get SAH, and they sold out withion a day anyway, but still... (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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I would like to thank you all for the good reasons you gave me for purchasing these two sets. I contacted LEGO and they said that besides the Space Shuttle is no longer built, they still have a few sets for sale, so I decided to buy it in a local (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Nono... _Madonna_ is the wannabe. :-) Jasper (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) acquisition (...) that (...) So that's what I got from my friend! There were some pieces mixed in with the Lego I got from him. I kinda remeber the set it was from, and I think he got in the early '80s. I didn't even know they were still (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) My renegade did. Jorge Rodriguez rodriguez.136@osu.edu (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Ah. I got this set on mark-down, so I was pretty happy. It's funny -- I can never have enough mini-figs, but more than a few technic-guys are overkill. Maybe because they're more alike than minifigs. (...) You mean the piece that used to be (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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Steve Bliss wrote in message <36b73a54.17245324@l...et.com>... (...) I don't remember what it had. Its the only set that I've bought and immediately sorted into parts. I never built up any of the models as part of the set. It has a lot of the snap + (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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[followups set to lugnet.publish] (...) It's totally awesome (it almost doesn't let you take a bad picture!). I think most digital cameras today have this property because of the instantaneous feedback on the LCD screen which lets you get the (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Other than the lack of gears, how would you rate #8277 for parts? (...) Heck, for 16L beams, it's a great set. Looking at the catalog picture, I can see about 16 of these things. And the price was right -- 546 technic pieces for 44USD. From (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Of course it is! :-) I was looking at Jim Hughes' Technica index, which listed it as "from 8232", or something. Fredrik (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I think it's in a wholly separate line because LEGO MINDSTORMS is a separate division/unit of LEGO (supposedly as separate as LEGO MEDIA and LEGO DACTA, for example). Still silly for us fans, though, I totally agree. I'd also put MindStorms as (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) That's an old maxifig hand. :) It also came in 6544 Shuttle Transcon 2 and an old space set 6901 Mobile Lab. (I'm sure there were others too.) (...) No, they're stickered. Great for red minifig dresses. --Todd (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Aha, those sound like a lot more plausible reasons. (...) Maybe I'll work one of the ball-joint thingies into the base of the dentist chair and have a combination g-force vomit comet / dentist chair. :) I misspoke about the camera, BTW. We're (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I'm thinking of getting a digital camera myself, could you elaborate slightly on the usefullness of the Mavica for taking pictures of LEGO MOC's? Is the macro mode useful? Do you use the flash? How many images go on one floppy disk? I'll be (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) It looks cool, yes, but I try to avoid sets with Technic figures, as I hardly ever use them. BTW, this sets seems to be the only one which has a special piece, a 1x1 round plate with ball joint connector. What purpose does this have in the (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I agree. True, I haven't built any TB yet (they're not in Norway), but from what I have seen, the parts look really useful. I can hardly wait 'til I have them in my Technic collecting. Also, notice that many of the 1999 Technic sets already (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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Sidebar here - Todd, how many SW sets have you preordered for AucZILLA XI or XII? ;-) GOTTA have those orange 1x3s, but I'm not buying 10 Snowspeeders to get them... (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | | Please do (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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Jasper Janssen wrote in message <36b84515.2564735@lu...et.com>... (...) Really? I disagree... it has almost no gears. Mechanics are the essence of Technic for me, and 8277 was really lacking there. If you like yellow beams its a great set though. I (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) and I know why, too. (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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