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Has anyone received their Legoland Primo Passes yet?? I thought they were supposed to ship in January. March 14 is just around the corner. I would look pretty silly sitting on the hill with a telescope trying to see inside. :[ Barry (26 years ago, 3-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) angle. (...) LOL! I think you win for random comment of the day. --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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It would be nice if TLG made frogs, but my daughter did the next best thing unintentionally: she put a little frog sticker on a road plate. It looks pretty convincing because the sticker has the frog image at an angle. It looks it was run over. -Tom (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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So has anyone tried to come up with names for these awful Throwbot pieces? Here is my first cut. Can you figure out which piece I'm talking about by reading the name? Disclaimer: I only have 3 of the sets (8504, 05 and 07) so I'm probably missing (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Clones & Tente
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(...) I've got some TENTE space figures to go with figure scale spaceships - the same size as LEGO ones. Steve Bliss wrote: (...) I think the top-stud-joining-brick-bottom should be the rule appiled to any such 'Clone' newsgroup to prevent the (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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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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| | Re: Need help deciding... -> Decided: 8480!
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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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| | Re: ng for clone/imitation brands
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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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| | Re: ThrowBots elements are cool
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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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