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Oops, how did that end up over here, should have gone to Lugnet.announce. .....Duh [SteveScott] (26 years ago, 14-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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Could be a strong case here for Lugnet.barcode.boffins :) Cheers [SteveScott] Carbon 60 wrote in message <36C6E275.48D558FF@b...ot.com>... (...) (26 years ago, 14-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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Tom Stangl, VFAQman wrote in message <36C65305.A351656B@vfaq.com>... <snip> (...) even with (...) running (...) 100%+ mark-up, in your dreams!! Where did this figure come from? I don't know if the system is different in the states, but in the UK, (...) (26 years ago, 14-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) For those of us who think 2002 is a long way off, yes :) But the point is more or less that it doesn't matter whether it's in euros or in pounds or guilders or what-have-you: They can still charge more euros in england than somewhere else, (...) (26 years ago, 14-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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Richard, You'll have to excuse me (I'm from the US), but isn't the Euro going to take care of that eventually, or is it still a long way off? Scott Sanburn (...) (26 years ago, 14-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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Op een zekere dag, te weten Tue, 9 Feb 1999 11:41:52 GMT, klom Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> in het toetsenbord en schreef ons: (...) This is sad news. Why? I have sold him once a piece, but unfortunately it arrived damaged. But Gary was so (...) (26 years ago, 14-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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On Sun, 14 Feb 1999 03:18:25 GMT, Mark Tarrabain uttered the following profundities... (...) IF a bulk ordering service were to be made available, and I really hope that it is, it is more than likely that they would be priced at a premium. That way (...) (26 years ago, 14-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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On Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:42:22 GMT, Jason Spangler uttered the following profundities... (...) I had some painting errors on a couple of the Space Port tiles. No malformed piecies, but some where the paint double-struck or missed. A bit of ghosting on (...) (26 years ago, 14-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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SLIZERS (Throwbots in the US) have made it my town in the UK, I noticed however that they are all made in Switzerland not Denmark, I suppose Denmark may be being freed up to make Star Wars sets, I noticed 2854 was made in Switzerland in 1998. I know (...) (26 years ago, 14-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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I went into my local supermarket looking for Ziplock freeyer bags and visited the LEGO section, they had some of the smaller Ninja sets in (these are new for the UK) - the copyrights were 1998 - Made in Denmark. Anyway I saw 4805 along with them - (...) (26 years ago, 14-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Me too! If only they'd appeared in white a few times (because of all the white corridor elements). I think they only appeared in black & blue. (...) In that nomenclature, how do you write fractional plate measurements? A plate is 2 LU tall, 1 (...) (26 years ago, 14-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) all (...) ain't (...) realistic (...) I agre with almost all suggestion I saw until now. For bulk part I suggest that most of the bricks, plates, and ALL other structural parts (the most commun one) that they be sold in incremantal quantity of (...) (26 years ago, 14-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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Hi All, Are the current expansion kits for Mindstorms (9732 Extreme Creatures and 9730 Robosports) easy to come by or are they hard to find? I can't find either of them in any auctions on eBay or elsewhere. Kevin Wilson Vancouver, BC (26 years ago, 14-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) When you get a little order you'll learn that companies don't stay in business by selling products at cost, even to valued customers. :) (26 years ago, 14-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Agreed - ESPECIALLY an ID card that is nice thick plastic like a credit card. Like the Legoland CA Primo Pass I'l be picking up Mar 14 at the preview opening ;-) (...) Agreed (...) AGREED (...) NOT AGREED. They would have no incentive to do (...) (26 years ago, 14-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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And for anyone that buys these sets for parts and splits them up, please note that I need 2x2 45deg black slopes, which this set has 8 of (I don't count the 4 printed ones), so check my Wants page at (URL) to see what I have to trade for them. (...) (26 years ago, 14-Feb-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Uh... I don't work for TLG, of course, but I can be pretty sure that this ain't gonna happen. Unless you're on the payroll of a company, it's not very realistic to expect them to supply you with stuff at their cost. Certainly a much lower (...) (26 years ago, 14-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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I think that allthough I am the youngest lugnet user (I think, 13 years old) that I and many others would prefer to join if the following was done: Membership cards and Certificates A FULL sized qaurterly magazine (as opposed to the *pathetic* lego (...) (26 years ago, 14-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) No, it doesn't (take that into consideration). The name comes from a day when I named things more for their modification of a defined element, rather than entire bounding-box approach to size. Since they're no longer made, I haven't had reason (...) (26 years ago, 14-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yeah, Larry would probably buy enough by himself to be considered a whole group of people :) Jasper "Auczilla might profit, too" Janssen (26 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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