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FWIW, I only keep the box itself (the outside shell, with the printing on it). I don't keep any of the plastic bags or plastic trays. And if I buy a used set in an auction that says 'with box', I only assume that they have the outer shell of the (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I think the point here is largely mute, since (call me cynical) even if TLG beefs up its offering of parts for club members, it seems to me very unlikely that they would make available each piece currently in production. So it simply wouldn't (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, unless a set is New-In-Box, I wouldn't expect the holey bags or the catalogs to be there. Maybe I'm an exception, but I doubt it. The plastic inlays of the (very) large boxes, that's a different thing. I'd want those to be there. (...) (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) And why would having a few thousand of, say, any particular part stop the sale of sets? Anyway, if sets generally have costs /part of $.10-$.20, Why not make the bulk ordering service at $.25/piece, for the medium-hard-to-get pieces, $.50-$1 (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Now I'm thoroughly confuzzed. :) I thought Jacob said that an LDU = 1/4 LU, which would have been in reference to the LU which means 1/5 of the inter- stud spacing and 1/6 of a standard brick height. So a Jessiman LDU = 1/40 of the standard (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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On Mon, 15 Feb 1999 16:59:32 GMT, Simon Robinson uttered the following profundities... (...) They still have 2 dozen of these at the Hayes TRU. They had started the sale off with about a gross (or so it seemed). (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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On Sun, 14 Feb 1999 16:56:50 GMT, Scott Edward Sanburn uttered the following profundities... (...) Our political parties are still tearing their guts out over the issue. Despite the fact that it is the best thing for everyone (60% or more of our (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) How far does that go toward stopping an individual from buying $25,000 in bulk bricks and reselling these to a local toystore for $25,250? (The profit is only $250 on the transaction. Not bad for about 1 hour of work. :-) Any restriction (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Almost. 1/20 Gyugyi LU = *1* Jessiman LDU = .4 mm. Steve (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, for one thing, memberships would only be available to individuals, not corporations. Although this wouldn't necessarily stop a person from doing this altogether, it would put a cap on the amount of profit that they would be allowed to (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Day 1, but not every article. (...) Jeff Crites started one. --Todd (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) What would it take for them to police/enforce such a requirement? (...) What if someone wanted to buy 500 gray 2x4 bricks and there was a minimum purchase requirement of 10,000? --Todd (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Just curious, how far back have you archived RTL? Wasn't someone going to do a history of RTL at one point? (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) It's impossible to know for sure, but I'd suppose there are somewhere between 1,500 and 3,000 total readers, all things considered (that is, lurkers and overlap between known sets of people due to multiple e-mail addresses). Some details: ~700 (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I used to work in the toy department of a large department store. The markup on almost all of our stuff between our cost and final retail price was about 100%. Some was even more. (...) This shouldn't be an issue. TLG can easily have a (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I wonder how much some of TLG new lines (some of which are fairly decent ideas) suffer from being launched all at once. Look at the Divers line. There are 12 sets, which are all more alike than different. It seems like every set had a sub (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Let me see then -- so 1/20 of a Gyugyi LU is equal to 1/2 of a Gyugyi dLU is equal to 2 Jessiman LDU? (...) :) --Todd (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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I saw the same thing on the UFO sets, but it has been two model years for the sets (At least in the US), and usually, some retailers mark them down if they stay on the shelves. I thought the UFO's were decent (They had some great parts!) but the (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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Just out of curiosity, has anyone else got the impression that the UFO's that were withdrawn this year might have completely flopped saleswise? I've seen tons of the two biggest UFO's going cheap. At the most extreme, Toys R Us had the second (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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Mookie, If you work through this again, let me know what results (ie, errors) you get. Steve (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hi, Jeroen! (...) Way cool. (...) Umm, as has been frequently mentioned, bulk part orders would be great. (...) Depends. If part of the sign-up is that TLG has greater freedom to use the ideas, concepts, models, etc. expressed by club members, (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) But 1/20 is even better. Trust me, I use it all the time. Sometimes, I have a hard time down-converting to something I can discuss with other people without explaining myself. --Steve Studs are spaced at 20 pitch, Plates are 8 units high. (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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What are people's views on whether the resale value of used boxed sets is affected by (a) whether they contain the 1-page catalogues and service sheets, and (b) whether they contain the transparent plastic bags most of the pieces come in. Generally (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I have 3 6071's now. I want more. I might be satisfied with 10. I doubt it, though. (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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What are people's views on whether the resale value of used boxed sets is affected by (a) whether they contain the 1-page catalogues and service sheets, and (b) whether they contain the transparent plastic bags most of the pieces come in. Generally (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) My local TRU has Extreme Creatures in great quantity (2 box width on the shelf, and both looked full all the way to the back). I'm not sure if they have 9730, though. Regards, BOB!! (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Even after I traded you one (with the river crossing on the side ;) you're still clamboring for more of her? :) What are the effects of cloning on a minifig? :) Keep Building!! -Tim <>< (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 New Lugnet Newsgroup? (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Wow! AND you read Lugnet too? (...) Don't know any real-life clubs, but I think of Lugnet as a GlobalLegoClub (...) Probably more than 1000 readers. Todd ? (...) Start making good, solid, nice models and sets again. Even if you keep making (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Oops! (...) Hmmm, (digging through rilly old RTL news archives) wow, looks like the term LU meaning 1/6 standard brick height goes back at least about 4 years -- it appears first to have been suggested on 23 Apr 1995 by Kevin Horton. In a (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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Todd Lehman (lehman@javanet.com) wrote: [...] (...) Take care. Some people use "LDU" for "LDraw Unit", which is 1/4 LU. (...) I don't know. I thought you, Paul or David [1] coined it? Somebody had enough humor (and sense) to suggest that "deciLU" (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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I bought one at Toys R Us. Both of them can be ordered through Sears Christmas Catalog for about $80 each. Does anybody have any idea when the third one is coming out? Rod legobot@hotmail.com smile lots (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Now you see why I jumped when I saw the piece? I had never seen anything like it before...At first, I thought it would be a MagaBlok, or some such offense against ABS. Rob (26 years ago, 7-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Well the UK is still using pounds and is not part of the Euro. (26 years ago, 14-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) =:^o Nope, your reply absolutely positively should not have gone to lugnet.announce. Your post wound up over here because Simon set the Followup-To field of his article to lugnet.general. Note that lugnet.announce is a group for making (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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Op een zekere dag, te weten Wed, 10 Feb 1999 23:37:03 GMT, klom Jason Spangler <stormwind@wombatgames.com> in het toetsenbord en schreef ons: (...) I have scanned the catalog (german) and placed it on my website.... Ardjan ----- Ardjan's YALP (Yet (...) (26 years ago, 14-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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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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(...) Thanks for posting this, Larry. Now I don't have to feel so bad about being the early bird. Might call and order some more myself. (26 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping)
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Guess what? I called S@H on Friday and I was able to order 2152s!!! I got 10. I was told that they were having inventory control trouble and the amount they had was not correct when they thought they were out. (URL) you may want to try... you'll no (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) You are my new role model. Jorge Rodriguez rodriguez.136@osu.edu (26 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Here you go: (URL) Unofficial listing of weekly US Lego Shop at Home phone specials (URL) (S@H USA) / 800-267-5346 (S@H Canada) www.lugnet.com/news/ - Meet more LEGO fans in your area through LUGNET (26 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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Where did the Minifig Generator go??? just curious if you've still got it online Tamy (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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In honor of Valentine's Day, "Flowers-By-Harry" Online wishes to extend the following reminder of their online flower delivery service: (URL) from four lovely Valentine Arrangements, write a custom greeting, address the card, and it's off to the (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
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To All; Amen Thomas! I couldn't agree more! Scott Sanburn (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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Ok.. remembering from vague memory, it's been a while since I played with that version.. I installed it.. it ran pretty good.. I tried the modeler.. it said I didn't have certain parts.. I go searching for the parts I needed.. meanwhile, since it (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Whoa there, daddio, I had to look at almost all the pictures of those sets before I understood what pieces that is. Calling it a tile and giving it a name like 1x1 Tile, Top Compartmented, 1x1 Top, 6H (in Black) doesn't take into consideration (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hey, this reminds me immdiately a single name..could you Guess who?..:-) Selçuk (26 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Excellent. I've always wanted to go. Should we be expecting a full report from the Fair? Photos? (well...) Does Suzanne have 'Toy Industry Insider' or press credentials? Ever hopeful, Scott (26 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) You know, if they did this and coordinated it right so that the GROUP itself made a bulk purchase I think they could easily justify it costwise and effortwise. Can you imagine how many train doors and windows all of the trainheads here and on (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, I didn't check all of them, but the piece in 6891 looks right. Thanks, Joshua. Rob (26 years ago, 5-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I'm not worthy, I'm not worthy.... That's it, Jacob. You nailed it. Thanks. Rob (26 years ago, 5-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hrmmm.... yeah, I think I would have to agree with you. Unbuilding something is always a little depressing, so piling sorting on top of that wouldn't be much fun. (...) :) Makes me think I need to start using those tins for my bricks... wonder (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I am very excited about the possibility of Lego sponsoring special interest clubs made up of adult Lego enthusiasts. I believe that the Lego Group would be making a wise investment of their resources by listening and encouraging a large fan (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I can just say one thing...WOW!.. Being a set designer for TLG have always been a dream job for me, and I think will be forever, too. Since I was given my first set (a 1968 universal, set# 030) in 1975, when I was just turned my 5, and when my (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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Well I don't mind sorting BEFORE you build.. it's afterwards.. when you've built an MOC that uses 500-1000 parts.. and you're pulling it apart so you can build something else.. I just tend to get a little tired of sorting sometimes.. I just sorted a (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) How odd. Somehow I don't think the pirates line did too well in Japan as here in the UK I can currently buy the huge islanders set - don't ask me the name or number, I cannot remember - for 20UKP in Tesco's. This is the set with two 32x32 (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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I got a flagship and I suspected mine was a Japanese set since the catalog that came with it is in Japanese (at least I think it is Japanese). The canon on mine also fires and is different than the cannon on my Cross Bone Clipper (6250). I got my (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) You had _better_ have some pictures of that plane. :-) I started, and pretty much aborted, the same thing, so I really, really want to see what you came up with. Please... -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hrmmmm...... I don't think I'd like that. To be sure, it would be fun sometimes to not have to sort it all, but sorting is pretty fun most of the time. Call me crazy, but since I never build the models that are depicted in the instructions (I (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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To begin: Hooray for Shop@Home! Once again, LEGO Shop at Home delivers in less than the time they told me it would take. I got the order that I placed on Monday (Armada Flagship and Night Lord's Castle) today (Friday) - they told me it would be 'a (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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We just don't break our models apart ;) Jeroen Mookie <Mookie@execpc.com> wrote in article <36C4C0C3.EE45671A@e...pc.com>... Mookie drools :) I would love to not have to sort all my lego! does someone actually do the sorting for you when you're (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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Mookie drools :) I would love to not have to sort all my lego! does someone actually do the sorting for you when you're done, or are you guys nice and clean and don't get everything all messy... <yeah right ;)> I have just one question.. can you (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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Imagine that you have an infinite amount of Lego which you never have to sort ;) Jeroen Alan Shutko <shutkoa@ugsolutions.com> wrote in article (...) There's one question that we'd all like answered that you can probably tell us: Is it as cool as (...) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) i've counted at least four different versions of the german catalog in 98. weird thing. rufus t. (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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Jereon, As for what we want, I would think it would be better for you, and us, if we simply used the lugnet.dear-leog newsgroup, as then you wouldn't get BURIED in email, and we could publicly discuss ideas that you would otherwise only get in (...) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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Jeroen Ottens <ottens@get2net.dk> wrote in message 01be56c6$f3c15680$Lo...@ottens... (...) Hey Jeroen (You lucky son of a ... :') [snip] (...) Sorry, I can't really say on those. But, I guess you could consider Lugnet and RTL virtual clubs. Todd (...) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) There's one question that we'd all like answered that you can probably tell us: Is it as cool as we'd think? (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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Hi everybody, My name is Jeroen Ottens. I work at Lego Futura Technic Billund (the development department of Lego as you will probably know). ... Yes I am one of TLG ... My job is to design some of the new Lego Technic models. However I am also (...) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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Yes, the red spoked wheel is from one of the early-mid 1970's sets that came with those wheels. Most of the sets came with red wheels, but some had them in white. They were common in some of the Model Builders Sets of the 1970's. One such example is (...) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) think I saw those once just before Xmas in Canada (...) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) And in the Netherlands, they were shown on TV just before the holidays They looked great! There was also an add featuring the Insectoids Mark (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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I saw them in a toy/souvenir store chain, from a tv/video set just near the lego shelves. Selçuk Mark Koesel wrote in message ... (...) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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Cool. Whe did these ads air? I've never seen them. -- Mark Koesel koesel@umich.edu Fredrik Glöckner <fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no> wrote in message m3r9rwc7dj.fsf@sade.uio.no... (...) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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I have a few mutilated technic beams that won't "lock" onto anything at all... In fact they are only good for the custom beam w/a hacksaw. Unfortunatly they were 16 stud beams in black, my favorite ones. The bigger the chasis the stronger the car. (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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$40 is worth it, my wife paid $80 at x-mass for mine. And yes... The dragster is most cool motorized w/power steering and all. Scoots around my living room real well too. Definatly get 2 if they are only $40. I would, the fiber optic and green hinge (...) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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This webpage shows some details from how the 1998 Technic ads were made. It's nothing much, but perhaps some of you'll find it interesting: (URL) Oh, and there's some "LEGO adventure" details as well: (URL) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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Robert M. Dye (robdye@writeme.com) wrote: [...] (...) See <URL:(URL). Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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Simon Robinson wrote in message <47C58C0CC8E2D111873...lc.com>... (...) In Turkey, we had two (slightly) different catalogs, too. In February, the first 1998 catalog was released. Than in August a second one with the same cover except a little (...) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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Last year in the UK, we had 3 main Lego catalogues: One in January with the Adventurers on the front cover. Then in August they redesigned it and put the Insectoids on the front cover. Then in November we got a slightly different one that had the (...) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) That's for sure. I couldn't believe that crap got past R&D. No wonder they had financial trouble last year, they're slipping. Dave (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Lots of old sets had the 4x4 spoked wheels. Of course, having said that, I don't have much of a list to offer... :) Here's a starting point: (URL) (...) 1x1 Tile, Top Compartmented, 1x1 Top, 6H (in Black) Qty Set U.S. Set Name Year Theme --- (...) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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Hello, all. I was over at the ECDC (Early Childhood Development Center) in the parish today, and asked to quell a disturbance in the LEGO corner. While there (heehee) I found a piece of monorail track (will have to go back and search more carefully (...) (26 years ago, 4-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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