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(...) destroyed (...) get (...) I still have a couple of these sorted in with the old metal axel wheels (my kids opt for the newer wheels on nearly all of their creations) Now that you mention it, I distinctly remember trying to make a train with (...) (26 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yup. I had 4 of these at one point as you got one with each box of wheels/axle bricks you bought. I only have one now. I distinctly remember one was destroyed by my chewing on it when I was about 8. Sigh. I also remember trying very hard to (...) (26 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) This was used as a trailer hitch conection during the Samsonite era. You connect one end to the "car" and one end to the "trailer" element. I think it was also used on the early legoland train models that rolled on the blue track with red 2X2 (...) (26 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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as formerly mentioned, i recently got set #375 (1960s Samsonite brick set) at a yard sale for $1. not too special -- it's just a "universal" style set -- but it has a lot of clear bricks and old-style windows and doors and wheels and whatnot, which (...) (26 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) don't forget that the women got to wear skirts made of ~60-degree sloping bricks! also, i loved the reversible hair pieces. sideburns? :) (...) i don't remember jointed-arm kids -- my only jointed-arm-figure set i can recall was homemaker (...) (26 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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AFAIK, "maxifig" is the unofficial name for the "big people" of the 70's (the ones that you mentioned below), which are also called as "bendyarm"s. I haven't hear any approved term for technic figures, but I prefer calling them "technifigs"..:-D (...) (26 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Nope. See below. I call 'em Technic Guys. (Hopefully someday "Technic People" will become more appropriate. See other thread....) (...) THOSE were maxifigs. (26 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) You are right the curved arrows are a little strange. (...) I have seen this done on several Ldraw made instructions, but I reallynever build this way. (...) What do you mean by "authentic" ? Paulo (26 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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Here's a topic or two.. I was just thinking... If you call the 'Town' scale people minifigs, what do you call the Technic scale people? - Maxifigs?? Anybody else remember the really _BIG_ people? pre-minifigs? they had arms like Technic, but were (...) (26 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) For example, I'm all-the-lego-I-can-a...-then-some complete. (26 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Different strokes for different folks (1). That rig will never get you even 10 points in a concours. And a 90 point concours T would never be seen at the drag strip, much less have its E.T.s painted in the window. Myself, I can admire both the (...) (26 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I think most completists agree that a total reissue (if under a different number) does not take the place of the original set. So if they reissed an M:tron set, you'd need both versions to be M:tron complete. (1) Analogy is with the (...) (26 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I'd like to see your design. (...) Spray paint. Buy bulk blocks, and then sneak up on them quietly. (...) What was Anne thinking when she picked dragon colors? ;) Steve (26 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) *shakes head* If you're going to throw insults, at least go to alt.die.die.die.wesley.crusher and do it with those who want to hear it. (or something like that) (26 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) No. I'm only interested in Pern-colored dragons and Anne has said the only white dragon there will ever be is Ruth. Sarah Heacock sarah@eskimo.com (26 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) is (...) There was another, that his last name was Crusher, and Timmy was just a nickname, as Wesley was a bit too poncy......... (26 years ago, 27-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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Tim Courtney writes: <snippage> (...) Hear, hear! Especially transparent pieces! I thought canopies were for seeing through. Paint stuff I *can't* see through. Insectoids would be much better then. (...) I think we agree here. I don't mind large (...) (26 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hey Sarah, Ever made a dragon in white? - Tom McD. (26 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hi Sue Ann, Your not lost, you just live in WA.:> Mark H. (26 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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Step 4 is confusing. Other than turning it upside down, I'd recommend having the attachment arrows be vertical, so show all the ramps arranged together as they would be in the model, only dropped straight down. You could start with step 4 in place (...) (26 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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