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(...) I have a green 1x16 technic liftarm (thin) that has milling marks, so obviously a prototype. I know there are a few of these around, but not a large number. I'm pretty sure they were originally acquired at a LegoLand Windsor Red Letter Day. (...) (22 years ago, 18-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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Hi Gary, sorry to hijack this topic, but I have a question out of couriosity. Do you in your CD also talk about never released prototype parts? Like the 12 spoked trainwheels and trainbase fronts (as seen in idea book 241). These parts, if they (...) (22 years ago, 18-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hi all I'm selling one of the ELAL planes on EBay (I'll try to get some more but not to sure yet). (URL) Yaron Dori (22 years ago, 18-Sep-04, to lugnet.promo, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.il, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Yes I knew there would be a lot of very rare printed items. And there are a lot of items only found in 1 set. With Lego, there are so many rare pieces, that it becomes nearly impossible to say what is the "rarest" part. However, here are two (...) (22 years ago, 18-Sep-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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Below is a list of all the newsgroups which existed on LUGNET six years ago, way back in August of 1998, during a very early testing phase, two months prior to the newsgroup system going live. I don't recall why so many of the .talk subgroups went (...) (22 years ago, 18-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.general)
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(...) Hi Gary, as you know there is a huge ammount of parts, which only appear in one set-number. But there is a regular part (and i think it's a "common brick"), which appears in only one unique Set: It is the red 1x2 tile with the four digit (...) (22 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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Dang! You beat me - I'm working on a similar kind of window... (...) I'm using transclear 1x1 and 1x2 for the glasses, with studs out to make them look like crown glass, and I use two plates stacked on each other to improve the overall stability of (...) (22 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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(...) Thanks :) Hum, I'm sure there is still a lot of building techniques. I made a presentation at BricMania about one, ToPLeSs, and I have to finish the traduction in english to post it. (...) That was an idea from Didier. It was just a fake. But (...) (22 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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(...) Thanks :) Well, it depends maybe of our vision of what is SNIR. The 1x1 parts are not adjacent but in diagonal. And the alignment of the turned parts creates an offset. So we obtain a lign of studs, not in the standard way but in diagonal. (...) (22 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, FTX)
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I dont know if this counts as rare or not but I have some 2 x 2 round tiles in clear... (22 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, even "regular part" and "common brick" is up for interpretation; normally I would not count the white hairpiece as a "regular" part. And I assume you would only mean bricks that has been sold in public, not bricks used as give-aways or (...) (22 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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Hey all, I just picked this set up used for $30. Seemed like a good deal. I was thinking of a beetle bot with the tracks and legs that wiggle when it moves. Are the Manas motors strong enough to move an MOC that's around the size of a football (...) (22 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I beleive the phase comes about because they started off not in a a row (well not in a standard row anyway), the second image shows them placed on a diagonal grid of SIR (Studs In a Row). However I would say that they have ended up in a (...) (22 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Hi Holger. Thanks for showing interest on JoTaALM. In a first attempt, the idea was to make an hoax just for fun, as the one I made when I was studying chemistry at university (not LEGO related). Of course volume I doesn't exist. I can't tell (...) (22 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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(...) Hello, great work! Sometimes I think everything is build in all kind of building techniques. But you show us that there are even more great ways to combine LEGO bricks. I love that kind of window, there is a good chance to find it in a new (...) (22 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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(...) Hey Mike, I believe it is Studs Not In Row. Cool window, but it doesn't look like it is very sturdy. Chris Perron (22 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I would say the Maersk Blue Construction Helmet is pretty rare, only one has sold on BL and that was for $100 - more than the white pigtail hair: (URL) would also think any Maersk Blue part that was not included in the container ship is pretty (...) (22 years ago, 16-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, to be picky, it's not *exactly* the same thickness. A tile is 0.4 "stud-widths" thick, but the distance between 2 such windows is about 0.414 (square-root of 2 minus 1) stud-widths. Over a larger area you would start to notice the (...) (22 years ago, 16-Sep-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) :) Here's another reason not to avoid Bionicle... LEGO did a lot of work to create a "collectible" mentality for this product line. They started with the Kanohi masks, about 130-ish different ones total, including some rare ones like the (...) (22 years ago, 16-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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In lugnet.announce, Erik Amzallag wrote: Dear Erik, this is really very well and clever done! What a cool idea to combine SNIR and SNOT to a link between space (crowd shouting "SPAAACE!!!! from the background!) and castle (mumble of "Castle - (...) (22 years ago, 16-Sep-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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