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Really cool window!!! How did you get it to be transluecent on the back but still hold together? -Stefan- (22 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I realize why the parks use so many pieces in all those various colors. It makes for more realistic and therefore more interesting models. But I've often felt the claim that these models were built from bricks just like you can buy in stores (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) The most glaring one that I'm aware of is on page 15 where it states that plates (a.k.a. 1/3 elements) first appeared in 1962. Of course there were several sizes of plates available from the mid-1950's on. This set from circa 1958 had a series (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Thanks for the info Bill! I'll make that task a little easier, and just go over the more obvious errors in the Lego Timeline on pages 12-23. Page 13: 1955 First Lego trees. Yes that may have been the year, but the trees shown are those from (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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Hello! (...) shhhh! Don't mention the disastrous colour issue here, please! ;) I too have learned a lot from this GLBT thread. If only to understand why gay people act like they act sometimes and how they feel. I still don't see the need for this (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Getting some organizational help from the kids
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My wife, who is into creating scrapbooks, was looking through her massive collection of pictures to do a new album last night. I sat down and started going through them too, remembering when my boys were toddlers. It's a trite phrase, but "that (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.people.parents, lugnet.general)
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(...) Yes, there are a lot of bricks we would of loved to have invented, but unfortunately it doesn't happen. All regular bricks are from the same molds that produce the bricks for sets. (...) Yes, correct again. All the colors are colors that are (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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"Bryan Wong" <green_paper@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:I4CnKx.1Ey@lugnet.com... (...) Yep - the parks aren't able to have molds made up of parts that don't exist, it would be too expensive. Part of the marketing of miniland is that it is all (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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Hello! (...) Items that go under (4) are probably the rarest of all as such items mostly accidentally leave the facturies, only in very small quantities. Speaking here of more elaborated parts like trees or minifigs etc., not the regular 2x4 brick (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) So I just want to clarify: 1) The PARTS in LEGOLAND Model shops have all appeared in sets before (so they don't have any 1x5 plates) 2) Some of these parts may be in colours that have NOT appeared in sets before. Correct? (...) So what other (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Sorry to burst the bubble, but there was never a special red-orange color used (or exists) for the Golden Gate Bridge. It is in fact regular red. The Legoland modelshops do have lots of rare bricks that have never been available to the public, (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I had not seen that before. I'm a big fan of the GTA games, so once I'm home (and not connected through the work firewall) I'll have to download that movie. Thanks for the heads up. Jason Spears | (URL) BrickCentral> | (URL) MichLUG> | (URL) (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.animation, FTX)
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| | Fun with Lego Boats
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Over the weekend I spent several enjoyable hours playing with my 4011 Cabin Cruiser ((URL) the twin hurricanes passed through my part of Appalachia, we had one of those brilliantly clear and beautiful September days in the mountains that makes you (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.general)
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| | What I learned from the .lgbt debate
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Last week we saw a debate rage on LUGNET the likes of which hadn't been seen since the "Great Color Debate of '04." Unlike that time, though, I am left with a generally positive feeling about LUGNET and its growth. Here are some good things that I (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | attention bicycle owners!
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Probably this post would be better suited to lugnet.people.bike.riders, but that newsgroup doesn't exist: (URL) you own a Kryptonite bike lock, please beware! A BIC pen can compromise your lock AND your bike! -Rob (22 years ago, 19-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) It makes me wonder... with all of the new colors in the last while, why not just make that dark orange a standard production color? Best regards, Allan B. (22 years ago, 19-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) From page 110 of _The Ultimate LEGO(r) Book_: "Building the Golden Gate: A special dark orange shade of brick was used to match the color of the real bridge." (22 years ago, 19-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hi, have a look in the idea book 241 at brickshelf: (URL) I thing the trainbase front was created as a prototype for the developing of the trainbase for the sets 720 and 721 from 1969. Altough the book was first time in the german catalogue in (...) (22 years ago, 19-Sep-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Snip (...) end Snip What about the Dragon wand that was mentioned some time ago in the castle forum, if I recall correctly, there was someone supposed to be working for LEGO that claimed to have some kind of wand that was going to be used in (...) (22 years ago, 19-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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"Gary Istok" <istokg@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:I49JIE.9Ex@lugnet.com... (...) Excellent points Gary, but I think that a lot of items in number 2 aren't necessarily that rare in production quanity, ie some of the listed parts are produced (...) (22 years ago, 19-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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