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(...) None (not that I was expecting any :) Although thats why they invented post xmas sales :) (21 years ago, 25-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2004)
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(...) One Knights Kingdom figure: [LEGOSet 8773] ...that's about it. :-P Merry Christmas, -Tim (21 years ago, 25-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2004, FTX)
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(...) I have noticed it is unavailable a larger percentage of the time of late. It seems sporadic, the unavailability doesn't usually last very long but it's definitely not 100%. (21 years ago, 25-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Merry Christmas! Between the two of us, Christina and I recieved: [LEGOSet 4535] times two [LEGOSet 4400] times two (those spring cleaning ones from Kroger) [LEGOSet 3535] [LEGOSet 7423] [LEGOSet 4346] [LEGOSet 6261] times four :) --Anthony (...) (21 years ago, 25-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2004, FTX)
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I wish each and everyone of you a very merry Christmas. The past year has not been easy on this community and we all deserve to get a perfect day to spend time with our beloved, share good wishes and eat tons of good food! We'll all be back here (...) (21 years ago, 25-Dec-04, to lugnet.general) !
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Happy Holidays LUGNET! ==== List your LEGO loot here! e (21 years ago, 25-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2004, FTX)
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(...) Actually it was working fine a few minutes after I posted it. Perhaps it was a momentary DNS glitch or perhaps it was only down for a few minutes, but either way it's not an issue any more. (21 years ago, 25-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) The only purpose I recall was that if you accumulated a really low number of points (say twenty-five or so) you could get a free membership to the Lego Builders Club. It was how I got my first membership all those years ago. The interesting (...) (21 years ago, 24-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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It was almost like Christmas Eve... I dreamed there was a new red tub, with all-different bonus box, and TRU was selling them separately because the straps broke. I dreamed there was a line of Designer sets in white wraparound packaging, there was a (...) (21 years ago, 24-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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Does anyone know what they were for? I remember that they used to appear in all the sets I bought in the early 90's and that I saved the instruction booklets to save the points. I hoped that one day I would find out what they were for, and I would (...) (21 years ago, 24-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Seems fine to me. Maybe you're having DNS problems? ROSCO (21 years ago, 24-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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Brickshelf seems to be down. Has anyone heard anything about it? (21 years ago, 24-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Happy Holidays oh and by way "Head for High Ground!"
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In lugnet.general, Erik Varszegi wrote: (snip) (...) Happy Holidays to you, Erik! And hopefully next year will have a clean start ;-) Joe Meno (21 years ago, 24-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Well said, my friend. I've got plenty of thoughts on everything going on around here lately but I don't think airing them does anyone any good. Let's face it--some will always find the worst in a situation, some will always find the best, and (...) (21 years ago, 24-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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What a day we had yesterday at the Enfield Model Shop. Ever since we moved into our new digs in the Compass House on the Enfield campus, Shows & Events has had problems with the heating and cooling in our room. So with the sub-freezing temperatures (...) (21 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, FTX) !
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As the snow falls silently by my window, and my children are outside building an "awesome" snow fort, I decided to share my simple little Lego plan with friends I have met through this hobby. Both of my boys each got me one copy of the Hockey (...) (21 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto) !
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The gallery on the NELUG web site has been updated with pictures from our appearance at the December Greenberg Train and Toy show in Wilmington MA. We had a couple new Skyscrapers in this layout in our growning Downtown area. We seem to be growing (...) (21 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.general) !
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(...) Penne does work VERY well for this. It's not so funny when, as an AFOL, someone does this to you with a non-Lego gift, however. Two Christmases ago my then-girlfriend did that to me; she found a box that was JUST the right dimensions for Lego, (...) (21 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.fun)
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Hi all, I just found out on Classic Castle that (URL) Building Bonanza> is available in North America! US$39.99, or CDN$59.99 (for 667 non-juniorized pieces that's quite the deal!) I'd buy a few for myself if it didn't come with... err nevermind. (...) (21 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Ah, the sounds of the season that we're all too familiar with. (...) Richie, Great idea with the pasta and empty Lego boxes! I'll have to try that next year - back to being a pain as I can't keep getting Laurette jewelry. Merry Christmas (...) (21 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.fun)
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(...) -snipped lots of fun stuff- A couple of years ago, my wife (Beth) opened all the boxes of lego she was giving me and padded the contents. No magical rattling sound when the presents under the tree were investigated. (But a nice surprise on (...) (21 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.fun)
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(...) Oh great! Why does this happen? Those lines that go on forever? Looked great on the preview. And now I'm being told that I can't even post this due to the quotes above being too long or high in %. I wonder if I just add any ol gobbily gook (...) (21 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.fun)
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My wife Laurette is the one who helped end my dark ages 14 years ago by placing a 25 piece 6811 Pulsar Charger (URL) in my Christmas stocking as a gag gift. That gag gift's piece count has since been squared and squared again (25 X 25 X 25 X 25). I (...) (21 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.fun)
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(...) Actually, only the first one looks like it has serious modification. I built a hit & miss engine similar to the blue one when I was a kid, although I didn't have a compressor to run it, so it didn't run as fast as his or as long :) You'd be (...) (21 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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(URL) has to be some serious modification. I really really like it ;) Does anyone know who this is? JB (21 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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hehehe yes. That : P (...) (21 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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Gary & All, (...) Hey Gary, nice to see you around again, it has been a few moons! That was a great lunch, I just about dropped out of my seat when you hauled out some of the sets and things you brought in and out of the car. : ) (...) Ha ha! No (...) (21 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) You mean "altogether"? ;-) (21 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) This road plate is also apparently contained in the Samsonite Model Maker Set 367. (URL) (21 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hey Scott!!! (One of the AFOLs I went to lunch with while working in Ann Arbor 4 years ago) How's it going! Too bad about "W" winning, huh ;-) (running for cover). I too have a lot to sort, boxes and boxes and boxes..... somewhere in all that (...) (21 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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Please don't refrain all together. Your spell checking services were invaluable : ) You forced us to use proper english and think about what we were saying ! -JSM (...) (21 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Oh you are so right! (Going OT but gets back) I think I'm have a case of "Ring Blues". For the last three years we have had the pleasure of going to a LotR movie this time of year and seeing what happens next. Well, all good things come to an (...) (21 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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Ken & All, (...) Man, I don't have A bin to sort: (URL) have about 25 containers to sort! : ) Scott S. -- (21 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) That's funny, I just came to a similar conclusion yesterday. I won't deny that I've been an active (URL) participant> in LEGO-related debates here on LUGNET. But I'm starting to realize that arguing the debates never really change anyone's (...) (21 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Sorry don't under stand this 100% (the English language here). I guess you mean, that people complain about new sets, bad design etc. Some do, I still (an most?) see sets as bricks, we build our own. New colours - that causes a lot to discuss. (...) (21 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.general)
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(...) I'm not really sure how that helps things. People keep suggesting that because they don't want to be reading the slush fights, but what do they end up reading? The slush fights. People like controversy, plain and simple. That's why people tune (...) (21 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) .... (...) Or "sort." There is always plenty of sorting to do in this hobby. Come on, be honest with yourself, there must be some bins somewhere that you've been meaning to sort. :-) (21 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Cool, thanks for the info Jim. Your early LEGO history is a really interesting read. Can't wait to see more! J (21 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.general)
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Allen, Jason: I have been collecting information about Lego patents for several years, and this is my favorite. The original patent is Danish: DK92683C. Legetøjsbyggeelement. Filed 28 Jan 1958, Granted 29 Jan 1962. This was also amended by patent (...) (21 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.general)
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(...) Bill, I couldn't agree more. Maybe lugnet should come out with lugnet.lego.complain for those people who have complaints about the company and the product. That way those people who don't want to hear complaints, can simply ignore (...) (21 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yes that is true. I too find it hard to believe that Lego wouldn't make sets for Maersk anytime they wanted it, if they can earn a profit from it. btw, there are some similarities between Maersk and Lego. Both companies were founded early in (...) (21 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Just build.....
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Hey everybody, Just thought I'd add my two cents to all the chatter going on around here! JUST BUILD!!! Since when did Lugnet become so not fun anymore? When I found this website many years ago, I thought it was one of the greatest things I've seen (...) (21 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.general) !!
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Hi all, Those of you who may have switched to using the recently released Firefox 1.0 as your browser may also have encountered a problem with the Shop at Home website that it doesn't allow you to switch destination countries, saying you must have (...) (21 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Re: trading
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(...) (snip) It is generally accepted that posts seeking to trade are off-topic for lugnet.general or for most theme groups, but rather should be posted somewhere in the market hierarchy. lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade is often a good choice for (...) (21 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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Hello all I am in need of some castle sets and I was seeing if any one would like to trade some stuff for them. Please note that some of my instructions have rips and I don't have any of the original boxes. Here are the sets I can trade 4701 Sorting (...) (21 years ago, 20-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | A Community Problem (Was: Re: 10152 Update)
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(...) Thank You, Larry. I hate to add one more post to this thread, but feel the need. I totally agree with what you say about everyone just stopping. But, I think this thread is a real eye-opener as to the nature of this community. Is this really (...) (21 years ago, 20-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Whats wrong with my MOCpage?
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(...) Hello Samarth, (And, Tim, thanks for the explanation.) I've noticed the same thing with the voting on MOCpages. I have three out of range results. (URL) -3 out of 5> (URL) 5.5 out of 5> (URL) 0.5 out of 5> So far I've only found them amusing (...) (21 years ago, 20-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I can't help with the other issues, but this one could be caused by unscrupulous people exploiting the fact that MOCPages doesn't seem to range check the input for voting. I just conducted a quick experiment, by copying the URL the page (...) (21 years ago, 20-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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I've been meaning to do this post for a while now, because I don't know what's going on with my page, and I'm not sure where I should be posting this. Let me clarify that I love and always will love MOCPages, because I think its simply great that I (...) (21 years ago, 20-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish.html, FTX)
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(...) have searched (without success) for exactly this file for a long time. I've seen the image on eBay (people selling copies made by themselves) but have never been able to see it full size, nor have a copy of it for myself. This will be printed (...) (21 years ago, 20-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.general)
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| | Maersk and Lego
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I was going to post this with the debate on the 10152 sets in Maersk blue instead of dark blue, but I didn't want to get involved. Forbes Magazine says that in Denmark there are only 2 billionaire (milliarden) families. The one that owns Lego and (...) (21 years ago, 20-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.color)
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| | Really cool birthday present...
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The other day I received what is probably one of the most thoughtful, unique and overall cool ('cause I dig this kind of thing) gifts I've received in recent times. From a non-AFOL no less I got these really nice prints of the Toy Building Brick (...) (21 years ago, 20-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.general)
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(...) Great pics of the named bricks Clark! The highest price I have ever seen for a named beam is $35 for an "AD 1762" from the #309 Church set. The #309/#1309 sets from 1957-63 had 3 different names "1762", "AD 1762" and "ANNO 1762", and are all (...) (21 years ago, 20-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) There are several named beams that would qualify as rare. Here's some of them: (URL) (warning big page) (URL) (warning big page) Most of those are 1960's or before. Some of the rarer ones I've seen are the green prints, the Swedish/Danish VW (...) (21 years ago, 20-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Argumentative paper I wrote for College
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Hello, I was recently given the opportunity to write an argumentative research paper on any topic I wanted so, of course, LEGO® was an obvious choice. Basically, I wrote about what I did and didn't like about the company and what I'd do to change (...) (21 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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What are the rarest printed parts? I own both of the printed 1 x 6 x 5 astronaut bricks from classic space (and some other printed classic space bits) but I have the feeling there are rarer printed bits out there. (21 years ago, 18-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Announcing Classic-Space Forums
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Hello fellow Spacers and maniacs who like space stuff! Since I know we can't ever talk about Lego Space enough, there's a place set up just for it. (URL) -Tom McD. (URL) (21 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2004, FTX) !!
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| | Rarest Lego Road Plate
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It has been very quiet in lugnet.general lately.... Most collectors are not aware of this road plate (on EBAY, two are shown): (URL) was the first ever ABS Lego road plate, and was produced from 1970-72, only for the USA Samsonite Lego market. It is (...) (21 years ago, 18-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Where from this coupling comes?
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(...) It's a standard train coupling that was used in the late 60's. It comes with piece number 3176 (plate 3x2 with hole) or 737 (plate 2x4 with coupling, female). Examples: sets 80, 111, 112, 113, 116, 117, 903,... We had set 112, so I remembered (...) (21 years ago, 15-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Where from this coupling comes?
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Hi! I've got such old couplings: (URL) More (really not more...) on Peeron: (URL) Do somebody know where those couplings were used? How old are they? What is their possible value (are they rare or not)? Thank you very much for each reply! Luca (21 years ago, 15-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Missing Folders? What's up, Koyan?
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(...) Ahhh, S P A C E..... That is a great theme and I'd say complete your goal of rendering all of those. Actually, (URL) Jeroen> is doing a great job of rendering and compiling LEGO trains (although that doesn't mean that if you were to render (...) (21 years ago, 15-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Missing Folders? What's up, Koyan?
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"John" <John@TCLTC.org> wrote in news:I8rqzs.1or8@lugnet.com: (...) I'm a spacer, so right now I'm mainly trying to make a complete set list of .space, but I'm certainly open for requests. In fact, have a look at (URL) (unfortunately not a great (...) (21 years ago, 15-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004
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(...) Like (URL) these>? ;-) Tim (21 years ago, 15-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004
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(...) My NLSO has mentioned a similar concept several times as something she would be interested in. Marc Nelson Jr. (21 years ago, 15-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Missing Folders? What's up, Koyan?
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(...) Ahhh, that's a relief:-) I appreciate all of the hard work you are putting into this project of yours, and I'm not even aware of half the work that you are doing on it! I don't know how you are deciding which sets to render next, but if you (...) (21 years ago, 15-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: 1 x 3 bricks in transparent dark blue
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"Jonathan Wilson" <jonwil@tpgi.com.au> wrote in message news:I8rnK9.rzt@lugnet.com... (...) from? (...) Sounds like it could be a likely pick-a-brick part. Or possibly from one of the less-popular-with-afol ranges like Jack Stone which seldom get (...) (21 years ago, 15-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: My first MOC in "bley"....
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(...) Hi Samarth, I believe due to time constraints or other issues, Terry took his website down. That said, Terry sent Brad to my place for the fist part of the World Tour, and if you would like to see pics of Brads visit with me, have a look (...) (21 years ago, 15-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.general)
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Does anyone know where 1 x 3 bricks in transparent dark blue would be from? Bricklink has some for sale but neither bricklink not peeron can tell me what set they came in. (21 years ago, 15-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Is this a Lego part or not?
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(...) It appears to be shredded pieces from several MB palm branches to me. Though some of them could be the ferns as well... Interesting use of the the "Semi-Lego" Galidor leg pieces as well. C-Ya, Rich (21 years ago, 15-Dec-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Missing Folders? What's up, Koyan?
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"John" <John@TCLTC.org> wrote in news:I8q108.1E2M@lugnet.com: (...) I'm upgrading more than the image format, actually. I'm making entirely new renders, with some different lighting, and I'm also going over all the mpd's again, correcting some (...) (21 years ago, 15-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general)
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| | Is this a Lego part or not?
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Hey everybody - Need some help. I am trying to figure out if the ferns seen in (URL) this picture> are a Lego part or not. I have never seen anything like it so my guess would be no. But since I am not 100% positive I ask for your help. Thanks Mark (...) (21 years ago, 15-Dec-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004
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(...) Well, having finished Brikington Manor a little over a month ago, I came to realize how great a modular-rooms series could be. Imagine a standardized interface - technic pegs around a doorway - similar in concept to the moobase. Now, make a (...) (21 years ago, 15-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004
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(...) Something that I think many people don't realize when they suggest that Lego make WWII toys is that Denmark was an occupied country during WWII, and that Germany is one of thier biggest markets. WWII feels like ancient history to many of us (...) (21 years ago, 15-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Clear Bricks in 2x8 and 2x10
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Clear bricks were available in many sizes, but in 2 sizes, 2x8 and 2x10 they seem to ONLY have been sold in the USA, and that was during the 1960's. This was recently confirmed by a Bricklink purchase I made from Europe of 4 2x10 and 2 2x8 bricks. (...) (21 years ago, 15-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: New Ideas for Lego Re: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004
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Gary Istok wrote in message ... (...) done (kit and instructions available) (...) done (instructions available) (...) done (instructions available) (...) done a car ferry (kit and instructions available) (...) done (kit and instructions available) (...) (21 years ago, 14-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004
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(...) Perhaps it could come with a "plastic bag"-type thing, possibly with a few studs or towball-sockets on it, that's inflatable with pneumatics. That way, it doesn't have to be huge, nor eat a ton of bricks. OTOH, it does have to be fairly (...) (21 years ago, 14-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Missing Folders? What's up, Koyan?
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(URL) I was just browsing your Brickshelf folder and noticed that there are a lot fewer folders than there once were. I've noticed that you've upgraded your images from .jpgs to .pngs, but I can't explain this. Care to enlighten? :-) John (21 years ago, 14-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004
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(...) Hmm, a Zeppelin would be nice, but: Either the hull would be a really big special piece like in that Adventurers set (which actually used the Zeppelin hull as packaging, IIRC), or it would eat tons of bricks. Neither solution raises the chance (...) (21 years ago, 14-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004
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(...) More airplane sculptures like the Wright Flyer, Red Baron and Sopwith Camel. For example the Spirit Of St. Louis. A Zeppelin would be awesome, too. Sculptures of other historic vehicles are also welcome, like a model T Ford. Just a few ideas. (...) (21 years ago, 13-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | New Ideas for Lego Re: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004
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(...) Great ideas Jonathan! I received a complementary copy of a USA historic preservation magazine, and noticed it had a subsription of 675,000. That is a lot of potential folks who are interested in architecture. I think that TLG could create some (...) (21 years ago, 13-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004
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(...) I definatly concur. There are very few sets that can be labeled "Space" that I would not buy if they were reissued. Anything from a theme pre-dating Spyrius would be a "Must Buy" definatly. Anything from later themes (e.g. Explorians, Spyrius (...) (21 years ago, 13-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004
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(...) Ok, I got an idea...as AFOL's, we're passionate about LEGO. So, what kind of themes would be great to see? Those with kids, poll your youngsters and ask them what they like... I'll start with a theme I'd love to see come back... 1) Space (!) (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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It's over!!! ===...=== This past weekend, (URL) the Melbourne LEGO® Train Club> did our first public train show. It was part of the Brandon Park Model Show, so there were models of all kinds there, although the majority were model trains. We had a (...) (21 years ago, 13-Dec-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains.org.mltc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Rarest Old Lego Part
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It has been soooo quiet in Lugnet.general for a while, so I thought I would mention another old Lego item. That would be the very very rare 1x1 old style round bricks (without the tapered base) with an Esso Motor Oil sticker wrapped completely (...) (21 years ago, 12-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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Hi all, I've posted a few more microscale MOCs in my folder. Two of them were done by my children for the Lego Factory contest. Enjoy, and let me know what you think! Car dealer (URL) Sneak: (URL) Marina (URL) Sneak: (URL) Zoo (URL) Sneak: (URL) (...) (21 years ago, 10-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.general, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004
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(...) Amen! It seems like LEGO is trying to walk a tightrope, cutting costs, but still maintaining their image as the leader in quality. I don't think they're doing a very good job of it. IMO, LEGO is *currently* not being clobbered on price, but on (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004
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(...) I think this is _critical_, that we as AFOL make it be known that we'd rather pay more for a quality product than less for crap. If I wanted to buy crap, I could buy Megablocks instead. That being said, there are times and places where the (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Is lego *truly* unlimited? (some thoughts)
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(...) Well, uh- yeah, hence I posted here. Samarth (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Is lego *truly* unlimited? (some thoughts)
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(...) Of course the number of combinations isn't 'unlimited', but if it takes more time than the life of the universe to check them out, it's 'practically unlimited'. (...) Not counting the endles possibilities of rotating one part :-) Take a look (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Is lego *truly* unlimited? (some thoughts)
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(...) Is that a piece of fairy cake? Dave K (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Is lego *truly* unlimited? (some thoughts)
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(...) From Hitchhiker's guide: "Forty-two!" yelled Loonquawl. "Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work?" "I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Is lego *truly* unlimited? (some thoughts)
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(...) Well, 1st off, there's probably on the order of several hundred billion pieces on the planet. I remember reading in some FAQ the estimated number of pieces in the world, but I can't seem to find it at the moment. I know they make about 20 (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Is lego *truly* unlimited? (some thoughts)
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SNIPPY (...) Hi All, This is exactly the answer I was looking for. Thanks, Olof! Now to the others, (I'll write one reply, cause it's easier when youre not a member :-l) although you could combine 2 1 x 1 bricks in infinite number of ways by (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) The permutations when making only right angle stud connections with less than 1000 2x4s far exceeds the number of atoms in the universe or nanoseconds in the age of the universe (heck, probabably ALL the universes in Heinlen's Number of the (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Is lego *truly* unlimited? (some thoughts)
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(...) I'd say there are 1024, you probably left out the empty MOC :-) Jürgen (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Is lego *truly* unlimited? (some thoughts)
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(...) I received a little LEGO brochure years ago that said something like 8 standard 2x4 bricks can be joined together (standard LEGO building techiques--not these 'rotate on a stud, therefore infinite) over a million different ways. That's 8 (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Is lego *truly* unlimited? (some thoughts)
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(...) ... (...) Two 1x1 bricks can be connected together in an infinite number of ways. The top brick can be rotated freely to any angle and still connect, and the angles are countless. Given a 10 piece collection of different parts, the number of (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Is lego *truly* unlimited? (some thoughts)
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(...) Hello. Very interesting question. Just the selection of pieces from a collection generates a very large amount of possibilities; Selecting 10 pieces from a collection of 100 (different) pieces generates 100!/(90!*10!)=100*9...0309456440 (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Ahh, but that isn't true -- rotate one of the pieces. There are, in fact, an infinite number of ways to connect those two 1 x 1 bricks. (Of course, you probably can't tell the difference between two 1x1 bricks connected at 22 degrees and (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Is lego *truly* unlimited? (some thoughts)
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I was just wondering today about how much lego is trumpeted as having an 'unlimited' number of possibilites. Now I'm no math whiz, but it seemed logically impossible to me. So here's some food for thought for the gurus out there to digest and make (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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