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(URL) Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal views with my employer (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) That's pretty cool Tom that you can bring Lego to work. While you and I were working this weekend for probably the same reason (Y2K), I would get into a lot of trouble by doing anything at work that's not work- related, for example bringing (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) That's gorgeous, Tom. I also wish I could do something like that--I've gotta ask, how do you pull it off? LFB (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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I get it you've never seen my cube ;-) (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal views with my employer (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Luckily, the management historically has valued Hard Work With Hard Play - they recognize that allowing an individual to BE an individual tends to help work output, and don't put extreme limits on hobbies or display of them at work. Of course, (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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I've seen your cube many times. It looks more like a Lego museum than like a cube ;-) Lego is everywhere and I've seen only 1 book on all of those shelves! But why no large sets like the supercars or 5571? You must have ran out of space. (...) (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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EXACTLY, I ran out of space ;-) I actually do have a bookshelf - it's on the one wall that isn't covered with Lego, and it has actual book on it ;-) Once I finish my custom 5571 with 24x96 stud trailer, I'm going to bring it in for a while - it will (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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It amazes me what you have accomplished in such a short amount of time with trains..Kinda makes me jealous..I've been looking for a couple of those sets for a while..good thing I'm patient. :) Enjoy!! michael (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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One question, why all the black 2x2 plates between track sections?? (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) That's from Matt's "Track Designer" program, I think... --grin-- JohnG, GMLTC (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Nope - I just added them for strength - when the train was under my Xmas tree, even with cardboard under the tracks, if the cats stepped on it, it would partially dislocate the joints. So I put them there for strength, and have decided to leave them (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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I'm not only jealous that you're allowed to bring Lego to work but that you can afford that many train sets! I've wanted one of the train sets for two years now but, at the $130 price, there's no way I can afford them yet. I should only have to wait (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Damn, Tom. What's next, a Lego telephone? -Rob (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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Someday, yes. I'm going to get a phone, tear it apart, and rework the guts into some plates/bricks. But only a home phone - I think Facilities would get upset if I tore apart a work phone ;-) (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Not if you buy a phone compatible with WORK. Grin. Dean (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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Nice, Tom... (OK, set that hook, don't let Tom feel it, set it, gently, gently, easy does it, gently... THERE! Now, start reeling him in, but don't let him think he's not free to go... gently gently.. all right, let him run free a bit... ok, ok, (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Rob, just as a little known thing, NORTEL made a LEGO phone once...I almost had one! (I know someone with one, and it almost came to me for the right amount of $...) James Powell (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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I remember rumors from my younger days of an actual LEGO telephone. I know tyco (lower case intentional) had one few years back. Tom, I have also wanted to do the same thing by taking the "guts" out of a phone and rebuilding it, but I want to do a (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yes, I think the tyco phone is the source for all the rumors of a Lego phone. I haven't seen anything else. (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) NORTEL made a LEGO phone. I know...I have seen them, and I imagine I could find reference to them if I dig hard enough... (away I go to dig...) James (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) I hear you - I'm dying to buy the 4558, but no chance of that happening anytime soon... especially at the current average price of $400... -Shiri (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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I still have my Lego phone. It was made by Tyco. It has a small drawer in the side of the phone for storing a few bricks and the top of the phone is like a large baseplate. Even the phone's buttons have studs. I didn't know it was rare. I'm actually (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Given that you can replace most of the plastic panels of some mobile phones these days (the 5110 springs to mine) replacing the plastic with lego shouldn't be too hard. Even if you cant replace it with lego then you vould replace it with a (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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These phones are PBX phones, and dang expensive, no thanks ;-) (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal views with my employer (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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I'm working on it ;-) Plans are for building a black 4558 (AFTER I get a normal 4558), and working on hopper/cargo cars for my freight train. But right now I'm trying to plan out the industrial complex for the freight train - a warehouse, 3 oil/gas (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | Nortel LEGO phone? (was: Re: What I did for the Y2K weekend...)
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(...) NAW. NAW, really? Seriously? No way. Really, Yeah? Nawwww... I gotta see _this_ to believe it! --Todd p.s. I think someone said there really were salt & pepper shakers shaped like 1x1 bricks though, that you could get at LEGOLAND. (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Huh? That's like saying you own a box of Kleenix made by Puffs. Or that you own a Hoover made by Black & Decker. --Todd (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Petro-chemicals. You need someone to make ABS. Octan-Polymeres ? Octan-Elastomers ? Ray (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Mike, does it look like (URL) to novelties, and at the bottom of the page there is a phone. I don't think this is the one I was thinking of however...I think the one I was thinking of was more blocky, with a normal reciever. More like a plate (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Or a Dumpster made by um, uh.... somebody other than Toccoa Metal Technologies. Trademark dilution at work! (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) <URL:(URL) (or <URL:(URL), but that's worse....) That's definitely the Tyco phone. Someone less lazy than I should e-mail them and have them fix it. (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yah! And -- bing! -- now I think I *finally* understand the subtle point that TLG legal counsel was trying to explain to me when they asked me to change the name of my "Fibblesnork LEGO Backgrounds" page[1]: it shows pictures of 2x2 LEGO (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.publish)
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Tom Stangl wrote in message <386FB1A1.542946B2@n...pe.com>... (...) I did that a couple of months ago, and It worked just fine. You have to be very careful about what phone you pick to buy, so it can be rebuilt with Lego. Look at the buttons for (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) I'm reasonably sure that is not the phone I was thinking of however...not positive, but reasonably sure. I think (this is me thinking! scary!) that the NORTEL phone was available around 1988/89, because that is when we got our second phone (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) A quandry for marketing, I'm sure. Legal keeps saying "No, Foobrand does not equal barproduct!", while the advertising folks are trying to convince people exactly the opposite. (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Leading to meetings out of which come concepts like "Dove is not soap", I'm sure. (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Mom, can I play with my LEGO brand plastic automatic binding bricks....PLEASE! (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Yep, that's pretty much what they ask you to say. You can shorten it to just "LEGO bricks", if you want. <URL:(URL), of course. Of course, if you're polite about it, as a non-lawyer and non-Lego-employee, I advocate calling the product "Lego" (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Yes, there were. I think you can get them at the LICs too. (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hrmmm - does the store in MOA count as an LIC? I know they ship. Not sure about the one next to DisneyWorld, though. I gotta have a set of these... (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) You betcha.[1] In fact, the MOA LEGO store was _the_ first LIC. --Todd [1] I don't get to say that much anymore out here in Boston. :-( (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) How come? I know I used that growing up in Concord and Lexington. (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I believe it does count and does ship. Ask any of the GMLTCers, 3/4 of them worked there at one point or another. (...) When I was there (at Disney Village) last month, I was told that they would ship. I have some cards they gave me with their (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Does it count?! It was the *original* LIC. Yes, they ship. -John (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message news:38721863.70E20E...ger.net... (...) They bill themselves as an LIC. (...) Both LIC's (Disney & MOC) will (or did last year) ship with a stepped shipping rate, on phone orders. Disney will ship (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <38721863.70E20E46@v...er.net>... [ ... snipped ... (...) I just happen to have one of their cards on my desk - here is the data: LEGO Imagination Center 1672 East Buena Vista Drive P.O. Box 22456 Lake Buena Vista, (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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Yes, LLC has them. (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal views with my employer (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I've been gathering green plates and bricks, I already have tons of yellow, and I'm going to design my own stickers. Hopefully I can find some BP logos somewhere to start with. -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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I just happened to memorize MOA LIC's number because it was so close to a friend's pager number:-) 612.858.8949 (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Wow, that's pretty impressive. I don't even know my OWN pager number. I know the e-mail address, but not the number... (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) BP??? Where are you going to get the parts for that? -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) My understanding was that Buffie Sherrington [sp?] wasn't at the only LIC that stopped shipping. Are the others continuing to ship? best, Lindsay (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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Mr L F Braun wrote in message <387305EA.D3CC7997@p...su.edu>... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) Buffie works at the Potomac Mills LEGO Outlet store which is different than the LEGO Imagination Center. In the past, the LIC has offered to ship (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) What about LUGnet? Posts are archived essentially forever, after all. (And I suspect that even if Todd's were to suddenly go offline, they could be pieced together fromthe archives in various formats on people's newsreaders/email clients..) (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Archived forever != formal. It's all grey area ('cept when you're selling stuff), so if you don't feel comfortable using Lego as a noun here, by all means don't. (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.publish)
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