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(...) found: (...) I do not have a scanner but I tried to get the best pictures I could using Vision Command for Mindstorms. I put 24 pictures on a temporary site (because my official site isn't ready yet). In trying to get the best resolution (...) (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.general) !!
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(...) <sniiiii-iiiip> (...) in a pack with the TIE, or is that just the pic? The AT-ST looks about as bad as I expected. The Bionicals look to be TLC answering the call for mecha, with the recent popularity of Gundam Wing (though these aren't that (...) (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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Thanks for the pic Eric. Some of the new Star Wars looks nice. The Tie looks good, but can't tell about the pilot or stormtrooper really without a better pic. The shuttle is larger than I thought it would be, and it has two red imperial guards, that (...) (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) minute (...) you thank you nk you thank you thank thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you you thank you thank ythank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you ou thank you thank you thank you thank you thank (...) (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) unfortunately, yes, it looks like more throwbots... (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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Many, many thanks, Eric, for the list and pics! Am I going crazy or do I remember seeing white TIE fighters for the last 23 years? I know color accuracy is a big complaint in the Star Wars line, but in this case the difference is literally black and (...) (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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1st off, many thanks Eric! - Love the Imperial Shuttle - TIE pretty much as expected, but with bonus of Stormtrooper! - AT-ST is kinda ugly, but take a look at: (URL) is that not a 6x6 SOLID radar dish? Perhaps 5x5? Compare chewie with the dish... (...) (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Dang it, no new castle stuff?... ohhhhh... Thanks for the pictures and info, Eric! The SW sets look... umm... I really can't tell ;-). But at least those tan and dk. grey bulk pieces are coming around.... some'n to work with, finally!! -Shiri (...) (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle)
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Could it be? The return of Monorail?! (URL) do you think? Erin -- (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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"Eric Lanteigne" <elanteigne@home.com> wrote in message news:G2tLGo.333@lugnet.com... (...) Is it me or do the "Martians" look like Battle Droids with funny heads? It looks like they are recycling the Hydronaught blue-chrome helmets. Seems like a (...) (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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Tubes, not monorail. :-( -jeremy (...) (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) minute (...) Lucas to do a new space line. Hopefully this won't be cut after one season. It looks to be really promising. If the sets are as good as the pictures, I'll think about taking back everything bad that I've said abotu TLG in the last (...) (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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OMG! Was it good for all of you too? Eric...many many many thanks! Now I know how to set my budget. I just want to comment on some of these sets: (...) Air pump? An original idea, but I don't know if I'm going to like this big air pump getting in (...) (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) The Martians remind me of the ants from "Antz" or "A Bug's Life". (...) I believe you are right! Yessss! Kev Z #142 (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) You're crazy. ;) The TIEs have always been black/grey. The rebels, IMO, are more white than LEGO has tended to depict them. Steve (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) new (...) very (...) minute (...) have this year's town in the catalog? Or did you just not mention it?... (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I thought it was translucent orange. (...) I think it is in the $35-45 range. (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Slow down there! The Kenner TIE fighter toy was very, very white. Because of this, a lot of people remember the TIE fighter as being white in the movie (kids like me had a lot more exposure to the toys than the movies for years, after all). (...) (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) They certainly seem to be. I'm not sure how I feel about the heads... I think they're kinda ugly. eric (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) --Todd (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.year.2001)
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(...) For years before the toys were common, there were Star Wars cards. If you were a kid in 1977 you spent a lot more time looking at these than the actual movie. My prize Red #131, obtained in a gum pack in 1977, shows Darth Vader's fighter the (...) (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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It's hard to tell because the picture is fuzzy. I can't see how they would make the wall translucent orange, just to have a blue window. I guess I'll have to wait and see. That's ok because it won't be my first purchase. Trev (...) . (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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The Imperial Shuttle looks awesome! Thank you, Eric, for this wonderful preview - and for taking the time to scan the pics. for all of us to see. I am disapointed that there wasn't anything new to the LEGO Train theme as of yet, but that is no fault (...) (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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There could be Train- TLC hardly ever puts S@H exclusives in the little booklets. There were about 7 Train sets released in 1999, but the booklet only showed the one sold in stores. I hope they release a train car for transporting animlals soon, (...) (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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They would make it the same way they made the trans orange walls for the Mystic Mountain Time Lab. I don't think it would be that difficult. (...) (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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Hmmm.... I think the ATST looks OK actually (Not brilliant, just OK). The head looks great, but the legs look a tad iffy... But then again, there's a lot of Star Wars sets that I've looked at the picture on the box and gone 'That's Poo!', but once (...) (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I agree. I guess I'm not too disappointed because we knew the price point... I *knew* the legs would be 1x's with click hinges (which seem to be the model designer's new obsession). The head, meanwhile, looks MUCH better than I expected. My (...) (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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*ahem* <soapbox> TIE FIGHTER LASERS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE GREEN!!!!! </soapbox> Thank you. ~Mark (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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I don't suppose you have created a .DAT for your mickey sculpture? My girlfriend is going nuts for it! :) J (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Huh? What's "LMS VCS"? Steve (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.year.2001)
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(...) _L_EGO _M_IND_S_TORMS _V_ision _C_ommand _S_ystem. :-) --Todd (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.year.2001)
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(...) Details details details... ;) (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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But the toy manufacturers never seem to get details like this right. I remember quite clearly that in addition to the TIE toy being the wrong color, it also had only one laser light that was the wrong color (red) when it should have been green! They (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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Whoo Hoo! Yes! Need. More. Throwbots. Steve Jackson, are you listening: We need GURPS BIONICLE! LegoHAMMER 2K! A Space Hulk ZNAP theme bucket. BTW, is there an agreed-upon catagory name that covers Throwbots, Roboriders and Bionicle? Could we call (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I think the term you're looking for is: SPUDs <gdr> ~Mark (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Look what they did with the AT-ST! They don't even have the right figure with it! Seriously, I'm very dissapointed with the AT-ST. It looks around $15, and I was looking forward to buying about a trillion at that price, simply because the'd be (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Actualy, the MSRP of the AT-AT is only $9.99 US. I think it will be a good value. What's bigger than a trillion? (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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A googol is larger than a trillion (1,000,000,000,000,0...00,000,000 or 10 to the 100th power). (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I built a helicopter out of parts from Amazon, Electro, Jet, and a few assorted pins and axles. (Okay, the rotors aren't Throwbots either, but at any rate they're mounted on Amazon's central gear.) And yes, it is more than a Throwbot with (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) ::shouts a long string of vulgar expletives:: Oh well. I don't have room for a monorail layout anyway. && (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) That is so cool! I have Jet and Amazon already, so I'll get Electro next to try your suggestion. Here's what I've done so far- Jet- mechanized Velociraptor Jet- mechanized Brachiosaurus Amazon- mechanized Ostrich Amazon- mechanized Anaconda (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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You forgot a zero. It should be a 1 with 100 zeros after it. Of course then there's a googolplex, which is a 1 with googol zeros after it. But the biggest number of all is just an 8 lying on its side.... (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hmm... I 'll see if I can manage some of those. I once got sort of a "bird" mode by slightly modifying Jet's carrying-case mode, and I've built Super Jet by adding parts from Granite, but the helicopter's the only really original thing I've (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, I do consider Throwbots to be the abstract art of the LEGO world. It is fun. I'm sure not everyone sees my creations the way I do, although they do look like mechanized animals of some sort. (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I dont know where you live but perhaps there are busses??? (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Ahhh- rough. I don't drive quite yet, but I get my parents to drive me to some stores once a few months, and otherwise I try to buy stuff online or from S@H (til now I'd ask permission to use my parents' CC, now I have my own Visa/ATM card). (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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In lugnet.general, Shiri Dori writes: <snip> (...) <snip> Oh boy. Now comes the slow downward slide. ;) James (melting his fair share of non-ABS plastic) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.people)
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(...) What about a Barnum and Bailey circus train? :p Scott (24 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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So how many years ago did I coin the term SPUD (single purpose useless decorative)? I believe it was directed at the large Pirate items, rowboats in particular. The Bionicle torsos have a gear assembly: turn a wheel in the back, and the arms go up (...) (24 years ago, 28-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Nope. Suburbs, unfortunately. No buses, no taxis, no place within walking or biking distance. (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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