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| (...) Let's make my first few postings non-contentious. My peeve is having first my mum, and now my wife and kids, putting plastic non-Lego in the Lego box. I mean, does a pen cap REALLY look like Lego? A domino? A plastic guard from a disposable (...) (24 years ago, 14-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)
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| Ok, here's my pet peeve: I really hate it when somebody sees my Robots for the first time and they compare them or liken them to somthing else. As in, oh look it looks like Transformers or look it looks like an Alien from the movies or Predator or (...) (24 years ago, 14-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)
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| (...) I see Robert doesn't play well..... :-) (24 years ago, 15-Apr-01, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Um. . . WOW! That giant red robot is simply amazing! I have to ask you how long it took you to figure out the engineering for something that massive. How?! Dave (these are the kinds of pictures that sometimes make me want to put my Lego away (...) (24 years ago, 15-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)
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| hey, right on the Red Robot is a favorite. I worked on the Red Robot for about a year and a half, just to get all the pieces and get the stance correct. I started work on the Robot in 1993 and finished in 1994. I went thru several different hand and (...) (24 years ago, 16-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)
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| (...) <snip> My peeve is having first my mum, and now my wife and kids, putting plastic (...) </snip> Today my daughter spotted and identified (I'd no idea what it was) a Knex piece in a used set I'd bought recently. A prize 8042 too - sacrilege or (...) (24 years ago, 16-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)
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| (...) That's an amazing piece of work! How tall is it? What are it's functions? How many pieces do you estimate it has? Thanks, David (24 years ago, 16-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)
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| Oh thank-you, the Red Robot is 3 feet tall, it took a year and a half to build it. from 93' to 94', I belive it contains on the order of 10K+ pieces based on other creations that I took apart and accually counted. The Robot has no motors but all the (...) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)
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