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Thanx Josh, (Even though I can’t see your poster photo yet... 'cause it ain’t moderated) Here’s a great close-up shot of the strange dark-gray armored knight that’s in set # 7419 Dragon Fortress. (URL) jus’ for no apparent reason, I wanted to add (...) (22 years ago, 27-Apr-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Best Lego Year of all time?
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(...) Okay, so you're right about the 1998 thing, but 2003 are you crazy?!?!?! :) I don’t want to buy the Orient Expedition sets, they look dumb. (...) Hey! I like the Stingrays! :) Although I can see what you mean a little... Anyway, Aquasharks (...) (22 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Dire translations
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(...) Hi Duq, If you think poor translations are bad... we just lost our edition of the catalog, it is now (again, after 15 years) bilingual in Castillan and Portuguese :-/ Not bad because of the language mix itself, but because we lost most of the (...) (22 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.nl)
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I'm just after browsing through the dutch version of the jan-jul 2003 catalog, and can't help but thinking that some of the translations must be quite poor. Are scans of the english version of this catalog available online somewhere? Could someone (...) (22 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.nl)
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| | Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts
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The first ones that pop into mind are these: (URL) (gogles) (URL) (binoculars) and (URL) (hockey stick) I probably use more, some in dutch, but I can't think of them now... Duq "Allan Bedford" <ExpertBuilder-DELET...otome.com> wrote in message (...) (22 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts
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(...) (URL) always thought of these as "electric eyes", even though I can't recall having ever seen them used as such in an official set. That's just what they always looked like to me. And since my youth was spent almost entirely in Classic Space, (...) (22 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts
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Quoting John Riley <Rohnjiley@yahoo.com>: (...) To add some of my own nicknames for favorite LEGO parts: Old Pre-LUGNET/RTL days: tiles = smoothies plates = flats bricks = fatties/thicks studs = bumps Still think of to this day: universal joints = (...) (22 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts
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(...) Maybe you called them as follows: My brother and I, in our early years, called plates "flats," tiles "smooth flats," (or sometimes just "smooth" as in "smooth 1 x 2") and slope bricks "tiles" (the last because of Lego S&H calling slope bricks (...) (22 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts
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"Jeremiah VanderMark" <doggybot_37@yahoo.NOSPAM.com> wrote in message news:HDxM13.20zn@lugnet.com... (...) Those were the days- when I really could say I was 12 (WOW, 20 years do fly by). My friends and I didn't use the name "talls" but sure did (...) (22 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Around our house my kids call this part (only in brown) "mommy hair": (URL) a while back I heard them singing a jingle from Cartoon Network which went: "...wherever you rub it you know it feels better because it is a typical head of Jesus." I (...) (22 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)
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Ahh, yes. This part: (URL) always be a "cannonball", courtesy my discovering Lego during the Pirate era. Also, being far less creative than Tim as a kid, these: (URL) simply "dots". On a related note, "bricks" and "plates" were foreign concepts to (...) (22 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts
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(...) Whew! For a minute there I thought you were calling me a geek.... hey, wait a second! ;) (...) That's a fairly widely used term, isn't it? I guess I was thinking more along the lines of personalized nicknames for less common parts. As I (...) (22 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) You can admit it if you want... I promise not to make fun of any names you may have come up with. I started this silly thread, I'm certainly not one to poke fun at anyone else. :) (...) I meant to clarify something in my initial posting. I (...) (22 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts
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In lugnet.general, Allan Bedford writes: <snip> Bulldog? Hydrant? Hmm... (...) Um... well... not that I'm going to admit, I guess. (grin) More seriously, I actually don't do that. I try to memorise the LDraw names for stuff and use those (and I try (...) (22 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) You, a geek, nah... ;-) (...) (URL) part is commonly referred to as a "jumper" plate or tile, since it allows for you to build on top of it in half-stud widths. (URL) best friend and I, potty humorists as we are, started calling this piece a (...) (22 years ago, 25-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)
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At the risk of branding myself a bigger geek than I already am, I have decided to post this anyway. :) While I'm building a model or sorting pieces, I sometimes refer to certain of my favorite pieces by a nickname... based on what that piece reminds (...) (22 years ago, 25-Apr-03, to lugnet.general) !
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| | Who is Matthew Be?
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Hello! I was browsing Brickshelf this morning and I landed on the folder of "Matthew Be" ((URL) like to communicate with him but I can't find his e-mail adress. :-( Does anybody here knows who is "Matthew Be" and/or could tell me how I can (...) (22 years ago, 25-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad, lugnet.people)
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| | UPDATED Re: spinner/tilter amusement ride MOC
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Hey guys, thought those of us with patience or broadband might be interested in seeing some video of the ride in action. i've completed the programming to include the classic circus music. Its really fun now. lowerd resolution (URL) resolution (...) (22 years ago, 25-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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| | G.M.L.T.C. to display at "Day Out With Thomas™" event
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The Greater Midwest LEGO Train Club (www.gmltc.org) is pleased to announce we will be displaying our LEGO train layout at the "Day Out With Thomas™" event at the Minnesota Transportation Museum's Jackson Street Roundhouse in St. Paul, MN from April (...) (22 years ago, 25-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | Re: On this day
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(...) Great thought, Ben. Richie (22 years ago, 25-Apr-03, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.nz, lugnet.general)
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