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| | | Does anyone know what´ll happen in less than 20 hours at (URL) ? There is a countdown running, anyone noticed ? dö (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Scott Edward Sanburn
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| | | | | Looks like Bobba Fett with the jetpack. Scott S. (...) (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Ralph Döring
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| | | | | | Was I blind ? Boba Fett ! I hope you´re right. Now I can´t sleep ... ;) I try and move this to starwars... dö (...) noticed ? (...) (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | | Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Scott Edward Sanburn
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| | | | | | | Interesting.... the gif that is the minifig/jetpack thing said mascot_hover on it. Very interesting, though I doubt TLG (LG) would publish something on BF so early, unless they are especially evil! Scott S. (...) (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Peter Abrahamson
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| | | | | | | | | I'm not sure if it is Boba Fett, compare the image from (URL) the silhouette on (URL) the head shape looks different. Of course we are speculating on an image that is only about 8 pixels high. ;P Peter (...) (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Eric Hampusgård
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| | | | | | | | | | Peter Abrahamson wrote (...) pixels (...) I think it looks like the old THX Logo Man from the earliest trailers from THX. But then, it's Lucas as well. ;-p // Eric (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Tom Stangl
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| | | | | | | | Currently, it's at 33000 seconds - about 23 days away. Sounds to me that it's the Y2K set releases, the timing would be about right. (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal views (...) (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —James Brown
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| | | | | | | | (...) ?!? That must be the new math. :) 33000 seconds is a little over 9 hours. 23 days would be 1,987,200 seconds. James (URL) (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Tom Stangl
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| | | | | | | | | Ayup, that's the new math you get when you are trying to do 3 things at once while also punching in #s on an old fashioned calculator. I dropped a 60 in there. You'd think I'd realize it, I used to have the "86400 seconds in a day" memorized, but (...) (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —John Rudy
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| | | | | | | | I can't find the little hovering man anywhere @ Lego.com, please help!!!!!!! -John Rudy (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Ryan Dennett
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| | | | | | | | | Look at the center of the page at lego.com Can't miss it. In the middle of the ring of themes. Ryan ***...*** REPLY SEPARATOR ***...*** (...) help!!!!!!! (...) (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Scott P. Costello
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| | | | | | | | | (...) You may be looking at a cached page, Internet Explorer is famous for that. Simply push the F5 key when you arive at the opening Lego worlds page and it should refresh for you. Scott (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Jeremy Rear
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| | | | | | | | | | Geez...I'm confused...I don't know where you guys are looking on this page! :-) I typed in www.lego.com and the only gif I get in the middle is a blinking silouette of a pit droid, Vader, Luke in flight suit, and R2D2, then it goes to "The Gallactic (...) (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Julie Krenz
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| | | | | | | | | | | (...) :-) (...) to (...) Did you try and hit reload after you got to the page? I'm far from a computer geek, so that's a total guess :-) Julie (...) (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —James Brown
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) :-) (...) Weird...What normally happens when someone goes to (URL) is that it loads the Lego Logo, the phrase "Just imagine...", and immediately after, punts you to (URL) using that URL directly, or just click on the 'worlds' icon that is in (...) (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Peter Fuesz
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| | | | | | | | | | Looks like there is a new TLG main page now... and the jet pack guy isn't Boba Fett. :( (...) (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Allan Bedford
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| | | | | | | | John Rudy <TJJohn12@AOL.com> wrote in article <FJM72r.HqH@lugnet.com>... (...) help!!!!!!! (...) Don't fret it John, I can't seem to see the silly thing either! It seems I get a different animated .gif each time I reload the page. First the (...) (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Tom Stangl
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| | | | | | | | What's New? Not much of anything, a whole lot of fanfare for no real new info (except maybe the 8450 Mission Technic set). Oh, and they went overboard on Shockwave - those idiots in their web design team obviously never have to dial up to connect to (...) (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Jeremy Sproat
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| | | | | | | | (...) Oh, and Javascript seems to be a requirement. There are *NO* <NOSCRIPT> tags anywhere. This just after a glaring security hole was discovered in BOTH Netscape and IE. Grrr.... >:-( Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Kya Morden
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| | | | | | | | | (...) I will take it from these two posts I'm not the only perso who HATES TLG's web designs? I happen to be running on an old 486 with only 16 megs of ram. Getting Netscrape to load faster than a minute is doing pretty good, but when they start (...) (25 years ago, 16-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) Yep. Overproduced... underengineered, and definitely undertested. That's what you get for letting creative do your web site design. Creative needs to be a resource to the techies that actually make things work or you get high sizzle and no (...) (25 years ago, 16-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | | | | | | (...) There is a 5th skill which is moderately valueable, but you can get away with, which I would treat as separate: technogeek. I would actually argue that the technogeek is what was allowed to wag the dog here. (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Distinguish "technical" from "technogeek" ? I'd argue that technogeek is NOT needed unless geeks are your audience, and even then, they appreciate speed and simplicity too. (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Josh Spaulding
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) I do this for a living, too, but I'm on the creative side. I don't disagree with your basic theories of interface design, but the way that you present them makes me suspect that you have little experience working with a good interface (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | | | I won't respond point by point but I will say this, a good designer has to have both creative and cognitive skills. Many bad designers have only creative skills, the way I (and CTP) define them. Understanding things like color theory, psychology, (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Tobias Möller
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| | | | | | | | It´s the web-design of today. If you want your site to be cool, the only thing that matters is on how many systems your site *won´t* work. --Tobias (...) design (...) tags (...) (25 years ago, 20-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | | (...) Dang, that's great sig material. --Todd (25 years ago, 20-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Jeremy Sproat
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| | | | | | | | (...) It's kinda like the ubiquitous software developer's in-joke: If it compiles, ship it immediately! Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 20-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Eric Kingsley
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| | | | | | | | <snip> (...) You mean I have been under the mistaken assumption that my programs work as long as they compile! OOPs.... All kidding aside your statement is more true that most people would believe or like to admit depending on which side of the (...) (25 years ago, 20-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Jeremy Sproat
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| | | | | | | | (...) Not really related, but I had this dream once... Once upon a time, Microsoft decided to ride the Open Source bandwagon for all it was worth, and released the full source code for Windows NT to the general public. The press went ecstatic. (...) (25 years ago, 20-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Ryan Dennett
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| | | | | | Well whatever happens, it will be at @ 3:00 am 10/15 EST Guess that means I'm not going to be one of the first to see what happens. Ryan ***...*** REPLY SEPARATOR ***...*** (...) ;) (...) (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Huw Millington
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| | | | | Ralph Döring <doe@gmx.de> wrote in message news:FJLBKv.BD1@lugnet.com... (...) noticed ? The server seems to be down as I write this... Huw (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Kevin Loch
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| | | | | Is it just me or does that look like a Classic Space minifig? KL (...) ? (...) (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Andrew Lynch
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| | | | | | | Actually, I was thinking the same thing... -Andy Lynch Kevin Loch wrote in message ... (...) noticed (...) (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Kevin Loch
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| | | | | | | | Well, upon closer inspection (I did a 9x enhancement) It looks like: It has hair instead of a helmet. It might be wearing a cape. The jetpack goes too far down the torso to be a classic airtank. It's left arm is swung back behind the jetpack. My (...) (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | | | (...) What do you mean, "enhancement"? You mean you enlarged the image? You don't gain any more information that way -- if anything, you lose meaningful data as your software makes up pixels to smooth things out. (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Kevin Loch
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| | | | | | | | | I do get more of the information that's already there into my brain. KL (...) (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | | | (...) The information may be the same, but some things are easier to see in enlargements. And some things are easier to see un-enlarged. Steve (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) Easier to see in the sense that the computer has provided data to make it look better bigger, so it's all nice and smooth and all, but not easier to see in any sense that cares about what's actually in the image! (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | | | | (...) Unless he works for the CIA and is using their fractal image-enhancement software.... (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Tobias Möller
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| | | | | Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Alex Roode
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