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(...) There's currently no mechanism in place in the newsserver to limit posting to a given group to a given set of named people in an "easy" way, although there is a mechanism to block specific people from specific groups if they've been naughty. (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) In fact neither do I, and I'm the one who said it. The impulse have the grey ninjas, black ninjas, red soldiers, blue soldiers. sorry for getting everyone excited. I guess Jamie will have to buy five 3052's or 5 x 3051's (dragon wagon) or 5 x (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) hands on some of these. Pete Callaway (who is dreading dividing his LEGO budget between bricks and cars, but they're just too cool to pass up!) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I think he means the 118x series of 'impulse' sets. [don't recall a red ninja, though] Benjamin Whytcross BWhytcro@PacificAccess.com.au Ph: (03) 9856 5282 Directory Technology Pty Ltd 1/436 Elgar Road, Box Hill, 3128 Growing older is (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I was working under the same assumption (...) Agreed, but ignored. :) (...) 2) org.au.market => members only org.au => open to all [used as .loc.au is currently] 1) with answer to 2, not required... (...) [I'm hoping to leave in just under 2 (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Small red ninja sets? do you mean set 3074, red ninja's dragon glider? or one of the other small sets like <set:3016> If you do mena 3074, where!?where?!? Do they have the old ninja guy, white ninja and evil shoguns as well? James (who's (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Eeeegads, thats a good one! Incidendtly, as Oceania isn't given a place in the football world cup, the winner of oceania has to play the fifth placed Sth American team for the final place from Sth America. Ripped off i say! (...) Well i said (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Yeah, when I checked out the 1965 catalogue on BenW's suggestion I saw the "Town Layout" kit with the road plates and instructions for building the structures IIRC. Oh to have been around in those "glory years" (without trying to sound (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) That's what the whole area's called, no? (...) Todded... yeah, that's it. ;-) (...) Yep, it's about time they get over to ya! (those pitchforks were sure a nice commission) (...) Whichever's the most. ;-) -Shiri (25 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Lizards would probably dislike their heads being swapped too. (...) I saw this set in an auction, it looked like painted timber. pete.w (25 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Just a guess, based on the description, but it sounds like one of the 'town plans' which were pictured in many of the older catalogues. [remembering I don't have the image or net access, so I can't say definitely one way or the other.] Pity (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Oceania, that's it !!! (that's our world cup soccer group too!) (...) I'm with Shiri on this, let whoever respond, if people break the rules, they get ignored or Todded. (...) for (...) Hmmm, better fix that up shortly ;^) (...) Is that 2c US (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Argh! Having just said the road plates were not Lego, I took a closer look at the next picture and they are Lego after all, studs and all. Oh well, I never saw anything so sophisticated here in Australia in my childhood. Kerry (25 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Forgive the length of this, but this is a topic close to my heart, as I have really tried not to nurture my kids in the predictable societal patterns. My daughter is 11 yrs old and she had matchbox cars and trucks and hammers etc right from the (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)
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(...) out (...) wheeled (...) come (...) Yes, they look just like the Matchbox cars that I used in my Lego constructions back in the early-mid 60s. We used to put (live) lizards in the Lego houses as we didn't have mini-figs back then. Admittedly I (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) How'bout .org.oceania? (...) Hmm. No one else can even post at all, not even *comment* on what's going on in your group? Maybe it's just me, but I like to read and comment about what other groups are doing... Think about the BrickFest for (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) And I've got a 6047 box with an arabic sticker on the end. [From second hand toy shop, along with 'australian' lego boxes] Benjamin Whytcross BWhytcro@PacificAccess.com.au Ph: (03) 9856 5282 Directory Technology Pty Ltd 1/436 Elgar Road, Box (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Yep, they're clear...unfortunately, I don't have any :( (...) Yep...They're the same plastic as the bricks...Pity they don't still make them. (...) Try: [from a posting by Gary Istok, I believe] Old LEGO cars (wow, what a collection) from some (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) What set and year was it ? Goes with the Japanese stickers on one of mine recently and the ones Santosh got from the markets. pete.w <aquanaut@optusnet.com.au> (25 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Well, we used to be a subsidiary of Lego UK in the 60's and 70's [and maybe part of the 80's] and I've got a feeling NZ still may be, as they get the same sets as the UK at about the same time [1]. But it's now begining to look like we've (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) It's hard to tell from that image, but I can picture them in my head, the green had a couple of different shades too (I remember a brighter green). (...) I didn't have flags, but I had road signs and heaps of the two-high lattice fences with (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Well, unfortunately there's nothing I can do about it :( [ at least not between 6:30am and 7pm...work and travel to-from ] which is when the best time to post is to catch these discussions. However, If Todd could find a way of checking from (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) (Thankyou muchly for the scans, Benjamin!) Funny how the overall look of the Action Wheelers is so much like the modernised Junior Meccano. We ended up buying (non-modernised) Jr Meccano for my son's 4th birthday last year after a lengthy and (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Nothing against Kiwis, but I thought the idea was to create a forum where we could buy/sell etc without having to face the hassles of foreign currencies, huge international shipping costs, and so forth. Obviously, NZ is closer for shipping (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) What's changed is that TLC believes (perhaps correctly, perhaps not) that kids nowadays have short attention spans, and will not be interested in building a big, complex set over, say, watching TV or playing the computer. (...) Yep, that's (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Thanks Ben, The image of 310 isn't terribly clear, but even if they are clear macaroni's they'd still be rare as. As for the cars, OMG! I need to get my hands on them! They look excellent! I thought LEGO only made wooden stuff before the (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) The red and white bus will have generic red/white combo, if they have red tops, you can get some red legs from the small red ninja sets that are $1.88 at Big W. (...) TRU PRICES, 3409 Championship Challenge (the field) - $54.99 3404-7 Team (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) They came as a pack of six, I recall, 5 trees and a row of bushes. Looking at the LUGnet database (and taking into account the age I was), I think I have found the set (or one very like it): (URL) also had a pack of six national flags. The (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I hear you Ben, it's just that your reply-posting problem makes it kind of like waiting for an echo to finish before replying. By which time something else may also have been said. (...) This idea i like. Perhaps its something we can adopt for (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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I take it from this posting you've never seen the lego cars...Have a look on brickshelf at the 1965 UK catalogue. It shows some of the cars lego produced [I forget what webpages have acuall photos and a list of them] as well as set 310 petrol (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Go to the index page (URL) and check out some of the other images. It looks like they're using pre superfast wheeled Matchbox cars in the town scene on page 4a (and where did the road plates come from?). They could make some pretty cool stuff (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Hi guys well, just got off the phone to the powers that be. The new catalogue will be out in the stores in July (beginning of, she said) It will be a full catalogue! I was informed that the new sets will be released in both July and September. She (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) In which case, maybe .org.ANZA [Australia and New-Zealand Area] or similar? (...) See above suggestions (...) Agreed (...) I'd say they should be allowed to join...but who listens to me. (...) Agreed (...) Maybe Australian region [or by (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I was worried there for a moment. My web browser chopped off the last three words of your last sentence. I thought you were off to Thailand for a minute. pete.w (25 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) That's all we need, sales reps deciding our range. Maybe the UFO sets abducted all the other stock and are conducting strange experiments on them as we speak. pete.w (25 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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"Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:FwFK66.Jst@lugnet.com... (...) Personally I'd like to be more explict about the "marketplace" issue. How about replacing the last sentence with: "Messages about auctions, buying, selling, and (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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In lugnet.loc.au, Kerry Raymond writes on Lego, sexism, and making a difference. <<expletive indicating surprise and approval deleted>>! Its been a long time since I saw this put so eloquently and persuasively. That's it, I'm off to buy some boys (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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