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(...) Just a translation, 'new sealed boxes' means, open (both box and all part bags) and used (assembled at least once). As a bonus, some of the parts are dusty from being on display (obvious when a 2x6 black plate has a 2x2 section of pure dust). (...) (20 years ago, 7-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) For me, 2153 as described, but 2151 had been squashed. Ian (20 years ago, 7-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Overpriced CRAP It was NEW so stop crying. No one twisted your arm to buy it. Grow up and get on with life!!!!!! (20 years ago, 7-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) That cosmic dust gets into everything. (...) Hey Brad, didn't know you collected ;^) That 6989 gets some pretty good Lugnet ratings, made me even go and check the building instructions on Brickshelf. (20 years ago, 7-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) AUD$115 for a used 6989 in good condition (with box) is a bargain - if you don't want it I'd be happy to take it off your hands for that price plus whatever postage you paid. Or do you expect me to buy all the various bits of it off Technic (...) (20 years ago, 7-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Ouch! Without getting into the merits of the various positions, can I suggest that perhaps this might be better resolved offline and the resolution reported back if appropriate? (20 years ago, 7-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Don't worry Larry it will get sorted out off line and there won't be any need for resolution reports. I am just upset that someone had to use the LUGNET "back Door" instead of coming and knocking at the Front. So I'm finished over and done (...) (20 years ago, 7-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) But then we wouldn't get to see it ;^) At least it's not another thread droning on about the colour change. Lugnet is dead these days, even the once thriving loc.au, might be time to move to rtl/rlt.toronto. (20 years ago, 7-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Somehow, I don't think the path to fame and fortune, or at least fortune, is by parting one of these out. Recent completed ebay auctions (none of mine):- 5936137036 - US$ 46 5937424715 - US$ 53 5938523694 - US$ 24.50 5940014607 - US$ 59.99 (...) (20 years ago, 7-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) A resolution of a controversy reported back on LUGNET? Well, it *has* happened on occassion, I guess, just not too often. Cheers Richie Dulin (20 years ago, 7-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Please take discussion about colour change to .color. (...) Maybe we should draft a collective letter to loc.au lurkers to urge them to post? Cheers Richie Dulin (20 years ago, 7-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I'm sorry, I posted that a little rashly - I guess it just seemed like there was some hypocrisy going on and I got a bit flustered. I apologise. After a bit of hunting around, apparently 6989 isn't as valuable as it once was. It used to be a (...) (20 years ago, 7-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) Only when the .colour ng is created, will I see fit to post about that topic. (...) Maybe the statsmaster should post some up-to-date stats, I know how some people like seeing their name up in lights. pete.w (20 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) That would be lo-res. (...) That would be hi-res. (20 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Well, I like seeing people calling for up-to-date stats! I've included a comparison to November 2002 (because that was the last published November .loc.au stats). In November, there were 62 posts to .loc.au (284 in Nov 02), 56 from Australians (...) (20 years ago, 10-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Whoo HOOO for me! being named as this months equal second highest poster is a compliment I'll remember for as long as I can.... Leg Godt Travis Matheson (20 years ago, 10-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Aaaah. All is right with the world as long as Richie is compiling stats for loc.au. Thanks dude. (...) More's the pity. (...) Mmmmm. Its true that endless whining is not attractive under any circumstances and no less so at Lugnet. Even (...) (20 years ago, 10-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I have been endeavouring to remove all traces of irony, sarcasm, mockery, quibbling and argument from my posts of late. Many of my proposed posts have been reduced to zero as a result. (...) I must say though, that the lack of postings does (...) (20 years ago, 10-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) All I seem to post are joint posts :^O (...) I see a lot of bidding activity on ebay from the tooth of the grim, 1000 lego items at any one time is a lot to chew through. pete.w (industrial-use only quality) (20 years ago, 13-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Failure of Afghanistan ? Kabul is perfectly contained, drug production is approaching capacity and the warlords' payroll is taken care of. Iraq ? Just re-install Saddam, with the warning to stay out of trouble or we'll clone your sons and kill (...) (20 years ago, 13-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Hmmm... Less posts, more bids... more bids, more wins... more wins, more lego... more lego, more building... more building, more posts... Or so the theory goes. The reality is more like Less posts to read, more time to think about bidding... (...) (20 years ago, 16-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) In theory, I will place one bid to see this in chart or graph form, pictures are so much more easier to follow. Of course that would lead to much sorting, and not such a fan of sorting, so I doubt I could win you over in less time then it (...) (20 years ago, 16-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) One must accept that only two responses to this (Hi Richie and Pete) hardly justifies festival planning, and we haven't scratched the surface of the subsidiary issue of the great breathe some life into loc au mindless violence fest. Not to (...) (20 years ago, 30-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Hi Richard! (...) Cool. I'll be there. (Though, if you could email me directions, it would assist my timely arrival). (...) Cool. 350 points is an interesting amount. Enough for a unit of cavalry, one of infantry, a commander, and a couple of (...) (20 years ago, 4-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Hello Richard I would like to accept your invitation (challenge?) to war. Last year my son and I visited Richie and met pete too. I have an army, or at least the bricks n bits to make one. I have not played BrikWars before, however have (...) (20 years ago, 8-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Will do ;-) As I suggested earlier in the thread, its good stuff to be putting your army together in advance, and probably worthy subject matter for posting, sooooooo, find herewith link for some detail on the armies already signed on (being (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) imported katana's? I congratulate you on managing to include at least two positive references to me. Your flattery will not be forgotten! (...) I'm still working on the creative accounting for mine. I've shaved it down to 348 points, but still (...) (20 years ago, 12-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) No no no. After your gentle historical criticism last time, the Prussians took the view that while the katanas may have been handily successful, they were insufficiently traditional. All gone now: (URL) (...) Indeed, but like the katanas, its (...) (20 years ago, 12-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I gave ‘gentle historical criticism’? Perhaps the historical part, but I doubt the gentle part! (...) with the lego horse pose). However, my historical criticism was perhaps only partly right. While the katana is not Napoleonic as such, the (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Ah ha! (URL) the Prussians anyway, stripped of their sharp katanas for blunt short cutlasses. I think I have gone heavy on costing the limber, but if anything its conservative. The power arangements for the horses to drag cannon about are a (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Ok my Pugnacious Potentates, Bellicose Brigands and Confused Combatants, This Sunday in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, the battlefield stands ready for a festival the like of which few combatants will see the end: To the north, the (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) It has been written that history is written by the victors, so it is fitting that I post (or is that boast?) about the French victory in the Southern Highlands. Pics to come, but for the moment, this brief report. The combined might of the (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.gaming.brikwars)
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(...) Whoa Dudes, that's twice the French have been victorious at STUDS Brikwars, what are you doing wrong? Dude, I mean, Dude, French.... Dude! Leg Godt Travis Matheson (20 years ago, 24-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.gaming.brikwars)
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(...) Thanks Richard and family for your hospitality last weekend and hosting a LEGO day and Brikwars game. My son Lachlan and I enjoyed the company and "playing" very much - probably because we were on the winning side - the French! It was great to (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.gaming.brikwars)
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Hi all, have been away since the fest but am back in possession of my online (...) (snip worthy if heinously French telling of the terrible battle :-) I think next time we Allied forces might better appreciate the very Napoleonic principle of (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, FTX)
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(...) It was indeed a great day. Thanks very much for the hospitality! Here's my post again, more or less, but now with added fuzzy photos. They are clickable, but you'll probably get the gist from the thumbnails. It is worth noting that there is a (...) (20 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, FTX)
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