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(...) Hmmmm I have that set and my instructions also show no sign of folding. I no longer have the box so I can't check, but I don't ever recall having instructions bigger than the box. IIRC I got mine from Europe, and the packaging may have been (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.au)
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"Ross Crawford" <rosscraw@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message news:IAnp2z.2138@lugnet.com... (...) than (...) box (...) the (...) have (...) The set is 8444 - the Air Enforcer from 1999. The instructions are in an A4 book that is 100 pages long It is (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.au)
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For many years we have been keeping a list of the Lego instructions we have to help prioritise our purchases (ie, buy instructions/sets we don't have first). Note, instructions do not necessarily mean sets, but close. Somewhere along the line we (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.au)
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ok, what I will do is to make a list of all the sets I have instructions for along with sutable average bricklink prices for same. And a list of the "rare"/"unusual" parts in my collection (anything that would be hard to find again if my collection (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) High end Technic RC cars (8475, 8366 etc) came with instructions rolled (folded like an S, same way you fold A4 letters into business-sized envelopes) and sealed in a plastic bag. Don't recall a high end regular technic set that came with (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Not that I recall - what set was it? Is there any evidence that they may have been folded originally (scuff marks halfway across etc)? ROSCO (21 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Hey there everyone It's been a bit quiet here this week so I thought I'd pose this question Has anyone ever had a set where the instructions are actually bigger than the box they came in? I know it sounds a bit weird, but I was given a Technic set (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) How good's your memory? How about making a list of all the sets you've acquired over the years (don't do it in one hit, take a few days), making a note of the set number and number of pieces. See what you can come up with. (No need to build (...) (21 years ago, 21-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 (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Hmmm, I was hoping for a way to do this that didnt involve going through and building every set in my collection and then valuing each set plus all the parts that are left. Assume they dont want lists of individual parts, is there another (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.au)
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"Jonathan Wilson" <jonwil@tpgi.com.au> wrote in message news:IAL6w5.xFL@lugnet.com... (...) paid. (...) particularly (...) Well, sets are the easy part - you could take the average listing value off of Bricklink. Doesn't matter what you really paid (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) There was also a great pic of it in the Arts section of the Australian yesterday. The lego is actually staying longer now it is so very popular. I have even built a tower (although incomplete as my son dragged me away to see tubby the robot) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) The insurance company wants a list. I have no clue what all this stuff is worth. Or how much I paid for the various items in my collection. Any ideas on how to come up with a value that the insurance will accept? (21 years ago, 19-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 (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) There was a piece about this in today's Courier Mail. (Some artist, getting the kids to do all the work! :P ) Michael (21 years ago, 15-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 (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Hello all I am actually just quickly sticking my head in from hiding behind this curtain of silence to say that the Queensland Art Gallery is having a summer festival between 15-23 of January. Now this is cool any time but this year we have 300kg of (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.au) !
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snip (...) If that separate announcement has been made, i missed it. Otherwise, i hope the ball hasn't been dropped as this is a great idea and any update would stop me from bitting my nails. Steve (21 years ago, 12-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au)
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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 (...) (21 years ago, 12-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 (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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