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(...) Lots of papers of TLC show white baseplates on 111, 112 and 113. Just forget about that: nobody I have heared of has ever seen that in white and I doubt they were ever produced: I'm sure that have been first "handmade" sets for the press (...) (23 years ago, 7-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Train Set 113 Advice?
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(...) Ben, I'll post some picture to my ozbricks site as soon as I can tonight. Keep an eye out on (URL) I'll try and build it as close to the original instructions as possible - but I've noted that the box has different markings to the actual train (...) (23 years ago, 7-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) [snip] (...) Wow: I have never heared of this obviously British version of the 113. That's really interesting news to me! Has noone else such a set? I would be very interestd, what printings the luggage waggon of the UK version has had in 1966 (...) (23 years ago, 6-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: UKLug
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On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, James Stacey (<GHHIB3.1s6@lugnet.com>) wrote at 08:58:10 (...) Muted colours are fine, but it would have more impact if they were muted *LEGO* colours. In fact, the two sites you cited earlier - lugnet and brickset - both make (...) (23 years ago, 4-Aug-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: New Civil Engineer - Lego vs Meccano debate
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(...) Excellent work, Simon. Thank you for taking the time to do this on the behalf of Lego fans, and especially us Technic-heads. It's well written and makes some good points. You made a good point at the end, one I hadn't thought of before. You (...) (23 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) I've yet to see these in my local Woolworths here in St Andrews. Have they hit Scotland at all? Stephen (23 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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Dear all. Thanks for your help. Here is the completed 300 words. They've kind of backed me into a corner by changing the question so it's back to being specifically about degree courses and I'm not as fiercely anti-Meccano in that arena but I've (...) (23 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.mediawatch)
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Well i am lurking in the background and making my come back and i like to say that its good to see a protype website for the UKlug on the way :) I second Tony option :) Needs to be LEGOye and UKye as well :) My 2 pennies -- Michael Edwards Lugnet (...) (23 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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Allo all English type Lego-heads, This is my first post after lurking for some while...anyways to biz-ness. Woolworths are currently doing a "buy 1 get another half price" offer. Which means you can now buy 8 of those special chrome sets for £12 (...) (23 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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thats fine. its nice to get some feedback :) the idea was to give it a professional edge. We figured a slightly more muted colour scheme would detract less from the images. Remember eventually this site is prolly gonna be stuffed with mocs and Lego (...) (23 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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James, First, let me say thanks for putting in the effort to get something usable and pretty together. Then, let me say that I don't like it :-) The function is fine, but the form is lacking in several areas. - It's not very 'LEGOey', that is, (...) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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"James Stacey" <James@minifig.co.uk> wrote in message news:GHEt8o.E5K@lugnet.com... (...) people (...) much (...) If it's free, then go for it! (...) That's a good point. It will hopefully become a showcase for our collective talents :-) Huw (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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I have a ticket for a child (up to & inc. 15) when accompanying a full paying adult to Legoland Windsor. Its valid from now until 04/11/01. I won't be able to get South to use it in time so if anyone is interested (and couldn't find the newspaper or (...) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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It needs fiddling with. It's not too graphically intensive, most of the graphics are tileing but if people find it slow it'll need looking at. for some reason this server is incredibly slow from our office but quite acceptable on my 56k modem (...) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) I found a free kids promotation on walls ice cream. 1 litre tubs of it,I brought them in Asda 2 tubs for £3.00 with one free kid on each tub,not bad. So I went on Monday and had a great day out.But the shop wasn`t to hot, no new technic sets (...) (23 years ago, 1-Aug-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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"James Stacey" <James@minifig.co.uk> wrote in message news:GHEBxH.C8D@lugnet.com... (...) It's looking good. It loads a bit slow for my taste (too many graphics?, but then my approach, at www.brickset.com, may look a bit bare) What are imaginet (...) (23 years ago, 1-Aug-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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OK I've put the bare bones of a site up at www.minifig.co.uk\uklug its not working properly in netscape yet (but then what does) and if you follow the latest news link off the frontpage you'll get a page not found. I'll have a go at getting around (...) (23 years ago, 1-Aug-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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I will start by apologising for utter lack of details on this promotion. On the train this morning, I saw a "reader promotion" for free kids admission to Legoland. As the paper was being read by it's owner, I did not get the details. Not only that, (...) (23 years ago, 1-Aug-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: New Civil Engineer - Lego vs Meccano debate
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err try this one www.minifig.co.uk/im...lego-7.jpg "James Stacey" <James@minifig.co.uk> wrote in message news:GHCD55.JFB@lugnet.com... (...) year (...) looked (...) hooks (...) long (...) or (...) arm, (...) as (...) always (...) the (...) turned (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.mediawatch)
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www.minifig.co.uk/we...lego-7.jpg Dear Paul I enclose an image of the Lego model which was used by myself (and my 9 year old daughter) to develop the concept for maintaining the horizontality of the wheel. It also had a "sophisticated" lego brick (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.mediawatch)
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