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I had a good car-boot-sale trawl yesterday. Amongst the treasure I found were a few mint/new "Betta Bilda" sets dated 1969: (URL) search for "Betta Bilda", produced this site which reviews early construction or “architectural” toys: (URL) favourite (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-02, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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"prize2707" <paul.1@virgin.net> wrote in message news:H6HwrB.Fn3@lugnet.com... (...) (URL) normally i would just put this down to custom model but i recently lost an (...) Nope. Just a bunch of grey parts. You have classic space baseplates, lots of (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-02, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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thx jason - here is the image from the auction i won (URL) i would just put this down to custom model but i recently lost an auction for one of these made up so i just assumed it must be an official set. if not it's a great load of parts for £12.50 (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-02, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) Hi. If it's these plates: (URL) from (URL) 's inventory) Then they're not from a castle set. If it's a real castle set just stuck on these plates, then do you have an eBay picture of it made up? If not, try spreading the parts out, posting a (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-02, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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firstly just to say hi. i have a brick link store called Lego Leaders (URL) so you can see the sort of lego I mainly collect. I also have a question about a castle set i recently won on ebay. it's set on what looks like 2 gray space/moon bases with (...) (22 years ago, 1-Dec-02, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Pictures from Piece By Piece
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Apologies for the delay, but finally got pictures from Croydon fest. (URL) to William for sorting this out (I'm still a hopeless case working out brickshelf). Pete (...) (22 years ago, 1-Dec-02, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) My idea is to use the blue boat hulls with playmo. motors under them. I've had one pond in a basement before...but this would be more advanced than that. I've also electric taped a motor onto one of the smaller hulls. The problem that I have (...) (22 years ago, 1-Dec-02, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.boats)
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| | Re: Toys R Us UK Buy One Get One Free
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(...) The deal is not online, but they do have a few deals on others sets [nothing special] Lego Grand Championship Cup: Was £70 Now £40. Lego Jack Stone Police HQ: Was £55 Now £40 Lego Roborider Boss: Was £15 Now £7.50 I'm not sure how much of a (...) (22 years ago, 30-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.castle)
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Toys R Us in Reading have buy one get one free on all £5.99 Castle and Football sets. They had: Knights: 4816 Catapult (contains female knight) 4817 Dungeon (shiny armour and a "skellington") 4819 Bulls Attack Wagon (shiny shield and bandits) (...) (22 years ago, 30-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.castle)
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(...) I built a boat the other day but it wouldn't float upright even with four airtanks holding it up on outriggers. I tried to motorise it but when I placed the motor on board the whole thing tipped and I had to lift the motor off again before it (...) (22 years ago, 30-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.trains)
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(...) When the grandparents came over for Thanksgiving today (in California) they brought my older kid's LEGO Club mail-- including a small package which contained the 3219 Mini Tie Fighter! (And also a poster showing mini AT-AT's, which the poster (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.promo, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Lego Shop MK
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(...) (2 URLs) (22 years ago, 27-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) yes, phone masts (cell towers) are cool! (22 years ago, 27-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.trains)
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I was thinking of a Lego one, a real one with a working boat would be outstanding. I think it should have a glass (perspex) side so you can see underwater! Mark "James Powell" <wx732@freenet.victoria.bc.ca> wrote in message (...) (22 years ago, 27-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Q- are you meaning a watertight canal? Or just a lego one? I have ideas as to how to manage a watertight one, but haven't done anything about it yet...lack of time. They involve wooden U shaped boxs, fiberglass resin and vasoline to seal (...) (22 years ago, 27-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Marillion! I'd forgotten about that lyric years ago! Jennifer (22 years ago, 27-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: RIS 1.5 £85 at UK S@H
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"William Howard" <william@howard-fami...rld.co.uk> wrote in message news:NFBBICINOLKHMIO...d.co.uk... (...) Phew! Thought for a minute I'd missed this one. Persistence paid off though. When you call Shop @ Home they will tell you they don't have any (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, lugnet.loc.uk)
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Popped into the Legoshop on the weekend. I didn't take a full inventory of what bricks were what, but I can see there are some differences from Huws opening report. They had lots of grey 1x2s for a start (which was nice) Mostly the same though. They (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) Did (...) a (...) I've thought of this, but working out how to build a module with a canal and still keep the flexibility of the module system is the challange. The green phone mast is mine, we're seeing more painted masts here now. Mark (22 years ago, 24-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.trains)
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Hi Manfred, Yes, we are all turning into mobile phone mast geeks! There are so many designs, once you start looking... We acquired some new members for this show, and expanded the layout considerably as a result. I think we put on a great display, (...) (22 years ago, 24-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.trains)
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