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My ultimate pet peeve is the discontinued Bulk packs of Technic Black Beams! Ahhh! Why o Why????!!!???? This really upsets me! I worked for 8 months to develop a rather great Mechanical Arm (Left Arm) It is comprised cheifly of Black Beams. After (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Including some of these, my biggest one is seeing the featured model is not that good as in the picture, after building it, and looking at the totally avoidable design errors on models either esthetically or structural (wings of TIE fighter, (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)
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Oh thank-you, the Red Robot is 3 feet tall, it took a year and a half to build it. from 93' to 94', I belive it contains on the order of 10K+ pieces based on other creations that I took apart and accually counted. The Robot has no motors but all the (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)
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| | Re: Stuck in a wheelchair (was Re: Lego pet peeve)
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Kevin I am making a response to this post. Its just taking me some time. Don't worry I'm not ignoring you. -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. "Kevin Salm" <kdsalm@dreamscape.com> wrote in message news:GBsoE6.BK3@lugnet.com... <snipped all> __Kevin Salm__ (...) (25 years ago, 16-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin, lugnet.people)
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(...) That's an amazing piece of work! How tall is it? What are it's functions? How many pieces do you estimate it has? Thanks, David (25 years ago, 16-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)
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(...) <snip> My peeve is having first my mum, and now my wife and kids, putting plastic (...) </snip> Today my daughter spotted and identified (I'd no idea what it was) a Knex piece in a used set I'd bought recently. A prize 8042 too - sacrilege or (...) (25 years ago, 16-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)
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hey, right on the Red Robot is a favorite. I worked on the Red Robot for about a year and a half, just to get all the pieces and get the stance correct. I started work on the Robot in 1993 and finished in 1994. I went thru several different hand and (...) (25 years ago, 16-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)
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(...) I'm fortunate enough to have two toy consignment shops where I live. They both yield fantastic deals now and then, but I really get annoyed when I find non-Lego stuff like pennies, misc. action figure props, pet hair, pen caps, and other crud. (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)
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(...) Um. . . WOW! That giant red robot is simply amazing! I have to ask you how long it took you to figure out the engineering for something that massive. How?! Dave (these are the kinds of pictures that sometimes make me want to put my Lego away (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)
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| | Re: Pet hair (Was Re: Lego pet peeve)
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How's the appeal coming along? :) -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. "Mark Sandlin" <sandlin@nwlink.com> wrote in message news:B6FF043F.10208%...ink.com... (...) only (...) only (...) incredible (...) have (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)
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(...) Pet hair is rather insidious stuff. I have two dogs, and I don't let them near my LEGO, but somehow I have little bits of dog hair in the bottoms of my sorting bins. :^P ~1st Lieutenant, Fleebnork Division Muffin Head (25 years ago, 15-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)
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"Thomas Main" <main@appstate.edu> wrote in message news:3AD75C4D.6F1164...ate.edu... SNIP (...) I absolutely hate this. I got suckered into buying a "big box of LEGO" only to find out that less than 1/4 of the box was actually LEGO. Plus, not only (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)
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(...) Is your mobility status permanent or is there improvement in sight? I ask because I, too, am currently stuck in a wheelchair. Due to a major motor vehicle crash in December I have temporarily lost the use of my left Leg and right Hand. My (...) (25 years ago, 14-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin, lugnet.loc.us.ny.uti)
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(...) Yikes... My peeve is the same, though for different reasons. My LEGO area is in the unfinished portion of our basement - concrete floor, etc. There are some tables I have set up for work and then all of the storage shelves around that we keep (...) (25 years ago, 14-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)
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Ok, here's my pet peeve: I really hate it when somebody sees my Robots for the first time and they compare them or liken them to somthing else. As in, oh look it looks like Transformers or look it looks like an Alien from the movies or Predator or (...) (25 years ago, 14-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)
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(...) Let's make my first few postings non-contentious. My peeve is having first my mum, and now my wife and kids, putting plastic non-Lego in the Lego box. I mean, does a pen cap REALLY look like Lego? A domino? A plastic guard from a disposable (...) (25 years ago, 14-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)
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I'll have to try that, thanks. -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. "Tom Heverly" <theverly@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote in message news:3ad7dec2.257655...net.com... (...) <snip> (25 years ago, 14-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)
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I understood I just wanted to clarify in general. -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. "Aaron West" <maniac@netwebb.com> wrote in message news:GBrL2t.Lnw@lugnet.com... (...) <snip> (...) (25 years ago, 14-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)
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I can see where the pinchers wouldn't work too well in a plush carpet, but how abotu some duct tape on the end of a stick? something like an old golf club, put a loop of tape on the head, sticky side out. If you has 2 labrador retrievers and 3 cats (...) (25 years ago, 14-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)
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(...) As an aside, I did not assume anything except use of an example. I also doubt that Lar is expressing sympathy, but rather a deep seated fear that some of us folk may harbor of the loss of an ability. It is a personal fear of mine that some (...) (25 years ago, 14-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)
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