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(...) Wait a minute. I thought the point of building a train out of LEGO was that it would be cheap and easy to make repairs. Having a burned and otherwise rusted or mutilated train really should never happen at all because that's not the way that (...) (21 years ago, 27-Oct-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: How to model a wrecked train in Lego??
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Easy, use Megablocks. Then you don't care how bad you melt, beat, cut, hack, dismember, burn, discolor, paint, etc... Or, if you're me, do it from Lego just to hear the screams of purists... It's even more effective when you have an ACTUAL live (...) (21 years ago, 27-Oct-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Hi. Just came across this photo and it put me to work thinking about how to model something like this out of Lego bricks. Substantial modifications of bricks may be necessary to do it right. Take a look: (URL) Salm__ LUCNY Trim newsgroups from (...) (21 years ago, 27-Oct-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) There you go with your OT.Snipping again... (...) That's close to the worst moment, in terms of character, in the entire series so far. Padme only really falls for Anakin when she realizes that he's a sociopathic mass murderer. I've been in (...) (21 years ago, 27-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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| | Re: What's in a name?
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Dave Schuler wrote: <snip> (...) It's a huge debate for me--AOTC vs TPM--which one's worse. The very bad acting in AOTC--"I killed them, I killed them all!!" "Oh there there, you poor thing..." or the Pod Race in TPM, which, (...) (21 years ago, 27-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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(...) I think that they should re-release it as "Harry Potter vs. The Troll." How do you think Ms. Rowling would respond? (...) It preceded the "direct to video" phenomenon, but it was indeed astonishingly bad. After (URL) Howard the Duck,> this is (...) (21 years ago, 27-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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(...) I don't think there was such a thing as 'direct to video' in '86. Though I could be wrong about that. Good catch on the Anne Lockhart. I just watched 'Living Legend' and seeing Lloyd was awesome! (...) Dave K (21 years ago, 27-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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(...) Noah Hathaway was Apollo's kid in 'Battlestar Galactica'. Battlestar Galactica being one of my favourite shows when I was younger. There's been some pretty good sci-fi series in my lifetime--jms's Bab 5, Josh's Firefly, and Glen A's BG. I even (...) (21 years ago, 27-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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(...) I never heard of this movie, but I did notice Anne Lockharts name also. 2 former stars of Battlestar Galactica. The last name Potter is very common, in movies and real life. Troll must have done really crappy or was direct to video and still (...) (21 years ago, 27-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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| | Re: And now for some fluff after all the heavy conversations...
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(...) I'll give you my list so you don't feel so bad. In addition to Survivor (which I only followed religiously the first time but it is on in our house so I tune in and out) the only shows I have actually sat through so far this season are two (...) (21 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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I was looking at the latest photoshop contest on Fark.com and saw that someone had used a scene from one of the WAMALUG layouts, check it out it's about halfway down in the pictures: (URL) (21 years ago, 19-Oct-03, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Trilogy Tuesday Tickets Go On Sale Today
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Here's the chance to see all three LotR movies at once (extended editions of both FotR and TT then RotK). Tickets for the show are $30 each. From the official LotR site: (URL) And a listing from TheOneRing.net site: (URL) AMC Mission Valley 20, here (...) (21 years ago, 9-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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| | Dangler extraordinaire!
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From a list I'm on... Closing sentence in British account of bank robber trial: Having been released from a nine-year prison term for four counts of armed robbery three years ago, Judge Geoffrey Rivlin QC said he had no alternative but to impose a (...) (21 years ago, 9-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Custom Hover Hog MOC
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(...) In the Norwegian translation, that would be "it's a helicopter baby": (URL) (21 years ago, 7-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Introducing JetRed
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(...) No, I'd just have a lot of LEGO ;-) -Tim xfut -> .o-t.fun (21 years ago, 7-Oct-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Snip (...) I think a more accurate translation would be "zealously guards" which is similar to the other, but not quite. --Electro-- aka David M. (21 years ago, 6-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | SNOT a problem
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(URL) (I would have posted this to the building>MOC's area, but this isn't really a serious MOC... I just had to get rid of the Studs-Not-On-Top mental image I get whenever somebody uses the abbreviation SNOT. Yes, I am silently mocking the ones who (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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| | RE: Once again, a relativley major bug...
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(...) I know it's in common use, but it has immediately negative feelings that come with it. I have done lots of editing of non-native English speakers for various LEGO books and I can say that awkward translations by the original author to English (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Uh, you need to look this word up because a phrase like "jealously guards" is not at all uncommon. jeal·ous - adjective 1. Fearful or wary of being supplanted; apprehensive of losing affection or position. 2. a. Resentful or bitter in rivalry; (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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| | Re: "Spelling", or how simple things can be
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(...) Augh! I cuold raed taht! It msut be ture! ->-Burce-<- (21 years ago, 19-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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