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G'Day "Calum Tsang" <tsangc@mie.utoronto.ca> wrote in message news:GKCyM9.AzB@lugnet.com... (...) <snip> (...) hold (...) managers (...) <snip> I agree I have not bought any sets for a while, there is just nothing out there that looks neat or is (...) (23 years ago, 29-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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G'Day For blatant 6776 selling check out (URL) Well "Calum Tsang" <tsangc@mie.utoronto.ca> wrote in message news:GKCyM9.AzB@lugnet.com... <snip> (...) Olivier (Oliver) <more snipage> (23 years ago, 29-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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G'Day I agree 8277 The Giant Model Set is the BEST source for Technic parts, over time I have now scouped up 7 of them, the only way to get good parts! And I only had to pay full retail for one, the rest were sales at 40-60% off. If anyone knows (...) (23 years ago, 29-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Well, after what has unarguably been the worst summer of my life, Aside from personal issues, the near total absence of garage-sale Lego this year has done little to distract me from my woes. The fragments I've been finding here and there haven't (...) (23 years ago, 29-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Well, I got an email today about using 2000 and the Lego camera and it reminded me to post about my success: I got the Lego Mindstorms Vision Command camera to run successfully under Windows 2000 Server, Service Pack 2, on a Dell Optiplex GX1 (...) (23 years ago, 29-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: A note from Rob...
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Another |thing I would like to see is a more detailed description of each of the |entries to the competition. This could be posted on the rtlToronto site |afterwards. Categories like name of builder, name of robot, # of RCX's, # of |motors, types of (...) (23 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Retail rant, was Re: ?Best Lego Retailer?
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"Richard Noeckel" <Shroud_of_kung_fu@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:GKDtHu.3HE@lugnet.com... (...) best (...) indeed. (...) *YES*. That set is simply fabulous. I had a friend "accidentally" buy the wrong set for someone (I don't rember the (...) (23 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Oh great, all of a sudden people are floundering my ‘supper-secret locations.’ ;) Just a question, what year is your sister in and what’s her major? Thanx, --==Richard who also goes to York==-- (23 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.loc.ca.on.tor)
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My sister goes to York, and close to her residence (Calumet) there is a ghetto mall that has a Zellers with some fairly old Town/Train/Technic sets (mid 90's). I haven't been there since the spring, but there's probably still some stuff there. It's (...) (23 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.loc.ca.on.tor)
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(...) I'd like to know too. I haven't been able to find any in quite a while. (...) indeed. (...) I thought this set had 16 yellow and 4 gray 1x16 long beams. Although it could be 4 and 12 I can't remember for sure. Anyway, lots of smaller beams (...) (23 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Oh, I see, so my initial “let’s help the community” would be taken advantage of by the AFOL who see the hobby purely as profit. Then I apologize for responding to Chris in that manner. I guess he’s just more aware of the Lego-Dark Side… (...) (...) (23 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Try the ad in the paper -- Wanted - LEGO bricks... It does work... Yes you have to haggle the price, yes you have to sort thru the bricks and throw out all the Tyco and Megabloks, but its quite nice what you *may* find... I have bricks dating (...) (23 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.loc.ca.on.tor, lugnet.general)
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(...) Well as others have said you don't want to give away all your secrets. :-) But for me, I find I buy most of my lego from Zellars. Doesn't really matter which one, I go to several. They all seem to have slightly different stock. The Bay Yonge (...) (23 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.loc.ca.on.tor, lugnet.general)
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Rob sent me an email earlier because he couldn't post. I think this would be a great idea, what does everyone else think? --Calum |This message is for all of the robot builders out there. I have some |suggestions about the next competition. Rather (...) (23 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Neither of these two items is particularily secret, yes. In fact, I'd be almost safe to say there are almost no cool Toronto Lego secrets anymore. Lego I suspect has changed it's business model from what I can tell to hold back most of the (...) (23 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I don’t mind! Anyways, it’s not like the entire general public of the GTA will clean out the Lego inventory before I get to it. “the lurkers will buy all the sets right from under your nose.” This happens anyways. Conversely, I've cleaned out (...) (23 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.loc.ca.on.tor)
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(...) Seeing as a train3 has not been even planned yet, I'm sure this isn't a problem to get into the module guidelines, but what I'm worried about is that some folks who have extensive module layout landscapes (ie, Jeff Elliott) as you say, would (...) (23 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) OR, to quote the "eye-biting monkey" ...if you reveal your secret stash of stores then the lurkers will come and buy all the sets right from under your nose. :) :) :) Chris Visit my newly revamped walker page @ (URL) (23 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I'm pretty sure the lights are done after the fact in Photoshop. But it has an excellent lighting setup overall, it was obviously carefully planned. Calum (23 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: ..`My Monkeys Macabre Massacre`..
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"Richard Noeckel" <Shroud_of_kung_fu@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:GKCHt0.LBv@lugnet.com... (...) That's like the Metro :) (...) Ooooo, reminds me of "D'Iberville". Iain (23 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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