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Re: Extreme Creatures 9732 @ The Bay
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Date: 
Sun, 6 Apr 2003 04:50:21 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Iain Hendry writes:
You missed something, I put my hand in a half-eaten bread product that was
stuck behind one of the sets.  I almost fell over I was laughing so hard.

Yorkdale makes me angry when it's that busy.  ARGH.

You know, that was probably one of the worst kept Lego/toy sections I've
ever seen.  I am convinced the Bay is getting out of toys.

It's actually even a bit simpler than that, if you just connect the port on
the top of the Fibre Optic unit to a sensor and configure it in RAW, you can
see the state changes either 8 or 16 times per revolution (can't remember),
but it's also 2-state so you have no sense of direction.

Wow.  I never knew that!  I think it's safe to say every piece has a use.*
One of the things that amazed the hell out of me was a omnidirectional
castor that Matt Jetleb made out of a Lego Soccer ball.

Calum
* - Does not include Galidor, Belville, and certain other truly useless
categories.



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(...) Truly useless?? It's LEGO, and if it's LEGO, it's all good... There was that competition in .space a while back where they took the "worst" space LEGO pieces, like the rowboat, and the palm leaf, and built them into a spaceship... Was very (...) (21 years ago, 6-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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"Calum Tsang" <tsangc@mie.utoronto.ca> wrote in message news:HCwnDJ.CEt@lugnet.com... (...) 25-33% (...) You missed something, I put my hand in a half-eaten bread product that was stuck behind one of the sets. I almost fell over I was laughing so (...) (21 years ago, 6-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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