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(...) ..ack! Brain fart.. Saw the ".edu" in the address and completely spaced the ".au" after it... +------/|---...---+---...---+ | | | djlong@wildwizards.net \ | | / | \ | | ( ) (URL) \ ICQ# 8976662 | +----`--' ---...---+---...---+ (22 years ago, 3-Dec-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter)
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(...) I applaud your thoroughness, however, regarding the following passage: "...the tester decided not to continue out of fear for the strength of the Baron’s tailskid (his sole LEGO brown minifig shovel). It may well have survived four more (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I conducted some experiments last night.... see (URL) for details. No charts yet, though :-) Richie (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.loc.au) !
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(...) (URL) (inventory not confirmed) With thanks to TLC ROSCO (22 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.reviews)
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General info about the set which I needn't regurgitate for you: (URL) recieved this on Wednesday night and commenced construction at 10pm. At noon the next day, it was finished after having worked for 14 hours non-stop. The building marathon was (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.reviews)
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"Kerry Raymond" <kerry@dstc.edu.au> wrote in message news:H69tBF.DG9@lugnet.com... (...) Baron to (...) Pah! You just haven't cottoned onto the ultimate swooshability mod - motorise the propeller. A 5114 motor and 9V battery box fit easily into the (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Hmmm... I may have to collect more data on this. Certainly my prelimary data, based on medium speed swooshing at both full arm extension and half arm extension, combined with several strafing runs (complete with machine gun sound effects) (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.reviews)
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Thanks for the review, Richie. (...) Here I would have to disagree. I don't find either of the Camel or the Baron to be particularly sturdy and hence not particularly swooshable. The new struts on the Baron seem to come apart as much as the Camel's (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) They have this problem with Mardi Gras floats, not that there's anything wro... (22 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.loc.au)
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10024 Red Baron (URL) Ages: 12+ Pieces: 682 Released: 2002 Many pages of instructions. Price Range: $A78ish (I bought it as half the Famous Planes Kit back in June, but only now got around to building it) RATINGS (Scale: Must-Have Excellent (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Kerry's prices are in $AUD for Australian stores, I gather that you are in the US. Deidre drb@tasmail.com (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter)
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(...) Are you sure about this? I saw one copy of this at the local Wal-Mart and scanned the barcode - it came up as $69.98 +------/|---...---+---...---+ | | | djlong@wildwizards.net \ | | / | \ | | ( ) (URL) \ ICQ# 8976662 | +----`--' (...) (22 years ago, 23-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter)
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(...) Hey Robert, Here's my website. It is a work in progress, but eventually I want to do the whole book. (URL) I do my Shelob, I was planning on doing something like Elin Overnas did here: (URL) Andrew Cunningham also has a great design here: (URL) (22 years ago, 2-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter)
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This set also has the 1x1 round plate in gold, definitely new and very cool! Dave (22 years ago, 2-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter)
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In lugnet.loc.au, Bruce Hietbrink writes: snip (...) I thought that Sheelob was the only use for it too, I would believe that lego even had that in mind, that is at least, they might have if they werent preoccupied with Harry Potter (though one (...) (22 years ago, 1-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter)
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(...) I'm in complete agreement here. (...) Here I disagree. Dobby's master (Lucius Malfoy) is a great fig. That torso would be great in any Town setting. Blond hair is stil rare enough to be exciting. And the face is interesting. Almost the same (...) (22 years ago, 31-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter)
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(...) Hello, It is a great that a new site with set reviews starts, especially when old review sites like Joseph Gonzalez's 4x2ReVu and Jeff Johnson's dissapeared, and others like Adequate are not updated recently. It seems a good idea to write the (...) (22 years ago, 30-Oct-02, to lugnet.reviews)
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(...) Our solution for all our extra Harry/Ron/Hermione heads/hairpieces is to pull and store them and replace them with other faces/hairpieces so we've been able to build up our Gryffindor house ranks creating Fred, George, Percy, Seamus, etc. I (...) (22 years ago, 27-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter)
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(...) How many green corners? I saw only one in the picture. There used to be a cardinal Lego design rule that you get an even number of pieces like this, or matched sets like in car doors. It was that grey roof peak issue that triggered my (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter)
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Kerry Raymond wrote in message ... (...) and (...) excited (...) I disagree, there are some *very* nice parts in this set. Light grey 2x2 roof peaks (previously extremely hard to get), tan 2x2 roof peaks (not available before AFAIK), green 2x2 roof (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter)
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