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(...) Wait till I pneumaticise them ;-) Seriously, I would make #1031 essential reading for all Technic and robot builders. The mechanisms shown therein are fundamental and will crop up time and again in various models. Enjoy! -- C S Soh (URL) where (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.build, lugnet.edu, lugnet.dacta, lugnet.technic, lugnet.books)
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Thank you for the correction. The set with parts has the ID #1030 but the building cards alone have the ID #1031. Weird. My mistake for not confirming the correct URL at Kevin Loch's Brickshelf. More importantly, now we all know that C S Soh dabbles (...) (25 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.build, lugnet.edu, lugnet.dacta, lugnet.technic, lugnet.books)
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(...) It should be 1031, here (URL) C S Soh (URL) where air is power (25 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.build, lugnet.edu, lugnet.dacta, lugnet.build, lugnet.technic, lugnet.books)
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| | FOTD: 5976 River Expedition, short review comments
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Wandered into my friendly neighborhood Ames (East coast chain similar to K-Mart). This place's LEGO section used to be a horror, with boxes stacked and thrown in haphazardly...but that meant that there were often older sets mixed in. I saw with (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.reviews)
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(...) I can't find 1030 (or 9030, in case it was a typ0) at Briskshelf or Pause. Where did you find these scans, Miles? Kevin (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.build, lugnet.edu, lugnet.dacta, lugnet.build, lugnet.technic, lugnet.books)
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You can learn basic LEGO Technic engineering and building from books. What do you know about the new book, ie, "Brick Layers II ..."? Pitsco's 2000 catalog has a new book titled "Brick Layers II: Creative Engineering with Lego Constructions" (Pitsco (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.build, lugnet.edu, lugnet.dacta, lugnet.build, lugnet.technic, lugnet.books)
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| | Re: Quick review of the Belville Yacht
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(...) Don't get me wrong, I think so too! I just didn't find this the *best* thing in the set, is all. (...) Yeah, those are good too. On reflection, I can use them for my (planned) Castle's throne room... Hmmm... (...) Well, this is the first BV (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.belville)
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(...) I think the fact that it's a Belville set with *function* is very cool. Most Belville sets are very simple backdrops for pretend-play. The closest we get to Belville which does something is a swing or a slide. So having a floating boat is very (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.belville)
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| | Re: 4x2ReVu: 6520 Mobile Outpost
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My Mobile Outpost set has a black roof & grey walls on front and back just like the instructions. Might have been a mistake in packaging J.W.Hummer www.geocities.com/spincity999 (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.town)
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Joseph Gonzalez <hsadm2.jgonzale@ema...ate.ut.us> wrote in message news:FoC1D7.HME@lugnet.com... (...) <review snipped> My set had 2 pieces in it that were the wrong colour. The 2 2x1 plates with horizontal bar that are used at the top of the tall (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: 4x2ReVu: B-wing (slightly off topic)
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(...) you (...) Not really, Zahn also described turbolasers as a continuous stream instead of bolts. This is clearly overridden by the movies. Such errors are ommitted from the Encyclopedia/BTM CD. Zahn also described communications as sub-space (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) While the story lines of games are generally considered acurate unless overridden by higher canon, the technology is usually modified for gaming or just plain wrong. For instance X-wing vs. TIE fighter's ship info section lists a Victory Star (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.starwars)
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Mike Petrucelli <lordinsanity@usa.net> wrote in message news:FoDurH.56D@lugnet.com... (...) Are you sure?, I mean ALL of the SW Games excludimg EP1 ones(X-Wing and add-ons, TIE Fighter and Add-ons, X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter and Add-ons, Rouge Squadron (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) The plot thickens! Especially when you consider that Timothy Zahn (Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, The Last Command) said he took _his_ information from the Star Wars RPG. (i.e. Skipray blastboat, Dreadnought (maybe some other stuff (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.starwars)
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James Simpson <jsimpson@rice.edu> wrote in message news:Fo56uz.BG6@lugnet.com... (...) are (...) me that (...) I couldn't agree more. I hope they make the Rock Raiders helmets in white so I can finally give all my Rebel pilots the properly equipped (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.reviews)
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(...) My stats come from the "Behind the Magic" PC-CDROM. It includes production models, concept art, and a description based of the ideas of the ship from the movie. (...) I checked the CD again it says A-wing have two launchers each with a rack of (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Again, it depends where you get your stats. You didn't say where you got yours, but I prefer to use the stats from the Star Wars RPG books. In the RPG, the A-wing doesn't have concussion missiles. Another consideration is that not only does (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Quick review of the Belville Yacht
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Set #: 5848 Price paid: $44.00 (1) My sister finally opened her birthday present, after a month of hiding it in the closet and ten more days when she "couldn't find time". (Being a 10-year- old, she's *very* busy ;-) We built it together (I let her (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.belville)
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Background: It was my now annual spring trip to Europe and this time around it was Spain. One full day we spent shopping in downtown Madrid. While my wife and daughter had fun at the department store, El Corte Ingles, my son an I ventured off to a (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: 4x2ReVu: B-wing (slightly off topic)
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(...) Using any computer GAME for stats in plain silly. (...) Exactly (...) Wrong. The A-wing has two concussion missile launchers. Realize that a concussion missle would be about the size of a lightsaber blade piece (slightly shorter though) and it (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.starwars)
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