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"Jonathan Little" <piano254@aol.com> wrote in message news:Fqs26u.DHF@lugnet.com... (...) The same happened to me. In 2 years BSWL [1], I bought at the most 4 technic sets. Since then I have bought so many system sets my pocketbook will never be (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Feelings over 2000 sets . . .
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(...) I've had mixed feelings about the 2000 sets. I've been very happy with the new Arctic ones. These are only moderately juniorized and provided a lot of neat, new parts that I've integrated into my creations. The castle sets look promising as (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Feelings over 2000 sets . . .
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I know this is kind of late, seeing as how the 2000 sets have been out for a couple of months now, but I wanted to say a few words about my personal feelings of the new sets and also get input from everyone else. When I first heard about SW sets, I (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Sir Steve interviews someone from Lego
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(...) According to Mr. Kristiansen: "I think that we can benefit from Star Wars, which is a long-term proposition. We have it for six to seven years.... We do not foresee that we will have to go into a lot of other different licensing arrangements." (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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Hello all This is my first post on Lugnet, but I've been reading them for quite some time. I'm letting you all know that I am currently working on a 15 minute Star Wars Lego animation. I've set up a webpage for it (Its not a very good site since Im (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Microfig Rebel Transport Pictures up
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Ooooooooohhh...hhh....... aaa...aaahhh...hhh......... Sweet model Pat, I especially like the cargo modules in the front. Are you serious about micro-fig scale landing gear, cause if you that the model be awesome! I also like the use those 4x8 wings (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: 2001 sets!
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(...) Dewback with two Sandtroopers: $9.99 (I don't really think that we'll get this, but if we do, it will be closer to the $10 price-point) Standard Tie - I agree Bespin Cloud Car - $14.99 At-ST: $29.99 Lambda-Class Shuttle (we can hope): $54.99 (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Vehicle year/building year? (Was: Imperial Guards (was: Re: Sir Steve interviews someone from Lego)
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(...) Excellent points...especially about Jabba's palace. I for one don't want Lego to produce anything that relies on juniorized pieces. I'd rather not have (see) any set that will leave me sour over its poor construction, design, parts selection, (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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The model is about 90% done. In typical fashion I could not wait to get some pics out though, so I put up a small update page. (URL) J (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: 2000 Star Wars in Australia
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Peter Callaway wrote in message ... (...) Packer's (...) be (...) Whoa, that's bad... IIRC, the Aussie dollar has about the same exchange as the Canadian dollar, yes? Wow! If you were to buy Lego from North , you'd still be paying less with (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: 2000 Star Wars in Australia
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(...) fiddling with the numbers shows the system sets as being 1.5 to 2 times more expensive (best 7115, 7134 worst 7104) but the technic sets are consitently only 1.33 times. There is no way shipping is so expensive as to justify 1.5 to 2 times (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Blearggg! Sorry about the formatting. It looked good while I was compiling it. Pete Callaway (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.starwars)
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| | 2000 Star Wars in Australia
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Hi team, Sorry for the provocative subject header, but you're all here now. This is what I have gleaned from LEGO Australia. Looks like we'll need Kerry Packer's job to afford it all. I've used the current Aussie Peso exchange rate of USD$0.614 AUD (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) According to Amazon.com, the VHS release date is April 4, 2000. But they've started taking orders and it's a wicked hot-seller already! As of today, in fact, it's the #1 and #3 top-selling VHS videos there. (#1 is the widescreen edition, #3 is (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Vehicle year/building year? (Was: Imperial Guards (was: Re: Sir Steve interviews someone from Lego)
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(...) Exactly. It's that, and one other thing: How many movies do you see the Millenium Falcon in? X-Wing fighters? TIE fighters? How many movies do you see the base at Yavin 4 in? And at that, how many scenes bother to show it? The action was on (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Pit Droid question (#8000)
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(...) Yes this is very good advice for saving up money for Lego... How many AFOL's have contributed to your savings account so far? Tony (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) The average figure that was worked out between the X-wing and Y-wing was 2.85 studs per meter. (Ben's post: (URL) adopted this figure in Castle World as well. ((URL) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) A stud is 8 millimeters square. A minifig sans headwear is 40 millimeters. Depending on your value for human height (say 6 feet or 1.82m) Then our conversion is: 8 mm 40 mm ----- = ----- X 1.82m Thus, X = .364 meters/stud, or 2.75 studs per (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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I know someone once had a scale of such and such a number of studs to meters. I think it was something like 2.875 studs to 1 meter. I am sure Ben Fleskes had used this scale when he built his Millenium Falcon. I know someone else used it for lego's (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Wanted: 7111 back side
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Hello, we lost the instructions for the 7111 (small droid starfighter) set. Does anybody happen to have a picture of the backside construction? TIA, Christian (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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