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Three actually. Game Boy Advance PC-CD ROM GameCube (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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Well its been a day and no response. So let me tell you all about my haul. I was able to get 348 Slizers/Throwbots this trip. The numbers break down like this: They were four for a dollar!!, and I spent about 90 bucks. 8506 Rock/Granite 71 of them!, (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.technic.slizer)
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This is very much my approach I'll try a way, and exhaust its possibilities before attacking the problem from another direction, sometimes working backwords, destroying earlier solutions that worked just fine before. This was particularly true of my (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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Um, WOW! I guess I'd better get LDraw loaded on my system again and start building ;-) (...) -- | Tom Stangl, iPlanet Web Server Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | iPlanet Support - (URL) A division of AOL Time Warner | Please do not (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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There is 2 Games to be released? Also Harry Potter? (URL) - - Please reply on medwards@ukonline.co.uk Lugnet Member# 151 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Lego Magazines from the Past and Present (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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(...) I've had this happen to be and it has left me strangely dissapointed because the idea's popped into my head it kinda feels that 'I' didn't come up with it, you have no way of tracing how you came up with the solution, it just appears in your (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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So there could be more new colours for the Bionicle Masks? What colours do you think ? Beville Pink in Trans and Normal? Michael - who is working on a surprise!! - - - Please reply on medwards@ukonline.co.uk Lugnet Member# 151 - - - - - - - - - - - (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.technic, lugnet.general)
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"Jennifer Clark" <jen@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> wrote in message news:3AF18C05.5CC396...h.ac.uk... (...) 8 (...) the (...) complexity (...) idea, (...) radically new (...) took (...) previous (...) weak. (...) in (...) Sounds familiar. I think I've (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) How about putting them at different distances from the camera ;) JB (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) to think that I am a really slow builder here! I'm looking forward to seeing the movie of it on your website once you have the video stuff working. (...) I suppose that's one good reason for building smaller models ;-) (...) Indeed, I am quite (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) The main reason for not using pneumatics was simply that they are awkward to control electrically, and I wanted this truck to be totally radio controlled. I had seen pneumatic valves on various websites controlled by motors and micromotors, (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I remember this being debated here recently, where some thought Lego models were and thought not. I tend to think that some are, in that so much of the resultant quality of a creation based on something real stems very much on the (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I do indeed have multiple versions of various parts of the model, and the number of attempts needed varies considerably. I probably need about 3 to 8 steps for relatively simple parts, but this will increase if, for example, there are other (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Hi Jennifer 8) (...) Yep, I know the one. Love it when it happens, I usually smack my forehead and get somewhat mad at myself when I was so blind a second ago. Then I relize my new thought wont work either so my feelings go like a (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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Hi all, just thought I'd share that www.lego.com has been updated on many areas. I also came across an interesting Bionicle thing ... : [taken from LEGO.com] (URL) How many different colors do bricks come in? # #A. Hmmm... At the moment, you can get (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.technic, lugnet.general)
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In lugnet.technic, Darren Chapman writes: lack of time (6 week old baby) and (...) So Lego constrictions restrict your Lego constructions, rofl. Steve :-) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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"Jennifer Clark" <jen@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> wrote in message news:3AF012F6.253E6F...h.ac.uk... (...) [snip] As others have said - brilliant! I just wish that I could produce things to 10th of that quality! However, a lack of money (wife and 6 (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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Jennifer Clark wrote in message <3AF063EB.6F5FE421@v....ac.uk>... (...) Do you make multiple versions of one portion of a model, especially something such as arranging gears and such to fit into the structure? How many? I find that I usually can (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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In other words, Lego never provided a backstory for the RoboRiders. Well, there was some gibberish about fighting computer viruses on the internet, but that doesn't make much sense. I like to think of them as being on the same planet as the (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.technic.roboriders)
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I finally decided to buy a couple of roboriders. I got swamp and frost and I think they are kinda cool. But...now what? What are they supposed to do? Race? Battle each other? Adam (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.technic.roboriders)
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First off, let me say WOW! That is one impressive model!! But I have a few questions: What problems did you run into when trying to put pneumatics into it? If I read the website correctly, trying this approach was abandoned early on mainly because (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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Wow...very impressive model there! It combines the great looks of the Model Team series with the functionality of Technic to create an outstanding fusion of the two...great work! The website is also very informative and well-constructed... (...) I (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(URL) (24 years ago, 2-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Speaking of truck operation, one of the annoying things about the loading and tipping functions are that if you don't stop the motors at the endpoints, the gears end up getting stripped of their teeth. Having a belt driven section to allow (...) (24 years ago, 2-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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Hi Tobbe, (...) Funny, but there may be some truth in this - you know these problems you come across that require days or even weeks of thought to solve, and then the solution just seems to pop into your head in an instant? I suppose in a mental way (...) (24 years ago, 2-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Can I take the this oppertunity to confirm the damage done to Moc's during travel, it certainly makes you think when it comes to the building stage now. Chassis tend to be ok but cosmetic parts tend to come a cropper. Strangely my tank (...) (24 years ago, 2-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Oddly enough, the size of the wheels (at least in diameter if not wideness) is perfect for the Technic figures; the scale of the wheels relative to the real truck wheels is 1:20, which means the Technic figures are exactly 6 feet high. At (...) (24 years ago, 2-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) It is indeed, although I have made quite a few changes to it since then to toughen it up as well as many cosmetic details. The train journeys to and from that meeting as well as several others with the truck in a carrier bag prove very (...) (24 years ago, 2-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Like most things, there are several variations on the hooklift theme - for example, the "Light Duty Hoist" at this URL does not have a boom locking mechanism; the skip length is small enough to allow both tipping and loading to be achieved by (...) (24 years ago, 2-May-01, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) Have you somehow learned to bend yourself and not the spoon? Sorry, saw The Matrix recently, again. How impressive your models might seem, I find myself even more impressed when I think of all the hours you have put into that amazing truck and (...) (24 years ago, 2-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) There is indeed - for proof, check out the "towing" video in the skip loading section where the truck executes several maneouvers involving full lock turns :-) Jennifer (24 years ago, 2-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) John Barnes, who frequently posts on lugnet.robotics, is responsible for the design of the remote control. Hopefully he'll come onto this thread to respond, but if not you can email him at barnes@sensors.com Jennifer (24 years ago, 2-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Thanks! Even if I can't model the real thing exactly, I try to put the parts that are semi-equivalent in similar places to achieve some of the more subtle visual and mechanical (such as weight and centre of gravity) effects of the real thing. (...) (24 years ago, 2-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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I think this must be the most beautiful creation yet. The scale is perfect (well, if the driver is Andre the Giant. Why can't the lego figures and wheels relative scale be more realistic). In the past I made reasonable facsimile's of the Skid Loader (...) (24 years ago, 2-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) A small observation: These skip lorries are the same as those used to pick up an enclosed version of the skip used at my local tip. While waiting in the heinous queue to throw away some hedge trimmings I have often watched them pick up and (...) (24 years ago, 2-May-01, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) I also found that almost all pieces I bought in the last 3 years have less grip than my 10 years old pieces before dark age. Everything from 1x1 plate to gears. The 16t gear in particular shown significent difference. With a new 16t I can plug (...) (24 years ago, 2-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I'm not sure I agree with that one. The old half bushings, the ones with a full cross axle hole, were actually quite loose, in my opinion. The later ones, with a "time glass shaped" hole, were tighter. Then came the third type, without the (...) (24 years ago, 2-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) ... Brilliant, as always... is this the same truck you'd posted before (pics from a UK meeting)? (I only remember the colour scheme was the same). If it is, at least we get to see lots of great photos of it now... couldn't appreciate the (...) (24 years ago, 2-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) were tighter than the newer ones, which is sometimes desirable. They probably changed them for the same reason they changed the friction pins...too hard to remove from constructions. --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu (URL) (24 years ago, 2-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I was only thinking on Monday what a great idea a really realistic 8 wheeler lorry would be and there you are today putting up info about your superb MOC. I haven't gone through all the stuff in detail (I am at work after all) but I am, as (...) (24 years ago, 2-May-01, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.build)
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