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Rats! Forgot to cross-post to lugnet.technic! (...) (23 years ago, 8-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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Anyone tested the website www.spybotics.com ?? What is the purpose of this site?? What to do? /Martin "Colin White" <cwhite@dbaint.com> wrote in message news:H0HB26.7D9@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) today (...) (23 years ago, 8-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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Slag it all I forgot to crosspost. "Nicole Drumm" <kdrumm1@stny.rr.com> wrote in message news:H0ILoo.JMC@lugnet.com... (...) (23 years ago, 8-Aug-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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So you all don't think I/we have fallen off the face of Mata-Nui/Earth I present our first teasers. Rapture: The intelligent FLYING sword used by the newest Toa family member ........ :) (URL) The other intelligent LEVITATING sword used by the other (...) (23 years ago, 8-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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| | RE: Old MOC: Liebherr R 996 Excavator
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Nice work TJ! This is an absolutely fabulous model and I am so sorry I missed it at Brickfest. Steven B. Combs, Publisher Bricks in my Pocket (BimP) (URL) Information: (URL) member #414 (23 years ago, 8-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.modelteam)
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You've seen it at BimP[1]. You've seen it at Brickfest[2]. Now you can see the full details of it at my site: (URL) finally finished my own personal webpages on the model. It's taken quite a while to get this together. I took way too many pictures! (...) (23 years ago, 8-Aug-02, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.technic, lugnet.modelteam)
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| | Re: I Motorized The 8466 Off-Roader!!!!!
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Just checked out the movie. Very cool. your 8466 performed significantly better in terms of speed and accel. (that's just about everything...) than my 8448 did. Then again, I chose to keep all the mechanics and drive everything through the (...) (23 years ago, 7-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Technic is Alive !!!! ( I got tired of that other headline)
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Ok, I'm so pumped up right now about Technic more than ever! And I got tired of that Technic's "dead" headline. Without reading the entire thread, my spartan reply is this! I love Technic! e (Besides, I'm building with Technic right now and I'm (...) (23 years ago, 7-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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Just posted the movie of the motorized off-roader! Check it out here... (URL) is the white image named "OffRoader.avi" (...) (23 years ago, 7-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Technic's Dead (was: I need Technic)
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(...) Yes, exactly. Hey do you think we've broken new ground in child pcychology 8^) Maybe not but the fact that kids cound demand more complex sets might be somthing lego has not looked into. And more complicated sets do not mean higher prices, (...) (23 years ago, 7-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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As has been pointed out to me perhaps I should have mentioned one URL that does work, which is: www.spybotics.com However, this is not a support site like the one provided for Mindstorms (www.mindstorms.com). What is confusing here is that the (...) (23 years ago, 7-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) Those are the lengths of the perpendicular segments - seems a strange way to identify it though... ROSCO (23 years ago, 7-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Technic's Dead (was: I need Technic)
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"Ralph Hempel" <rhempel@bmts.com> wrote in message news:CAEBIOGHPFFJALB...mts.com... (...) Injection (...) the (...) Huh?? I'm not sure about that. For as long as I can remember, the 1x1 round plates which have come in a great variety of colors, (...) (23 years ago, 7-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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And just to make it really fun ... I've just received some replacement parts from Billund and the delivery note describes p/n 32009 (LDraw name "Technic Liftarm 1 x 11.5 double bent") as "Double Angular Beam 3x7 45degree" 3 x 7???? William (...) (23 years ago, 7-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) As blunt and unsubstantiated as this statement is, I must agree with it. There is something intangible about what makes Technic (and LEGO bricks as a whole) so good. (...) I wonder sometimes if it isn't the educators, researchers and (...) (23 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: I Motorized The 8466 Off-Roader!!!!!
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Thanks, Luke! I used 3 of the newer lego motors like the one in 8735. I heard about that RC 8466, very awesome. That's actually what made me more even more determined. I posted the whole gallery of pics, don't know when exactly it will be up. Keep (...) (23 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Inventory for 8555, Bionicle / Bohrok / Bohrok Va / Nuhvok Va
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(...) I have all of the Bohrok Va except Nuhvok Va, but the parts you record are not what I would expect from a Bohrok Va. (...) All of my Bohrok Va sets have three of these axle pins, but only two are used in the model. I am surprised that you did (...) (23 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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It's also interesting to note that the URL mentioned in brochure (and on the Lego Spybotics boxes): www.lego.com/spybotics does not work! (...) (23 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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Sorry if this has been posted before, but saw this in my local shop today (URL) lugnet.robotics.spybotics (23 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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I agree with Steven with another example: (URL) also an Lego Service from -88 (mint) that says 'Beams with holes' (swe: Bjälkar med hål) I wish that some of the stuff was available today :) /Pehter (...) (23 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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Congratulations Jake! I know you were working on it a while ago. Did you use the standard 9v motor? Someone else has done it using the new RC units (those are considerably more powerful/expensive). Looking forward to the gallery. Sonic "Jake Rentar" (...) (23 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) The scan is german and the part name translates as 'bar'. I'd say that was closer to beam than brick. Steve (URL) (23 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | I Motorized The 8466 Off-Roader!!!!!
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Hi all, After weeks of determination I finally motorized that huge 8466 off-roader. I'll be posting a gallery to brickshelf in a little while (after breakfast) Thanks!! Jake (23 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Technic's Dead (was: I need Technic)
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OK, this is the point. When technic sets went crappy (but still good), sales went down, not the other way round. When technic sets become as good as they was, sales will rise. So what exactly do I mean by good? Function over form. Complexity over (...) (23 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Bricks have studs, Beams do not, They are good, For some SNOT. (23 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) That set description was supplied by LUGNET data admins, not by TLC. The curly brackets indicate this. AFAIK, the traditional TLC name for those parts with studs and pin holes are "Technic Bricks". But "beam" has been commonly used for some (...) (23 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Technic's only in a coma (WAS Re: Technic's Dead )
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(...) (URL) (23 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Technic's only in a coma (WAS Re: Technic's Dead )
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"Steven lane" <steveroblane@aol.com> wrote in message news:H0F3x6.BLy@lugnet.com... (...) Remember (...) The service catalogue was still active until relatively recently in the UK, certainly I ordered bits from it after the release of the 8448. I (...) (23 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) argument. What better way to destroy the memory of the old part than to reuse it's name. Actually as I said before they're both beams. The old type is the default beam so gets the short hand 'beam'. In order to distinguish the new type from (...) (23 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) (23 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(URL) scan shows an old accessory pack of (pre studless) Lego elements. It cleary describes them as beams. So can we stop calling beams, bricks, when they're obviously beams, and can we call the new imposters studless beams therefore creating a (...) (23 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Technic's only in a coma (WAS Re: Technic's Dead )
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(...) I never had the 8860, I had the 851 red tractor (URL) actually liked that car actually, still don't. I supplemented my bricks with expansion sets and motor sets and then got the JCB. And I used my plentiful colletion of system sets to provide (...) (23 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) My 853 was and still is my pride and joy. Never crashed - even the box is still quite good. I guess that's the difference between men and women drivers ;-0 (ducks and runs) Mark (23 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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"Steven lane" <steveroblane@aol.com> wrote in message news:H0DzB7.83t@lugnet.com... (...) You mean you never crash tested your 8860 to destruction as a child? That front bumper was surprisingly tough! Jennifer (23 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Technic's Dead (was: I need Technic)
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Technic is dead. Mindstorms is alive. However, the first set of the Mindstorms product line -- the original RIS -- is also the best set in the line. Now this worries me a lot. You may still find some of the original spirit of Technic in today's (...) (23 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: 8461 Williams F1 Team Racer ----- Silver Champ Variant!!!
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What I can see from the picture: The original panels have been replaced by smoother ones: even more impossible to use, but they show the Corporate Decals much better.... The bottom of the side pots is the obvious exception. No Logo's there, so (...) (23 years ago, 5-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Building Philosophy: Bricks vs. Beams (was Re: Technic's Dead)
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(...) The styling panels may not have structural purposes, but to me they make a Technic set somewhat more attractive. The reality is that very little in the real world is just grids of structural members, there are decorative (or functional) (...) (23 years ago, 5-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I've always gotten a kick out of how you described that container to me once: "The Bucket of Shame." j. FUT .fun (23 years ago, 5-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Oh, sure. I agree with that. It's having enough beams that's the problem! (...) Well, it just depends on what you need for a given situation. Studs can really help, if you need them. If not, they're just an added complication. But you're (...) (23 years ago, 5-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Building Philosophy: Bricks vs. Beams (was Re: Technic's Dead)
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(...) Yes, that's true. It's disappointing to get a set with little or no Technic bricks in it. I think one frustrating thing about the new pieces (and I'm thinking of studless beams as well as liftarms, or 1/2 width "beams") is that because there's (...) (23 years ago, 5-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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