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(...) Ooops yeah that's what I meant! (...) The early meccano sets would sometimes even have mistakes in the manual just to make it more of a challenge. But then again meccano (or any other construction toy i've ever seen) could never hold a candle (...) (15 years ago, 11-Jul-09, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) You mean 8865 right? But yeah I agree, and I had found them actually very simple to follow. The only instances where old school instructions were difficult were the early 853 auto chassis (the plates in the blue engine) and all the tubing for (...) (15 years ago, 11-Jul-09, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) You mean 8865 right? But yeah I agree, and I had found them actually very simple to follow. The only instances where old school instructions were difficult were the early 853 auto chassis (the plates in the blue engine) and all the tubing for (...) (15 years ago, 11-Jul-09, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) The juniorization (or simplification to a level of near brain dead builders) of the building instructions is a whole new area for discussion and one that can certainly generate a lot of comments in both directions. Some would say it may have (...) (15 years ago, 11-Jul-09, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Hears the thing. We cut down trees to make paper. Before that might have been a bad thing. BUT things are much more regulated now. Trees are now grown in treefarms specifically to be cut down. I'm sure I read or heard somewhere (you might want (...) (15 years ago, 11-Jul-09, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) The environment argument gets even thinner when you consider the fact that set 8259 (Mini Bulldozer) has 3 instruction booklets - 2 for the main model, and one for the alternate model. Considering that this is only about 65 pages worth of (...) (15 years ago, 10-Jul-09, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) The excuse about the environment is not a very solid one. Maybe LEGO uses less paper and ink, but many people still like to have a physical copy of the document and printing a single set on an inkjet printer is more environmentally unfriendly (...) (15 years ago, 10-Jul-09, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I do believe that the 8258 crane truck will have it's b-model instructions soley on the internet (not included in the set). Legos reasoning is that it helps save the environment by uing less paper (which if i'm totally honest is a load of BS (...) (15 years ago, 10-Jul-09, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I stand corrected :) Jetro (15 years ago, 9-Jul-09, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Hi Jetro, FWIW, it is Dr. Soh. Kevin (15 years ago, 9-Jul-09, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) It looks even better than it did on paper and the inclusion of the builing instructions for the second model is an answer to many AFOL complaints in the past couple of years. I hope the same is true for the remaining models. Jetro (15 years ago, 9-Jul-09, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I've just received an email from Mr. Soh informing me that the website is back online: (URL) (15 years ago, 9-Jul-09, to lugnet.technic)
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To those who are interested, I've posted a review of the new 8263 Snow Groomer over on Eurobricks with lots of pictures. (URL) Albrecht blakbird (15 years ago, 9-Jul-09, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Strangely, I never did see LUGNET as a photo-sharing community (not even with the firm connection to Brickshelf). Most of what I use LUGNET for, well... doesn't work on Flickr. It's hard to organize a GBC standard, or trash-talk about a (...) (15 years ago, 7-Jul-09, to lugnet.admin.curators, lugnet.space, lugnet.technic)
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(...) Can I propose twittering with hashtags like #technic_moc or #space_moc so we can find each others cool stuff now it is moving away from the lugnet server? (15 years ago, 7-Jul-09, to lugnet.admin.curators, lugnet.space, lugnet.technic)
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(...) I agree with this. Lugnet was ground breaking, when it was first launched. But that was eons ago. We're rapidly coming up on lugnet.space's 10th anniversary ((URL)). It's been a great 10 years for lugnet.space with well over 40k postings, but (...) (15 years ago, 7-Jul-09, to lugnet.admin.curators, lugnet.space, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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(...) Thank to Jetro and Philo for the hint (thanks Philo for your compliments too!) SteP (15 years ago, 6-Jul-09, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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(...) I too regret the showdown of Lugnet. Even if the main discussion occurs elsewhere it doesn't cost a lot to at least put an announcement here... (...) Now that's a compressor! (URL)(with corrected link) Philo (15 years ago, 6-Jul-09, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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(...) (URL) (...) (snip) (...) A RCX newbie perhaps, but your cableway is really awesome! Philo (15 years ago, 6-Jul-09, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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(...) Thanks for that - the info is most useful! I might ask my father (who happens to work on hydraulic systems on real-world aircraft) if he has any "low-temperature grease". I have a handful of older pneumatic elements in my parts-to-be-sorted (...) (15 years ago, 6-Jul-09, to lugnet.technic)
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