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(...) Ie (...) That said some ideas for new X-trem team sets could have a waterfall? (...) Perhaps we could have a lock plate at the upper end of 'canal' built using the theme? The problem is then how you suppourt the uuper plates? or produce a (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) The Intercoastal is at sea levlel all the way, isn't it? It connects to the sea at multiple places IIRC. (...) Just trying to imagine the St Lawrence Seaway in Lego... to scale :-) Kevin ---...--- Personal Lego Web page: (URL) Air Market: (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.town)
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I have finally posted pictures of my MOCs on my website for all to see. I have posted the DAT files on LUGNET for almost all of them (I haven't posted the house DAT file) so if you want one of them, just do a little searching or e-mail me. I took (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Better watch it kevin, I've actually had an american friend visiting who thought it "kinda cruel to eat a beaver's tail". Mmmmm, Beaver :o) Braden Fox Oh, and when i finally get my lego site up (snail pace, worse than Calum's rate of updating his (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) Ie (...) "Mississippi." (...) Don't get me started with British-scale industry. They made the clearance rate for their railroads too small to handle more sizely loads. They will never see a double-stack (DTTX) container well car, unless it's (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) The intercoastal is actually quite large, it extends at least up to Virginia. It definitely has sections which would look like a canal (because in fact, they are canals in the sense of being man made), but don't have any locks that I know of. (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.town)
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Instead of developing a lock plate with a fixed width, why not create a 'bluff' plate--the equivalent of one of the proposed lock plates, but cut in half lengthwise. A builder could stick any number of flat baseplates between two halves and create (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) Inland navigable water systems have to have some method of changing level, which usually means locks (there are other methods, but they are less common). Water going downhill tends to get a bit too exciting for reliable passenger or freight (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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Sorry to repsond to own posting. My main reason for posting was in case anyone else was working on Canal type parts themesleves. Is anyone? Alex (...) some (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) Oh sure, we could envision something along the Intercoastal Waterway in Florida. We could have a marina for boats and waterplanes, maybe a hurricane harbour. Hey wait! That's the idea behind Sail'n Fly Marina and Hurricane Harbour! Geez, I (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.town)
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There are indeed locks on the Mississippi. I have seen them in Saint Louis. (...) some (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) Well no lock because I was thinking more along the lines of the systems in Europe (and possibly Norfolk?) which as far as I am away don't have locks. Ie canal as in Ship Canal? (...) Not at all. Like I said above. Think navigable waterway (as (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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In lugnet.cad, Kevin Wilson writes: <snip> (...) You could freeze it in winter and have a festival. Here in Ottawa we turn our canal into a skating rink :-) Gotta love those BeaverTails. Jude (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) Canals are a real nice idea Alex. The obvious set missing from your list is a lock! Another possible would be a waterside inn. Separate boats as well. One thing to bear in mind is that canal systems vary widely from country to country and are (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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With the current offical selection going toward Jr, I am asking if anybody here would want to consider working out thier own theme using L-Draw/ML-CAD to work out the new parts and sets. Already I am (in tandem with the magazine project) working (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) And TLC/TLG?Futura needs tomove way from the pale pink/lime green of the Belville era. IMO I feel that range was misguided.- Lego(R) has never been Mattel or one of any of others of 'fad' US toy manafacturers. Lego(R) in the 1980's early (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) for (...) You probably didn't recognise it as being Technics. All those Roboriders and Slizers are supposedly Technics sets. I guess it is "Technics Junior". (...) I think 14+ for UCS Star Wars is a "marketing device" to suggest they have a (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle, lugnet.technic, lugnet.sports, lugnet.town)
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(...) Not really - if they want to make inroads to female sales, they need more buildings. Girls tend to gravitate towards building more permanent structures (just read through all the posts here on Lugnet, you'll see it's basically true). -- | Tom (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) Hey, it's all good. You are still using your imagination to design with the greatest toy on earth. Besides, what do you do if you have a wonderful idea that makes extensive use of a part you don't have too many of? You use Ldraw or MLCAD or (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) <snip> Yes she is female. Jude Can you please post pictures of the catalog? :-) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.town, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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