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(...) if you're good with babelfish you might be able to puzzle out www.faller.de (go to HO, then to car-system) to figure out how they work. I'm guessing but I think they have internal batteries, they go to spots and stop because their magnet (...) (20 years ago, 6-Aug-04, to lugnet.town)
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(...) ,---...---. | Joseph J. Strout Check out the Mac Web Directory: | | joe@strout.net (URL) | `---...---' (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Not LEGO, but there is a huge HO-scale train layout in Germany that has thousands of computer controlled cars driving around the layout: (URL) to Pictures, then Carsystem-gallery. Very amazing stuff. Russell BayLTC (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.town)
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(...) hello Maybe I will get some of this set. what you all think will be fair price (it cost 19$ on the airline). thanks Gil (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.il, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Here is an example with a motorized bus drives itself. (URL) Schickele (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Cool? Yes (there was certainly a lot of excited chatter on the MichLUG list after Steve posted a video of the cars "driving" past each other). Simple? Sure, on paper, maybe, but in practical application its a bit more complicated. There are a (...) (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.town)
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(...) I forgot this one: (URL) (and other pictures in the same folder) where Ross Neal used pneumatic tubing around pulleys to make a 2-wide train move. I've seen this one in person, it's pretty slick! Everyone in the GMLTC wonders where Ross gets (...) (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.town)
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(...) JT already spoke of MichLTC's (actually, our resident wizard, Steve Ringe's) work. GMLTC had mine trucks that followed a chain drive underneath a baseplate/tile layer, Magnets provided the connectivity. Eric Brok had this same thing for (...) (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.events.legoworld)
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(...) The GMLTC did this on our previous layout. You can just see our 'quarry' dump truck to the right of the famous blue locomotive: (URL) had a technic chain set up around several gears, with a magnet that pulled the truck around the circle. It (...) (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.town)
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(...) I think the MichLTC folks had a car that ran around with a magnet under the road attached to a train engine on a loop. Seemed like a very cool and simple solution to making cars move. jt (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.town)
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Has anyone done anything with motorized cars that drive around the town? (I mean, anyone besides LegoLand!) I've thought of a couple of vague ideas: - magnets under the street that pull the cars along - a slotted street that guides motorized cars - (...) (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.town)
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Hello! (...) Hey, that's a cool little MOC (with hopefully not so cool water)! Though I'm little astonished the girl enters the bath tube with a bikini top.... (Well, otherwise we would never have been allowed to see the pics, but still...) Bye Jojo (...) (20 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.town, FTX)
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A (URL) water wheel> made from the catapults (URL) 30275> of the Ewok Attack set and Bulls attack. (2 URLs) Similar construction design with the hinges could probably be used for ferris wheels, excavators, etc. AC (20 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.castle, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Hey! Great Job! Sucks though, because I have been working on a version of this very scene myself! I have only completed the floor and the minifigs.... I gave the guys from LUGOLA a sneak peek a couple of months back, guess I just need to build (...) (20 years ago, 3-Aug-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Boy howdy, I wish I was as prolific as you! Some neat stuff you've been producing lately. I am a little dissapointed that you've opted to include inferior subs on the moonbase, but I guess that's typical EB thinking. -Dan Rubin Chair of the (...) (20 years ago, 3-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.town, FTX)
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Is that the only bathtub that was captured and preserved for the people in the Eastern Block? If so, I'd say the people are just about preserved... uugghh Otherwise, good work there Jr. Marshal; show 'em why Jr. is only a rank, not a attribute. heh (...) (20 years ago, 3-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Wrong Dori, JM! :D Shiri hasn't participated on Lugnet for a while... :( even though she is still in Israel. If anyone gets dibs on this excellent plane from Israel, it should be me (tongue-in-cheek). ;) Benjamin Medinets (20 years ago, 3-Aug-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.il, lugnet.general, FTX)
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A doubleshot of MOC. Just for you: THE PEOPLE"S BATHTUB When the Glorious Revolution came, the early heros of the Eastern Block captured this BATHTUB from the evil cluthes of the bureaucratic-capital...-bourgeois elite and kept it safe for the (...) (20 years ago, 3-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Hi Shiri, T'is the 1st time I see one. Can you tell me how it is possible to get one? I know, ordinary question, but I'm not travelling with one of these airline sooo... And it's a cool airplane! Thanks in advance, JM (...) (20 years ago, 3-Aug-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.il, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(URL) Apparently, Timmy has find himself a job as security officer :-) With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen. (20 years ago, 3-Aug-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.il, lugnet.general, FTX)
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