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August 2004 Beach Party Location: Torrey Pines State Beach (URL) 28, 2004 |Meeting (Full Club) |Daniel Pearson |Public Event Tools: Edit |Delete For the first time ever, the SCLTC has decided to have a Beach Party! It will be at Torrey Pines State (...) (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, lugnet.org.us.lugola)
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| | NWBrickCon™ 2004 Haunted Mansion Module Contest!
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NWBrickCon™ 2004 CONTEST!! In support of this year's NWBrickCon™ ocurring on Halloween, we are going to have a contest. Using the techniqes of Moonbase and Castle, we are going to build a modular Haunted Mansion. Each module will represent one room (...) (20 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.sealug, lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.scibrick, lugnet.castle, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Future Lego Services.....
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(...) A followup to the original post..... There were some other additional supplemental sets I was thinking on offering, such as supplemental accessories for making the new classic Lego sets (like the new USS Constellation model, new Main Street (...) (20 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | cogracar
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hi The Cogracar is a special vehicle for transport of great dimensions in double railway lines. The main element is constituted by a platform which seats in two wagons that deslocates paralell, each one of them towed by a locomotive. The Cogracar is (...) (20 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Future Lego Services.....
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I have been getting a lot of requests recently about old sets on EBAY, or old sets that folks may already own. And sometimes I tell the people to avoid the set because the parts are not original. Here is an example in the Lugnet data base for (...) (20 years ago, 22-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | Delaware LTC interest?
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This is just a quick message to see if there's any interest in starting a Lego® Train Club in Delaware. If there are other AFOL's in the Delaware area, reply to this thread and we can discuss ideas and details ... Thanks, Robert (20 years ago, 20-Aug-04, to lugnet.loc.us.de, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 4512 is great to modify
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(...) You want this: [LEGOSet 3748] (a bit expensive) Available from S@H or Bricklink. The bulb and lens also available separately from Bricklink, I think. I too want to get a couple for use as headlights in my Technic cars. Keith (20 years ago, 20-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: 4512 is great to modify
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(...) Where'd you get the lights and short wires? I just placed an order at Dacta (oops, I mean LEGO Education) for two 1x2 light bricks for $10, and so far, that's the only source for them I've found (apart from homebuilt jobs). Sounds like you (...) (20 years ago, 20-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 4512 is great to modify
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This mod also ocurred to me the instant I saw the red lens in the package. My nest step is to use an function output from the dcc decoder to control the front and rear lights independently. It really makes the train look great. Especially when you (...) (20 years ago, 20-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | 4512 is great to modify
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I got a 4512 Cargo Train yesterday. It's my second train set, and I really like it. It derails on tight curves, though, but then you wouldn't expect a cargo train to be flying down the track anyway. I noticed while building the engine that it was (...) (20 years ago, 20-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: UPDATE: New locomotive pricing
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(...) 25% is a far higher rate of VAT than you actually pay anywhere in Europe. Tax considerations do narrow the price difference, but there's still a difference. There's also the problem that the dollar is pretty weak compared to the Euro, so if (...) (20 years ago, 20-Aug-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.general) !
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| | Re: UPDATE: New locomotive pricing
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(...) Well, if our government would raise the VAT to 25% the current demostrations would turn into a full-scale revolution... I have no clue who charges 25% VAT, but here it is 16%. (...) Or EUR 37,58 at 16% VAT. Besides, AFAIK, this set is made in (...) (20 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: UPDATE: New locomotive pricing
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Here is my take on the math USD - 40 in EUR approx 32.40 EUR. BUT in USA taxes are on top, in Europe, ~25% VAT is included so 40.63 EUR would be the VAT INCLUDED PRICE. SO the price seems to make sense no?? (20 years ago, 18-Aug-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: UPDATE: New locomotive pricing
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In lugnet.lego, Erik Amzallag wrote: <snipped a bit> (...) Same problem here in Portugal. It becomes more and more difficult to find Lego sets at supermarkets. And we only have a few of them (We don't have Targets, K-Mart, Well-Mart, etc). Even TRU (...) (20 years ago, 18-Aug-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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| | My Own Train - Special Offer
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In celebration of BrickFest, Shop At Home North American has asked me to extend a special offer to the AFOLs. They are offering specials on the My Own Train (MOT) cars: Buy one or more kit and get 20% off 10013 - Open Freight Wagon 10014 - Caboose (...) (20 years ago, 17-Aug-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Storage/Travel box for large base plate MOCs
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A few folks at BrickFest had asked about the storage boxes that I used to transport my buildings, so here is the scoop. These boxes are just right for MOCs built on the large grey base plates, they fit perfect in the bottom with about 1 studs to (...) (20 years ago, 17-Aug-04, to lugnet.storage, lugnet.space, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: UPDATE: New locomotive pricing
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(...) Hi Jake Thanks for the presentation of the next train set (although the presentation at BF was too late for me in the night), but I'm very disappointed by the announce of the correct price :-( As Gael, I'd like to react. Yes, we know that (...) (20 years ago, 17-Aug-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: UPDATE: New locomotive pricing
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(...) Hi, It was with a great pleasure that we watch the streaming on Saturday from BF. Quite late here in France, as it was 11:30pm. It was another great surprise to see that prices between Europe and USA were following the Euro/$ rate. This update (...) (20 years ago, 17-Aug-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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| | UPDATE: New locomotive pricing
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All, Many apologies, but it was just pointed out to me that I made a mistake in my keynote about the pricing on the new locomotive, 10133. The correct prices are: USD 39.99 (as mentioned in the keynote) EURO 39.99 (rather than the 29.99 EURO I had (...) (20 years ago, 17-Aug-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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| | BrickFest Train Layout
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I want to first say that I had a great time at BrickFest! Second I want to thank all the people that helped make the train layout so spectacular, with out everyone’s help and cooperation it would have never worked out so well. For the record, the (...) (20 years ago, 17-Aug-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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