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78.2834
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| Okay, I am toooo busy for anything, but I just got this e-mail from a friend and it should be interesting for you: Stefan Eilert can't post to lugnet right now, so here's the message from him: Hi! Long time reader, first time poster - but today I (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.starwars) !
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75.2811
| | | | Re: new adventurers set soon? and other themes!
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| (...) they have other new sets listed, too.. Like...... The Star Wars podracer bucket!!! (URL) (bigger picture) it has the new castle "tower" pieces in tan, and two tan 8x8 radar dishes, and lots of other fun stuff. Other stuff: mickey & minnie (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.general) !
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74.7132
| | | | FS or Trade: Green bricks
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| I have the following NEW green bricks for SALE or TRADE: 33 - 1x1x1 76 - 1x2x1 11 - 1x3x1 55 - 1x4x1 51 - 2x2x1 17 - 2x3x1 23 - 2x4x1 Make me a cash offer. I would also accept anything train, some older town sets or new black 1 by X bricks. (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade) !
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71.7672
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70.4419
| | | | Vintage Lego auction.... ends on Sunday!!!!
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| Hello again everybody! Just to make all you Lego collectors aware that I'm holding an auction of some very old Lego this week. One item is 25 years old and comes with original box and instructions!!! Check out the auction on yahoo: (URL) is from the (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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70.3266
| | | | Re: KBKids.com Sale
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| divers fans will also want to note that the big 6560 set (kb calls this LEGO System Underwater Reef Refuge) is also on sale for $36.00, minus the $5.00 FRIEND4 coupon makes for a very sweet deal. ..joseph g (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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69.3512
| | | | Re: NQC in Boston University Linux :)
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| (...) Oh yeah: those major differences are RH 6.[01] -> RH 6.2. RH 6.2 -> BULinux: - includes nqc :) - uses bash version 2; none of this bash w/ optional "bash2" silliness - kerberos4 (via a pam module -- much nicer than needing every app to be made (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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69.3313
| | | | Re: Who was on TV?
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| (...) No, it wasn't me. My secret came out in 1987 in a news story on the Canadian news show (like 60 Minutes) called the Journal, and then in The World of LEGO Toys. And I have been out in the open about it ever since. In fact over the weekend I (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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69.1771
| | | | Sneak peek of my Blacktron site
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| I uploaded some pictures that I'm using for a new blacktron website. Just a sampling of some of the stuff that will be on the site. There is a Blacktron APC, as well as the big lander which is done on the outside. A supply truck with ejection chair (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.space) !
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69.1231
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| Dear Lego, Why are the some of the first publicly released pictures of new 2000 sets at etoys.com and not at the official site? Many fans, children and adults, have eagerly awaited these pictures. I am very glad to see them. I just don't understand (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.dear-lego) !
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68.9962
| | | | Re: NQC in Boston University Linux :)
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| (...) Oh man, have I ever looked at it. This release of BU Linux is actually based on RH 6.2. Major differences are: - kerberos5 support (urg. we use kerberos4, so that's more annoying than helpful) - 128 bit netscape navigator by default - includes (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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68.8321
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68.4986
| | | | Lego Cleaner (Was Re: My forestmen loss)
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| (...) Here is an idea for TLG: lego cleaner: a oproduct specificly designed for cleaning lego parts, designed so that it wont leave residue on the bricks, damage the bricks or melt ABS. You could market it in toy shops or whatever in the lego (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.dear-lego) !
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68.2108
| | | | Lego Buys Interactive Toy Co. Zowie
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| Some of you might find this of intrest...i found it in the Yahoo! news sections from an article yesterday. -Mike Lego Buys Interactive Toy Co. Zowie COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Lego is acquiring interactive toymaker Zowie Intertainment in a deal that (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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66.4560
| | | | Acronym FAQ V1.3
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| Hi, This is the third update of the Acronym FAQ. If you're looking for an acronym mentioned on lugnet and can't find it here, try this: *Reading a bit of the context - often a spur-of-the-moment acronym will be mentioned in full version a few (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.faq) !!
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66.4552
| | | | Ordering from S@H (From Canada)
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| I don't know about you US people but ordering from S@H has become such a chore for us Canadians. They don't keep your information on file. You have to jump though all the hoops and the price they quote to you in Canadian dollars is usually not what (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.dear-lego) !
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66.3493
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66.3489
| | | | FS New sets added to my list
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| I have the sets below for sale. All prices are in USD, + actual shipping cost. Shipping rates are given at the bottom. A description of some of the sets are given after the list of sets. Please find pictures and piece counts on Lugnet. All sets are (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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65.1230
| | | | Town Wall
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| Hi folks! Because of having a problem with my FTP there had still been the old version of my homepage online. Now the new one is realy online. There is a picture of a town wall I will (hopefully) extend during the next time with houses for people, (...) (25 years ago, 4-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle) !
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64.7917
| | | | Who was on TV?
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| One of my cooks, knowing of my (ahem) addiction, came to me today and told me that yesterday she saw an interview on television of an older man, business executive type, who was also addicted to the brick. I couldn't get much (helpful) information (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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64.3785
| | | | FS: large classic space collection
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| I have the following boxed sets that I'd like to sell as one collection: 462 - Rocket Launcher 483 - Alpha-1 Rocket Base 6861 - X-1 Patrol Craft 6870 - Space Probe Launcher 6880 - Surface Explorer 6901 - Mobile Lab 6929 - Starfleet Voyager 6950 - (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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63.3731
| | | | New trains by Ben
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| Just got my film back. Put a few of the pictures on line. The following page has large thumbnails linked to large, 400K+ images. The images are from a Koday PhotoCD. The resolution is better then most digital cameras and for $8.95 (from costco, 36 (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains) !
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63.2101
| | | | New Animation
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| Dan Boger and I just completed another test animation over the weekend. This weeks subject is planting flowers at the Velux House. Here are some quicktime and mpeg movies of it. The two quicktimes only differ in frame rate(2 and 4 frames/sec). Let's (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish, lugnet.town) !
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63.1390
| | | | SW Lego Commercial -- MTT and AAT shown
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| Hey gang, Last night on Cartoon Network I saw an ad for Star Wars Lego, featuring the upcoming 7184 MTT and 7155 AAT. The MTT was shown "folding apart" in a very unusual way and made me wish I had taped the commercial. At any rate, I was glad to see (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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62.9802
| | | | Python extension for lnp - take 2
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| I'd like to announce a Python extension for lnp. This runs on Linux and lets you use the python scripting language to communicate with a legOS application. See (URL) for more details. If you don't know what python is, look here: (URL) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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62.9374
| | | | My website is operational
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| I'd just like to let everyone know that my website is finally up and working. I'd really like all of you to check it out and tell me what you think. This is the address: (URL) (25 years ago, 4-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle) !
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62.8504
| | | | Re: NQC in Boston University Linux :)
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| (...) yah, true... but I'm bad about using rpm anyhow, I end up compiling my own stuff most of the time... I know I shouldn't, but it's a habit I'll have to un-learn... (...) no, even worse... it just stopped, no backtrace - it gave me a warning (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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62.6054
| | | | KBKids.com Sale
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| It seems that kbkids.com is having another Lego sale. Items that I noted were: 5561 $31.96 (Search under "Model Team", not "Lego Model Team") 6097 $31.96 4561 $103.96 2153 $15.96 6441 $23.96 They are also offering a flat $5.00 for shipping. Dan (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.shopping) !
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62.5848
| | | | Re: NQC in Boston University Linux :)
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| (...) Yeah -- disabling unnecessary servers is good, but not even installing them is better. Before, if you wanted the finger client [1], uou had to install the finger server, which is kinda silly. (...) Did it freak out and still let you continue? (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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61.8914
| | | | Re: FS: 8 New Bulls Soldiers
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| (...) The web interface atop the newsgroups does its best to weed out crawlers and address harvesters and things, but I don't think it could ever guarantee anything, because a harvester could still come in randomly at a very low frequency (once per (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general) !
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61.5932
| | | | Wamalug's Upcoming April Meetings
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| Hello everyone! We have two meetings coming up. The first meeting will be on Sunday, April 9, and the second one will be on Saturday, April 15. Both will start at 10:00 a.m. I would like to encourage anyone in the area to try and come, especially if (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.md, lugnet.loc.us.dc, lugnet.loc.us.va)
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61.4905
| | | | Mickey Mouse sets at etoys
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| Look at the following post: (URL). The sets are marked as "Out of Stock" at eToys.com . However, you can look at the pictures and the prices. (You can click at the picture to make it bigger.) Cheers, Hao-yang Wang (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.fabuland)
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61.4719
| | | | Re: Stupid question about steam engines
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| (...) The first number is the number of wheels in the lead truck (ahead of the large wheels driven by the rods), divide by two for the number of wheels on one side. The 2nd number is the number of driven wheels, and the 3rd number is the number of (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains) !
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61.2174
| | | | Re: MTT OUT IN GERMANY
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| Hi! First I like to thank Christian for posting my original message, but (as you can see) I can finally post on my own now :-) (...) It's quite strange that the MTT appeared here first - the other LEGO stuff usually appears a few months after the US (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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61.0632
| | | | Some Star Wars MOC's
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| Hi Ho Star Wars fans, This is the first time I've actually contributed LEGO-wise to Lugnet, previously I've just been making a nuisance of myself in various groups ;-) If you'd care to go to (URL) see some of the fun we got up to at the Sydney LEGO (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.loc.au)
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60.6588
| | | | Re: rating?
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| (...) It's a rather new feature-- read all about it in: (URL) that helps! DaveE (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.faq)
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60.6159
| | | | Re: Some Star Wars MOC's
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| (...) We just attached a piece of string to it, held it up against the sky (lovely weather that day) and snapped some pictures of it. The best ones I scanned in and performed a bit of photoshop magic to airbrush out the string and Richard's arm. I (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.loc.au)
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60.6079
| | | | Re: My forestmen loss
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| Christopher Lindsey <lindsey@nospam.mallorn.com> wrote in message news:38ECC6AB.25D11A...orn.com... (...) Aren't you afraid than when you let the water out, you'll loose a brick down the drain. I soak mine in a dishpan. The smaller pieces I have (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
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60.5645
| | | | Idea: Sleeves
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| Take a look at the LEGO Star Wars Episode I logo. More specifically, Qui-Gon Jin's (sp?) arm. He has sleeves (or maybe I should say "baggy" sleeves). When I first saw this I thought, wow, it sure would be cool if LEGO would make arms with sleeves. (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.castle, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general) !
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60.4124
| | | | Is James' website finally gone for good?
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| I just tried to access James Jessiman's parts reference site. See (URL). It came up as not found, as did James' home page. This has happened sometimes in the past, but I also tried to access the main site, (URL). This page makes it sound like the (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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60.4053
| | | | Re: MTT OUT IN GERMANY
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| Chris Norman <chrisndeca@mac.com> wrote in message news:B5125201.509D%c...mac.com... (...) there. (...) Worth mentioning, I bought the video and as we all know there is a $5.00 rebate coupon inside for SW Lego. However the release date for #7155 (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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60.3995
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| (...) For smokey LEGO, you only need to do Pine-Sol soak and then a soap washing, no need to do a soap cycle before the Pine-Sol (though I suppose if the pieces are extremely grungy it might be worth it). I also sometimes do an extra soap soak (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
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60.3494
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| (...) I'll spout off on this one again. Too many hierarchies are counterproductive. Auction announcement? Put it in .auction--and only .auction. A separate "auction" category should not be created under the heading "technic" or "space" (or even (...) (25 years ago, 4-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general) !
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60.2718
| | | | Re: new set?
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| (...) (In the little mini-catalogues included in the Lego sets, there's one page -- I don't recall which specific page number, and I can't find a mini-catalogue to look it up -- having some "Race" or "Racing" sets, one of which has the Adventurers' (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.database)
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60.0339
| | | | FS: Minifig accessories and Trees
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| In order to concentrate on the building of my six wide fire apparatus, I'm clearing out many of the items that I don't need. All of these items are in new or like new condition. This sale is for those in the US only, and buyers will be charged $4.50 (...) (25 years ago, 4-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade) !
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60.0131
| | | | FS: Castle, Ninja, and Custom Minifigs
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| In order to concentrate on the building of my six wide fire apparatus, I'm clearing out many of the minifigs that I don't need. All of these figures are in new or like new condition. Many were purchased, assembled, and stored, never to see the glory (...) (25 years ago, 4-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade) !
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