LEGO Mania Magazine (US) – January-February 2000

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inthe Arctic He's the only
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‘A FOSSIL BEFORE
‘A POLAR BEAR

Carves our giont messages in
the snow for stplnes and
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icaberg turned int once cabe, < Looking for fossils in the icy

[Arctic can be dangerous. Put on your
parka, hop in the snowmobile, and hit
condi . 4 the ice. If you get stranded, your sled is
‘Nunavut, Crys loaded with survival gear. Radio the base,
‘Aric onal since she was € : set up your emergency antenna, and watch

yong i. Sh oa out for polar hears!

is the team’s number-one
weother watcher.

Keep your Arctic expedition moving.
The powerful plow plows a path through
the biggest piles of snow in the Arctic!
Its rubber treads keep you going over
slippery ice and snow.

‘And for fun, it can clear a space for
2 hockey game. When you find
a frozen fossil, scoop it
up with the robotic,

all-terrain crane.

‘Treads turn and plow ti

The amazing Arctic. It's one of
the coolest places in the world

p especially in January when it's
-33°F. Brrr! But the cold and

explorers. Their cool-looking polar
‘equipment can handle whatever
Mother Nature dishes out.

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snow can’t stop these tough polar |

Slide and glide over the
ice in this slick surfer.

PARE AE Changes in the Arctic’s weather affect
CHECK Our SP) the worl. If too much ice melts, other
gphigenP aces lands will be flooded and polar bears
Wide skis let you will disappear. Hitch up the snow-
go wherever you icker and move the mobile fab all
please. aver the Arctic. Zoom around in a
super-fast snowmobile for extra exploring.
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backpack, binoculars, and walkie-talkie.
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When the ice starts to break up, take off

before you drift away.

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Greenland. He knew right then that he wanted to
‘an explorer. When he was 30, he explored the

Greeniand ice cap, which is one million square miles of
ice, He traveled aver the Arctic ice by sled with a friend
On the way hack, the two men tied their sleds together
and put a sail on their “ice boat.” They sailed down
‘a mountain of ice and over a 50-foot gorge-back ta
their base,

Peary returned to the Arctic on several more

expeditions. He tried three times to reach the North Pole.
(On his third try, when he was almost 53, Peary finaly,
teached his goal. On April 6, 1909, Peary, his friend
Matthew Henson, and four Inuit Eskimos) stood at the
northernmost spot in the world. But nobody else knew
‘until September because it
‘took the team five months
to get back!

Since 1909, not many

(Wee was six, Robert Peary read a book about

hard place to find, The
nearest land is 500 miles

You can set up camp at
the North Pole, go to

ARCTe EXPLORER ROEM sleep, and wake up miles

PEARY WITH HIS SLEB 6S, away trom the pole!

‘The Arctic remains a dangerolis place. Explorers have
‘o.eross jumbled walls of broken ice. Explorers also have
‘o deal with below-zero temperatures, blizzards, and one
sir-month-long winter night.

10 1995, an expedition duplicated Peary's aver
‘Canadian Richard Weber and Russian Misha Mt
‘traveled overland to the North Pole and back without
any aid.

For more exciting information on Robert Peary
‘and Matthew Henson's arctic adventures,
Visiewnw matthewhenson,com/igt0.htm.

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CLUB MEMBER REVIEW:

Matthew Brady, age 12 of Arizona

“When I First saw their hooded parkas,
Iwas like aw, cool, Eskimo clothes’ I like the
weather station best. The science lab has this
auetome magnifying glass that really works.

The first-aid station has this high-tech door that
opens to put the stretcher through. Its cool how
the mechanical arm on the truck picks things up”

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KNIGHTS
All NENG TINGDOM

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their king's kingdom, Jousting wes ¢ popular
event. At first, knights wanted a way to practice
| their fighting ekils. They would form teams and
< charge at each other in a feke fight.
J Jousts became the favorite
contest to prove which knight
was best. Knights from ell over
would travel to a joust to prove
their strength and fighting skills.
Jousting tournaments
rs populer sporting
Shks-lke the Olympics of the
To HELP PROTECT KNICTS FROM INJORK. THEY USED
Bajousting wes called PULL SHORDS AND LANEES WITH PROTEST TS,
g. This ts similar to
#6095 Royal Joust. Instead
of cherging directly at en
‘opponent, a knight would change s target one
revolving pedestal (quintain). If he missed the
| target or was too slow in riding away, the jouster
1) might get whacked by 2 sandbag tied to the 46095
‘other end of the contraption. Royal Joust
Believe it or not, these quintain jousting
devices may have been the granddaddy
‘of merry-go-rounds, Early merry-go-
rounds had things to grab at
including a brass ring. If you
(grabbed the brase ring, you got
a free ride!
Hear ye, hear ye. Get ready for knightly

fun every day. At the end of January
click on ye olde www.LEGO.com/castle

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New Years eve a mysteriaus meteor
hits the Throwbots Pianet...The
pawerful collision creates & gient
crater. And aut of the crater, climb
four fantastic, new Throwbots, Gan
‘anyone—ar anything—stap them?

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his feet at the same
time,

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The futuristic Millenia
transforms fram 2 fing
Throwbat inta a rolling.
throwing super cycte,

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* The LEGO Star Wars saga continues.
Transport yourself to www.LEGO.com/star
wars for all new products, interactive play,
and amazing animation.

© LEGO City is at the center of the action.
Check it out at www.LEGO.com/city

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* Build a cool LEGO creation online!
Look over our 3-D models, get creative, and
start building. Just click and build at
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* Hear ye, hear ye. Get ready for knightly fun
every day. At the end of Januaty click on ye
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‘work! So the explorers think of exciting new winter sports:
to py, You see them having fun all through the magazine,

See if you can match up the cool new sport with each name:
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MAKE THEM MOVE, ol

OR IF YOU PREFER,

GROOVE.

R2-D2 has been watching too many of those sil
ancient 20th century disco flicks. You may even
recognize this chillin’ still from his new: “music
video" on TV. If you haven't seen R2-D2 and the
dancing droids on the tube, check ther out at
www.LEGOmindstorms.com.

Behind-the-Scenes Buzz

It took 4 model makers 3 weeks of
intense building to make the 40 dif-
ferent droids in the video. Some of
them come straight out of Star Wars,
fothers right out of the mind of a
LEGO model builder But each one
was made from the DDK (Droid
Developer Kit)

Just like human actors, every droid
had to audition. fone did't have the
moves of a cool personaly, it was
recyced into the next dsco droid
Tying to keep 40 hip-hopping droids
under contol made the set abit
chaotic. Every move you see in the
video was activated by each droids
Iicroprocessor, called. the Micio
Scout. When light bounced off the
rior ball and hit the light sensors in
the Micra Scouts, the dros strutted
thelr stuf,

You can copy the moves and sounds

in tha video using the builtin pro-
grams of the DDK. Add some lights,
‘rab your video camera, and you can
even make your own video!

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our model designers to build the Saber Speeder

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and #7128 Speeder Bikes™.

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