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Dear LUGNET Users,
after quite some time we have decided to move LUGNET to a more modern
cloud-based server platform to improve bandwidth and reliability of the service.
While we are aware that technology has advanced and the LUGNET discussion
platform is not anywhere near as active as it used to be, we shall try to fix
the (still broken) email gateway in the process to facilitate postings if you
need them.
All other means of access should remain unchanged and if the migration works out
as planned, it will keep the site up and running for years to come.
Thanks and regards,
Jerry
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We will be setting up a small display at the International Centre over the
Family Day Weekend--
http://www.toronto4kids.com/Calendar/index.php/name/Kids-Fest-Toronto/event/8160/
Sat., Feb. 15th
Sun., Feb. 16th
Mon., Feb. 17th
10:00am 6:00pm
International Centre
6900 Airport Road
Mississauga, ON
I'll be bringing some sort of space layout, and Kevin is bringing his Dioramas
as well.
If others are interested in displaying with us, please let me know either via
e-mail, here, Facebook, whatever. You don't have the display for the entire
weekend.
We'd love to see you, and love to see what you bring to show!
Dave K
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This started as a real-life build with my son that then got embellished in LDD
and rendered with bluerender. 
The design is a departure from my typical Neo-Classic-Space builds. Its form
felt much more organic and the green/dark-gray color scheme felt like it
should belong to a reptilian race of aliens. It is armed with 2 powerful
anti-capital ship cannons that draw power directly from the main engines. it
has twin light blasters mounted on the tip of each sponson as well as 4 guided
missiles. The cockpit detaches and serves as an escape pod. It is a compact
design with only 230 bricks and as such I had to abandon my general rule of
including retractable landing gear in my designs.
After it was built, it did feel like it subconsciously drew inspiration from the
new-battlestar-galactica cyclon raiders.
I also rendered it as a Blactron ship which felt like it could have fit the
general theme.
A couple of more pics at brickshelf
Enjoy,
drc
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Hi all,
as some of you may have noticed, we have upgraded LUGNET to use SSL encryption
across all pages.
As a downside, we are currently experiencing a couple of minor issues because
some pages are getting delivered as "mixed content" (which you will notice by
your browser not showing a "padlock" sign, in some cases even an exclamation
mark next to the LUGNET URL) and some scripts are not yet properly included
using https protocol.
While we are working to fix this, we appreciate your feedback in case you find
anything that appears to be broken.
Please send your requests directly to my LUGNET email address which you will
find on this website.
Thanks,
Jerry
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Voting has stated today in the Lego Ideas Moments in Space contest. The
winner may have their design turned into a promotional give-away set.
My entry is the Cosmic Sentinel - a small neo-classic space scouting/fighter
ship
Link to Contest Entry
Thanks for looking! If you like the Cosmic Sentinel, please register and vote
for it.
drc
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Well I can announce it finally.... :-)
This thread....
http://news.lugnet.com/general/?n=56284
I am writing a 9 volume LEGO Encyclopedia that involves 6 Volumes (450 pages
each) on LEGO sets from day 1 of 1949 thru 2017. Most of this info for the
earlier years is from my 2800 page LEGO Collectors Guide (2800 pages available
formerly as a DVD and now only as a computer desktop download).
Also included will be 3 additional 350 page volumes that I label A, B and C...
which have rare LEGO parts (A), LEGO early toys (B), and LEGO retailer display
and glued display models (C).
There's good news and bad news about this though... the bad news is that the
first country to get the 9 volume books will be China... they are currently
gettting translated into Chinese as I finish the volumes (1-3 are completed, and
of the remaining 6... 2 1/2 are already done).
The good news is that I am updating my online version (available as a computer
desktop download)... and that will probably go to over 3500 pages when
completed. The online version of my guide will only be a fraction of the cost
of the paper volumes when completed. As I said, right now China is working on
translating it to simplified Chinese... and other countries are currently
negotiating for translations. The English version won't require translations,
since it was written in that language. But that is still a ways away from being
produced.
But anyway... for those of you who have my online guide... you will be getting
all future updates found in the 9 volumes... for FREE. :) And I can still
offer the current guide (with future free updates) for those who will be
interested in a desktop version (only $29.95, a fraction of the book costs).
Here are the Encyclopedia volumes... (note 5 and 6 are still not firm for
start/end dates)....
https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2887/33484209630_c3621f40fd_b.jpg
Volume 1...
https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2850/33131771723_1e4be6852a_b.jpg
Volume 2...
https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2854/33559662290_36de1fccc3_b.jpg
Volume 3...
https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2917/33787387792_ddbdf9bae5_b.jpg
Volume 4...
https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2826/33814882361_bd4a9c7cda_b.jpg
Volume 5...
https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2904/33101427074_b440d2f8f6_b.jpg
Volume 6... (start/end years not yet set)
https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2811/33101420944_279a527389_b.jpg
Volume "A"...
https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2942/33814839311_4156ef109f_b.jpg
Volume "B"...
https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2827/33787341382_a3830d340e_b.jpg
Volume "C"...
https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2816/33131716683_0545b4fc65_b.jpg
As I had mentioned, my online version of these guides will be free for those who
already bought my online guide (10-15 min. to download)... with free future
updates to add the remaining volumes of data to the 73 chapters already done).
For info on that, see Lugnet.Marketplace for price and link.
My publicists is already telling me to stop selling the online guide to current
collectors, but I'm holding off a bit... But once it's a closed edition, the
online guide with future updates will only be available to current owners of the
guide, even though it will be a closed edition.
Thanks to all my friends! :)
Gary Istok
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I posted my MK II Viper a few years
back. I finally got around to doing the MK VII version in LDD and rendered in
Bluerender.
It is built in the ~1 stud = 1 foot scale I have built my other models to. It
is slightly longer than scale, but that is to compensate for the extra width
that our overly obese minifigs require.
brickshelf gallery
when moderated
In my research, I realized that there are two subtly different versions out
there. The original has the wings blending into the fuselage all the way out
toward the nose and has different shaped wings. The MK VIIB has the wings
blending into the fuselage about the midpoint of the nose (and remind me a lot
of how the wings on an F-18 blend into the forward fuselage). I chose to try to
model the B model and used this
site put up by one
of the VFX modelers for the show as a reference.
This was a difficult build to try to make all the angles come together and look
right at this scale. The core is a 2x2 structure using the many bricks with
studs on their sides that are now available. The model literally has studs up
in all 6 directions to achieve the form.
I did look at this excellent
MOC of the MKVIIA by
atomictoaster85 somewhat in the build process as it appeared much smaller and
true to scale than other MK VII MOCs I have seen online. Given the shape of
the rear fuselage behind the cockpit, there are only so many ways to achieve the
stepped look with LEGO bricks at this size.and that portion of my model does
look very similar. I dont know if I am satisfied with the large sloped wedges
on the sides of the rear of the fuselage relative to the MK VII reference I was
using and may continue to twiddle with it in the future.
A minifig does barely fit into the cockpit, but as a result, the controls and
instrumentation are not as detailed as I would normally like. Yet another
compromise when trying to build at a smaller scale.
I have been challenging myself to include fully retractable landing gear in
these Viper models that closes cleanly. On the nose gear, I didnt quite
achieve the effect I wanted. I had another nose gear design planned (similar to
my LL919 model) but the nose structure became too compromised when I started
deleting bricks to make room for the nose gear assembly. So I ended up using a
simple hinge piece with a 1x2 brick. It works, but does interrupt the clean
lines of the bottom of the craft.
Lastly, Im not sure I like the minifig surfboards for the wing/tail tips. I
thought they would look cool, but are too wide for the scale Im working at. I
would also like to eliminate the gaps on the wing/tail cannons. Again, these
are some things I might continue to experiment with. But overall, I believe the
design is 90% there, and I am happy with it for now.
Thanks for looking,
drc
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All,
we have recently upgraded the operating system of the main LUGNET server - so
far we have not identified any immediate issues, but knowing that the LUGNET
framework has been struck by changes in the OS in the past, please let us know
if you hit any new problems.
One issue was accidentally raised today and is the cause for me posting this
message - the NNTP server had apparently crashed during the upgrade and refused
to come back up even though all system settings were left unchanged - there was
a library error that I have now resolved.
Thanks,
Jerry
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Hi! I'm working on a fully functional elevator, with working doors with no
limits, hoping to build this thing pretty tall..
Atm its controlled by the power functions motors and controllers, I'm looking
for any advice on how I can automate this without swapping out the motors for a
robotics set, I would like to use a light/colour sensor in the car to find
levels etc, but I'm not sure how it would work with the power functions motors..
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated! :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpr_q4WQQ_4
Thanks and happy building!!
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The latest issue of HispaBrick Magazine is now available.
I could of course mention all of the great articles in this issue, but you can
read the full announcement here:
http://www.hispabrickmagazine.com/en/content/hispabrick-magazine-024-available
The biggest reason why you should download it immediately is of course that Todd
Lehman And Suzanne Rich talk about why they started LUGNET back in the day and
how it has evolved. So, what are you waiting for - get your free download now!
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Hello fellow AFOLS!
My name is John Henry and I worked at LEGO ago as a designer for 5 years. You
may remember a designer video I did once on the VW Camper that I worked on, not
to mention a bunch of other fun Creator webtips....?
Well, since leaving the LEGO group I've not lost my passion for bricks (or toys
- I'm still designing them for a living) and recently I went live with a Patreon
site to try and raise funds for this rather expensive hobby that is brick
building!
Patreon is basically like a magazine subscription for artists and creatives like
ourselves. My angle is basically that monthly I'll be buying a new LEGO set and,
based on member votes, I'll create an alternate model with building instructions
using only those bricks. Members will have exclusive access to this, not to
mention other designer video tips, & a general daily LEGO feed too. I'm hoping
that this will add value to people's existing LEGO sets and that people might
also find it fun to follow my creative processes!
Check out the intro video and website here if you are interested:
<https://www.patreon.com/wellplayed>
I'm just getting up and running (it literally went live last week)so it would be
great to get some support from the AFOL community so that I can grow and add
more and more awesome content to give people out there more value from their
LEGO sets!
Please share this post with anyone you might think is also interested too.
All the best and thank you for your support if you do decide to sign up,
JH
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In lugnet.announce, "Aaron Sneary" <aaronsneary@NOSPAMyahoo.com> wrote:
> Those of us that book face are having a reunion rehashing the old days here on
> LUGNET.
>
> Check it out if you too book the face:
> https://www.facebook.com/groups/1505383459784471/
Doesn't this post need its FUT set properly? No discussion in Announce! :)
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In lugnet.announce, Aaron Sneary aaronsneary@NOSPAMyahoo.com wrote:
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Those of us that book face are having a reunion rehashing the old days here on
LUGNET.
Check it out if you too book the face:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1505383459784471/
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JOHN
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Greetings,
For anyone who uses a Macintosh computer, you may want to check out an app that
I have created called
Brickaboodle. It
is an app for keeping track of your LEGO kits as well as your own brick
creations. It is available through the Mac App Store.
Cheers,
Sean Todd
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Europe court rules LEGO figures are protected shape
June 16, 2015. From European Union (EU) court.
LEGO registered the trademark in 2000 but it has been challenged by it
competitors
The shape of LEGOs figures (minifigures) is a protected trademark and therefore
cannot be copied, an EU court has ruled.
Competitor Best-Lock, who makes similar toys, had challenged LEGOs attempt to
protect the shape of its human figures.
But the appeal was dismissed on Tuesday by the General Court of the European
Union.
LEGO, the worlds second biggest toy maker, had registered the
three-dimensional trademark in 2000.
Best-Lock tried to argue that the shape of LEGOs little men and women was
determined by the fact that they were part of a toy that involved interlocking
building blocks for play purposes.
This would have made the trademark invalid.
But the EU court ruled that the essential elements of LEGOs figures had nothing
to do with their ability to join them to other building blocks.
Characteristics such as holes in the feet and legs did not obviously have a
technical function, it said in a statement.
The court therefore upheld LEGOs registration of the shape as a protected
trademark.
This is not the first time that LEGO has been challenged in an EU courtroom.
In 2010, Canadian competitor Mega Bloks won its case and prevented Lego from
registering a red toy building brick as a trademark.
Source: BBC.com
Press release from the General Court of the European
Union.Curia.Europa.eu
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Europe court rules LEGO figures are protected shape
June 16, 2015. From European Union (EU) Court.
LEGO registered the trademark in 2000 but it has been challenged by it
competitors
The shape of LEGOs figures is a protected trademark and therefore cannot be
copied, an EU court has ruled.
Competitor Best-Lock, who makes similar toys, had challenged LEGOs attempt to
protect the shape of its human figures.
But the appeal was dismissed on Tuesday by the General Court of the European
Union.
LEGO, the worlds second biggest toy maker, had registered the
three-dimensional trademark in 2000.
Best-Lock tried to argue that the shape of LEGOs little men and women was
determined by the fact that they were part of a toy that involved interlocking
building blocks for play purposes.
This would have made the trademark invalid.
But the EU court ruled that the essential elements of LEGOs figures had nothing
to do with their ability to join them to other building blocks.
Characteristics such as holes in the feet and legs did not obviously have a
technical function, it said in a statement.
The court therefore upheld LEGOs registration of the shape as a protected
trademark.
This is not the first time that LEGO has been challenged in an EU courtroom.
In 2010, Canadian competitor Mega Bloks won its case and prevented LEGO from
registering a red toy building brick as a trademark.
Source: BBC.com
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