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Re: Virtual LEGO now available!
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lugnet.cad, lugnet.books, lugnet.publish
Date: 
Fri, 24 Oct 2003 15:05:30 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Allister McLaren wrote:
   In lugnet.cad, Tim Courtney wrote:

   Allister - I’ve gone through about 1/3 of Powertools, and I’d say the material is organized a bit differently. Virtual LEGO devotes an entire chapter to parts authoring, and from what I’ve heard, it goes into greater depth with building instruction theory/creation (but I could be wrong, I’m using secondhand info here since I haven’t gotten to Powertools’ coverage of BI’s yet).

Well, based on that, I think Virtual Lego is the one for me.

I checked availability here in Australia at the local book shop today. There is one copy in the whole of Australia, and it’s SEVENTY NINE DOLLARS!! (about US$55). I ended up ordering it direct from No Starch Press for considerably less than that.

I need to get off my butt and pass along some info so the Australian clubs can bulk order them. Though as I recall, I’m waiting for something to be finalized from the publisher - I’ll check up on that. The Australian distributor ordered very few copies, I imagine the rest of the copies (minus the one) have already sold out. If you are from a club in Australia and are interested, email me.

   It wasn’t clear on the site - do they use surface or air mail?

For order fulfillment, I’m not sure.

-Tim



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(...) Ordering direct from No Starch was fairly painless (so far ;) and it should be here in a week or so according to the email I recieved late last week. I'll be taking it along to the next BUGs meeting if it arrives in time, so there may be an (...) (21 years ago, 27-Oct-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.books, lugnet.publish, FTX)

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  Re: Virtual LEGO now available!
 
(...) Well, based on that, I think Virtual Lego is the one for me. I checked availability here in Australia at the local book shop today. There is one copy in the whole of Australia, and it's SEVENTY NINE DOLLARS!! (about US$55). I ended up ordering (...) (21 years ago, 22-Oct-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.books, lugnet.publish, FTX)

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