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(...) The competition has two age groups, under 13 and 13 and over (Junior and Senior). The finals will have 10 Grand Prize winners: 8 juniors and 2 seniors. They're wisely seeding it so the kids don't get trounced by the adults. And they're making (...) (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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While I think this is a good idea I have found the software fragile. I cannot save at all, it just shuts down the program. I find it very difficult to line up the 8x8 plates/roadplates next to each other. I am going to try reinstalling the software (...) (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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(...) Thanks. You know what's funny? You're not the first person to ask me that. :) I used to be a cartoonist, but it's been over 10 years since I drew a daily cartoon strip. My fiancee said I should use photos of these guys as the characters in a (...) (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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LOL, nice one tim (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.fun)
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While wondering thru Target the other day, I spied a small covey of Block-O-Dile's snoozing peacefully on a top shelf. Very cool set. A brick-vac for the munchkin aged fans ;) Set 5359, scanned $14.99 IIRC Ray (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) If it's 5% of the "profit" then the designer might conceivably ending up owing money to LEGO... ;) Why wouldn't retail outlets carry them? Micro town sets? Excellent point-of-sale impulse buy object, especially since it looks like they'll fit (...) (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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Yeah, a Mac or Linux version would be nice, but we will never see them. I don't have any inside info, but I would assume that TLC's programmers did the following things: * Deeply based the software on proprietary Microsoft-specific techonology that (...) (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego)
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Wow, wow, wow, (...) If you could get those flat techic plate click hinges, those would probably suit you well for the knees in this scale. (SW AT-AT or AT-TE joints) I should say though, I think you captured the Gundam quite well! (...) Don't (...) (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Ouch! Thanks for the advice Mat. I had no idea that the caboose didn't match the passenger train. Like you mentioned I went mostly for color. Do you happen to have a link to a British BW Caboose? (...) Agreed. Just like all LEGO enthusiats I (...) (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.us.cedarlug, FTX)
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| | Re: Some small Good-Night-MOC - An escritoire
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Hi Jojo, This writing desk is very nice. Where did you get all of those 1x1 brown round plates? Also, any chance we could get a photo of this deconstructed to see the technic connection that you used? The inkwell and lantern are also wonderful. Ben (...) (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | Re: MOC: Brikington Manor
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(...) Hi Thomas, Thanks for the comments and feedback! I'm in the process of collecting all the images together, so I'll definitely be able to offer everything in a single .zip file. I'll keep you posted on the progress. Thanks again! .s (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build.arch)
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(...) Woo Hoo, got mine last night. Bruce (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: And while I am at it...
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Hello! The carpenter: (URL) me, I'm a link!>> Bye Jojo (URL) FUT lugnet.build.furniture (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés mardi 9 novembre 2004
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Bonjour Voici la lettre d'information du site "FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group" ((URL) lettre recense les articles et les brèves publiés depuis 1 jours. Nouvelles brèves ---...--- * Les X-Pod de 2005 * - 9 novembre 2004 Voici des (...) (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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(...) (snip) (...) Ya, except they stiffed you on your logo... there is way more space to display the COLTC logo lots and lots bigger so its true spiffyness can be revealed. But all in all, very impressive. Congrats. (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.loc.us.oh, FTX)
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(...) Already done: (URL) working on making that list more interactive (including a contentious request/question about color currently active on the BL boards). If I can ever stop updating long enough to reprogram, then the new CT will be much more (...) (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.color)
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(...) Hi Clark, That's exactly what I need! Thanks. After I had filled in my spreadsheet with the LDRAW color numbers, I noticed that the only colors that are used by the factory palette and don't have a LDRAW color number are the "Medium Blue" and (...) (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.color)
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| | Re: Rule check
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(...) That's still plenty of notice for most builders... :) (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Yes! I agree that is pretty cool. congrats! jt (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.loc.us.oh, FTX)
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(...) Tim, Have you ever tried an idea processor. This may be something like what you are looking for: (URL) Main thomasmain@myrealbox.com (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.people)
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(...) From what I saw, the entire store was MSRP for retail. Not being too familiar wwith the S@H pricing, I couldn't do the comparison but I thought I saw the UCS Snowspeeder at $199, which would put it about $20 higher than the site price. Not (...) (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Förslag om tidsram för träffen
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Hej allihopa! Jag hade räknat med att vara upptagen i helgen, men nu blev den plötsligt fri och då är jag förstås sugen på att komma ner till Jönköping istället. Anmälningstiden har väl inte gått ut än antar jag? Sen var det det där med transport. (...) (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.loc.se)
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| | Billboard promotion!
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Three of these (URL) just went up around the city to promote (one of) our current show(s), pretty cool, nay? Paul COLTC ps. More media exposure of COLTC here: (URL) (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.town, lugnet.events, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Botdog pwnzj00
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(...) I'm hoping you drop a note to Kevin and the folder gets restored, because it was spiffatronic. I laughed, I cried, I got hungry for a Nathan's.... (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGOfactory.com to LDraw color conversions
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(...) Hey Clark, thanks a lot, that's really useful! Would it be a good thing to also make one from LEGO to BrickLink colors and back? I'm not sure. (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: ptreleases.cgi - Ready to Roll?
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(...) Thanks for fixing this, Dan. Steve (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LEGOfactory.com launches... and it's big!
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(...) I will check the driver tonight after work. Are there also known issues with laptop keyboards? My cursor keys have no effect on the selected bricks. Thanks! Allan (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: Anatomy of a Shop At Home group order
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(...) Multiple names on the online form, associated with the products each person ordered. The payment and shipping of the overall order are still handled with one name, one credit card. No change to the back end processing at all. This is strictly (...) (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Doubt? I'm sure this will be a new micro-scale LEGO town product line. TLC is putting quite some effort (i.e., $$$) in this project. Rick Anyhow... just my 2 cents. (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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Just found out the drawback of having a cool job with a company I believe in... "employees not elgible"... oh well. Everyone else (who doesn't work for LEGO)... "Design like there's no tomorrow!" -Scott Lyttle (21 years ago, 9-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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(snip) (...) The only problem I see there is there may be liability issues. Multiple names on a single order? Ok, how would someone at the company know who the main person is? Would one person be the "primary", and when placing the order, would have (...) (21 years ago, 9-Nov-04, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: LEGOfactory.com launches... and it's big!
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(...) Hi Allan, This is a fairly common problem, it is almost always caused by your video card drivers being out of date. You should install the latest ones from your manufacturer's website. If you have an nvidia or ati card you can use their (...) (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGOfactory.com launches... and it's big!
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Hi Jake, hi Ray, (...) as a Linux user I also don't like this restriction. I don't mind much that the software doesn't run under Linux. But I do mind if this is used to exclude non-MS-Windows users from community activities. Please allow entries in (...) (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego)
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| | Re: Botdog pwnzj00
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(...) Yes my peasants are still a bit freaked out by the whole ordeal but I think they'll get over it. The skeleton monster is Skully created by Gary McIntire I believe. Skully had fun scaring Smokey and then he proceeded to scare the villagers that (...) (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Are you (general MAC-you, no one person in particular) trying to tell me (a PC-user) that MAC's don't have emulators to run non-MAC software on a MAC? I find that hard to believe. I even have an emulator to run MSX-games on my PC. I believe a (...) (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego)
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(...) In another news item about this i read: (...) I think even when someone is 99 years old he/she is above 12 years old ;-) Niels (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Re: Botdog pwnzj00
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(...) Ah, Smokey, that silly little scamp. I do hope your peasantie survived the wagon attack. And your skeleton monster scared the pork bits out of poor Smokey! Grr. Hopefully the folder is restored soon. If not, I'll have to upload again (but (...) (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Botdog pwnzj00
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(...) Sadly I didn't get any pictures of Botdog's visit to my Medieval land. The ones you had up were great, like kickin' back on the dock and when my giant got a hold of him. Although I must say my sheep are not very happy. I did happen to get a (...) (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Possible visit to Italy
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Il Tue, 9 Nov 2004 16:02:01 GMT, Carlo Ottolina ha scritto: (...) Pizza in Cremona is ok for me. Marco Berti and Paolo Masetti told me by email they are in. (...) :-) On lapsos freodiano? Oppore invece ho on problema nella tastiera...:-) Ciao Mario (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Rule check
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Okay, now that HS is done with, back to rtlToronto18. I have modified the rules page with the RobA suggested block modification, and have not modifed the scoring scheme to encourage block pushing: I agree with other posters than we should encourage (...) (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Explorer added to MOCPages
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Greetings! I finally got around to adding Explorer to my MOCPages account. Check it out if you're interested: (2 URLs) --Dan (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: [rtlToronto] rtlToronto at the Hobby Show
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(...) Well, I have about six photos from rtlToronto17, and no one has offered any of their own photos which I would use to create an album. So I can't post that event. Hobby Show on the other hand, I had like 32 of my own photos (not a lot to do (...) (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) So what kind of pricing is it like? Is it MSRP, above MSRP etc? I'm particularly interested in S@H type stuff, if it was cheaper than ordering at S@H with shipping etc involved. Calum (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | ]peek-a[ BOO!
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Well, there are no pictures of creations to post at the moment--they are either in a disposable camera or waiting to be completed--but I wanted to say "Salaam waw layquum" and a belated "Happy Halloween". I too just moved across country, more or (...) (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.people, FTX)
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| | Re: [rtlToronto] rtlToronto at the Hobby Show
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(...) I don't think there really is a better term. I call them flower mosaics, but that's basically the same. Anyway, to answer you question, I built them. (...) Hmmm, that's a neat idea, and might pose some interesting building challenges. Not sure (...) (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: 10030 here!
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(...) LOL! my bad :D guess I should spend more time reading and less time shopping :) I'm in my exams at the moment, so I haven't had much time for building, much less browsing. Anyway, adelaide finally recieved the 10030 in the DJ's in the city - (...) (21 years ago, 8-Nov-04, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGOfactory.com to LDraw color conversions
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(...) It looks like those are Lego color numbers. Using your list and the info from my Color Tree pages, I've made this conversion chart: (URL) let me know of any updates/errors. Hope that helps, Clark (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.cad, lugnet.color)
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| | Re: GAT-X105 Aile Strike Gundam
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Ka-On Lee wrote: <snip> (...) This thing is friggin' awesome Ka-On. There's so much SNOT hanging off it I feel a sinus cold coming on just looking at it. :) Seriously though, the SNOT work is phenomenal. The head is a (...) (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | GAT-X105 Aile Strike Gundam
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(URL) Brickshelf Gallery: (URL) First some links for those unfamilar with this design: (2 URLs) After accumulated enough bricks, I decided to start one of my dream MOC projects a large scale, highly detailed Gundam. I picked Strike because it is one (...) (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Looks like a big cat of some kind...
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(...) Puma! Mwahahaha! I'm not sure if people will get this one though. Maybe Donut or Caboose could explain it to them :-D Oh, by the way, nice 'hog. I'm preparing the buil;d of my one warthog, but in a technic scale. With the proper (...) (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGOfactory.com launches... and it's big!
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(...) I'm also a Mac user, and am bummed that I won't be able to try this. Something hits a nerve anytime anyone brings up the market share issue. Granted, Apple's market share is pretty low among BUSINESS users. In schools and homes - which is (...) (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego)
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| | Re: ptreleases.cgi - Ready to Roll?
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(...) Oops. Try now? (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Ok. I give up to use my ISP server. Please, get the file at brickshelf: (URL) (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.cad)
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| | ebay: VINTAGE TECHNIC 8479 BARCODE TRUCK PRE MINDSTORMS *NEW NR
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(URL) Bidding starts at ONE PENNY with NO RESERVE! Must have set for Technic fans! (URL) Look at the auction> (URL) Learn more about this set> (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.market.auction, FTX)
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| | Re: ptreleases.cgi - Ready to Roll?
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(...) That fixed ptreleasesnew.cgi (the test script), but not ptreleases.cgi (the production script). --Travis (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Niether the above link to the spreadsheet or the link to the zip file on the page provided work. I keep getting permission denied errors (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGOfactory.com launches... and it's big!
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(...) (URL) I don't know why, but you might need to copy and paste the link to your browser. Regards, Ildefonso. (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: ptreleases.cgi - Ready to Roll?
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(...) Try now - Steve was rearranging some files, and forgot to update a subroutine call. (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Botdog pwnzj00
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(...) This was a cool thread until the folder got baleeted. Trust me, the awesomeness of Botdog is unequaled. /me sighs... (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: ptreleases.cgi - Ready to Roll?
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(...) It would appear that neither script is working now. --Travis (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Looks like a big cat of some kind...
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(...) This thing looks SWEET! Puts my Warthog for shame. It's good to see a fellow Halo fan on the boards. I really like your solution for independent suspension. Now if only LEGO made a good windshield piece for this thing. ;-) -Alex (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGOfactory.com launches... and it's big!
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(...) Hi, After some hacking with the xml files included on LDD I came up with this Excel spreadsheet: (URL) If someone could do the hard work of fill in the third column of the colors worksheet with the corresponding LDRAW color numbers, then it (...) (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.cad)
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Just so I'm clear, is this open to everyone, or just kids? Bryan (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | On retaining information...
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I attended an entrepreneurship conference in Chicago this past weekend. I attend several conferences each year on various topics. At each, I come away with so much information that it's difficult to process it all. I find I need to consolidate as (...) (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.people)
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| | Re: LEGOfactory.com launches... and it's big!
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(...) It's coming. Patience ... :-) -Tim (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | MOCpages reviews and rating are back online
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Hi, everybody: Well, as many of you have noticed, reviewing and rating was "temporarily disabled" on MOCpages. Well, I'm happy to announce that they've been re-enabled. MOCpages keeps track of who is reviewing what and when and where... it's not (...) (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.announce.mocpages)
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| | Re: LEGOfactory.com launches... and it's big!
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(...) How about an LDraw file to LDD file convertor? Or is that what you meant...one that would translate both ways? :) Has anyone tried using this application? Am I the only one finding it to be a steep learning curve? (...) I'd be happy just to (...) (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: Tatsumaki
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Wow, sweet mother of nuggetrons. Pretty cool way to make use of Titan parts sans blue. I love the way you incorporated the samurai armor look. What were the odds that two Titan bases mecha would show up so close to each other. I would have replied (...) (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: Some small Good-Night-MOC - An escritoire
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(...) Jojo that is very nice! You continue to come up with fine architecture and furniture. But is that Admiral Giddens in yet another disguise?????? ROSCO (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | Re: Looks like a big cat of some kind...
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Pretty nifty moc. I've seen other renditions of this vehicle but this far is my fav and I don't even play the game. For 4-wheeled shootin action, I'm all about Jackal. F (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: A Christmas Train
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(...) Brian, the train is fine. From what I can see it's an off the shelf mix. While you're not likley to see an american cabose with a Brittish GW passenger train in real life, the colors do match nicely. Might I suggest you get some of the Holiday (...) (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.us.cedarlug, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGOfactory.com launches... and it's big!
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(...) I believe the site says 5% of net profit, not retail cost. And I doubt most outlets will carry these items. Mat (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGOfactory.com launches... and it's big!
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(...) For future reference, you should make sure URLs begin with http:// otherwise Lugnet treats it as a local reference. ROSCO FUT .admin.nntp (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.admin.nntp, FTX)
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| | Tatsumaki
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Hi my name is Marcus Clancy and this is my first post on Lugnet. I wanted to show my new mech and possibly hear some feedback. The mech that i am posting is based off a frame that I had made a few months ago. The purpose of this frame was to see if (...) (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha) !
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| | MOC: Short comic based on b3ta themes
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The jokes may be too obscure for anyone who does not frequent the site(b3ta) but it may still have a laugh or two for everyone. (URL) (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.announce.moc)
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| | Re: Tropicana Orange Juice Promo Details (U.S.)
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(...) 7209 Pteranodon 7210 Apatosaurus 7219 T-Rex All three use the new colour schemes for the parts (Grey, Dk. Gray, Brown) Nice sets! But that's a lot of juice! (21 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.promo, FTX)
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| | Re: New pics
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(...) What are those round tubes that you connect pneumatic hoses to to extend them? I don't recognize the piece... >> Mark (21 years ago, 9-Nov-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Förslag om tidsram för träffen
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(...) Hovslätt är avlångt men man kan säga så att Konsum och Ica ligger på vänster sida om man kommer norrifrån och däremellan men på andra sidan vägen ligger kyrkan och det är en fin stor parkering framför. Ja det finns ordentligt med techniclego (...) (21 years ago, 9-Nov-04, to lugnet.loc.se)
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| | Re: LEGOfactory.com launches... and it's big!
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(...) Say (conservatively) these are placed in 1,000 retail outlets worldwide (include S@H as one) Each sells 5 sets per week. Since these are micro, with a small piece count around 100-150, estimate price at about $10 Designer earns 5% of each (...) (21 years ago, 9-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Re: PaB in Toronto!?
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(...) Since he didn't... ;] I was there on Monday morning. The selection is pretty much identical to the one at St.Jacob's. There were some minor variations, but the number of bins were the same, as were the bag sizes and prices (within 4 cents). (...) (21 years ago, 9-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) You can probably buy an entire system that meets the minimum requirements for around $100 (or upgrade for even less). I managed to save that much in a few months as a teenager earning a $10-15 every 2 weeks allowance. -Orion (21 years ago, 9-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego)
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(...) Hi Jennifer. Yes, they are caterpillar tracks. The 8880 tires were not the correct shape to be telehandler tires, and wrapping the tracks around them was the only way to make them taller and narrower. I think real ones are 4-5ft in diameter. I (...) (21 years ago, 9-Nov-04, to lugnet.technic)
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Hello! It's midnight here. Inspired by both Shaun 'The Sheep' Sullivan's (URL) Victorian manor> and Bruce Hietbrink's (URL) I felt the urge to carpenter another furniture. This time it's an escritoire, a desk, a lectern (I don't know how it's called (...) (21 years ago, 9-Nov-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Yeah, and I've got 9 parts in this release that I don't think I've worked on literally in years! Thanks to whomever finally pushed those Primo parts through. And thanks to Holly Wood for doing the keyboard!! -- Tony Hafner www.hafhead.com (21 years ago, 9-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Yeah, but I would imagine a techwest distillery to not have clean white tank thingies. Now if they were in chrome copper... (...) Well, at that point, we may as well just make a "no BURPS" symbol. Which I couldn't wear, because I can't get (...) (21 years ago, 9-Nov-04, to lugnet.adventurers, FTX)
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(...) LPRIZE, anyone? :) As far as my students, it'll probably be a case of them designing in whatever package they want (even, gasp, REAL LEGO) and then one or two of them figuring out how to make the design over again in LDD for contest upload. I (...) (21 years ago, 9-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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Hi all, Here's my new (URL) poster>. (URL) Inspired by (URL) Terry Prosper> and (URL) Fred Carcanague>. PLMKWYT, Bruce (21 years ago, 9-Nov-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, FTX) !
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(...) AFAIK, no one yas yet tried to write a LDD file to LDraw file convertor. This might be the thing though, eh? Of course it would be entirely unofficial until and unless LEGO blessed such an effort. One big gotcha is catching that all the (...) (21 years ago, 9-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Sorry for the follow up to my own post, but if I could ask for one other "promo" type item: It would be nice if all the parts in the Competition Pallet could be on a printable page. That way even if you don't have LDD yet you could see the (...) (21 years ago, 9-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2004-04 Parts Update Now Available
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(...) Thanks Chris for this update. It came much faster than i supposed, after i met you in Zwolle. Thought it would be somewhere in December. Also many thanks to the previewers and the people behind the scene. Ludo (21 years ago, 9-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Thanks Tim for those positive words! This means that i can go on with the point(s). I hope to get one reddy this winter, but i won't make any promesses. It takes a lot of time and i'm no mathematic freak, so i'm banging from time to time my (...) (21 years ago, 9-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | The Toy Blox - Lego Superstore!
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ATTENTION ALL WHO LIVE EAST OF YONGE STREET Or those that feel like a trip. The new super Lego store in Whitby is The Toy Blox as mentioned upthread. After going there last weekend, it is quite simply a blast. It is a Lego-only store. Because of (...) (21 years ago, 9-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Förslag om tidsram för träffen
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(...) Är det här rätt ställe? (URL) Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 URLs) (21 years ago, 9-Nov-04, to lugnet.loc.se)
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(...) How kind of you to think that, David. But no, I live in Amsterdam, the capital city of The Netherlands (and that's somewhere in Europe :-) With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen. (21 years ago, 9-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.build.microscale)
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(...) Wow, I can't tell you how cool this is! I'm going to promote this in my CAD class, and withing both the Drafting and Architecture departments at my school. Something tells me this will finally get my Architecture students involved.. Nothing (...) (21 years ago, 9-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Re: Mercedes Benz Actros 1840 Strawtransport, Scale 1:13
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(...) Hi Dennis, Thank you for your nice comment to my truck, and thank you for posting it on (URL). They have not yet asked to buy the model, but it suits theyre office very well. But its hard to set at price on the model, it is hard to collect all (...) (21 years ago, 9-Nov-04, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.modelteam, FTX)
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snippage (...) The requirements are pretty low by todays standard. MegaHertz is almost a word of the past. I can't really talk too loudly. My fastest computer is a 800MHz. I'm so almost obsolete Minimum System Requirements Operating system: Windows (...) (21 years ago, 9-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego)
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This looks cool and I hope it gets a lot of interest I was interested to see : "The ten Grand Prize Winners will each receive a 5 % royalty of the actual Net Sales of their sets (or if a winner’s set is bundled with other sets, then a 5% royalty of (...) (21 years ago, 9-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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(...) I'm happy about it too. Just so you don't feel left out, there are a lot of PC users (like me) who can't use this either because of the hefty system requirements of DD. Mainly, I feel I am missing out on seeing the cool files that have been (...) (21 years ago, 9-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego)
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| | Re: MOC: Brikington Manor
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This is really fantastic. Shaun, you've done a fantastic job capturing all the detail and feel of a real place in minifig scale, not that easy to do. I love this. I think we all have grand ideas, and we settle for something else along the way, but (...) (21 years ago, 9-Nov-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
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