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Hello Jojo, before reading your story, I just want to comment on the pics that I saw earlier today. I immediately searched for an anouncemnt from your side, but didn't find any.... till now! Wonderfll pics, wonderfull building: colour scheme light (...) (21 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: CEO-Letter // The answer
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(...) cool beans my only question is: if the only thing holding the company back from going back to the old colors is money, how much are we talking about? a million, 10 million? 50 million? ondrew now if i only knew tonights lotto numbers =) (21 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: And now, for another theme bastardization : : Track MOW Ship
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Really stupid replying to my own post, but BS seems to be giving an error for the gallery URL. Here it is: (URL) trying to get the hang of this FTX thing......) (21 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.space, lugnet.trains)
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| | And now, for another theme bastardization : : Track MOW Ship
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I’ve always been a fan of space, but I never really managed to get down to doing anything in the theme as of late as it was too abstract for me (Although I did a lot of stuff as a kid, my memory and definition of what spaceyness was got wiped out (...) (21 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.space, lugnet.technic, FTX) !
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| | Re: What if.....
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(...) As an 8-wider, I am left feeling a bit flat. One of the biggest problems using 6-wide bases on 8-wide trains is the number of 1x(x) plates that are needed to fill in the gap, and the minimum thickness of the train's bases grows from 2 to 3 (...) (21 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | New blog: VignetteBricks
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Hi all, Well, I timed this just about right. I've actually been working on the idea for a bit, but with the new .build.vignette newsgroup, the recent great success of the vignette category in the classic-castle contest, and the spate of great (...) (21 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.vignette, lugnet.castle, FTX) !
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| | Re: ... and a bad, bad new year!
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(...) Personally I think you are being exactly that. Wishing that the Lego company does poorly is very selfish. I see very little good that can come from continued financial troubles and may serve to hurt existing and next generation Lego fans who (...) (21 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: The Hall of Albirona - The full story (Director's Cut)
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(...) Wow! I loved it! I loved the model, but I love the backstory even more. I also thoroughly enjoyed all the detail work involved and your special "added touches" like the bird cage, the harp and Black Falcon guy. Ben Medinets (21 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | Re: 2 axel motorised truck with 3 stud center wheel spacing
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"Mathew Clayson" <mathew_impact1@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:ID1o4G.1ErE@lugnet.com... (...) Holy crap Mat! I never really thought of doing that. That's great! To combat jittering on uneven tracks and the like, you could always add a second set (...) (21 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.parts.mod)
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| | Re: "The LEGO Group" or "The LEGO Company"?
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(...) (URL) recent LEGO press release> might help clarify. From what I understand, "LEGO" is actually a group of different entities tied together by one or more holding companies, which are in turn owned by the founding family. To consolidate (...) (21 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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A Motorised 2 axel truck with 3 stud wheel spacing. This is a custom modified 9v train motor. (URL) I've been toying with this idea for a while. It seems a shame that LEGO makes only the one style motor truck. I used a small DC motor and a pair of (...) (21 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.parts.mod, FTX)
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Leaving off the end isn't a bad idea! In my mind's eye I see the end terminate as any other single plate thickness. Great thinking! How about a 1x2 stud notch off the end too. This way if a pair are tight up against each other (or a 6xn plate is (...) (21 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Please critique my truss designs
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Greetings, Technic builders! I have been very impressed with the giant bridges and cranes that you folks can build. Now I am working on a model that requires a truss. The model is minifig scale, so I care about the look of the truss, as much as its (...) (21 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | The Hall of Albirona - The full story (Director's Cut)
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Hello! This is the Hall of Albirona: (URL) me, I'm a link!>> In real life it's a pre-romanesque Palace Hall that was later on turned into a church. It can be found near Oviedo, Spain. Read my story on MOCpages, it's written for the ISCC4 (...) (21 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.castle, FTX) !!
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| | ... and a bad, bad new year!
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"Let me openly state that had the decision makers in this color change process been aware of the negative impact on the AFOLs at the time the decision was made, these three colors would not have been changed." Just in case someone missed this (...) (21 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.color)
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(URL) This winter I took on the gigantic project of building a new mecha and creating complete assembly instructions for it. I've had many requests for instructions over the years, but never considered making them to be technically practical for (...) (21 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Ackerman steering geometry : How do you make it ?
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If I'm not mistaken, didn't the Lego Technic sports racer from 1995, set 8440 also have a type of Ackerman steering? (21 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: "The LEGO Group" or "The LEGO Company"?
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(...) Funny thing is, I found the company profile brochure (a PDF at "(URL) and it offers no guidance on what the company itself should be called. It uses the term "the LEGO Company" often, but then the bottom of each page says the document itself (...) (21 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: CEO-Letter // The answer
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(...) No, a bigger mistake would be to attempt to fix it, and go out of business. Do you *really* feel you would be better off in that case? Start buying Mega-Bloks to continue your hobby, would you? Be realistic. Whether you accept it or not, (...) (21 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: "The LEGO Group" or "The LEGO Company"?
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(...) There have been discussions here before about that very topic. A quick search turned up this ((URL)) for example. Also try here ((URL)) for some words straight from the company's mouth. To my knowledge TLC is correct. A further comment about (...) (21 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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