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(...) Yeah, well, I'm all for pendantries and all, but here is what meant. I know that Learning Curve has the Thomas license (I bought enough of them-- I oughta know!) What I didn't know is that Brio has a license in (Sweden?). Even if Brio hasn't a (...) (21 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, FTX)
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In lugnet.mediawatch, David Koudys wrote: ott (...) Hm.. is there a way to force that behaviour (short of renaming the extension to not be .mov?) That would be a nifty trick. It seems like there is a way to force the reverse, that is, there are (...) (21 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.publish)
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(...) I've uploaded the movie to my webserver-- see it here-- (URL) the 26 meg .mov version (if you could be nice to my little web server and save this on your local system before viewing, it'd be appreciated) Dave K (21 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Vendo lotto lego misto pirati e castello
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(...) Ciao, purtroppo non so allegare le foto e senza queste mi da fastidio mettere il prezzo! Per me sarebbe più economico in quanto non ho l'adsl e ci metto molto tempo e ad inviare le foto. Ciao Marco (21 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug.market, FTX)
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(...) I'm going to be a pedant here and argue that there is no Thomas BRIO now, either. At least not in the US. It's a clone, not real BRIO. This site suggests that one company that makes BRIO **compatible** Thomas stuff is Learning Curve. (URL) (...) (21 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo)
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(...) Hi Kevin, Is this really a problem? It strikes me that this is the 'proper' behaviour for a 24bit raytraced image. I would prefer an option to switch off the alpha as sometimes I may wish to use this feature (eg. if I had a white background (...) (21 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Not sure if LEGO and/or Cartoon Network have gotten a lot of calls about the animation, but I just saw an ad on Cartoon Network done by LEGO to go to www.lego.com to see Revenge of the Brick. Either way, I just thought it was cool. Scott (21 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Anyone out there?
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(...) (21 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.loc.za)
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| | Re: The pirate sloop Revenge
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(...) Mmmmmm. I like it. A very stylish ship as always. Must keep an eye out for one of these pirate ships on sale. I look forward to your review in the hope that other bits are useful - have to say I kinda passed it over on my first look at the (...) (21 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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Hey all. This is one of my creations I will not be modding again, (as it is demolished) so it's time for LUGNET! Brickshelf thread is: (URL) I would give the MOCpage, but Sean has the site down at the moment. Please post anything that pops into your (...) (21 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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(...) I just think you were being um... "trained"... haha (excuse the bad pun...) as for Lar..well, I'll just keep my mouth shut! Scott (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.events.houseofbricks, FTX)
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In lugnet.general, Jason Spears wrote: SNIP I just went (URL) here>, and interestingly, the MOCPages logo has changed. Maybe the sites getting a makeover? Either that or that's the original version of the logo, and I'm confused. Legoswami (21 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | Svendo lego 7317 Misb
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Ciao ragazzi, ne avevo 5 ma sono andate tutte vie, mi è rimasta l'ultima che svendo a 55 euro più spedizione! Chi prima arriva se la prende! L'oggetto è: (URL) più di 700 pezzi! Scrivetemi! Ciao Marco (21 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug.market)
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| | lookinf for info on 1/16th offset building techniques.
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I seem to recall a post on Lugnet that had bricks which went in offset increments of 1/16th sized steps, but I can't find the link on lugnet. Does anyone have information and pictures of such offset step building sizes? Cheers ... Geoffrey Hyde (21 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.build)
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(...) I would love to see a General Lee! There could also be some easy revenue for Lego if they get the set designed by August for the release of the new "The Dukes of Hazzard" film. Do you think the Confederate flag on top the car would pose a (...) (21 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: 8 Wide LEGO Thomas! (pics)
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(...) I'm curious as to what this show consisted off. We had a TV series called 'Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends'. It started with a theme tune featuring shots including a side view of Thomas+Annie+Clarabel passing a windmill at the moment the (...) (21 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, FTX)
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(...) For 1000Steineland 2003 Klaas Meijaard and myself built a huge pirate layout, that had to cover up 3 train tracks. We used a combination of brick+technic framework (all 2*4 and 2*8 bricks, and technic 1*16's for long beams across) with loads (...) (21 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.trains)
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I neglected to include the fuzzy pic that best shows the sterncastle from 7075... (URL) Adieu Richie Dulin (21 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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| | Knights of the Round Table Vignettes
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(URL) Presenting the (URL) Knights of the Round Table Vignettes>! Four 8 x 8 vignettes that when assembled form a large 16x16 vignette depicting the Round Table of Arthurian Legend. These vignettes were made using minifigs and shields representing (...) (21 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.vignette, lugnet.castle, FTX) !!
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| | 10030 ISD in David Jones
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Hi Folks, Just came back from a browse of the Melbourne CBD David Jones and was surprised to find a solitary 10030 Imperial Star Destroyer. Price was 399.95 but with LEGO currently 20% off, I picked it up for $319.96. I didn't ask if they had (...) (21 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| | Re: 8 Wide LEGO Thomas! (pics)
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(...) What happened since? (...) Well, the success of the series prompted the major motion picture release, which could rightly be called a "world stage". I realize that the books have been around a looong time. But as actual toys, Thomas, it seems (...) (21 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, FTX)
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| | Re: best way to support elevated plates?
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(...) If you have lots of spare 2x4 bricks, then you can use the same technique we used at the 2002 GETS show: (URL) does use *lots* of 2x4 brick, and a few others, and you have to be quite careful to not leave large fractures in the structure, but (...) (21 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Original vs. Copy: Printed Lego Items
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(...) Oooops, just realised the catalog is probably colour, and all colour copiers are digital (AFAIK). So yes, you can probably tell with enough magnification. ROSCO (21 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Depends on the copier. Most cheaper modern copiers use a digital printer-style engine to generate the copies, so you will see the pixelation at high magnification. However older ones transferred the image non-digitally, and many newer (...) (21 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Original vs. Copy: Printed Lego Items
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I received a 1964 Danish catalog from a European collector recently. Since I got if for free (after buying some other items), I thought it was great. The one sheet (two sided) catalog is in such great condition, I was wondering if it wasn't a (...) (21 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | The pirate sloop Revenge
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The Revenge ===...=== Long time readers of .pirates may recall the pirate sloop (URL) Revenge> (formerly the chasse maree Azelma), which was, for a time, the only pirate presence in the waters surrounding Port Brique. The old revenge was a simple (...) (21 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | Re: Exhibit at the National Trust for Historic Preservation Conference
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(...) Hey, great job guys! Looks like it was a lot of fun. I am a huge fan of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the wonderful work they do! Lego and architecture go hand in hand. I am even working on a mini-fig version of an old (...) (21 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.events)
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(...) Hehe, was wondering how long it would be before you pointed that out! (21 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, FTX)
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Thanks for sharing this... wish I could have been there : ) God Bless, Nathan (21 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.events.houseofbricks, FTX)
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(...) Ahem. Thomas the Tank Engine books and records (7" 45 RPM!) were very popular in Australia in the early 70s. So while the TV series may have propelled it onto the North American stage, that is not necessarily the world stage. ROSCO (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, FTX)
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| | Re: Little off-topic but still pretty cool! Self-Replicating robots.
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(...) created a plane rotated through 45 degrees. This enabled me too create 3D objects. I wrote two programs within the larger program. One created replicating robots from a pile of atoms(pixels) which then went on to build somthing else. The other (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Granule bushes
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But they aren't making them. At least, not the ones you linked to on BL. Note the one on Brickshelf is placed into a palmtree base, whereas the older ones had their own bases. The one on Brickshelf is most likely handmade. I'd believe that, (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | TRU sale May 14th to 27th
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TRU has a little bit of LEGO on sale in their new two week flyer (May 14th -27th). Buy one get one free on the four tiny turbo sets (8641, 8642, 8643, and 8644). Great piece selections in some of those. Get a free exclusive mini jedi starfighter (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | BrickFest Hotel info
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I’m please to announce that arrangements have been finalized with the Hilton Arlington & Towers. 950 N. Stafford Street, Arlington VA 22203 located just 0.6 Miles from GMU. Hilton Arlington & Towers has a block of guestrooms reserved for BrickFest (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.announce, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.org, FTX)
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| | Show Saturday May 14th
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NovaLUG will be participating in the MFMR convention at the Wandlyn Inn Motor Inn Coldbrook, near Kentville, on May 14th. Public show is 9 am – 1 pm. Adults $3, family $8, kids under 5 free. As the show is in the Valley, we have a large farm area, (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.org.ca.novalug)
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| | Re: color and number
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Alright. (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Advice wanted on selling Lego collection in Australia...
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(...) Yes, I would think so. Not knowing exactly how much stuff you have in total, but if it's huge amounts, then split it again into smaller groups. This is because a lot of people on ebay have only small amounts of cash to spend, and therefore (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: best way to support elevated plates?
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(...) I will say that, although we still have 4 modules with this kind of construction that we will keep together for the forseeable future, we have abandoned that building style. Those GMLTC-style modules of ours are/were 30" x 45" (2X3 large gray (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Swarm?
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(...) Thanks, but I was asking because the school has hundreds of RCX's , motors, and sensors. I had in mind a RCX-based swarm, possibly linking together to cross a table gap, or some similar task. Thanks for the input, though. Andrew Meyer (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | CCW vs CW
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The (URL) Language Extension for Clipping (BFC)> states in the Parts Library Guidelines section that Primitives should always use CCW winding. However some of the primitives use CW, for example (URL) rect.dat>. Should these be rewritten? Would it be (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives, FTX)
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| | Re: color and number
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(...) Usually, Lego parts are not painted, but rather the color comes from dyes in the ABS itself. Hope that helps. Andrew Meyer (21 years ago, 10-May-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Granule bushes
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(...) LEGO used to make these kinds of trees and bushes decades ago. Check out: (4 URLs) Since they haven't been in any sets for quite some time, and they were never all that abundant to begin with, those granular types of trees are pretty hard to (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Pneumatic steering
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(...) Hi Vineet, Here is one way to do it: (URL) prototype was built when I was thinking of building an articulated truck. The same principle can be applied to any kind of steering where you need three positions. The key element is the controller: (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Exhibit at the National Trust for Historic Preservation Conference
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Jim, Way to go! Wish I was there, but I was, well...elsewhere :-)! You and Jeff did a great job, and I hope that this will lead to more fun things! Joe Meno DELVaLUG Way South Member .space paparazzi! (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.events)
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| | Re: best way to support elevated plates?
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Thanks to both, that's very interesting. It's much denser than I had in mind; and though 2x2 and 2x4 bricks are dirt cheap, it would use a LOT of them. I'm not sure if it would actually come out cheaper or not, but it's certainly worth considering. (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Introducing the LEGO Affiliate Program
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(...) Upon another minute's thought, the term that really seems appropriate is Certified LEGO Professional. (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Exhibit at the National Trust for Historic Preservation Conference
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Hey gang, On May 9th, LEGO had an exhibit at the National Trust for Historic Preservation Conference. Jeff Stabile and I had the honor of being asked to help out with this exhibit. LEGO was receiving an award celebrating the 50th year of the system (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.general) !!
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| | Re: Introducing the LEGO Affiliate Program
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(...) Jake- I'm surprised at the name choice. TLC usually chooses billion dollar companies as partners for co-marketing, joint ventures, and other business relationship. "Affiliate" is almost universally a term in the same league and implies a (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Re: best way to support elevated plates?
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(...) Joe- At SCLTC, we build tunnels and subterranean structures by stacking tables on top of each other using short legs and knobs bolted to the tops of the underlying tables. We haved stacked as tables as high as 5 levels in one place when (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: best way to support elevated plates?
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(...) And check out (URL) pic> and (URL) pic> to see that method in action. Ironically, we just completely cannibalized that module last week... Wanna buy some 2x2 towers? :-) JOHN (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: 8 Wide LEGO Thomas! (pics)
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(...) Yes, well, I was once young as well, but never even heard a, well, peep about Thomas the Tank Engine until the PBS series "Shining Times Station" which began airing in the US in 1989. It is that series which propelled Thomas onto the world (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, FTX)
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| | Re: best way to support elevated plates?
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(...) Sorry for the bum steer. (it was under honeycomb not lattice, my bad) Try this post: (URL) which leads you to this pic: (URL) should set you right. (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Pneumatic steering
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(...) Up to now I've just moved the two levers of the input valves. My system uses 2 large cylinders facing each other. The steering arm moves 3 valves, which are offset from each other and two of which are pulled by rubber bands. Sorry I haven't (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: best way to support elevated plates?
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(...) Sounds like what I'm after. Unfortunately, a search for "GMLTC lattice" didn't turn up any posts, except for yours, with both words in it. I also tried the same search at brickshelf, with no luck. Can anyone point me to a picture or more (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 8 Wide LEGO Thomas! (pics)
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(...) Eh? The point is the books were originally called the Rev. W Awdry's Railway Series, so the title 'Thomas and the Magic Railroad' is something of a travesty. But they all are, anyway, except Thomas. The closest to Thomas is a small number of (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, FTX)
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| | Re: 8 Wide LEGO Thomas! (pics)
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(...) The characters from the original 26 books by the Rev W Awdry, and the next 14 books by his son Christopher Awdry use characters based on real engines and stories that happened on the real railway (whether transposed to a different railway (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, FTX)
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| | Re: best way to support elevated plates?
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(...) Consider GMLTC lattice. Strong, light, made of common elements and modular in that it conforms to various heights well. XFUT lugnet.trains... a search with this string "GMLTC lattice" should find you a pic of it... (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Granule bushes
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"D. Shifflett" <shifflett@redshift.com> wrote in message news:IGD36z.19pH@lugnet.com... (...) Strictly speaking, these aren't standard parts, but they are LEGO. They are made out of the raw ABS granules which appear to have been glued together into (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: best way to support elevated plates?
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For my town I took the arches from the SAH site. Imagine looking at the baseplate. I placed two going north, one going east and west on the front and then depending on where they are in the tunnel I may have a total of 8 arches two in each (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: legofest milano
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ciao a tutti, forse ultimamente son troppo di fretta :D, però non ho capito quando sarebbe la legofest di Milano. Io sono un newbie del campo Mindstorms, quindi sarei piu' che altro un curioso (e goloso :P) osservatore, a meno che non mi venga (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | [Press Release] Summer BayLUG Meeting
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For Immediate Release Contact: Russell Clark rclark@telis.org 408.605.5412 (cell) SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CA - The Bay Area LEGO Users Group (BayLUG) is pleased to announce the details of our upcoming Summer Meeting. The meeting will be held on (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sac, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.org.us.baylug, lugnet.org.us.sacbb)
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| | Re: 8 Wide LEGO Thomas! (pics)
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(...) Thomas in the US includes a "Brio compatible" product from some company that is NOT Brio, near as I can tell (TC Timbers??? I forget). Everything interoperates but the track is different, it has ties simulated via grooves that go across the (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo)
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| | Re: Little off-topic but still pretty cool! Self-Replicating robots.
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(...) (URL) This is pretty cool, although the phrase "We are Borg" keeps going through my head. :) --Jack, AFOL, St. Louis Discover Yahoo! Get on-the-go sports scores, stock quotes, news and more. Check it out! (URL) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | best way to support elevated plates?
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We're thinking about raising up half of our town, so that we can have the train run into a tunnel and be a subway train on the elevated half and a surface train on the other half (with the two halves joined by a hill). This will also allow us to (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Relative or absolute?
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(...) My design will be functionally absolute, while being artistically relative. PS: Good question! (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Little off-topic but still pretty cool! Self-Replicating robots.
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(...) one seems the simplest and the most elegant. Very nice! Dave K (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: 8 Wide LEGO Thomas! (pics)
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(...) Now, it is my understanding that all of the characters are all based on real-life locos. Not so? (...) lol that is amusing. I had heard that Mozart was being played as well. How awful for those poor subway loitering ne'er-do-wells:-) BTW, I (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, FTX)
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| | Re: Things that make me giggle.
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(...) For the record, the item in question was done by a Canadian visitor from RTLToronto. -Ted (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | LEGOFan.org 2.0 Now Has a "Job Board"!
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LEGOfan.org has launched a "Job Board" in the LF forums. This board will allow project leaders, event coordinators, and Webmasters to post "volunteer job openings" in order to find AFOLs willing to pitch in and help out. Additionally, the Job Board (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.general, lugnet.publish, FTX) !!
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| | Re: 8 Wide LEGO Thomas! (pics)
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(...) I had Brio trains, along with a plastic variant the same size. I've seen Thomas Brio, but I've never particularly shopped for Thomas products abroad. Jason Railton (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo)
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| | Re: 8 Wide LEGO Thomas! (pics)
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(...) No kidding: "Matthew", Hebrew for "gift of God" :-) JOHN (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, FTX)
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| | Re: 8 Wide LEGO Thomas! (pics)
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(...) That sounds almost as tacky as calling him a 'railroad' engine. As I said, I've never been subjected to that in years of books, TV and even LPs of Johnny Morris reading recordings of the books. I have heard the TV series theme tune played over (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, FTX)
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| | Re: 8 Wide LEGO Thomas! (pics)
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(...) Hey, good call. And the Hebrew first name, come to think of it. Who the heck am I, anyway? Dave! (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo)
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| | Pneumatic steering
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How do you people set it up? Do you use those small pneumatic pistons for the steering? If not, then what? How is the system operated? Do you use a gear-operated valve? Do you have any LDraw designs that you could show me? (Sorry for the redundancy (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: 8 Wide LEGO Thomas! (pics)
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(...) Hey, wait a minute. (URL) These> are the lyrics from all of the episodes that I've seen, but I've only been watching for the last few months. A few observations: 1 It's always the episode in which someone has to cross the scary, rickety (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, FTX)
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| | PCS t-shirts
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Hey, I have some shirts available on cafepress. They feature a picture of Admiral Giddens fightin' an unknown enemy and a sneaky fleebnork. Drawn by Greg Hyland at Brickfest 2003 and given a full color treatment by yours truly. (The lazer blast is (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, FTX)
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| | Re: Relative or absolute?
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(...) It's an interesting question, but what's much more important is that we have fun with our designs. Nate (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: 8 Wide LEGO Thomas! (pics)
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(...) And you have the cheek to call yourself "British"??? (URL) Song lyrics here> I suppose you've never heard of "Monty Python", either? ;-) JOHN (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, FTX)
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Ciao Bruno, (...) se controlli bene troverai davanti a tutte e due le rotelle due sensori a infrarossi che contano gli spazi bianchi e quelli neri. Bye bye da Paolo P.S. si pronuncia maus ma si scrive Mouse ;-) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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signori buon giorno.....ho una mezza intenzione di fare un mause con 2 sensori di rotazione,ma la cosa non mi è molto chiara...anzi non sono capace!! ho aperto un mause per pc ho visto che i movimenti vengono comandati da una serie di inpulsi dati (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3 available
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(...) It does it... and well: (URL) (composited with Photoshop) (...) OK... I hope you'll get that working, I tend to prefer LDView style for instructions (should be faster too). Ah, another minor point: it would be nice if LPub remembered the last (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés mercredi 11 mai 2005
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In lugnet.org.fr.freelug, JLB <jlb@freelug.org> wrote: <snip> (...) Much appreciated for the kind words! Take care, Dave K (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés mercredi 11 mai 2005
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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. Nouveaux articles ---...--- ** CR de la réunion du CA du 2 Mai 2005 ** par Erik (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3 available
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(...) Hi Philo, That is very interesting. I'll try these cases here. It looks like POV-Ray is providing an alpha channel that is not completely opaque. I didn't think it did this. It should be easy to fix I think. (...) The LDView and LDGLight parts (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: House of Bricks Report
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(...) Um, it said: "Evening parties, shows, and people at the CON can be found at these links (warning: PG-13) " What more specifically were you looking for??? (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.events.houseofbricks, FTX)
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| | Re: legofest milano
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(...) mmmmm questa sì che è una buonissima idea!! Io ci sono anche per il tiramisù! prenotato! ;-)) grazie!!! sta riscuotendo più interesse del diorama!! hehe (scherzo!:-P) ciao! Matteo (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: 8 Wide LEGO Thomas! (pics)
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(...) Oh yes, he does. In Sweden the toy manufacture company BRIO has had a license to produce him and all of his friends as wooden toys for their wooden railway system (about 5-wide, i would guess), and the TV show has been shown, and is available (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo)
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(...) Same here. (...) FWIW the one on Cartoon Network here is also there as a Hindi-dubbed version. Legoswami (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo)
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| | Re: 8 Wide LEGO Thomas! (pics)
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(...) Says the guy with a German surname... ;) (...) There's a theme song? In the UK there's a tune, but no song. But does Thomas the Tank Engine feature much in non-English-speaking countries? Jason Railton (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo)
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| | Re: legofest milano
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(...) Ho già l'acquolina! Dino non sono goloso, il lego mi fa skifo, odio linux e notpron e questa frase è vera (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: LPub 2.3 available
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Hi Kevin, (...) It does, at least for me. But I have problems with transparent parts in the layouts: (URL) the POVed images are OK: (URL) with a nice background color see through. Another problem is that I can't get LDView generate meaningful (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Little off-topic but still pretty cool! Self-Replicating robots.
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Self-replicating robots video: (URL) article: (URL) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: SCLTC FRRD 2005 Photos
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(...) "them" are Jason Allemann (URL) and Erik Amzallag (URL) Regards, Didier Enjary (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
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| | Quick review of #7259 ARC-170 Starfighter
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Just picked this one up at my local consignment shop (which, to my joy, happens to now be carrying new as well as used Lego, which means I can bring in old stuff I don't want, they sell it and I can use the credit to defray the costs of new stuff!). (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Tilling the .Underground
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Fellow LUGNET'ers, I have volunteered to become the curator for .Underground, which I felt could use a little fresh air. The LEGO "Underground" theme (or subtheme) seemed to have never quite reached it's full potential... kind of like a 'diamond in (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.underground, lugnet.general, FTX) !
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| | Re: House of Bricks Report
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Very cool. Ummm....should almost place a warning label for some of those pics 8^) Just about spit up my drink as I wasn't expecting pics of that...nature (LOL). Jason ((snip)) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.events.houseofbricks, FTX)
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| | Re: legofest milano
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(...) TRAGEDIAAAAA :-))))) La dieta preferie va a farsi benedire......ma chi se ne frega :-) Antonella così ci vizi, come dire di no ad un tiramisù fatto in casa. ciao Francesco (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Granule bushes
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On my last trip to Legoland CA I spotted some unusual granule bushes in the miniland New Orleans section. These don't appear to be standard Lego parts, and I thought that miniland models were all made out of standard parts. Here is a link to my (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Charlie
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(...) Thanks Kyle, this was one of my intentions. Later (URL) Marco> (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: Kaze
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(...) Thank you for the roses! You also did great work up to now. Please publish more of your earlier work. Your frames are gorgeous. (...) Thanks (URL) Marco> (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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