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Hey Thomas, A good and thoughtful post, but I have to disagree with some of the points. Swanberg - Yes, there is the Michael Jackson factor and we all like to gossip, but I do think there were some relevant questions that did impact the community: (...) (20 years ago, 7-Dec-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Ideas for Lego Chipper?
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As soon as my current projects are done, or maybe even sooner than that I wanted to design a Lego Chipper as a final project for a while. The problem is that Legos can't cut wood. I have thought about using store-bought razor blades for the cutting (...) (20 years ago, 7-Dec-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Lego Hobby Blues
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Hello Thomas, Your posting caught my eye today as you're obviously unhappy with the way you see things. At the bottom of your message you say: (...) I'm hoping to provide some discussion. As to whether or not that also constitutes "insight" is up to (...) (20 years ago, 7-Dec-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: "Left" view
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(...) Actually, front and back are the same in both projections. One might argue that since MLCad does the top and bottom views that we're expecting, that this invalidates the argument. However, remember that the LDraw coordinate system is flipped, (...) (20 years ago, 7-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, FTX)
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| | Re: Old Light & Dark Gray Brick packs are gone
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Excellent, maybe now some new grey packs will be released. Derek (...) (20 years ago, 7-Dec-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.color)
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It's the beginning of the end. The bulk packs of true light gray bricks are sold out, and the true dark gray bricks are listed under Retired Products on Shop At Home: (URL) Light Gray Bricks> (URL) Dark Gray Bricks> All 3 plate packs are still (...) (20 years ago, 7-Dec-05, to lugnet.announce.lsahs, lugnet.general, lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | Re: Novità da Cafepress
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(...) Prego. (...) Questa è bella. Come fanno a dire che sono Lego? Non c'è il loro logo sugli stud. Digli che sono blocchi di plastica di un gioco per costruzioni generico. Non sono mica gli unici a fabbricarlo, è come dire che la General Motors ha (...) (20 years ago, 7-Dec-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: Lego Hobby Blues
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(...) Whoops... looking back, change that to 2 years, 3 months. --Anthony (20 years ago, 7-Dec-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Lego Hobby Blues
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Hi Thomas, --SNIP-- I'm not going to comment on the first section as I am not sure myself what I prefer there. (...) AFOLs are people and people like to gossip. The Swanberg case is just spomething to gossip about really, much like the Michael (...) (20 years ago, 7-Dec-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Japan Rail EF64
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(...) Thanks for the information Phillipe. (...) That's a great BBB solution. In mine the train is only attached by the middle segment and the other two move (quite far out around corners by some CAD tests I did). Shifting the centre one reduces (...) (20 years ago, 7-Dec-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Lego Hobby Blues
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(...) <SNIP> (...) A lot of people have been complaining about Classic-Castle, Classic-Space and all the other websites 'responsible for the fractioning of Lugnet.' So here are some points that you and others may have not thought about: New Blood: (...) (20 years ago, 7-Dec-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Novità da Cafepress
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Ciao, brutte notizie da Cafepress. Mi hanno scritto pochi giorni fa per dirmi che il nostro negozio conteneva immagini protette da copyright e che l'uso di questo materiale era temporaneamente disabilitato: [snip] We recently learned that your (...) (20 years ago, 7-Dec-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Arrested Development
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Monday's episode of the brilliant (and therefore soon-to-be terminated) FOX show "Arrested Development" featured several references to LEGOLAND. One character, played by Dave "Bob McKenzie" Thomas, wore a LEGOLAND t-shirt. Dave! (20 years ago, 7-Dec-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Vehicle with square wheels
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(...) I love it when LEGO's innate design works out perfectly for creating something strange like a 22.5° angle. Is is fate? Serendipity? Clever planning? All of these? (20 years ago, 7-Dec-05, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Lego Hobby Blues
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The thrill is gone. There's so much about our hobby that has changed over the last few years and a lot of it has changed for the worse. LUGNET This used to be THE place that the online community got together and talked about the hobby. Now, it has a (...) (20 years ago, 7-Dec-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Japan Rail EF64
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(...) Hello, AFAIK, the BBB loco type is mainly used in Italy, Switzerland and... Japan :) at the moment. The debate around CC or BBB loco types is a long lasting one around railways engineers (BTW I'm not one of them). CC type is technically (...) (20 years ago, 7-Dec-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: "Left" view
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(...) Hmm, maybe. But in both first- and third-angle projections, the central view/projection shows the same side of the object. In the case of MLCAD, when you choose 'front view', you are shown the front of the model. Same for top, bottom, and back (...) (20 years ago, 7-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, FTX)
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(...) Hello, all. I'm a new poster to this newsgroup, usually just a lurker. This discussion caught my eye and I wanted chime in. Perhaps the reason the LEFT view appears wrong is due to the orthographic projection scheme used by MLCad--First-Angle (...) (20 years ago, 7-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, FTX)
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| | Bail up to $1 million in Lego theft case (Swanberg)
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(URL) UPDATE - Wednesday, December 07, 2005 by Holly Danks Bail up to $1 million in Lego theft case The case: William A. Swanberg, 40, of Reno, Nev., is charged with three counts of first-degree theft and one count of attempted first-degree theft on (...) (20 years ago, 7-Dec-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | FS: 4924 Advent Calendar $17.50 Shipped
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2004 LEGO Advent Calendar [LEGOSet 4924] $17.50 includes shipping via USPS Priority Mail with Delivery Confirmation in the US. Payments via PayPal only. If interested, send a note to advent at doucettenet dot com I'll reply back with a PayPal link. (...) (20 years ago, 7-Dec-05, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, FTX)
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