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Hi All- If you can make it to Portland, Oregon this weekend, please stop by the GPLR clubhouse on Saturday March 25 for a day of fun: (URL) Click for Details of the Event> We hope to see you there! -jeremy (URL) GPLR> (20 years ago, 22-Mar-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.loc.us.wa, lugnet.loc.ca.bc, lugnet.loc.us.id, lugnet.loc.us.or, FTX)
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| | Re: 10027 is now sold in blay.... :-(
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(...) John- My experience is that the color difference is easier to see in bright daylight and flourescent lighting, probably because they have more UV, and harder in incandescent. -Ted (20 years ago, 22-Mar-06, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | Re: 10027 is now sold in blay.... :-(
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(...) Hi Ben! Did they burn you when you touched them? ;-) But I feel your pain. We quickly built some train modules in my basement for a train show last weekend, and my basement lighting isn't so good, so when we assembled the modules at the show, (...) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-06, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | Re: Bricksmith 1.3: Here's Looking at You, Kid
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Thanks for sharing your enthusiasm and suggestions. Unfortunately, Bricksmith does not have any native ability to export the images it generates. Since they would be unsuitable for printing anyway, this feature is not apt to ever appear. What I (...) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: R21 - Tug of war ??
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(...) Steve, rtl will be doing this style of tug of war. we probably will not place a "weight limit" with the understanding that weight is not always better. besides we have the all encompassing "spirit of the game" rule. The current draft rule set (...) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Thoughts on the UN "Racist" poster?
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(...) I'm kinda baffled by the symbology. I don't know about anyone else, but when I'm trying to solve a jigsaw puzzle, I'm not gonna try to use a Lego brick to do it. If that makes me a racist, then so be it. a (20 years ago, 22-Mar-06, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Re: New LeoCAD version
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(...) Hi, I tried it whith drag and drop the wing 8 x 4 to the space group but find this part then in the bricks group. I tried it with the brick curved 3 x 1 moving to the slope bricks group and then find it in the tiles group. So I get confused (...) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-06, to lugnet.cad.leocad)
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| | Re: 10027 is now sold in blay.... :-(
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(...) I can understand that feeling, Ben. The lack of information is the main complaint I have about the colour change. Since I don't have a 10027 though it is good news for me overall since it means I can procrastinate buying one for a while longer (...) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-06, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: Thoughts on the UN "Racist" poster?
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(...) And now it seems the UN OHCHR has taken down the image (or maybe it just moved). Anyhoo, the linked page no longer has the poster on it. I'm thinking someone gave the OHCHR an earful. Steve (20 years ago, 22-Mar-06, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Next Lugola meeting
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It has been a long while since our last meeting, and Dan has a bunch of stuff he wants to sell. This is my seed email, is anyone available to host a meeting in the near future? I had high hopes of hosting a meeting at my mother's home, but that (...) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-06, to lugnet.org.us.lugola)
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| | Re: 10027 is now sold in blay.... :-(
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(...) Hi Tim, maybe it is good. But I hated to find out I had spent 75 Eur (=90$US) on a nearly useless set. LEGO should have changed the ©2003 to ©2006 or maybe they could have added a 2cent sticker on the box like "Contains new cool colors!". A (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: 10027 is now sold in blay.... :-(
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(...) At the very least it means that there is a new run of 10027 which is good. Tim (20 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.color)
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| | 10027 is now sold in blay.... :-(
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Hi all, just a small update from the color frontier: A 10027 set which I boght last weekend has been full with blay parts. A 1000steine member found a blay version of Santa Fe engine 10020! ***...*** The level crossing 10128 appeared in a mixture of (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.color)
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| | Re: Space Creations
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(...) On second thoughts, maybe you shouldn't post it on CSF. I'm sorry for suggesting it Joe. No newbie deserves that. Keep building, and don't worry about getting your theme recognised. It'll happen if it happens, if not, meh. As long as {you're} (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Thoughts on the UN "Racist" poster?
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(...) Dejure it's out of copyright/trademark, true, but defacto it will be LEGO that will be influenced the most by any ill will engendered. Most people's first thought, I would expect, would be "hey those are legos" (with some small subset thinking (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: A castle fan's Train plan
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(...) Certainly a tried and true technique but doesn't easily make stairs that go into the carriage (the hard bit). There are numerous other parts that are handy, one notable one being the 1x2 plate with rail (part 32028) but it all depends on how (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: A castle fan's Train plan
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(...) Here's my suggestion for stairs. Black or grey these: (URL) SNOT'ed so the open top points out. Either a single vertical row creating an L, or horizonatal pairs for a shape. Remember that other than photos and show-n-tells, few people are (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Spedizione Legoland....
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(...) Credo che detto così nessuno sa a cosa ti riferisci... tenendo pure conto che Füssen è a 5 Km dal castello di NEUSCHWANSTEIN (che è il castello riprodotto spesso sui puzzle Ravensburger la cui sede, a Ravensburg, si trova a circa 100 km da lì) (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: Possible idea for The LEGO Company
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(...) Holy moley! Where did you see these? In Canadialand? Which province? And which dollar store (since there are so many variations)? And do you really spell it "Doller" up there? Is that like "humour"? Any idea of a piece-count in the bags? Do (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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| | Possible idea for The LEGO Company
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Recently on a visit to the local Doller Store, I happened across this in the aisle-- (URL) Yep--MegaBlok packages containing basic bricks, all for a buck. I don't know if TLC would be at all interested in offering similar packages, but I would (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| | Re: Thoughts on the UN "Racist" poster?
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(...) You're right, that one is certainly more clear about what it's trying to get across. And it's more appropos in using all minifigs to represent something, rather than using a construction element as something to be termed as different. I'm just (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Can't seem to find the "Batman" group
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Anyway, I spotted the "Twoface Escape" set at a KMart in Pittsburgh PA. The price wasn't marked, alas, and this was the only Batman set in evidence, but at least it's on the shelf. FWIW. Dave! (20 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Thoughts on the UN "Racist" poster?
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(...) Perhaps someone with better monitor-resolution can answer, but on my screen I don't see the "LEGO" logo on any of the studs. Since it has already been established in numerous court cases that TLG does not (any longer) hold any "trademark" on (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Re: Bricksmith 1.3: Here's Looking at You, Kid
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(...) Just installed this and I think it's great! I have a few questions. I was looking for a way to save each step as an image and for how to save or export a parts list to text. Are these features available? Russell BayLUG (20 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Thoughts on the UN "Racist" poster?
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(...) TLC has already issued a (URL) statement>: Lego complains about UN anti-racism poster 21/03/2006 - 14:34:47 Danish toy maker Lego today said it felt wrongly accused of being racist by a UN anti-discrimination poster showing what looked like (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | 2500 Blue Train Doors Listed!
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I have listed 2500 New Blue Train Doors, they are sold in matched pairs with glass. (URL) Thanks, Troy (20 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: A castle fan's Train plan
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(...) Anthony- Here are a couple of styles of built in stairs in train cars I have built. I'm not the first to do any of these, but they can work well, especially the one in the passenger car: (2 URLs) There several other creative methods that have (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: A castle fan's Train plan
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(...) I'd recommend just searching Brickshelf for steam train pictures. Some people (like me) are lazy and don't add anything but there are plenty of good examples out there. (...) These are almost impossible to do (that should bring some designs (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | For Calum...
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(URL) the tv ad... Dave K (20 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | e arrivato!
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oggi mi e arrivato il mio primo mindstroms. il mio unicorno. una piccola considerazione: e una miniera di pezzi speciali, oltre a quello che rappresenta. inizio domani a scoprire le mile possibilità offerte dall' rcx, per stanotte voglio gustarmi (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: Thoughts on the UN "Racist" poster?
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(...) I like the older posters the UNHCR did using minifigs a lot better. (from Jacob's site, there are other examples: (URL) ) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | proposta legofest
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salve a tutti! per che non lo sapesse io lavoro all'Auchan di Cesano boscone MI, e oggi mi hanno autorizzato ad organizzare un "piccola" esposizione di lego nel periodo meta maggio, meta giugno 2006. io ho espesso la mia gioia, nell' avere (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: A castle fan's Train plan
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(...) No, typically passenger cars have equipment(blowers, compressors, heaters, coolers, etc), tanks (air, water, fuel, waste), and other things underneath the floors. As you move forward in time, the amount of stuff increases. (an 1860s wire truss (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Spedizione Legoland....
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(...) non è mai troppo tardi per avere un'infanzia felice! (...) è agevole! (...) hai centrato, almeno per quanto mi riguarda... a legoland germania ci sono stato 4 volte, per la miniland e il pick a brick :-) e solo la quarta volta ho provato le (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: rtlToronto at the Toy, Train and Doll show, May 7th, 2006
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, C. L. GunningCook wrote: <snip> (...) Actually, I've been meaning to ask you and Oliver (and whomever else isn't participating in the other train layout)--Are you and Oliver still interested in doing a (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: New LeoCAD version
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(...) You can either add them to one of the existing categories by using the Pieces Library Manager, or right click in the pieces toolbar and uncheck the "group pieces" option. I just went through all pieces and made sure the ones that currently do (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.cad.leocad)
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| | Re: Thoughts on the UN "Racist" poster?
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(...) I'm thinking that the picture, at least to me, misses the mark. You've got 11 puzzle pieces that obviously fit together to make something (exactly what that something is is lost to me). Anyway, there is this 12th piece that obviously doesn't (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | NWBrickCon update
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(2 URLs) nwbrickcon.org> is online Hey folks, we've got great news. (URL) nwbrickcon.org> is online. Online registration is available along with ordering your NWBrickCon tee shirt, commemorative model, and/or Brick Bazaar Space. Current registration (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.loc.us.wa, lugnet.loc.ca.bc, lugnet.loc.us.id, lugnet.loc.us.or, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Space Creations
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(...) Actually, I think www.fbtb.net forums would give you a warmer welcome. Being a regular attendee of classic space forums, I can tell you that an average quality MOC coinciding with lots of Star Wars back-story will not be received with much (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Spedizione Legoland....
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(...) Uff! comunque sia vi invidio: dovrò aspettare di avere i bimbi un po' più cresciutelli per imbarcarmi in un'avventura che sa quasi di pellegrinaggio :-D Tra l'altro mi avete dato l'opportunità di scoprire dov'è Legoland in Germania: me lo (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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