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Hello, Most of you haven't heard from me for a while..... I have been busting my butt trying to finish the Lego CD. I said a year ago I would be done soon... and here I am... still finishing it. The saying "Biting off more than you can chew" is very (...) (20 years ago, 4-Apr-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
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Here's a little picture I did .. (apart from the truck - credit for that goes to my boyfriend) (URL) (20 years ago, 4-Apr-06, to lugnet.build.mosaic)
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| | Re: Smurf Mosaic
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(...) wow that's a great Smurf, nice idea, maybe Papa smurf next (20 years ago, 4-Apr-06, to lugnet.build.mosaic, FTX)
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| | Re: 9V Train Motor Being Discontinued?
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(...) Dear Rafe, thanks for your story here. It was more worth than just 2 cent for me! I only hope some people at LEGO see, that metal track trains attract lots of people and that these often enough end with a 100.000 ++ collection of bricks. And (...) (20 years ago, 4-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: RX-78-2 Gundam
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(...) I'd also suggest making the backpack a bit smaller, and in dark gray. The top isn't any higher than the top of the chest (excluding the collar) and only covers two thirds or so of the back itself. :) Jeff (20 years ago, 4-Apr-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Announce: MUGS 2006-3
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Hi all, The Melbourne LEGO Users Group (MUGS) will be hosting a get-together on Sunday April 9th. Here are the details: Date: April 9th Time: 10am-6pm Location: Amaroo Neighbourhood Centre, Chadstone. Maps can be found (URL) here>. Activities: MOCs, (...) (20 years ago, 4-Apr-06, to lugnet.loc.au.vic.mel, FTX)
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| | Re: One good message (kind of) from LEGO at last... (April Fool's Day)
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(...) Ben, Your year 2000 April Fools prank will always be my favourite. I loved those "sets". Play well. Tim Strutt (20 years ago, 4-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: What is your favorite MOC of all time?
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(...) This may be the one you're thinking of: (URL) models, even if he does cut baseplates ;) ROSCO (20 years ago, 4-Apr-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | link bestiali !
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Ciao a tutti, nel caso vi fossero sfuggiti: (URL) "BESTIALI" !!!! ciao, Matteo. (20 years ago, 4-Apr-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: 9V Train Motor Being Discontinued?
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(...) Without actually having seen the numbers in regards to the company's sales and manufacturering costs, I'm not sure any of us can say definately that that's the reality. We can speculate a lot, but without some hard numbers, I don't think we (...) (20 years ago, 4-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: What is your favorite MOC of all time?
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(...) Impossible to name one... Casper van Nimwegen's worker houses were a great inspiration for me to start building better and more detailled buildings : (URL) Yrizarry's Japanese Restaurant (URL) building techniques, the amount of details, just (...) (20 years ago, 4-Apr-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 9V Train Motor Being Discontinued?
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(...) Here's a reality check. The way LEGO makes train track is realy just wrong. It's way more expensive than it needs to be. Result - LEGO really can't afford to keep producing the existing 9v track and hope to remain profitable. The way I see it, (...) (20 years ago, 4-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains)
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Years ago, maybe even on rec.toys.lego, there was a link to a european website of someone who had created a lot of traveling carnival rides, the kind that break down and travel on trucks. These things were amazing! More recently, I was amazed by (...) (20 years ago, 4-Apr-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 9v Train status report.
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(...) Hrrmpph. If its like their other factories, it will be useless and overpriced. But if they allow fan designed sets by contest(like the micro stuff) and make the price point decent($40.00 for an engine, $25.00 for a large bit of rolling stock, (...) (20 years ago, 4-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: RX-78-2 Gundam
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It is nicely done - great proportion and articulation. I have to comment on the beam saber, assuming you are trying to match the original design: The beam part should be trans-red or trans-orange, and the saber hilt should be the white pieces (...) (20 years ago, 4-Apr-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: 9V Train Motor Being Discontinued?
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(...) Ok, I'll add my $0.02 to the pile. Summary: Lego trains are the reason there are now 100,000 Lego bricks in my Lego room upstairs. Details: When I was a little kid in Wisconsin in the 1970s, we had HO trains in the basement (didn't (...) (20 years ago, 4-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 9v Update (ILTCO's involvment)
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No slight taken as I mentioned it was purely an internal LEGO thing, lack of proper passing of the torch. Hopefully we can all keep the 9v train line alive. SteveB (20 years ago, 4-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Better late than never, BrikWars 2005 is out of the gate
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(...) Cool! It's about time. I'm really pleased with what you've done to Structures, Squads, and I heart the Unit Cards. Be sure to make those available for printing out at 100%. But NO tech levels? All weapons reduced to categories? Now those (...) (20 years ago, 4-Apr-06, to lugnet.gaming.brikwars, FTX)
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| | Re: 9v Update (ILTCO's involvment)
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(...) Steve, For what its worth the Ambassadors were not trying to step on any toes. A question was possed and someone specifically asked for the Ambassadors help here on LUGNET. I took that call for help and used my resources to get permission to (...) (20 years ago, 4-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Hinge 1x2 top and SNOT
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(...) This could create curves, arches or wheels by introducing angling on the sides. Using a technic plate at an angle, this is usable for stair steps. (20 years ago, 4-Apr-06, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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