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I think there are two main issues, one technical and one social. The technical. The need to confirm all the postings was introduced at a time when there was a problem of people posting under other people's identities. Maybe then this heavy-handed (...) (19 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Custom sensors on the cybermaster
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Hi Jerry, (...) It's not that useless, the light sensor also works passively, it's just even less sensitive than in active mode. Jürgen (19 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.robotics.cybermaster)
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| | Re: Your LEGO Dream Set?
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(...) Lets make some shops (we'll let Mel Caddick/Brown/Krutzfeldt design them). Kerry (19 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.ambassadors)
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| | Re: First MOC after quite a while of frustration...
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(...) Hi Ben ! Good too see you in action and building again. You have given me and a lot of other AFOL's so much inspiration. Thanks also for the dat-file and the detailed comments about the building process. I share your feelings about the bley (...) (19 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Your LEGO Dream Set?
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(...) (URL) Here is a link to the corresponding brickshelf gallery> for those who are having trouble accessing MOCPages like I am at the moment. --Anthony (19 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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| | Re: Your LEGO Dream Set?
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(...) Well how about a UCS dalek? or cyberman or K-9! all from doctor who or mabye even doctor who minifig scale sets. The UK is pratically doctor who crazy at the moment. (19 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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| | Re: First MOC // black and white industrial pictures....
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(...) We have a guy in Canada that does similar stuff, but in large format colour: (URL) Cheers, Ralph (19 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Fantastic engine, Ben! I've been wanting to do one of these German (European?) style steam locomotovies for a while, but I've been putting it off for more American style designs I'm familiar with. The amount of detail you've put in is just (...) (19 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Beetle Bay
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(...) Very nice! The only thing I'd change is the color of the arms that come down from the overhead servicing hub. I'd make them white, if you have the pieces in white. I make this suggestion only because I love the contrast of the black mech (...) (19 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Yes, I feel like I need to aim into the ashcan school direction..... My main inspiration comes from a German photographer named Harald Finster and a few visits of real plants (often already broken down more or less). Check out these links as (...) (19 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Factory Airport on sale at S@H
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50% off. On back order. (URL) I don't own one, but maybe someone else is interested . . . Jonathan (19 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Per la serie "Anche questa e' andata": la legofest di Crema
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(...) messa in linea la pagina della LF, (URL) pubblicata e' l'originale o ne hai una a risoluzione maggiore? Ciao. Stefano (19 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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(...) Was gebts??? Ben, I've always known that you were my Schleimerbruder, but you are a closet "(URL) Ashcan builder>" as well???? Jawohl! Get inspired (URL) here> (...) Whoa, that's a blast from the past! One of my first MOCs, built almost 8 (...) (19 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Your LEGO Dream Set?
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(...) How 'bout something simple like a nice 9volt train caboose in the 10133 BNSF colors? (or any other way to get more dark green bricks!!) (and dark red bricks...) (and dark blue bricks...) (19 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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| | Re: K-mart One Day Sale - Set 4423 LEGO Creator Handy Box for 12.50
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Ed & All, (...) Right. K-marts price is 24.99, marked down half off to 12.49, but it is a couple of dollars off, and a good selection of bricks and.... more bricks. I didn't see the limit of 2 there until I went into the store. There were 3 left in (...) (19 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Per la serie "Anche questa e' andata": la legofest di Crema
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(...) Il legobot di Gabriele si vede in basso a destra in questa foto: (URL) (19 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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In lugnet.trains, Jeffrey Jarvis wrote: Dear Jeffrey, thanks a lot for your reply on my posting. The Model of the BR39 does not contain so much rare parts as other engines, I did before. Whenever you see the "set 7750 type wheels", the creation (...) (19 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Hello Nathan, thanks for posting your kind words! But I fear that castle would lead to even more frustration due to blay + grey castle walls. Whenever LEGO decides, that the market requests are too strong to ignore them, I I will gladly buy 20 (...) (19 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.color)
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(...) Dear John, Thanks for your kind words on this engine. I have been a LEGO Fan for more than 30 years now. For 25 years that included both the company and the LEGO toy system. Although the company has done some huge steps towards us fans, I am (...) (19 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re:SketchUp: x93 Monkey Wrench
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(...) I've been looking for a part to try my SketchUp to LDraw exporter, so I made this model. It's more a generic pipe wrench than actually based on the real part. Not sure what to scale it to, either. Maybe you can tweak it. SketchUp model : (URL) (...) (19 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New blog - MicroBricks
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Good to see you becoming even more omnipresent in the Lego world Bruce ; ) Micro isn't my faviourite area of the hobby, but if you highlight the best, I can at least get a feel (and maybe become hooked). God Bless, Nathan Visit my brickshelf (...) (19 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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(...) Dear Ralph, I agree, that the Maerklin catalogue is in fact a very helpful instrument for any (LEGO) train fan. Nowadays the internet may substitute this a lot, but still it is hard to find such a nice collection of different style rolling (...) (19 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: First MOC after quite a while of frustration... / Building over grids
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(...) (URL) show a (...) Dear Chris, the picture shows indeed a prototype sketch (a sideview of the engine, which I found on the web). I place this in a grafic program (in my case this is "Micrografx Designer 7.0" which is utterly cheap (<10Eur) , (...) (19 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: ZZZZZZZZzzz...zzz.........
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(...) I don't honestly have a vision for my area right now, so it can't be any worse :) I also don't have any idea as to how to run out to John's bridge or another layout, I'm asking for someone to tell me what the track layout should be in that (...) (19 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I do this too, for my bigger stuff as I find it hard to visualise the size without it. There is a bit of the drawing of my next model visible in (URL) this pic>. Although the drawing quality suffers with enlargment; for lego building purposes (...) (19 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) You're building? I'm organizing and sorting--after many years of, well, not, I'm getting the collection into some semblance of order... (...) I think if we came off the bottom by you the same way Jeff had it set up on the second layer (...) (19 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Laptop cooling platform MOC
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Very nice! Function all the way ; ) I must try something similar (though perhaps with some unwanted bionicle parts from the new viking sets...) Thaks for sharing and God Bless, Nathan Visit my brickshelf gallery: (URL) (pic=link) (19 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.build, lugnet.znap, FTX)
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| | Re: MCP - Mecha City Project - Thanks for the ideas
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Hey gang, Thanks for all the great ideas. I'm really looking forward to seeing this project grow. The idea of creating a war-torn, run-down city scape is very interesting to me given that Lego tends to be so prestine and uniform. Keep up the great (...) (19 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Business week article
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A friend found this article and I thought I would pass it along: (URL) one thing I found intersting was the comment on this page about the "spud" (URL) Jim F. (19 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: First MOC after quite a while of frustration...
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(...) I routinely use locomotive schematics when I build (from (URL)). I'll blow them up to 1:1 to size and away I go:-) For prototype "accuracy", it is the only way to go IMO. Which brings me to the (URL) wide version of Trolley> I'm building. I'm (...) (19 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: K-mart One Day Sale - Set 4423 LEGO Creator Handy Box for 12.50
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Chris & All, (...) I went to kmart.com and looked at their circular online (painfully slow loading) and it is 4423, you can search for lego in the circular and it will pop up there. It is in a different box than the one pictured on LUGNET, I saw (...) (19 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: K-mart One Day Sale - Set 4423 LEGO Creator Handy Box for 12.50
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(...) This looks like a nice set, and thanks for the heads-up. I was wondering, though if this is the right set number? I was in a LEGO retail store just yesterday, and an employee showed me this set on lego.com (or perhaps S@H) with a list price of (...) (19 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: K-mart One Day Sale - Set 4423 LEGO Creator Handy Box for 12.50
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(...) Ed (19 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) [...] (...) That is an excellent engine that you have built Ben. I also appreciate that you took the time to comment on it. Your models have always been an inspiration, but I think I just learned a building technique from you that doesn't (...) (19 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Little scenery: The Journey to the Center of the Earth
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(...) Neat! I like the idea of filling up a whole shelf with a diorama. I'm looking forward to seeing the other shelves. Cross-posted to .underground. Marc Nelson Jr. (URL) Marc's Creations>> (19 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.underground, FTX)
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| | Re: Any 9v train update?
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(...) Bruce, I noticed that on the S@H website, nearly everything involving curved tracks is presently out of stock, implying to me that more curved tracks are presently being made as well. Tracks are at this link: (URL) I'm not sure how many tracks (...) (19 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | K-mart One Day Sale - Set 4423 LEGO Creator Handy Box for 12.50
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To All, I have not seen this posted here, so I will do so now - K-Mart is having those one day sales again, and they have this set: (URL) half off, from 24.99 to 12.50 or so today only. It is a good selection of bricks, so I will be picking up a (...) (19 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: ZZZZZZZZzzz...zzz.........
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(...) I think I need to know a little more about what you are doing to know how to run the track for John's bridge. Then again, I guess it doesn't matter. If you can configure the track work so it can work as a closed loop on our layout, then can be (...) (19 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Lego factory sets / building instructions
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Paul S. D'Urbano wrote: [...] (...) [...] (...) Paul, It would be great if the models were built and commented on. I know the few models that I submitted are buildable, but that kid of defeats the real purpose of Factory... I mean really, if I (...) (19 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: Beetle Bay
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Hi Allister, first of all congrats on your MOC. It's really great design (...) Well up to now I thought Mecha are sience fiction. But considering this statement, it seems I was wrong. Must be fantasy. Thanks for sharing (URL) Marco> (19 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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