|  |  | Her first Technic model 
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| Hi all, During the past two years my second daughter has been asking me (begging actually...) repeatedly when I would finally give her permission to let her build one of my sets. You see, the children have never played with my lego; they have their (...)   (18 years ago, 11-Jan-08, to lugnet.people, FTX)  ! 
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|  |  | Bricking Bavaria (München, Germania) 
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| A Monaco di Baviera si tiene il consueto Briking Bavaria, quest'anno però sarà particolare perché ospitato dalle Riem Arkaden (il centro commerciale dove è presente il LEGO Store): attorno ad esso ruotano circa 340.000 persone e la mostra sarà (...)   (18 years ago, 11-Jan-08, to lugnet.org.it.itlug) 
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|  |  | Wunderwelt Modellbau (St. Pölten, Austria) 
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| Il LUG Austriaco organizza per il 28-30 marzo una mostra LEGO a St. Pölten (circa 60 Km da Vienna), in occasione di una mostra di modellismo: ci saranno quindi non solo LEGO, ma anche modellini di automobili, treni, aerei... La mostra LEGO coprirà (...)   (18 years ago, 11-Jan-08, to lugnet.org.it.itlug) 
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|  |  | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés jeudi 10 janvier 2008 
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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 jour. Nouveaux articles ---...--- ** Rencontre AFOL dans l'Est ** par THIERRY MEYER, (...)   (18 years ago, 11-Jan-08, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug) 
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|  |  | Edmund Hillary, 1919-2008 
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| May 29, 1953.... (URL) A vig hardly sums him up... but is a way to mark his passing. Richie Dulin    (18 years ago, 11-Jan-08, to lugnet.build.vignette, FTX)  !! 
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|  |  | Re: Inchworm 4 
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| Kevin! I am astounded by your recent creations. I intently tried to figure out how you made these inchworms. The gates that you are so well known for are so elegant yet complex. The work you have done is a marvel to see! So you were able to get a 1 (...)   (18 years ago, 11-Jan-08, to lugnet.technic) 
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|  |  | Town Plan 10184 
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| Well, got mine today and had to put one together. The positives are 1. it simulated the old town plans with new elements. 2. there are a lot of hard to get parts in it (garage parts and brushes). 3. There are new elements that I have not seen (...)   (18 years ago, 11-Jan-08, to lugnet.general) 
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|  |  | Re: new moc: water tower house 
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| Oh my goodness! I really enjoyed seeing this creation! I am impressed by all the details and the overall structure. Wow. Great work....and very unusual! Thank you for the write up too, it is always fun to learn about why a builder chose to create. (...)   (18 years ago, 11-Jan-08, to lugnet.build.arch) 
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|  |  | Re: Braiding Machine 
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| Ahhh, so that is how you made this! I admit being facinated by braiding machines. The spool feeders and all the rotary motion is quite interesting. I liked seeing your web site too! Eric Sophie    (18 years ago, 11-Jan-08, to lugnet.technic) 
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|  |  | Event named, date set 
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| Coming Sept 5th-7th 2008. Bellaire, OHIO BrickShow 2008 (or the official name 2nd annual World Record Plastic Brick Show) 4597 Noble St. Bellaire, OH 43906 740-671-8890 We are building the planning team now. So if you want to be on board please (...)   (18 years ago, 11-Jan-08, to lugnet.events) 
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|  |  | Lions Gate Models town and city kits available for a limited time 
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| To all my fellow LEGO Town and City aficionados: Happy 2008! For a very limited time, I'm making Lions Gate Models custom kits available for ordering again. This will probably be the last time until October 2008, so if you're needing a kit - order (...)   (18 years ago, 10-Jan-08, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade) 
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|  |  | Re: A library of movement 
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| (...) This isn't specific to the examples you give, but there is a great PDF book called "Tora no Maki" that visually catalogs a tremendous variety of Technic connections and mechanisms. You can download it here: (URL) Again, it probably won't (...)   (18 years ago, 11-Jan-08, to lugnet.technic, FTX) 
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|  |  | Re: Lego Shop at Home 
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| (...) All orders to the UK come straight from Denmark so I would think that ones to Australia would too. Tim    (18 years ago, 11-Jan-08, to lugnet.technic) 
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|  |  | Re: Lego Shop at Home 
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| (...) See the reply I sent to Geoffrey Hyde, rather than repeating it here... BTW - How often do you guys order from S@H? Do you think it's worth approaching Lego with some form of petition requesting a postage model where Lego handle the order (...)   (18 years ago, 10-Jan-08, to lugnet.technic) 
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|  |  | A library of movement 
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| Forgive me if this has been done before or if any one can point me to a good reference Technic web-site, I appreciate it. But if not, here's the idea. Please let me know what you'll think: THE CHALLENGE: Our LTC is thinking about going to the NMRA (...)   (18 years ago, 10-Jan-08, to lugnet.technic, FTX) 
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|  |  | Re: Lego Shop at Home 
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| (...) I understand the point you've made - buy a bunch and save on postage. This is the same for most online purchases. Not a new concept by any means. However, when you live in a small country town where the number of Lego enthusiasts singularly (...)   (18 years ago, 10-Jan-08, to lugnet.technic) 
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|  |  | Re: SR 3D Builder Version 0.2.2.9 Available 
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| (...) On the homepage of this project ((URL) the requirements are written: Hardware * A graphic accelerator with T&L and Vertex Shader 2.0 capabilities * 256 MB Ram (for huge models like the ones in the photos 1GB is highly recommended)    (18 years ago, 10-Jan-08, to lugnet.cad) 
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|  |  | Re: Lego Shop at Home 
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| (...) G'day Ian, I hear ya mate! :) A number of us in Sydney group our Shop@Home orders together so that the 'high' shipping cost is spread out amongst a number of us. We normally break the shipping down based the 'size' each person contributes to (...)   (18 years ago, 10-Jan-08, to lugnet.technic) 
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|  |  | Re: Braiding Machine 
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| (...) Thanks for the note, Chris. Yeah, Theo's mechanism is quite interesting. I'd love to see someone throw a genetic algorithm at it for optimization. I'd bet that there is a combination of link lengths that is significantly superior to anything (...)   (18 years ago, 10-Jan-08, to lugnet.technic) 
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|  |  | Re: Braiding Machine 
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| (...) Hi Dave, Thanks for the note. My original plan for the braid was to form the core of braided eight-strand rope. In fact, the machine was inspired by this braider: (URL) may still build the eight-strander but I've lost a bit of momentum and am (...)   (18 years ago, 10-Jan-08, to lugnet.technic) 
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