 | | Legomaster Interview - Tonight 7/10/08 10pm EST
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Fellow Lego Fans, I have been asked to let everyone know that I am going to head back down to the (URL) Loud Idiots> online radio show tonight @ 10pm EST for a full length interview. I visited the talk show studios back in April 2008. Part of that (...) (16 years ago, 10-Jul-08, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.people, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub 4 Web page
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(...) Thank you Kevin. I have a few comments though. 1) The VC runtimes are only 1.7MB (less than 1MB when compressed in Inno) so I see no reason not to include them, especially as most XP machines will need them anyway. 2) In the preferences, when (...) (16 years ago, 10-Jul-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | NXT-G print to text?
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In Robolab, one could print to file and read the program methods in text. Is there an equivalent in NXT-G? One of my students has this enormous NXT-G program that is hanging up every workstation we try to debug it in. It has about a dozen loops and (...) (16 years ago, 10-Jul-08, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Bluetooth quirks
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(...) To answer the question, we're using NXT-G. But that was last week's summer camp. This week seems to take 3 pairs of Bluetooth battlebots just fine. (16 years ago, 10-Jul-08, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: LPub 4 Web page
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(...) Hi Allen, So, can I twist your arm to put in some of those obtuse MLCad defined meta-commands like ROTSTEP and BUFEXCHG, that we talked about at "House of Bricks"? The are vital parts of making rich building instructions. Kevin (prod, prod) (...) (16 years ago, 10-Jul-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub 4 Web page
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(...) Gentlemen, Thanks so much for the feedback! I'm quite happy about it myself. Thanks, Kevin (16 years ago, 10-Jul-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) I agree wholeheartedly. It's a great tool and a vital addition to the Mac LDraw ecosystem. Jim (16 years ago, 10-Jul-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Kevin, the publication of LPub for Mac OS X is a momentous event. Thanks so much for all your hard work. I can't wait to go home and try it out! Allen (16 years ago, 10-Jul-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw History updated
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In lugnet.cad, Willy Tschager wrote: (snip) (...) The article in BrickJournal was written by Geoff Gray, so he deserves the recongnition much more than me:-)! Joe (...) (16 years ago, 10-Jul-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub 4 Web page
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(...) IE corrects that automatically. Firefox no... Philo (16 years ago, 10-Jul-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub 4 Web page
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(...) This is fixed! Strange that it worked for me...... Kevin (16 years ago, 10-Jul-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub 4 Web page
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(...) Great news! Thanks Kevin! BTW, there is a problem in Win version link, it should be (URL) of (URL) Enjoy! (...) For sure! Philo (16 years ago, 10-Jul-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: New Crane...
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(...) Ross, Check these pics out....the first one is my favorite "boom flex" photo, and the second one is a pic of the boom flexing on the original cc8800-Twin! Enjoy... (URL) (16 years ago, 10-Jul-08, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: New Crane...
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(...) You mean plastic bends?? Dang :) I actually have had a good bit of success stiffening up the boom. The majority of the give in the boom was coming from the point where the sections are pinned together. The axles were flexing and letting the (...) (16 years ago, 10-Jul-08, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: OFFERTE SPECIALI PER BALLABIO
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(...) si grazie, portami gli altri tre. Ciao! Matteo (16 years ago, 10-Jul-08, to lugnet.org.it.itlug.market)
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| | Re: New Crane...
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(...) Ha! You're not a real crane builder till you've had at least one massive failure ;) Looking good Alvin. And you'd be surprised how much steel booms bend - check out this pic for an example: (URL) up a piece of paper along it to see the bend) (...) (16 years ago, 10-Jul-08, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: OFFERTE SPECIALI PER BALLABIO
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Ciao Matteo Ho tutto meno il 4954 te li porto?? (16 years ago, 10-Jul-08, to lugnet.org.it.itlug.market)
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| | Re: TLG wants your input on the CITY line
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(...) This is a pretty good idea, actually. In fact, there's a whole range of possibilities in heavy industial designs. I'd be nice to see an oil refinery (or any kind of ore refinery). They have a certain utilitarian beauty to me, and I'm not just (...) (16 years ago, 10-Jul-08, to lugnet.town)
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Monorail! Gotta have monorail! I'm shure others would agree. I've already posted this suggestion to Bricklink's forum in the thread of the same name, but I've changed some details after running many a mind-based simulation to find improvements over (...) (16 years ago, 10-Jul-08, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Dave & Stacy's LEGO Lair
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So incredibly jealous! The last time I moved my collection the collective response of my movers (mates hired for pizza) was "you had all that... in there?!" Congrats on your great space. I expect a follow up shot full of MOCs ; ) God Bless, Nathan (16 years ago, 10-Jul-08, to lugnet.storage, FTX)
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| | The best 4x4xfar.
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They may be slow, uncomfortable and leak oil, but at least they have character: (3 URLs) Cheers Richie Dulin CO Legeaux FUT .town (16 years ago, 10-Jul-08, to lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.adventurers, FTX) !!
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| | LPub 4 Web page
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Hi gang, I have a web page for LPub 4. (URL) I've decided to upgrade LPub to an official release, LPub 4.0.0.0. The page identifies a windows 32 bit version, and a MacOSX Leopard universal binary. The page also has a link to the microsoft visual (...) (16 years ago, 10-Jul-08, to lugnet.cad) !
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| | Re: TLG wants your input on the CITY line
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Now, why am I suddenly reminded of the movie "Pleastantville"? (sorry, Tommy...just a bit of fun... I say go with the sewer theme, but instead of a full plant, try to work things like sewers, and maybe ways to integrate bathrooms into everything. (...) (16 years ago, 9-Jul-08, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: My New MOC: Guitar Hero III Special Edition SG Controller
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(...) Mariann, hey, it's great to hear from you again! (met you at BW03, Todd Thuma and I were hanging out in the model shop with Bill for a while). If you're still in Southern California, NMRA is next week at the Anaheim Convention Center!! (16 years ago, 9-Jul-08, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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| | Re: Dave & Stacy's LEGO Lair
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(...) Wow, that's a great space. You've got at least twice the building room as we do! Of course, now we're going to expect even more from you... ;-) JohnG, GMLTC (16 years ago, 9-Jul-08, to lugnet.storage, FTX)
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| | Re: 8297 cool new parts
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(...) Thanks for the compliment! Yes the 8297 has great and cool new parts. Mainly the new differential seems to be a good move forward, and kept hidden from our eyes until the new sets release. Many analysis from available photos and videos were (...) (16 years ago, 9-Jul-08, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Repost Image of Guitar Hero Guitar
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Hi again, Here's the image for those of you that want to see the Guitar Hero Guitar (2 URLs) Thanks Dave ;) (16 years ago, 9-Jul-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | Re: OFFERTE SPECIALI PER BALLABIO
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ciao! Mi puoi tenere da parte questi, se ti sono rimasti? (1x tipo) Grazie! (...) (16 years ago, 9-Jul-08, to lugnet.org.it.itlug.market)
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| | LEAHI in Midweek - Honolulu weekly paper
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(URL) LEAHI>, the Lego Enthusiasts Association of Hawaii, was just (URL) featured in MidWeek>, a widely distributed weekly paper. Enjoy Roy (16 years ago, 9-Jul-08, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Re: TLG wants your input on the CITY line
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(...) Ok-here is my suggestion and I am sure it will be met with a bit of derision, but civilization began when people began living in towns. They shed their nomadic ways and congregated into towns. There were two main pre-requistites that had to be (...) (16 years ago, 9-Jul-08, to lugnet.town)
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| | 8297 cool new parts
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If you go to the very excellent www.technicbricks.blogspot.com you will find the building instructions for all three of this summers technic models. Looking at the instructions for the 8297 off roader I noticed that we will get a new differential (...) (16 years ago, 9-Jul-08, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: My New MOC: Guitar Hero III Special Edition SG Controller
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(...) Awesome! This is a very trick MOC. Iloveit...iloveit...iloveit! You managed to capture the size and proportions of the original perfectly and I love the use of the link pieces to do the strap. Very innovative. Guitar Hero is way (...) (16 years ago, 9-Jul-08, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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| | PowerFunction
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ciao se qualcuno fosse interessato a dei componenti Powerfunction (Ricevitori, telecomandi, Motori XL e M e cavetti di prolunga) , a Ballabio io e Fabione ne avremo da vendere... ciao Cristian (16 years ago, 9-Jul-08, to lugnet.org.it.itlug.market)
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| | Dave & Stacy's LEGO Lair
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Hi all! We've been hard at work not only build MOC's, but also renovating our "LEGO Lair" as we have managed to outgrow it in the past couple years. The new space sports modular tables based on the PNLTC and BAYLUG designs. In addition, we are (...) (16 years ago, 9-Jul-08, to lugnet.storage, FTX)
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| | My New MOC: Guitar Hero III Special Edition SG Controller
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Hi, for those of you who don't know me, I used to work at LEGOLAND California as a Master Model Designer. I've been out of the LEGO scene for a while, but its time that I got back in. I posted this up on MOCpages a couple of weeks ago, but for those (...) (16 years ago, 9-Jul-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | Belgian RR X-ing signal for single track
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Hi all, It doesn't need to be always a large MOC to post, and i wanted to build this for a long time. Just uploaded a small MOC (2 versions) from the Belgian Railroad crossing signal for single track. Sorry, but I needed to cut a antenna to fix the (...) (16 years ago, 9-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: New Crane...
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(...) faired better than my crane that decided to go down in a hurry (serious operator error :-) (URL) Looks like I need to stiffen up the boom a bit... (...) You're dealing with a relatively shallow boom cross section (i.e. thickness is fairly thin (...) (16 years ago, 9-Jul-08, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: question on mindstorm capabilities for competition
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(...) Lucky you. :) Sounds like you have everything you need. (...) With 2 light sensors, two possible (there are other) strategies are (1) Try to keep both sensors on the line. When one goes off, turn towards the one still on the line. If both go (...) (16 years ago, 9-Jul-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: question on mindstorm capabilities for competition
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Hi all, Just wanted to follow up on this! It turns out that Tim (the 10y/o) has a next door neighbor with a complete RCX mindstorm kit with tons of extras from being in a lego robotics club in the past. The neighbor was nice enough to give us all of (...) (16 years ago, 9-Jul-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Shop @Home Phone Specials for Wednesday, July 9, 2008 to Tuesday, July 15, 2008
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Item #XB3076 Star Wars The Complete Saga Video Game - Xbox 360 Retail Price Sale Price $49.99 $39.99 Item #8924 Bionicle Maxilos and Spinax Retail Price Sale Price $29.99 $19.99 (URL) Comes to Washington, D.C. Labor Day Weekend. Join us for what is (...) (16 years ago, 9-Jul-08, to lugnet.market.shopping, FTX)
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| | Re: TLG wants your input on the CITY line
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(...) The thing is, with the now somewhat more realistically sized cars, trucks, planes and so on the scale of the old monorail is even more off-scale than the 6wide trains always were. Thus, any kind of monorail would have to be in the range of (...) (16 years ago, 9-Jul-08, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Actually, for the 3d set I was more thinking along the lines of the monorail system lego sold in the early '90's (like the 6399 Airport Shuttle). Something like this takes up less space than a train layout and is different. I know there are (...) (16 years ago, 9-Jul-08, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Trek in ABS
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(...) Good work, and on a very convenient scale, too. Hope BS gets done with moderating the remaining folders soon - I'm really curious now. Regards, Jerry (16 years ago, 9-Jul-08, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Ouch! If this is true, it will mean a serious blow to my budget :/ Cheers, Matija (16 years ago, 9-Jul-08, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Peter Parsons - very sad news
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(...) Peter and I have had our differences and I'm very happy we managed to resolve them before his untimely death. My condolences to all his family, friends and those who knew him well. It is always sad to see someone go before their time. Tim (16 years ago, 9-Jul-08, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: New Project: DatShine, LDA, PreL3P, L3P, And POV Involved
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(...) Yeah! SW Light sabres! Such a brilliant idea. The only bad thing is: Why didn't I think of it first? ;) You may wish to replace the official 16-edged minifig heads with perfetly round ones, too: (URL) more in my 16 replies to this post: (URL) (16 years ago, 9-Jul-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LETGUI new version 0.1.0.14
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(...) Thanks for this ever improving nifty tool! Philo (16 years ago, 9-Jul-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Call for Presentations at BrickCon 2008
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BrickCon 2008 is looking for any talks, roundtables, and special activities you would like to see at the Con this year. This year we have two classrooms adjacent to the exposition hall with real, hard walls so we anticipate being able to program (...) (16 years ago, 9-Jul-08, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.events, lugnet.announce) !
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| | Dark brown vs. old brown?
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Could someone please point me to a picture of a dark brown brick next to an old brown brick? I can't find anything on Brickshelf or Flickr. Thanks! Marc Nelson Jr. (16 years ago, 9-Jul-08, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | Re: New Project: DatShine, LDA, PreL3P, L3P, And POV Involved
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(...) Hi Tore, I've done some digging with Datshine again recently and came up with some interesting renders using your program. I was able to make the equivalent dat files in other colors by copying your examples in L46 and L47 to make a light blue (...) (16 years ago, 9-Jul-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Some statistics based on the new read counter
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(...) Your less active hours are somebody else's more active ones I guess :P ROSCO (16 years ago, 9-Jul-08, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: How to properly "announce" MOC's
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(...) Don't lie! I've heard you say many other things... ROSCO (16 years ago, 9-Jul-08, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Trek in ABS
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(URL) (16 years ago, 9-Jul-08, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: TLG wants your input on the CITY line
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As others have said, we need places for minifigs to live, but at lower price points than the gorgeous greengrocer/market st/etc. My suggestion will be America-centric but could be obviously modified to be Worldwide Name of Theme: City Homes Short (...) (16 years ago, 8-Jul-08, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Agreed. Actually, I heard Pierre Normandin was actually working for lego now. They should just give him free reign, and I'll be a happy, if slightly poorer camper. (16 years ago, 8-Jul-08, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | LETGUI new version 0.1.0.14
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The new version of LETGUI ((URL) is now available. Also the updated version of some tools (mentioned here (URL) are in the installer. Some improvements also to LETGUI. Also Edger is now included, some default values for Coverer and Intersector are (...) (16 years ago, 8-Jul-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: TLG wants your input on the CITY line
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(...) Scott Lyttle (16 years ago, 8-Jul-08, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: TLG wants your input on the CITY line
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(...) Kinda like a "LEGO City Suburb", or more like a LEGO..."town" (yes, the throwback is intentional), as opposed to "LEGO City"... so LEGO City is more urban, "LEGO Town" would be more suburban or "small town" setting. (...) I'd particurlarly (...) (16 years ago, 8-Jul-08, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: TLG wants your input on the CITY line
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(...) Maybe more like "Mass Transit"? That could be lumped in with the trains (trains, buses, and a streetcar could use train track, just have some additional plates to place between the tracks to cover the railroad ties.. Additionally, I'd love to (...) (16 years ago, 8-Jul-08, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: TLG wants your input on the CITY line
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(...) I read in another post that Lego wants to target the sets to 5-10 year-olds. I have 2 kids in that range. There are several MOCs on Brickshelf that I think Lego could take inspiration from and produce sets. My two boys agree that they would (...) (16 years ago, 8-Jul-08, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Auburn Boat Tail
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Really, really gorgeous! You captured the simplicity and depth of the design all on a very tight scale. It is great to see a MOC that simply impresses without mentioning any detail. I'm glad you took the time to buld this. Thanks for sharing and God (...) (16 years ago, 8-Jul-08, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: How to properly "announce" MOC's
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(...) I admit I have been tempted to do so already - however the figures as of now are not exactly meaningful yet. This may change rather quickly. I wouldn't want to encourage anyone to "click their posts up the charts" though, if you see what I (...) (16 years ago, 8-Jul-08, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: How to properly "announce" MOC's
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(...) This is a fantastic implementation! Nicely done! Will there be a future state where we'll get nightly (or weekly) listings for top read articles akin to the top sets list that LUGNET automatically generates? Just wondering. Keep up the (...) (16 years ago, 8-Jul-08, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: How to properly "announce" MOC's
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(...) This is a fantastic implementation! Nicely done! Will there be a future state where we'll get nightly (or weekly) listings for top read articles akin to the top sets list that LUGNET automatically generates? Just wondering. Keep up the (...) (16 years ago, 8-Jul-08, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Auburn Boat Tail
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(...) Wow, that beauty would have been difficult to model on a larger scale to begin with - your job of adapting it to minifig scale was even more difficult... ...and solved successfully. Thanks for sharing, Jerry (16 years ago, 8-Jul-08, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw History updated
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(...) Great work, Willy. Tim (16 years ago, 8-Jul-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LEGO 7996 Crossover Motorized and Ballasted - Pictures
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(...) Mark: Nice work! This solution looks really trick. Another great use for the pneumatic system. I wish this stuff was still being produced (although I'm interested to see how the rams work on the new excavator set). I also like you ballast (...) (16 years ago, 8-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Some statistics based on the new read counter
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All, I just thought you might find this interesting: I have been monitoring the read counter for articles since its implementation last night (local time in Germany ;) ). Out of a grand total of approx. 693,000 articles in the LUGNET newsgroup tree, (...) (16 years ago, 8-Jul-08, to lugnet.general)
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| | LDraw History updated
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Hi folks, the "Contribute" page at LDraw.org (URL) said: LDraw History Finish filling out the LDraw History pages. Approx. 1-2hrs time needed to complete task. Posted 01.02.02 To be honest I was a little worried about the estimate - especially after (...) (16 years ago, 8-Jul-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce) !
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| | Ldraw tools updated. [DAT]
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I have improved my (URL) Coverer> utility: Corrected a bug that sometimes created an extraneous - and wrong - conditional line. Added -b bias parameter The bias parameter allows to control how the surface spreads on the two support lines. For (...) (16 years ago, 8-Jul-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX) !
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| | Re: Library Specifications for Canvas Parts
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(...) Canvas - (URL) - thickness: 1LDU looks too thick to me. Have we settled on this, or is it (...) I measured the Wagon Cover with a caliper rule (as I always do) and 0.4 mm seamed to me much more appropriate than 0.2 mm. (...) IMHO a flat (...) (16 years ago, 8-Jul-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: How to properly "announce" MOC's
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(...) All I can say to that is People Are Weird (16 years ago, 8-Jul-08, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Asking for RIS 2.0 patch under Windows XP
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Dear Linmix, Yes, I did sent these message to Lego before I wrote this request, but get nothing yet. Anyway, I have some solution found in google, but not Lego MindStorms solution. Thanks for all your guys. Alan (...) (16 years ago, 8-Jul-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | ItLUG LEGO fest Ballabio: magliette
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Ricordo a tutti coloro che sono in possesso della maglietta Itlug di portarla a Ballabio. Grazie Ciao (16 years ago, 8-Jul-08, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: How to properly "announce" MOC's
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(...) ;) You know, I actually could have implemented some kind of reload-blocking, but then again I'm pretty sure the effort wouldn't pay off in the long run. I have just checked the read counts collected since the update, and it lists some 16,000 (...) (16 years ago, 8-Jul-08, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: TLG wants your input on the CITY line
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Name of Theme: LEGO Neighborhood (kind of a lame title but that's the concept) Short description of Theme: Provides everyday aspects of minifig life Three possible sets for Theme with descriptions: 1) An apartment building or row of townhouses 2) (...) (16 years ago, 8-Jul-08, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: AW: Assembly line feeding system
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(...) Thank Rafe Donahue, actually. I learned about it from a math/statistics-based presentation about GBC modules he gave at BrickWorld 2007. If he didn't discover the technique himself, he at least documented it. :) I haven't seen a lot of modules (...) (16 years ago, 8-Jul-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Auburn Boat Tail
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Making vehicles at minifig scale that are reasonbly realistic is hard to do. Well done! (16 years ago, 8-Jul-08, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: First National Bank of LEGO
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(...) Jonathan: Thanks for the kind words and the great idea! I agree that a foundation layer of light bley would probably set it off nicely. The good news is that (as you pointed out) it is quite sturdy. Thus, adding a two-plate layer to the bottom (...) (16 years ago, 8-Jul-08, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: How to properly "announce" MOC's
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(...) I'm sure if someone did chastise you for so doing, some (URL) drive-by troller> would leap to your defense. ;) Cheers Richie Dulin CO Legeaux FUT .o-t.fun (16 years ago, 8-Jul-08, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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| | Wal-mart exclusive set in August
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July August LEGO club magazine has a one page ad for 7678 Droid Gunship. Box at the bottom says: "Available this August at Wal-Mart stores only!" Looks like Wal-mart in Canada is getting some exclusives to re-launch them carrying LEGO. (16 years ago, 8-Jul-08, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | LEGO Pharoah display in Halifax, NS, September to January
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In the LEGO Club magazine for July-August 2008. "Discover the secrets of the LEGO PHAROAHS! Nova Scotia'a Hands-On Science Centre. Discovery Centre September 19th, 2008 to Jan 4th, 2009 * Enter the burial chanber to see treasures from the great tomb (...) (16 years ago, 8-Jul-08, to lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.ns, lugnet.loc.ca.ns.hal)
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| | Re: How to properly "announce" MOC's
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(...) I'm sure no-one will abuse the system by reloading the page multiple times to increase their own view count either. Just like no-one self-spotlights now ;) (16 years ago, 8-Jul-08, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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Some years ago, my wife and I toured the (URL) Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum> with her grandfather. I had always appreciated older cars, but have really never found any to be truly impressive until I visited this particular museum. I was blown away (...) (16 years ago, 8-Jul-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: How to properly "announce" MOC's
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(...) Holy @#%$!!! That was some fast programming, sir. I bet this may even surpass invite to chat in terms of Great Contributions to the Community! (...) lol - amen to that brother!! (16 years ago, 8-Jul-08, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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Just a quick update: I've taken a little time and implemented a read-counter for web access to news posts. Now for display of individual articles you will find a new header line saying "Viewed: X times" - it should show the actual views of that (...) (16 years ago, 7-Jul-08, to lugnet.general, FTX) !
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| | Re: Library Specifications for Canvas Parts
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(...) Yeah, MLCad has rendering problems at 0.5LDU. Oddly, it seems to be able to cope with a 0.25LDU thick sticker. Alex (16 years ago, 7-Jul-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: TLG wants your input on the CITY line
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(...) Hello Tim, How about a theme like "Inner City Transportation". Besides trains, planes and automobiles, people in cities tend to use other means of transportation to get around. I am thinking of the following types of sets: 1. A taxi or (...) (16 years ago, 7-Jul-08, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Asking for RIS 2.0 patch under Windows XP
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You should contact LEGO directly through the contact form on their website. They are always very helpful and may be able to point you in the right direction linmix 2008/7/7 Morten H Pedersen <mhp@dadlnet.dk>: (...) (16 years ago, 7-Jul-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Asking for RIS 2.0 patch under Windows XP
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I have probably the same problem? Get the error message: A critical error has occurred. You may be running out of memory, or you may need to reinstall Robotics Invention System 2.0 I think a Windows update patch has done the thing, since it used to (...) (16 years ago, 7-Jul-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: How to properly "announce" MOC's
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(...) Well, it's difficult to find something to add to your posts, you know! But rest assured, a post by Gary Istok is definitely read, many times. (16 years ago, 7-Jul-08, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LEGO 7996 Crossover Motorized and Ballasted - Pictures
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(...) I have altered the crossover controls to provide for an all-straight state by tweaking the springs in the switching rails. I have also motorized the crossover in such a way that it can be set straight, TL-BR or BL-TR with two switches (both (...) (16 years ago, 7-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.parts.mod)
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| | Re: Library Specifications for Canvas Parts
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(...) A note on the thickness. If the part is BFC'd, then in theory there is no minimum thickness that is required to prevent rendering artifacts. In reality, you'll get artifacts on renderers that don't have BFC support if you go too thin. If (...) (16 years ago, 7-Jul-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: TLG wants your input on the CITY line
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I have posted the form, so that you can download it for reference: (URL) (16 years ago, 7-Jul-08, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Library Specifications for Canvas Parts
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So...I'm working on the two tepee covers (this is gonna take a while... :-) and: - 'Cloth' (Peeron) or 'Canvas' (Bricklink) ? - thickness: 1LDU looks too thick to me. Have we settled on this, or is it still up for grabs? I'm trying 0.5LDU right now, (...) (16 years ago, 7-Jul-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | to sell or not to sell my collection
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I had them in storage for several years, and now that I've had them out for several months, they just don't bring me the joy they used to. Should I decide to sell, what do you think they might be worth? Here's my list: (URL) are a lot of (...) (16 years ago, 7-Jul-08, to lugnet.market.appraisal)
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| | Re: First National Bank of LEGO
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(...) I love it. Great job. It looks incredibly solid as well. Dark bley and sand green work really well together. I like the solution to the roof line at the corner of the building too. The only thing I might have done differently would have been (...) (16 years ago, 7-Jul-08, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: How to properly "announce" MOC's
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(...) When I first starting getting into building with legos as an adult and realized that I was not the only guy (or girl) over the age of 30 who still played with Lego®, I was into numbers like that after I found Legnet. I would always look at how (...) (16 years ago, 7-Jul-08, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: New Crane...
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(...) Well, after many dissapointments over the weekend: (URL) finally got to raise the main boom on this creation: (URL) like I need to stiffen up the boom a bit... (URL) sill is going to be a fixed jib added for the lifting test, and a Luffing jib (...) (16 years ago, 7-Jul-08, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: How to properly "announce" MOC's
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(...) Gary, I am one of those silent people who has never shown appreciation for the wealth of information you share here. I look forward to seeing posts from you because your posts usually contain interesting information, sometimes thought (...) (16 years ago, 7-Jul-08, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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