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Hi folks, I just thought you all might like to know that it appears that the Factory palete has been updated to include elements in "Custom Car Garage" and the PAB selection has been updated accordingly. Perhaps most notably the minifig parts (...) (16 years ago, 19-Sep-08, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: LEGO bygge till filmpremiär:Bära eller brista-extrem ingenjörskonst i 4D-format
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På grund av att LEGO inte hann plocka ihop alla bitar och skicka upp det till Stockholm denna helg blir bygget nästa helg istället. Tänk bara att sätta tänderna i +100000 helt nya bitar i Dark Blue, Dark Red ..... Mums!! Kom och "be part of Swedish (...) (16 years ago, 19-Sep-08, to lugnet.loc.se, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw Design Pad v2.0 Beta 4
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(...) Without adding options, it would be best to have all transformations operations centered on main file origin. An extension would be to allow transformations centered on on user defined point (cf. MLCad). And to go further, transformations (...) (16 years ago, 19-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Legotrff i hst (2008)
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Då ska vi se... (...) (16 years ago, 19-Sep-08, to lugnet.loc.se)
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| | Celebrity Minifigs in the news
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(URL) of various celebrities related to the 30th anniversary. WOrth checking out! Paul Sinasohn LUGNET #115 (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Brickmania Custom Kits Again? Which Ones?
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(...) I have to agree with your assessment about doing it for the love of it rather than making any money. I'm quite certain I made something close to $1-2 an hour after all the accounting was done. Factor in CD sales and maybe I tripled my wage. (...) (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Brickmania Custom Kits Again? Which Ones?
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"Daniel Siskind" <blackened@visi.com> wrote in message news:K7EpBH.152@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) I haven't actively sold any kits in a while although I did sell two a few months ago. Just recently I received an e-mail asking me if I'd (...) (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Improving the adult image of LEGO
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"Allan Johansen" <f2k@chaotica.dk> wrote in message news:K7CFDy.4I0@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) How much more money would you spend or would you simply spend your money differently? Exrapolate how much you might spend to a 1000 people? (...) (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.general)
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"Purple Dave" <purple_daveAThotmailDOTcom> wrote in message news:K7CvLF.3no@lugnet.com... [ .... snipped ... ] (...) [ ... snipped ... ] I had breakfast with Jake one time when I was in Dallas (probably 4-5 years ago) and he told me the story of (...) (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.general)
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| | Brickmania Custom Kits Again? Which Ones?
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There's been a lot of renewed interest in my customs model kits and I've actually been considering to crank up the old production lines. I have no intention of bringing back any of my old, out-of-production kits, but all new kits from scratch. I (...) (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: LDconfig.ldr - missing colors
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(...) I have been waiting to hear from someone on this. The issues left to be worked (as I remember them anyway): 1) compile all of the colors into one file (LDConfig.ldr) 2) work out the LDRAW color IDs as best as possible and get the steer co to (...) (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Improving the adult image of LEGO
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(...) Actually, it's not a recent trend - it's a rediscovered trend. Look at the 39x Hobby Model sets from 1975 & 1976. They were clearly aimed at adults. Paul Sinasohn LUGNET #115 (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.general)
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| | Coagulations to A Very Talented First Lego League Competitor.
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(URL) (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.people.teens, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Dirty Brickster at BrickCon 2008
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(...) Good ol dirty brickster. I never miss it. And I know this if off topic, but was a draft set ever chosen for the con? (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon)
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| | Re: LDraw.org's position on the copyright of rendered images
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(...) Thank you Willy and the SteerCo for answering the question with this clear and eminently reasonable response. For reference, here is my original question: (URL) (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Improving the adult image of LEGO
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(...) Honestly, my impression of the Lego hobbyist community is that there was a boom in growth of AFOL purchasing around 1998-2000. My honest-to-god guess is that AFOLs weren't worth marketing to back in, say, 1992, but we WERE worth marketing to (...) (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.general)
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| | SR 3D Builder 0.3.2.1 Released
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New version of my CAD application has just been released as always you can find it at (URL) building Sergio (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | TRU regular price SW plus poster
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One page of LEGO in the TRU flyer good from Saturday September 20th to Friday September 26th. A bunch of SW sets, all at regular price. "FREE limited edition LEGO Clone Wars poster when you spend $50 or more on LEGO Star Wars items. Not available (...) (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: Improving the adult image of LEGO
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(...) Yes! Me and the rest of you... Well in appreciation terms anyway. God Bless, Nathan (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Is there a reference site on motorized switchs
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(...) Try these. There is some good information on all of them. (URL) FreeLUG Article on Motorized Points> (URL) Automated 9V Switch> (URL) Mark Riley's Solution> Good luck and happy building! -Dave ToT-LUG (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Is there a reference site on motorized switchs
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I thought I had found one once, but then seem to have lost track of it, HELP!! (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Gronlif’s Magic Forest
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A late congrats post. This is some excellent work JoJo. Brilliantly lavish landscaping, a nice integrated dwelling, well furnished, some nice construction details, and an all round well scaled MOC. Very good work! God Bless, Nathan (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2008-01 Parts Library Update now available
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(...) The suggestion that fixes to already released official parts should not be in the unofficial library download ((URL)) seems reasonable at first reading, but we need to consider the wider implications. For example, consider the following (...) (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Improving the adult image of LEGO
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When it comes to Lego I'm with Tim... ; ) God Bless, Nathan (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: School Buses - both hovercraft and normal
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(...) Reminds me of something NASA might do ; ) Great work on both models, I slightly favour the town version (only because of my deep hatred of space erhm, I mean only because of my personal bias against futuristic progressions that retain so much (...) (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.town, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Improving the adult image of LEGO
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(...) Both halves? Do adult fans represent 50% of the market? Cheers Richie Dulin CO Legeaux (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2008-01 Parts Library Update now available
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(...) And they may come back on Tracker as a new version when an author improves an already certified part. So often you have to deal with two version of the same part, one official and one (improved) on PT. Philo (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2008-01 Parts Library Update now available
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(...) That has always happened in the past, and will presumably happen with the next update. The parts tracker "unofficial parts library" only contains new (unreleased) files and that have been modified since the last update. This update was (...) (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2008-01 Parts Library Update now available
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Hi, I'm the author of SR 3D Builder and I was thinking that the update were including part corrections and fixes at least for the official parts, but I understand that is a huge work. Since my appl loads the whole part library to build images for (...) (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Improving the adult image of LEGO
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(...) That's exactly it. If you're looking for black 2x4 bricks, the market is flooded with them, so BL prices have settled pretty low (and the rarer parts in a given set help offset those low prices so that sellers will still find it worth parting (...) (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, let's check the math on this, shall we? Now, you'll have to excuse me, but I'm going to reorder your list by year of release, because it'll help me to make my point, but I will not be omitting anything: (...) 2008 (...) 2007 (...) 2006 (...) (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Improving the adult image of LEGO
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(...) But that's exactly the point. It's not that they weren't aware of us at all. It's that they thought we were an inconsequencial fraction of the total market, and thus not worth catering to at all. And strictly in terms of the total customer (...) (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: PnP, an NXT-based "industrial" robot
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(...) Nah. Pressing the OFF button is OK. It's when it starts pressing the ON button that you have to worry. That's why one of my personal rules is "the deadlier the robot, the shorter the extension cord." BTW, not only is the 'bot nice, simple and (...) (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Request for more stringent naming of (Complete|Shortcut) parts
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(...) NOT that it's probably relevant to the discussion one way or the other, but... :-) Back before TLG was into their current practice of saving on packaging*, the boxes had what I always referred to as the "Display tray", a plastic molded tray (...) (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Request for more stringent naming of (Complete|Shortcut) parts
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(...) Sorry. I misinterpreted your initial post. I just went back and reread it, and see that it doesn't actually say that the user used 4107488.dat, but it does seems to imply this (at least to me). (...) I had forgotten about that new format for (...) (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Request for more stringent naming of (Complete|Shortcut) parts
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(...) The point is that the model does *not* use 4107488.dat because that is not the right shape for the model...... If everyone only ever used 4107488.dat, I would not have brought it up. (...) Chris has told me how to recognize the complete parts. (...) (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Request for more stringent naming of (Complete|Shortcut) parts
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In lugnet.cad, Chris Dee wrote: <snip> (...) This is good to know. Sorry if I missed that. (...) Kevin (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2008-01 Parts Library Update now available
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(...) purely a header standardisation exercise, although minor changes were made to part descriptions as part of this. Chris (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Request for more stringent naming of (Complete|Shortcut) parts
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(...) Well, it's not shipped completely disassembled (arms and hands are pre-attached to the torso, and legs are attached to hips). However, I have certainly never seen them shipped completely assembled as a minifig (except for the glued keychains, (...) (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Request for more stringent naming of (Complete|Shortcut) parts
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(...) Whether the Header Specification is ambiguous or not, this is how I believe I have implemented the "Shortcut" filetype in the !LDRAW_ORG line. So for the 2008-01 official library onwards, grep '!LDRAW_ORG Shortcut' * > foo should be reliable. (...) (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw Design Pad v2.0 Beta 4
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(...) Since there is question about how LDDP should mirror, what is the expected behavior? If my method is unexpected then how should the process be changed? (...) Can you give me more specifics? I added this since the last beta so it might not work (...) (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Request for more stringent naming of (Complete|Shortcut) parts
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(...) <SNIP> (...) Yes, they should, but the "mistake" was made eight years ago, before we had the clarity that time brings to standards implementation. The same applies to 754-756, at least. For backward compatibility reasons we can never remove (...) (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Request for more stringent naming of (Complete|Shortcut) parts
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(...) I guess they should be, but they are not. (...) Fair enough. I didn't know they were always shipped disassembled. (...) The only files that LPub opens and analyzes are model and submodel files. All other opening and analyzing of part files is (...) (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Improving the adult image of LEGO
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(...) Well, or maybe it's me generalizing from getting lucky once. Looking at PaB, 1x14's are currently 28 cents per piece. On Bricklink, right now, I can find them for as low as 15 cents, but not in anything like the quantities I'd needed. In fact (...) (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.general)
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| | Adder-substractor module with the new 3L differential
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I read somewhere that the new differential was not good to build an adder-substractor... so I was forced to try! Here is the result: (URL) movie: (URL) (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Request for more stringent naming of (Complete|Shortcut) parts
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(...) Shouldn't 680.dat, 681.dat, and 682.dat all be in the parts/s directory? They don't represent real pieces of plastic (or rubber in this case), so I don't understand why they are modeled as such. Or do synthesized sub-parts get treated (...) (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Improving the adult image of LEGO
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(...) I think that's not quite the point that was being made. The point is that selling individual bricks to individual consumers is *grossly* more expensive for the company, not that it's cheaper, and hence would need to sell sets to keep their (...) (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Improving the adult image of LEGO
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(...) I didn’t say that they should stop selling the normal sets. I just asked for an additional service above and beyond that... But of course you have a point regarding the need for profit. Perhaps such an offer should be available only to certain (...) (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: PnP, an NXT-based "industrial" robot
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(...) Thank you. Like I said, you guys (rtl) are at least partially responsible (or to blame) for this, so I thought I'd flag it your way. (...) Well, speaking of computer angst, I only realized after the fact that PnP can literally push it's own (...) (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Improving the adult image of LEGO
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(...) Let's take a moment to ask, what's wrong with "Play"? Why do we get so defensive about it? None of my friends who play basketball feel the need to qualify "Play ball" with some explaination about how they "design and carryout team sports (...) (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Improving the adult image of LEGO
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(...) Well, if you include a margin for profit (which does seem fair), this *does* exist - it's called Pick-a-Brick, and you can do it on-line via S@H. Yes, I *know* it doesn't have all the elements, or all the colors... but it has loads more than (...) (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Improving the adult image of LEGO
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(...) YES but LEGO wouldn't be around if they don't make some profits right? How at production cost would they survive. (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Improving the adult image of LEGO
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(...) To be honest, in my opinion there’s nothing particularly "adult" about those sets - they’re just models (albeit rather impressive models) with a high brick count and an even higher price tag. What I would really like to see, is the possibility (...) (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.general)
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| | Tornato...che bell'idea l'Hispabrick.
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Scusatemi per la mia prolungata assenza, causata dalla scuola dalle successive vacanze e ancor di più dall'assenza del computer. Sono rimasto un po' indietro, qualcuno sa dirmi come faccio ad entrare sul nuovo forum...non mi ricordo ne user ne pass. (...) (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Shop @Home Phone Specials for Wednesday, September 17, 2008, to Tuesday, September 23, 2008
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Item #B112 EXO-FORCE™ Collector’s Guide Retail Price $5.99 Sale Price $.29 Item #8493 Red Ace Retail Price $9.99 Sale Price $4.98 Item #8114 Chameleon Hunter Retail Price $14.99 Sale Price $9.98 Item #8112 Battle Arachnoid Retail Price $7.99 Sale (...) (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: LDraw Design Pad v2.0 Beta 4
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(...) A welcome addition to LDDP! Now I find Mirror/Rotations a bit misleading: - Mirroring of type 1 lines is done centered on subfile origin - Mirroring of other line types and rotation of all element types is done centered on main file origin. (...) (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2008-01 Parts Library Update now available
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(...) You are right, the file is truncated. But this mistake is not recent, it already appeared in LDraw.org Parts Update 2003-02 ((URL) A corrected version is now on PT ((URL) (...) This is not a problem, "The whitespace characters allowed for (...) (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2008-01 Parts Library Update now available
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Attention please: Part 32172.dat has incomplete last line. Fix it Also part 4220.dat has TAB char separator instead of spaces... Thanks Sergio (16 years ago, 15-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Pagina Ambassadors sul sito LEGO
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E' stata aggiornata la pagina relativa al programma Ambassadors sul sito LEGO: (URL) (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Hispabrick Magazine N°2
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E' disponibile il secondo numero dell'Hispabrick Magazine. Lo potete trovare al seguente indirizzo: (URL) questo numero ci sono anche articoli in inglese. A breve sarà possibile ordinare anche la copia stampata al seguente indirizzo: (URL) (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: LDconfig.ldr - missing colors
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(...) Joshua, Scott, are there news on the new LDConfig.ldr? Sorry, I didn't have the time to keep updated on the process. Did you syncronize your efforts? PLMK, w. (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | LDraw.org's August 2008 Model and Part of the Month Winners
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Congratulations to the winners of the August 2008 Model/Part Of The Month (MOTM/POTM) contests: (URL) MOTM, Prinoth Leitwolf with Power Functions by Han Crielaard> (URL) POTM - Best Part, Electric Spybotic Brick with Trans Red Cover (Shortcut) by (...) (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | LDraw.org's position on the copyright of rendered images
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The LDraw Steering Committee (SteerCo) has been questioned about LDraw.org's policy (as expressed by the Contributor Agreement (URL) other documentation, or tradition) on third parties capitalising on the considerable volunteer time, effort, and (...) (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce) !
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| | Request for more stringent naming of (Complete|Shortcut) parts
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Hi, I want to start by thanking the LDraw Standards Committee for all their diligent work in stratifying the documentation on LDraw Header format: (URL) As thorough as this document is, it is incomplete or ambiguous in the area of describing (...) (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LDraw Design Pad v2.0 Beta 4
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Here's the file for LDDP 2.0 beta 4: (URL) Add the the ability to move/rotate lines based on grid settings (Thanks to Philo for the icons) - Reorganized many UI menus and the options dialog - Error fixing should now be fixed (again) - Other bug (...) (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Improving the adult image of LEGO
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(...) If people can't accept your hobby who cares, if they belittle you for it their not worth knowing, everybody has different habits/hobbies/interests so why be concerned with what others think if you are happy doing what you do just do it. To be (...) (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Improving the adult image of LEGO
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(...) An excellent thought, Bob. Motivational posters are a great way to extend LEGO's respectability with adults. Imagine a poster of a wall of white 2x4 LEGO bricks, with a single gold brick in the middle, with the caption "...because you don't (...) (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Improving the adult image of LEGO
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(...) An excellent thought, Bob. Motivational posters are a great way to extend LEGO's respectability with adults. Imagine a poster of a wall of white 2x4 LEGO bricks, with a single gold brick in the middle, with the caption "...because you don't (...) (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: PnP, an NXT-based "industrial" robot
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Brian, This is a nice robot. Ive not been on RTL for a bit (computer angst) but this was a nice video and robot to watch. Keep up the good work Regards Chris (...) (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Improving the adult image of LEGO
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(...) You mean like Legofan? (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Improving the adult image of LEGO
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(...) You mean like Legofan? (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Improving the adult image of LEGO
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(...) Yea, I've been sent that link a few times myself and had a neighbor describe the church also (though that neighbor was also using Bricklink before I shared that I was into LEGO). I have actually not yet had anyone react badly (even cashiers in (...) (16 years ago, 16-Sep-08, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: September 27th SMART meeting at Redmond Library
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(...) David, Are any additional details of how the SMART-Bot City robots supposed to work published somewhere? I remember that we discussed a lot of ideas about how to space intersections and whether they would be marked, but I don't remember (...) (16 years ago, 16-Sep-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Improving the adult image of LEGO
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(...) ... and 50% of the time, it's a link to Amy Hughes' church. Well, except for one guy who sends me fresh and new content. Steve (16 years ago, 16-Sep-08, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Improving the adult image of LEGO
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(...) Ouch again! Bob does bring up a good point (even if it was an obvious one.) Kids are the primary market for TLC, so it’s a good thing that no one has suggested that this change. Leg Godt, (that means Play Well, in case you forgot) Scott (16 years ago, 16-Sep-08, to lugnet.general)
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| | AW: Primer on writing NXT-G blocks?
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Well, they sometimes need to be inquired after a while - in my case, I never got an answer to my first request. Only when having asked about it on some "informal" channel, they sent it rather quickly. But that's just my personal experience and (...) (16 years ago, 16-Sep-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Improving the adult image of LEGO
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Hi, Thanks for bringing this up, it's nice to see some action on Lugnet again. It's become a lot easier fo me to be be accepted as a LEGO builder now than when I was a teen or in my early 20s. Partly that's because my peers are older and aren't all (...) (16 years ago, 16-Sep-08, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Improving the adult image of LEGO
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(...) Or even "Definitely! Don't you?" (16 years ago, 16-Sep-08, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Improving the adult image of LEGO
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(...) (URL) (16 years ago, 16-Sep-08, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Primer on writing NXT-G blocks?
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(...) Thanks for the input, guys. Right now I'm stuck waiting for NI to act on my request for the student edition of LabVIEW -- they don't seem to be very speedy. How long do they usually take? -dave (16 years ago, 16-Sep-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Improving the adult image of LEGO
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(...) This is so true Bill! Just this morning, one of the girls in our finance department stopped by my office to show me a link to a LEGO movie she had found online. I get stuff like that forwarded to me all the time from various co-workers. Even (...) (16 years ago, 16-Sep-08, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Give this a try: (URL) (16 years ago, 16-Sep-08, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) This is a little off-topic, but I gotta agree with Mr. Eaton here. I don't think it's fair to blast LEGO for "not catering to the adult market". If we do a real quick review of sets geared more towards adults in the past 5-6 years I come up (...) (16 years ago, 16-Sep-08, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I ordered a model recently (2 weeks ago), and it arrived very quickly (by LEGO Factory standards). I placed the order and received a notice the next day stating that the order had been shipped. LEGO Factory orders are shipped from Billund, and (...) (16 years ago, 16-Sep-08, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Wait, I reconsidered my answer to this... get yourself one paid project under your belt, and then you can tell people you get paid to do it. Their attitude will instantly change from mocking to jealously. (16 years ago, 16-Sep-08, to lugnet.general)
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Simple. reply with: "I used to do lots of crack, and now i build with Lego!" Steve (16 years ago, 16-Sep-08, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I think it's all in your attitude. And by "you" I don't just mean you, Scott, but AFOLs in general. If you talk about it with confidence and pride, people tend to respect that. If you talk about it with any timidity or shame in your voice, (...) (16 years ago, 16-Sep-08, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) You learn fast. (...) That's not something I'm interested in. I make my preferences known by buying the sets I like, and not buying the ones I don't like. (...) I'm unlikely to do either. And I have no idea what posters have to do with this. (...) (16 years ago, 16-Sep-08, to lugnet.general)
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BrickCon 2008 will once again feature the popular Dirty Brickster. If you want to participate, you have to think ahead to bring and wrap something[1]. If you've done it before: worth $10+ to an AFOL. No junk. Please wrap ahead of time. If you've (...) (16 years ago, 16-Sep-08, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.events, lugnet.announce)
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(...) Ouch, but taking your own advise, I shouldn't care what you say...right? Actually, I don't loose any sleep over anyone thinking that I'm childish or odd in some way because LEGO is a hobby of mine. The purpose of my post was to spur creativity (...) (16 years ago, 16-Sep-08, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I've had three Vikings and two Town guys with a box truck I built with my company's logo on it on my desk for a year or so now. Starting about a month ago, a co-worker started bringing in little green plastic army men (non-Lego) so she could (...) (16 years ago, 16-Sep-08, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Tommy, I believe the joke is in reference to the extinction of this tree: (URL) which was last seen in the wild in 2001 and now exists only in captivity. -Hendo (16 years ago, 16-Sep-08, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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Good thread with a lot of responses I relate to. I'll tag on Dave's since he scratched the most on what I wanted to add... In lugnet.general, David Eaton wrote: (snip) (...) The comparison to model railroading is one I have long used to describe our (...) (16 years ago, 16-Sep-08, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) ?????? (16 years ago, 16-Sep-08, to lugnet.general)
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Right now I don't know of any better resource than just looking at examples like Steve's. However, there is a book I wrote titled "LabVIEW for LEGO MINDSTORMS" that will be out this Fall that contains a primer on writing NXT-G blocks as well as (...) (16 years ago, 16-Sep-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Indeed. They rendered the cypress tree extinct, after all. Cheers Richie Dulin CO Legeaux (16 years ago, 15-Sep-08, to lugnet.general)
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(...) What on Earth for? I can't say I've ever found how other adults view my hobby to be a problem. I don't go out of my way to tell people what I do with my spare time. If they do find out, I just shrug it off with 'everyone needs a hobby' or (...) (16 years ago, 16-Sep-08, to lugnet.general)
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(...) What on Earth for? I can't say I've ever found how other adults view my hobby to be a problem. I don't go out of my way to tell people what I do with my spare time. If they do find out, I just shrug it off with 'everyone needs a hobby' or (...) (16 years ago, 16-Sep-08, to lugnet.general) !
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I am looking to buy a lego solar panel #9912 for a science project that my son is working on. Does anyone have one sitting around that they would consider selling to me? There are a couple available on Bricklink but they are quite pricey. I am (...) (16 years ago, 15-Sep-08, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) Thoughts? Any other ways to improve the hobby image of LEGO? When I'm looking for Lego's at garage sales a lot of the people will say they aren't selling them because their kids are still playing with them. I answer that I understand since I'm (...) (16 years ago, 15-Sep-08, to lugnet.general)
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