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(...) He probably means two clutch gears in a single axle, meshing with two other gears which also share an axle. That way (in parallel) they should slip at twice the nominal torque. (17 years ago, 18-Apr-09, to lugnet.technic)
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| | LEGO Somali Pirate set on Letterman (comedy)
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For Pirates fans. Here is the video of the LEGO Somali Pirate set. (comedy) On CBS (URL) Show with David Letterman> Also on YouTube starts at 1:25. (URL) YouTube> (17 years ago, 18-Apr-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Preserving old-school Mindstorms resources
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A very useful site is the cs university page here: (URL) of useful tutorials and instructions. It would be unhelpful to have it disappear. All of the stuff at the legos/brickos sourceforge pages, however a backup probably isn't needed of these. A (...) (17 years ago, 18-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: A couple of gear questions
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"Tim (Smith)" <tsmith7057@comcast.net> wrote in message news:KI7yAw.23B@lugnet.com... (...) You won't get twice the allowable torque. What you'll get is a proportionate increase in torque as the load on the output from the clutch gears approaches (...) (17 years ago, 17-Apr-09, to lugnet.technic)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés jeudi 16 avril 2009
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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 ---...--- ** Résumé de l'exposition à Pont-Péan, mars 2009 ** (...) (17 years ago, 17-Apr-09, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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| | Re: Mt latest MOC... well, my wife had more to do with it than I....
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(...) I'll second that! Hopefully Mom and baby will be able to get (at least some) sleep. (...) Agreed. I've found uses for Duplo later on (internal structure, laptop stands, etc.) :) (17 years ago, 17-Apr-09, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Mt latest MOC... well, my wife had more to do with it than I....
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Congratulations! April 1st - that kid is gonna have some fun with his birthday! As a three-time father (yikes!) I recommend skipping PRIMO and going straight to DUPLO. (17 years ago, 17-Apr-09, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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| | Mt latest MOC... well, my wife had more to do with it than I....
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(thanks to J for posting earlier--yes I was a little busy...) Hello world! Joshua William David Koudys entered the world on April 1st at 3:11 a.m. (URL) Proud papa holding Joshua (URL) Sleepy-head Both baby and mom are doing well! My hope (on (...) (17 years ago, 17-Apr-09, to lugnet.org.ca.obb, lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, FTX)
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| | You're invited to the THE TORONTO TOY, TRAIN & DOLL COLLECTORS' SHOW APRIL 19, 2009
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Hello everyone! Yes, it is I--papa Dave (post on that to follow...) and surprisingly I will be at a show this weekend! Details as thus-- THE TORONTO TOY, TRAIN & DOLL COLLECTORS' SHOW APRIL 19, 2009 Hall 6, The International Centre, 6900 Airport (...) (17 years ago, 17-Apr-09, to lugnet.org.ca.obb, lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment)
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| | Re: r24 - tic tac toe
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(...) Rob, Sorry for the late reply, Jeff is correct, the tiles can be had from bricklink. I have some to spare, i would be more then willing to loan you some if you would like. let me know if/when you can make it to an rtl dinner and I will get (...) (17 years ago, 17-Apr-09, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Are you interested in the 2009 NMRA train show in Hartford CT.
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Hi Everyone, NELUG is coordinating the ILTCO display at the 2009 National Model Railroad Association Train Show. We are currently looking for other clubs or AFOLs in the area who might be interested in attending. The NMRA Show is taking place in (...) (17 years ago, 17-Apr-09, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: A couple of gear questions
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(...) That's not a bug- it's a feature. The point is to protect the motor from damage. That said, I bet if you used two clutch gears you'll get twice the allowable torque. I don't recommend it- but you could try it and see what you think. (17 years ago, 17-Apr-09, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: bendable track
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(...) Yeah, about that... I guess Willy and I were both thinking at some point that maybe bands and hoses aren't really so different that they require two distinct paths through the lsynth code. So we did a quick and dirty experiment with the (...) (17 years ago, 17-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Comments on some unofficial Train parts
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(...) All battery boxes mentioned consists of several single parts like (URL) maybe (URL) all what you are looking for should be available at the PT. I hope that helps cu mikeheide (17 years ago, 16-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Thanks, I also think this is complete (good work!). I just suggested to split the "x560etc." into two parts, like: (URL) a question of what can be considered a part. Battery boxes are usually made of two "parts" in real life. I'm not sure if (...) (17 years ago, 16-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: A couple of gear questions
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(...) With the PF and NXT motors, i perhaps agree with you. Of course, you can get any torque limit you want by gearing up and then back down, it's just more awkward. (17 years ago, 16-Apr-09, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Digital Blue products : LEGO Digital Camera, Boombox and MP3 Player
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(...) In the past, our club has hidden a small cd players under the table at our displays and played "theme" music based upon the MOC'ed up LEGO scene. If the MP3 player integrated with the traditional LEGO system of bricks, I could see building a (...) (17 years ago, 16-Apr-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | TRU sale Friday April 17 to Thursday April 30
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Two week TRU LEGO sale. S@H price mentioned when it is significantly different from TRU regular price. All sales exclude clearance, no rainchecks. 20% off these particular sets 6253 Shipwreck Island $43.97 (reg $54.99) 6212 X-Wing fighter $63.97 (...) (17 years ago, 16-Apr-09, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: A couple of gear questions
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(...) For most applications it dosen't really pose a noticeable problem. However this inconsistancey is due to the internal structure and the way in which friction is achived. (URL) the only problem I have with it is that the clutch slips way too (...) (17 years ago, 16-Apr-09, to lugnet.technic)
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| | MiniBots
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Hi, my son Sandro and I started to do instructions for our minibots. Since the last upload eight are already available after moderation. (URL) The picture is a link to the gallery (as soon as moderated). Only two of them are mine, guess which :-) (...) (17 years ago, 16-Apr-09, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, lugnet.cad, FTX) !
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| | Re: A couple of gear questions
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(...) I think it's a non-issue for the most part. The torque isn't really "over a range" - it's different for different clutch gears, but for any *single* clutch gear it's pretty constant. After all, if it has a point at which it starts slipping, it (...) (17 years ago, 16-Apr-09, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: A couple of gear questions
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(...) (URL) you can see the writing, and why the torque over a range. Is a non constant-clutching like this good or bad? What do people think? (17 years ago, 16-Apr-09, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Digital Blue products : LEGO Digital Camera, Boombox and MP3 Player
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Just some updated product image and information regarding to LEGO and Digital Blue mention few months ago. Digital Blue site (URL) DigitalBlue> (URL) LEGO Digital Camera> (URL) LEGO Boombook> (URL) LEGO MP3 Player> They will be sold in certain (...) (17 years ago, 16-Apr-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Comments on some unofficial Train parts
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(...) SNIP I think you are talking about these battery boxes: your type 1 (URL) type 3 (note the opening for the contacts in the case) (URL) type 2 (URL) think this is complete. See also here: (URL) (17 years ago, 15-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Comments on some unofficial Train parts
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Hello everyone, glad to see the traffic on Parts Tracker! As a railway fan I am double-glad to see some Train-specific parts developing. However, I have noticed some issues with part naming so I think it's better to solve them while the parts are (...) (17 years ago, 15-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: SR 3D Builder user manual
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(...) The keyboard is usually much faster than the mouse, and I have all the commands memorized already (as do most people who use MLCAD, because it uses the same commands). -Mike (17 years ago, 15-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: bendable track
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(...) Hi Willy, Thanks for the explanation. I've never touched the STRING_BAND synthesis, so we'll have to let Don speak to this. Kevin (17 years ago, 15-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: bendable track [DAT]
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(...) Upps! Looks like there is a gap in communication. Don started writing code which would allow using "bendable" and "band" constraints together. A first result can be seen in STRING_HOSE + STRING_BAND at: (URL) SYNTH BEGIN STRING_BAND 19 0 SYNTH (...) (17 years ago, 15-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: bendable track
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(...) Hi Willy, "Spouse" bendables with treads? I'm not even married! LOL! I do not recognize the topic you are asking about. Kevin (17 years ago, 15-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Shop @ Home Phone Specials for Wednesday, April 15, 2009, to Tuesday, April 21, 2009.
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Item #TS-66 Batman Roof Top T-Shirt Sizes Adult M, L, XL Retail Price $14.99 Sale Price $7.48 Item #4862 Duplo Castle Ambush Retail Price $16.99 Sale Price $7.98 Item #p2156 Yoda Connect and Build Pen Retail Price $9.99 Sale Price $4.98 (Sold Out) (17 years ago, 15-Apr-09, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: SR 3D Builder user manual
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(...) Hi, I don't ever try lEdit so I think it doesn't. Anyway you should not need keyboard to position parts, and my program is totally different! Sergio (17 years ago, 15-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: HispaBrick Magazine 004
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Hi Joseph, Many thanks for your words. They help us to continue working and trying to improve our Magazine. We take note about the downloads. Let us see what can we do. Regarding the printed version, you can buy all the issues in printed version at (...) (17 years ago, 15-Apr-09, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: SR 3D Builder user manual
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(...) I will have to try it soon. Question: does the program support LEdit's keyboard commands? -Mike (17 years ago, 15-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | April 25th, 2009 SMART meeting
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Sorry for the somewhat late notice, I've been out of town and didn't realize I hadn't posted what the next mini-challenge was yet. Our next SMART meeting is on April 25th, at 2pm at DigiPen. The mini-challenge we voted on at the last meeting was to (...) (17 years ago, 15-Apr-09, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Earth Day @ Liberty State Park
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Join us this Saturday April 18th, 2009 for the Legomaster Tent display and building area on Earth Day @ Liberty State Park, Jersey City, New Jersey. (URL) Last year in 2008, we had a great turn out>, and this year we are supposed to have a nice day! (...) (17 years ago, 15-Apr-09, to lugnet.loc.us.nj, lugnet.loc.us.ny, lugnet.events, FTX)
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| | Re: Purpose of physical colour parts
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(...) Mike, if you're really looking for part to take of there are loads waiting for you: (URL) (17 years ago, 14-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: bendable track
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(...) Hi Kevin, correct. It's easier to work this out in our mothertongue. If there are problems we get back to you. Just wondering: Is there progress in "spouse" bendables with treads? w. (17 years ago, 14-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: r24 - tic tac toe
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(...) Printed, You can buy them from bricklink part number 48288pb01 to 48288pb04 (URL) can buy then in Ontario via Kevin Dixon's brick link store... (URL) Tile, Decorated) they are selling for 40 ceents a peice... Minimum buy is $1.00, and shipping (...) (17 years ago, 14-Apr-09, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés lundi 13 avril 2009
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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 ---...--- ** Des croix sur un diorama. ** par Jac le 13 avril (...) (17 years ago, 14-Apr-09, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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| | Re: bendable track
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(...) Hi Willy, Could you please translate this for me? I suspect that you are saying, yes, we can resolve this by personal email? Thanks, Kevin (17 years ago, 14-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: bendable track
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(...) Ciao Christian, se mi mandi una mail personale e spieghi piú in dettaglio cosa ti serve forse ti posso aiutare. w. (17 years ago, 14-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: r24 - tic tac toe
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Any suggestions on getting my hands on those large tiles? I tried making up the board using 2x2 and 1x4 but ran out before I was half done (though it does look fairly psychedelic) Does the hockey set have blank tiles, or are they printed? -Rob A> (...) (17 years ago, 14-Apr-09, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | changing speed of already running motor
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We are using the NXT in a research paradigm delivering food stimuli to human participants, and have utilised the NXT# thus far. I have a quick query with regard to how it would be possible to adjust the speed of an already moving motor ? e.g. if I (...) (17 years ago, 14-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: SR 3D Builder user manual
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(...) Excellent news! thanks! Philo (17 years ago, 14-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | SR 3D Builder user manual
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Hi everybody I finally published a preliminar (and not fully revised) version of the SR 3D Builder User Manual You can download from application website homepage in .PDF format (URL) this will help. Sergio (17 years ago, 14-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Convert to Wavefront object?
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(...) Yep. I created a minifig and imported the 3DS file into MeshLab. The improper BFC is very apparent. (You can see how part authors simply created one half of a part and then mirrored the primitives to create the other half.) -Mike (17 years ago, 14-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Preserving old-school Mindstorms resources
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(...) Nice to see a few of us share the interest. :-) The best I can offer for a list of patches is what I listed in the post here [ (URL) ], along with Carl's follow-up post. That list was culled from links I've collected over the years. As was (...) (17 years ago, 14-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | bendable track
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Hello, is it possible to draw a bendable track with the new track and sprocket with lsynt (the one from the bulldozer)? thank you Cristian ___...___ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4004 (20090413) ___...___ (...) (17 years ago, 13-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Purpose of physical colour parts
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In lugnet.cad, Matthew J. Chiles <mattchiles@gorge.net> wrote: SNIP (...) SNIP Reviewing is not a big deal for most parts. Please see a good (but not at the current stage) tutorial here: (URL) am with you if you like to have more reviewers on the (...) (17 years ago, 13-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: personal OMR (now 884 sets)
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(...) Sorry, the subject is wrong. It has to be 917 models! cu mikeheide (17 years ago, 13-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | personal OMR (now 884 sets)
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I just updated 8 models and added 32 new models to my OMR. All Star Wars Mini Sets (according Brickset (URL) now ready for download. You can find that at (URL) you find errors, please let me know so I can correct that. have fun mikeheide (17 years ago, 13-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Purpose of physical colour parts
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(...) Sorry Matt but this is cheap. Everyone who has the skills to author a part has all that's needed to review one. Instead of blaiming the reviewers go and ask for review rights - it might takes hours to review a part but it takes less than (...) (17 years ago, 13-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Convert to Wavefront object?
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(...) Just to clarify, the above isn't quite accurate (on two points). First of all, LDView 4.0.1 (the latest release) doesn't support this at all. Secondly, LDView 4.1 (which is forthcoming, but hasn't had even a beta release yet) will have support (...) (17 years ago, 13-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LEGO Factory / PaB Pricing Study
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(...) :sorry: Now to .lego only. Richie Dulin CO Legeaux (17 years ago, 13-Apr-09, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Swedish church unveils Lego Jesus statue for Easter
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Life size at 5.8 feet (1.78 meters) tall 30,000 bricks (URL) (17 years ago, 13-Apr-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LEGO Factory / PaB Pricing Study
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(...) I think that the "Please consider FUT if replying" was missed further back in this thread, as the current discussion doesn't seem o-t.clone-brands related. But I could be wrong. Richie Dulin CO Legeaux FUT now to .lego only, but that might not (...) (17 years ago, 13-Apr-09, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: LEGO Factory / PaB Pricing Study
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(...) I think that the "Please consider FUT if replying" was missed further back in this thread, as the current discussion doesn't seem o-t.clone-brands related. But I could be wrong. Richie Dulin CO Legeaux FUT now to .lego only, but that might not (...) (17 years ago, 13-Apr-09, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Preserving old-school Mindstorms resources
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After surfing through many sites, and (sadly) even more 404s I have been unable to find a definitive list of gcc, binutils, BrickOS etc. versions and patches that I should and could be using. Presumably everybody here has up to date versions of all (...) (17 years ago, 13-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Shock absorbers stiffness
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An approximate measurement of stiffness of different shock absorbers at full compression. (3 URLs) Philo> (17 years ago, 13-Apr-09, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Re: Purpose of physical colour parts [DAT]
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(...) Allen, I agree with you and would go a step further: I cannot see any benefit to have alias parts for transparent and opaque parts, but all this is the territory of the PT admins and I'm not going to mess around in their corner of the sandbox. (...) (17 years ago, 13-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Convert to Wavefront object?
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(...) the program. Travis informed me that LDview can also convert to 3DS and OBJ, so I'll try that. -Mike (17 years ago, 13-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Purpose of physical colour parts
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(...) Amen! Preach it Brother Allen! I agree with you on all fronts. In the good news department - a part I first submitted 3 1/2 years ago (40375) finally got certified this weekend. But the pace of output for this stuff in painfully slow, and (...) (17 years ago, 13-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Purpose of physical colour parts
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(...) Unfortunately, I missed this discussion and haven't stumbled on the magic search phrase to dig it up again. It strikes me that creating hard-colored parts for every part/color permutation Lego ever has or ever will produce has a number of (...) (17 years ago, 13-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Preserving old-school Mindstorms resources
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Hi all Lately I've noticed a lot of old-school Lego Mindstorm resources are starting to disappear from teh webz. I've blagged about wanting to preserve this stuff here: (URL) the-brick If anyone knows of any resources you think should be maintained (...) (17 years ago, 12-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: The Brick Testament: Revelation
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(...) Wow, It's been a while since last time. Anyway, nice as ever, I especially liked the two last chapters, you kind of caught the mood. I don't know about the son of man-thing though. Isn't there any better way to illustrate his double-edged (...) (17 years ago, 12-Apr-09, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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| | Re: The Brick Testament: Revelation
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(...) Wow, It's been a while last time. Anyway, nice as ver, I especially liked the two last chapters, you kind of caught the mood. (17 years ago, 12-Apr-09, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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| | Re: MoonBase Corridor System
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(...) Hi Mike, feel free to use what ever you find usefull. Please send me a pic of what you build. Happy Easter Marco (17 years ago, 12-Apr-09, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Purpose of physical colour parts
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(...) I couldn't find anything revelant by searching LUGNET, but I do see sense in this... though if enough numbers were found, parts/ directory one day would contain more of PC parts rather than real parts. Wouldn't it make more sense to at least (...) (17 years ago, 12-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Convert to Wavefront object?
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(...) Michael Heidemann's Inliner should do the job fine! (URL) Philo (17 years ago, 12-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Convert to Wavefront object?
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(...) That's what I suspected. Do you know how to meake all the parts/primitives inline? -Mike (17 years ago, 12-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Purpose of physical colour parts
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(...) We had discussion about this several times (Please search Lugnet). Because TLG uses these days the colored numbers in the instructions, we try to bring also this number to the user. The AIOI lets you choose to install these parts or not. I (...) (17 years ago, 11-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Convert to Wavefront object?
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(...) Sorry about that, the program may only work with the geometry so all the parts/primitves would probably need to be inlined. It also may need to have a DAT extention rather than MPD. (17 years ago, 11-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Purpose of physical colour parts
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What are the physical colour parts such as (URL) this one> for? Wouldn't it be more disk-space saving to rather have a list of coloured part numbers? I have my hands on quite a lot of them through building instructions, and I think that if one made (...) (17 years ago, 11-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | The Brick Testament: Revelation
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WARNING: This post contains links to MOCs illustrating subject matter that may be considered inappropriate for children. Happy Easter! (URL) The Brick Testament> begins its illustration of the final book of The Bible today with the first four (...) (17 years ago, 11-Apr-09, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.town, FTX) !
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| | Re: LEGO Factory / PaB Pricing Study
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(...) Not sure if I'm reading your meaning exactly here, but: 1. Many parts are not available on Bricklink in the quantities required - you end up having to buy from multiple stores, which ends up being just as pricey, especially for people not in (...) (17 years ago, 11-Apr-09, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Convert to Wavefront object?
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(...) there are no error messages. here's the command line I'm using: 3dto3d minifig.mpd /if9 /of19 /dminifig.obj /ov /ip"J:\ProgsWin\LDraw\parts" /ip"J:\ProgsWin\LDraw\p" I'm assuming it has something to do with it not finding the parts/primitives. (...) (17 years ago, 11-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Convert to Wavefront object?
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(...) Textures are more widely supported in programs where users actually interact/play with 3D models, though. So you are limited basically to rendering still images or animations. Stefan Garcia wrote: (...) animations, however. This is what I want (...) (17 years ago, 11-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: MoonBase Corridor System
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(...) Wow, that is really neat! I have some projects in mind for which this would really be useful... -Mike (17 years ago, 11-Apr-09, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Orion or Carsten: please contact me regarding LDDP
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(...) Thanks Willy. That explains a lot. I knew he was in the navy, but thought I'd seen more posts from him relatively recently. (...) That's OK. My suggestion requires coding, so my contacting Carsten won't be too useful if he's no longer coding (...) (17 years ago, 10-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | new moc: luxury bathroom
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i'm often asked if what i build is my "dream home". i have to say that parts of each building have something i'd love to experience living in. (2 URLs) same goes for this bathroom. (4 URLs) the two-leveled luxury bathroom features double sinks, (...) (17 years ago, 10-Apr-09, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Banner Test
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Hey all, Just testing to see if the banner below works properly. If you see it, click it to make sure it's working. Have Fun! C-Ya! Rich BrickFair, Volunteer Coordinator (URL) (17 years ago, 10-Apr-09, to lugnet.events.brickfair, FTX)
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| | Re: Convert to Wavefront object?
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The materials are imported properly into Blender, but whether they would be exported as .obj is a guess on my part. Materials are better in this case, not textures. As for Blender being a "pig" program, it's a 9MB download that is completely free, (...) (17 years ago, 10-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LEGO man Prank Call (comedy)
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For all the LEGO fans out there. Video is 2:48 minutes long. (URL) LEGO Prank Call> Enjoy. (17 years ago, 10-Apr-09, to lugnet.animation, FTX) !
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| | YAMATO Battleship: Built out of LEGO
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Project: YAMATO It is finish, over six years in the making. Wow! Japanese Yamato battleship built by Jumpei Mitsui using LEGO elements. His website (Japanese) link of the Yamato. (URL) Yamato> Video of the YAMATO. Please note the video is 4:48 long. (...) (17 years ago, 10-Apr-09, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Orion or Carsten: please contact me regarding LDDP
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(...) Orion is on duty. (...) No he doesn't - Orion is the only coder right now. I was able to contact Carsten to sign the Third Party Agreement for the AIOI though - let me know if you want his new address anyway. w. (17 years ago, 10-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Part title suggestions
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(...) 48989 vs 55615 - I agree that the names should be more similar 30244 vs. 2412b and 54200 vs. 50746 - This is contrary to what has been agreed before. Where this exists in the existing official library (e.g. 2456 vs. 44237, 3960 vs. 30065) we (...) (17 years ago, 10-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Convert to Wavefront object?
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(...) I was hoping not to have to install another pig application package just to do a conversion. Also, are the materials imported properly? Ideally they would be converted to textures since they are more common. -Mike (17 years ago, 10-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Convert to Wavefront object?
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(...) 3Dto3D bt Thomas Baier works pretty well as it has support for converting between LDraw DAT files to Wavefront OBJ as well as several other formats. You can get it at: h(URL) (17 years ago, 10-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Convert to Wavefront object?
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You could import the files into Blender3D and export them to .obj format. It probably won't look very pretty though. -Stefan- (17 years ago, 10-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Convert to Wavefront object?
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Is there a free means of converting LDraw models to Wavefront object (*.obj) files? Thanks! -Mike (17 years ago, 9-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Orion or Carsten: please contact me regarding LDDP
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(...) I haven't gotten anything from Orion. Carsten, do you still work on LDDP? I seem to remember you don't, but if you do, send me an email, and I'll let you know what my suggestion is. --Travis (17 years ago, 9-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: POV-Ray help needed
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(...) I forgot the beginning of this thread, and misunderstood your "15% faster" comment. I see now that you're referring to the flattened mesh2 data for the part. I was mis-reading it to be that mesh2 is 15% faster than mesh (which I know you never (...) (17 years ago, 9-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: POV-Ray help needed
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(...) Thanks for the info. I have implemented mesh2 support in LDView's export as part of my new curve smoothing support for POV exports, but haven't completely removed the mesh support (although it is currently hard-coded to use mesh2 whether or (...) (17 years ago, 9-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: POV-Ray help needed
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(...) Hi Travis, I've finally picked up the povray export project again, You were right I needed to calculate the horizontal fov from the vertical one used in OpenGL. Also you may be interested in knowing that I now also have a basic "hierarchical (...) (17 years ago, 9-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LEGO Factory / PaB Pricing Study
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(...) Huh. Ironicly,my experience (limited though it is) is just the opposite. I'm involved in some associations where the complaint is the other way around: that LEGO panders to the US market (a large one to be sure) but doesn't pay nearly as close (...) (17 years ago, 9-Apr-09, to lugnet.lego)
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| | Re: Part title suggestions
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(...) Thank you very much for pointing on that. We should have all a quick look at the mentioned issues, as all the parts are currently on the PT and everybody (who has reviewer rights) should comment for this. In general I agree to all three items (...) (17 years ago, 9-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO: Castle Adventure Traveling Exhibit
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(...) SNIP Can we get a list of proposed dates and locations so hte LUGs can start working on partnering plans with the local hosting venues? Paul Sinasohn BAYLUG LUGNET #115 (17 years ago, 9-Apr-09, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Factory / PaB Pricing Study
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In lugnet.lego, Jordan Schwarz wrote: -snip- (...) I believe that this is one of the biggest downfalls in the LEGO(R) Company's organizational structure which is the lack of representation here in the US. Denmark has always had a stronghold over the (...) (17 years ago, 9-Apr-09, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Uncommon use of Bionicle masks
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LLL, Inof presented this house over on 1000steine, note the unusual awnings at the first floor: (URL) (17 years ago, 9-Apr-09, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: LEGO Factory / PaB Pricing Study
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Now if Ldraw and Bricklink developers would get together this whole issue would be moot. (17 years ago, 9-Apr-09, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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