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(...) Can we lobby to be one of the thirty? If so, consider me to be lobbying. Rafe (15 years ago, 3-Jun-09, to lugnet.events.brickworld, FTX)
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| | Re: 8879 no more?
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(...) Dave, I noticed this myself. What I did in response to this was get a deal on clearance from TRU for the 4958 (Monster Dino). I has just about everything in there for power functions, except the 8879 controller. What it did have was, the 8885 (...) (15 years ago, 3-Jun-09, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Toronto Tic Tac Toe - Game Board
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Sorry thhis is OT but I'm looking to contact Derek R. I want to know something about is upscale red space minifg X 12 in particular I'm looking for a hint to the legs moviment. If you gona read this please you can contact me at this email address (...) (15 years ago, 3-Jun-09, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Assembled parts, ~ and categories
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(...) I'd like to chime in on this but from another perspective: non-consistency when using the tilde. The synthesized hose parts 755 and 756 have the tilde, but the hose end parts 750 and 752 do not. Apply this logic to the minifig chain and the (...) (15 years ago, 3-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LEGO Queen Mary 2 - Making-of
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LLL, in case you're interested in seeing how to stack a ton of LEGO bricks to build a 21-feet-long cruise liner, please see this video: (2 URLs) May be the Keel King with you! -René (15 years ago, 3-Jun-09, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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| | LEGO® Brand Drives Growth in Licensing Portfolio
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PRNewswire LAS VEGAS, June 2, 2009 Continued Strength of LEGO® Brand Drives Growth in Licensing Portfolio -Premier construction toy brand inspires children of all ages to build creativity into their day with all-new licensed products- Licensing (...) (15 years ago, 2-Jun-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | New 'Combo Build' Contest at Brickworld 2009!
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(URL) Share - Learn - Explore - Discover The Brickworld Team is excited to announce a slight schedule change for Brickworld 2009. In place of the 'Speed Build' that was to be held on Friday night, we will be trying a new 'Combo Build' event. The (...) (15 years ago, 2-Jun-09, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.events, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains, lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, lugnet.people, FTX)
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| | Re: Id like to announce the birth of WHaCKaLuG.
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(...) Some insight - Please indulge a mini background essay. My LUGS by JRB AKA, the abridged version of my personal story plus bonus and hopefully useful WIP FAQ. Hi, my name is Janey, and Im a construction toy addict. History... A long long long (...) (15 years ago, 2-Jun-09, to lugnet.loc.ca.on, FTX)
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| | Id like to announce the birth of WHaCKaLuG.
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Hey there Ontarians! You read it right, join me in cheering for the birth of WHaCKaLuG. Its real, its alive and its ready to play. Jenn The-Brick-Chick and I, Janey "Red Brick" are combining forces and tag teaming this new LUG and are "desperately (...) (15 years ago, 2-Jun-09, to lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.on)
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| | Re: LDraw.exe removed from distribution?
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(...) I usually delete these notes so I'm not sure checking for them would be correct (unless I'm the only one who does this). -Orion (15 years ago, 2-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | 8879 no more?
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It looks like the 8879 remote and the Emerald Night collection have dissappeared from the Lego shop web site. Has the 8879 remote been pulled already? I did a little searching, and saw that it sends incremental instead of absolute throttle commands (...) (15 years ago, 2-Jun-09, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Brickworld - Registration Update
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(URL) Share - Learn - Explore - Discover On-line registration for Brickworld 2009 is now closed. We are thrilled to have 556 registered attendees coming to this year's event. We think you will all make this the best Brickworld event yet!!! If you (...) (15 years ago, 2-Jun-09, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.events, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains, lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, lugnet.people, FTX) !
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| | Re: You have a friend in me...
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(...) LOL, oh ok... errr, wait, no I cant, since I will not be there. Janey "Red Brick" (15 years ago, 2-Jun-09, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Perth Model Railway Show - This weekend!!
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(...) How did it go. the bridge hold? Hope to see some pics soon (15 years ago, 2-Jun-09, to lugnet.loc.au.wa.per)
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| | Re: LDDP current version - BUG?
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(...) Yes, this version is working like expected. Thanks for your quick fix. cu mikeheide (15 years ago, 1-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.exe removed from distribution?
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(...) A good way would be to check for the presence of note*.txt files in the models directory. These show which updates have been installed. Prior to 2008-01 ths naming convention was NOTEyyrr.TXT, but now it is NOTEyyrrCA.TXT where yy is the (...) (15 years ago, 1-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: You have a friend in me...
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(...) Yes, well, you can make up for all of this by buying me several large and expensive LEGO sets at Brickworld... (15 years ago, 31-May-09, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: LDraw.exe removed from distribution?
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(...) Thanks, I think I'll check for the parts and p directories to determine if it's any kind of library, and issue a warning if ldconfig.ldr is missing when the official library is expected. ps: Sorry I responded slow, I'm having troubles posting (...) (15 years ago, 1-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDDP current version - BUG?
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(...) LDView doesn't check for duplicate lines at all, and probably won't ever, since it would add too much time to the loading time. Yes, you could disable that one warning, but I think that too many of my users leave all warnings and errors (...) (15 years ago, 1-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | New Wagons
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After going to a railway exhibition last Saturday (23rd May), and buying some books, I was inspired to build some new wagons. I added working features, such as opening doors, as well as SNOT lettering. Most are real UK wagons but I also did the (...) (15 years ago, 31-May-09, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | TRU sale til June 4th, Bionicle, Agents and Creator
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Late posting, sorry. Sale May 29th to Thursday June 4th. 20% off all Bionicle, Agents and Creator. Also $30 off the Twilight ($89.97, reg $119.99), for anyone who didn't get it half price from S@H awhile ago. They also have half a page of exclusive (...) (15 years ago, 1-Jun-09, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Open Studio Event - Sean Kenney
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Visit to see Sean Kenney's LEGO Art Studio at the Long Island City Arts Center, Open Studio Event - May 30 - 2009 (2 URLs) MOCpages> (URL) Brickshelf> We had a great time! Sean was super nice too. He has (1) a lot of LEGO! Enjoy! Eric Sophie (...) (15 years ago, 1-Jun-09, to lugnet.events, FTX) !
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| | Re: LDDP current version - BUG?
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(...) It seem the author uploaded a fix so I can't check with that file. I did find a bug that may have cased you problem though. I've uploaded a new version of LDDP that fixes this bug: https://sourceforge....a=23750809 -Orion (15 years ago, 1-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDDP current version - BUG?
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(...) You're right. I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote the above. I'll look into the problem. -Orion (15 years ago, 1-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | DATHeader version 2.0.4 for WINDOWS, LINUX and MAC
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And here is the next release of DATHeader. The following happend: 1) Some more adjustments to recognize part type correctly 2) If EDIT commands used the current file will be unloaded. 3) Notify about wrong colors now without separate messages 4) (...) (15 years ago, 31-May-09, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDDP current version - BUG?
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(...) I don't think so, as the official document ((URL) reads like this: Line Type 2 Line type 2 is a line drawn between two points. The generic format is: 2 <colour> x1 y1 z1 x2 y2 z2 Where: * <colour> is a number representing the colour of the (...) (15 years ago, 31-May-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDDP current version - BUG?
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(...) Concave is not the same as co-planer. Co-planarity checks to see if all the points in the quad lie on the same plane (with in some tolerance). You can have a co-planer, concave quad. (...) Those are illegal type 2 lines as they have 3 points (...) (15 years ago, 31-May-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: You have a friend in me...
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(...) As for proof, I (...) I guess I misspoke in my excitement to see building bricks in the ad. Cheers, Janey Red Brick (15 years ago, 31-May-09, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: LDDP current version - BUG? [DAT]
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(...) I just checked an LDView reports concave quads. Can somebody explain that to me, as I believed it can be checked with planarcheck, but co-planarity is ok. One other thing. At part (URL) LDDP does not find any double lines. But there are double (...) (15 years ago, 31-May-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Brickworld Castle contest - Fling Things!
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As many people have seen from the (URL) website>, we will again be doing the Fling Things contest. We will be using the same standard brick "missile" to fling. The missile is a simple stack of 2X4 bricks in two layers: two 2X4 bricks side-by-side (...) (15 years ago, 31-May-09, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.build.contests, FTX)
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| | Re: LDDP current version - BUG?
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(...) I just checked this part. The 2 lines in question look to be concave in LDView. -Orion (15 years ago, 31-May-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LDDP current version - BUG?
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I just came across the following problem. For part (URL) LDDP generate 2 error regarding planarity. Planarcheck does not. Anybody with similar experience? cu mikeheide (15 years ago, 30-May-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Looking for dimensions of LEGO bricks.
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In lugnet.cad, Michael Horvath wrote: <SNIP> (...) Yes, the original design was British, so used imperial units. Chris (15 years ago, 25-May-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: You have a friend in me...
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(...) Just saw that same trailer (in 3D) before UP last night. They're not specifically identified as LEGO bricks, mind you, nor do they show anything that looks like sort of LEGO sets that we've been led to expect. As for proof, I would think the (...) (15 years ago, 30-May-09, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | LOCATION CHANGE!! Re: May 30th, 2009 SMART meeting
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I just drove past DigiPen and there's a strong probability that the building is unavailable today. Fortunately I've been able to reserve meeting room #1 at the Redmond Regional Library, so we'll meet there instead. Redmond Regional Library Meeting (...) (15 years ago, 30-May-09, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Looking for Guelph (*and area) Builders???
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Well, since I have just recently moved into this lovely city of Guelph and I am not working, and missing all my friends and family... COMBINED with the fact that I actually started building again. I am looking for anyone in the Guelph area, that (...) (15 years ago, 30-May-09, to lugnet.loc.ca.on)
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| | You have a friend in me...
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I have heard a few rumours about Lego and Pixar getting together... but this might be the first bit of proof I have seen. My son called me in to watch a YouTube trailer for the upcoming (read:eventually appearing in Theatres near you) for Toy Story (...) (15 years ago, 30-May-09, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: The Blacktron ULOW-1x: Unmanned Listening Outpost, Winterized
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(...) Great use of tread links and the 1X2 slope with the slots. (URL) Brian Darrow> would be proud. David (15 years ago, 29-May-09, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés jeudi 28 mai 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 ---...--- ** Artisanat et briques LEGO à Palladuc (63) ** par (...) (15 years ago, 29-May-09, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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| | The Blacktron ULOW-1x: Unmanned Listening Outpost, Winterized
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(URL) ULOW-1x: Unmanned Listening Outpost, Winterized> The Blacktron Intelligence Agency has recently set up a prototype listening station (ULOW-1x) on the ice covered proto-planet PP1. Sources close to the BIA have confirmed the rumor that this (...) (15 years ago, 29-May-09, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: DATHeader NEW as .NET application (version 2.0.1)
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(...) I use it sometimes in the middle of part design to make sure I have a valid part header and be able to get smooth shading with LDView. Philo (15 years ago, 29-May-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Suggestion: !TYPE line
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(...) Sounds logical, but if we would have that in this way we just could go and hard color the part. At this point you should not be so narrow to the real part. In our part files there should be only the geometric data defined. The color is defined (...) (15 years ago, 29-May-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Suggestion: !TYPE line
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LEGO parts may vary in colour and pattern, but they are always of the same material. For example, there is no such thing as a Technic Axle 7 made of rubber or the Axle Flexible 7 that's solid, is there? Here I got an idea: have parts identify what (...) (15 years ago, 29-May-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw.exe removed from distribution?
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(...) I'd go with ldconfig.ldr. LDraw.exe is now legacy software (and is in fact not complaint with the current spec). Since ldconfig.ldr is per spec where color are defined, it should always be present in a 100% complaint distro. -Orion (15 years ago, 29-May-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: DATHeader NEW as .NET application (version 2.0.1)
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(...) If I would make the "Old Header" and "New Header" larger it would not fit good to smaller desktops. I am thinking of make to whole window able to maximise. That would then help both of us. At present DATHeader is designed to output a file that (...) (15 years ago, 28-May-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: DATHeader NEW as .NET application (version 2.0.1)
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Hello, I would like to have larger components "Old Header" and "New Header". Often the header does not fit to them and you have to scroll down both lists. And, please, make replacing "0" comments by "0 //" as option. This feature kill mlcad hide (...) (15 years ago, 28-May-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDraw.exe removed from distribution?
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Hello all, I just downloaded the complete.zip and discovered LDraw.exe is no longer present. I take this is a step in creating the 100% CA distro? Anyhow, I always used LDraw.exe to validate (in LD4DStudio) if a folder is indeed the library's root. (...) (15 years ago, 28-May-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Looking for dimensions of LEGO bricks.
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(...) I was aware of the Kiddiecraft connection, and that TLC bought all the remaining rights from them at some point, but I thought the original Automatic Binding Bricks were a legally licensed copy/variation of the Kiddiecraft bricks. If they (...) (15 years ago, 28-May-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Looking for dimensions of LEGO bricks.
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(...) That's hardly some freak coincidence. The original 1949 Lego brick was an unauthorized copy of the Kiddicraft Self-Locking Building Brick, invented by an Englishman named Hilary Page. When the Christiansens got samples of them from the British (...) (15 years ago, 28-May-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Looking for dimensions of LEGO bricks.
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(...) Center-to-center, of course. The stud diameters differ by 0.028 between the drawings too, creating a diff of the gaps of 0.046 (but the length of the parts are exactly the same). (...) Well, the drawings are of parts, not molds (and the parts (...) (15 years ago, 27-May-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Looking for dimensions of LEGO bricks.
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(...) That much? Wow. I figured the distance between two studs should be closer to 3mm, since a LEGO tile is (in theory) 3.2mm thick, and it will sorta fit between two studs. Or were you refering to the center-to-center distance? Anyways, one thing (...) (15 years ago, 27-May-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Limited Bricks
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Hello, During the last BeLUG event, i had quite a good time building with only a limited amount of bricks. This is it: (URL) Cheers, Didier (15 years ago, 26-May-09, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | Re: Mechahub Civilian Mecha Contest
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(...) The contest deadline has been extended to 6/6/09. Extending the contest was not a decision that was taken lightly. The pros and cons were weighed and in the end, you can't satisfy everyone. It was felt that the community would benefit with an (...) (15 years ago, 27-May-09, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Perth Model Railway Show - This weekend!!
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Hi All, This Long Weekend (May 30th - June 1st) the Perth Adult Lego Society is displaying it's biggest train and town layout yet at the Perth Model Railway Show. Come along to the Claremont Showgrounds to see our world record bridge attempt, lots (...) (15 years ago, 27-May-09, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.au.wa.per, lugnet.events)
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| | Re: Oh man.
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Wow! Good to hear from you after all these years. I'll never forget the sight of your monster ship packed up in sections and squashed into the back of your car at Brickfest ;-) You can still contact me about roller bearings when you want ;-) (note (...) (15 years ago, 26-May-09, to lugnet.loc.us.or, lugnet.loc.us.or.eug, FTX)
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| | Re: Looking for dimensions of LEGO bricks.
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(...) I'm not at liberty to say too much, but I have actually looked at three real drawings of LEGO parts, and not even TLC seems to be sure what the dimensions should be - I've seen the distance between two studs dimensioned as 8 mm on one part and (...) (15 years ago, 26-May-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés lundi 25 mai 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 du salon de la maquette et du modélisme de (...) (15 years ago, 26-May-09, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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| | Re: Looking for dimensions of LEGO bricks.
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(...) I tried the experimental approach, built a long line of 23 x Technic beams 16 assembled with plates and measure the total length: 2937mm With 8mm distance between studs, the theoretical value is 2944mm, error is -0.23% With 5/16" distance (...) (15 years ago, 26-May-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Looking for dimensions of LEGO bricks.
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(...) Huh. I was about to point out that a 48x48 baseplate is 15" per side, but it turns out it's actually just shy of 15-1/8". Conversion gets you 381mm based on a 15" baseplate, and 384mm based on an 8mm 1x brick, and that 3mm difference is just (...) (15 years ago, 25-May-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New LDraw Tool for Parts author: Rulers and Calipers
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(...) Not for the moment - it was a scratch build yesterday evening, after I saw yours, and it is now on display in the window of my cubicle at work, just next to the display stand with 'real' calipers and micrometers and such. I might take some (...) (15 years ago, 26-May-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: New LDraw Tool for Parts author: Rulers and Calipers
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(...) Nothing wrong (you nicely prove it!). Except that I wanted the probe of the depthmeter to be as thin as possible (thinner than an axle). If you have some constructions details of your calipers, that would be appreciated! Philo (15 years ago, 26-May-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Re: New LDraw Tool for Parts author: Rulers and Calipers
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(...) That's a nice build! Thanks for the rulers and the idea! But what's wrong with the traditional caliper design? With that you have both the width and depth measuring possibilities in the same tool: (URL) (15 years ago, 25-May-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Looking for dimensions of LEGO bricks.
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(...) YRW :-) In a book of LEGO history I read, it was explicitely stated that the original inch based measures were changed to mm. I don't remember which year, but it was a long time ago. The distance between two studs is 8 mm. (15 years ago, 25-May-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Looking for dimensions of LEGO bricks.
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(...) When I measured a 32 X 32 baseplate it was 10 inches. From my understanding 1 LDU is about equal to 1/64 inch. The Lego company though would surely be able to give you precise meaurements. (15 years ago, 25-May-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Brickworld - Build On The Spot Challenge
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Register me too. This should be a lot of stressful fun. I will bring my own NXT and parts. Can we make Steve Hassenplug participate with one hand tied behind his back? Or blindfolded? This build might be my last opportunity to use the gyro sensor (a (...) (15 years ago, 26-May-09, to lugnet.events.brickworld)
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| | Re: Oh man.
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(...) Glad to have you. Advance welcomes to Oregon. Look me up when you get settled, I'm in Portland. Ben Fleskes (15 years ago, 26-May-09, to lugnet.loc.us.or, lugnet.loc.us.or.eug)
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| | MacNQC 4.05b, RCX 1.0 and OS X 10.4.6 can't program the brick
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Hello with a query from the past... I used MacNQC for ages on other computers but I find now that I can't write a program out to an RCX 1.0 brick using MacNQC 3.04 or 4.05b. I can send the firmware with no problem but when I try to download a (...) (15 years ago, 22-May-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | RCX 1.0, MacNQC 4.05b OSX 10.4 can't program the brick?
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Hi, a blast from the past... My iBook running 10.4.6 has no problems downloading the firmware from MacNQC 4.05b but when I try to download a program I always get "communications error" and it fails. I've tried both the USB IR tower and the serial IR (...) (15 years ago, 21-May-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Frustration with NXT-G 1.1
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Doug, I share your frustration very much. as a child and a teenager i was a Lego Technic freak. In the last year i wanted to go back to my "roots" of enjoyment, and decided to buy the mindstorms NXT kit as a starter, because it seemed to me a cool (...) (15 years ago, 25-May-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | ItLUG LEGO fest Ballabio: aggiornamenti 7
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- Disponibile la locandina definitiva E' disponibile la locandina definitiva di Ballabio sia in due risoluzioni. Ringrazio per il prezioso lavoro Andrea Volpi e Antonella Carabelli. Download da YouBrick: (URL) dal sito dell'evento: (URL) stampate, (...) (15 years ago, 25-May-09, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: Oh man.
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(...) Welcome back, Lindsay! Between the (URL) Truman> and the (URL) Yamato>, you've finally got some competition! Hope to see another of your big ships one day. Marc Nelson Jr. (15 years ago, 26-May-09, to lugnet.loc.us.or, lugnet.loc.us.or.eug, FTX)
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| | Oh man.
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Hi, everyone. Well, I've been off the radar for a few years, finishing dissertation, teaching, and now I'm moving to Eugene in August so I'll be part of the "Northwest" bunch and not the "Northeast" so much. I guess this means I can go annoy Frank (...) (15 years ago, 25-May-09, to lugnet.people, lugnet.loc.us.or, lugnet.loc.us.or.eug) !
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| | Man those are pretty.
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Hey Dan, nice to see you're still putting out these beauties. LFB (15 years ago, 25-May-09, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, FTX)
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| | Re: June 2009 Brickmania new kit releases
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More images... (URL) The fifth prototype model from which my SdKfz 251 kit was developed. There are some slight difference (mostly in colors) in the actual kit because I do not yet posses all the pieces that will make up the kit. The kit is (...) (15 years ago, 25-May-09, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, FTX)
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| | Asia's first LEGO® Model Shop in Malaysia
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Asia's first LEGO model shop for LEGOLAND® Malaysia May 22, 2009. SINGAPORE: Iskandar Malaysia will house Asia's first LEGO Model Shop to design and make models for the LEGOLAND in Nusajaya. The model shop will produce 15,000 models that would make (...) (15 years ago, 25-May-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.legoland, FTX)
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| | Re: New LDraw Tool for Parts author: Rulers and Calipers
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(tried to answer yesterday, but something got wrong...) (...) You can easily build a slightly shorter span version using common axle 12! (...) Here too, something went wrong. Corrected now! Philo (15 years ago, 25-May-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Looking for dimensions of LEGO bricks.
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(...) Given that Denmark went fully metric in 1912 and that a 1x1 brick is 8mm x 8mm x 9.6mm (stud exclusive) it seems unlikely that imperial will work out better for you. Although it does so happen that 8mm is quite close to 5/16inch. Tim (15 years ago, 25-May-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: List of keyboard shortcuts
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(...) Scratch that. It's in the help file. (15 years ago, 25-May-09, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Looking for dimensions of LEGO bricks.
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(...) IIRC, *real* Lego parts use Imperial units, so converting to/measuring using the metric system will involve lots of decimal places. -Mike (15 years ago, 25-May-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | List of keyboard shortcuts
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Does anyone have a list of keyboard shortcuts for MLCAD they could upload? Thanks! -Mike (15 years ago, 24-May-09, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: DATHeader version 2.0.3 for LINUX and MAC
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(...) I have just found an error in DATHeader. The test for partdescription at subparts was not correct. Please download the bugfix from (URL) that side I have now also listed all tests that are performed by DATHeader and also the specification on (...) (15 years ago, 24-May-09, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New LDraw Tool for Parts author: Rulers and Calipers
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(...) SNIP (...) *Very* interesting, Philo! I just wish I had the white axle 16. :-( Is it just me, or is the page 4 of the building instructions messed up? (15 years ago, 24-May-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | June 2009 Brickmania new kit releases
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Hello Brickmania supporters! Brickworld is quickly approaching and it's hight time to announces my next wave of low-priced / mass produce kits. Brickworld takes place in Chicago on June 18th-20th and recent experience with parts suppliers shows need (...) (15 years ago, 24-May-09, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, FTX)
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| | Re: New LDraw Tool for Parts author: Rulers and Calipers
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(...) These tools look very useful! Thanks for sharing the idea and design, Philo. Jim (15 years ago, 24-May-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Assembled parts, ~ and categories
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It is common practice to prefix parts that compose assembled parts with a ~. This prevent using them needlessly (they are not listed with regular parts), encouraging the use of assembled shortcuts. But this practice is not ratified by any official (...) (15 years ago, 24-May-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | New LDraw Tool for Parts author: Rulers and Calipers
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This time, it is not a software utility, but physical measuring tools... a set of do-it-yourself measuring instruments to get parts dimensions directly in LDraw units. (URL) Acrobat document to print your own rulers and scales, and building (...) (15 years ago, 24-May-09, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.technic, FTX) !
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| | Re: BrickOS Patches and Development
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The Bibo Patch Rollup Collection posted to SourceForge at (URL) has been updated. This update adds a handful of patch files--20 through 24. 20: Nice group of Linux error/warning fixes from Carl and posted to SourceForge at (URL) Thanks, Carl! 21: (...) (15 years ago, 24-May-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Purpose of physical colour parts
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(...) I would have correct that parts if I would own them. As you know as an author you need to have the part, as a reviewer you don't need to have the part. cu mikeheide (15 years ago, 23-May-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: DATHeader NEW as .NET application (version 2.0.1)
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(...) Mike, I get a error on startup complaining about the xml file. I would also appriciate if you could add documentation for the new features (especially for the spaces in the title) explaining how it works and what's all about. Also some links (...) (15 years ago, 23-May-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | DATHeader version 2.0.3 for LINUX and MAC
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I am proud to announce the release of DATHeader for the use on Linux and Mac machines. Windows machines are supported anyway. New feature in this version is the reviewer mode. You do not need to save the file to get the informations that DATHeader (...) (15 years ago, 23-May-09, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Brickworld - Build On The Spot Challenge
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Bryan, Sign me up! Add my son Nathan, too! Note to competition: beware, neither of us have yet programmed an NXT. Note to anyone looking for teammates: we could use some help. We'll supply the NXT. -Brian Alano (15 years ago, 22-May-09, to lugnet.events.brickworld)
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| | Re: Custom 4-4-0 Steam Engine Kits
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(...) (URL) I finally got the parts in the mail to complete the dark blue versions of the kits. They can now be found in my Bricklink shop. --Tony (15 years ago, 22-May-09, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, FTX)
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| | Looking for 4565 9V train or Black Smith Shop?
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I have the lowest prices (by far!) for each on Bricklink: (URL) bargains! -- Thomas Main thomasmain@charter.net (15 years ago, 22-May-09, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Looking for dimensions of LEGO bricks.
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(...) Hi Dave, check out the LDraw Specs 1.0.0 at: (URL) easy way to convert mm in LDUs is Mike Heidemann's prog LDCalc: (URL) miss Marc Klein's website for modeling tips in SW as well as converting SW data into .dat: (URL) this helps. w. (15 years ago, 22-May-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés jeudi 21 mai 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 de Plobsheim 2009 ** par (...) (15 years ago, 22-May-09, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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| | Looking for dimensions of LEGO bricks.
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Hello all, I have been playing around some Cad software called SolidWorks and would like to model LEGO bricks. Is there a resource for accurate dimensions of LEGO parts? Dave (15 years ago, 22-May-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Brickworld - The BIG Announcement
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(URL) Share - Learn - Explore - Discover The Brickworld Team is thoroughly overwhelmed right now. We have set a record attendance level and are fast approaching what seemed unattainable a few short weeks ago. There are presently 427 registered (...) (15 years ago, 22-May-09, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.events, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains, lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, lugnet.people, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Interested in buying 1990s products
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(...) Howdy - I recommend you try here: (URL) BrickLink(r)>. Specifically, you can search their catalog for (URL) sets released in 1994> for instance. You can run searches for each year you are interested in. If you have specific set numbers, then (...) (15 years ago, 21-May-09, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, FTX)
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| | Bonktron recruitment drive
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(URL) Bonktron> Please feel free to join this Flickr group and post any of your Bonktron related pictures to the group pool. Thank you. ...I really had to resist the urge to make Beavis & Butthead type jokes when I wrote this ;^) (15 years ago, 21-May-09, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | TRU sale May 22-28, pirate, city, power miners, racers
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TRU sale runs Friday May 22 to Thursday May 28. Buy two sets and save 15% or buy three sets and save 25%. Choose from Power Miners, City, Pirate and Racers sets. One of the sets they show is the yellow RC car, a great Father's Day present :). Gail (...) (15 years ago, 21-May-09, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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