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(...) Kurt, this is a superb MOC! Well done! I especially appreciate its 8widyness and the vids of it in action! Bravo! JOHN (15 years ago, 18-Nov-09, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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It's that time again:we are happy to announce the release of Hispabrick Magazine 006 In this issue you will find a couple of articles about builders and their MOCs, a historical overview of Castle, some great ideas on how to clean your LEGO pieces, (...) (15 years ago, 18-Nov-09, to lugnet.announce) !
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(...) Working with the new version 3.1 I've announced today you'll notice that we included unhidden version of the Minifig Chain and String parts along with the LSynth constraints to work around this problem so changing the standard is no longer key (...) (15 years ago, 18-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: BBB&C "new" 4-2-0 and Class A Shay locomotives
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(...) ... I should say that I built this MOC in response an article called "SELECTIVE COMPRESSION APPLIED TO MECHANICAL DETAILS" by Steve Barile in (URL) RAILBRICKS issue 3> on page 34-35 where it says: "The Shay does not have traditional steam (...) (15 years ago, 18-Nov-09, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Please understand that the LDraw Parts Library is over 12 years old and standards evolve over time. Things that were done in 1999, when 71427c01.dat was created, wouldn't necessarily be done the same way now. *dNN.dat files are parts with (...) (15 years ago, 18-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) The part you mentioned is certified a long time ago and rules changes over the time. So you will find surely old part in the library that are not according our current rules. Also the ...Cxx only advices that the real part is assembled by some (...) (15 years ago, 18-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LEGO® Launches Battle Over Trademark
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(...) Parasites, Dave! >:-P (15 years ago, 18-Nov-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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(...) John brought a few pics to the first (and only) HAMLUG dinner years ago and I was jealous then. Now I'm very envious--the layout's fantastic! I love the buildings and the fact that this is a family endeavour! That's very cool! Very nicely (...) (15 years ago, 18-Nov-09, to lugnet.loc.ca.on)
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| | Toronto Christmas Train Show November 21st and 22nd
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Hello to all you wonderful LEGO enthusiasts!! Yes, it is that time again! Time for the annual 2 day event known as the Toronto Christmas Train Show, where you can view MOCs and builds from many of your favourite Ontario builders!! So come one, come (...) (15 years ago, 18-Nov-09, to lugnet.org.ca.obb, lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment)
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(...) Why can't they do both? Mega Bloks has a huge number of unique elements that are LEGO-compatible, in addition to the more basic and conventional pieces. If they were only to produce unusual elements and no basic pieces, then they'd almost (...) (15 years ago, 18-Nov-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Shop @ Home Phone Specials for Wednesday, November 18, 2009, to Tuesday, November 24, 2009
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Item #852331 Vintage Minifigure Collection Volume 1 Retail Price: $17.99 Sale Price: $9.98 Item #852716 Mutt Williams™ Key Chain Retail Price: $4.99 Sale Price: $2.48 Item #: 852717 Irina Spalko™ Key Chain Retail Price: $4.99 Sale Price: $2.48 Item (...) (15 years ago, 18-Nov-09, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Well, then, my question is WRT the dimensions of the studs-n-tube design. Shouldn't TLG's dimensions be propriety? I mean, yeah, copy the design, but don't rip-off the dimensions. JOHN (15 years ago, 18-Nov-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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(...) But it is their system. What the clones should be doing is creating unique bricks that work within the LEGO system, not recreating them. JOHN (15 years ago, 18-Nov-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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(...) Hi, I read the above article and is OK, but many parts do not follow these requirements: for example part 71427C01.DAT distributed as official is named as assembly but contains the whole part definition inside with no references to any (...) (15 years ago, 18-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: 2009/2010 LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) Election is open
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(...) to join the orgnisation, follow the instructions at the bottom of this page: (URL) "Joining the Organization." (Note: for best results you may want to wait up to 1/2 hour or so before trying to vote if you are a newly joined member. If, after (...) (15 years ago, 18-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LEGO® Launches Battle Over Trademark
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(...) The duplication of designs not protected by patent is not "ripping off." (...) But it's not "their" market, and it hasn't been "their" market since the patent expired. What we've seen for several decades is competitor brands moving into the (...) (15 years ago, 18-Nov-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | *** LSynth 3.1 Released ***
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Hi folks, Don Heyse, has asked me to announce the release of LSynth 3.1 which is now available for download from: (URL) he has done all the coding for this update. My role was nothing more than whining when things didn't work as I expected them (...) (15 years ago, 18-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !!
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| | Re: LEGO® Launches Battle Over Trademark
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(...) Lego did not license the Kiddicraft design. They took it and *slightly* modified it. The Kiddicraft design, although patented in the UK, was not protected in Denmark. They bought all of the residual rights to the brick (in the early 1980s) (...) (15 years ago, 18-Nov-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Re: 2009/2010 LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) Election is open
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(...) Ah, right you are. This seems familiar to me now... because it's not the first time I've fallen for this trap. (URL) (15 years ago, 18-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: 2009/2010 LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) Election is open
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(...) Just as a note, it worked fine for me. It sounds like ldraw.org doesn't consider you an org member, just an ldraw.org user. --Travis (15 years ago, 18-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: 2009/2010 LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) Election is open
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(...) Hi Willy, When I log in at LDraw.org, the LSC election no longer appears in ballot page you link. I see it listed again when I log out. (Tested in Safari and Firefox.) How can I vote? Jim (15 years ago, 17-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LEGO® Launches Battle Over Trademark
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(...) Well of course they wouldn't, but so what? The question isn't whether or not clones could thrive in the absence of the original; it's whether the original still retains exclusive rights to the studs-n-tubes design, and many courts have already (...) (15 years ago, 17-Nov-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO® Launches Battle Over Trademark
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(...) The LEGO Company did not clone the Kiddiecraft brick. They licensed the design, then bought the rights to it outright, and then improved upon it with the addition of the tubes inside the bricks that prevent cross-stacked parts from sliding (...) (15 years ago, 17-Nov-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO® Launches Battle Over Trademark
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(...) Why should they? There are plenty of other companies that have already done so. You've got K'Nex, Lincoln Logs, Erector, and several other construction toy systems that have no resemblance to LEGO bricks, proving that you don't need to (...) (15 years ago, 17-Nov-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | 2009/2010 LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) Election is open
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The 2009/2010 LDraw Standards Committee[1] election is now open. To vote, please visit (URL) and log in with your user account. Next, visit the ballot page on LDraw.org here: (URL) LDraw organization members may vote and you may vote for up to five (...) (15 years ago, 17-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: LEGO® Launches Battle Over Trademark
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(...) Not a valid analogy I believe. LEGO didn't clone Kiddiecraft; it took the idea and ran with it. Since their improvements were superior to the original, the original died off. Clones today exist because of their compatibility with LEGO, not (...) (15 years ago, 17-Nov-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Re: Datsville Link
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(...) Maybe Google Code + Google Wave? Preferably something that won't break if the person hosting the site has a HD crash or looses his password... Plus, I already have a gmail account! :) Mike (15 years ago, 17-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Stilzkin Igniz offroad vehicle
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Cool! And very impressive. Play well, Jacob -- (URL) Jacob's LEGO boats> (15 years ago, 17-Nov-09, to lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | BBB&C "new" 4-2-0 and Class A Shay locomotives
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A two truck, two cylinder, "Class A" Shay Locomotive My BBB&C's locomotive number 7 (URL) More pics and videos (URL) here>. and The First Locomotive of the First Railroad in Texas The 4-2-0 named the "General Sherman" (for Texas General Sidney (...) (15 years ago, 17-Nov-09, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.technic, FTX) !
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| | Re: LEGO® Launches Battle Over Trademark
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(...) The answer to your question is obvious. Enlighten and others manufacture for a market that never could afford to buy Lego bricks. The success of Lego's clone of the Kiddiecraft brick has had very little influence on the success of later (...) (15 years ago, 17-Nov-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Re: Open cylinder primitives, any demand?
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(...) Here is a list I compiled of many parts that could make use of a cylinder that's open at both ends. There may be more. 6029A 3957 104 2569 30322 30209 3062B 33286 43888 4740 3960s01 3961s01 6942 75535 6177s01 30148 4360 4341 70501 529 6260 (...) (15 years ago, 17-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: Looking for entries for a film show
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(...) Uh, by the way, it happens in March. Sorry. (15 years ago, 16-Nov-09, to lugnet.animation, FTX)
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| | Re: Breakfast Television
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Why yes, yes there is video. Janey has video here: (URL) was behind the camera being a pest, clicking pictures with my camera phone. Chris (...) (15 years ago, 16-Nov-09, to lugnet.loc.ca.on, FTX)
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| | Looking for entries for a film show
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Greetings. Each year the nonprofit organization I direct (Bricks for Brains, (URL) www.BricksForBrains.org>) produces an event called Brick Bash ((URL) www.BrickBash.com>) here in Ann Arbor, MI. This is a public LEGO building exhibition (i.e, not (...) (15 years ago, 16-Nov-09, to lugnet.animation, FTX)
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| | Perth Lego Updated
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Hi All, PALS site has just been updated with some pics of next years big layout under construction. (URL) soon. Braith. (15 years ago, 16-Nov-09, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.au.wa.per)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés dimanche 15 novembre 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 jours. Nouveaux articles ---...--- ** Revue de la boîte 3843 Ramses Pyramid ** par Alban (...) (15 years ago, 16-Nov-09, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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| | Re: LEGO® Launches Battle Over Trademark
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(...) I wonder if the clones would have enjoyed the success that they've had were they to have created a brick system that didn't replicate the dimensions of LEGO bricks. Clearly a case of wanting your brick and repeating it, too. JOHN (15 years ago, 15-Nov-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Re: Datsville Link
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(...) -Orion (15 years ago, 15-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Datsville Link
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(...) I whouldn't lose hope we can go back in time and see it all over again (URL) (15 years ago, 15-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: PRR T1 #5544
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(...) Here's a YouTube video of the T1 in action: (URL) Or, if you'd rather, here's the same video on Flickr: (URL) --Tony (15 years ago, 15-Nov-09, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Datsville Link
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(...) I suggested several months ago to open source it and host it on Source Forge or somewhere. I and everyone else seem to have forgotten about it though. It would still be a neat idea. Mike (15 years ago, 14-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Color Sensors Showdown
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(...) Thank you for another great review/test. I've been wondering for some time if it would make sense to order the HiTechnic Colour Sensor since I already have the LEGO Colour Sensor. Now I know. Jetro (15 years ago, 14-Nov-09, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO® Launches Battle Over Trademark
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(...) I suggest that LEGO design a new brick to achieve the same "technical solution." Otherwise, this sounds like another in a long string of fairly open-and-shut cases along these lines. Dave! (15 years ago, 14-Nov-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Infrared Tower Refuses to Communicate with or Detect RCX
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Hello everyone, I have had my RIS 2.0 for about 6 or so years. At the time I purchased it, my skills were not sufficient to realize the true potential of the system, and I never did anything advanced with it. Just a few days ago, I dug up my RCX and (...) (15 years ago, 14-Nov-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Color Sensors Showdown
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(URL) A comparison between LEGO NXT 2.0 color sensor and HiTechnic color sensor V2. Read it (URL) here> Enjoy! Philo (15 years ago, 14-Nov-09, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, FTX)
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| | Re: Assembled parts, ~ and categories
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(...) Thanks for make that clear now. I have just also link this post in the wiki ((URL) so we can find it much quicker in the future. I have also put there a lot of other stuff that I feel we should keep for future use. cu mikeheide (15 years ago, 14-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés vendredi 13 novembre 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 jours. Nouveaux articles ---...--- ** Kidexpo 2009 ** par Erik "brickerik" Amzallag, (...) (15 years ago, 14-Nov-09, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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| | Re: Cthulego Rising
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(...) At last an end to Johnny Thunder. But wait, Lego now makes Tommy guns!...... (15 years ago, 14-Nov-09, to lugnet.adventurers, FTX)
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| | Re: NXTasy down
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(...) Thanks for the heads up. That's a load off! Jetro (15 years ago, 13-Nov-09, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: NXTasy down
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(...) Just tried (URL) and it is back up again as of Friday, October 13th, 2009 at 5:14pm CST. Thank goodness! John Hansen (15 years ago, 13-Nov-09, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: NXTasy down
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(...) There is no way that NXTasy is gone for good. APlus.net appears to be the hosting company. They have undergone a big upgrade of hosted sites which may be the root cause for the site being down. Eric Salinas is the owner of the site but there (...) (15 years ago, 13-Nov-09, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Assembled parts, ~ and categories
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(...) 1) the leading ~ should be enforced for files in parts/s. 2a) a leading ~ is optional for files in parts, but should be present for physical components that are always delivered in combination with another. 2b) we need a better way to deal (...) (15 years ago, 13-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Cthulego Rising
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(...) You know, it's a darn shame that this didn't get more comments. I'm sorry I missed it and only happened to stumble upon it almost three years after you posted! A great scene--tons of detail and really nice staging. Thanks for sharing! Dave! (15 years ago, 13-Nov-09, to lugnet.adventurers, FTX)
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| | Re: Assembled parts, ~ and categories
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(...) As I am in the beta testing for the new DATHeader I need to have decisions for the above questions. At present many of the above is mixed on the PT. cu mikeheide (15 years ago, 13-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New parts and color definition
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(...) That's nothing to do with the rendering software, it's due to overload on the webserver, causing the script that queues the rendering request to fail. I requeue them manually when I notice. Chris (15 years ago, 13-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Breakfast Television
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Any links to online footage of the show? HAD I KNOWN (hint hint) I could have tivoed it and seen it later. (15 years ago, 13-Nov-09, to lugnet.loc.ca.on, FTX)
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| | Re: NXTasy down
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(...) Eric Salinas. (...) The "Internet Archive Wayback Machine" at least has some pages from Nxtasy, between July '06 and April '08: (URL) that helps somewhat. :-/ Ttfn, Tony (15 years ago, 13-Nov-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NXTasy down
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(...) That doesn't sound good at all... Losing the site would be a tragedy not just because it is a great place to get answers from the people who really know, but also because of all the answers and solutions that can be found on the forum. (...) (15 years ago, 12-Nov-09, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: NXTasy down
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(...) I wish we did. NXTasy has gone down for reasons unknown, and at least so far hasn't come back up. The only guy who has admin privileges (Eric... something. I don't remember his last name) hasn't been around for a while, and no one has been (...) (15 years ago, 12-Nov-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Technic Shock Absorber 6.5L
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Hello all, How likely is it this (reworked) part will be in the next (<6mnts or so) official library? Cause I'm working on realtime spring generation in my LD4DStudio project and would really like to include a sample using these (classic) shocks (...) (15 years ago, 12-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Breakfast Television
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Had a very early but fun morning today, as I had the pleasure a few minutes of airtime on Breakfast Television to show a bit of what we can do with bricks. As you can see, the main presentation, centre stage is the BT Logo. (URL) Added to the Logo, (...) (15 years ago, 12-Nov-09, to lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | WHaCKaLuG - November, Sunday the 15th.
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Its that time again... where we meet, to eat, and chat LEGO... Time: 6:00pm - 10:00pm Location: Whale and Ale Pub Street: 1120 Victoria Street North City: Kitchener, ON 4 things to remember for this meeting.... 1. Your current building challenge, (...) (15 years ago, 12-Nov-09, to lugnet.loc.ca.on)
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| | WHaCKaLuG - October & Sept minutes
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Slightly abridged version, full minutes (and more info) can be found here, on our blog. (URL) Sunday Oct 18th In Attendance: Jenn Wagner, Janey Red Brick, Jeff Van Winden, Jef with one f, John Bradey, Chris Magno, Mike Sheils and Dave Koudys. Note - (...) (15 years ago, 12-Nov-09, to lugnet.loc.ca.on, FTX)
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| | Re: HEY ONTARIO - Toy Building Zone
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(...) Snipped (...) I am finally catching up with my reporting of "Lego News" ... better late than never... (so be prepared for a few posts coming from me) I would like to thank both deborah and Iain for bringing items out to the show. As well I (...) (15 years ago, 12-Nov-09, to lugnet.loc.ca.on, FTX)
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| | Zellers sale til November 19th
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Zellers has three sets on sale in this weeks flyer, good Friday November 13th through Thursday November 19th. (URL) 7687 advent calendar> $34.99 (save $5) (URL) 7753 SW Pirate Tank> $39.99 (save $10) (URL) 8708 PM Cave Crusher> $54.99 (save $10) The (...) (15 years ago, 12-Nov-09, to lugnet.loc.ca, FTX)
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| | Shop @ Home Phone Specials for Wednesday, November 11, 2009, to Tuesday, November 17, 2009
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Item #852331 Vintage Minifigure Collection Volume 1 Retail Price: $17.99 Sale Price: $9.98 Item #852716 Mutt Williams™ Key Chain Retail Price: $4.99 Sale Price: $2.48 Item #: 852717 Irina Spalko™ Key Chain Retail Price: $4.99 Sale Price: $2.48 Item (...) (15 years ago, 12-Nov-09, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | NXTasy down
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I've been trying to read the NXTasy front page and forums for a couple of days without any luck. The site appears to be down. Does anyone know what's going on? Jetro (15 years ago, 12-Nov-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: LPub newbie
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(...) Parts.lst is crude and kind of annoying but given your desire for 'just works' (which I highly commend) could you not generate one to help other software to come a bit closer to that goal? Tim (15 years ago, 12-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Stilzkin Igniz offroad vehicle
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(...) And what about the canister lid idea?! unconventional and...lego! (15 years ago, 12-Nov-09, to lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Re: Continuously Variable Pneumatics
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(...) ...snip... (...) Mark, I think this is fabulous! Kevin (15 years ago, 12-Nov-09, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | batman, technic, model team and more
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lots of unopened sets on ebay, new stuff, older stuff, a couple of model teams and some technic: (URL) F1 Ferrari 4099 Robobots 4402 Sea Riders 4896 Roaring Roadsters 5521 Sea Jet 5590 Whirl n Wheel Super Truck 7477 T-1 Typhoon vs. T-Rex 7687 City (...) (15 years ago, 11-Nov-09, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Stilzkin Igniz offroad vehicle
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Great work!!! I love the video. That heli drop off with the chains!!! Awesome! Good construction, tight and clean looking. Good power, looks practically unstopable. The inovative use of the rubber elements for the treds, wow! Really good (...) (15 years ago, 11-Nov-09, to lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.technic)
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| | November feast-o-pleanty
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IT is bound to happen, hold a meeting on a Friday, and some day, you meeting will fall on Friday the 13th. This is the all call to those who wish to attend the rtlToronto monthly dinner feast. This Friday (the 13th), Swiss Chalet, 7:00 pm, I look (...) (15 years ago, 11-Nov-09, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: LPub newbie
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(...) FWIW if you want to generate the parts.lst file yourself, the OS-X version of ldglite comes bundled with a mklist executable. If LPub needs a parts.lst file perhaps it could be bundled with mklist as well. (15 years ago, 11-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub newbie
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(...) Allen - Thanks for that response. So to any other newbies, I simply downloaded the latest parts update from ldraw.org, and grabbed the parts.lst file and copied into my LDRAW folder under the Bricksmith folder. After this, the per step parts (...) (15 years ago, 11-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: New parts and color definition
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(...) But if I've understood correctly, the Peeron server is a *nix box and sr3dbuilder is Windows-only. So it can't work on the parts tracker unless it comes to support *nix too. Would the swich to LDView give a fix to the part images not properly (...) (15 years ago, 11-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Featured Builder - John Bradey and grandchildren
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It is my honour to showcase (*with his permission) the creations of one of our Whackolug members, Mr. John Bradey. I had the pleasure of first meeting John at our inaugural meet, and in all honesty, the first thing that struck me was that he was a (...) (15 years ago, 11-Nov-09, to lugnet.loc.ca.on, FTX)
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| | Re: HEY ONTARIO - Toy Building Zone
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(...) It was great to put a face to a nick, thanks for introducing yourself, and hope to see you again. Janey Red Brick (15 years ago, 11-Nov-09, to lugnet.loc.ca.on)
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| | Re: New parts and color definition
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(...) If anyone interested, my application (SR 3D Builder) can generate parts images based on the contents of a text files or taking the single image directly from the screen. It generates the images for itself, but anybody can use them for any (...) (15 years ago, 11-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Why to run them on the new Lego 6-wide rails in the Temple of Doom set. The designer has been quoted as saying the new rails elements were designed for making a wide variety of layouts. (15 years ago, 11-Nov-09, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Chris is referring to the LDraw folder which is distributed with Bricksmith. You can move it wherever you want, but by default it comes in the same folder as the application. (Having a single distribution dramatically lowers the barrier to (...) (15 years ago, 11-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) (15 years ago, 11-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) The parts.lst file should not be under Bricksmith or have anything to do with Bricksmith. It should be in the same LDRAW folder where the parts library is. (...) In order to do a BOM (Bill of Materials), you need to have a cover page. See this (...) (15 years ago, 11-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)
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Ok, I have n00b question for LPub. I am using a Mac with Bricksmith 2.3. I have the latest LDview installed and LPub 4.0.0.1. I have 2 issues (they might be related. 1. When starting LPub I get this error: failed to open (...) (15 years ago, 10-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I created a command line-only version of LDView and got it built on the peeron server, but nobody took the next step of creating a new LDView-based image generation script. I'd be happy to help out anyone who has the access to do this and is (...) (15 years ago, 10-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Travis has worked on a switch after this post: (URL) I do not remember why there was no happy ending. w. (15 years ago, 10-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Hejsan alla glada LEGO-vänner - svenskt forum finns på www.swebrick.se
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Det verkar som om loc/se har dött sotdöden - inte en post på många månader, och inte har han Arnesson lämnat över sidebar-ansvaret till någon annan (eller ingen annan har ställt upp). Har alla gått över till www.swebrick.se? Nej inte än, det är (...) (15 years ago, 10-Nov-09, to lugnet.loc.se)
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| | Re: New parts and color definition
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(...) Something to consider for the discussion; ldglite still uses dithering to render the part images for the tracker. If for some reason you decide to move the clear glass color from 39 to color 47, you may want to also move the clear light grey (...) (15 years ago, 10-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) This explains a lot of things - thx Tore for sharing. I'm going to discuss this in the LDConfig workgroup and see if we find a solution for the problem. w. (15 years ago, 10-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés lundi 9 novembre 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 jours. Nouvelles brèves ---...--- * Instruction pour le bus LEGO Rock Band tour. * - 9 (...) (15 years ago, 10-Nov-09, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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| | November 21st, 2009 SMART meeting
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The next SMART meeting is in two weeks, on November 21st, at DigiPen. The mini-challenge is to build a candy dispensing robot. You get to choose the type of candy. Have fun! Create an interesting candy delivery mechanism! For a challenge, have your (...) (15 years ago, 10-Nov-09, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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(...) Sorry if maybe I repeat something already said about color 39, but this is how I recall it: In Original LDraw, clear looked better with dithered lightgrey than white, so James and I decided to use color 39 for window "glass", instead of 47, (...) (15 years ago, 10-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) LDraw handling of transparent colors. Colors 32-47 are simply transparent versions of colors 0-15. So, color 39 is a transparent version of color 7 (light gray), and color 40 is a transparent version of color 8 (dark gray). This seems to have (...) (15 years ago, 9-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: New parts and color definition
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(...) Please see also the comments about this issue on (URL) (15 years ago, 9-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) OK, understand! So using lDraw colors is the right way for the future. MLCad color in parts have to be fixed. Anyway I think it should be a good practice to disallow new (official or unofficial) parts using other than official lDraw colors. (...) (15 years ago, 9-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) BTW, could it be possible to update Parts Tracker image generator to use the new LDConfig.ldr? Case in point (URL) the front should be trans orange (color 182), not dull grey... Philo (15 years ago, 9-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) 39 has never been an official LDraw color but a MLCad color. Parts (officials as well as unofficials) using MLCad colors have to been recolored. A complete list can be found here: (URL) (15 years ago, 9-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)
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Hi everybody! I have a question: I regularly download official and unofficial parts update from lDraw official site and often I found some new parts referring to colors that are no more supported, at least if I refer to official lDraw color (...) (15 years ago, 9-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Version 537 of my Library is available now.
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Version 537 of the Library can be found on my website now, 5 new pieces have been added, among them the Star Wars(TM) Blaster . The Reference Gallery has been updated to version 537 too now. With the kindest of greetings, Anton Raves (URL) (15 years ago, 8-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Mech Bay 17 - The Mauser Houser
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Mech Bay 17 - The Mauser Houser ==== (URL) you, Keith - Mag Bas.>> Special Mission Outfit Station built for Keith Goldman's Mauser Mk2 (URL) UNIT 17>. (4 URLs) A cast of characters gathers to see, what's inside the Mech? (4 URLs) Is it Sam Lowry? - (...) (15 years ago, 7-Nov-09, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX) !
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