 | | Festival of the Masters 2009 & my MOC: Wizard of Oz
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GFLUG participated in the 2009 Festival of the Masters in Downtown Disney (Orlando, FL) in front of the LEGO Imagination Center last weekend (Nov. 13th - 15th). This year's theme for building our creations was "Legends and Icons". This year, we had (...) (15 years ago, 18-Nov-09, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, FTX) !
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| | Re: BBB&C "new" 4-2-0 and Class A Shay locomotives
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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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| | Hispabrick Magazine 006 released
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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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| | Re: Assembled parts, ~ and categories
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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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| | Re: Assembled parts, ~ and categories
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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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| | Re: Assembled parts, ~ and categories
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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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| | Re: Featured Builder - John Bradey and grandchildren
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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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| | Re: LEGO® Launches Battle Over Trademark
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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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| | Re: LEGO® Launches Battle Over Trademark
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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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| | Re: LEGO® Launches Battle Over Trademark
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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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| | Re: Assembled parts, ~ and categories
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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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