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Dave, Once again you have managed to astound, and amaze. Good job. Chris (...) (14 years ago, 22-Nov-10, to lugnet.org.ca.obb, lugnet.space, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Videos will show, but to whet your appetites.... The 2010 Toronto Christmas Train SHow was a very big success! It was due to the diligent efforts of all the persons displaying-- John with his beautiful houses scene and wind turbine Bill with this (...) (14 years ago, 22-Nov-10, to lugnet.org.ca.obb, lugnet.trains, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Group and Disney Consumer Products Announce Building Sets Inspired by Pirates of the Caribbean
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(...) When I first heard a rumor about this, I was thinking "No, they're got it wrong, Mega Bloc (*hack*) has the license." I'm guessing their license expired or Disney cancelled it? (14 years ago, 22-Nov-10, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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(...) Never work, because we know kids NEVER run trains around curves too fast. Or crash them into things. IIRC, TRAINS magazine had a writeup of this movie (focusing on the "how it was made" details but with some other coverage) and the writer (...) (14 years ago, 22-Nov-10, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Group and Disney Consumer Products Announce Building Sets Inspired by Pirates of the Caribbean
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(...) Abner you provide a valuable service, please don't stop! I don't think Hendo was complaining about your work in reproducing this stuff, but rather commenting on the original content. Which does, to be sure, have some marketspeak in it. But all (...) (14 years ago, 22-Nov-10, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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| | Custom engraved metal 2x4 brick keychains!
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Thanks to some new equipment, I can offer custom engraved 2x4 brick keychains once again! (URL) Get yours in time for the holidays: (URL) Store> --Bram (14 years ago, 22-Nov-10, to lugnet.market.shopping, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Group and Disney Consumer Products Announce Building Sets Inspired by Pirates of the Caribbean
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(...) What I always saw as a core problem with the Pirates theme is that you basically get small ships, large ships, forts, and the occassional island. That's pretty much it. Ships are ships are ships are ships, and where the Space subthemes had (...) (14 years ago, 22-Nov-10, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Group and Disney Consumer Products Announce Building Sets Inspired by Pirates of the Caribbean
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(...) (snip) I only copy and report the news information from the web. Sorry, if you feel that way. -Abner (...) (14 years ago, 22-Nov-10, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Group and Disney Consumer Products Announce Building Sets Inspired by Pirates of the Caribbean
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(...) I would've been interested to see if a licensing of (URL) THIS MOVIE> would have been unstoppable or not;-) JOHN (14 years ago, 21-Nov-10, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Group and Disney Consumer Products Announce Building Sets Inspired by Pirates of the Caribbean
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(...) Hey Hendo! Long time no see. I think your points are valid for the main market (kids)... but for us, all sets are parts, and fodder for our own creations. So if this means more parts of certain kinds I'm pleased at the prospect. The problem of (...) (14 years ago, 21-Nov-10, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Group and Disney Consumer Products Announce Building Sets Inspired by Pirates of the Caribbean
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(...) A) I don't like "corporate speak" where executives use ridiculously long run on sentences to make their "mission statement" sound Biblically important. B) On topic: I'm torn about this announcement. On one hand, I am not a fan of the licensed (...) (14 years ago, 21-Nov-10, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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| | Costituzione Associazione ItLUG
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Il Gruppo di Coordinamento formato da Giuliano Beduglio, Antonella Carabelli, Mauro Cavinato, Marco Chiappa, Mario Ferrari, Stefano Ferrari, Luca Giannitti, Mauro La Guzza, Luca Rusconi, Giancarlo Saba, Monica Schiavina, Willy Tschager e (...) (14 years ago, 20-Nov-10, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: Motorized Excavator - expensive!!!
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(...) (URL) is an old thread, but looks like there are some hard facts that LEGO is aware of Technic being more popular in Europe than the US. Read the details in the URL I provided above. LEGO has not figured out how to tap into the US market and (...) (14 years ago, 20-Nov-10, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Ice Skates!
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(...) Great idea! Play well, Jacob (14 years ago, 20-Nov-10, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Space Police 3
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(...) Probably "lugnet.admin.database". (...) I would post the available data to "lugnet.admin.database", and see if one of the administrators take it from there. Play well, Jacob (14 years ago, 20-Nov-10, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Re: Take a wish and I will possibly submit your part.
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(...) I'd like to see it LDraw-ed too! I'm in to scan the hair and build the head. Philo (14 years ago, 20-Nov-10, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Actually, scratch my first request. This one is way better. -Orion (14 years ago, 20-Nov-10, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | NXT 1.0 models in NXT 2.0?
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I have both 1.0 and 2.0 NXT sets, and I'd like to have all of the models from both versions of the software to appear. I thought I could install both and I'd get both sets of models, but I can't install the 1.0 software- it tells me that I need at (...) (14 years ago, 19-Nov-10, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: 3D laser scanning
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(...) Philo, Wow, this is incredible. Thanks for sharing! Tim (14 years ago, 19-Nov-10, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Space Police 3
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Not sure where this needs to go... Space Police 3-Space Police Central (#5985) is not in the database. How does one add to the database? Is there a protocol/method/admin who handles this? Play Well and Prosper, Doc Crandall "The Brick Detective" (14 years ago, 19-Nov-10, to lugnet.general)
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| | Ice Skates!
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This idea popped into my head at work, so I sketched it & later quickly rendered it in LDD: (URL) I originally thought of using 'tooth' or short 'blade' pieces, for the skate blades, but this solution fit the scale & looks better, and it lets one (...) (14 years ago, 19-Nov-10, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Sears sale
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This Sears sale starts today, but I'm not sure how long it lasts as I didn't see the entire flyer, just the one page. 8096 Emperor Palpatine's Shuttle 25% off, $59.99 (reg $79.99) 8098 Clone Turbo Tank 25% off, $119.99 (reg $159.99) "Plus, ALL other (...) (14 years ago, 19-Nov-10, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: 3D laser scanning
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(...) Thanks you, Larry & all! Though a good deal of the credit should go to the authors of the various software pieces used! Philo (14 years ago, 19-Nov-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Take a wish and I will possibly submit your part.
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(...) I personally would like to see the remainder of the Technic Action Figure parts. Thanks! Owen. (14 years ago, 19-Nov-10, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Zellers, TRU and Walmart sales (Nov. 19-25)
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This weeks Zellers flyer (good Friday November 19th to Thursday 25th) has Buy One Get One 1/2 Price on all LEGO construction sets (excludes LEGO board games). As well, from Friday 19 to Sunday 21 if you use your HBC credit card you get an additional (...) (14 years ago, 18-Nov-10, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Tetrix
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We started a new project with Tetrix, a new NXT-compatible robotics kit available at LEGO Education. Very cool stuff! More to come. Visit the lab-journal at: (URL) (14 years ago, 18-Nov-10, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | LEGO Group and Disney Consumer Products Announce Building Sets Inspired by Pirates of the Caribbean
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LEGO Group and Disney Consumer Products Announce Building Sets Inspired by Pirates of the Caribbean Films BILLUND, Denmark, Nov. 18, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The LEGO Group and Disney Consumer Products today announced an upcoming collection of LEGO® (...) (14 years ago, 18-Nov-10, to lugnet.disney, lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, FTX) !
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| | Re: 3D laser scanning
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(...) Same here. Wow! /Tore (14 years ago, 18-Nov-10, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) I'm speechless. I am without speech. Cheers, Matija (14 years ago, 18-Nov-10, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: 3D laser scanning
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Philippe, You never seize to amaze us. Where do you ever find time to invent this anyway? LOL Looking forward to all those hard parts that have never been done. Jaco (14 years ago, 18-Nov-10, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Take a wish and I will possibly submit your part.
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(...) Yeah that's the version that I have but it needs some cleanup and has never been submitted to the PT. -Orion (14 years ago, 18-Nov-10, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: 3D laser scanning
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(...) That's so good that I don't even know how good it is! Bravo, Philo! JOHN (14 years ago, 17-Nov-10, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Mona Lisa, redux
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Hi everyone, I have completed yet another rendition of the Mona Lisa out of LEGO bricks. This one was built "studs-up". A quick webpage about it is here: (URL) Harshbarger (14 years ago, 17-Nov-10, to lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc) !
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(...) You mean like this? (URL) (14 years ago, 17-Nov-10, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: 3D laser scanning
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(...) Well... wow. This is amazing, Philo. Really amazing. Tim (14 years ago, 17-Nov-10, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: 3D laser scanning
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(...) Great achievement! I have access to 'the real thing' at work (laser scanner on a measuring arm), and it's exactly the same work flow (except that our end results are not LDRAW parts...). You are a master of useful LEGO robotics! (14 years ago, 17-Nov-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Echo Base & Snow Trooper pack on sale @ WalMart
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Two sets for the price of one, Echo BAse & Snow trooper pack for $29, free shipping to any WalMart store. Details here: (URL) Sinasohn BAYLUG / BAYLTC LUGNET #115 (14 years ago, 17-Nov-10, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) I'd like to see: (URL) part that I've been meaning to do for years but have never actually got around to it. -Orion (14 years ago, 17-Nov-10, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: 3D laser scanning
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(...) I have lots of things to say about this but, being a sailor, most of them involve a large about of cuss words. Therefore I'll simple same that this is one of the coolest things I have ever seen. It's right up there with the Tic-Tac-Toe (...) (14 years ago, 17-Nov-10, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Take a wish and I will possibly submit your part.
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On the 1st of November I did a "quick build" (see (URL) and (URL) for reference). It was fun and I like to continue with this kind of authoring. I am open for (all) your wishes. First come, first served. (14 years ago, 17-Nov-10, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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