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(...) I wish the authors of these articles did a bit more research... these minifigs are made of aluminum and cost $5000 each! (As indicated on this article (URL)) -Bryan (13 years ago, 5-Aug-11, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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(...) For the Mars rovers missions (Spirit and Opportunity), the unique minifigs (Sandy Moondust and the other one) were given out to members of the Planetary Society, so you might want to keep an eye out there. (13 years ago, 5-Aug-11, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2011-01 Parts Update Now Available
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(...) What is the name of the NNTP server for the forums? Play well, Jacob (13 years ago, 5-Aug-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | TRU sale August 5-11
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TRU flyer good from Friday August 5th through Thursday August 11th. "Summer Vacation! Join us on Sat. Aug 6, from noon-2pm and make a LEGO Jet Plane. Max. 100 per store. Max. 30 per express location. While they last" 20% off all Harry Potter LEGO. (...) (13 years ago, 5-Aug-11, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: Problems with LDView
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(...) Hi Travis, I'm sorry for the late reply. I have sent a model to your e-mail address. Best regards, Miran Pris (13 years ago, 5-Aug-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: NASA Sends LEGO-Men on New Jupiter Mission
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I ran across this on Slashdot this morning and loved the idea. It gets me wondering whether Lego will offer any special promotional packages with these same figures? They would be great collectables. :) Matthew Hein (13 years ago, 4-Aug-11, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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NASA Sends LEGO-Men on New Jupiter Mission When NASA launches its Juno exploration mission to Jupiter on Firday, the spacecraft will have three plastic passengers, namely LEGO figurines. Meant to "inspire children to explore science, technology, (...) (13 years ago, 4-Aug-11, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.space, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | RE: Brickfete 2011 a huge success!! (at least from the feedback I got from everyone)
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lol, I was just going thru these pictures on flickr when this email came in. It is great that you and others got pics up and I will be looking for more over the coming weeks. Dave, it is especially nice to see the free build outside as I saw none (...) (13 years ago, 2-Aug-11, to lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.org.ca.obb, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment)
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(...) Chris, First, always go with your gut instinct. Mine was to get the CS display reasonably decent for showing. Foregoing any gears, I'm comfortable with what I brought to the event. Oh wait, I did have a display in the technic room! Well, (...) (13 years ago, 2-Aug-11, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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I know you are all curious to know who won, so allow me to (re) announce. 1. For the Autonomous Tug-of-War game, we had a total of one entry. That robot was declared the winner (by Default) Seeing as one of the rules was that the event organizers (...) (13 years ago, 2-Aug-11, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Brickfete 2011 a huge success!! (at least from the feedback I got from everyone)
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(...) Dave, You just mentioned something that I addressed in another post. That post event low you go through after such an amazing fast paced weekend fete (Party) So, allow me to cut/paste what I posted to the brickfete.com forums ----snip-------- (...) (13 years ago, 2-Aug-11, to lugnet.org.ca.obb)
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| | Brickfete 2011 a huge success!! (at least from the feedback I got from everyone)
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Brickfete was fantastic! I'm still pumped and haven't come down from that high! The 4 days flew by waaay too quickly! So here's some things-- First, pics-- (URL) didn't take as many pictures as I wanted, but lack of time and energy. The good bit is (...) (13 years ago, 2-Aug-11, to lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.org.ca.obb, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment) !
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| | Last-minute addition to BrickFair 2011 schedule: "Bricks in the Community"
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Added at the last minute: a round table discussion at BrickFair this coming Thursday, August 4th at 11am. The topic is "Bricks in the Community" ... a few LUGs are working on plans for volunteer fundraising events that feature some sort of LEGO (...) (13 years ago, 1-Aug-11, to lugnet.events.brickfair, FTX)
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| | Re: Problems with LDView
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(...) It's possible that LDView is running out of memory. Taking a snapshot with a high resolution would take more memory than loading the model in the UI, but the difference shouldn't be huge. 3000 parts is a fair number, but I wouldn't think it (...) (13 years ago, 31-Jul-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Latest Moc: Scania R500 with Faymonville low loader
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Finally the R500 is finalized together with the low loader. It took me about three years to fulfill the task. I started with the trailer just after finishing the unit but postponed it over and over again. I already had it in April 2011 but waited (...) (13 years ago, 31-Jul-11, to lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.technic, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Problems with LDView
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(...) Hi Travis, I've tried to open it manually with LDView and that works. It happens with all of my models that have around 3000 parts and 3 layers max (with this I mean model-submodel-subsubmodel). I've taken a look at the activity when I try to (...) (13 years ago, 30-Jul-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | "Had it with eBay" celebratory sale
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I did it. I sold my last item at eBay, and I no longer have a store there or any listings. The prices and service (high and low respectively) don't compare to BrickLink. Maybe they'll change for the better but for now, I had enough. So, to (...) (13 years ago, 30-Jul-11, to lugnet.market.brickshops, FTX) !!
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(...) Are you able to manually open your model files in LDView and view them? Also, does this LDView error happen with all models you try to use with LPub, or just some specific model? If it's a specific model, would you mind sending me the model so (...) (13 years ago, 30-Jul-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Problems with LDView
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(...) Hi! Problem solved! Needed to clear the image cache a couple of times. Thank you very much! Best regards, Miran (13 years ago, 30-Jul-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Problems with LDView
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(...) Hi! Thanks for your reply! I have put ldconfig.ldr in the same directory. It is not the complete solution: somehow it show the right color in the parts list, but in the assembly it still shows dark tan exactly the same as tan... Do you happen (...) (13 years ago, 30-Jul-11, to lugnet.cad)
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