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Citing the Associated Press, NPR reports that the 8-foot "minifigure" that appeared on a beach in Sarasota, Florida, may soon be released from custody. "SARASOTA, Florida (AP) — The 100-pound, 8-foot-tall mysterious Lego man that was found on a (...) (13 years ago, 28-Oct-11, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: What's your favorite locomotive?
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(...) Alco PA in ATSF Warbonnet. I've made an FA (2 axle trucks, shorter nose) a few (too many) years back, It is on Brickshelf... (URL) and MOCPages ... (URL) along with the rest of the consist. Unfortunately the whole train is a trailer queen, (...) (13 years ago, 28-Oct-11, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Manhattan Bridge
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(...) Wow. I saw this on MOCpages but at the time there were no images (server drive failure?) So what's the story behind your building it? Nice two wide hook and ladder :) (13 years ago, 28-Oct-11, to lugnet.town)
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| | LDraw Script Compiler version 0.64 Released
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(...) New temporary URL: (URL) Added support for ldsconst.lst, a user-editable [color] constant list. * Re-compiled in Open Watcom IDE v1.9 to support 64-bit systems. * LDS Page in French by J.C. Tchang: (URL) (13 years ago, 28-Oct-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Manhattan Bridge
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(...) I just found that on my 'recent updates' page. Very nice! JohnG, GMLTC (13 years ago, 28-Oct-11, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Americanized Emerald Night Full Train MOD/MOCs
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(...) Thank you very much. (13 years ago, 27-Oct-11, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Americanized Emerald Night Full Train MOD/MOCs
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(...) Some of the modifications I made was to fix some of the friction issues on the front and back trucks of the engine. When powered by the drive wheels with a Power Functions XL motor they are not that big of an issue. When the whole engine is (...) (13 years ago, 27-Oct-11, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Manhattan Bridge
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I recently completed this model: (URL) 12 feet long, 21,000 pieces, 35 hours build time. Full gallery post mod. (URL) enjoy! (13 years ago, 27-Oct-11, to lugnet.announce.moc) !
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| | What's your favorite locomotive?
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What's your favorite locomotive and livery, and have you made a LEGO version? Mine would be an EMD SD40-2 in UP livery. I made a 7 wide version 10 years ago. Wish I could find the photos. Which is funny, because of two things. Growing up in the (...) (13 years ago, 27-Oct-11, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Walmart, Zellers, TRU, S@H sales
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Walmart flyer good from Friday October 28th through Thursday November 3rd. Rollback to $39.44 on these three sets (was $49.86) 7868 Mace Windu's Starfighter 4183 The Mill (pirates) 7067 Jet-Copter Encounter (Alien Conquest) Zellers flyer good from (...) (13 years ago, 27-Oct-11, to lugnet.loc.ca, FTX)
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| | Re: I want to put .dat files into SolidWorks
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(...) Bram- Thank you very much for your explanation. I had only a vague comprehension of this concept, & you helped solidify it. (No pun intended!) Well, 3DWin is *supposed* to be able to take .DAT files & make .IGS files out of them. (URL) haven't (...) (13 years ago, 27-Oct-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Self Portrait
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(...) Wait a second... Tony, I thought you never used numbers smaller than 8 (grin). Nice. (13 years ago, 27-Oct-11, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Americanized Emerald Night Full Train MOD/MOCs
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(...) A very fine MoC. Benn (13 years ago, 27-Oct-11, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: October 29th, 2011 SMART Meeting
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Just a reminder about the upcoming SMART meeting this Saturday, from 2-5pm, at DigiPen. The mini-challenge is to build a robot that can throw a LEGO "pumpkin" as far as possible, or as accurately as possible. The "pumpkin" can be any LEGO element, (...) (13 years ago, 27-Oct-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Americanized Emerald Night Full Train MOD/MOCs
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(...) Hi Mike, Nice done. Train runs verry well as can be seen in the video. I noticed that the doughter was also enjoying it by jumping over the track :) Regards, Ludo (13 years ago, 26-Oct-11, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: I want to put .dat files into SolidWorks
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(...) The modeling strategies for Solidworks and LDraw are fundamentally different: LDraw is based on triangle meshes, and Solidworks is based on constructive solid geometry. Going from CSG to mesh is easy, but going the other way requires some AI (...) (13 years ago, 26-Oct-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: I want to put .dat files into SolidWorks
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Some further progress. It turns out that I was able to convert a .DAT file to .STL with LDView & import it into SolidWorks, but it further turned out that, once I'd imported an .STL file into SolidWorks, I couldn't do very much with it. I can't mate (...) (13 years ago, 25-Oct-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | 2011 Christmas Train Show November 19th and 20th
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(A little late...) Hello everyone! It's that time again when I procrastinated just a little too much regarding my responsibilities to all of you in the LEGO building world!! For that, I apologize. The good bit is that I just got off the phone with (...) (13 years ago, 24-Oct-11, to lugnet.org.ca.obb, lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment)
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| | LDS temple
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kinda cool: (URL) (13 years ago, 24-Oct-11, to lugnet.build)
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| | Looking for older castle sets, parts, stuff
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Hi I am looking for older castle sets, incomplete sets or just parts. Anything goes. Contact me on sonnich@hote.ee - there is not much traffic here, hence not much sense to check it every day WBR Sonnich (13 years ago, 24-Oct-11, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | I want to put .dat files into SolidWorks
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Hi- I seem to want to do something a little bit backwards relative to what most people & most converters seem to be doing... :) I'm a die-hard SolidWorks user & wish to import LDraw .dat models into SolidWorks. I'm having some trouble. Here's what (...) (13 years ago, 24-Oct-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Americanized Emerald Night Full Train MOD/MOCs
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I wanted to "Americanize" the Emerald Night so I basically made a cross between the official set and the (URL) Southern Crescent>. I also remade the dining car with doors in the ends instead of an opening and a complete overhaul of the roof. I then (...) (13 years ago, 23-Oct-11, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Come meet Chris Roach AKA Boyzwiththemosttoyz - master LEGOformer creator
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LEGO meets TRANSFORMERS – November 19th Chris Roach AKA Boyzwiththemosttoyz has created a massive number of Transformer style creations in LEGO. These range from pretty small creations to some very detailed re-creations of Transformers every kid (...) (13 years ago, 23-Oct-11, to lugnet.loc.ca.on)
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| | Creator #5771 "Hillside House"
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Picked up a pair of #5771 Creator "Hillside House" on the TRU sale. Haven't opened the box yet, but I like all the tan windows, including 4 4x6 ones. Includes 5 1x16 dark bley brick, 2 16x16 green plate, 3 16x16 bley plate. -Chris Gray (13 years ago, 22-Oct-11, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | October 29th, 2011 SMART Meeting
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For the upcoming SMART meeting (in just over a week!) your task is to build a robot that can do Pumpkin Chuckin! Throw any LEGO element or elements as far as possible, without doing any damage to our facilities! Your device must be built entirely (...) (13 years ago, 21-Oct-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Where did the LEGO train history pages go?
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"Why did LEGO move to battery operated trains?" I thought it was because EU regulations state that "trains that pick up from the track are not recommended for children under eight years old." It is all to do with Health & Safety - Playmobil made the (...) (13 years ago, 21-Oct-11, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Self Portrait
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(URL) --Tony (13 years ago, 21-Oct-11, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: WHaCKoLuG October Dinner
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(...) And we ended up having No Desserts Or Jasmine as our Waitress... Go Figure.. Jeff VW (13 years ago, 21-Oct-11, to lugnet.org.ca.obb)
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| | Yoda's Hut
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(2 URLs) Click the pics for more details... AC (13 years ago, 21-Oct-11, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | Assorted sales Oct 21-27
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Zellers flyer good from Friday October 21 through Thursday the 27th. Toyland now open. Buy one get one half price on all LEGO . Second item must be of equal or lesser value. Reg $6.99-$89.99. They also have a "blowout" on discounted toys, and they (...) (13 years ago, 20-Oct-11, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Where did the LEGO train history pages go?
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Looks like Ben's pages (referenced in the sidebar) on fgltc are no more? I just wrote an answer in Quora (URL) wanted to link to the history... I think there was an archive on the ngltc.org pages but that site now is reported by Google as unsafe. (...) (13 years ago, 20-Oct-11, to lugnet.trains)
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| | RAILBRICKS Issue #10 Available for Download
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RAILBRICKS Issue #10 is now available for download. The new issue can be found on the newly updated RAILBRICKS website: (URL) -Elroy (13 years ago, 19-Oct-11, to lugnet.trains, FTX) !
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| | Re: Train layouts
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(...) Thanks. (Although my contribution only was a single house.) (...) I am toying with an idea, where I want to print the foundations of a (highly detailed, possibly fractal) landscape on a 3D printer, and then only use LEGO for the "top-soil". It (...) (13 years ago, 19-Oct-11, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Brick or Treat!
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(...) Nice scene! Play well, Jacob (13 years ago, 19-Oct-11, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LEGO killed the train club
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(...) I think the one distinct advantage that NMRA 2005 had was that it was centrally located for just about every club on the east coast, and a good chunk of the midwest. I know 2013 will in Atlanta during July 14-20, and I will most likely be (...) (13 years ago, 18-Oct-11, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Creator sets with articulation joints
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Dear Lego I'm a HUGE fan of the creator sets (I can seriously see myself content with just one or two of these if I was stuck on a desert island). The sets with articulation joints in particular are my favorites but I noticed that with last year's (...) (13 years ago, 17-Oct-11, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: LEGO model: Samford Hall
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(...) Looks just like the real thing! War Eagle! Scott W. (URL) (13 years ago, 15-Oct-11, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: BlueBrick
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(...) Hello everybody, BlueBrick 1.7.0 is released! You can download it at the usual place: (URL) It contains 12 bug fix (including 3 crash bugs) and 13 new features (including the flex track edition). Enjoy! Any problem, any bug, please report it. (...) (13 years ago, 6-Oct-11, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Walmart has City Advent Calendar
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(...) Yes, its annoying. You have to have Javascript turned on to see all of any given page of stuff - clicking on the "View All" or even the "NextXXX" links doesn't do anything except reload the current page if you have Javascript turned off. I (...) (13 years ago, 14-Oct-11, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Brick or Treat!
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The next installment in my SRW Scenic Tours "Texas Brick Railroad" photo series: "Brick or Treat" (URL) Image is a link. --Tony (13 years ago, 14-Oct-11, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX) !
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