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Rolls-Royce Reveals World's Only LEGO Jet Engine Monday, 9 July 2012 Rolls-Royce today unveiled the world's first jet engine to be made entirely of LEGO at the opening of Farnborough International Airshow. The engine, which is one of the most (...) (12 years ago, 11-Jul-12, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Fan Survey results & feedback (2012)
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(...) I thought it was Hereby The Love Bug. (12 years ago, 11-Jul-12, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Fan Survey results & feedback (2012)
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(...) Is it just me or does "hereby" seem a bit of an odd usage? :) I thought the rest of this statement of results was great stuff. Some of it expected of course but new insight.. Thanks TLG for sharing this info with us. (12 years ago, 10-Jul-12, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Droids building droids
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My entry to the EuroBricks contest. (URL) Click the pic for more details... AC (12 years ago, 9-Jul-12, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | Re: New Dark Red???
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In lugnet.color, Brad Hamilton wrote: So, I'll have to just consider them slight (...) It would be interesting to pinpoint when the color changed. I don't have any pieces except the new ones I can confirm a date for. (12 years ago, 8-Jul-12, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | Re: New Dark Red???
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(...) Hmm - That's kind of annoying. Your picture shows exactly the same color difference as I'm seeing. So, I'll have to just consider them slight variants of the same color. Luckily, they do not look bad together (and in fact, look a bit like (...) (12 years ago, 7-Jul-12, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | Re: FUNCOM To Develop Massively Multiplayer Online Game Based On LEGO® Minifigures
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(...) So the question becomes whether it is possible to make a go of a game in this space. It would be interesting to see what failure analysis was done... here's what I and others came up with. (URL) be interested in what others think (write an (...) (12 years ago, 7-Jul-12, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Re: New Dark Red???
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(...) I just compared some recently acquired some dark red 1x2 bricks (from the POB wall at Rockefeller Center) with some plates from an older Star Wars set and the color is slightly but noticeably different - the newer bricks have more of a "sand" (...) (12 years ago, 6-Jul-12, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | Re: FUNCOM To Develop Massively Multiplayer Online Game Based On LEGO® Minifigures
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This appears to be a license deal, not a development deal. In other words, I bet FUNCOM will be taking on most of the risk of making the game profitable, not TLG. (12 years ago, 6-Jul-12, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | New Dark Red???
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Hi, Do the new Friends sets have a "different" dark red, and if so, what is it called? The new Friends sets advertised many new colors and I noticed that when I got 3061 (City Park Cafe), it had a different dark red color. It seems to have a bit (...) (12 years ago, 6-Jul-12, to lugnet.color)
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| | LEGO Fan Survey results & feedback (2012)
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Dear LEGO® Fan community, We hereby share top line, aggregated results of the LEGO Fan Survey which was conducted in May 2012. Over 6.000 LEGO fans over the age of 13 participated in the survey. A majority of you who participated in the survey were (...) (12 years ago, 6-Jul-12, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, FTX) !
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| | SR 3D Builder 0.7.2.7 just released
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Hi again, another version has just been released and is available from (URL) significant improvement this time, just some fixes, most around the UI. Here is a list of changes. Enjoy! Sergio ___...___ [b]Fixed[/b] - Some issue in the standard user (...) (12 years ago, 5-Jul-12, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Three week TRU sale
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No LEGO in this weeks Zellers or Walmart flyers. ---...--- Sears flyer good from Friday July 6th through Sunday July 9th. Warehouse sale. Save an extra 25% on already reduced clearance toys. No idea if any LEGO falls into this category. ---...--- (...) (12 years ago, 5-Jul-12, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: 4th July Freebie Sale - Unofficial LEGO Sets/Parts Collectors Guide (1949-90s) on DVD plus Download.
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(...) Thanks Mark, I hope you have your download now... After you moved twice, for some odd reason the online Zip Code Finder can't find your new address zip code... it said "address not found"... thanks for the PM to handle that. Gary (12 years ago, 2-Jul-12, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: 4th July Freebie Sale - Unofficial LEGO Sets/Parts Collectors Guide (1949-90s) on DVD plus Download.
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Gary, Please check your email, I've been trying to get a hold of you about my DVD order for quite some time now. Thanks, Mark (12 years ago, 2-Jul-12, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | 4th July Freebie Sale - Unofficial LEGO Sets/Parts Collectors Guide (1949-90s) on DVD plus Download.
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I'm having a quick freebie sale on my latest (and final) LEGO collectors guide... available as a DVD plus a download... only takes 6 minutes to download 688MB of data (80 files in a zip)... As a desktop folder (73 chapters and 4 appendices all (...) (12 years ago, 2-Jul-12, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: FUNCOM To Develop Massively Multiplayer Online Game Based On LEGO® Minifigures
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(...) Or Brick Universe, so when they abandon it again, it wont tarnish their good name. Janey "Not all of us have short memories" Red Brick (12 years ago, 29-Jun-12, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | NO July WHACKoLUG meeting
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Just to let everyone know, there is NO July WHaCKoLUG meeting this year, because we will all be at www.Brickfete.com Hope to see many of you there... Cheers, Janey Red Brick (12 years ago, 29-Jun-12, to lugnet.org.ca.obb)
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| | Re: FUNCOM To Develop Massively Multiplayer Online Game Based On LEGO® Minifigures
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(...) (snip) Hey, I know... Maybe they could call it LEGO® Universe(tm)! (12 years ago, 29-Jun-12, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | FUNCOM To Develop Massively Multiplayer Online Game Based On LEGO® Minifigures
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FUNCOM TO DEVELOP MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER ONLINE GAME BASED ON LEGO® MINIFIGURES Published on (2012-06-28) Funcom signs license agreement with the LEGO® Group to develop MMO game based on the hugely popular LEGO® Minifigures line of collectible play (...) (12 years ago, 28-Jun-12, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.gaming, FTX)
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| | TRU clearance sale?
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No LEGO in the Walmart or Zellers flyers this week. No regular TRU flyer for next week on their website. They have a Babies R Us flyer good from Friday June 29th through Thursday the 5th of July. It says: "Toys R Us & Babies R Us CLEARANCE EVENT* (...) (12 years ago, 28-Jun-12, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | 3D printer car
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A Canadian company has a 3D printer car. 2 seats. Hybrid gas/electric, and Canadian. Very cool. (URL) Brickfete in 16 days you can smell the ABS melt as I stand near the 3D printer, and make Lego related 3D printer things. I'm thinking 3D monorail (...) (12 years ago, 28-Jun-12, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Redesigning my website
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Yes, I admit it. (URL) My LEGO website> is from 1994 and sometimes you can see it. So I've tried to put more focus on the images of my MOCs. The principle is simple: + Just a single line at the top for navigation. + Images first (on category pages (...) (12 years ago, 28-Jun-12, to lugnet.publish.html, FTX)
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| | Super voices in play for WB's LEGO movie
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Super voices in play for WB's LEGO movie Will Arnett set as Batman, Channing Tatum courted for Superman By Jeff Sneider Auds won't have to wait for "Justice League" to see Warner Bros.' two marquee superheroes share the bigscreen, as both Batman and (...) (12 years ago, 27-Jun-12, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | SR 3D Builder 0.7.2.1
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Hi again, another new version has just been released. Available from (URL) a little but really interesting new function. Here is a brief as usual: Fixed - The Save function no longer ask for filename if model already have one - Bounding boxes around (...) (12 years ago, 22-Jun-12, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: 10188 Death Star will retire when?
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(...) It's been out for 4 years now. If you had saved just $10 a month, you would've had enough to buy it plus some extra for shipping. :) David (12 years ago, 22-Jun-12, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: LDView and snapshots (Windows 7 64bit)
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(...) Sadly, the problem has resurfaced, but at least I was able to gather a lot of new information for help in troubleshooting. I'm on a Windows 7 machine with brand new installs of the LDraw library, LPub, and the 64-bit build of LDView 4.2beta (...) (12 years ago, 22-Jun-12, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | 10188 Death Star will retire when?
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Does anyone have an idea when this set will retire? I would like to get it but at $400 it does require me to save money for it and it's not been something I have done just yet. LIFE has other bills I need to worry about first. So looking at long (...) (12 years ago, 21-Jun-12, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | TRU sale June 22-28
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No LEGO in the Zellers, Sears or Walmart flyers. TRU flyer good from Friday June 22, through Thursday June 28. 20% off all Ninjago and Dino building sets. Excludes clearance and books. Selection varies. Free mini comic book with unlockable (...) (12 years ago, 21-Jun-12, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | ReBrick Building Competition 2012
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Information copied from REBRICK website. REBRICK BUILDING COMPETITION By SIGNELO June 18th, 2012 ReBrick link: (URL) We are happy to announce the very first ReBrick Building Challenge starting today at 15 pm CET! We invite our Rebrick users to (...) (12 years ago, 20-Jun-12, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.build, lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.build.contests, FTX)
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| | June 30th 2012 SMART meeting
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Here's your two week reminder for our next SMART meeting. We'll meet in our usual location at Digipen, in the Michelangelo room, from 2-5 pm. In honor of Alan Turing’s 100th birthday (this coming Saturday), one of the mini-challenges is to build (...) (12 years ago, 18-Jun-12, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Lack of LEGO sales this week
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(...) I guess it was just the TRU website or my computer. Flyer good through Thursday June 21st. TRU has 20% off Alien Conquest, SpongeBob and Racer building sets. Excludes clearance and books. Selection varies. Gail Meagher (12 years ago, 18-Jun-12, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: new mosaic builder needs advice
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Hi Joe, Simple suggestion: I wouldn't mix old grays with new grays ("bluish gray" or "stone gray"). Here's also a (URL) link> to a color guide. I mostly use the RGB-values from LDraw (but I can change these values in my program). 48x48 pixels isn't (...) (12 years ago, 16-Jun-12, to lugnet.build.mosaic, FTX)
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| | March Of The Elves
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A large group of the Elves of Lorien march in to reinforce the defence of the keep sent by Elrond, at the prompting of Galadriel, under the command of Haldir. (URL) Click the pic for more details... AC (12 years ago, 16-Jun-12, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | Lack of LEGO sales this week
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No LEGO in the Sears or Zellers flyers. I'm not sure if there isn't a TRU flyer this week or if I just can't see it. Walmart flyer has LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heros (video game) mentioned. It comes out June 19th. If you buy it for XBox($49.83), PS3 (...) (12 years ago, 14-Jun-12, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | WHaCKoLuG June Dinner
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(URL) many of you there, if not, see the rest of you at Brickfete 2012! Regards, Janey Red Brick www.brickfete.com (12 years ago, 10-Jun-12, to lugnet.org.ca.obb)
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| | Re: new mosaic builder needs advice
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(...) Its really difficult to answer this question because you only left a tiny thumbnail, do you have a link to a larger file? Janey Red Brick (12 years ago, 10-Jun-12, to lugnet.build.mosaic, FTX)
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| | Brickfete Deadlines
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I really wish Janey would not tell me important things when I'm sleeping. I'm not smart enough to recall things when I am awake. IT would seem I neglected to remind people who read Lugnet of the following: 1. DISCOUNT room rates for Brickfete (...) (12 years ago, 8-Jun-12, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | BrickLink.com was hacked
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Some of you may have already know that BrickLink.com site was hacked/attacked few days ago. Eric Smith the BrickLink Administrator is running the site along with a small team to maintain the site. They are working to plug and secure each (...) (12 years ago, 7-Jun-12, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO train display at the Halifax Forum Saturday June 2nd
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Thanks for the pics. I like your display. I had to blog about the (URL) BrickScouts> after seeing pics from Portland, OR and Halifax within minutes of each other from this past weekend. (12 years ago, 7-Jun-12, to lugnet.loc.ca.ns, FTX)
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