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(...) "Wither" I think? Whither LUGNet??? Oh, it withered. But ya, it's been a very long time... we were all younger then. (12 years ago, 22-Dec-12, to lugnet.general)
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(...) There is some variability between CDN Tire stores. The one nearest me had their LEGO and most other toys marked down 40%. It's a smaller store that doesn't even have enough space for their regular stock, much less seasonal stuff. Another CDN (...) (12 years ago, 21-Dec-12, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) Neither do I, but for example the discussion groups at Embarcadero (current owners of the former Borland Delphi programming tool) are AFAIK using a standard product, and are usable both on the web and via nntp. (URL) which means I see all the (...) (12 years ago, 21-Dec-12, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yep. Many points for improvement (admins are presumably working on it), but I know of no direct replacement out there. I've been to most of the major LEGO discussion groups out there and none of them have the same functionality/versatility and (...) (12 years ago, 21-Dec-12, to lugnet.general)
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(...) So in conclusion with a tragically flawed system not allowing new prospective members to join and all the older members eventually forgetting their passwords and not being able to reset them it seems LUGNET is destined to whither away and die. (...) (12 years ago, 21-Dec-12, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LEGO® CUUSOO Summer Review Results (video)
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(...) I know. It's weird. I can still remember the first time I met Tim in person at Brickfair 2002. (...) Agreed. Cale (12 years ago, 21-Dec-12, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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Walmart flyer good from Friday Dec 21st through Monday Dec 24th. Batman 2 LEGO video game for Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii, $19.86 4429 Helicopter Rescue $64.86 (was $74.86) ---...--- Sears flyer good from Friday Dec 21st through Monday Dec 24th. All toys (...) (12 years ago, 20-Dec-12, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) Tim is all grown up! Nice set. (12 years ago, 20-Dec-12, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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(...) I'm seriously going to buy as many sets of BTTF as I possibly can--MJF Foundation!! Nice on ya, builders!! That made my eyes a little misty Dave K (12 years ago, 20-Dec-12, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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(...) Who is that stunningly handsome man in the video?? Good on ya, Tim! Dave K (12 years ago, 20-Dec-12, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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(...) And by Janes place I of course meant Janey's place... Jane will never let us visit her place. (...) (12 years ago, 20-Dec-12, to lugnet.org.ca.obb, FTX)
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LEGO® CUUSOO Summer Review Results LEGO YouTube channel: (URL) YouTube.com> (Summer 2012 review results published on Dec. 20, 2012) -Enjoy! (12 years ago, 20-Dec-12, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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LEGO® Holiday Story... Two different links to the same video. LEGO YouTube Channel: <https://www.youtube...uHGU6S9hZk YouTube.com> Website:(URL) LEGOChimney.com> -Enjoy! (12 years ago, 20-Dec-12, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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(...) Hear Hear!! Although I think janes place is a little crowded for a visit.. Chris Male and I were chatting the other day about having Sorting parties. Jeff VW (...) (12 years ago, 20-Dec-12, to lugnet.org.ca.obb, FTX)
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Here's a view of some of the old LEGO images and sets that were among the first that TLGO used to sell LEGO during the holidays. Since posting pictures here is not doable... I posted this elsewhere, and can be viewed all together. There are among (...) (12 years ago, 20-Dec-12, to lugnet.general)
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(...) If you use Firefox and it autosaves your LUGNet PW for you (as mine does) you can see it in your list of saved passwords. Use FEBE or something similar to back up your personal FF data and restore on the new system and all your saved PWs will (...) (12 years ago, 20-Dec-12, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I for one am glad this conversation came up - I want to get a new system just after Christmas (I want one of the quiet ones). After a lot of searching I hadn't found my PW before lunch. But, I did just now. Whew! Thinking about it now, I (...) (12 years ago, 19-Dec-12, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Nice! As someone who has twice done Hoth scenes, I can appreciate lots of white! Especially appropriate, given the recent playing on TV of the "How to Train Your "Dragon" short about the holiday season. -Chris Gray (NALUG) (12 years ago, 19-Dec-12, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) love the incorporation of the trans blue ice small BURPS the whole thing is visually stunning to look at Nicely done! Dave K (12 years ago, 18-Dec-12, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) I think many of us are not going to be happy when migrating to a new system :( (12 years ago, 18-Dec-12, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Nice! Play well, Jacob (10 URLs) (12 years ago, 18-Dec-12, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Sounds like you haven't managed to change your password to something you can't remember. I still have posting rights, but I can't access my profile until one of the admins finds time to give me a new/temporary password. I wait with hope for (...) (12 years ago, 18-Dec-12, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I will never forget mine, actually. But I still am fearful of getting set up to post (without confirmation) correctly (12 years ago, 18-Dec-12, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I recently got a new computer. All I had to do was click the login key, put in my credentials, and click the "now never forget about it" option. Easy peasy. But I happen to remember my password... Steve (12 years ago, 18-Dec-12, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Totally Agree!!!! Like Ben, I am in fear of what will happen when I switch computers next, and it's coming soon. I know my password but just getting set up scares me. (12 years ago, 18-Dec-12, to lugnet.general)
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| | HispaBrick Magazine 015 available
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(URL) little later than usual, but here we are again. This issue has had to wait for our annual event to finish, images of which you will find inside, but be assured that it has not affected the work we have put into HBM 015. In this issue you will (...) (12 years ago, 17-Dec-12, to lugnet.announce) !
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An active Viking whaling outpost processing the recent catch has attracted some unwarranted attention from an airborne predator. (2 URLs) AC (12 years ago, 17-Dec-12, to lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.castle, FTX) !
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(...) snip Progress thus far-- (URL) The major change, besides the extra 5 bricks on the landing pad level, is that he landing pads are now removable for ease of transporation, so hopefully no repeats of this-- (URL) So I have one landing pad (...) (12 years ago, 17-Dec-12, to lugnet.org.ca.obb, FTX)
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(...) The good bit, at least for me, is I remember my LUGNET member ID and my password, so there's that. If I forgot one of those two things (and that's not beyond the point of happening), then I'm SOL So yeah, this 'happiest place on teh internet' (...) (12 years ago, 17-Dec-12, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Same for me, Dave. And it might end terribly, in case that I ever have to get a new PC. I am permanently logged in and this System is now 5 years old again. On none of my other machines I have full Lugnet access. If I ever suffered a HD-crash, (...) (12 years ago, 15-Dec-12, to lugnet.general)
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In lugnet.general, Elroy Davis wrote: <snip lotsa wonderful stuff> (...) Very nicely stated, Elroy! Dave K (12 years ago, 14-Dec-12, to lugnet.general)
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All saves valid Friday Dec 14 through Thursday Dec 20th unless otherwise noted. No LEGO in the Canadian Tire Flyer ---...--- Zellers. Save 40% on all LEGO. Reg 7.99-89.99, 4.79-53.99. Save 40% on all yellow ticketed toys. Monday Dec 17 is the final (...) (12 years ago, 13-Dec-12, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: LEGO train display at the Dartmouth Sportsplex Nov 24-25
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(...) Thanks muchly. I've found Charlie Brown doesn't work as well as I'd hoped. Kids are the right height to recognize him, but they don't know who he is. The adults don't see the detail under the tree, and it seems no one under 40 knows who (...) (12 years ago, 13-Dec-12, to lugnet.loc.ca.ns, FTX)
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| | Rare USA only 6383 Cargo Center Plates
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It's kind of odd... I just put up the 2 rare new condition baseplates in the rare USA only 1981 released 6383 Public Works Center... (URL) then someone else (I don't know) has all the other parts to this very expensive set... (URL) figure? ;) Gary (...) (12 years ago, 13-Dec-12, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | First ever image of the entire LEGO family?
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In all my years I had never seen an image of the entire LEGO owning Christiansen family. Well that changed, when a Dutch friend found an article from 1962 in a German QUICK magazine. The article mentions that Godtfred Kirk Christiansen (son of LEGO (...) (12 years ago, 13-Dec-12, to lugnet.general)
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(...) [snipped lots of good stuff] (...) I'm just catching up on this conversation. I do find it interesting. Although I'm pretty sure I read about some of the cuts in support, I didn't really pay them any attention. Throughout my time as an AFOL, (...) (12 years ago, 12-Dec-12, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Friday Dec 14th - not as bad as Friday the 13th
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(...) Y'know, if I had a better memory that, y'know, actually remembered stuff, I'd realize that *I* posted numerous times for dinners on Friday the 13th thru the years (and there seemed to be lots of them!!)... Alas, my memory sucks. Meh, I also (...) (12 years ago, 12-Dec-12, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) A quick search reveals the truth: (URL) (12 years ago, 12-Dec-12, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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LEGO Goes Digital To Keep Building Dec. 7, 2012 BILLUND, Denmark (Reuters) - Danish toy maker LEGO will move deeper into the digital world, with more computer games and tie-ups with popular movie franchises, as it battles to grow in a shrinking toy (...) (12 years ago, 12-Dec-12, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO train display at the Dartmouth Sportsplex Nov 24-25
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In lugnet.loc.ca.ns, Gail Meagher wrote: <snip> (...) <snip> (...) Love the pictures! so many details but to start--love Charlie Brown in the tree with teh kite string :). As well, the mini train is exceptionally cool! All around, wish I had made it (...) (12 years ago, 11-Dec-12, to lugnet.loc.ca.ns)
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| | Re: LEGO train display at the Dartmouth Sportsplex Nov 24-25
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(...) I finally got my pictures uploaded and moderated. I just got City Hall finished the week before the show. As well, since it was in November, most of the adult male figs have mustaches. (URL) Dude' is a sigfig of a friend of mine (Boston fan) (...) (12 years ago, 11-Dec-12, to lugnet.loc.ca.ns)
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(...) yeah, when I think of THE Chris Magno, I think of nobody... Dave K (...) (12 years ago, 11-Dec-12, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I can't remember ever skipping a dinner on the 2nd Friday unless we're having a show that weekend. So I'm more than sure we've had our rtl dinner on Friday the 13th!!!! (chainsaws not included, or am I mixing my horror genres...) Dave K (12 years ago, 11-Dec-12, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Long term average theoretically is 1/7... has that been holding true for you? Or do you guys skip the months where it's the 13th ??? (12 years ago, 11-Dec-12, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Lead? no Hang at the table where other people show up. Yes. Chris 3rd nobody from the left. (...) (12 years ago, 10-Dec-12, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) What--you lead the oldest LUG in Toronto? That's cool! Though I don't see any other LUGs in Toronto--at least, not here on LUGNET. 17ish years?? Wow! I should join your lug! I'm a builder! I live (close to) the GTA! Maybe I'll come out to (...) (12 years ago, 10-Dec-12, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Elf Guards Of Mirkwood
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(...) That's beautiful! So much detail in such a small area. Love the creek, love the trees, love everything about this! Nicely done! Dave K (12 years ago, 10-Dec-12, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | Friday Dec 14th - not as bad as Friday the 13th
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Yep, Who ever it was, oh so many years ago, that decided that the newly founded group of Toronto based Lego Adult Fans of Lego should meet on the second Friday of every month; well lets just say not a lot of foresight was put into what could be the (...) (12 years ago, 10-Dec-12, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Elf Guards Of Mirkwood
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In the midst of the Mirkwood forest runs an enchanted stream closely guarded by elves that protect and repel any unwarranted visitors. These elven guards patrol not only the forest floor, but also the canopy with their uncanny ability to leap from (...) (12 years ago, 9-Dec-12, to lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Thanks Dave. We are having a blast with it. (12 years ago, 9-Dec-12, to lugnet.general)
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