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In NASA LEGO Contest, Students Aim For Space By Elizabeth Howell Sept. 15, 2013 Designed to gaze at the sun, a proposed satellite called "Sunbeam" has the usual radio dishes and rocket engines you would expect of a spacecraft. The difference between (...) (11 years ago, 17-Sep-13, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Re: Mini Mi - To create and share your own custom Minifigure
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I have been enjoying it as has my youngest son. I will probably even pay for the "expansion" packs of items. (11 years ago, 13-Sep-13, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | LEGOLAND California Water Park is Getting Bigger
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LEGOLAND® California Water Park is Getting Bigger By Lori Weisberg Sept. 12, 2013 LEGOLAND California three-year-old water park will grow by more than two acres next year when it introduces a new themed area tied to LEGO® Legends of Chima product (...) (11 years ago, 13-Sep-13, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.legoland, FTX)
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| | Re: Brickshelf?
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(...) Hello, I can't access brickshelf. Is the site down? I hope not, it is such a great site. I have some direct links to my bricklink store and they don't show. Good luck, Jean-Marc (11 years ago, 13-Sep-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Mini Mi - To create and share your own custom Minifigure
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(...) Unfortunately, the page says it is still to be released for Android. Let us know when its available! (11 years ago, 12-Sep-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | Mini Mi - To create and share your own custom Minifigure
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If you always want to create and share your own custom LEGO® Minifigure. Well now you can. Mini Mi: From Seven on Two Design, Inc. (URL) Mix and match different unique elements. Choose different colors and backgrounds. Give it a shake and see what (...) (11 years ago, 12-Sep-13, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | movn' on up - BRICKFETE
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To quote a classic theme song from my youth: (URL) right, Brickfete is moving from the Hilton, to a brand New Location!!!! And much like the TV show, I am going to have someone walk on my back. (1) This is the post Janey made in the Brickfete forums (...) (11 years ago, 12-Sep-13, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Dentis? Drills? Dinner?
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Come one, come all to this September -back-to-lego dinner 7pm Swiss Challet Dundas St Etobicoke When you arrive, ask me about how I was rear-ended Ask me about losing a filling, Ask me about the subsequent parking ticket whiling getting the other (...) (11 years ago, 11-Sep-13, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Activating an EV3 forum?
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You can call me Chris :) (...) (11 years ago, 11-Sep-13, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Activating an EV3 forum?
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(...) Hey Tai, Under the Edit Menu there is a Change Language. Mine only shows English when that option is clicked. Seems to me, the software is setup for localization. Maybe you can contact Lego and get the SDK and provide the Vietnamese language (...) (11 years ago, 11-Sep-13, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Activating an EV3 forum?
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(...) Hey Tai, Download the commercial EV3 software from www.lego.com/mindstorms link provided by bennetc5 who owns an EV3 set. I'm reviewing the language manual and acquainting myself with the User Interface. As they say, once you know how to (...) (11 years ago, 11-Sep-13, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Activating an EV3 forum?
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Glad the EV3 software download is free. It would definitely support the students working on their programs outside of the lab. Of course, in many of the Title I schools, many have no access to home computers. It's going to be interesting how younger (...) (11 years ago, 11-Sep-13, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | LEGO® Education Looks to Inspire Writing Skills in Elementary Classrooms
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LEGO® Education Looks to Inspire Writing Skills in Elementary Classrooms Company Launches Storytelling Essay Contest in Celebration of National Literacy Month PITTSBURG, Kan., Sep 09, 2013 (BUSINESS WIRE) - NEWS HIGHLIGHTS: • LEGO® Education (...) (11 years ago, 10-Sep-13, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | LEGO sales in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Faroe Islands.
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About a year ago on Eurobricks, I posted a thread about LEGO sales in Norway, Sweden and Finland. I had forgotten all about this thread until a Finnish LEGO collector found the "Barn" in Finland that originally produced 70% of the LEGO produced for (...) (11 years ago, 10-Sep-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LEGO Beats Hasbro as World’s No. 2 Toymaker Amid Asia Sales Jump
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LEGO was first introduced to Asia in 1962, when sales started in Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong. Sales started off very slowly, and remained so for a very long time. One of my new chapters in my LEGO DVD download (free to current owners when the (...) (11 years ago, 10-Sep-13, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Re: Activating an EV3 forum?
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(...) Love it! My young students haven't melted anything yet, but they've sure twisted a lot of axles in battle. Is the software only downloadable with a purchase key? It would be interesting to have my students download the software onto their home (...) (11 years ago, 10-Sep-13, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Activating an EV3 forum?
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Also I got an interesting reply from lego. I asked them why all of their motors were slow. I MOC'ed a 8090 Supercar together with a 30,000 rpm 7.2 Hobby RC motor. Great in theory… reality not so much. I got it to move quickly and I spun a tire off (...) (11 years ago, 9-Sep-13, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Activating an EV3 forum?
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Saturday Academy, the non-profit I taught summer camps for, provided my class with pre-ordered NXTs the week they became available. That was before the recession. They are in no position to replace their 60+ NXTs with the same amount of EV3 in the (...) (11 years ago, 9-Sep-13, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | LEGO Beats Hasbro as World’s No. 2 Toymaker Amid Asia Sales Jump
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LEGO® Beats Hasbro as World’s No. 2 Toymaker Amid Asia Sales Jump By Christian Weinberg, Sept. 5, 2013 LEGO A/S, the Danish building-block maker, said first-half sales jumped 13 percent with the strongest growth in Asia amid a slower start to 2013 (...) (11 years ago, 5-Sep-13, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Re: Brickshelf hacked???
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(...) And can anyone explain why this folder (URL) is showing 3746713986 hits? That makes it the second "most popular" folder on Brickshelf. Again, the images within have less than 500 hits. Very suspicious. -Steven (11 years ago, 2-Sep-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | SR 3D Builder 0.8.11.5
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Hi everybody !! As promised, even if a week later, here is another program update. ---...--- Before continue: if someone downloaded the program on September 2, 2013 before this announce, probably got a wrong version. If this is the case, download (...) (11 years ago, 2-Sep-13, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: RCX plus parts for sale
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(...) I forgot to mention the RCX Remote control (URL) It is of course also in the package... :-) Ardjan (11 years ago, 2-Sep-13, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | RCX plus parts for sale
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I've not been here on Lugnet for a long time, so please bear with me if I violate the Netiquette... The Mindstorms EV3 is hitting the shelves around these days, and I am thinking about getting the set. My son (now 10y) had a 'robots for kids' (...) (11 years ago, 1-Sep-13, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Rotating a 6629.dat Technic Beam 4 x 6 Liftarm Bent 53.13
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Using 3.40 - Why can't I check Rotation Vector in the Rotation & Orientation window on a 6629.dat Technic Beam 4x6 Liftarm Bent 53.13? Seems the inability to check the box to activate this option has been problematic in the past. I've searched posts (...) (11 years ago, 1-Sep-13, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | BrickCon - Call for Presentations (Due 9/14)
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BrickCon still has slots open for presentations. Please submit your proposals as soon as possible. What would be a good presentation? Here's a list of possible ideas: (URL) something there looks interesting, or you have another idea, you can make it (...) (11 years ago, 30-Aug-13, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon)
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| | Change in News Display
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All, following an increasing number of requests, I have today disabled display of the "From:" field on the News article pages. This means, while the author's name will continue to be visible, the From: header line containing the author's email (...) (11 years ago, 28-Aug-13, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | LEGO DVD/download 1 day sale...
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Just found some extras that I'm offering as freebies for 3 LEGO DVD/download orders.... only on August 28.... (free shipping of these paper items in a Christmas card + envelope)... 1) a 1969 USA Samsonite Catalog (not folded in superb condition) (...) (11 years ago, 28-Aug-13, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Buffalo Bill Wild West Roughriders
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The Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World shows created by William Frederick Cody, better known as Buffalo Bill, can be credited with helping to create and preserve the dramatic myth of the Rough Riders and the American (...) (11 years ago, 26-Aug-13, to lugnet.western, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | LEGO sold in Asia.... from Lebanon to Japan...
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LEGO sales were started in Asia in 1962 and thereabouts in Japan and other countries... Hong Kong, Lebanon and Singapore... and later other countries. In Japan LEGO was first imported from Denmark by the Asahi Corp. from 1962-69, from Fujisho Corp. (...) (11 years ago, 25-Aug-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: First LEGO Plastic was Cellulose Acetate and....
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Whooops.... goofed on that 2nd link in the previous post... (URL) way this can be mistaken for a non-licensed clone! Cheers, Gary Istok (11 years ago, 25-Aug-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | First LEGO Plastic was Cellulose Acetate and....
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Well the first LEGO plastic produced for Automatic Binding Bricks (LEGO bricks from 1949-53) by TLG Billund Denmark were made of Cellulose Acetate. And anyone who has seen very old LEGO plastic can tell how much it warps. Just doing some research (...) (11 years ago, 25-Aug-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | sale Aug 23-29
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No LEGO in either the Walmart or Target flyers this week. ---...--- TRU flyer good from Friday Aug 23 through Thursday Aug 29. 15% off 3183 Stephanie's Cool Convertible. $16.97 (first time I've seen a Friends set on sale) 20% off select LEGO city, (...) (11 years ago, 23-Aug-13, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | LEGO Wooden Box Sets sold to Beauty Parlors/Barber Shops
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A discussion with a LEGO Archive employee last year about wooden box sets, came up with a previously unknown use for LEGO sets... the fact that TLG was marketing the wooden box sets in the early years of their production to Beauty Parlors and to (...) (11 years ago, 18-Aug-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | How LEGO Service Packs got started...
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Service packs and individual parts sales are relatively new (only last 20 or so years) to the USA and Canada. But in Europe individual parts sales started in 1950 in Denmark, and Service Packs started as individual sales either from mail-order, or (...) (11 years ago, 15-Aug-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | Red Coats Beach Defense
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The British soldiers shore up their formidable beach defenses ready to repel any invaders. The artillery crew man the cannons from their firing positions as more soldiers beef up the shore line. (URL) Clickthe pic for more details... AC (11 years ago, 14-Aug-13, to lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | Price Guide for Finding old LEGO at Garage Sales and Fleamarkets
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Many folks have seen old LEGO sets a Garage Sales or Flea Markets, or as they say in Britain, at Car Boot Sales (where they sell items from the back of the car or truck). But you may have hesitated because you had no clue as to the value of the item (...) (11 years ago, 12-Aug-13, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | The Very Rare and Strange 800 LEGO Universal Set
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One of the chapters in my LEGO DVD/download lists the story of very unusual LEGO sets, that really don't fit in any other category or type. The old 800 LEGO set, only sold in France, Denmark and Norway, fits the bill as one of the most unusual sets, (...) (11 years ago, 10-Aug-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | LEGO DVD/download available for i-Pads and i-Phones as well as PC/MACs.
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For those of you who have my Unofficial LEGO Sets/Parts Collectors Guide as DVD/download... if you only have it on your PC/MAC, but not elsewhere.... it is also available for your i-Phones and i-Pads. If you can't download it, send me an EMAIL for (...) (11 years ago, 8-Aug-13, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | The impossibly complex LEGO Promotional Sets!
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I just wrote some information about several 1980s promotional sets... such as the Dutch #1966 Repair Shop set (a Unox Soup promotional set there by Unilever Corp.). Or so I thought it was a Dutch exclusive... until I was shown some German catalog (...) (11 years ago, 7-Aug-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Adults only - Restricted
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(...) ;) (...) It was probably worthy of winning the Manure Spreader. ;) (11 years ago, 6-Aug-13, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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