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Dear Lugnet Community, after roughly 8 years of residing on the same server platform, it has become inevitable to move Lugnet contents to a new server. We have had the odd intermittent outage because of server components failing, but much worse is (...) (10 years ago, 6-Mar-15, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | Chapters March BrickBreak
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Chapters Indigo Coles, "Save 20% on all LEGO City and all LEGO Classic toys*! While supplies last. Offer valid until March 8th, 2015. *Offer valid from February 28th to March 8th on LEGO City and LEGO Classic at any Chapters, Indigo, Coles, (...) (10 years ago, 1-Mar-15, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: LEGO in Canada (From Samsonite to TLG) 1962-94.
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Canadian LEGO sets from 1962 until circa 1990 would be worth more than comparable sets sold in other markets if they were more well known. Here's an example.... the London Bus Set... known as 760 London Bus in the USA, and 384 London Bus in Canada (...) (10 years ago, 1-Mar-15, to lugnet.org.ca)
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No LEGO in the Walmart Flyer, but they are continuing the clearout of older sets. ----- Atlantic Superstore is having a tax free day Saturday Feb 28 only. Only some stores have LEGO, but those that do may have a decent selection of small to medium (...) (10 years ago, 27-Feb-15, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | LEGOLAND® Parks Premiering New The LEGO Movie 4D Film
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LEGOLAND® Parks Premiering New The LEGO Movie 4D Film Feb. 25, 2015 CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Merlin Entertainments announced today it is partnering with Warner Bros. Consumer Products and The LEGO Group to bring a new 4D animated film (...) (10 years ago, 27-Feb-15, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO in Canada (From Samsonite to TLG) 1962-94.
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Oppps.... almost forgot... I was planning to make the Canadian catalogs available in a fashion similar to this.... (URL) a complete set would be awesome! (eh!) Thanks! Gary Istok (10 years ago, 27-Feb-15, to lugnet.org.ca)
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| | LEGO in Canada (From Samsonite to TLG) 1962-94.
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Hi neighbors to the north (well for me that would be neighbors to the east, since I live just 10 miles from the Canadian border north of Detroit)... I have been working on putting together an entire set history and LEGO development history of LEGO (...) (10 years ago, 27-Feb-15, to lugnet.org.ca)
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| | Re: The mysterious "WDR" version 6661 Mobile TV Set...
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(...) As a followup I did some more digging, and it appears that this set was likely for the 35th anniversary for the WDR TV station of Cologne Germany. The special edition with very rare WDR panels was for the 1 Jan. 1991 35th Anniversary of the (...) (10 years ago, 27-Feb-15, to lugnet.general)
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| | Would you like to see a LEGO® Oscar® Statue set?
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Would you like to see a official LEGO® Oscar set? At the 87th Academy Awards, the song "Everything is Awesome" from "The LEGO® Movie" was perform. During the performance LEGO versions of the Oscar statue were given out to few celebrities. The LEGO (...) (10 years ago, 25-Feb-15, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | Rob Schrab to Direct 'The LEGO Movie Sequel!'
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Rob Schrab to Direct The LEGO Movie Sequel! Director Rob Schrab (“Community,” “The Mindy Project”) will mark his feature directorial debut overseeing construction on The LEGO Movie Sequel, the eagerly awaited follow-up to the worldwide sensation The (...) (10 years ago, 25-Feb-15, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.animation, FTX)
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| | Global Growth Ensures Strong 2014 Result for The LEGO® Group
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GLOBAL GROWTH ENSURES STRONG 2014 RESULT FOR THE LEGO GROUP Strong performance of product lines, such as LEGO® City, LEGO Creator as well as THE LEGO® MOVIE™ products contributed to sales growth in all regions of the world and led to a highly (...) (10 years ago, 25-Feb-15, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Re: sale Feb 20-26
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(...) In addition to these sales, Target is continuing it's Canada clearout. Lego and other toys are 20% off right now. Surprisingly the store I was at in Fergus, ON still had a reasonable amount of stuff on the shelf. (10 years ago, 20-Feb-15, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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Walmart flyer has some full price LEGO in it. ----- TRU flyer good Friday Feb 20 through Thursday Feb 26. 20% off select Super Heroes, Agents, Hobbit, and TMNT building sets. ----- I expect Indigo/Chapters/Coles to start their March sale on select (...) (10 years ago, 19-Feb-15, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | PlastiBots is giving away a book
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Soo.. it's been a long time since I've been here.. I wanted to shed some light on plastibots.com given it's been around since I started building RCX robots. So, I've decided to give away one of the books I co-authored - Building Robots with LEGO (...) (10 years ago, 18-Feb-15, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | LEGO Overtakes Ferrari as the World’s Most Powerful Brand
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LEGO Overtakes Ferrari as the World’s Most Powerful Brand According to Brand Finance posted Feb. 17, 2015. •Analysis of the world’s top brands shows LEGO has replaced Ferrari as the most powerful •Success of The LEGO Movie has propelled the already (...) (10 years ago, 17-Feb-15, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Re: Star Wars will "stay with us forever," says LEGO
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(...) I'd laugh if it wasn't true. (URL) (10 years ago, 16-Feb-15, to lugnet.general, lugnet.licensed, FTX)
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| | Re: Star Wars will "stay with us forever," says LEGO
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(...) Sounds like the market is ripe for the return of Galidor! (10 years ago, 15-Feb-15, to lugnet.general, lugnet.licensed, FTX)
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| | Re: Star Wars will "stay with us forever," says LEGO
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(...) "We can live without it"? The numbers say otherwise. Lego wouldn't be where it is without those few very strong IPs they've brought in. Star Wars in particular saved their bacon. Steve (10 years ago, 13-Feb-15, to lugnet.general, lugnet.licensed, FTX)
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| | Re: Lego In-N-Out Burger
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(...) Nice! Play well, Jacob (who unfortunately has practically all his LEGO in storage at the moment) (10 years ago, 10-Feb-15, to lugnet.town)
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| | TRU creator sale
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No LEGO in the Walmart flyer this week, but they do have a fair number of sets on clearance. Some larger sets seem to have discounted twice already, so the signs are misleading. Benny's spaceship^3 was $130 down to $93, and is now $75. ------ TRU (...) (10 years ago, 12-Feb-15, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Star Wars will "stay with us forever," says LEGO
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Star Wars will "stay with us forever," says LEGO By Billy Langsworthy February 11, 2015 The merging of the two properties has become a brand in its own right, CEO Jørgen Von Knudstorp tells ToyNews. LEGO believes the success of LEGO Star Wars as a (...) (10 years ago, 12-Feb-15, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.licensed, FTX)
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| | Re: Question for the electronics experts
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(...) I think you would have to have custom receivers using a different band (or protocol) to do that. Play well, Jacob (10 years ago, 11-Feb-15, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Question for the electronics experts
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(...) Perhaps look into SBrick: https://www.sbrick.com/ It allows control of up to 64 outputs, and is an almost drop in replacement for LEGO controllers. Pretty expensive, but you could just get 3 or 4 and use IR for the rest. As long as you have (...) (10 years ago, 11-Feb-15, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Lego In-N-Out Burger
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(...) That's really gorgeous. Terrific work, and thanks for sharing! (10 years ago, 10-Feb-15, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Lego In-N-Out Burger
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Nice. Making me hungry - and a little sad I won't be in California anytime soon. (10 years ago, 10-Feb-15, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Question for the electronics experts
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(...) I usually put motor(s) on blue, and lights on red. So each channel controls one train. I'm mostly concerned with all the kids who bring "guest trains", I want to make sure they can run their trains without interfering with ours. JohnG, GMLTC (10 years ago, 10-Feb-15, to lugnet.trains)
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| | 50 shades of dinner
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This Friday, will be the launch of some book/movie, AND more importantly, the Feb 13th Monthly rtlToronto dinner So a few things to worry about. 1. Forget the movie, just tell your loved one food is more important then her desires for S&M (studs & (...) (10 years ago, 10-Feb-15, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Question for the electronics experts
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(...) But each channel has 2 separate controls, red & blue, so you can control up to 8 trains without resorting to modifications, as long as each only uses 1 output. ROSCO (10 years ago, 10-Feb-15, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Lego In-N-Out Burger
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Has it really been 9 months since a MOC was announced on Lugnet? Here goes nothing... I spent the last three years building an Minifig Scale In-N-Out Burger. It's fully detailed inside and out, the only Non Lego pieces are the vinyl cling logo (...) (10 years ago, 9-Feb-15, to lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | Re: TRU sale
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(...) The key word here is "Select". Because not all sets in each of these themes areas was part of the sale. My closest one had city town squares and city parking garages on the shelf that for some reason weren't part of the sale, but most of the (...) (10 years ago, 8-Feb-15, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Fifty Shades of Bricks - LEGO Trailer
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The movie 'Fifty Shades of Grey' will be released in February based from the popular book with the same name. There is a LEGO version of the movie trailer. 'Fifty Shades of Bricks'. YouTube Video: (URL) 'Fifty Shades of Bricks'>. Created by Antonio (...) (10 years ago, 6-Feb-15, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | TRU sale
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TRU flyer goos Friday Feb 6 through Thursday Feb 12. 20% off select City, Star Wars, and Chima sets. Buy 1 get 1 1/2 off all LEGO videogames. Of equal or lesser value. Selection varies. ------ No LEGO in Walmart flyer. Gail Meagher Halifax (10 years ago, 5-Feb-15, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Question for the electronics experts
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Anyone know if it is possible to hack the Power Functions remotes & receivers to operate on a different 'band'? GMLTC is working on plans for our next club layout, and we might have seven operating loops. If we are running PF trains, we'll have some (...) (10 years ago, 3-Feb-15, to lugnet.trains)
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| | The LEGO Group, Warner Bros. Interactive Ent., & TT Games. (LEGO videogames for 2015)
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WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT, TT GAMES, AND THE LEGO GROUP ANNOUNCE AN ACTION-PACKED SLATE OF LEGO® VIDEOGAMES FOR 2015 New Brick Smashing Adventures Are Coming to Console, Handheld and Mobile Platforms LEGO Jurassic World and LEGO (...) (10 years ago, 29-Jan-15, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | LEGO® The SHIELD Helicarrier set 76042 (2,996 pieces)
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LEGO® set #76042 The SHIELD Helicarrier, 2,996 pieces. US $349.99 - CA $399.99 - DE 349.99€ - UK £269.99 - DK 2999.00 DKK Euro pricing varies by country. Please visit shop.LEGO.com for regional pricing. Build and display the huge SHIELD Helicarrier! (...) (10 years ago, 29-Jan-15, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.fun, lugnet.licensed, FTX) !
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| | tax free at Superstore
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Only sale I've found this week is tax free days Friday and Saturday (23 and 24) at Superstore. Some stores have toy departments, with LEGO. Gail Meagher Halifax, NS (10 years ago, 23-Jan-15, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | LEGO® Group Partners with Warner Bros. Classic Animated Series Scooby-Doo™
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LEGO Group Partners with Warner Bros. Consumer Products to Announce First-Ever LEGO® Building Sets Inspired by Classic Animated Series Scooby-Doo™ -New LEGO® Scooby-Doo animated content to roll-out, including 22-minute special and made-for-video (...) (10 years ago, 23-Jan-15, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | My first GBC module
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Hi all, I should visit LUGNET more often (like David Koudys suggests) to show my latest creations... A few mosaics, a new puzzle, and my very first GBC module. In the mean time I also created my own <https://www.youtube...3kvnGxXLig YouTube-chanel>, (...) (10 years ago, 19-Jan-15, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.build.mosaic, FTX)
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No LEGO in Superstore, Canadian Tire or (Target) flyers this week. ----- Walmart flyer mentions toy clearance. Might include some LEGO. ----- TRU flyer is good Friday Jan 16 through Thursday Jan 29. Select DUPLO sets 20% off. ----- No idea yet on (...) (10 years ago, 16-Jan-15, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | LEGO North America President Emphasizes Corporate Responsibility
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LEGO North America President Emphasizes Corporate Responsibility By Mara Lee January 7, 2015 While the history of LEGO Systems Inc. in Connecticut is at least in part one of a steely-eyed decision to move jobs to Mexico to save money, the group (...) (10 years ago, 9-Jan-15, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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No LEGO in Wal-mart, Target, Superstore, Canadian Tire or Sears flyers. Wal-mart and Canadian Tire have lots of plastic storage bins on sale. ----- TRU has a two week flyer (Jan 9 - 22) that mentions they have 2015 LEGO at full TRU price. ----- My (...) (10 years ago, 9-Jan-15, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Phil Lord And Chris Miller On The Upcoming LEGO Movies
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Phil Lord And Chris Miller On The Upcoming LEGO Movies From Ninjago to The LEGO Movie 2 Back in November, there were a few quotes from the Empire Podcast interview with LEGO Movie and Jump Street directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller worth analysing (...) (10 years ago, 8-Jan-15, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.animation, FTX)
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