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| | Long Span Suspension Bridge?
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| Stacy and I are designing a small layout for Brickworld this year and we want/need to have a bridge in the layout. We've been working to design the layout using banquet tables (so I don't have to bring my own tables), yet we still want an open space (...) (17 years ago, 22-Jan-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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| | 50th Anniversary of the LEGO Brick
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| 50th Anniversary of the LEGO Brick ==== (URL) from my 'Things' Gallery - User= Legomaster>> The LEGO Group will celebrate its legacy of inspiring and developing the builders of tomorrow this through several important milestones, including the 50th (...) (17 years ago, 28-Jan-08, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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| | Dragons in the New Castle Sets
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| Folks, For anyone who hasn't seen the new Castle sets, they include Dragons that are more realistic looking than the Viking ones. The dragons are still very poseable and look great. The new chest for the skeletons that allow them to use droid like (...) (17 years ago, 5-Jun-07, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Dragons in the New Castle Sets
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| (...) The two problems with the skeletal warrior minifigs is that the new arms are way too long, and they are not bent at the elbow. These two things combined give them a rather ape-like stature. Anyways, I think one of the neatest new items is just (...) (17 years ago, 6-Jun-07, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Morwell Train Show this weekend
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| M>ltc will be displaying our latest layout this weekend at the Morwell train show. Where: Kernot Hall, Old Princess Highway Morwell. When: Sat/Sun 10am to 6pm; Mon 10am to 4pm From Melbourne, proceed to the 4th Freeway Exit sign Monash University, (...) (17 years ago, 4-Jun-07, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.trains.org.mltc)
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| | Re: Long Span Suspension Bridge?
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| (...) How much clearance should I have track to (...) At work they like to quote the statement "Standards are great. That's why we have so many of them." Standard height is whatever you and whomever you interoperate with agree on. At SCLTC, standard (...) (17 years ago, 27-Jan-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Long Span Suspension Bridge?
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| (...) Dave, I built a 128-stud, truss style bridge for NGLTC shows that's become a staple of the layout. I use ZNAP as structural "members" to go over the tracks. The bridge does not use any support other than the compression between two tables. (...) (17 years ago, 23-Jan-08, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LEGO Star Wars Anniversary Set - Help Decide
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| (...) Jude- I agree absolutely! Make C3PIO with gold film bricks (there's GOT to be a solution) and put some electronics in R2 so that his head turns, lights, and he converses with C3PIO in their classic Laurel and Hardy banter with C3PIO talking (...) (17 years ago, 24-Jan-08, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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| | Re: off-color red bricks
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| (...) These off color bricks are from the mid to late 70s and maybe into the very early 80s. The are neither kind of plastic that the Samsonite and early sets were made from, a totally different soft plastic and they grip the same as the newer (...) (17 years ago, 20-Dec-07, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: How about a Brickfest West?
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| (...) I tend to agree with Rich in part but disagree in another part. It was great that the WAMALUG folks have started something great. I remember a few of us on rec.toys.lego a few years back suggested a FOL (A missing because of family (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.events)
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| | Re: Long Span Suspension Bridge?
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| I've found the deck can be pretty insubstantial; even in minifig scale, the truss carries the weight. The Notre Dame Bridge is about 320 studs long and has been up for over a year now: (URL) At least, I have heard no news of its collapse. It can (...) (17 years ago, 24-Jan-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Another Legend dies....
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| (...) The new steam engine LEGO Trains sets can be bought in several colors but since we are talking about rereleasing old LEGO sets, I think that people should choose whatever colors that they want for their sets but in a relistic frame of mind, (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Couple of queries with LDD exporting [DAT]
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| (...) Right, done that and got rid of the errors, thanks for pin-pointing the location. Strangely all the 'missing' primitives were already in the .mpd file. I've also got rid of 553.dat There does seem to be a strangeness about 30367.dat (Cylinder (...) (17 years ago, 23-Jan-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Couple of queries with LDD exporting [DAT]
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| I have exported one of the Hobby train models from LDD into LDraw format, and done some tweaking on it, (missing parts and re-ordering for instructions) I have tried to include all unofficial parts in the .mpd to make it properly compatible with a (...) (17 years ago, 23-Jan-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | tiny house (half timber) and child
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| Hello all, Our son Hillel was born on Dec. 30, 2007. In the couple of weeks before his birth, I seized on the notion of building a tiny house out of Lego. Maybe the AFOL version of a nesting instinct? (URL) moderation, you can see more pictures (...) (17 years ago, 23-Jan-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | Another Legend dies....
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| Dear all! I'm really glad with most of the latest news we have heared from TLC. Bulk order becomes better and better, (in Germany you can buy at S@H even without credit card!), the "My Own Trains" and the new waggons are nice as models and (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains) !!
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