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| (...) While it's become a lot more common since I got mine, I have a Tahu standee that was sent directly from the Enfield headquarters, a yellow prototype Hau that was sent from the Billund headquarters via LEGO Direct in NYC, the What Will You (...) (17 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.general)
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| | Attempt at corner cafe
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| I purchased the corner cafe directions and tried to build it with parts I had. Aside from colors, the problems that I encountered were mainly with windows. The first floor windows are 6 bricks tall unlike the 5 tall windows I have. Similarly the (...) (17 years ago, 22-Apr-07, to lugnet.town) !!
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| | Northern Pacific SW1200
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| A while ago Benn Coifman posted a (URL) NP GP9> and I thought it would be cool to have another Northern Pacific loco running around the COLTC layout. I also made it in the NP livery because I had lots of leftover black bricks from my hopper cars (...) (17 years ago, 29-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Increasing a collection
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| (...) That's really good advice. Everybody has a different style, of course, but having large multiples of parts changes what you can do with them. And you may find that your tastes change as you develop- when I started buying on BrickLink, I didn't (...) (17 years ago, 28-Apr-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Peeron Inventory corrections
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| apr 29: 351-1 - Loader hopper with truck add: 3005 white Brick 1x1, 5 of these (missing from inventory) 3009 Blue Brick 1x6 should be 7 not 6 part number 630 - not 100% sure on this. But my copy of the set has everthing in excellent condition. I do (...) (17 years ago, 29-Apr-07, to lugnet.inv)
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| | Re: Brickfetish -- the Spring Offensive
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| (...) I was slowly reading all the great material here and came across this picture: (URL) am curious about fig. 13...it apparently shows the reason for the cutout in a piece of straight track being for elevation...and marks the ideal height at two (...) (17 years ago, 27-Apr-07, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Flesh colored bricks?
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| (...) As Aaron mentioned, the colors are actually not available. The miniland development DK(RIP) team has always had special access to off colors, for their special projects. And when a brick is not made in a certain color, and only a handful are (...) (18 years ago, 4-Apr-07, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: HAL 9000
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| Cool. A nice, iconic alternative to the conventional minifig-scale constructs that dominate Space. Let's see -- the eye-lens would be the (URL) 45729 Round dish 6x6 inverted>, in trans-light-blue from the 10030-1 USD Star Destroyer, right? And it (...) (17 years ago, 26-Apr-07, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Boiler idea
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| Hi all, Just playing around with a boiler concept. You could replace the headlight bricks by 1x1 technic bricks with plates to join the four segments but I kind of liked the look of the segments done this way ;) (2 URLs) MPD> Couple more pics in my (...) (18 years ago, 2-Apr-07, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | peerton inventory corrections
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| 373-1: Offshore Rig with Fuel Tanker: 3009 yellow brick 1x6 should be 8 not 6 3020 OldGray Plate 2x4 should be 4 not 3 3032 Yellow Plate 4x6 should be 2 not 1 3144 White Antenna 5H with side spokes should be TrLuWhite I believe that at least some (...) (17 years ago, 25-Apr-07, to lugnet.inv)
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| | When did "smooth" slopes start appearing?
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| WARNING: short but rant-y post! I searched the newsgroups on Lugnet just now and couldn't find any previous posts on this matter, so forgive me if this topic has been discussed before. While foraging through used bulk bricks at a friends garage, I (...) (17 years ago, 25-Apr-07, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Save the 10183 trains!
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| In lugnet.trains, Jeroen de Haan wrote: ... (...) In working with LDD, I've found a couple of tricks. First, even in the instruction mode you can change your viewpoint to see the bricks that have appeared (a "highlight new bricks" feature in the (...) (18 years ago, 13-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: BrickFest™ 2007: Wacky Race - Friday
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| (URL) Portland, Oregon, USA March 30th - April 1st 2007 The Wacky Race will be at BrickFest 2007! Friday 6:00pm - 7:00pm Hall A This will be the 4th year that competitors have built and crashed their crazy and wacky racers here in the Pacific (...) (18 years ago, 17-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX) !
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| | Re: Brick Bash 2007 a Great Success!
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| (...) While I know little about this event, I applaud Bricks for Brains for their official non-profit status and making this a free event to the public. As the number of brick themed events grows, I'm inclined to consider very carefuly which events (...) (18 years ago, 18-Apr-07, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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| | April Meeting Recap
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| This months meeting was a madhouse. I brought a 280 pound unsorted lot of legos for everyone to sift through and buy the pieces they needed/wanted from me and somehow it trumped all the other activites we had planned. plus the meeting went about 2 (...) (17 years ago, 23-Apr-07, to lugnet.org.us.ulug)
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| | Re: Brick Bash 2007 a Great Success!
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| (...) for those of you who haven't been able to attend Bricks Bash, let me say it's a really nice environment for a public expo. My son & I attended two years ago, with Ben essentially running his own little Moonbase (with about 15-20 boys crowded (...) (18 years ago, 18-Apr-07, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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| | Skyscraper skeleton
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| Here's a skyscraper being built during construction, complete with a nice big crane to reach the upper floors: (URL) Additional pics after moderation located here: (URL) I have many more bricks and plates left so I'm probably not done with it yet (...) (17 years ago, 20-Apr-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, FTX) !!
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