 | | 1999 sets arrived @ TRU Portland, Oregon!
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Hi All- Unverified report that the 1999 sets have arrived at the Tigard TRU, in Portland, Oregon. I just got off the phone with the TRU rep., and he said they have some of them in. I'm going to run down there now to verify. -jeremy Portland, Oregon (26 years ago, 14-Nov-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Chicago Legofest?
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Is anyone interested in a central US Legofest in Chicago? There was small discussion about it on loc.us, but it fizzled. I can't have it at my house, but I am located in Wheaton, 30 miles west of the city. -tim <>< (URL) (26 years ago, 13-Nov-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Online ordering available
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It seems you can order Mindstorms online now... (at least in the US anyway) (URL) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | New Lego TV ad....
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Don't watch that much telly, but saw this this evening..... A 30 second TV ad, (missed the 1st few seconds). Has a boy sitting on the floor of his bedroom, with a big technic construction in front of him. 4 men and his mother come to speak to the (...) (26 years ago, 8-Nov-98, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | LEGO Ancient Building Contest Website now up
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The rec.toys.lego 1998 LEGO Ancient Building Contest has been a success beyond anything that I could have imagined at the start of the contest! The quality of the entries was outstanding! There were eight entries that exhibited enough creativity, (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Just got my Holiday S@H Catalog!
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I just got a new US Shop at Home catalog, and it's not the one with 3225 "Classic Train" on the cover. It says "Holiday Magic!" at the top, and has a drawing of Minifigs standing in front of a Christmas tree with open books, appearantly singing (...) (26 years ago, 3-Nov-98, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
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| | Website update, pictures of a 40 brick high pyramid!!!
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Well, finally the pictures are there! An 80-stud wide pyramid, plus a 96-stud wide "half" pyramid! Also some other pictures of my invaded launch pad......go to the address below, select MOC's........ Also some examples of limited storage (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-98, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.publish, lugnet.storage)
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| | New NNTP ports! (Re: Possible 2-minute downtime today)
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Good news -- you can now connect here via NNTP using ports 8000 and 8080, in addition to the standard NNTP port 119. If 119 (the default) works just fine for you, then there's nothing you need to change. Otherwise if you're behind a firewall or (...) (26 years ago, 30-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Gary Istok sent me more pictures...
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You can find them on my site. Go to the bottom of the LEGO(tm) page and you will find two links. One sources from voyager/jeffK and the other sources from Xoom. Content should be identical. Problems to me via email please, I am about to submerge in (...) (26 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Shell Promotional Sets in Puerto Rico
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A co-worker told me that the Shell station in front of us have a lot of boxes marked LEGO, so the promotion should start very soon here in Puerto Rico I don't know if this is the same for the rest of the United States.(1) Osvaldo Fernandez (...) (26 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.pr)
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