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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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| | Possible 2-minute downtime today
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Some changes in the server's xinetd.conf are being made today so that the NNTP daemon can respond to other ports besides 119. This may or may not require a reboot (depending on how smart xinetd is about this sort of thing). If a reboot is (...) (26 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Update to BlockCAD gallery
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Hi All! The BlockCAd gallery page has been updated with a couple of new models, and some ray-traces (submarine going into the water). You are all welcome to take a look! (URL) Isaksson (26 years ago, 27-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | lugnet.* discussion groups by mail
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[followups set to lugnet.admin.general] If anyone is interested in receiving lugnet.* discussion groups by mail, I'm going to try a simple news<->mail experiment. It'll be read-only at first (meaning that if you reply via e-mail, your message won't (...) (26 years ago, 24-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: Interface changes coming today
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(...) This occured yesterday as planned and approximately 200 people filled out the form yesterday and today. (...) This is now in effect. If you do have any problems posting, or you have questions or concerns, please post them to (...) (26 years ago, 21-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Zany Brainy train exclusives
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I went to Zany Brainy yesterday & met up with a fellow LEGO nut -- he works at the store. His manager mentioned that Zany Brainy will be getting two train "Zany Brainy exclusives" from TLG; a LEGO train & a DUPLO train. Now, he didn't know any more (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Interface changes coming today
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Two web-interface changes are being put into place today. These affect posting only -- not browsing or searching. The first change is mostly transparent and cosmetic -- and you don't need to do anything except to make a mental note that some (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | LEGO exhibition in Vienna
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Hi there! I don't know if people are interested, but there is currently a Lego exhibition in 'Palais Palffy' in the center of Vienna, Austria. They sho a lot of _very_ old material. Blue-track trains, wooden toys, plastic cars. Lego cars in 1:87 (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Announcement: The 1998 GREAT CREATE
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***...*** THE 1998 GREAT CREATE ***...*** Annual Build-A-Thon with LEGO® bricks to benefit the Greater Minneapolis Area Children's Crisis Nursery. when: Saturday, November 7, 1998 9:00 am–4:00 pm where: Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Downtown (...) (26 years ago, 16-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: LUGNET logo
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(...) Only if they're made of wood and take money from the Chinese Army. (1) 1 - repressive Tipper (LDraw part# 2379) is an optional extra you don't need to get. ++Lar On the back of my Durango: "Homophobia is a social disease" ======== Posted via (...) (26 years ago, 16-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Updated LDraw Add-On--version 1.4.5
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The LDLite-ready version of LDAO is now available from my website (see URL below). I have not updated the web pages or the readme.txt yet. That will be done tonight. The main changes are: - Addition of [Catalog Tool], which tells LDAO what rendering (...) (26 years ago, 14-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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