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Hi! I couldn't believe my eyes today when I browsed (the oldfashioned fingers-between-paper-browsing) my favourite computer-magazine, the c'T from Germany. There was a 2/3-page article about freeware Lego-building programs, LDraw, LEdit, MLCAD und (...) (25 years ago, 11-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | BrickShelf.com updates for 10/09/1999
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BrickShelf.com updates for 10/09/1999, last update was 10/03/1999 New Features: Thumbnails are created for GIF images AND text files. (I am rebuilding the site now to make this retroactive). Recent additions/changes to the website: see (URL) for (...) (25 years ago, 10-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf)
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| | Open NELUG Meeting Saturday 10/23 @ 7:00 PM.
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The New England Lego Users' Group (NELUG) will be hosting an open meeting on Saturday, October 23rd at 7:00 PM, during the upcoming MindFest event. The MindFest organizers at the MIT Media Lab have graciously offered us a large room for the (...) (25 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics)
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| | New SW Lego Design Contest Info and Website
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I've added a lot of stuff recently in addition to completely redesigning the site. I still have a lot of entries that I have not had time to setup yet. But I will soon, so don't worry if you sent in something and haven't seen it up yet. Here is a (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | DUPLO at McDonalds too...and a rebate coupon
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In the Duplo advertisement/catalog I received today, it mentions there will also be a Duplo toy available at McDonalds in the happy meals. There is no picture. It also mentions "a special $3.00 LEGO rebate inside every LEGO McDonalds model". The ad (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Signed up for MindFest
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I'm so happy! I have to post this list. From the online LEGO community, we have some great representation signed up for MindFest at MIT. Names marked with a (*) are guest speakers. NELUG will have an exhibit table and a welcoming evening. LDraw (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | LEGO for Life Sweepstakes
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Apparently, this isn't new, but I don't remember seeing anything about it on LUGNET before. In the Parent's section at www.lego.com, there's a sweepstakes running from now until the end of April. The sweepstakes is only open to US residents. The (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | 8485 uploaded and new xxxx.txt format
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I just uploaded all 140 pages of 8485 (whew!). (URL) please use the following format for xxxx.txt: (see (URL) for example) product_number: [number] us_name: [name] catalog_year: [year] instruction_year: [year] element_count: [number] mini_figures: (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf)
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| | Bram's Site updated: Model of the Month, Naboo Fighter, 2 airplanes, modified 8880
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I've just updated my LEGO Site: (URL) the space/Star Wars buffs: The model of the month (based on your ratings) is the Colonial Viper. I've added an N-1 Starfighter (I actually buil this, too, but I had to use gray macaronis instead of yellow) For (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.cad, lugnet.technic, lugnet.publish, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.starwars)
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| | BrickShelf.com updates for 10/3/99
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Updates as of 10/3/99, last update was 9/15/99: [10/02/1999] 6023 (added -b1) 1952 {Tanker} 1256 Shell Gasspumps 0994 {Garden Fences} 0990 {Trees and Signs} 0951 Bulldozer 0906 {Doors and Hinges} 0521 {1xn Plates} 0520 {2x2 Plates} 0519 {2x3 Plates} (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf)
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| | Re: Lugnet Newsgroups Anniversary!
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(...) Aha -- found it! Here's that message: (URL) 'Date' header says "4 Oct 1998 00:00:00 GMT", which is obviously wrong, but there's another header which says "04 Oct 1998 17:13:50 CDT", which sounds right on. So if my TZ math is correct, this (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | PRESS RELEASE- LEGO Watch Systems Range Launches; It's Time for LEGO Watches
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This press release was dated 09/24/99, but I did not see anybody else post it so here goes: LEGO Watch Systems Range Launches; It's Time for LEGO Watches ENFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 24, 1999--"Is that a LEGO watch?" "Does it really tell (...) (25 years ago, 2-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Utah Legomaniacs Get Together
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Hey all, We Utah Legomaniacs are forming a lego user group! Joseph Gonzales, my wife Barbara and I are looking for anyone and everyone who would want to attend a small LEGOfest at my Orem, UT residence, on the evening of Friday October 15, 1999. You (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ut, lugnet.loc.us.ut.slc, lugnet.announce)
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| | Animated Space Station
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| | Re: lugnet.com upgrade/downtime/heads-up
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(...) (The above was quite a while back.) The OS upgrade is scheduled for sometime mid-tomorrow morning, hopefully around 9-10 a.m. EST. (...) I've been working proactively as a background task to head off any problems like this ahead of time so (...) (25 years ago, 29-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | ldraw.org up and running again (Was: ldraw.org down until Monday)
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As I promised Friday: ldraw.org is up and running again thanks to a friend of mine who installed a new kernel on hugin. Play well, Jacob PS: I have recieved a message from the Danish backbone operator, warning me that the connection to Risø will be (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce)
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| | visit transy-lego-vania!
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hi y'all ~ i've just added a new three page section to my site. (i appologize in advance for the cookies at my site; something that is beyond my control right now.) it features custom mini-figs and constructions in a horror vein, just in time for (...) (25 years ago, 25-Sep-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | LUGNET Welcomes Donations
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Every so often, someone asks if there is any way to make financial contributions (i.e. gift donations) toward the development and support of LUGNET. There never was a good 'yes' answer, so here finally is a page of information for anyone who is (...) (25 years ago, 25-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | Lego at Gerf.Org
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***...*** Announcing Lego at Gerf.Org ***...*** Want a location to post your Lego ideas, but don't want to build a whole web site around it? Want to share your ideas with others in the Lego community? Or maybe you're looking for a way to do (...) (25 years ago, 25-Sep-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Tank Police pages posted
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Hey all, I have recently posted a page covering a new "theme" I am working on- the Tank Police. Loosely based on the Japanese anime of the same title, this is a post-modern cyberpunkish theme were the large corporations control everything and the (...) (25 years ago, 24-Sep-99, to lugnet.announce)
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