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Several models have recently been added to the Dat Explorer: Glass Store Shopping Center (huge!) Car Lot (looks good at 320x240) Cricket Ground (wow!) Phone Company Police HQ (Look at all those rooms!) Hospital Tore's Parents' House (URL) is all I'm (...) (25 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf)
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| | MIT Press now has copies of Jonathan's book
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The MIT Press Bookstore received an initial shipment today of 8 copies of Jonathan Knudsen's book, The Unofficial Guide to LEGO® MINDSTORMS™ Robots: (URL) Press is open until 8:30 pm tonight. There were 3 copies left at last count. If you happen to (...) (25 years ago, 21-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.books, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.announce)
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| | DAT Explorer update v.0.7
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The Dat Explorer has been updated to version 0.7. No feature changes (hopefully) in this release, however the entire shell script has been rewritten in c! This allows for nearly instant responses from the server when the image exists. This does not (...) (25 years ago, 21-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf)
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| | BrickShelf.com updates for 10/21/1999
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Updates for 10/21/1999 (last update was 10/15/1999): DAT Explorer: Added Glass Store and Shopping Center (URL) Note the incredible high resolution 60's and 70's catalogs uploaded by Peter Belmans(?) (Please upload a .txt file with each set/catalog (...) (25 years ago, 21-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf)
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| | [ldraw.org] Model of the Month
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I have just added the Model of the Month pages to ldraw.org. We're going to shoot for the first award being given for November. Entries are being accepted until Monday October 25, and voting will take place until Sunday October 31. The winning entry (...) (25 years ago, 20-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Colin and Wanda visits Sweden (MWT)
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Eskilstuna, Sweden On their round the globe trip, the two famous minifig adventurers Colin and Wanda has made a stop in Sweden. You are welcome to take a look at their diary at: (URL) Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 URLs) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
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| | Launch of new site yellowcastle.com
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This is to announce the launch of my updated web site at my new URL (URL) have several new models and castle building ideas, my new gray turret and yellow wall battlements under the My Original Creations section. In The Library I have an updated (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.castle, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.books, lugnet.build)
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| | Brickshelf.com Updates for 10/15/1999
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Brickshelf.com updates for 10/15/1999: (last update was 10/09/1999) Recent additions/changes to this website: [10/15/1999] 0606-1972 Tipper lorry 0375-1971 Refridgerator Truck and trailer 0157-1969 {Automatic direction changer} [10/14/1999] 8443 (...) (25 years ago, 16-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf)
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| | DAT Explorer update
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I have added the (URL) Glass Store to the DAT Explorer. (URL) (25 years ago, 16-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf)
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| | A Call to Educators Attending MindFest
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<I am posting this message on behalf of Richard Wright, one of the speakers scheduled to present at MindFest. - Chris.> I would like to talk to fellow educators attending Mindfest about using Lego in the classroom. Please contact me directly via (...) (25 years ago, 12-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Freeware LEGO Software in an German Computer magazine
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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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