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| They're BAaAAaCK! 6497 Twisted Time Train $38.50 $19.75 2160 Crystal Scavenger $16.50 $ 8.25 2161 Aqua Dozer $27.50 $13.75 2162 Hydro Reef Wrecker $44.00 $22.00 4022 Sea Cutter $33.00 $16.50 6490 Amazon Crossing $16.50 $ 8.75 Scala 3115 Kitchen (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce.lsahs, lugnet.market.shopping)
| | | | | Enhanced Search
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| I have added some additional search options for the instruction index pages. You can now search a given set on: Lugnet DB, Lugnet Discussions, Ebay auctions, Yahoo! auctions, and RTL via Deja.com for an example go to: (URL) there's even a listing on (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf)
| | | | | NELUG Turns 50!!
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| This is a quick message to announce that NELUG now has 50 members. The member breakdown by region is as follows... (Some of my earlier guesses were a little off. These are official numbers from submittal forms) 30 - Massachusetts 4 - Connecticut 2 - (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.loc.us.ri, lugnet.loc.us.vt, lugnet.loc.us.nh, lugnet.loc.us.me, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | LUGNET Memberships
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| I'm happy to announce that formal LUGNET memberships are now available. :) Things won't be very fancy initially (no map or other web-toys yet) but this gets the ball rolling and begins to pave the way for much more to come later down the road. At (...) (25 years ago, 14-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.people) !!
| | | | | Stay tuned...
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| Stay tuned for an exciting announcement later tonight... :) --Todd (25 years ago, 14-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general)
| | | | | Make-A-Wish
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| Hi All, This message is of most benefit to people living in Perth, Australia, but I thought others in the LEGO community would be interested too. The Make-A-Wish Foundation of Australia have organised a fundraiser for 8 year old Ben Hamilton who's (...) (25 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.au.wa.per, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | LEGO name change
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| This is an important announcement for any LEGO fan who has a web site containing disclaimers. The descriptive phrase "the LEGO Group" has changed to "the LEGO Company." Its use applies to all LEGO companies, workplaces, and the organization as a (...) (25 years ago, 11-Nov-99, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | 2000 catalog day stats
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| Here's some fun statistics for the BrickShelf site the first full day after the 2000 catalog was posted (11-09-99 EST). By far the highest day of activity ever for the site. General HTTP: Unique IP's: 3843 Static Pages Served: 54645 CGI Pages (...) (25 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf)
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| | | | | | 2000 Direct catalog is online!
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| (URL) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf)
| | | | | 2000 Scans are Online!
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| (URL) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf)
| | | | | Chicago Legofest/Museum of Science and Industry Mindstorms event Dec 4
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| Well, there's been a little interest in the Chicago Legofest idea. Its been brought to my attention as well that the Museum of Science and Industry is having a Mindstorms robotics competition on December 4th. It would be a good idea to couple that (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.il.chi, lugnet.org.us)
| | | | | 2000 catalog FOUND!
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| Acting on the tip from the RTL post, I stopped by Target today on my way home from work and picked up a snow speeder. Jackpot! I'm scanning it now... KL (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Brickshelf.com updates for 11/8/1999
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| Updates for 11/8/1999 (last update was 10/28/1999) New features: HTML page for each image with next/previous links New scans: [11/08/1999] 0365-1975 Wild West Scene [11/05/1999] 0334 {Truck with Flatbed} links: (URL) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf)
| | | | | New newsgroup lugnet.cad.ray for LEGO ray-tracing
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| A new newsgroup lugnet.cad.ray has just been created. CHARTER/PURPOSE ===...=== -> lugnet.cad.ray (group): Ray-Tracing as it applies to LEGO: software tools and libraries; tips & techniques; in-depth technical discussions about element modeling, (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray)
| | | | | Three Cheers
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| [Crossposted to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.robotics, and lugnet.announce; followups to lugnet.dear-lego] All, This is a rally for everyone to give a round of applause to the LEGO Group for its unprecedented overture this past week. (...) (25 years ago, 7-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Re: New robotics sub-groups for RCX-Java, Palm Pilot, Telerobotics, VLL, Scout, Micro Scout, and Code Pilot
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| (...) Oops, almost forgot CyberMaster (thanks, Ralph!)... (...) lugnet.robotics.cybermaster (group): LEGO TECHNIC CyberMaster™ programmable brick: software, ideas, radio link, connections to/from/with other programmable bricks and host machines, (...) (25 years ago, 7-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.robotics)
| | | | | New robotics sub-groups for RCX-Java, Palm Pilot, Telerobotics, VLL, Scout, Micro Scout, and Code Pilot
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| Seven new subgroups of lugnet.robotics have just been created, covering the following topics: - JVM/Java/Jini for RCX - Palm Pilot / Palm Computing - Telerobotics - LEGO MINDSTORMS Visible Light Link (VLL) protocol - LEGO MINDSTORMS Scout (...) (25 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.robotics)
| | | | | Charters for product-line/themed groups clarified
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| All, The written charters for the product-line/themed groups created a couple months ago were too restrictive and over-simplified. Except for lugnet.trains and lugnet.starwars, which were created at the beginning, the themed groups mentioned only (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general)
| | | | | Fabuland group (was: Re: 34 new newsgroups!)
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| (...) Oh, my!...Fabuland got lost in the shuffle somewhere. OK, there's now a Fabuland group: lugnet.fabuland <==> (URL) can't believe nobody noticed! I *know* there are tons of Fabuland fans out there! :) --Todd (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general)
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