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Christian Gemünden of Germany noted that LEGO has announced the official name for its fourth LEGOLAND theme park: (URL) following is an update to a message posted many months ago... --Todd (...) New: lugnet.legoland.deutschland (group): LEGOLAND® (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.legoland, lugnet.legoland.deutschland, lugnet.loc.de, lugnet.loc.de.by.mue, lugnet.announce)
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| | New feature: Article rating
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LUGNET's article rating system is now running and hungry for input! As the community continues to grow, so does the challenge in keeping up. Some days it can be difficult to find exciting content among the hundreds of new messages. To aid browsing, (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Its that time of month again...
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Its nearing that time when we all go to the polls and vote for our favorite Lego renderings. So mosey on down to ldraw.org and cast your vote - there's some high stakes this month! (URL) am going away for a week leaving tomorrow, but I'll try to get (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Target-exclusive Legoland sweepstakes
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While browsing the LEGO aisle at Target last night, I encountered a sweepstakes entry form and box on an endcap. The sweepstakes runs from March 19 thru April 1, is a Target exclusive, and the grand prize is a trip for 4 to Legoland California. (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.legoland.california)
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| | Lego in Boulder Daily Camera
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There was a quick mention of a line-following robot in the local newspaper, the Boulder Daily Camera. I saw the thread come up in .robotics so I thought I would post the article here for all to read. (URL) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | New ldraw.org Feature Article
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Greetings I just added a new Feature Article to ldraw.org. Here Jonathan Knudsen, author of The Unofficial Guide to LEGO MINDSTORMS Robots, explains his techniques for designing building instructions using LDraw, MLCad, L3P, and POV-Ray. Check it (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Notice of Price Changes in Factoring Service
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Please go here to read about some changes in pricing effective April Fool's day. (URL) that this is the "public name" of my factoring form. That should ensure that anyone who goes to it to do a request will see the notice. I am not saying what the (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.services, lugnet.announce)
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| | US S@H Specials, Mar 20 - Mar 26, 2000
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(URL) Lego Creator Book $16.50 $10.00 System 6479 Twisted Time Train $38.50 $19.75 2161 Aquadozer $27.50 $13.75 Duplo 2815 My First Bike $ 5.00 $ 3.00 2821 Dinosaur Fun Forest $33.00 $16.50 2862 Zoo Animals $ 6.75 $ 3.50 Mindstorms 9732 Extreme (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce.lsahs, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | LDraw Add-On 2.1.2 Now Available
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[follow-ups set to lugnet.cad] The new version of LDraw Add-On (LDAO) is now available. This is version 2.1.2. There have been a number of changes since the last 'official' release, which was version 2.0.3. Including a number of major bug fixes. If (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
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| | L3Lab Downloadable at ldraw.org
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Just a quick note to say I've uploaded the L3Lab files, so you can get it from ldraw.org now. (URL) Courtney ldraw.org Project Coordinator (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | New group lugnet.market.appraisal
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A new newsgroup lugnet.market.appraisal has just been created. CHARTER/PURPOSE ===...=== lugnet.market.* (hierarchy): Auctioning, buying, selling, trading, exchanging, and shopping for LEGO® products -> lugnet.market.appraisal (group): Appraisals, (...) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.appraisal, lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: Search button
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(...) Now just a quick "heads up" on a slight interface subtraction -- (...) This was based on outdated information. Although the LUGNET server still has to take into account bugs like this in old versions of MSIE, recent versions do not appear to (...) (25 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | Introducing NALUG!
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Introducing NALUG, the Northern Alberta Lego Users Group! About a year ago, Chris Gray and I got together and organized a meeting of all the local AFOL's we could find, and it worked out quite well - you can see the results here: (URL) Everyone had (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.ab, lugnet.loc.ca.ab.edm)
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| | more drafting paper...
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...Well, I dont like it as much as my previous papers, but I scratched up a new sheet of Project paper. This time its got 3 views: overhead, front and side. And now that I've got it, it is kinda useful (tho I could only do 20x20 grids and make it (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce)
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Just a quick "heads up" on a slight interface addition -- We need to add a clickable "Search" button next to the newsgroup search boxes at the top of most pages, due to a forms bug in Microsoft Internet Explorer (and possibly other Netscape clones). (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | announcing Jain's Guide
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Jain's Guide ((URL) the premier guide to the fighting men, women and equipment of the sector is looking for reporters and photographers to submit stories and photos of the equipment and mecha used throughout the sector. ...Have you ever dreamed of (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | New dat viewer survey
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I have a small survey on marsbase to find out what .dat file viewers are being used. Check it out at: (URL) Vaughan ben@marsbase.com (URL) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | DAT Explorer permanently online
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I finally added the system load check to the DAT explorer so I can leave it online. Previously some nasty web grabber programs were forking 25+ paralell povray processes and grinding the machine to a halt. Now if the system load is above 2.0 you (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf)
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| | Lego Maniac's Webring turns 3!
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Greetings Just thought I'd drop a quick note saying that today is the Lego Maniac's Webring's 3rd birthday. The ring has over 160 sites and still experiences steady growth. The URL for the ring homepage is: (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org)
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| | Fun goodies for your browser's toolbar
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If your web browser has a "personal toolbar" (sometimes also called a "links bar") and supports JavaScript, here are some goodies you can add as browser hot-buttons to make your life easier. Installation takes about 5 minutes -- and once it's (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
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