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Tonight there is a new newsgroup area on LUGNET dedicated to discussions about LEGO as a company and to being an "online communication-to-LEGO channel." It is starting out small, with the option to grow it as needed over the coming months/years. (A (...) (25 years ago, 11-Apr-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.lego, lugnet.lego.direct) !!
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| | Kyle's Universe of Lego (hifiki.tripod.com)
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(URL) Universe of Lego is a wonderful, easy to navigate, site mostly on space lego. It is also home to Keppler Industries (my model reposity), the leader in modern space technology. Some of you may recognize my address from the lego maniacs search (...) (25 years ago, 11-Apr-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | US S@H Specials, Apr 10 - Apr 16, 2000
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(URL) Melody the Musical Camel $14.25 $ 7.00 Basic 4271 5+ Medium Box $ 6.75 $ 3.50 4293 Classic Box with Playscape $33.00 $16.50 4280 Tommy's Tiger Show $ 3.50 $ 2.00 Scala 3119 Our House $99.00 $49.00 6766 Rapid River Village $73.00 $36.50 6746 (...) (25 years ago, 10-Apr-00, to lugnet.announce.lsahs, lugnet.market.shopping) !
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| | Lego Easter Bunny
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Hi! I just posted some pictures (on Brickshelf.com) of a bunny I built a couple of weeks ago in honor of Easter. It is based on a model of a rabbit located in LEGOLAND California's Enchanted Walk[1]. There are pictures of the original rabbit in the (...) (25 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf, lugnet.fun.holiday, lugnet.legoland.california) !!
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| | LUGNET streaming news client in Java 2
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Hey all, I've just uploaded a streaming news client for LUGNET, which I've written in Java 2 (JDK 1.2). It doesn't use any external Java classes! :-, It's downloadable from: (URL) run it with JDK 1.2, type: java -jar table_streaming_news.jar The (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.announce)
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| | LBFR Updates
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Some more changes to the LBFR website for your perusal. They are: - New pictures of most apparatus (courtesy of Bram Lambrecht's highway.pov files) - Squad 22 added (should be of interest to sixby fans too :-) - DAT files removed, to be replaced by (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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| | Acronym FAQ V1.3
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Hi, This is the third update of the Acronym FAQ. If you're looking for an acronym mentioned on lugnet and can't find it here, try this: *Reading a bit of the context - often a spur-of-the-moment acronym will be mentioned in full version a few (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.faq) !!
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| | Brickfan is Open!
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Hi all, After many months of building stock and planning I am pleased to announce the opening of my new Lego sales Website, Brickfan. see it at (URL) has many sets from every theme. Brickfan has only rare, discontinued, or hard to find sets all (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.announce)
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| | MOTM April
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Just a quick note to announce the latest Model of the Month: Tom McDonald's Hangar 33. Take a look at: (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 (25 years ago, 4-Apr-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !
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| | US S@H Specials, Apr 3 - Apr 9, 2000
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(URL) Chief's Family $14.50 $ 7.25 2821 Dinosaur's Fun Forest $33.00 $16.50 Toolo 5026 Toolo Loader and Turntable $ 5.50 $ 2.75 System 3038 Spider Slayer $76.00 $38.00 2162 Hydro Reef Wrecker $44.00 $22.00 6549 Roadblock Runners $33.00 $16.50 (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.announce.lsahs, lugnet.market.shopping) !
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| | New limited edition (custom) Castle sets!
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This is a formal announcement that the first in series of my own model kits is now for sale. It is a 600+ piece Castle (or even Pirate) theme Blacksmith Shop, which comes completely packaged and with full-color building instructions. Highlights of (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.shopping) !!
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| | Announcing The Guild of Bricksmiths(tm)
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-- guild hq, dateline 31/03/2000 -- Today, on 31 March 2000, we, the undersigned, are pleased to publicly announce the formation and existence of -- THE GUILD OF BRICKSMITHS(tm) -- The Guild is a band of LEGO Fans who have become concerned at the (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade) !!
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| | east coast brickfest...
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...There will be many more announcements of this, but just in case u hadn't stumbled across it, I figured I'd make a lugnet.announcement of it! ...WAMALUG is attempting to put together a brickfest weekend of fun and bricks in Washington DC (nice and (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Brickshelf Gallery v. 0.7 (beta)
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Release 0.7 is now online. Version 0.7 is a halfway done hack of the version that was supposed to include the Edit function, so the Edit link is there but doesn't do much. The reason I released it is that I added the "set icon" feature that let's (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | US S@H Specials, Mar 27 - Apr 2, 2000
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(URL) Duplo Cargo Wagon $ 6.75 $ 4.00 System 6907 Sonic Stinger $24.00 $12.00 6087 Witch's Magic Manor $44.00 $22.00 6441 Diver's Deep Reef Refuge $66.00 $33.00 6748 Boulder Cliff Canyon $66.00 $33.00 Technic 8414 Mountain Rambler $33.00 $16.50 8251 (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce.lsahs, lugnet.market.shopping) !
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| | New newsgroup for LEGOLAND Deutschland
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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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