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I'm pleased to announce that the winner for the ldraw.org MOTM May competition is none other than Todd Lehman with his Spider Walker model. Take a look at: (URL) and congrats Todd! -Tim (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !
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| | LBFR Apparatus Instructions
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I have finally prepared instructions for most MOC apparatus featured on the Lego Beach Fire and Rescue website. Each set of instructions is a self- extracting archive with a JPEG of each step, so no special software is needed to use them. Start from (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.town, lugnet.general) !
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| | US S@H Specials, May 1 - May 7, 2000
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(URL) Water Play with Fishing Net $16.50 $ 8.50 2017 ChooChoo Train $22.00 $11.00 Duplo 2276 Train Oval $16.50 $ 8.50 2433 Wild West Stagecoach $14.50 $ 7.50 VE98 Duplo Video $10.00 $ 4.00 Scala 3110 Four Animal Friends $ 7.00 $ 3.50 Bellville 5387 (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.announce.lsahs, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Red White and Blue Eiffel Tower
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(...) (25 years ago, 30-Apr-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Update to website
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I have recently made a few changes/updates to various parts of my website. I added pictures for Star Wars Episode 5 1/2 (Shaun Sullivan make sure you check it out :) ) I made some changes to the Legofield Fire Company pages and added some new (...) (25 years ago, 27-Apr-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.town)
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| | US S@H Specials, Apr 25 - Apr 30, 2000
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(URL) Melody the Musical Camel $14.25 $ 7.00 Duplo 2599 Race Team $14.50 $ 7.25 2866 Animal Park $56.00 $28.00 5088 2x8 long beams (4) $ 4.50 $ 2.50 2821 Dinosaur Fun Forest $33.00 $16.50 2739 Cargo Wagon $ 6.75 $ 3.50 2803 Dinosaur Babies $11.00 $ (...) (25 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.announce.lsahs, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Sales at the Potomac Mills Store...
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Called The Buffster about sales at The Store this week: Technic firetruck 8280 $27 6199 Underwater crystal station thingie $51 all UFO stuff is on sale 6836 vwing guy $2 6900 cyber saucer $15 6915 warp wing $24 6975 alien avenger $49 6979 (...) (25 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.announce)
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| | Upcoming Terms of Use Agreement change
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All, It's long been a point of confusion in the LUGNET Terms of Use Agreement, (URL) or not non-auction market traffic is permitted or verboten in non-market groups. The agreement doesn't specifically state that non-auction flogs (i.e., (...) (25 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.terms, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce) !
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| | US LSAHS April 24 - April 30
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The specials for this week will be posted tomorrow, because of the Easter holiday. (25 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.announce.lsahs)
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| | LEGO Project Paper...
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...I fixed my LEGO project paper some and added an isometric (top, front, side) project pad. I redid some of the work on the original papers to make the PDF files much smaller in this increment. And this time included a Mini-fig doodle paper for no (...) (25 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.announce) !
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| | EastCoast Brikfest!!!
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Just a reminder!!! Set your alarms, mark your calendars, plan your vacations! What: East Coast Brikfest Where: Washington DC When: June 9th - 11th What: A weekend of AFOL fun! Big rooms of castles and towns and space and whatever else we want to do. (...) (25 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | Soccer Bus Tour dates
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Here are the dates of the Soccer Bus Tour: June 8-11 Carlsbad, CA June 17 Pasadena, CA June 24 San Jose, CA July 1 Dallas, TX July 8 Denver, CO July 15 Chicago, IL July 22 Kansas City, MO July 29 Columbus, OH All Star Game August 2 Tampa, FL August (...) (25 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce) !
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| | Bricks on the Brains Launches today!
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After many hours of coding and many hours of planning, www.bricksonthebrain.com is now live! Bricks on the Brain is the ULTIMATE source for buying LEGO parts online! Bricks on the Brain is meant to make buying Lego parts a truly simple process. (...) (25 years ago, 22-Apr-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.general) !
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| | Ratings thrown out; changed to Highlighting (was: Re: the latest news)
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(...) Thomas: First, thanks for your comments (I don't know if I've thanked you directly yet). Second, things have just been "peeled" way back to their bare essentials. The underlying system is almost the same, but it's got a completely new skin -- (...) (25 years ago, 22-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce) !
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| | 5th Italian Legofest
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This event will take place in Italy but is open to friends from any country. Most of the ItLUG members speak English at some level. Time: Sunday May 21st 2000 Location: Carpi (Modena) Italy Activities: - a Mindstorms Sumo robotic challenge; - an (...) (25 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.loc.it, lugnet.robotics.events)
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| | Re: Opinions wanted: article rating harmful? (was: New feature: Article rating)
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(...) First, thanks to everyone who has taken the time to put their thoughts into words, both publicly and privately. A clearer picture is beginning to emerge. We'd like to try scaling things back (i.e., simplifying things) just a little bit first (...) (25 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Opinions wanted: article rating harmful? (was: New feature: Article rating)
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All, It seems at this point that the article rating feature -- intended to help -- is actually causing more harm than good to the community. It's difficult to gauge how much harm is being done when opinions are so varied, but it's clear that (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | underscore in email address
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email addresses for member accounts in the brickshelf gallery can now contain underscores. KL (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf)
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| | set icon fixed
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Several bugs in the set icon feature have been fixed. You will need to re-upload your member icon for the changes to take effect. (this only affects member icons that are distorted and/or very large icon files). The bugs affected images with (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf) !
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| | New scans added
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Many new scans added: (URL) World Show Travel in Space ronald Ronald McDonald c84me (first page cleaned up) 1843 Space / Castle value pack 1806 Aquanaut Paravane 1804 Crossbow Boat 1802 {Tidy treasure} 8700 Expert builder motor 8408 Desert Ranger (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Brickshelf 2nd anniversary
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The Second anniversary of the instruction scan site (now brickshelf.com) is coming up on April 19, 2000. I searched back through deja.com, and found the original messages: (4/19/1998): (URL) I have hear alot of requests for instruction scans here, (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf) !
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| | US S@H Specials, Apr 17 - Apr 23, 2000
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(URL) Race Team $14.50 $ 7.25 2275 Medium Basic Set $ 5.50 $ 2.75 5024 Rails and Polarity Switch $ 7.00 $ 3.50 5027 Start'n'Stop Rail Switch $ 5.50 $ 2.75 2280 Circus Freeway $16.50 $ 8.25 2862 Zoo Animals $ 6.75 $ 3.00 2696 Duplo Tractor $16.50 $ (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.announce.lsahs, lugnet.market.shopping) !
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| | ANNOUNCE: LEGO::RCX 1.00
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All I would like to announce the release of version 1.00 of LEGO::RCX.pm. This perl module allows you to communicate with your RCX. It has been developed and tested under Linux, though it most likely will run under other UNIX's. To find out more (...) (25 years ago, 16-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.lego.announce, lugnet.announce)
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| | the latest news
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Dear All: First, I'd like to thank Suzanne and Todd for creating the new lugnet.lego group and associated subgroups. I hope that this will make it easier for everyone to find and read communications between The LEGO Company and our enthusiasts -- (...) (25 years ago, 16-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.lego.announce, lugnet.announce, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general) !!
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| | Pixelego Update
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Folks, I have updated my Pixelego application. This application processes JPG and GIF images into 'LEGO murals' and provides a complete brick partitioning and inventory. It is written in Java1.1.7 It is downloadable from: (URL) latest version: - (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
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| | Simplified News-by-Mail signup (was: New newsgroups for LEGO Direct and the LEGO Company)
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(...) LEGO announcements group. Is awareness of the group still too low, or is the interface for mail subscriptions still too confusing? (It was designed for efficiently managing large numbers of groups simultaneously, but not for managing groups (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce) !
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| | LEGO META-Search is up!
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I have put up a new webpage. It is LEGO-oriented-METAsearch site. This site searchs Pause Magazine, Brickset, Brickshelf, eBay(in progress/completed), Yahoo auctions, lugnet(parts/newsgroups :) and more. Once you fill the form, you'll find various (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce) !
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| | "Cobba" Mecha
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For all you "Mech-nics": After seeing all the current interest in Mechas lately, I wanted to try my bricks at one - but something different. I came up with a six legged spider "cobbled" together from "useless" pieces such as: 2 Burps, a bunch of (...) (25 years ago, 12-Apr-00, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.announce)
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| | Visit Kyle's Universe of Lego today!
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You KNOW YOU WANT to (URL) Universe of Lego is a wonderful, easy to navigate, site mostly on space lego. It is also home to Keppler Industries (my model repository), the leader in modern space technology. Some of you may recognize my address from (...) (25 years ago, 11-Apr-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.space, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce)
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| | New newsgroups for LEGO Direct and the LEGO Company
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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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| | 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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| | Search button
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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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| | drafting paper
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...I just posted some drafting paper I made to LEGO scale in Corel Draw to the brickshelf gallery (warning: they are PDF files and are huge downloads!) Use and enjoy :-) (URL) can go back to ignoring me now... wubwub stephen f roberts wildlink.com (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | WAMALUG pics from Mar 12th meeting
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Hey all - I just put up the pics from today's WAMALUG [1] meeting... No trains today (except Kevin's metroliner (doh! no pics of that!) and Rich's Blue station)... But we did have some castle stuff, some iceplanet and a pirate ship :) Also, our (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.publish, lugnet.announce, lugnet.castle, lugnet.space)
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| | US S@H Specials, Mar 13 - Mar 19, 2000
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(URL) Melody the Musical Camel $14.25 $ 8.75 2017 Primo the ChooChoo Train $22.00 $11.00 Duple 2696 Tractor $16.50 $13.00 System 6199 Hydro Crystallation Station $99.00 $79.00 6558 Shark Cave's Cove $33.00 $16.50 Technic 8245 Robot's Revenge $33.00 (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce.lsahs, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | New newsgroup lugnet.admin.terms
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A new newsgroup lugnet.admin.terms has just been created for discussions, questions, and issues relating to the LUGNET Terms of Use Agreement, (URL) the surface, it seems kind of silly to have a whole newsgroup/mailing list devoted just to a (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.terms)
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| | Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
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(An update on an earlier announcement 2 days ago...) (...) The original list above was adjusted downwards to simply the lugnet.admin and lugnet.off-topic subtrees. (In other words, lugnet.market.auction and lugnet.market.jambalaya are included again (...) (25 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | *Giant* Bricks at Potomac Mills + More!
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I went to the Potomac Mills, VA Outlet store today to pick up some purchases and took my camcorder. I got pictures of the Giant (5x10 foot!) bricks in the mall as well as some neat stuff in the store, including Star Wars posters. I tried capturing (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | .datFest Update
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Greetings Just thought I'd give a little update on 'progress' on .datFest. In reality, there hasn't been any. The last place I talked to for sponsorship/hosting was the Boston Museum of Science. The good news is they said they would look into it, (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.datfest, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Cleaning up the main homepage
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All, I've been up most of the night tonight recoding and retesting the code on the server which displays lists of messages, in particular the root home page (URL), which gives a top-level overview of current activity in the system. Recent off-topic (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | New LEGO® Brick Store Website Now Open!
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Hello Everyone! Just a quick note to let everyone know that my new Website is now up and running! Troy's LEGO® Brick Store is available at: (URL) store stocks numerous LEGO® items in quantity and offers them for direct sale to you at reasonable (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Lego Mindstorms (and me) at IBM's "barcode" party tomorrow
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Hey people in the Boston area: IBM's developerWorks is having a "barCode" party at Jillian's tomorrow night. The main attraction is Miguel de Icaza (of GNOME fame), but there's also gonna be Lego Mindstorms there to play with and look at. (URL) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | New groups lugnet.castle.org & lugnet.castle.org.cw
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New group/lists lugnet.castle.org and lugnet.castle.org.cw have just been created for the discussion of Castle organizations and, in particular, the recently emerging Castle World site. The .castle.org group is probably not likely to get much (if (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.castle, lugnet.castle.org, lugnet.castle.org.cw)
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| | LUGNET Terms of Use clarification
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The LUGNET Terms of Use document, (URL) changed slightly and is now a little bit clearer regarding the posting of auctions. This is not a change in site policy but a clarification of existing site policy. (You do not need to re-accept new terms.) (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | US S@H Specials, Mar 6 - Mar 12, 2000
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(URL) Farm Animals $17.50 $ 8.75 2699 Farm $69.00 $34.50 System 6582 Daredevil Flight Squad $33.00 $16.50 6977 Arachnoid Starbase $88.00 $65.00 Bellville 5848 Family Yacht $44.00 $33.00 -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce.lsahs, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | ANNOUNCE: LEGO::RCX 0.9 (old Lego::RCX );
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All I would like to announce the release of version 0.9 of LEGO::RCX.pm. This perl module allows you to communicate with your RCX. It has been developed and tested under Linux, though it most likely will run under other UNIX's. To find out more (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.announce)
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| | Castle Survey Results!
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After 43 replies to the survey (one or two via email) and many wisecracks about the male question... finally, the wait is over - results are in. The questions were: 1. Do you have 375, the Yellow Castle? 2. Are you a male? 3. Are you over 18? 4. (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.announce)
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| | March MOTM Winner
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Greetings I'm proud to announce this month's winner for the ldraw.org MOTM is Pat Justison. Check it out at: (URL) sorry for the delay. -Tim Courtney ldraw.org Project Coordinator (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Ross Young's Fantasy page
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just a head's up about a page i hadn't seen before ross has two truly incredible castle constructions (palace and tree house) check 'em out! (URL) g (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.castle)
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| | Castle World - a new site.
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Hey! Castle World has a new location. I think it's more user friendly, but comments are always welcome. The old page will be around for a little bit, but will mostly act as a link. Check it out at (URL) useful features on the new site: 1) Search (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
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| | Several New Buildings added to my Site...
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Well I have finally gotten around to updating my Castle pages again. (URL) have added the following structures... 1. Right now this is just a generic building for my town although I do like it quite a bit. This building came about mostly because I (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Silicon Valley techies taken with kids' toy
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(Forwarding to a few more groups -- this needs more visibility! :) Way to go, Tom!!! --Todd (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Eiffel Tower
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New picture of my Eiffel Tower using basic bricks: (URL) sign my guestbook if you enjoy it. All comments welcome. (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Gallery v. 0.6 (beta)
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Version 0.6 is now running. New features for this release: - Folders that contain files have first file icon set as folder icon - Recent page shows 24 folders per page (down from 48) with a "More" next page link (bottom right) In a future release (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf)
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| | New newsgroup lugnet.market.services
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A new newsgroup lugnet.market.services has just been created for the discussion of third-party market services. CHARTER/PURPOSE ===...=== lugnet.market.* (hierarchy): Auctioning, buying, selling, trading, exchanging, and shopping for LEGO® products (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: Factoring going off line for a while
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(...) OK, we have moved. I have the Gateway set back up. However, I have some mail challenges. The Dell laptop where I do all my mail picked (well, Murphy did the picking) the worst possible time to act up. It's throwing blue screens of death (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | US S@H Specials, Feb 28 - Mar 5, 2000
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(URL) Baby Rock'n'Stack $10.00 $ 5.00 2803 Dinosaur Babies $11.00 $ 5.50 2436 Tribal Village $38.50 $19.50 System 6333 Race'n'Chase Bonus Pack $ 7.75 $ 3.50 5988 Pharoah's Forbidden ruins $88.00 $52.00 6434 Roadside Repair $54.00 $39.00 Bellville (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.announce.lsahs, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | CONTEST: First Guelph LEGO(TM) Robot Competition
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The Computer Science Club of the University of Guelph is pleased to announce its first LEGO(TM) Robotics Competition. Any and all enthusiasts are invited. The contest is to be held in conjunction with the University's annual College Royal(TM) open (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | GATS pics are up
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I just uploaded some pics from the setup and first day of the GATS show in Gaithersburg, MD: (URL) in this setup: - Larger Layout - Double wide bridge - better building arrangement with fronts facing the crowd - Aviation building for VTOL - 3-way (...) (25 years ago, 27-Feb-00, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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| | PRESS RELEASE- Lego says 1999 sales rise 25 pct
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Howdy- I know this information is three days old, but I did not see it posted or mentioned anywhere on Lugnet. This first part of my message, is a Reuters new article (summary) about the official Lego® press release which is also listed at the end (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Gallery v. 0.5 (beta)
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The Gallery has been updated to version 0.5 beta. New features for this release: - Significantly faster recent page. - Delete function now propts user to select an item to delete within current folder instead of just deleting current item. KL (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf)
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| | James Jessiman Photos
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Greetings I recently received photographs of James Jessiman from his parents in Australia. I have placed one on the main memorial page here: (URL) there are others, not linked to by the site, at: (URL) below I've typed out the letter his parents (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.people)
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| | terms updated
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I have updated the Terms of Service for the Brickshelf.com gallery. I added the following language: You agree not to upload instruction or catalog scans, except for limited extracts, to the Brickshelf.com Gallery. Instruction and Catalog scans may (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf)
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| | Date & Time? (Re: LUGOLA proposal)
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Hi LA area (including OC and nearby places) LEGO fans It looks like there's a good number of us and therefore could probably make for a fun get together. So let's start planning. I suppose weekends are prime times. How about the first weekend of (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.la, lugnet.announce)
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| | Announcing the 'Vancouver Lego Club' (VLC)
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February 22, 2000 Greetings and salutations fellow Lego enthusiasts. We are pleased to announce the birth of the Vancouver (BC, Canada) Lego Club. During the past several years our own Lego Hobby blossomed and continues to escalate in new and (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.ca.bc, lugnet.loc.ca.bc.van, lugnet.loc.ca.bc.vic, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.announce, lugnet.org)
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| | Factoring going off line for a while
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Important announcement regarding factoring... I have just processed a big batch of factor requests. I am about to pack the office, so this service that dozens, if not hundreds, of people, have used is about to go off the air for a little while, (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | I've added feedback!
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I have added a model rating feature to my website at (URL) . Alan This message's random set is: 6572, (URL) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.announce)
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