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| I'm certainly not the first AFOL to build SOMA puzzle cubes out of LEGO, but it was a fun project. I built cubes using both a 2 x 2 module and 4 x 4 module. It was fun to experiment with different ways to build the alternating color versions. (URL) (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jan-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
| | | | | Peeron Memory Upgrade
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| Peeron has been growing by leaps and bounds since our last major upgrade two years ago - especially after the instruction scan library was moved from (URL) to (URL) PICSL>. While this is great news many of you will have noticed that recently we have (...) (18 years ago, 26-Jan-07, to lugnet.announce.peeron, lugnet.db.inv, FTX) !!
| | | | | New GPLR Member : Allen Smith
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| Good Morning- The Greater Portland LEGO® Railroaders (GPLR) warmly weclomes (URL) Mr. Allen Smith> as its newest club member as of January 15, 2007. Welcome Allen - Play Well! (URL) Greater Portland LEGO Railroaders> (URL) GPLR is: Steve Barile, (...) (18 years ago, 25-Jan-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.loc.us.or, lugnet.loc.us.wa, lugnet.loc.us.id, FTX)
| | | | | Tatra T-3 Moscow Tram
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| (2 URLs) BS> (URL) Flickr> My version of a (URL) Tatra T-3> tram from Moscow. This one has gone through numerous iterations to finally get it to look satisfactory. Apologies for the one blue window but I figured it was a replacement after some (...) (18 years ago, 25-Jan-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.loc.ru, FTX) !
| | | | | A new MOC - OutroMundo: Aerial Center
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| Hi, Continuing my OutroMundo's adventures: This is the first building for the city I’ve planned to the OutroMundo universe. (URL) Serves as a terminal for aerial Cabs and Buses. At the base I created a small garden with a Statue in the building (...) (18 years ago, 25-Jan-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
| | | | | Dragon Wagon
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| Hello fellow Brick folk! Thought I’d share with you my Dragon Wagon- (2 URLs) I really like the small Racer sets-so thought I’d try one with a bit of ‘megs’ thrown in. ;) Its’ my first vehicle! I’m working on more also. Any feed-back would be much (...) (18 years ago, 25-Jan-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, FTX) !!
| | | | | Official launch of the LDraw POTM - Part Of The Month contest
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| The LDraw Administration Team officially launches the POTM – Part Of The Month contest for LDraw Part Authors. It is no news that programmers get most of the spotlight and little goes to "the unsung heroes of the LDraw CAD world" - this contest (...) (18 years ago, 25-Jan-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | Family History Architecture Central Baptist Church Display
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| All About Family the community group we run here in Minneapolis has been partnering with Architects, Architecture Students, Families with their Children and other University of Minnesota Students to create fun and encouraging projects while learning (...) (18 years ago, 25-Jan-07, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events)
| | | | | BrickFest PDX '07 Hotel
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| The official hotel of BrickFest PDX '07 is the Red Lion Hotel Portland Convention Center 1021 NE Grand Ave • Portland, OR 97232 • 503-235-2100 BrickFest PDX 2007 is coming! (URL) BrickFest.com> Where: Portland, Oregon When: March 30th - April 1st (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jan-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.fun.community, FTX) !!
| | | | | Istanbul Tram
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| (2 URLs) BS> (URL) Flickr> Hi all, Saw this one a while back while looking for other trams in Istanbul (oddly enough). The face gave me nightmares for ages but I finally hit on an adequate (at least in my opinion) solution a couple of days ago. Tim (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jan-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
| | | | | Re: Neon Shifter
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| Hello Bryce! (...) Thank you! It really does give the (...) When I was creating the Neon Shifter I think about otherworldly creatures. Than I think about some pictures of creatutres here on Erath in the deep sea that I have seen. (For exapmle the (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jan-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
| | | | | New micro moc: Suburban Development
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| All: Hi there! It's been a while since I've posted a LEGO creation like this one. I love microscale, and for years I've been noodling around with it in my spare time, creating lots of little cars and 2-inch-tall buildings and things. But they (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jan-07, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, FTX) !
| | | | | got Cheese?
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| (URL) I like the 1x1x2/3 slope piece, and was inspired to use some in a new MOC. A friend of mine said that the yellow ones look like cheese, and that comment stuck in my mind... so after some trial and error, I came up with a little robot which I (...) (18 years ago, 22-Jan-07, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
| | | | | Received 9V old dark grey track from online PAB
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| I don't know if anyone has ordered the track from online PAB, but I have and I have recvd 9V, old dark grey, track today. I think it is a decent deal for $1.50 per section. (I recvd 10 straights). The drag is that this time I actually wanted the (...) (18 years ago, 22-Jan-07, to lugnet.announce.lsahs, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | US S@H Phone Specials Jan 17--Jan 23
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| 1-800-835-4386 5461 Shape Sorter House 12.99 6.50 8648 Buzz Saw 10.00 5.00 3495 2x2 Roof Tiles Steep Sloped Black 7.99 4.00 (18 years ago, 22-Jan-07, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.announce.lsahs)
| | | | | Rebel Briefing
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| The Rebel Alliance scored a major victory over the Empire by using stolen technical plans to formulate an attack strategy capable of destroying the Empire's most fearsome weapon: the Death Star. Mon Mothma as the Supreme Commander of the Alliance to (...) (18 years ago, 22-Jan-07, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
| | | | | Two moonbase modules from Brickfest 2006
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| (2 URLs) click the pics One minifig scale, one microfig. One is motorized and the other lights up! Both use (URL) spheres>! LMKWYT, --Bram (18 years ago, 21-Jan-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.space, FTX) !!
| | | | | LEGOLAND Kansas City Revised
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| LEGOLAND Kansas City is not dead yet, they are currently talking with Lee's Summit on the Missouri side of the line. Lee's Summit is a growing section of Kansas City with excellent access from all areas of the Kansas City Area, besides it's 20 (...) (18 years ago, 20-Jan-07, to lugnet.legoland, lugnet.announce, FTX)
| | | | | RAAF Boomerang - wow! real bricks
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| (2 URLs) BS> (URL) Flickr> I couldn't build the CAC Wirraway out of my bricks so I decided to build its smaller and meaner cousin, the CAC Boomerang. It's somewhere between 1:32 and 1:35 scale which is bigger than I usually build but I think getting (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jan-07, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
| | | | | Lego Pencil
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| Greetings All, Check out my latest little creation, The Lego Pencil... (URL) lead or point is a black screwdriver for those of you wondering. I looked around but couldn't find anything similar, what do you think? Cheers, Braith. (18 years ago, 19-Jan-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.au) !
| | | | | Fabuland Housewives Episode IX
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| After a two month hiatus Fabuland Housewives is back with Episode 9 (URL) Eagle Eyes An agent from the Fabuland Bureau of Investigation comes to town to take over the murder investigation. Gregor tries to get Gavin to see a psychiatrist and Bianca (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jan-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
| | | | | GBC- Magnetic Ball Separator
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| I just finished my new module, a magnetic ball seperator. There was a discussion a while back about building a module that could detect a single 'tracerball' in the ball flow. The red and blue basketballs were ruled out, because the light sensor (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jan-07, to lugnet.announce.moc)
| | | | | LEGO CD Revisited....
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| Folks, Thanks for the response for the LEGO CD. For those of you who still haven't ordered a copy, there are 3 new chapters now available to view on my website: (URL) are: Chapter 1 - The LEGO Timeline. Chapter 19 - LEGO Homemaker Sets & LEGO Sets (...) (18 years ago, 17-Jan-07, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Re: K'Nex enters the fray
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| (...) This really pretty big news and seems to have not got much press around here. I stumbed across a link to this site being advertised on BrickShelf: (2 URLs) For those who like K'nex or thought it may have possibilities in the Lego world, now (...) (18 years ago, 17-Jan-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, FTX)
| | | | | ED-209
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| (2 URLs) BS> (URL) Flickr> My version of the adorable (URL) robotic law enforcement officer> with just the right bugs. May be a teensy bit too big for minifig scale but is close enough to deploy in your town. Tim (18 years ago, 17-Jan-07, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
| | | | | Some announcements :-)
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| Hi all, BrickJournal is progressing toward release of Issue 6. Layouts are being sent to proof now and followups to articles are going from me this week. The Journal also took a major step in staffing when we got a person to start a European Bureau. (...) (18 years ago, 17-Jan-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, FTX) !
| | | | | When the Kraken Awakes
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| Hello Legomaniacs! After seeing the Pirates of the Caribbean last summer, I decided to try my hand at a giant Kraken. Not having pirate lego at all, and an over abundance of Vikings, Dwarves and Centaurs, I decided to let it all go wild! Woot! (URL) (...) (18 years ago, 17-Jan-07, to lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
| | | | | WE HAVE LIFTOFF!
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| The (URL) Greater Portland LEGO® Railroaders (GPLR)> are not exclusively about LEGO trains... On Thursday, January 11, 2007 GPLR delivered their (URL) 4th LEGO diorama installment> at the (URL) Square LEGO Store (Tigard, Oregon)> "Window Into The (...) (18 years ago, 16-Jan-07, to lugnet.events, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.loc.us.or.por, lugnet.loc.us.or.eug, lugnet.loc.us.wa.sea, lugnet.loc.us.wa.tac, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX) !!
| | | | | The Pirate Glossary
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| Ahoy! Taking a cue from Larry, Tim, etc. and their (URL) Train Glossary>, I decided to pull this together: (URL) The Pirate (aka Age of Sail) Glossary> I've always been confused by the myriad different terms for ships and their parts. And as I was (...) (18 years ago, 15-Jan-07, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.announce, FTX) !
| | | | | '71 Corvette in five wide
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| (2 URLs) BS> (URL) Flickr> (URL) thing> A big, bad, nasty bundle of SNOT to make a Corvette. Tim (18 years ago, 15-Jan-07, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
| | | | | BrickFest™ PDX 2007 Commemorative Event Kit...
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| The BrickFest™ PDX 2007 Commemorative Event Kit design is complete! (URL) This unique, one-of-a-kind, limited edition commemorative kit contains 146 elements and retails for $12.00, available to BrickFest™ PDX 2007 attendees only. It may be (...) (18 years ago, 15-Jan-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.fun, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.build.vignette, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, FTX) !!
| | | | | Chocdelia and the Chocolate Factory
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| Hello everyone! Fresh from her debut at a 1000 Stiene event in Frechen, Germany. Here is the 5th Podagon: CHOCODELIA (2 URLs) One day as Chocodelia the Podagon was exploring, she happened upon a Chocolate Factory. “What a perfect spot to rest!” So (...) (18 years ago, 15-Jan-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.castle, lugnet.events.1000steine-land, lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX) !
| | | | | US S@H Phone Specials January 10--January 16
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| 1-800-835-4386 4661 Construction Worker 4.99 2.50 10046 Brown Tiles 6.99 3.50 8726 Dalu 3.99 2.00 (18 years ago, 14-Jan-07, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.announce.lsahs)
| | | | | New Contest: Work that Squid!
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| Hello all, I wanted to announce the first Reasonably Clever contest of 2007 - Work that Squid! (URL) Full contest details at the link above, but here's the gist: Take the recent Bionicle "Squid Ammo" and build something with it. The catch? The squid (...) (18 years ago, 15-Jan-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.contests, FTX) !
| | | | | Unlikely Society -- Chapter 4
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| Hey everyone, Sorry about the delay between chapters, but we're happy to announce that Chapter 4 of our Lego superhero comic, "The Unlikely Society" is finished and posted. In this installment, we get to meet the shadowy figure behind all the (...) (18 years ago, 14-Jan-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town)
| | | | | French Toy Fair 2007 : pictures !
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| Hi, FreeLUG members were to the french Toy Fair. We wrote an article (in french) on our website (URL) Among the new sets, we can spotlight : the new electrical system with IR remote control, for the Technic bulldozer and the Creator Dino. The (...) (18 years ago, 14-Jan-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.year.2007, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town, lugnet.space, lugnet.castle, lugnet.starwars, FTX) !!
| | | | | New LDraw Contest: POTM – Part Of The Month
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| Hi folks, the LDraw.org Administration Team would like to introduce a new contest. It will be called: POTM – Part Of The Month It is no news that programs get most of the spotlight and little goes to "the unsung heroes of the LDraw CAD world" - this (...) (18 years ago, 14-Jan-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad) !
| | | | | Train Layout at BrickFest™ PDX 2007 (March 30th-April 1st)
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| (URL) BrickFest™ PDX 2007 is coming and we would like you aboard. Let me introduce myself. My name is David VinZant - member of GPLR/PNLTC for 8 Years. I have participated in countless shows and events. LEGOLAND, CA. - 2001, and the World Record (...) (18 years ago, 14-Jan-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org) !!
| | | | | hay guyz i built a tank
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| (URL) am i doing it rite? (18 years ago, 14-Jan-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.build.military, FTX) !!
| | | | | Eastern Block Space Patroller
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| The Eastern-Block's "Red Bear", pictured here with some well-aged but tried-and-true support vehicles, has been long-feared by X-1 Patrol Craft pilots. This heavy-duty vessel, bristling with high-powered weaponry made to incinerate Galaxy Explorer (...) (18 years ago, 13-Jan-07, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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