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A new newsgroup lugnet.events has just been created. CHARTER/PURPOSE ===...=== lugnet.events (group and hierarchy): Organized community events, festivals, competitions, tournaments, shows, etc.: announcements, ideas, collaboration, planning, (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jun-00, to lugnet.events, lugnet.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | LEGO contest with prizes! X-COM/Space related.
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Hello LEGO enthusiasts, (This release has been sent to both the X-COM and LEGO communities, so it might be a little OT for each group) Have you ever played a game called X-COM: UFO Defense for the PC? Do you still enjoy LEGOs? Then I have a contest (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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| | GMLTC layout on its way to Carlsbad!
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It's official: The GMLTC train layout is on its way to LEGOLAND Carlsbad. The big truck pulled away from my house around 10 minutes ago. Hopefully it doesn't get lost in "the system", or our display won't be nearly as impressive... ;-) Hope to see (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce) !
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| | New newsgroup lugnet.fun (was: New newsgroups for Fun Projects & Group Activities)
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Hiya, lugnet.fun has been activated as a newsgroup. (Previously it was an empty category with subgroups only.) The main reason for its activation is (1) as a place for LEGO-related "silliness" or amusement -- i.e., sort of an "on-topic" version of (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.fun, lugnet.announce) !
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| | US S@H Specials, Jun 19 - Jun 25, 2000
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(URL) Choo Choo Train $22.00 $11.00 Duplo 5027 Start/Stop Rail Switch $ 5.50 $ 2.75 System 5129 Exploriens Accessories $ 4.25 $ 3.00 6104 Aquacessories:Nauts & Sharks $ 6.75 $ 3.50 6328 Helicopter Transport $20.00 $10.00 Belville 5844 Laura w/ (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce.lsahs, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | S@H Specials, June 19 - 25
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Substituting for Tom Stangl, who is on leave: Set Original Price Sale Price PRIMO 2017 Choo Choo Train 22.00 11.00 SYSTEM 5129 Exploriens Accessories 4.25 3.00 6104 Aquacessories:Nauts & Sharks 6.75 3.50 6328 Helicopter Transport 20.00 10.00 (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce.lsahs, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | L3DView v0.5 view LDraw models in real-time 3D
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I have written a program called L3DView which allows you to view LDraw models in real-time 3D via OpenGL. The program is available from: (URL) supports both .DAT and .MPD files. You will need a 3D-accelerated video card with OpenGL acceleration to (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
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| | More Brickest Pics!
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Hi all, I just wanted to let you know that I just put up some pictures I took from Brickfest 2000 on my website. (URL) the servers at Xoom.com have been flakey lately. If you don't get through, I just want you to know that IS the correct address. (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Brickbay.com is Ready
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After 2 months of work, the site is finally stable, bug-free (hopefully) and ready to be used. I wiped out all test information on the site including everyone's inventories, orders and profiles. The site can now be accessed by its domain name: (URL) (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | The Sanburn Systems Company is Now Online!
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To All, After 8 months of intense work, picture taking, counting, sorting, and the like, I am very proud to announce that The Sanburn Systems Company is now on-line, for the first initial launch and testing, here: (URL) will provide $0.50 in free (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Mosaic Maker
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This is sort of a cross between an online toy and a computer-aided-design tool: (URL) serious work, check out Eric Harshbarger's "Pixelego" application: (URL) & Suz (24 years ago, 17-Jun-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build, lugnet.fun.crafts, lugnet.announce) !
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| | L3Lab v1.2 20000616
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I have also made a new L3Lab, mainly because of a stupid bug in v1.1, where the model was always drawn twice per redraw!! -effectively slowing down rendering to half speed... (L3Lab v1.0 is OK though) I have also added some commandline options for (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
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| | L3P v1.2 20000616
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My (former) site is closed for renovation, and it seems to take a while, so here is new site (ldraw.org is also updated) and a also new version with a small bug fix: the camera angle defaulted to 1 degree (in stead of 67.38 degrees) resulting in no (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
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| | Models for Display at Kidvention
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Hey everybody... I am looking for a few models to display at the Kidvention with the LDraw setup. They need to have a virtual representation in .dat format so we can print up a poster of a rendering of the model. I'm looking for stuff from a lot of (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.space, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.aquazone, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !
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| | Kidvention, GMLTC, and 'Logo' train cars
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Hi all. I know several LTCs ("LEGO Train Clubs" for the uninitiated) are building containers and cars to run on the PNLTC layout when then make their world record attempt in August. On behalf of the GMLTC, I'd like to make an offer: Send your (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jun-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce)
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| | LD selections: price breakdown of bulk order sets
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I'd like to annouce a page that I'll be using to track the "evergreen" sets, as well as the currently produced and currently nominated types of pieces. Right now, the page contains a listing of the current bulk-order sets, sorted by Partsref name, (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | LEGO Model Designer postings on Brickshelf
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Looks like one of the large display model designers at LEGO posted a few pics of his creations. Nice job Paul, I like that polar bear. I also love that Orlando girl. I have actually seen her at the Orlando LIC. Great job, post more! Bickshelf: (URL) (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | bulk ordering is here!
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Greetings! After a somewhat longer-than-intended absence, I’m back, and with good news: LEGO Direct is pleased to announce that bulk sales from LEGO start today, June 14. Our first bulk releases include standard bricks (1x4, 1x6, 1x8, 2x2, 2x4, 2x8) (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.announce, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.market.services) !!
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| | Acronym FAQ - FTX version
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Fiddling around with the FTX stuff today, here's what I came up with: (URL) to Richard Franks who suggested this long ago :-) The only problem I had was with the bulleted list... it didn't seem to work. No biggie, tho'. `-Shiri (as I have to write (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jun-00, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.announce) !
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| | 2001 Catalogue!!!
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Well, you can probably guess what happened after I got home and opened a Flash Speeder from TRU... what appears to be a sellers' guide or mock up of next year's catalogue fell out! I am busy scanning right at this very moment, but I have uploaded a (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jun-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Filenames with spaces
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I just discovered a bug in the gallery software that causes a server error if you try to upload any flie containing a space character in the filename. This will hopefully be fixed in a Future Release(tm) KL (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf)
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| | Organizational business for ldraw.org as pertains to future activities
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Hello! I believe there are some group issues to attend to before ldraw.org starts selling CDs. I got to talk to a lot of people this weekend and received valuable input towards the direction of this now nebulous group and what needs to take place in (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.datfest, lugnet.org.us) !!
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| | US S@H Specials, Jun 12 - Jun 18, 2000
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(URL) Classic Watch $39.75 $26.00 W300 Pastel Watch $39.75 $26.00 KC06 Daddy Longlegs Keychain $ 3.50 $ 2.50 System 6568 Drag Race Rally $33.00 $26.00 6580 Land Jet 7 $14.50 $12.00 6198 Stingray Stormer $78.00 $54.00 6093 Flying Ninja Fortress (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce.lsahs, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | BRICKFEST, BRICKFEST, BRICKFEST (the pictures)
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Greetings from not so sunny Washington DC (its dark out, and late) I've got a bunch of Brickfest photos on Brichshelf... (URL) a great time meeting all of you and putting faces to many familiar names. Hope to fest again soon...WAMALUG you're (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.va) !
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| | Virtual Brickfest 2000
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The cam is here: (URL) chat is here: (URL) like some of us will be here for quite a while. -Nick (24 years ago, 9-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | BrickFest Live on-line!!!
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...BrickFest is live and online! Check out our live video feeds on: (URL) 1 is in our workshop room (at the moment, kinda empty) Cam 2 is on our big ol sorting/play pile! (24 years ago, 9-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | BrickFest!!!
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...BrickFest is live and on-line! Check out our cams at: (URL) 1 is on our castle room Cam 2 is our town/train/historical display We have historical displays of lots of older sets and will prolly post a 'walk thru' video. (24 years ago, 9-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | US S@H Specials, Jun 6 - Jun 11, 2000
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OK.....I called on Monday, they said they were repeating last week. I guess I should have called back Tuesday, they did get a new list. NOTE: since I won't be at work for the next 8 weeks, the Special postings will run a bit later each week, as I'm (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce.lsahs, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Brickbay Beta Testing
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Hi Folks, Whoever is interested in beta-testing may do so for a free parts reward. The site is basically done and I expect it to be fully operational this upcoming Monday or after the domain name is transferred since Brickbay can't generate e- mail (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Announcement: Member pages
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Members: You can now make your own web pages on LUGNET -- right from your web browser. Here are some examples... (URL) more details, check out the User Guide and the FAQ: (2 URLs) fun! --Todd & Suz p.s. We're also putting together a "community (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish, lugnet.admin.general) !!
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| | LDraw not to sell CD-ROM at Kidvention in July & Misc CD-ROM issues
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Greetings I just talked with Heidi Bailey again today, and she informed me that TLC will not be allowing us to sell the CD-ROM at Legoland this summer for the Kidvention. We are allowed to distribute literature about LDraw and of course, hold our (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Permanent Chatroom
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Kyle Keppler has set up a permanant Lego Chatroom here: (URL) requires AOL Instant Messenger, however, if you dislike/don't want to use AIM, wou can vote for a web-based chatroom. We hope to see you there! :) Jeff (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce) !
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| | animation demo at brickfest
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...By the way, I am proud to announce that BrickFest we will be showing the _award_winning_ stop motion work of Greg Perry! Greg found out today that he is one of the winners of the LEGO Coolest Home Video contest! His winning entry and several (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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| | Draft Schedule for BrickFest
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...Well, its a draft, but its a start. ...The draft schedule for BrickFest is up at: (URL) (also linked off the brickfest.com site). Note: There are _lots_ of things that are tentative on the schedule, and we are still looking for input on ideas or (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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| | Rocket designs on my lego page
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I just put a few rocket designs on my Lego page. Take a look at (URL) and let me know what you think. Axel ---...--- Axel Poque email: axel.pq@t-online.de Aachen, Germany home: (URL) Space Flight Center: (URL) (24 years ago, 6-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | US S@H Specials, Jun 5 - Jun 11, 2000
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Repeat of last week... (URL) Primo Boy's Storage $16.50 $ 8.25 Duplo 5024 Rails'n'Polarity Switch $ 7.50 $ 3.50 2803 Dinosaur Babies $11.00 $ 5.50 2783 Ironing Board $ 6.00 $ 3.00 2432 Chief's Family $14.50 $ 7.25 System 6104 Divers $ 6.75 $ 3.50 (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce.lsahs, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | BrickFest June 9 - 11, 2000 Washington DC, USA!!! Last post!!!
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posted to:lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.castle.org.cw, lugnet.fun.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.va, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains fut: lugnet.org.us.wamalug What: (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.castle.org.cw, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.va, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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| | More Parts at Bricks on the Brain!
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All, I just wanted to give you all a heads up that there is more than 500 new parts up in the Bricks on the Brain store! Also, another heads up, there is now T-Shirts, MousePads, and Coffee Mugs available as well! You can see this all and more at: (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.announce)
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| | Great Deals at Toy Liquidators!
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Hello, I just visited a Toy Liquidators in Vacaville California, and I found some great deals! They had #8480 Space Shuttle / "FOS Light" Space Shuttle for $69.99 (about 10 left) and they had #8479 Barcode Multi-Set for $99.99 They also had some (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jun-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.announce)
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| | Colin and Wanda Visit Midwestern U.S.A.!!
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Colin and Wanda, the intrepid couple who are in the middle of a world tour, visited the Greater Midwest LEGO Train Club's layout recently. It was an adventure from the start, as Colin and Wanda arrived air mail to Minneapolis, Minnesota, only to be (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | One Week to go! BrickFest 2000 June 9-11 Washington DC
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posted to:lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.castle.org.cw, lugnet.fun.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.va, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains fut: lugnet.org.us.wamalug What: (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Brickbay is Online! (still Beta)
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Brickbay.com is up and running in beta mode. It can be reached in 3-5 days under it's proper domain name: (URL) until then by the following temporary address: (URL) site contains only bogus shop data that was entered by folks during the last (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | L3P v1.2 20000602
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Well, it's been more than a year since the last official L3P release. Mainly because I have spent more time on L3Lab. But nevertheless several nice features have been added during that time. So here it is: STUDS flag in POV file ---...--- Turn off (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Temporary Castle World site
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Hi everyone, and especially CW people, As most of the castle fans probably know, Pawel N. has been absent for lugnet for quite a while. Over in Castle World, we started to get worried... A few days ago, I got an email for him. He said he was in (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.castle, lugnet.castle.org.cw) !!
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| | Newest version of the World Map "LUGMAP" available on LUGNET
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Followups to lugnet.org & lugnet.general The newest and most recent version of the LUGMAP has been copied over to LUGNET. (URL) are links to the maps from the LUGNET homepage and throughout the .org.* and .loc.* hierarchy's I have included all the (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.org, lugnet.org.ca, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.org.nl, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.it, lugnet.loc.jp)
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| | I'm exiting the world of LEGO.
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After weeks of soul-searching and discussions with my wife, I have decided it is time to exit the LEGO scene, at least in large part. After 6 months in our new house we are finding there is no room for this hobby, either financially or time wise. I (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
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| | More Specials at The Store!!! (Buffie's Potomac Mills LEGO Outlet Store)
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Buffster got a new shipment!! Woohoo!! Lots of damaged stuff (1/2 off!!!) rare $1.99s 1094 Johny Thunder 1097 Rescue Set 1099 Ninja Blaster 6400/1096 Race Buggy 2849/1068 Air Patrol 1271 Jungle Surprise (girl minifig!) 2847 Alien 1088 Road Burner (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.announce)
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| | MFSC homepage up
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M.S.F.C. - Minifig Space Flight Center June, 1st 2000 TO: All interested parties FROM: Axel F. Poque, Assoc. Admin. MSFC SUBJECT: MFSC homepage is up! The MSFC can now be reached on the internet via it's own homepage. The URL is (URL) Our homepage (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.general, lugnet.space) !
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| | PNLTC to break Guinness record!
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Pacific Northwest LEGO Train Club Official Press Release ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** "It's a snap with LEGO: Enthusiasts' Club Attempts Train Track World Record" The Pacific Northwest Lego Train Club (PNLTC) has announced plans to set a (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Brickshelf Scan Updates
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Recent items added to the Scan Database: (see (URL) for links) [05/31/2000] 8720 Power Pack 7865 {12v motor and transformer} 7861 Electric Light Kit 6255 Pirate Comic (english) 3659 Playground 3647 {School Room} 1793 Space Sataion Zenon 1607 Trial (...) (24 years ago, 31-May-00, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf)
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| | Now offering Bricks on the Brain merchandise!
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We have just added Bricks on the Brain branded T-Shirts, Mousepads, and Coffee Mugs to inventory! Check them out at www.bricksonthebrain.com! Thanks! (24 years ago, 31-May-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.announce)
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| | More new photos of my city, "The Brick Apple"
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Greetings all! I have added about 20 new photos of my city to my website. They're scattered around in different places: I have added lots of "city-wide" photos.. a lot of you have been asking to see photos of the whole city at once. here you go! (...) (24 years ago, 31-May-00, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce, lugnet.town)
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| | Apollo Lunar Module Pictures on Brickshelf
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M.S.F.C. - Minifig Space Flight Center May, 29th 2000 TO: All interested parties FROM: Axel F. Poque, Assoc. Admin. MSFC SUBJECT: First pictures of Apollo lunar mission We are proud to announce that the first pictures of the first Lego(tm) Apollo (...) (24 years ago, 30-May-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.space) !
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| | Help Wanted (Lego Pirates at Dragon*Con)
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Hi! I was wondering if any of y'all were planning on attending Dragon*Con [1] here in Atlanta next month. As you may already know, Steve Jackson will be here to run his Lego Pirate Game [2]. Steve has asked me if I might be able to get volunteers to (...) (24 years ago, 30-May-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ga, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.org.us.dixielug, lugnet.announce)
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| | BrickFest June 9 - 11, 2000 Washington DC, USA!!! Only two more weeks!!
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posted to:lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.castle.org.cw, lugnet.fun.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.va, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains fut: lugnet.org.us.wamalug What: (...) (24 years ago, 30-May-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.castle.org.cw, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.va, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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| | Favorite Adventurers Subtheme
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It is now the last chance to participate in the vote for the favorite Adventurers Subtheme. Just visit www.geocities.com/En...urers.html and select an option in the pop window. Christian (24 years ago, 30-May-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.announce)
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| | US S@H Specials, May 30 - Jun 4, 2000
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(URL) Primo Boy's Storage $16.50 $ 8.25 Duplo 5024 Rails'n'Polarity Switch $ 7.50 $ 3.50 2803 Dinosaur Babies $11.00 $ 5.50 2783 Ironing Board $ 6.00 $ 3.00 2432 Chief's Family $14.50 $ 7.25 System 6104 Divers $ 6.75 $ 3.50 6766 Rapid River Village (...) (24 years ago, 30-May-00, to lugnet.announce.lsahs, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Star Wars 7181 & 7191 (Tie &X-Wing) purchased in NE
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Tonight I spotted and purchased set 7181 (Tie Interceptor) and set 7191 (X- Wing) at a Toys R Us in Lincoln, NE (27th Street). The 7181 cost $99 and the 7191 cost $149. The TRU received two of each. The sets are printed in black and white on the (...) (24 years ago, 30-May-00, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | GMLTC to Display at Kidvention in July
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We weren't going to publicize until we had all of our ducks in a row, but since Tim let the proverbial cat out of the bag and we are pretty well set in our plans, I am proud to announce that the GMLTC has been invited to display their train layout (...) (25 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general) !!
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| | LDraw to display at Legoland California for Kidvention
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Greetings! I've just secured arrangements with Lego Direct to exhibit LDraw at the Kidvention in Legoland California this summer, from July 12-15. This display will consist of: High quality posters of renderings done using LDraw [1], information on (...) (25 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.legoland.california, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.loc.us.ca.la, lugnet.general) !!
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| | final shirt design
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the BrickFest 2000 shirt design has been finalized: (URL) that's it! the final iteration. Its not the best thing ever, but I like it (and sorry Christina and other castle purists, I just couldn't make a castle fig guy look rite... next year I'll (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.announce)
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| | MarsRobot Update
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After a short and successful beta test, the new MarsRobot website is online. MarsRobot is a general robotics website with a decidedly Lego slant. MarsRobot now includes daily robot news, threaded discussion of robotics topics, a new "themeable" (...) (25 years ago, 24-May-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics)
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| | BrickFest June 9 - 11, 2000 Washington DC, USA!!!
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fut: lugnet.org.us.wamalug What: BrickFest 2000 When: June 9-11, 2000 Where: Washington DC, USA Web : (URL) is an across the boards announcement about the upcoming BrickFest!!! The BrickFest will include a train/town display, a castle display, (...) (25 years ago, 22-May-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.castle.org.cw, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.va, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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| | TORONTO: One more week till Toronto Lego Robotics Event
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Just a quick note to remind Canadian RTL and Lugnet readers about the 5th Annual Toronto Lego Robotics Event: Primal Rage in ABS. Some info: Date: Saturday May 27th, 2000 Time: 10AM Competitors 12PM Audience Place: St Michael's College Theatre, (...) (25 years ago, 20-May-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | LEGOLAND, CA Job Fair: Saturday
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This from LEGOLAND, CA website. posted May 16, 2000: (URL) Job Fair: The Parks latest Job Fair is happening this Saturday from 8 a.m. through 2 p.m. at LEGOLAND in Carlsbad. In an effort to find enthusiastic Model Citizens, the Parks term for (...) (25 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.lego.announce, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sd, lugnet.legoland.california)
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| | East Coast Brickfest...
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...The Brickfest web page is up now and has information on the East Coast Brickfest! ((URL) site includes on-line registration, directions and hotel information. Make sure you register so we have some ideas what to plan for (and so we can snag more (...) (25 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Coming Soon ... Brickbay.com (Replacement for Bricks)
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Folks, I've been working on a more sophisticated version of what you see here: (URL) it will be a fully automated multi-seller version written in ASP/VB Script connected to a back-end DB where once sellers register, a link will be created to their (...) (25 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | brickfest.com website now online
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The website for the upcomming BrickFest is online at (URL) has a working registration page. Maps, and other details/info should be up in the next few days. KL (25 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | East Coast BrickFest information and registration!!!
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...Don't forget! The East Coast BrickFest is less than a month away!! June 9 - 11 2000 in Arlington Va (just outside of Washington DC). WEBPAGE!!! ...The Official BrickFest webpage will have information on the East Coast BrickFest very shortly. The (...) (25 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.wamalug) !
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| | Change in Greg Williams' website address
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There's a change in my website address. The new address is (URL) . The old one was (URL) I'm not sure how many people link to it so I figured I should post an announcement that it has changed. Actually, the old one still works for now and just (...) (25 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | LUG World Map 1st Version complete.
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FUT lugnet.org For those of you that don't know I have been working on the LUG Map that Todd and Suz have greatiously decided to host here on LUGNET. For the most part we have worked out the issues with keeping the map updated. About the only thing (...) (25 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.org, lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.it, lugnet.org.ca, lugnet.org.nl, lugnet.org.us)
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| | LBFR Additions
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More goodies from Hess Firefighting Apparatus at the Lego Beach Fire and Rescue site: Instructions for Engine 42 A new Ladder 1 with instructions Have a look and, as always, please let me know what you think. Will Lego Beach Department of Emergency (...) (25 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
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| | US S@H Specials, May 15 - May 21, 2000
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(URL) WILL BE OUT OF TOWN NEXT WEEK, SO WILL NOT BE ABLE TO CALL IN FOR THE SPECIALS Duplo 2432 Chief's Family $14.50 $ 7.25 2431 Chief's Canoe $ 5.00 $ 2.50 System 6977 Arachnoid Starbase $88.00 $65.00 6905 Bi-Wing Blaster $16.50 $ 8.25 3038 Spyder (...) (25 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.announce.lsahs, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Answers!!! (and maybe more questions) was Re: East Coast Brikfest!!!
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(...) ...:-) our organization is a touch lacking. But have no fear, this will be fun even if we do muddle through a bit semi-unorganized, I've worked with worse and doing it this way is a bit bumpy, but it will be fun :-) But on the good side, we do (...) (25 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.announce)
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| | My site also is good now
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My site at (URL) is a lot better now. It has shorter load time, and looks better. It only uses a few images, and looks good. (the site for some reason looks bad in ie so get netscape!) Alan (25 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.announce)
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| | Chapter 1 of "The chronicles of Scar"
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Hi! Chapter 1 is up, see it here: (URL) bit background info... (please read the chapter before reading this!) : : : : : : : : (I hope you've read the chapter already! this is a spoiler!) : : : : : : : : This chapter started out more than 3 months (...) (25 years ago, 14-May-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.announce, lugnet.castle.org.cw) !!
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| | Chessie Steamer
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Well it has been a long time coming but this is my first real project to share with the group. It isn't 100% complete, although the final pieces are on their way here. A big THANKS to all of the people who were willing to swap much needed part to (...) (25 years ago, 13-May-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | May-June 2000 Mania Magazine
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Sorry if someone already mentioned this and I missed it. In the May-June 2000 Mania Magazine on page 6 in "the Adventures of the LEGO Maniac" comic, look what symbol is in the computer screen ... LUGNET! Again, sorry if this is old news but I (...) (25 years ago, 13-May-00, to lugnet.announce) !!
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| | NELUG Button available, Web Site news section reformated.
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OK I know I have been making a lot of changes lately. Bet you can't tell most of my LEGO is in the TCS window display :-). Anyway I have been having fun being creative with the NELUG site as well as the new LUGNET Map pages. First of all I have come (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish) !
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| | Brickshelf Donations
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BrickShelf.com is now accepting donations, as explained at (URL) am pleased to announce that Larry Pieniazek has made the first donation, in the ammount of $100. Thanks! KL (25 years ago, 11-May-00, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf)
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| | LDraw CD-ROM - Another Update
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Here's just an update since my last post here. We'll be adding these items to the CD: MLCAD Blockcad Povray (for various OS's, plus libraries) James' Models Ben Whytcross's Database Project (sample) (now all of you can stop emailing me and telling (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev) !
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| | www.nelug.org - Updates, Changes, and new Mailing List
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followups to: lugnet.org.us.nelug This is to announce several changes to the NELUG web site as well as the transition of our old NELUG mailing list to a new Web Based mailing list. (URL) new mailing list has been set up to greatly ease maintenance (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.loc.us.ri, lugnet.loc.us.vt, lugnet.loc.us.nh, lugnet.loc.us.me)
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| | East Coast Brikfest!!!
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...Just 1 month to go!!! Don't forget the East Coast BrikFest! June 9-11 Washington DC! Subscribe to lugnet.org.us.wamalug for more information as it becomes available! ...you can go back to ignoring me now... wubwub stephen f roberts wamalug guy (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Jain's is still accepting submissions!
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...Jain's Guide ((URL) the preeminent guide to the fighting men, women and equipment in the sector will gladly accept submissions of field reports, equipment reviews, unit interviews, or system guides. ...In addition to our army of field reporters (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.gaming)
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| | Brikwars battle report on Jain's...
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...I wish we had gotten more pics, but here's two versions of a battle report from our March Brikwars game for WAMALUG :-) (URL) (click on the battle report for Atrius). (posting it to the site even as I send this) ...you can go back to ignoring me (...) (25 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.gaming)
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| | US S@H Specials, May 8 - May 14, 2000
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(URL) Shake'n'Roll Surprise $ 5.50 $ 4.00 Duplo 5027 Start/Stop Rail switch $ 5.50 $ 2.75 2604 Dino World $76.00 $38.00 System 6907 Sonic Stinger $24.00 $12.00 5160 Aquanaut/Aquashark Accessories $ 3.00 $ 2.50 5988 Pharoah's Forbidden Ruins $88.00 (...) (25 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.announce.lsahs, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | LCad Parts Update 2000-01 Now Available
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[FUT lugnet.cad] The LCad parts update 2000-01 is now available from ldraw.org. The first update for 2000 has arrived. Finally. :) Get it at (URL). Full details are available there. Steve (25 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.announce) !
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| | LDraw CD-ROM Update
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Greetings I've been discussing LDraw CD-ROM issues with Don Heyse, Stephen Bissell, and Steve Bliss over the past couple weeks. Don just sent me a master CD-R in the mail of what we have so far. As of now, install files and HTML pages need to be (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.datfest) !
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| | Lego Direct wants page
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I've decided to offer to maintain a "wants" web page in anticipation of Lego Direct. This will be a simple web page, along the lines of the kind of database discussed in the thread (URL) will accept email to catena@xnet.com with your name and email (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.dear-lego) !
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| | New pictures on Brickshelf
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I'm just announcing that I have some new pictures up on Brickshelf. I have a blacksmith shop(which has already been announced to lugnet.caste), a Technic car that I made a couple of years ago, some fire/rescue models, & pictures from when I went to (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town, lugnet.general, lugnet.castle)
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| | 7 new models at Kyle's Universe of Lego
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I have finish uploading over 25 pictures for 7 different new models. These will be held on this preview page untill I have finished making the pages for each individual model. Keep in mind the page is a preview that I threw together rather quickly (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build)
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| | Web Storage Space Available
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Hello. I'd like to announce that my web server has some web space available and that I'd like to offer it to a few lugnet users. It would be hosted on my new business server at (URL) www.speakeasysolutio...<YOURNAME> Each account would get 5 megs of (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Re: 1000 hits to Kyle's Univese of Lego!
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Sorry, I forgot to cross post this to the different groups! My Bad 8-) (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish)
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| | LDraw Add-On Version 2.1.3
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[XFUT lugnet.cad] I've posted a new version of LDAO. The main point of this new version is to fix some nasty bugs in the 2.1.2 release. But there are one or two small, new features. I've also posted a web-centric download/install version. Basically, (...) (25 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce) !
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| | Streaming news client (Java) on Sourceforge
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Hey all, I have placed my Java streaming news client on Sourceforge. See it out here: (2 URLs) ) It hasn't changed much since I last posted about it, but the creation of the .admin.nntp newsgroup among other things has given me another boost of (...) (25 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.announce) !
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| | Pre-announcement: member pages
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This is a pre-announcement of an upcoming LUGNET member feature where you can make your own web pages on LUGNET. You'll be able to do it all right from your web browser using HTML forms -- similar to posting messages from the web in that you get a (...) (25 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | May 27th Toronto Lego Robotics Event
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Hi folks, Just as a reminder, we are set for Saturday, May27th for the big 5th Annual Lego Robotics event. It'll be a lot of fun, whether you are building a robot (please do, read on) or just coming to watch. If you're coming to watch, show up (...) (25 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | New newsgroup lugnet.admin.nntp
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A new group/list for NNTP[1]-related issues has just been created. Probably, you'll just want to ignore it unless you're writing a streaming news client or having difficulties getting your newsreader to do something. CHARTER/PURPOSE ===...=== -> (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.announce)
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| | English version of my site is launched
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Hi, Dear LUGNET reader! Recently I became a member of LUGNET. I'm very happy to be one of this great community. By the way, almost a half years ago, I started my web site, but it has been Japanese only. Finally I made English version of my site. (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.announce) !
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