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| Hi all, I had been notified about this earlier but unfortunately missed the date as well: Widely unnoticed, LUGNET had it's 10th anniversary (if counted from the 1st news post logged in the system) on September 28th, 2008. I would like to take this (...) (16 years ago, 30-Sep-08, to lugnet.announce) !!
| | | | GOOGLEGO.info beta site for info on all things LEGO
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| Well cats out of the bag, better show what Im also working on now so we do not have more over lap. Im working on GOOGLEGO.info website. Basically anything LEGO related, show, events, clubs, challenges, media, leagues, and more would be listed and (...) (16 years ago, 29-Sep-08, to lugnet.announce, FTX)
| | | | Shared LEGO Calendars on BrickBuildr
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| So a little background on this feature... Joe Meno and I were talking the other night about the idea of 'shared' calendars. I was explaining to him about my 'Central Florida Tech' calendar, that I had invited a person or two to add events to it & (...) (16 years ago, 29-Sep-08, to lugnet.announce, FTX) !
| | | | Concept car
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| Hi! Finally after more than a month, I think it's time to present the result of this project: (URL) It probably has some similarities with the 8448 car, but it's executed in the nowadays technic style with new elements like the differential and (...) (16 years ago, 28-Sep-08, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.technic, FTX) !
| | | | Cantina Band
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| LEGOLAND California recently held their third Star Wars weekend. Local AFOLs were invited to bring Star Wars MOCs to display at the event. I dusted off some models from previous years, but also built a new model for this years event: Mos Eisley (...) (16 years ago, 28-Sep-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.starwars, FTX) !!
| | | | Strange object discovered on Mars!!
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| A strange object was discovered on Mars by astronauts during a routine patrol on the far side of the planet. Who built it, when it was built and why all remain a mystery... Here's an overall view of the first astronauts on the scene. (URL) This is a (...) (16 years ago, 25-Sep-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.space, FTX) !
| | | | BR 9F steam engine
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| Thought I'd post this up as dont see many U.K steamers on here. It was originally built for a forthcoming show, and was intended to be the "Evening Star", but lack of availability for many of the parts in dark green has led to it being built in (...) (16 years ago, 25-Sep-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, FTX) !!
| | | | Haunted Manor
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| Hey all! Thought I'd get an early Halloween moc in! The Haunted Manor is the largest of my Transportable LEGO Boxes so far
Its full of lots of spooky surprises! It even has a ghost watering plants!! (2 URLs) It was a fun (and sometimes hair (...) (16 years ago, 25-Sep-08, to lugnet.announce, FTX) !
| | | | New iPaB Wall View on BrickBuildr
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| I was so excited when I first released (URL) iPaB>. When I told my LUG-mates about it, their only criticism (in jest) was "you should make a wall view where you can see everything on one page." Grrr... I thought. So for those of you who don't like (...) (16 years ago, 25-Sep-08, to lugnet.announce, FTX) !
| | | | Chemical Tanker Cars - Rolling Stock
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| Hello again everyone! I finally got around to taking pictures of a lot of the MOC's I built this spring and summer for the two shows we did this year. This MOC is a few tanker cars I built based off of a design by James Mathis. The design is (...) (16 years ago, 24-Sep-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | | Four new MINI models from the Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica Universe
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| Greetings all, it's been a while since I posted something new. Some real-life issues kept me busy, including a flat movement to another city. Now it's time to come back to building. :-) While most of you might know me for building Star Wars MINI (...) (16 years ago, 23-Sep-08, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
| | | | Yankee Stadium - really darn big
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| All: For almost three years, I've been working on a sculpture of Yankee Stadium together with a Manhattan grade-schooler. It's only a few months away from being complete. I don't normally post photos of my LEGO creations before they're finished, but (...) (16 years ago, 22-Sep-08, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
| | | | Dark Side of the Moonbase
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| Before you look at this MOC, I suggest putting on a little music. I suggest something debaucherous. Perhaps 'Girls, Girls, Girls', 'Wild Side', or 'Dr. Feelgood' by Motley Crue? I'll wait while you put that on... Still waiting... Ok, back now? Good! (...) (16 years ago, 21-Sep-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, FTX) !
| | | | 50th anniversary of the Smurfs
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| Hi all, LEGO is not the only one who celebrates a 50th anniversary. (URL) (click pic) Larger images in my (URL), once moderated. Hope you like it. Play well, Maarten (16 years ago, 19-Sep-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.cad, lugnet.build, FTX)
| | | | Draft at BrickCon 2008
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| (...) Yes, indeed. The set for the BrickCon 2008 draft is set 7626, Jungle Cutter (2 URLs) draft is scheduled for 1:30pm Sunday. Short version: no double or split drafting, no more than 21 people in any draft group. Long version: The draft is a (...) (16 years ago, 19-Sep-08, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.events, lugnet.announce)
| | | | New parts available on PAB online and Factory Palete
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| Hi folks, I just thought you all might like to know that it appears that the Factory palete has been updated to include elements in "Custom Car Garage" and the PAB selection has been updated accordingly. Perhaps most notably the minifig parts (...) (16 years ago, 19-Sep-08, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.lego.direct)
| | | | LDraw.org's August 2008 Model and Part of the Month Winners
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| Congratulations to the winners of the August 2008 Model/Part Of The Month (MOTM/POTM) contests: (URL) MOTM, Prinoth Leitwolf with Power Functions by Han Crielaard> (URL) POTM - Best Part, Electric Spybotic Brick with Trans Red Cover (Shortcut) by (...) (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, FTX)
| | | | LDraw.org's position on the copyright of rendered images
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| The LDraw Steering Committee (SteerCo) has been questioned about LDraw.org's policy (as expressed by the Contributor Agreement (URL) other documentation, or tradition) on third parties capitalising on the considerable volunteer time, effort, and (...) (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce) !
| | | | Dirty Brickster at BrickCon 2008
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| BrickCon 2008 will once again feature the popular Dirty Brickster. If you want to participate, you have to think ahead to bring and wrap something[1]. If you've done it before: worth $10+ to an AFOL. No junk. Please wrap ahead of time. If you've (...) (16 years ago, 16-Sep-08, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.events, lugnet.announce)
| | | | School Buses - both hovercraft and normal
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| My latest creation is two creations in one. I'm posting this to both town and space, but if you reply and only talk about one of them please trim the newsgroups accordingly. First I created a Lunar School Bus, which is a hovercar/rocket school bus (...) (16 years ago, 15-Sep-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, lugnet.space, FTX) !
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