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Hi Everyone, Just a friendly last minute reminder that the SEALUG interest meeting will be tomorrow, Saturday Sept. 2nd at my house in Everett. Directions to my house may be found here, in pdf format: (URL) meeting will begin at 2:00pm, and people (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | September eLEGO update
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Announcing the september update of my web site, eLEGO. New models are: • Hover MRLS • Orca CA • Mobile Anti-Air Unit • Trade Federation Battle Ship (don't get your hopes up) (URL) please. I'm updating monthly, so see you in October! Thanks, Elliot (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | NGLTC invited to display at Atlanta History Center Holiday show
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The Atlanta History Center ((URL) has invited the NGLTC to participate in their 2000 Holiday Candle Light Show. This year's theme is "Toys & Trains". There will be a private showing on November 29 open to private contributors of the center and on (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains.org) !
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| | September MOTM Winner :-)
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Hi All, The winner of the ldraw.org model of the month for September is Jonathan Wilson. By a wide margin I might add. *Very wide* Not even any close contenders. Veritable blowout I must say. :-) Good job, Jonathan. See it at: (URL) Terry K -- P.S. (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !
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| | Specials at The Store 30 August
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YATSSL (Yet Another The Store Specials List) 2162 Hydro Reef Wrecker 24.99 6180 Hydro Search Sub 24.99 6441 Deep Reef Refuge 28.99 3144 Horse Stall with Pepper 13.99 3143 Horse Camp w/ Emma & Chilli 27.99 3052 Ninja Fire Fortress 20.99 Belville (...) (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.announce)
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| | US S@H Specials, Aug 30 - Sep 5, 2000
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(URL) Roll'n'Go Pilot $ 6.99 $ 3.50 2097 Caterpillar $ 9.99 $ 5.00 System 6462 Aerial Recovery $24.99 $12.50 3053 Emperor's Stronghold $39.99 $20.00 3051 Blaze Attack $14.99 $ 7.50 6919 Planetary Prowler $39.99 $20.00 Bellville 5844 Wind Surfer $ (...) (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce.lsahs, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | FunBrix Pic of the Week #7
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Hi All, The 7th "FunBrix Pic of the Week" is here! Sports Car - by: Neil Everett. This sports car is one of many cool Technic models on his site, so check them all out! (URL) --- Click on FUN --- Click on FunBrix Pic of the Week. Build on... Robin (...) (24 years ago, 28-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: today's meeting - at Eric's place
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I couldn't post this initially to ".announce", so I'm posting to ".announce" in this reply. Pleasefollow-up to ".dixielug". ;-) Franklin (...) (24 years ago, 26-Aug-00, to lugnet.org.us.dixielug, lugnet.announce)
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| | LEGO.new is coming
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Well, it's the end of the week. And I did promise. So here's welcome (I hope!) news: On September 11, we will relaunch LEGO.com. As part of this relaunch, we will extend the LEGO Shop At Home service to the Internet. Though we may limit the (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.lego.announce, lugnet.announce, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.general) !!
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| | September MOTM voting is ready
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Hi all, The September LDraw.org Model Of The Month voting is up and ready at: (URL) entries to choose from this time. And just a reminder, entries should be submitted WITH a short text about the model and/or scene. And can the entrants for this (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | SEALUG
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Greetings everyone! It's time for me to announce SEALUG, the: SEattle Area Lego User Goup I posted an "is anyone interested" notice a few months back in loc.us.wa, and I received a few emails, but I've decided to get off my bricks and send out a big (...) (24 years ago, 24-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us.wa, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general) !
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| | US S@H Specials, Aug 23 - Aug 29, 2000
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(URL) Primo ChooChoo Train $19.99 $10.00 2046 Water Play w/Fishing Net $14.99 $ 7.50 2740 Duplo Level Crossing $ 9.99 $ 5.00 System 6199 Hydro Crystalation Station $89.99 $45.00 5125 Launch Command Accessories $ 2.99 $ 1.50 5392 Wild West (...) (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce.lsahs, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Noodle Kidoodle merges with Zany Brainy
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I was just checking out the various online stores to see if they had any Lego on sale, and came accross the following message when going to www.noodlekidoodle.com: Welcome to ZanyBrainy! In case you didn't hear, Noodle Kidoodle has officially merged (...) (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.announce)
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| | PNLTC Breaks World Record for Longest LEGO train track
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On Saturday, August 19, PNLTC broke the previous record for longest LEGO train track, about 1780 feet. The new world record stands at 3343 feet! It took 42 minutes to travel the distance. Thanks everyone for sending rolling stock and encouragement. (...) (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.trains)
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| | LEGO Desk
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There have been a couple of posts lately (including one of my own) showing off miniature models of office spaces and desks. Well, here's what happens when someone asks for a LEGO desk that's actually life-sized: (URL) ---...--- Eric Harshbarger / (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build) !!
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| | Announcing: The Baseplate Finder
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In my role as a self-appointed Brick Detective, I have made up a webpage to help identify sets in which a certain "special" baseplate or boat hull is used. If you have a raised baseplate, one with paint, or a singe or multi-piece boat hull, for (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.announce) !
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| | www.BrickFrenzy.com is here
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I finally have my old Lego page ((URL) over to its new home, at (URL) Along with that port comes two new ground vehicles (the Squall and Blitz) and a new Mecha (the Kobold). Also included is a much cleaner and easier to navigate interface, with lots (...) (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, lugnet.general)
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| | Macintosh Ldraw part files.
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I just uploaded three parts files for the Macintosh. These are just the ldraw parts taken from a PC and repackaged with Stuffit. I've got them in 3 flavors: binhex (hqx), stuffit (sit), and as a self extracting archive (sea). After decompressing (...) (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
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| | FunBrix Pic of the Week #6
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Hi All, The 6th "FunBrix Pic of the Week" is here! Monorail Transit Station - by: James Mathis. An oldie but goody, this is one of the best stations I have see on the web. Great work James! And if you have time, check out all of his cool train stuff (...) (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | Grand Re-Opening! Bricks on the Brain
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Wow, what an intense couple of weeks we have had! Bricks on the Brain has launched the second generation of our web site andboy do we have new stuff! We have improved the navigation of the store by adding additional sub categories. We now have over (...) (24 years ago, 19-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics.palm)
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| | Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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[FUT lugnet.cad.dev] As the title suggests, the 2000-02 LCAD vote page is up and running. Please read the following, especially if you aren't familiar with the voting procedures. There are some 145 new parts in the update. Wow! This is a big one. My (...) (24 years ago, 19-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.announce) !
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| | Legoland Germany to Open in 2001
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I was just browsing Lego.com when I noticed this press release on Legoland Germany. Thought everyone would be interested in seeing this, if they haven't already. I copied onto this message, but you can view it and pics at (URL) Deutschland to open (...) (24 years ago, 18-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Sweetening LEGO Creator
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Picture this: You're walking down the cereal aisle at the supermarket and suddenly, out the corner of your eye, you see boxes of cereal with little images of LEGO pieces! You look closer and -- it's LEGO Creator! On a CD-ROM! Bundled with Cocoa (...) (24 years ago, 18-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.games.lego.creator, lugnet.general, lugnet.cad, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp) !
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| | Re: PNLTC Presents a Guinness World Record LEGO Train Track Display
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You asked for pictures--you get pictures. The "train geeks" have done it again--this time you'll be able to watch the show "live" on the web. Point your browsers to (URL) and bookmark the site, then check back whenever you get urge to know what's (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events)
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| | Project proposal: Seven Wonders of the LEGO World
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Who's ready for a challenging and fun group project?! I'm lookin' at the new LUGNET homepage and thinkin' that we oughtta have a special area which captures the spirit, imagination, and dedication of LEGO builders and wraps it up in a Nice Neat (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish) !!
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| | Top Stories, Spotlight, etc.
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QUICK TOP STORIES LIST The "Top Stories" listing on the new homepage, (URL) built automatically based on human feedback, and your opinions make a difference! If you are a LUGNET Member, you can help highlight things for this and other lists: (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.publish) !
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| | NALUG announces Lego train show in Edmonton, Alberta
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Northern Alberta Lego Users Group is pleased to announce our first public Lego show. We will have a Lego train layout at the Greater Edmonton Train Show (GETS), organized by the Edmonton Mainline Model Railroad Fellowship. You will find us among (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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| | PNLTC Presents a Guinness World Record LEGO Train Track Display
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The Pacific Northwest LEGO Train Club presents a Guinness world record LEGO train track display at the Center House in Seattle Washington. The show is open to the public on Friday and Saturday, August 18 and 19, from 10am to 8pm, and on Sunday from (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.wa, lugnet.loc.us.or) !
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| | US S@H Specials, Aug 16 - Aug 22, 2000
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(URL) Dino World $69.99 $35.00 2277 Clifford and his cat (trial set) $ 2.99 $ 1.50 2276 Train Oval $16.50 $ 8.25 2028 Betty's Bumblebee $ 2.99 $ 1.50 System 5542 Black Thunder $39.99 $20.00 3038 Spider Slayer $76.00 $38.00 Bellville 5847 Bellville (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce.lsahs, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Announcing new LUGNET homepage
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We are pleased to announce a new LUGNET homepage: (URL) hope that you find it refreshing and that new visitors will find it friendly and inviting. If you miss the old homepage, simply look for it at its new location: (URL) thanks to everyone who (...) (24 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general) !!
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| | The BlockCAD Gallery has finally been updated
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Hi all! At last I have taken the time to make an update of the BlockCAD gallery (URL) are welcome to take a look at the models that has been supplied by BlockCAD users all over the world (and of different ages too). (Remember: I have not made the (...) (24 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish)
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| | FunBrix Pic of the Week #5
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Hi All, The 5th "FunBrix Pic of the Week" is here! OMSI (Holiday Junction) Layout - by: PNLTC. On this week before the PNLTC/LEGO Train event in Seattle, Washington. We thought it fitting to feature one of their pictures from the past. So check out (...) (24 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | *** LDView v0.6.3 Released ***
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LDView v0.6.3 is now available, in both source and binary forms. You can download either from: (URL) only feature added in this release is a change in the preferences panel so that all options now go into effect immediately. You no longer have to (...) (24 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
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| | Employment site
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Here's an interesting employment site with several LEGO job listings. I found it on (URL) wonder why they don't post job listings to LUGNET? Todd- how about lugnet.lego.jobs? (URL) (24 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | edy lego art
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Have a look at (URL) size of this animated GIF is about 250KBytes. eddy (24 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.fun) !
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| | Lego Maniac's Webring to move to LUGNET Soon
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Hey everybody! Todd and I have been discussing moving the Lego Maniac's Webring to LUGNET for quite some time. I'm just letting everyone know a little ahead of time, that in the relative near future (no timeline set), the site will be moving over (...) (24 years ago, 10-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | Imagination centers in Chicago and Anaheim
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According to the LEGO website jobs listing, they will be opening Imagination Centers in Chicago IL and Anaheim CA (Disney). (URL) is also a press release about LEGOLAND Deutschland coming in 2002. (URL) (24 years ago, 10-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | US S@H Specials, Aug 9 - Aug 15, 2000
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Whoops, forgot to change the dates on the Subject yesterday... (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (24 years ago, 10-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.announce.lsahs)
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| | US S@H Specials, Aug 2 - Aug 8, 2000
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(URL) Shake'n'Roll Surprise $ 4.99 $ 2.50 Duplo 2432 Chief's Family $12.99 $ 6.50 5027 Start'n'Stop Rail Switch $ 4.99 $ 2.50 2297 Cute Animals $ 6.99 $ 3.50 Scala 3142 Marie's Room $62.99 $31.50 System 6328 Helicopter Transport $19.99 $10.00 6093 (...) (24 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce.lsahs, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Apology
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Dear Lego I wish to apologize for the trouble I have caused. I had no idea that the information I posted was confidential as it is contained among other information that I have been allowed to share with the public. This is what I have been led to (...) (24 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: 2001 Set info
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(...) LEGO has respectfully requested that the leaked information on this thread be deleted or otherwise removed from view. Since this was a formal request and TLC's privacy rights are in question here, this is a legal issue and I will be deleting (...) (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | Newly revised and updated web page
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Hi. I've spent the weekend hunched over my computer at home working on my "New Improved" web page design. Boy, its not as easy as you guys make it look, that's for sure! Anyway, I am now inviting you all to come visit my newly updated site. Its: (...) (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch)
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| | FunBrix Pic of the Week #4
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Hi All, The 4th FunBrix Pic of the Week is here! Reinhard "Ben" Beneke - Pirate Ship. This is one cool Pirate ship, but it needs a cool name. Also I see it lived a short life, but at least he took pictures of this great model before it went down. (...) (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.de)
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| | Re: photos from our second meeting -- at last!!!
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I forgot to x-post this. (Follow-up set back to "DixieLUG".) Franklin (...) (24 years ago, 5-Aug-00, to lugnet.org.us.dixielug, lugnet.announce, lugnet.people, lugnet.loc.us.ga)
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| | New newsgroup lugnet.sports for Football/Soccer
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A new newsgroup lugnet.football has just been created. Brad Justus of LEGO Direct said that Soccer (i.e., Football) is officialy not part of the Town product line and that it's its own product line. Going by this and by the set numbers, it seems (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.sports, lugnet.town, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | US S@H Specials, Aug 2 - Aug 8, 2000
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(URL) ChooChoo Train $19.99 $10.00 Duplo 5024 Rails and Polarity Switch $ 6.99 $ 3.50 2276 Train Oval $14.99 $ 7.50 Scala 3136 Christian Doll $ 7.99 $ 4.00 System 5125 Launch Command Accessories $ 2.99 $ 1.50 6479 Emergency Response Center $59.99 (...) (24 years ago, 2-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce.lsahs, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Web interface to LUGNET news moving from www.lugnet.com to news.lugnet.com
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(...) OK, I'm posting this message from news.lugnet.com, which is now officially the new web interface to news. Everything on www.lugnet.com still works, but things related to news will gradually be cut over to news.lugnet.com. (Don't worry -- I'll (...) (24 years ago, 2-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | Improvements to ldraw.org
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I just uploaded a few improvements to the Get Started part of the site, including highly visible links to getting started and downloading parts updates from the main page. LMKWYT - I plan to keep this area as easy as possible for people to get (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | MOTM Winner for August
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Hey! This month's MOTM winner is Todd Lehman, with his Chess Set rendering. Congrats! (URL) Courtney - tim@zacktron.com (URL) - Centralized LDraw Resources (URL) - Zacktron Alliance ICQ: 23951114 AIM: TimCourtne (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !
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| | Announcing my web site: eLEGO
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This is the official announcement of my web site, eLEGO (elliot + lego). Not a whole lot there yet, but I'm working on it. Current MOCs shown are: - - - - - Castle Realm: Coming Not So Soon Star Space: My Ice Planet 2000 version of 6833 (Beacon (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | LDraw Kidvention Display Pictures (a little late)
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Hey everybody... I just uploaded some pictures of the LDraw Kidvention event to Brickshelf. Check them out: (URL) there isn't that many. I was terribly busy then, and we couldn't get my USB smartmedia drive to work with any of our computers. So I (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !
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| | edy lego art
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Hi, here is one of my 'edy lego art': (URL) for all those who are not able to view PNG the same as GIF: (URL) set the follow-up to lugnet.general, because I couldn't find a newsgroup dealing with Lego art. In my opinion it would be good for lugnet (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | FunBrix Pic of the Week #3
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Hi All, The 3rd FunBrix Pic of the Week is here! Eric Kingsley's LEGO Brickingham Inn. This is one cool model, so check it out! (URL) --- Click on FUN --- Click on FunBrix Pic of the Week. Build on... Robin W. FunBrix (24 years ago, 31-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.castle, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Later May-June 2000 issues of Mania Magazine DID Include a disclaimer
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A relative of mine received his issue of the May-June 2000 Mania Magazine late last month and it did include the disclaimer. The disclaimer was featured on the last page under his address. I will be posting a scan of the page before 10:00 EST. -Rich (24 years ago, 28-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | Web interface to LUGNET news moving from www.lugnet.com to news.lugnet.com
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This is just a quick "heads-up" to let you know that some things are going to be moving around a bit on the LUGNET webserver. In order to make room for a newer, friendlier LUGNET homepage while keeping the current news-focused homepage easily (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general) !!
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| | My web pages have been updated, especially pirate stuff!
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Check out my LEGO web pages at: (URL) updated some stuff here and there. The largest new content is in the pictures area, and all the pirate pages. Especially note my writeup of the Pirate Game at Brickfest 2000. In doing the game writeup, I've (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jul-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.announce)
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| | BrikWars 1942!
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Achtung! Shaun Sullivan and I got together last night and played a bit of BrikWars. Inspired by Shaun's awesome WWII models, we decided to go with a scenario set in 1942. We took a few pictures, and I prepared a little website for everyone's (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.gaming) !
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| | Major Web update for the ADPolice
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*****PRESS RELEASE***** Qualification Trials, Western Wastelands, Unified States of New America, July 28, 2003 Master Arms latest tank, the MA1192 medium assualt completed the second portion of its grueling qualification trials. The first part of (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | No MOTM Entries for August
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Hey... Just letting all of you know that so far I don't have any MOTM entries for this month, and its coming down to the time to make up the vote. I *have* seen MANY renderings though more than worthy of the title. If you would like to be in this (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Calling all pirates - I need to identify whose ships these are!
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I'm starting to collect all the postmortem and all from the Pirate Game at Brickfest 2000, and I'd like to get as many peoples ship names as possible. I have the following ships names (with player name if known): Captain Bad Jim the Funny Hat of the (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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| | (canceled)
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| | US S@H Specials, July 26 - Aug 1, 2000
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(URL) 3-in-1 Playset $ 6.99 $ 3.50 2018 Boy Storage $14.99 $ 7.50 Duplo 2604 Dino World $69.99 $35.00 2606 Dump Truck $ 7.99 $ 4.00 System 6199 Hydro Crystalation Station $89.99 $45.00 6104 Divers $ 5.99 $ 3.00 6198 Stingray Stormer $69.99 $35.00 (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce.lsahs, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Bricks on the Brain adds over 2,000 parts!
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That's right, we have added more than 2,000 parts of our newest inventory additions. This is only about half of the total lot, so be sure to keep up with the new additions. We have also recently added the ability to pay for your order via PayPal.com (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | Junk Box #3 is Starting!
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(...) Just noticed that the tracking page is set up. Please start signing up, and I will try and get this into the mail to the first person ASAP. (24 years ago, 24-Jul-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya, lugnet.announce)
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| | FunBrix Pic of the Week #2
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Hi All, The second FunBrix Pic of the Week has been selected! Ben's LEGO Millennium Falcon. It nearly a year old, but it’s still a great model and picture! (URL) --- Click on FUN --- Click on FunBrix Pic of the Week! Build on... Robin W. FunBrix (24 years ago, 24-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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| | First meeting of GardenSLUG!
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Hi all, I hosted the first meeting of the newly formed GardenSLUG yesterday from 3:00 to about 9:30. It was fun. I was joined by (in order of arrival, I think) Cletus Romano, Andy Lynch, Bianca Nebab, Laurajean Murphy, and Erik Olson. We built from (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us.nj, lugnet.loc.us.ny, lugnet.loc.us.pa, lugnet.org) !
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| | Ohio BrikWars battle July 15, 2000 writeup completed
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Well, I finally was able to complete the writeup for this battle. It went on, including setup and teardown, for close to 15 hours. The writeup can be found here: (URL) didn't use all the pictures (I barely used a 4th of them) The rest can be found (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jul-00, to lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.announce)
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| | New Advent Calendar spotted in Utah: Set 2250
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Tonight while checking the latest clearance wave at Target, I noticed the year 2000 advent calendar, set number 2250. The set includes 234 pieces. The printing on the face of the calendar is significantly different from the 1999 calendar and depicts (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | US S@H Specials, July 19 - July 25, 2000
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(URL) Shake'n'Roll Surprise $ 4.99 $ 2.50 Duplo VE98 Duplo Video $ 9.99 $ 5.00 Scala 3142 Marie's Room $62.99 $31.50 System 6919 Planetary Prowler $39.99 $20.00 5542 Black Thunder $39.99 $20.00 Technic 8226 Mud Masher $12.99 $ 6.50 KC06 Danny (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce.lsahs, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | New animation location and site info
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Hello everyone, In an attempt to archive all of my LEGO related files in my Brickshelf account I started moving my finished animation files there. The folder contating all of my finished animations can be found at: (URL) still have to finish up some (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Bricks on the Brain Launchs Wireless Capabilities!
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Today, BricksontheBrain.com, the Web's easiest way to buy bricks, launched a Palm VII application to follow current and past order status. You can download this application at www.bricksonthebrain...wnload.cfm Please let us know what you think! (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.robotics.palm)
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| | Dixielug.org is now online (Re: linking "DixieLUG" site to gallery)
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Well, I had not gotten around to announcing to the 'public' yet, but now that you mention it: DixieLUG.org is now on the air! Check it out at (you guessed it): (URL) are appreciated. Please forward all disparaging remarks to /dev/null. :-) (...) (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jul-00, to lugnet.org.us.dixielug, lugnet.announce)
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| | Newsserver downtime
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The LUGNET newsserver was down for approximately 30 hours (as you probably noticed) and is now back up and running. (Actually, the newsserver itself never stopped running and serving articles, but it did stop accepting articles.) The problem: (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
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| | Canadian Summer S@H catalogue
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I just got my Summer Catalogue, and there is no McDonalds :( There is a lot of Soccer, Dino Island, and Race. Knights Kingdom is gone (temporarily, I assume), but Arctic is still there. (24 years ago, 18-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | [rtlToronto] September Lego Event Preliminary Announcement
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the 6th Annual Lego Robotics Event: Fear of a Bot Planet Preliminary Announcement Date: September 16th, 2000 (Tentative) Location: TBA Hi. It's been a few weeks after the May 28th Lego Event and as promised, we're planning another one, complete with (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | FunBrix Pic of the Week #1
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Hi All, The first ever FunBrix Pic(ture) of the Week has been selected! Kumamoto Castle by KK Quah of Tampa, Florida, USA. (URL) ----- Click on FUN! Build on... Robin W. FunBrix (24 years ago, 17-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.castle)
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| | DixieLUG: Pictures from July 8 meeting on Brickshelf
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The pics from last Saturday's DixieLUG meeting are now on-line at Brickshelf: (URL) Greg (24 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.dixielug, lugnet.org.us)
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| | WAMALUG/WAMALTC show in Chantilly Va July 15th-16th
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...Ok, so its short notice, but we are doing the Greenberg Toy and Train show this weekend (July 15th-16th) in Chantilly Va at the Capital Expo Center (directions and more info at (URL) will have our largest display yet at 32'x13' with over 330' of (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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| | Brickset now a .com
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I am pleased to announce that Brickset, the popular LEGO set database, is now available at (URL) www.brickset.co.uk address will also remain for the time being, but please update your bookmarks. There are three supported entry points to the site: (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | US S@H Specials, July 12- July 18, 2000
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Primo 2017 Primo Train $19.99 $10.00 Scala 336 Cristian Scala doll $7.99 $4.00 System 6160 Sea Scorpion $39.99 $20.00 6198 Sting Ray Stormer $69.99 $35.00 6199 Hydro Crystalation Station $89.99 $45.00 6328 Helecopter Transport $19.99 $10.00 6580 (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce.lsahs, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Live from Kidvention!!
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Hello everyone! I'm posting to you live from our LDraw and GMLTC train layout display at Legoland California for the Lego Maniac Kidvention. We're having a blast here with the displays talking to people and informing them about the online Lego (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.legoland) !
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| | Shop at Home Specials to now run Wednesday to Tuesday
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I just got off the phone with S@H. The specials for this week will be announced tomorrow. The rep also indicated that, because Monday is their busiest day, going forward the S@H specials would be announced on Wednesdays (24 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce.lsahs)
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| | ldraw.org Vinyl Banner Arrived! :)
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Hey everybody... The vinyl banner for the ldraw.org Kidvention display just arrived, and it looks GREAT! :) Its something that we can keep around for a long time and reuse at future events - and I'm very happy with what we got. I'd like to take the (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Kidvention in the news
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Check out the article: (URL) (24 years ago, 10-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Soft Opening of FunBrix.com
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LEGO fans, It’s time to unveil my new concept “FunBrix” to all! The idea behind FunBrix is a one stop place on the web for fun, bricks, news, links and more. This is the place for people young and old, who like to collect, build, display and play (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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| | Mark's Lego Contest Prizes!
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Check out my website for all new pics of the prizes! (URL) a month left! Send in your entries now! ~Mark (24 years ago, 9-Jul-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
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| | LUGNET T-Shirts are in!
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Here they are! (URL) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general) !!
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| | Even more BrickFest stuff
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Hey there, I just uploaded the three animations that were done at the Brickfest Stop-Motion Animation workshop. Send all praise to animators-in-training Richard and Mike Shamus. (URL) Foote (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | New History Page!!
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I am pleased to announce that I have a new Lego website, telling of its history. The URL is (URL) (24 years ago, 4-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | July MOTM
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Hey everyone... You may have noticed this month's MOTM didn't have a vote. I ended up totally forgetting about it until too late. But, luckily there was only one submission this month, and might I add well deserving of this title. Here's Ryan (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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| | US S@H Specials, July 3 - July 9, 2000
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(URL) Boy Storage $14.99 $ 7.50 2095 Shake and Roll Surprise $ 4.99 $ 2.50 Duplo 2276 Train Oval $14.99 $ 7.50 2604 Dino World $69.99 $35.00 5024 Rails and Polarity Switch $ 6.99 $ 3.50 5027 Start and StopRail switch $ 4.99 $ 2.50 System 5160 (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce.lsahs, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Summer Shop at Home Catalog just arrived!!
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(follow-ups set to market.shopping) Well, I just got the brand new Summer S@H catalog! Here's the list of new stuff (at least I think it is all new): 3404 Black Bus - $19.99 3405 Blue Bus - $19.99 3406 Americas Bus - $19.99 3407 Red Bus - $19.99 (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Ray-Tracings of models
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I have put up some ray-tracings of some models on brickshelf at (URL) . There are some never before seen models, too. lmkwyt. Alan (fut lugnet.cad.ray) (24 years ago, 29-Jun-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.town, lugnet.announce, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space)
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| | Favorite Adventurers Minifig
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There is now just over 24 hours to participate in the vote for the Favorite Adventurers Minifig. Just visit www.geocities.com/En...urers.html and select an option in the pop window. Christian (24 years ago, 29-Jun-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.announce)
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| | PNLTC invites participation in world record attempt
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PNLTC officially invites clubs, and anyone else interested, to join our world record breaking attempt. Send us an "ambassador" box car, we will document it as a part of this historic event. In order to make this undertaking manageable we will use (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.events, lugnet.org)
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| | Preview: LUGNET T-Shirts, Mousepads, Coffee Mugs
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LUGNET T-Shirts are just around the corner...we're finalizing color-matching adjustments this week. Here's the design: (2 URLs) the photo, some parts are real and some parts are fake. The shirt itself (wrinkles courtesy of the humid weather this (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general) !!
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| | LDraw at the Kidvention Update
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Hey everybody... Here's an update on the status for LDraw at the Kidvention so far: I sent off the artwork for the banner to the company (FastSigns) today, and they will get back to me soon on approval. Thanks to everyone who donated to make this (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sd, lugnet.loc.us.ca.la, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.org.us.lugola) !
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| | US S@H Specials, Jun 26 - July 2, 2000
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(URL) Circus Catapult $11.00 $ 6.00 System 6977 Arachnoid Starbase $88.00 $65.00 3053 Emperor's Stronghold $44.00 $22.00 5125 Launch Command Accessory Pack $ 3.00 $ 2.50 6479 Emergency Response Center $66.00 $33.00 Technic 8257 Cyber Strikers $54.00 (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce.lsahs, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Need more $$ for ldraw.org banner...
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Hey everybody... I've been working with John Neal and we thought we could get the ldraw.org vinyl banner for $100, but realized that different printing methods wouldn't give us the result we need. This means that I'm in need of $130 more towards the (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.org.us)
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