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This is ultimately a CFD (call for discussion) for a new newsgroup, but also asking what I think may be an important question. It's a taboo question, so do try to keep an open mind. The question is: Are we trying to be too nice to one another? The (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | FLL/Robotics play opportunity at LEGOLAND (Volcanic Panic activity)
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Dear robotics fans, LEGO enthusiasts and LEGOLAND passholders: On Dec. 2nd, 2001, LEGOLAND California will host a FIRST LEGO League statewide robotics tournament. Using LEGO MINDSTORMS robotic creations, 30 different teams (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.legoland.california, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.announce) !
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| | single motor pneumatic pump and switch
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Pneumatic pump and switch using a single motor: Do you need pneumatics on your robot? You want to produce the pressure and you want to switch the valve by motors. With my idea you can do both with a single motor. Have a look at: (URL) for my bad (...) (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.announce)
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| | 2 Stud Wide LEGO® Train Cars!
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A while back I had some fun building some 4 wide train cars which were amazingly similar to HO scale in model railroading. Well, my daughter and son (12 & 10) thought it would be fun to build some *2* wide train cars, and so that is what they did. I (...) (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | New Lego Fire Pics
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Hey everyone. New pics up on my brickshelf site: (URL) pretty much include all of the airport trucks that I have designed so far, but more will be added on a regular basis. No update for the regular Woodchuck site as of yet, but i wull let everyone (...) (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.brickshelf, lugnet.loc.us.va.roa, lugnet.loc.us.va, lugnet.town)
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| | New newsgroups for product line years
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A new newsgroup hierarchy for focused discussion of product line years has been created. Many thanks to Frank Filz for coming up with this idea several months ago. As information about the upcoming 2001 product line becomes available, please feel (...) (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.admin.nntp) !
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| | Space Mini-build-a-thon
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Hi Everyone, I went over to Mark Rideout's house today, and we worked on his exploration capital ship. Mark had a good start on the cockpit and main section, and was building aft, so I decided to start on the engines and work to the fore. I managed (...) (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Customised Superhero Minifig
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Yet another project documented finally thanks to my new digital camera. Warning: This one involves painted LEGO elements. Well, one, anyway. But I did take the time to document how I did it. Those of you who took the time to look at my VW B3 page (...) (24 years ago, 21-Oct-00, to lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.announce)
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| | Free legos at www.labvantage.com
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As I was looking through the latest issue of Scientific Computing and Instrumentation, I came across an ad for LabVantage. It gives the total number of combinations for 6 Lego bricks. If you go to www.labvantage.com and fill out a page (to get junk (...) (24 years ago, 21-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
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| | HTO Town sets sighting
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In the Pharma Plus drug store in the Zellers mall in Lindsay, Ontario, they have two HTO sets (and some RoboRiders, but they are pretty common). They are in plastic display sleeves that are designed for a set to be pulled out from the bottom. There (...) (24 years ago, 21-Oct-00, to lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.town, lugnet.announce)
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| | BMP-2-LDraw32 homepage is up!
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Hello, finally I managed it to put up the BMP-2-LDraw32 homepage. Have a look at (URL) you will find there some parts I already created and which will be hopefully released after next part-vote. -- Greetings, Carsten Schmitz (24 years ago, 21-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
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| | Just a little something...
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Hi all, I am finally getting around to building my website again, and I figured I'd post a bit of a teaser. See it here: (URL) Get ready - Broken Earth is coming. -Jeremiah- PS - please ignore the quality (or lack thereof) of the cover shot. That's (...) (24 years ago, 21-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.space)
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| | No More T-Shirts
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Hi Everyone, I was contacted by Robin Smith, Legal Counsel for The LEGO Group, and was asked to remove the Classic Space T-Shirts from cafepress.com. I have done so, in the interests of continued goodwill toward and from TLG. I exchanged a couple (...) (24 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | 2001 LEGO Line (When?)
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Hi all- It's usually about this time of the year (around the middle to end of October) when we hear the first news about the new upcoming LEGO items for the next year. Has anyone heard ANYTHING about the 2001 line at all? I'm so used to hearing (...) (24 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Volkswagen B3
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Having recently acquired a digital camera, I want to start documenting some MOCs I've had sitting around for a while. The first one can be found here: (URL) feel free to tell me not only what you think about the model, but about the presentation as (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.space) !
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| | DATSort, a utility for sorting .DAT files
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Hey gang, For a while now I've wanted a way to sort the entries in a .DAT file according to X-Y-Z coordinates, that way after I build a file in MLCad I can sort the elements so they're in an order much like original LEGO instructions (bottom to top, (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.announce) !
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| | US S@H Specials, Oct 18 - Oct 24, 2000
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(URL) Storage Bee $ 9.99 $ 5.00 5024 Rails & Polarity Switch $ 6.99 $ 3.59 5089 African American Family $11.99 $ 6.00 5091 Hispanic Family $11.99 $ 6.00 5029 Caucasian Family $11.99 $ 6.00 System 5382 Aquazone Accessories $ 3.99 $ 2.00 6150 Crystal (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce.lsahs) !
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| | Erase the 49th parallel
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I don't have my BB store (URL) yet, but given the timing of AucZilla XIV and the unique benefit to "my fellow Canadians", I figured I should post this ASAP. " As part of our effort to provide you with the best service, StRuCtures has teamed with (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.market.services, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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| | Shop at Home up and running?
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If I missed an announcement earlier, sorry. Just went to Lego.com and noticed the shop link. After going there noticed Orange Bulk Brick message, which is actually a pumpkin you can make. 87 bricks for $9.99 Haven't checked it all out yet or ordered (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct) !!
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| | *** LDView Version 1.0 Released ***
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LDView Version 1.0 has been completed, and can be downloaded from the following location: (URL) full source code is also available at that location.) LDView is an OpenGL-based real-time viewer for LDraw models written for the Microsoft Windows (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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