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| Just a reminder that your votes need to be in by midnight PST tonight (that's 3am EST on Saturday :-) ). If you haven't registered with me and you want to vote, do it ASAP! See (URL) how to register, and (URL) for links to all the entries. Kevin (...) (24 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | My Storage Labels
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| After I posted information about my storage system (particularly the labels I have created for each drawer), many people asked if I could make .JPG's of the images available. (URL) graphics were originally done in Corel Draw! 9, but I converted each (...) (24 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.storage, lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | MOC: 61001 - Heavy Scooper
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| Hey all... Here's a little set I made a couple of weeks ago. It's based on some of the core elements of the 6474, but it clocks in at about 180 pieces (almost 4 times the 6474's count). 61001 - Heavy Scooper (URL) model features a much more solid (...) (24 years ago, 13-Mar-01, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | BLOC Membership Offer
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| Due to some privacy concerns and vanished emails, I'm requesting that anyone who'd like to be listed as a member of the Buckeye LEGO Owner's Club email me. Thanks, Gino A. Melone webmaster@bloconline.org gmelone@bloconline.org (...) (24 years ago, 13-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.us.bloc, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Pictures from BLOC meeting in Cleveland, March 10, 2001
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| Well, we were SUPPOSED to Brik War, but nobody really felt like it. So we built instead! My Pictures: (URL) Pictures: (URL) built the yellow / black / trans blue tower and the monorail car. Adrian built the trans green and black tower. I built the (...) (24 years ago, 11-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.us.bloc, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us.oh.cle)
| | | | | My Lego Video Page
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| Very short lego videos, hope you enjoy. (URL) you make lego videos for the web, please join the lego video webring at that page. I'm new to Lugnet, so if people who do lego video have a hangout here... please let me know :-) Scott. (24 years ago, 11-Mar-01, to lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | Soaking Wet
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| As a tribute to my favorite theme, I've created Soaking Wet, a guide to Aquazone MOCs and information. (URL) will attempt to update the page with each announcement of new MOCs or aquazone sites. Please have a look. If you would like to be added to (...) (24 years ago, 10-Mar-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.aquazone, lugnet.publish) !
| | | | | Contest Info and IP Address change
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| howD all, my site Et in Arcadia Lego has changed to (URL) update your bookmarks also, info about my contest as well as the original post i posted to lugnet have been added to the "News" page thx much -paul (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.space, lugnet.aquazone, lugnet.build, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.underground)
| | | | | New LUG
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| Well, BLOC is now more or less official. The Buckeye LEGO Owner's Club would like to announce (URL) BTW, Todd, I guess this means we want a LUG group. Thanks, Gino A... (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us.oh) !
| | | | | One more scanned ad from 1961 uploaded
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| Today, I recieved the final missing issues of the Swedish Disney Comics of year 1961. There was one more LEGO ad so I scanned it and uploaded to brickshelf. (URL) revolutionary: * Basic set * Aeroplane * Boat(-s?) * Town Plan * Accessory sets 218, (...) (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.announce.brickshelf, lugnet.general)
| | | | | BLOC gathering to BrikWar! (March 10) Come Join the Battle!
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| The Cleveland area members of BLOC are gathering again on March 10, this time to BrikWars! The meeting will be at my house, starting around 1:00pm (these gatherings never start on time, we just blame it on Gino). If you need directions to my house, (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.loc.us.oh.cle, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.loc.us.oh.col, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general) !
| | | | | Et in Arcadia Lego Non-Violent Minifig Space MOC Contest
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| howD all, i've decided to host a contest :-) this is my first one and so i've drawn up this post directly from Mark's contest last august. so here goes: ---...--- Et in Arcadia Lego Non-Violent Minifig Space MOC Contest ---...--- With all the (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.space, lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build)
| | | | | BrickFest 2001
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| The Washington DC Area Lego Users Group would like to announce BrickFest 2001. What: BrickFest 2001 When: July 13-15, 2001 Where: Washington DC, USA (Arlington, VA) Web : (URL) to expect: mindstorms demos and competitions, brikwars, pirate wars, (...) (24 years ago, 6-Mar-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.org, lugnet.fun, lugnet.loc.us.va, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.loc.us.dc, lugnet.loc.us.md) !!
| | | | | NEW Doctor Who Lego - The 8th Doctor
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| www.multiboard.com/~marlon Just updated my Lego page with my rendition of the 8th Doctor, Paul McGann. Don't forget to check out my AC-DC Lego, Star Wars Wrestling Movie, Lego Guitar and more! (24 years ago, 6-Mar-01, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | LUGCO - New LUG for Central Oklahoma area.
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| Hello, I'm here to announce the formation of a new LUG in the Central Oklahoma area. LUGCO - Lego Users Group of Central Oklahoma Currently we are only a handful of members strong, but are actively seeking more members. Membership is free and open (...) (24 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | Newsgroup structure: some tough decisions
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| I'd like to kick off a discussion about the current state of the newsgroup structure here -- missing groups, unnecessary, groups, annoyingly or confusingly named groups, etc. The goal of this discussion is to come away with a list of practical (...) (24 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.admin.terms, lugnet.announce, lugnet.org, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.off-topic.debate) !!
| | | | | New newsgroup for LEGO sightings/appearances in the media
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| We're pleased to announce the creation of a new discussion area for sightings of the LEGO Company, its products, and the community in the media (TV, movies, print media, etc.). Any time you see LEGO mentioned in the media (anywhere worldwide), feel (...) (24 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.publish, lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | Mega-Bloks (Ritvik) is watching
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| Just thought I'd pass this along... Someone wrote today and mentioned that they'd recently got a job with Mega Bloks (Ritvik Holdings, Inc.) as a model builder. They were asking if they needed to modify their posting sig to note this fact. I said (...) (24 years ago, 4-Mar-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.terms, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands) !
| | | | | 64 1/2 Ford Mustang Convertible
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| Here's the link to a 64 1/2 Ford Mustang Convertible I made a few weeks ago. It's been up at Brickshelf for a while, but I just got around to posting it here. It's my first (and only, as of now) attempt at building a car. Enjoy, and LMKWYT. link: (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.modelteam) !
| | | | | Keppler Industries back online with no more ads + a new MOC!
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| My site at mediaone is back online, so if you refused to visit back when I had it up temporairly on a free server with ads, now's the time to visit! I made a new MOC to celebrate the occasion! The R-406 Dasher, a small, agile atmospheric racer: (URL) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish)
| | | | | Marlons Lego Page Take 2
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| Doh! I really am not having a good day! The url is: www.multiboard.com/~marlon Sorry! I was dropped on my head alot when I was a kid! Marlon (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Introducing Marlons Lego Page!
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| I'd just like to introduce my Lego Page! It includes Doctor Who, AC-DC, Star Wars, 007, a Lego Guitar, and Stompin' Tom Connors Lego, with more on the way! (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | March 2001 ldraw.org MOTM winner
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| Ryan Dennett races to a win... A second win of the MOTM goes to Ryan and his "Corvette Country Road". And for the second month, the winner is an auto-themed entry - how interesting. (URL) Terry K -- (24 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
| | | | | New newsgroup lugnet.build.ancient
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| lugnet.build.ancient has also now been added. New info below... (...) -> lugnet.build.ancient (group): Ancient settings: creations, ideas, architecture, peoples, history, etc. (...) news://lugnet.com/lu...ld.ancient or (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | CLSotW Nomination for The ABC Showcase
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| In case anyone had tried to visit my web site by way of the Cool LEGO Site of the Week page and was frustrated by the bad link there (yet again), the correct address for The Animated Brick Company Showcase is: (URL) previously announced, Episode 5: (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.animation)
| | | | | MOC: Tower crane
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| Hi all, Here's my latest technic creation a tower crane. Yeah, I know there's been a lot of cranes lately, but here it is anyway: www.lugnet.com/~469/...towercrane Enjoy! ROSCO I've set follow-ups to .general, .technic, .loc.au - please trim as (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.technic, lugnet.loc.au)
| | | | | Town building contest voting open again - registration info
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| So, I got some of my pending real life stuff off my plate and it's time to get the voting moving again. Thanks to everyone who posted here and emailed me with suggestions - they were read, marked, learned and inwardly digested :-) and this is the (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.contests) !
| | | | | New Web site
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| Good morning to all, I finally have a web site in some semblance of a site. Most of the content is in the castle branch of the site. I worked with Any Krug from Kansas, I live in Minnesota, to build a world called The Land of SparrowHawk. There are (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Marsbase update...new mecha
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| Posting in a few different places...followups to build.mecha. There is a new mecha on Marsbase. Check out: (URL) be aware if you view the gallery pics, they are each +200k. Thanks, Ben (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.announce, lugnet.space)
| | | | | LEGO STARWARS SITE IN DISNEY ADVENTURES MAGAZINE!
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| Disney Adventures magizine had a short paragraph in their Technomania section about a lego starwars sight with about 180 re-created scenes, all made with legos! The site is (URL) . The exclimation point may not be part of the adress (I havent gone (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Saint Louis Train/Users Group
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| Anyone in the Saint Louis area interested in starting a LTC or a LUG? I have been trying to start one but have not been very successful. There were two of us, but the other had to drop out. The only things we have done are to get a name CMLUG (...) (24 years ago, 27-Feb-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.mo, lugnet.loc.us.mo.stl) !
| | | | | 8 wide '69 Dodge Charger
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| I couldn't resist :) Once I had an idea for the front grill, I couldn't leave it at that, so I finished the car instead of working on my spaceliner. As always, please LMKWYT! Please rate the model and let me know if there are some other views you (...) (24 years ago, 27-Feb-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.modelteam) !!
| | | | | How to make a Palm VII case out of Lego!!!
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| Just saw this in March 2001 Pen Computing magazine. Tijer Tsou, a clothing designer, has created a Lego case for her Palm VII PDA. You can see it at (URL) The case is 100% Lego elements. All external buttons work, and the antenna retracts. It's not (...) (24 years ago, 27-Feb-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build) !
| | | | | LEGO Cool Kids - looking for innovative kids
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| My name is Ari Vena and I am an associate producer with LEGO Direct. Recently we launched Cool Kids, an area of LEGO.com featuring kids (8-14years old)who are making great strides in their particular talents or areas of interest, whether they be (...) (24 years ago, 26-Feb-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
| | | | | March 2001 ldraw.org MOTM voting
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| Here goes, (URL) out and vote.... -- Terry K -- (24 years ago, 25-Feb-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
| | | | | Pictures from my trip to Legoland, Billund 2000
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| Better late than never... :o) (URL) Legoland, Billund, there were many huge, impressive creations. But with the cheap, one-time camera I bought at the park - I had decided not to have any camera, but changed my mind when I got there - I decided to (...) (24 years ago, 24-Feb-01, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Re: Keppler Industries/High Velocity LEGO down until March 1
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| I finished mirroring my site to tripod. Like the page says, some links at the bottom of some pages don't work, but you should still be able to find your way around. I'm sorry about the banners, but this is temporary... URL: (URL) Velocity (...) (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.announce, lugnet.space)
| | | | | One Full-Size Lego Darth Vader SOLD!!!!!
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| Hi everyone! I thought this was kind of interesting so I'm posting it. Some of you may remember when I posted a message saying I could get a FULL SIZE Lego Darth Vader. You may also remember that there were only 3 in the world and each going for (...) (24 years ago, 22-Feb-01, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Re: LEGO on TV (Was:Re: The Kujawa Tower)
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| (...) Have any other LUGNET member creations been on TV before??? (24 years ago, 22-Feb-01, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Keppler Industries/High Velocity LEGO down until March 1
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| Quote: "Dear MediaOne Express Customer, Your web hosting area at /kindustries/ is allotted 262144000 bytes of bandwidth. You are currently over this limit. Your web site has been turned off and will be re-activated at the beginning of next month. If (...) (24 years ago, 22-Feb-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Town contest voting temporarily closed
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| We have another "spike" problem, this time even more blatant, on Ahui Herrera's A&M Train Station. Between last night and this morning, more than 30 votes were cast for this model (out of less than 40 total cast) in all the special categories. (...) (24 years ago, 20-Feb-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.town, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.contests)
| | | | | Town Building Contest - voting
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| Well, we had a "blip" in the voting process but I'm satisfied that it was caused by a misunderstanding rather than an intent to cheat. Since at this point only about 40 people have voted I think once everyone who entered, and lots (I hope) of (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.town, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.contests)
| | | | | Town building contest voting - possible problem
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| Unfortunately, it looks as if someone is stuffing the voting already. Would people who have already voted, email me and say how they voted, especially in the Fire Apparatus, Small Buildings, and Best Use of Color categories, to give me a bit of a (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.contests)
| | | | | Town Building Contest: Voting now open
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| NOTE: I have moved some entries into new categories in order to make the numbers more manageable. The super-scale cars are now together in what was "Macro Scale". Small Vehicles has been broken up into Fire Apparatus (along with a couple of 8-wides (...) (24 years ago, 18-Feb-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.town, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains) !
| | | | | LDraw.org Official Model Repository Standards
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| Ok, I have made some changes to the OMR Standards based on the feedback that has been given. If there is no major objections than this is how the Standard will remain, but as always feedback is nescessary for things to work well. I think that most (...) (24 years ago, 17-Feb-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
| | | | | Town contest entries now closed - Voting begins Feb 18th
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| At close of entries last night, this is what we have: Town Layout (13) Diorama (13) Large building (31) Medium building (36) Small building (30) Small vehicles (61) Large vehicles (37) Small Aircraft (13) Large Aircraft (10) Small Boats/ships (4) (...) (24 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.town, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains) !
| | | | | Last day for entries in Town Building Contest
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| Entries need to be in by midnight PST tonight! Send them by email please, I don't want to miss any postings by accident: for more details, check the contest page at (URL) Lego Kits & Custom models: (URL) Lego parts store: (URL) Lego auctions: (URL) (...) (24 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | New FTX page of Plasticity
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| Several rations of midnight oil are spent, but I finally finished documenting my new town layout for Kevin Wilson's Town building contest: (URL) - Andreas Stabno (Category: Town Layout) A smiling community with a little something for everyone. Come (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.town, lugnet.publish) !
| | | | | The BlockCAD Gallery has been updated!
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| The BlockCAD Gallery has finally been updated again, with more pictures of models made by BlockCAD users all around the globe. The pages has also been reorganized a bit, so anyone keeping a link to the old page should update it: (URL) personal (...) (24 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Six Entries for Town Contest
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| My entries for Kevin Wilson's Town building contest. (URL) Oli's Italian Restaurant - Mark Chan (Category: Small Building) Ms. Oli's Italian Restaurant features fine dining in a casual, yet romantic atmosphere. Try our brick oven pizza, homeade (...) (24 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.town) !
| | | | | Town building contest: getting close to the wire - please check entries already entered
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| Just reminding everyone that the last entry date for the Town building contest is Feb 15th (specifically, midnight PST on that day). Please, email me rather than posting to the newsgroup (it's much more certain that I'll get your entry) and give me (...) (24 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.contests) !
| | | | | Technic Tank Treads/Coveyer belt!
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| if you are looking for technic tank treads/coveyer belts go here: ( (URL) ), copy and paste whats in between the ()'s, just make sure you get it all! The shipping is a little steep ($6), so it may be good to order more than one set. Josh (24 years ago, 11-Feb-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.announce, lugnet.dacta, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town)
| | | | | [rtlToronto] Less than a week to rtlToronto7, The Plastic Dust is Normal
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| rtlToronto 7: The Plastic Dust is Normal! Saturday February 17th, 2001, 10AM Competitors, 1PM Audience Lillian H Smith Branch, Toronto Public Library 239 College St, Toronto. Just west of St George and east of Spadina. Hi folks, Only one week left (...) (24 years ago, 11-Feb-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events)
| | | | | 6769 Fort Legoredo on sale at Shop At Home!!
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| Great News! I just wanted to pass on some good news. I was just told that we have 86 6769 Fort Legoredo sets in stock at Shop at Home! As a service to the LUGNET community, I wanted to announce this here first in order to give you all first crack at (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.announce) !!
| | | | | The Animated Brick Co. Showcase Presents...
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| The Animated Brick Company Showcase is happy to announce that “Episode 5: The SuperNerds” is now being broadcast at the web site. This episode of the Showcase features, along with a new opening title sequence, the following four LEGO stop motion (...) (24 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Republish of the Guild of Bricksmiths(tm) Site
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| With the changes in LEGO(r) Direct blowing in the wind, and with recent (and future) Guild model announcements as a backdrop, The Guild of Bricksmiths(tm) is pleased to announce that we have reorganized, streamlined, and expanded our site. (URL) (...) (24 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade) !
| | | | | New groups for new LEGO games/software Alpha Team, Stunt Rally, My Style
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| (...) Just now also added Alpha Team, Stunt Rally, and My Style. (URL) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.games, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Town Building contest update - ends Feb 15th
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| Well, here we are with 11 days to go until entries close on Feb 15th! Right now we have 155 entries in total! We could still do with some more Dioramas, boats and ships of all sizes, and microfig scale models. There are NO macro-scale model entries (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.contests)
| | | | | "Lego's online dream" -- feature article in UK Guardian Unlimited newspaper
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| (...) Chloe's article appeared Thursday. Here's a link to the online version: (URL) in the article: Douglas Coupland, Microserfs, Microsoft, Xbox, Harry Potter, LEGOLAND theme parks, Danielle Hainauer, Star Wars, Steven Spielberg, INmotion, Johnson (...) (24 years ago, 3-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.announce) !!
| | | | | LCAD/LDraw.org Formal Organization
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| There's been occasional discussion about formalizing the LEGO-style CAD fan organization. Although an informal organization usually serves us pretty well, there are some things an informal group can not do, such as deal well with keeping a treasury, (...) (24 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce) !!
| | | | | LDraw MOTM winner for February 2001
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| Wow, This was a *close* one. Tim, biting his nails over the outcome, has been needling me to count the votes and resolve which one is the winner. He will be happy to know that this months winner is Amnon Silverstein and his scene "Hot Rod Race". (...) (24 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
| | | | | New organization: Mutual Aid Assosciation of Lego Fire Departments
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| Good evening, I am posting this per request of Shane Brunazzi on behalf of the new group formed for those who create firefighting apparatus using Lego. The group's name is Mutual Aid Assosciation of Lego Fire Departments, or MAALFD for short. There (...) (24 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.town) !
| | | | | New newsgroups for LEGO Technic Slizer/ThrowBots, RoboRiders, and Bionicle
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| Three new subgroups of lugnet.technic have just been created -- one for each of Slizer (a.k.a. ThrowBots), RoboRiders, and Bionicle. CHARTER/PURPOSE ===...=== lugnet.technic (group and hierarchy): LEGO TECHNIC®: products (information, opinions, (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.technic)
| | | | | 10 wide AM General HMMWV MOC
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| For everyone who wanted to see a Humvee instead of a Hummer, I've modified the original quite a bit to create a military vehicle that looks a lot less tame than the civilian model. As always, please LMKWYT and feel free to use the rating form on the (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.modelteam) !
| | | | | 1957 Chevy Corvette pics
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| Hi everyone! It's been a while since I've posted anything at all so I figured I'd announce my latest project. I recently finished an 8-wide '57 'Vette. I have quite a few renderings of different styles of the car on my Brickshelf page. See (URL) car (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.ray)
| | | | | Jambalaya Mini-junk box #1 - New Idea for Jambalaya
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| Ok, having just came up with a new idea for a junk box, I'm getting ready to start a new one. This will be a small box which should just cost a buck or two to ship. What I'm looking for in people to sign up is: + 0-3 (1) people who have a few parts (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.jambalaya, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Acronym FAQ Update - links to sets, "play themes" and "lego lines"
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| Hi everyone, I just updated the LEGO Acronym FAQ: (URL) free to visit, bookmark it if you'd like, and of course comment if there's anything to comment about. I added links directly to all sets and themes mentioned. -Shiri P.S. I'm not quite so sure (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jan-01, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.announce) !!
| | | | | www.brickset.com rehosted
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| Brickset has been rehosted, onto a server in the US, which should mean it is quicker for those in the US, as well as being more reliable. I have personally been experiencing some DNS errors connecting to it today, but that might be because the (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish)
| | | | | Ohioans build giant green arch and working ferris wheel!
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| Come see the picture from our latest gathering in Northeast Ohio: (URL) old classic sets are Adrian's The cool bug is Gino's The idea for the arch was Gino's, and the large arch was built by Gino and Adrian. The smaller arch was built by Eric. The (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.us.oh.cle, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us.oh) !
| | | | | MOC: Brick mixer
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| You will find the Brick mixer at (URL) device reads a value on a card, then an arm places colored bricks picked from four feeders on a conveyor belt, ordered according the value read. You will find here photos, films, code and full building (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics) !
| | | | | More Dinosaur Instructions now online!
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| NEW Allosaur head with biting action- (URL) for those who haven't seen it- (URL) (24 years ago, 26-Jan-01, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | 10 wide Hummer MOC
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| I've put the photos up on my redesigned website: (URL) slightly different from the one in the two pictures in my Brickshelf gallery, and there are of course many more pictures of it. Details include a winch, opening doors, 4 comfortable seats, (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jan-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.publish) !!
| | | | | MOTM voting for February
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| Salutations virtual brickheads, Voting for the ldraw.org MOTM is now up and running; (URL) intriguing variety this time 'round. -- Terry K -- (24 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
| | | | | "Lego-Bowl 2001" to take place in Cleveland, Ohio on January 27, 2001
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| Hello Ladies and Gentlemen, It is once again time for all fans of the brick in the vicinity of Ohio to gather and play! In honor of that "other" event that will also be happening this weekend, I have cristened the event "Lego-Bowl 2001". Event Info: (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.us.oh.cle, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.loc.us.oh.akr, lugnet.loc.us.oh.cin, lugnet.loc.us.oh.col, lugnet.loc.us.oh.day, lugnet.loc.us.oh.tol, lugnet.loc.us.oh.you, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
| | | | | [rtlToronto] rtlToronto 7 Event on February 17th, 2001
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| rtlToronto 7: The Plastic Dust is Normal! Saturday February 17th, 2001, 10AM Competitors, 1PM Audience Lillian H Smith Branch, Toronto Public Library 239 College St, Toronto. Just west of St George and east of Spadina. Hi folks, Only a month till (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.events, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.ca.on)
| | | | | Town building contest update
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| We're progressing well with entries for the Town building contest. There are many buildings and vehicles so far, but we could do with more entries in the large and small boats and ships, dioramas, structures, aircraft, microfig, and macro scale (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.town, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.trains, lugnet.boats)
| | | | | L3P v1.3 20010120
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| As you can read in "The motive to L3P" it was Lutz Uhlmann's LGEO library (or rather its incompleteness) that inspired me to get started in the LDRAW business. It resulted in my L3 (Lego+Ldraw+Lars) project, which has spun off L3P and L3Lab. The (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray) !!
| | | | | Re: Scheduled downtime 18 Jan 2001 for memory upgrade
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| (...) The memory upgrade is now complete -- although it wasn't 100% successful. The system's motherboard was reluctant to recognize any DIMMs in the 3rd slot, meaning we failed get to 768 MB and we are stuck with only 512 MB. It may be a faulty (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Re: Scheduled downtime 18 Jan 2001 for memory upgrade
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| (...) My apologies -- this didn't happen today as planned. My guy at the other end of the line (where the lugnet.com box is co-located) called in sick yesterday and today[1], so the upgrade is postponed. I'll post again when we have a new date and (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Buying lego FAQ updated - new questions and answers.
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| I've added a resource list of stores in Utah (thanks to Mike Quesnell), and 2 new sets of questions on buying on eBay and international buying (thanks to William Brumbach for the suggested questions). The updated version is now available at (URL) . (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.faq, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.theory)
| | | | | Instruction and Catalog scans
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| I'd like to remind everyone that uses the BrickShelf gallery that *complete* instruction and catalog scans do not belong in gallery folders. Uploading that material has always been a violation of the TOS. I'd like to explain some reasons for this: (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general) !
| | | | | Missing stickers
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| Not quite sure if this is the place for this posting, but here goes- i bought 2 ucs x-wings recently, one from TRU and one from e-toys (which has them for 50% off right now) and BOTH of them were missing the tech spec decal sheet! Does anyone know (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Online Ideas Page...
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| I've updated my page, and will be updating it multiple times today, I've decided to stick with the JPEG's for now, the GIF's turned out to be larger & slower loading. If a model has more then 10 steps it will get more then one page, with 10 steps (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.publish, lugnet.town, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.aquazone, lugnet.basic, lugnet.boats, lugnet.castle, lugnet.sports)
| | | | | Technic Aeroplane
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| Hi, My technic aeroplane can be viewed through the link on my LEGO page: (URL) has working extendible flaps, ailerons, rudder, elevators, joystick, and six cylinder rotary engine. There are also instructions for some of the features. As usual any (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | New Online Ideas page!
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| I have started an online ideas page, with directions created with MLCAD. All ideas come with a full parts list, usually in order of use, and all pages are printable. To view this page go to: (URL) am also taking idea at shi_web@hotmail.com , and you (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.publish, lugnet.town, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.aquazone, lugnet.basic, lugnet.boats, lugnet.castle, lugnet.sports)
| | | | | Scheduled downtime 18 Jan 2001 for memory upgrade
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| On Thursday, 18 Jan 2001 at approximately 5:00 pm EST, lugnet.com will go offline briefly for a memory upgrade (adding another 640 MB of DRAM). This will involve shutting down the webservers and newsserver and physically powering down the machine. (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | New Crossword Puzzle: 003
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| Hi all, I've made another interactive crossword puzzle here at LUGNET. You'll notice by the clues that it's made with the LEGO enthusiast in mind. It runs in Java and has features for checking your puzzle as you go and for help filling in words that (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.fun, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | Lego car!?!
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| You probably already know this, but Lego.com has info on a car called the "Inmotion or something". It is a car either designed or sponsered by lego. Go and check it out! NICK Will lego be a car company in 2001? (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | 8 wide Dodge Viper RT10
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| Got the windshield, so I took the pictures. (URL) (more to come, maybe): (URL) files: (URL) always, please LMKWYT! --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu (URL) (24 years ago, 14-Jan-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | New LUG -- RichLUG
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| Hi I just wanted to announce that I am starting a LUG here in Richmond Va. I have several friends who are interested in taking part in this endeavor and we would like to welcome anyone who wants to take a look at our activities in the future to come (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Every Magazine Scans are now online
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| Above says it all - Just opened on 19:00 GMT 13th Jan 2001 www.lugmag.co.uk Note There may be missing scans that I don't know of or its not display please let me know, and I will update the archive Also, full indexing will come soon, with full (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Lego Cool Kids page (Lizzie's trip to Antarctica)
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| Lego sponsored my daughter Lizzie to go on the Students On Ice expedition to Antarctica over the Xmas break, and they've just put put up a page which will have her journal and pictures on it soon. it's at: (URL) House: Limited edition kit (URL) Kits (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
| | | | | My Space Web Site is up!
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| My space web site is up. uh... so check it out! (URL) Hyde ehyde@mac.com (24 years ago, 13-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.space)
| | | | | About Colors (article)
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| hey all, i keep seeing interesting posts about color schemes and design aesthetics, so I'm revising the order in which I'm putting up tutorials/tips on my website. I'll be putting up the "About Colors" diatribe in the "Aesthetics" section of my site (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build, lugnet.aquazone, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Back to the Future DeLorean
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| I knew there was a reason I brought my LEGO collection home for break besides sorting the miscellaneous parts... This may come as a bit of an anticlimax after the Diablo, but I just finished a Miniland scale (12 wide) rendition of the time machine (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.town, lugnet.space) !!
| | | | | Lego to make Xbox, online games for Microsoft
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| (URL) article says that Lego will make nonexclusive games for the Xbox, and "activities" for the children's section of the Microsoft Network. (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Bart Simpson, LEGO sculpture
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| All, I have a very brief webpage detailing my latest LEGO model: a three and a half foot 'Bart Simpson'. (URL) ---...--- Eric Harshbarger / eric@ericharshbarger.org / www.ericharshbarger.org "Oh please, if people are going to start telling the (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce) !!
| | | | | Model Team scale Lamborghini Diablo 6.0
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| I believe my LEGO Diablo phase has come to an end...I think I have finally succeeded in creating a likeness (but that's for you to decide). Modeled after the latest Diablo, my LEGO rendition is fully motorized (with a geared motor and a micromotor (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.technic, lugnet.modelteam) !!
| | | | | Instruction Libraries for LUGs
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| Todd and I have aprox 10 cubic feet of sorted LEGO set instructions which I wish to distribute. There are many copies of some sets, few of others. They represent somewhere around 250 different LEGO sets of all types. If put into page protectors, (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.org, lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | Fuji Power Armor
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| I recently created a Brickshelf account and uploaded pics of my latest creation, Fuji Power Armor. (URL) goal when building the armor was to create a mech along the lines of the Scopedog and those in Heavy Gear-- small, bulky armor that looks more (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.announce)
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