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| My spaceplane (which some of you may have been following in my Brickshelf folder) is complete! A full 110 studs wide and as long, this spaceplane is chock full of details. Well, I'll let the pictures speak for themselves: (URL) Lambrecht (...) (24 years ago, 1-Apr-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build)
| | | | | BrickDreams - An Informal Site Survey
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| The purpose of this survey is to assess what other AFOLs would like to see on the BrickDreams site. BrickDreams has been incredibly successful, with over 1000 first-time visitors in the first week, and I would like some community guidance before I (...) (24 years ago, 28-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Lego accessories for the photographer
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| Some of you may remember PanoBot, a Lego robotized panoramic head (Cool Lego Site of the week December 17–23, 2000) ... here are new avatars of Lego accessories for the photographer: A turntable for VR-object shooting (animation of a rotating (...) (24 years ago, 28-Mar-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics)
| | | | | next BayLUG meeting
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| I would like to remind everyone about the next BayLUG meeting. We will be back at the Fukaya room at the Fremont library, on March 31, from 10-4. For more info, check out the BayLUG homepage at (2 URLs) for maps/directions... Russell Clark, (...) (24 years ago, 28-Mar-01, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.events, lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.baylug)
| | | | | MOC 1966 Chevelle
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| I've finally posted pictures of my chevelle on Brickself. (URL) features: Technic V-8 engine with rotating fan, belt driven alternator and power steering pump. Dual exhaust. Full working suspension and steering. Tilt front hood. Reclining seats. (...) (24 years ago, 28-Mar-01, to lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | New: Stickfig-scale mecha wallpaper
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| Hey all, I have just put some finishing touches on this site, and I feel that it is ready for prime-time. It is my pleasure to announce my Stickfig-scale mecha wallpaper: (URL) for your perusal are three wallpaper-sized images depicting some of my (...) (24 years ago, 27-Mar-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space) !!
| | | | | BrickDreams Update: Scene #8 Released
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| After several false starts and *60 hours* of render time, BrickDreams Scene #8 is finally finished. IMO it is my best one yet. Also, all of the other scenes on BrickDreams have been "re-mastered" from the original tiff file, and are now available on (...) (24 years ago, 27-Mar-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.ray) !
| | | | | Town Building Contest - Special Category results
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| Here's a partial listing of the special category results for the contest. It turned out to be a very time consuming job doing the judging, so not every special category has a result. If I get more in later, I will post them. The contest home page is (...) (24 years ago, 27-Mar-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.town, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
| | | | | April MOTM voting
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| Whoa! Almost spaced it! But here they are, pick and choose wisely.... (URL) Terry K -- (24 years ago, 27-Mar-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
| | | | | BLAST debut
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| Hello everyone, I am posting my very first message to Lugnet in order to debut my Lego website called B.L.A.S.T. (Bureau of Lego Armed Services Technology). I created B.L.A.S.T. to showcases my various original Lego creations based on a futuristic (...) (24 years ago, 26-Mar-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
| | | | | April Fools Day is coming
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| To All, Warning: April Fools Day is one week away. That means you should expect to be fooled by someone on April 1 (Sunday). Be prepared. And keep in mind that the Internet spans 24 time zones; a post made by someone early in the morning in their (...) (24 years ago, 26-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.people, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.announce) !!
| | | | | Calling it Quits
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| After much consideration, I've decided to call it quits. Perhaps it's just old age, or maybe I'm just losing interest. Regardless, I've decided to sell off my collection. I really want to thank everyone for all their support. LEGO has brought me (...) (24 years ago, 25-Mar-01, to lugnet.announce) !!
| | | | | Newsgroup for Harry Potter!
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| A new newsgroup for LEGO®/Harry Potter® has been created. CHARTER/PURPOSE ===...=== -> lugnet.harrypotter (group): LEGO®/Harry Potter®: products (information, opinions, reviews, licensing issues, etc.); building (settings, contexts, characters, (...) (24 years ago, 25-Mar-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.harrypotter)
| | | | | Hyperion is complete
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| Our newest addition to the fleet has been completed. Please take a look at it's Unclassified Databank. It's I.E. 5 only (sorry non i.e. browsers (1)). This is my first try at (homemade) dynamic html and javascript. (Watch the back button) Please (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce) !!
| | | | | New Scenes at BrickDreams, and Thanks
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| Scene #7 has now been released, and you can see a preview of Scene #8, which is currently burning away in Bryce on my other computer. I estimate the scene will be finished in about 16 hours, give or take a few. The 128x96 preview image alone took (...) (24 years ago, 23-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.ray)
| | | | | The Inn of the Waiting Wolf
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| Greetings all... Every town needs a good Inn, and I think I have made a good start on one with this construction. I offer for your approval the Inn of the Waiting Wolf. Travellers from all over the realm look forward to sheltering under its roof, (...) (24 years ago, 23-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build) !
| | | | | DixieLUG meeting (!)
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| Ok, folks, this is fair warning: looks like we will actually have another DixieLUG meeting at my house in a month. WHEN: 21 April 2001 WHERE: Eric Harshbarger's House (email me for directions) Please RSVP (to the group, I guess) so I can know how (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.us.dixielug, lugnet.loc.us.al, lugnet.loc.us.ga, lugnet.loc.us.tn, lugnet.loc.us.ms, lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | New Website - More LEGO Desktop Themes
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| I've uploaded a new site called BrickDreams, featuring the 2x4 brick desktop themes I rendered in Bryce. I've rendered a couple new ones since my initial post on Monday, including one with a black background, per Tom Stangl's request for such. (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | BricWorx - Grand Opening
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| Dwayne Towell and Steve Barile are proud to announce the grand opening of BricWorx, a new, online company selling custom models with an emphasis on trains. With the increasing number of bulk elements available we strive to design models that can be (...) (24 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.market.shopping) !
| | | | | Town Building contest results
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| Here are the results of the Town Building Contest voting. I've listed first, second and third places in each category, with the number of votes for each winning entry and the percentage of votes for each entry of those cast in that category. To see (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.town, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains) !!
| | | | | LAST DAY FOR VOTING - Town building contest
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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)
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