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I have been extremely privileged in that I have seen the range of sets to be released in 1999. I think most people will be impressed; I know I was. The two Model Team sets look great. Grahame Reid (26 years ago, 22-Nov-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Carlsbad Legofest
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After the wonderfully successful Legofest in San Francisco in October, a few of us were thinking about doing a similar event in Carlsbad for the 20-21 March 1999 weekend. This is the opening weekend for Legoland California. To do the planning, we (...) (26 years ago, 22-Nov-98, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sd)
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| | Acquired the latest full Lego catalogue.........
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.........but sadly it is only an updated 1998 UK catalogue, incorporating ZNAP. It doesn't even have Mindstorms in it yet. It was at Legoland Windsor, where the shop is still open until Christmas time. Lots of adds in the Windsor area for the shop, (...) (26 years ago, 21-Nov-98, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | New 1999 Catalog Anyone?
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Hasn't anyone found a new 1999 LEGO catalog in any of their purchases? I'm surprised, as Irving found his here on the West side of the States, and no one on the East, or MidWest. Post to Lugnet if found!!! We're all itching here!! :-) jeremy (26 years ago, 19-Nov-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | 1999 sets arrived @ TRU Portland, Oregon!
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Hi All- Unverified report that the 1999 sets have arrived at the Tigard TRU, in Portland, Oregon. I just got off the phone with the TRU rep., and he said they have some of them in. I'm going to run down there now to verify. -jeremy Portland, Oregon (26 years ago, 14-Nov-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Chicago Legofest?
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Is anyone interested in a central US Legofest in Chicago? There was small discussion about it on loc.us, but it fizzled. I can't have it at my house, but I am located in Wheaton, 30 miles west of the city. -tim <>< (URL) (26 years ago, 13-Nov-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Online ordering available
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It seems you can order Mindstorms online now... (at least in the US anyway) (URL) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | New Lego TV ad....
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Don't watch that much telly, but saw this this evening..... A 30 second TV ad, (missed the 1st few seconds). Has a boy sitting on the floor of his bedroom, with a big technic construction in front of him. 4 men and his mother come to speak to the (...) (26 years ago, 8-Nov-98, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | LEGO Ancient Building Contest Website now up
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The rec.toys.lego 1998 LEGO Ancient Building Contest has been a success beyond anything that I could have imagined at the start of the contest! The quality of the entries was outstanding! There were eight entries that exhibited enough creativity, (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Just got my Holiday S@H Catalog!
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I just got a new US Shop at Home catalog, and it's not the one with 3225 "Classic Train" on the cover. It says "Holiday Magic!" at the top, and has a drawing of Minifigs standing in front of a Christmas tree with open books, appearantly singing (...) (26 years ago, 3-Nov-98, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
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| | Website update, pictures of a 40 brick high pyramid!!!
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Well, finally the pictures are there! An 80-stud wide pyramid, plus a 96-stud wide "half" pyramid! Also some other pictures of my invaded launch pad......go to the address below, select MOC's........ Also some examples of limited storage (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-98, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.publish, lugnet.storage)
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| | New NNTP ports! (Re: Possible 2-minute downtime today)
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Good news -- you can now connect here via NNTP using ports 8000 and 8080, in addition to the standard NNTP port 119. If 119 (the default) works just fine for you, then there's nothing you need to change. Otherwise if you're behind a firewall or (...) (26 years ago, 30-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Gary Istok sent me more pictures...
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You can find them on my site. Go to the bottom of the LEGO(tm) page and you will find two links. One sources from voyager/jeffK and the other sources from Xoom. Content should be identical. Problems to me via email please, I am about to submerge in (...) (26 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Shell Promotional Sets in Puerto Rico
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A co-worker told me that the Shell station in front of us have a lot of boxes marked LEGO, so the promotion should start very soon here in Puerto Rico I don't know if this is the same for the rest of the United States.(1) Osvaldo Fernandez (...) (26 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.pr)
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| | Possible 2-minute downtime today
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Some changes in the server's xinetd.conf are being made today so that the NNTP daemon can respond to other ports besides 119. This may or may not require a reboot (depending on how smart xinetd is about this sort of thing). If a reboot is (...) (26 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Update to BlockCAD gallery
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Hi All! The BlockCAd gallery page has been updated with a couple of new models, and some ray-traces (submarine going into the water). You are all welcome to take a look! (URL) Isaksson (26 years ago, 27-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | lugnet.* discussion groups by mail
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[followups set to lugnet.admin.general] If anyone is interested in receiving lugnet.* discussion groups by mail, I'm going to try a simple news<->mail experiment. It'll be read-only at first (meaning that if you reply via e-mail, your message won't (...) (26 years ago, 24-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: Interface changes coming today
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(...) This occured yesterday as planned and approximately 200 people filled out the form yesterday and today. (...) This is now in effect. If you do have any problems posting, or you have questions or concerns, please post them to (...) (26 years ago, 21-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Zany Brainy train exclusives
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I went to Zany Brainy yesterday & met up with a fellow LEGO nut -- he works at the store. His manager mentioned that Zany Brainy will be getting two train "Zany Brainy exclusives" from TLG; a LEGO train & a DUPLO train. Now, he didn't know any more (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Interface changes coming today
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Two web-interface changes are being put into place today. These affect posting only -- not browsing or searching. The first change is mostly transparent and cosmetic -- and you don't need to do anything except to make a mental note that some (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | LEGO exhibition in Vienna
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Hi there! I don't know if people are interested, but there is currently a Lego exhibition in 'Palais Palffy' in the center of Vienna, Austria. They sho a lot of _very_ old material. Blue-track trains, wooden toys, plastic cars. Lego cars in 1:87 (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Announcement: The 1998 GREAT CREATE
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***...*** THE 1998 GREAT CREATE ***...*** Annual Build-A-Thon with LEGO® bricks to benefit the Greater Minneapolis Area Children's Crisis Nursery. when: Saturday, November 7, 1998 9:00 am–4:00 pm where: Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Downtown (...) (26 years ago, 16-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: LUGNET logo
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(...) Only if they're made of wood and take money from the Chinese Army. (1) 1 - repressive Tipper (LDraw part# 2379) is an optional extra you don't need to get. ++Lar On the back of my Durango: "Homophobia is a social disease" ======== Posted via (...) (26 years ago, 16-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Updated LDraw Add-On--version 1.4.5
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The LDLite-ready version of LDAO is now available from my website (see URL below). I have not updated the web pages or the readme.txt yet. That will be done tonight. The main changes are: - Addition of [Catalog Tool], which tells LDAO what rendering (...) (26 years ago, 14-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: Dutch promo: sets at Super de Boer
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The set numbers of the promo sets are: 2880 Open top jeep (Town) 2881 Parking gate attendant (Town) 2884 Microlight (Town) 2886 Formula 1 car (Town) 2887 Petrol station attendant and pump (Town) 5900 Treasure hunter (Western) 6100 Crystal hunter (...) (26 years ago, 14-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | New CAD/LDraw group lugnet.cad.dat
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A special non-discussion group has been created for posting LDraw .DAT files, which can then be viewed through the web interface using Paul Gyugyi's new LDraw-compatible viewer called LDLITE. The "homepage" of the lugnet.cad.dat newsgroup, from (...) (26 years ago, 13-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Followup-To field required on articles posted to lugnet.announce
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As a helpful interactive reminder that this group is for announcements (as opposed to regular discussions), the server requires that the Followup-To field now be set when posting an article to this group lugnet.announce. (Doing so was always a good (...) (26 years ago, 13-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: 1999 Sets...
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(...) Please, no one respond to the message above in this group. This is an announcements group, not a questions or discussions group. The number of messages posted here should be -very- low relative to other groups. --Todd p.s. This group might be (...) (26 years ago, 13-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | 1999 Sets...
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Does anybody know about the sets that are to be released in 1999? i got a big bucket of orange Legos that are "Halloween'-themed. Orange bricks! That's all of 'em. ======== Posted via the LUGNET discussion group web interface ======== (URL) Search, (...) (26 years ago, 13-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | test
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only a test. (26 years ago, 13-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: Happy Meals
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Thanks for the info, I just posed that very question on RTL a day or so ago. Happy Meals + Lego = A good excuse to get out of cooking dinner! (...) (26 years ago, 13-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Happy Meals
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When I was at TRU today, I talked to the friendly Lego saleswoman, and she was pretty psyched about the upcoming happy meals Legos. Lego is going all out licensing. I don't know if this is old news or not, but hey;) Did somebody say McDonalds? Pawel (...) (26 years ago, 13-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | (canceled)
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| | Re: LUGNET logo
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(...) Al Gore? Sorry, couldn't resist. Love the Lego. Are t-shirts and hats coming soon? (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: UK Kellogs sets identified
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Should be: (...) Pictures now on my promo pages. -- Huw Millington (URL) - Home of the promotional LEGO set guide (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Dutch promo: sets at Super de Boer
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Hello all, When I went to the supermarket this afternoon, I saw a display for a new promo campaign with ten small LEGO sets. This was a campaign by a dutch supermarket "Super de Boer", which I think is similar like the Shell Promo. I haven't much (...) (26 years ago, 13-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: SSS - Steve's Sealed Sets Auction
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Todd Lehman wrote (...) Whoops - I guess I'm a bit confused. I did read the entire startup post, but it's so long it's easy to miss something like this. I thought you announced the auction in the announce group and then anything further like updates (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | UK Kellogs sets identified
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I received the 3 Kellogg's Cornflakes promotional sets today. Their set numbers are: 3054 Go-Cart, same as 6400 but in different colours 3055 Adventurers car-thingy 3056 Technic motorcycle (3054/56 may be the other way round, I only had a quick (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | ANN: Ldlite version 1.0 released
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Ldlite is an LDRAW compatible program that runs as a native Windows program. It is used for viewing *.dat model files, and works well with Ldraw AddOn. Version 1.0 is fully LDRAW compatible and runs approximately 10 times faster than LDRAW. Both (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: When is everyone coming over?
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(...) Cool! That would work for some people. I think I would have to have the folders, though. I like to have lots and lots of folders to organize my mail, news, etc. Thanks for the tip - just proves you never learn everything there is to know about (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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