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| | Train show barriers
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Here are some pictures of the barriers. (URL) think Larry gave a decent description of how these were made. The plexiglass is 8" high, I used a 24"x48" sheet and cut it into 3 pieces. The pieces of wood are standard 1x2 pine, I chose to cut them out (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.announce)
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| | MichLUG GATS show - Steve's Pictures
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Here are my pictures from the show. I also added a few from before the show, and I couldn't resist taking a few extra pictures of Peter Guenther's Oscar Mayer wiener mobile. (URL) (23 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.announce)
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| | Couple new "future" bikes
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Hiya Lugnet. I've finished a couple new "future" bikes. (URL) things are getting popular lately, it seems. :) Sorry I don't have any real-life pics or any nice renders of the new ones. I think Jon Palmer may be rendering a couple along with his new (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.space)
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| | Armageddon Class Destroyer
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For the longest time(about three months) my computer has been unable to upload image files to anything. So I've been building, without showing. I now have enough MOCs in waiting to post a new one every day for more than a week! And I've fixed my (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce)
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| | Indiana AFOLs!
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If there are any AFOLs out there from Indiana, we're trying to get together a new LUG for Indiana (I'm in Indianapolis but some people are a bit further south). If you have any interest, reply either to me or to the lugnet.loc.us.in.ind group. Eric (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Some exciting things are happening!
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We've had some good stuff in the works for LUGNET. Two items are ready to announce today.. I hope you'll be as excited as I am! ** LEGO Dacta joins LUGNET ** Pitsco - LEGO Dacta will now be participating in discussions here on LUGNET via their own (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.dacta, lugnet.general) !!
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| | MichLUG GATS Show July 2001 - Scott's Pictures
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To All, I just got finished uploading the pictures finally. Here is the link: (URL) plan on going though and linking to other peoples pictures of my Shell Station, I don't think I have everything I want. I will provide a thank you on my page and (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | MichLUG - GATS Show in Grand Rapids, Michigan - My Report
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To All, It was a great time and event that MichLUG did this past weekend at the GATS Show in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It was hard work, but I think it was well received, and it was just a blast. Here are my notes, thoughts, and other Scottism’s. : ) (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jul-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.michlug) !
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| | The Aeolis
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Pirates beware, the Imperial Guards have a new secret weapon in the fight against freebooters- the skyship Aeolis. You are cordially invited to witness the launching ceremonies. (URL) (23 years ago, 23-Jul-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.animation)
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| | New MOC: Shrike Interceptor
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The Shrike Interceptor is built for high speed and maneuverability. The wings sweep to three different positions: when straight out, they provide the most lift for takeoff and landing; when swept forward, they increase maneuverability at sub-mach (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jul-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.space, lugnet.general) !
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| | Ikros Torso Stickers for sale
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Follow up to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade Since I've gotten so many requests to print and sell my custom torso stickers, I've decided to do just that. You can find which one's I've printed here: (URL) sheet cotains 5 copies of crusader.jpg, 4 copies (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jul-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | North american movie contest! Semi-finalists announced!
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(URL) a link to the best one) It is announced! Some great movies. One is about the lego figures escaping from the kids, and another is filmed completely out of sculptures! The link above leads to the best one: with perfect custom music, CGI special (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jul-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.announce)
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| | LEGO Studios for $44.99 at Futureshop
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Greets, Just visited Futureshop's website and saw LEGO Studios priced at $44.99 Cdn. (that's approx $30 US) For anyone interested in a low-cost webcam bundled with some even lower-cost bricks ;-) here's the URL... (URL) Cheers! Carl (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.announce)
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| | PNLTC show August 4 & 5 at Legoland California
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From the club that crushed the world's record for longest LEGO train track last August... As mentioned in the current issue of LEGO Mania magazine... Join the Pacific Northwest LEGO Train Club the first weekend of August (that's like 2 weeks away, (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.events) !!
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| | Classics now at shop.lego.com
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The classics being released in september are now featured on the s@h website. To look at the Gas n Wash Express go to the City section. This set is $49.99. The 6290 Armada Flagship is not available in the regular menu so you must search for the (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.announce)
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| | PLUG officially founded - report
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Hi! This afternoon I have met two other lugneteers here in Porto in order to found a new LEGO club in Portugal. It was a very profitable meeting, and this is a brief report. First of all, we have decided to call it PLUG (Portuguese Lego Users (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.org, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.pt, lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.loc.br)
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| | "New" MOC: Motorized Ferrari F355 Spider
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Those of you who went to "BrickFest(sm)" have already seen this...and maybe you even saw me drive it around. Anyway, Monday evening before "BrickFest(sm)", I felt the urge to build, so I tackled a Legoland Miniland scale Ferrari F355 Spider. A (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.modelteam) !!
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| | New Ldrawn custom: UCS Flash Speeder
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Please email me feedback if you have any. enjoy: (URL) (23 years ago, 18-Jul-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce) !
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| | YAAHOOOOO! 24 New studio sets!
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Anyone seen the new polybag studio sets? If you have bad eyesite and can't see the pictures at (URL) , I'm describibg them below. Tie yourself to your chair before reading 4071 and down. (: 4056- One of those cool lights. 4057- Another cool light. (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.castle, lugnet.town, lugnet.animation)
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| | LEGO Mosaic: San Francisco
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Well, Many of you saw this laid out on the floor at Brickfest 2001, but I actually got it hung on a wall today and was able to take pictures from a good viewing distance: San Francisco Mosaic (URL) now officially begin a sabbatical away from LEGO (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Re: *New Brickfest Initial Interest Survey*
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Hello all. After a wonderful response, I will be closing the LEGO® Brickfest™ Style Event Initial Interest Survey to further submissions. I will close down the site late tonight, so if you haven't yet weighed in with your opinion, please do so at (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.org)
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| | A Confession and an Apology
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This message was supposed to be posted last week but I had to leave for camp before I recieved my confirmation e-mail, so here I go... Ever since I first started posting to LUGNET last August, I have been using the false name of Geordan Ballantree. (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jul-01, to lugnet.people, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.announce)
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| | Announcing the AdeLUGs Web site.
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I would like to announce the AdeLUGs web site. (URL) home of the Adelaide LEGO Users Group. Any comments, suggestions or corrections are welcome. Our first ever meeting will be this Saturday at my place. Any lurkers in the Adelaide area, you are (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.au.sa.ade, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general) !
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| | *New Brickfest Initial Interest Survey*
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Greetings all! Over in .events, several folks, especially us nutty West Coasters, have been seriously discussing the possibility of a new Brickfest-like event. I have posted a quick survey to help gauge folks level of interest in this idea. Please (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jul-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.org) !
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| | Brickfest now in full swing
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To see what you're missing if you're not here, go to the webcam page... (URL) there is an online chat, just like last year. You can ask questions of participants or whatever it is #brickfest on dal.net (IRC) (posted on behalf of the Brickfest (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jul-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events.brickfest) !
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| | BrickFest 2001 - Contact Info (in case you get lost on the way in :-)
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As we draw closer to the event I said that I would posted Contact Information on the website. (URL) you need to get in touch with us for any reason, Last Names A-J call Christina (202) 550-0483 Last Names L-Z call Denise (703) 475-4947 If you can (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jul-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.announce) !
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| | Use found for Timmy! Hoorah!
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I recently stumbled upon a good use for Timmy heads -- no, not as kindling for your next campfire (they don't burn well anyway) -- but as girls! See this and more on my LEGO site's new page for simple minifig head customizations. Nothing to fancy (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jul-01, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | Re: New story contest & Mars winners announced
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(...) Oh- Sorry (why do I always forget links) Story Contest Site: (URL) story: (URL) story: (URL) story: (URL) Arctic Story: (URL) that story may not be suitable for young children) NICK (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jul-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
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| | New story contest & Mars winners announced
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There is a new story contest (prize is a $50 lego set!). You need to write a story based on a picture of the new Dinosaurs sets. Also, the Mars story contest winners were announced (If I wrote a story, I'd have won...). The 8-year-old winner's story (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jul-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: The Wanderer, an online image-novella.
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Whoops! Shiri's post reminded me; I'd forgotten to add that there is some measure of "splatter factor" in this piece, so those with delicate sensibilities and/or young children should click (or not) appropriately. K (23 years ago, 8-Jul-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.castle.org.cw, lugnet.castle.ninja)
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| | The Wanderer, an online image-novella.
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X-P'd to: .announce because it seems appropriate somehow .castle.org.cw because plenty of story stuff goes on there - I hope I'm not being too presumptuous .castle.ninja because, well, it'll be obvious momentarily Greetings all. I had the thought (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jul-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.castle.org.cw, lugnet.castle.ninja) !
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| | The Great Redini Was Correct!
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New colors have appeared! There are 3 shades of orange in (URL) (the floating head at (URL) said that the new colors could be found found at Bionicle.com, and I think they were! Huki (a bionicle guy who lives in Po-Koro) has a mask that looks DARK (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jul-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.build, lugnet.castle)
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| | How many of us are there?
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Well, almost a year ago, Jonathan Mckay sent around a post wondering if there was anyone his age, ie: under 18. Well the purpose of this post is to see by how many our numbers have grown or shrunk since last August. So, if you are 18 or younger, (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jul-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.people, lugnet.general)
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| | RichLUG display
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I have uploaded some pictures taken of the display set up at Tuckahoe Library by RichLug this past Sat. This display will be running through the month of July. Unfortunately one of the hooks in the ceiling gave out under the weight of a Zany (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jul-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.org.us.richlug, lugnet.loc.us.va.ric)
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| | New Mecha: Kierbis
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Thanks to being burned out with my sculptures after finishing Geoffrey, I decided I needed a change of pace. With all these origami mecha bouncing around, I decided I'd give it a try. I needed a different color though, as most of the other normal (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jul-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.announce)
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| | New Mecha - Azriel
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(URL) *BIG* thank you goes out to Christopher Snead, for his stiffened hinge brick idea! Mladen Pejic, over and out! (URL) (23 years ago, 5-Jul-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, lugnet.announce)
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| | Coomonfolk's FAQ, or: Calling for assisstance with joking around!
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Hey guys and gals, In case you haven't heard or noticed yet, there's a new kind of FAQ in town. It's a mean, lean, joking machine - all the while still trying to answer your questions in earnest! The Commonfolk's FAQ is here: (URL) the first (and (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jul-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.fun, lugnet.general, lugnet.faq)
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