 | | BrickFest 2001 Gift Certificate winner.......
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And the winner of this years $100 LEGO® Shop at Home Gift Certificate is Drum role please! (URL) behalf of BrickFest I would like to thank LEGO Direct for providing the Gift Certificate. Christina Hitchcock Event Coordinator BrickFest (23 years ago, 7-Aug-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.nclug, lugnet.org.us.wamalug) !
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| | Changes at LUGNET HQ
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Hello everyone, It has been almost five years since Todd and I mapped out a plan to build a website for centralizing AFOL resources and communication. A lot has happened since then. The hobby has gained attention from The LEGO Company and the rest (...) (23 years ago, 4-Aug-01, to lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Adminship changes hands in Castle World
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Hi all, A week or so ago, Nathan McDowell decided he has too many things to do and is no longer able to handle the Castle World adminship. Therefore, I've taken back my position as admin of the current site. Nathan has done a most amazing job in the (...) (23 years ago, 4-Aug-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.castle.org.cw) !
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| | New MOC: Motorized Viking Longship
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Here's my latest creation, a Viking Longship with a mechanism that's used to make the oars row. It's also manned by ninja figs. Congratulations to the castleheads, another mostly spacehead has made the transition, at least temporarily :) Check it (...) (23 years ago, 4-Aug-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.castle, lugnet.castle.ninja) !
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| | July and August Surprise
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My friends, or whomever is out there, I give to you the second part of my july surprise, my august surprise. And in order to properly introduce my august surprise, I'm going to tell a short little story. I would suggest right clicking and opening (...) (23 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.loc.us.tx) !!
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| | My webpage updated
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I have finally updated my webpage. It has new models, some new pictures, and I will update it more often. Many of my models were done with MLCad, Pov-ray, etc. My page is located at: (URL) and LMKWYT. P.S. I set the follow-up to Lugnet.announce, I (...) (23 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.general)
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| | NILTC - Northern Illinois LEGO Train Club
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Hi everyone! I'm pleased to announce the formation of a rather infant LEGO train club, the Northern Illinois LTC. So far, we're only a handful of members, and right now half of that handful are pretty busy, but we wanted to get the ball rolling. (...) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.il.chi, lugnet.loc.us.wi, lugnet.loc.us.in)
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| | BUGS new website
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The BUGS website previously www.geocities.com/bugs_aust has now moved to www.ozbricks.com/bugs. thanks and please update any links that you have to the old site. Aaron Webmaster for BUGS (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.announce)
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| | LDraw.org MOTM and SOTM winners for August 2001
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Hi All, This announcement is a *tad* early as I won't be around this evening or on the first. Consider it Karmic balance for the times I was late. :-) Frankly, I was a bit surprised this month. In both categories (Model & Scene), there was an early (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | My latest cathedral.
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Its been a while since I've done something in CAD, but I found an old flying buttress concept I did a while back and decided to make a cathedral out of it. The result is a bit smaller than previous efforts, but decidedly more unusual. Here is the (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jul-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.build) !
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| | Regur Show .Avi's now available
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Hey all, precious reactions from our guests caught on video as seen by the Big Mech-bot are now up on Brickshelf: (URL) have included a list of the file sizes so you can get an idea of the down load time. Most are small between 1MB and 3MBs. Enjoy! (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jul-01, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Kopaka Rehu - Bionicle MOC
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Storyline: As the quest to liberate Mata Nui progressed, Makuta threw greater numbers and more experienced Rahi at the Toa to prevent them from acquiring the Masks of Power. Strong cooperation between the Toa kept them from being overwhelmed, but (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jul-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.technic, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce) !
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| | LEGOLAND Announcement fo PNLTC & LEGO Club Weekend...
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Hi all- Please visit: (URL) see the announcement of PNLTC's presence at LEGOLAND California during the weekend of August 4 & 5, 2001. Click on the "Club Weekend" image to bring up the formal announcement. And...while your on-line, please visit our (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jul-01, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | Milwaukee LUG meet Saturday August 4th
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Hiya! Just a little invite to anyone who wants to stop by, Sarah and I will be hosting a small LUG meet here in Milwaukee next weekend (August 4th). Tim Courtney and a guest will most likely be here (probably with his new ship), and you'll be able (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.us.wi, lugnet.announce)
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| | I gone done built me a web-site
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Groucho Marx once said he wouldn't want to belong to any club that would have him as a member. He also said something about an elephant in his pajamas.....But anyway... Hi everybody and thanks for having me. My name is Dave, I've been building for (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jul-01, to lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Model & Scene of the Month voting at ldraw.org
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Well, Here it is. I think I have this thing working alright - at least my testing works properly. So give it a go. Choose an area (Model and/or Scene) and vote away! (URL) Terry K -- (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | All updated Keppler Industries 2.5 is up!
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I finally finished updated my site, Keppler Industries. Check it out at: (URL) dont forget to check out my main LEGO site: (URL) I should update too sometime soon... Well, check it out, and let me know what you think. And make sure to report any (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.publish) !
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| | Speak your opinion now! LEGO listens to what YOU want!
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(URL) whole new section to tell your whole opinion about LEGO toys, website, and club! I don't think they take out ANY opinions (there's stuff there about Jack Stone being burned at the stake). If The LEGO Company even looks at this opinion site, we (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.announce)
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| | My new and improved website is now online!
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All of my Space, Air, Water, and Land creations have a new home-- at the shortest URL yet! Most of my old stuff and all my stuff is there. Please feel free to use the rating form on anything you look at: (URL) LMKWYT, update your links, and let me (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.publish, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.build, lugnet.boats, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars) !
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| | MY NEW MOCS: a chalet, a yellowish castle and a pirate boat (long text!)
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Hello everyone! I've uploaded some pictures I made of a few MOCS: - A chalet - A yellowish castle - A boat Since we will be moving in a few weeks, I thought it a clever idea to take the pictures before breaking the MOCS down in pieces. Now I have a (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.announce)
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| | (canceled)
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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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| | (canceled)
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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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| | [rtlToronto] Train2 on August 11th, 2001: Poster Available
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Hi folks, rtlToronto, a Group for Lego Enthusiasts in the Greater Toronto and Southern Ontario Area, will present rtlToronto/train2, our second Lego Train Show at the Lillian H Smith Public Library in sunny downtown Toronto, Saturday August 11th, (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.org.ca.monlug)
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| | Sawnee Mnt. Coal Tipple
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Introducing the Sawnee Mountain Coal Company coal tripple. (URL) name 'tipple' is derived from the time when men would push carts full of coal to the bunker and tip them over for dumping. (URL) tracks are serviced here. (URL) power house, the place (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jul-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains) !!
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| | Updated Train/Monorail Transit Terminal
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I've beefed up the Bricktopia train/monorail terminal, making it bigger, and adding numerous architectural details. The photographs are also now much better. You can see the main page here: (URL) features include a smoke evacuation (using the new (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jul-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.arch)
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| | My New MOC Web Site
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Hey, everybody! I've been reading Lugnet now for about two years, but rarely posting. I've decided it's time for me to create a web page of my own to show off some stuff I've built. Right now there is not a ton of content, as I have not photographed (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jul-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build)
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| | T-minus 2 weeks and counting!!!
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...Just a little note to quicken everyone's pulse :-) ...We are _less_than_ 2 weeks out from BrickFest 2001! --- wubwub wubwub@wildlink.com www.sitcatsit.com <-- a guy and his cat www.wildlink.com <-- the wildlinks BrickFest 2001! The AFOL (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.announce)
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| | The Amazin' Space Alternate Model Contest
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Rules are finally up! Details can be found at (URL) Building! greg (23 years ago, 1-Jul-01, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | Winner of the MOTM for July 2001
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Hi all, The winner this month, by a wide margin, is "The Beast" by Anthony J. Sava III. Deservedly so, I might add. Outstanding job of modelling, Anthony. See it at: (URL) remember, next month the voting will for both Model and Scene categories. See (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jun-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | New Custom: UCS Y-wing
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Not trying to steal Brucey's Y-wing thunder or anything, but I finally got my UCS Y-wing done and online. (URL) and please post comments. (23 years ago, 30-Jun-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build) !
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| | Stretched Emerald Chapel
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I've added another story onto my Emerald Chapel. You can see the main exterior shots here: (URL) here is a new balcony (not on the main page): (URL) added a new interior room as well called the "Chamber of Forgiveness" (URL) Obnoxious story is (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jun-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch) !
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| | New MOC: Y-Wing (IRL)
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Hello everybody, I finally got around to build my Y-Wing in real life. I had built it in MLCad from a rainbow warrior I made back in february or so, but the real thing is up now. I'll be finishing the instructions for you all pretty soon, but I'm (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jun-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | LEGO Mosaic: NYC Skyline
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Folks, I'm happy to announce a webpage documenting my latest mosaic of about 60,000 pieces. This one hangs in the offices of LEGO Direct: (URL) ---...--- Eric Harshbarger / eric@ericharshbarger.org / www.ericharshbarger.org "Oh please, if people (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jun-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Monthly MOC: Rolls Royce 10hp from 1904
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As promised last month it wouldn't be a racer this time. Instead it's a model of the first Rolls Royce from 1904. Please visit (URL) let me know what you think. Christian (23 years ago, 28-Jun-01, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce) !
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| | BrickWired.com
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Not nearly as exciting as the other announcements made recently, but regardless, my new site, www.brickwired.com, is up and running. As always, PLMKWYT. I am interested in how it looks on other browsers and if it is a big download for those of you (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.announce)
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Greetings Everyone, Next week, I will be coming to the Mall of America to meet my mom and brother. I'm planning to bring the Grand Admiral and my camera, so I hope I can meet anyone who lives in the area. I'll be arriving Monday night and leaving (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Contraption 2001 - MichLUG Space Colony Display a Sucess!
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To All, MichLUG did a new kind of event this weekend, called Contraption, held in Roseville Michigan at the Eastin Hotel. I am not sure if any club has ever done this before, but I think this might be a good way of having the space and castle people (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.michlug) !
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| | July MOTM is ready to go!
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Hey all, Time to vote. (URL) luck to the entrants. And notice that there is a link to an additional rules page. I've decided to try a split format. A model-only contest and a scene contest. The rules are spelled out on how and what to enter. (URL) (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | BricWorx Press Release
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In the latest issue of Shop Notes, the BricWorx foundry announced: New Release BricWorx is proud to announce the first release of our freight train line. We are kicking off this line with a Chessie System diesel engine. The first limited run of the (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | LEGO Truck Tour 2001 in Boston
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Hello all, Check the pictures of the LEGO Truck Life on Mars during its visit to Boston: (URL) check out the cool LEGO/Johnson Controls InMotion concept vehicle: (URL) excuse the quality of some of the pictures. Enjoy Jorge. (URL) (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.announce.brickshelf)
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| | My web sites are moving!
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I just learned that NBCI will be closing their free site hosting, so i have to move my sites: Pacific Northern (my Lego trains): formerly: (2 URLs) (My Lego town): formerly: (2 URLs) (My prototype info & image page): formerly: (URL) new site soon, (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.publish.html)
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| | Not getting authentication e-mail?
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Lately, I have no been getting the authentication e-mail. I get the copy e-mailed to me when I check the "E-mail me a copy" button, but no authent- ication e-mail!!! Has anyone else had this problem? NICK I hope I get an authentication e-mail of (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | My new LEGO site is up
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Hi, all. You may have seen some of my work before on Brickshelf: the LEGO Colosseum, the LEGO Tower, the Church of Evil, etc... but now... for the first time... see my creations as they have never been seen before... With captions! That's right, (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.announce)
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| | More new sets at Zellers- Racers, Jack Stone!
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I haven't heard of these being found before, so I guess this might count as an "announcement". *Prices in Canadian Dollars* <set:4574 Rip> $4, 8 pieces, $0.50/piece Typical Racer with navy blue (new colour?) car parts and red driver. <set:4579 (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Historical Set Displays at BrickFest 2001
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Historical Set Displays at BrickFest 2001 ...In working up the historical set display plans, I was hoping to get an idea from people what historical sets they would be bringing. We are hoping to assemble as compleat a collection as possible and hope (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general) !
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| | 16 new star wars customs
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I just thought I'd introduce myself. Some of you have already noticed my UCS customs on brickshelf. If you haven't, or if you'd like to read my comments on them or see my other work, my website is located at: (URL) 16 customs there, and 2 heavily (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.starwars) !
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| | Introduction of Lego Fleet
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Well actually I'm just saying hello, for the better part introducing myself to everyone here on LUGNET, I'm not sure if this is the best category to hang out, but it seems to be. Well for those of you who haven't received an e-mail from me saying (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.mecha) !
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| | BrickFest Update 6/18/01
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I have received several emails from people that missed the registration deadline and wondered if it was to late. Our goal was to have people register early so that we could plan the best event possible. We will be accepting late registration until (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jun-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.announce) !
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| | E-mail authentication during posting
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The Quick Summary ===...=== Effectively immediately, all LUGNET News posts now require e-mail authentication after posting, in order to prevent the continuance of forged messages. An exception to this rule is if you are a member and signed-in (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jun-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.handyboard, lugnet.cad) !!
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| | NEW BOARD GAME: LEGO RACERS!
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I got the new board game. It comes with a whole bunch of "Track Pieces" that can be hooked together in a loop. The pieces consist of a whole bunch of curved pieces, a few straight pieces, two hazard pieces, and one pit stop, a space with a spinner (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jun-01, to lugnet.games, lugnet.town, lugnet.announce)
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| | My first LDraw & POV-Ray MOC
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I already posted this to .castle, but I figured it should have also been posted to several other places as well. I'd also like to thank Steve Bliss for the DAT file that he posted. I couldn't have finished it without him. So here ya go. (URL) (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | Last chance to register for BrickFest 2001
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(repost with corrected date :-) ...Today (15 June, 2001) is your last chance to register for BrickFest 2001! ...If you don't make it, you are going to miss: A Giant brick Play Area, Brick Wars, Castle World (including the largest gathering of CW (...) (23 years ago, 15-Jun-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events.brickfest) !
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| | Last chance to register for BrickFest 2001
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...Today (15 July, 2001) is your last chance to register for BrickFest 2001! ...If you don't make it, you are going to miss: A Giant brick Play Area, Brick Wars, Castle World (including the largest gathering of CW characters ever!), a massive (...) (23 years ago, 15-Jun-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Will LEGO Media stop making non-violent games?
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I used to think that the LEGO Company promoted non-violence. Most of their games do. But why then, did they put the explosion function in LEGO Creator and LEGO Creator Knights Kingdom? I don't have a problem with blowing up walls, or even (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jun-01, to lugnet.games.lego.creator, lugnet.castle, lugnet.announce)
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| | MOC: Superman
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I've posted the next in my "maxifig" series - a life-size Superman. He's about 6' tall, weights probably close to 200 pounds, and watches over me while I work. I didn't count the bricks, but definitely over 10K. Next up, I'm toying with building a (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jun-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build) !
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| | Scheduled downtime Wednesday, June 13 a.m.
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The lugnet.com server will be taken off-line briefly tomorrow morning for routine maintenance as it is moved a different server rack. The outage should last about an hour. -- Todd S. Lehman | LUGNET Admin <todd@lugnet.com> (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | New MOC: 8 wide custom hatchback
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After reading (URL) I was inspired to build the ultimate rice-boy hatchback. (URL) rice burner is loaded: lowered; chrome, extra-wide rims; chin spoiler; side skirts; giant spoiler; extra-wide fenders; racing seats; pinstripes; racing stripes; (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.modelteam)
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| | Colosseum
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Hi. I built a LEGO Colosseum this weekend. Have a look and let me know what you think. (URL) Rev. Brendan Powell Smith @8-) PS: I also just uploaded the Miniature Skyline that I put together a week or so ago, so take a peek at that, too, if you're (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | Look at this!
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A NEAT RACER SET! It comes with a transparent-blue crystal! It appears the thing the Racers are jumping over swallows them if they hit the net. If I get this set I'll probably replace the black ball on Kopaka's chest ((URL) ) with that crystal. NICK (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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| | Creator site up.
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(URL) is up. It has building instructions to build smple things. It's not that the instructions do much, the models only have about 10 pieces, but it WAS a neat idea. NICK (23 years ago, 9-Jun-01, to lugnet.announce)
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| | May Meeting Pics from RichLUG
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Hi all I think for us this was the biggest thing we have colectively put together. We had a very good meeting though. We did watched Greg's Videos from his Animated Brick stuff, and we contemplated our next event which is to set up a month display (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jun-01, to lugnet.announce)
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| | New MOC : largest thing I have built to date
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HI all I just finished this MOC a week ago and wanted to share it with you. It sort of fits into future space kinda theme. I made kind of a universal transport, it is currently setup to haul railroad cars. It could carry a wide variety of freight (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jun-01, to lugnet.announce)
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