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| This is is folks...February 1st...the final day to pre-register for BricksWest 2002! If you are still debating over your attendance at BricksWest, all I can say is this: Go to (URL) ...look at the over 30 awesome events, presentations, roundtables, (...) (23 years ago, 1-Feb-02, to lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | LEGO (r) joins Williams Formula 1
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| Hello all, Check this out: (URL) can expect another Technic F1 supercar coming up this year. Jorge F. (23 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Even More New BricksWest Sessions Added; Others Updated
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| Hello! I have some exciting BricksWest schedule updates to share with everyone! This update, we add a brand new Gaming Roundtable, featuring panelists Frank Filz, Mike Rayhawk, Derek Schin, and special guest Steve Jackson. Another new session added (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Final Days To Register For BricksWest 2002!
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| Greetings all! Just a friendly reminder: Your time is running out! BricksWest registration closes February 1, 2002! We are in the final days for pre-registration for BricksWest 2002. If you have been sitting on the fence, or procrastinating over (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | More on the All Southeast LEGO Display - Feb 2-3, 2002
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| LEGO Fans, The GFLTC(www.gfltc.org) and NGLTC(www.ngltc.org) will have a joint display at the Great American Train Show, February 2 and 3, 2002 in Jacksonville, Florida. The display will feature a 30 x 20 floor display with two cities, seaport, (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.us.fl.jac, lugnet.loc.us.fl, lugnet.loc.us.ga, lugnet.loc.us.al, lugnet.loc.us.sc, lugnet.org.us.gflug, lugnet.org.us.dixielug)
| | | | | BREAKING NEWS: Possible BricksWest Mail Problems
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| Frank Filz has just brought a possible probem to my attention. Though I have received many registrations to the posted address for BricksWest, Franks envelope was returned as undeliverable. On my last trip to the Post Office, several envelopes were (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | *** LDView Version 1.9.1 Released ***
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| LDView version 1.9.1 is now available, in both source and binary forms. You can download either from: (URL) note that the 1.9.x set of LDView releases are all development releases. Consequently, they are likely to be less stable than version 1.0. (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jan-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
| | | | | Lego Rotation Sensor Internals - and fix
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| Hello fellow Mindstormers, After a few hours lent over my oscilloscope, here is what I learned about Lego rotation sensor : (URL) will find there theory of operation, schematics and a fix to the random count problem at low rotating speed. Enjoy ! (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.announce) !!
| | | | | Urgent: Just Discovered BricksWest E-Mail Problems...
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| ---...---URGENT BRICKSWEST ADMINISTRATION NEWS---...--- An e-mail message just made it's way to me from Steve Jackson regarding BricksWest. In it, I discovered that the e-mail addresses admin@brickswest.com and events@brickswest.com were accepting, (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jan-02, to lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | MOTM and SOTM voting on hold
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| Just to let everyone know... The Model/Scene of the Month competition is on "hold" for a short time. We have to get the scripts and html to all work together again with the new site structure. And we couldn't really do anything until the site went (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jan-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
| | | | | Announcing All New LDraw.org Website!
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| Greetings!! I am very pleased to present to you our totally new and redesigned website at: (URL) past several months at LDraw.org have been spent putting together this new site with a focus on ease of navigation, straightforward information, and (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jan-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.general, lugnet.publish) !!
| | | | | LCC Command: Drislogan Clan online!
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| "Warning alerts begin humming as your Carona Stardecker begins its dive into the atmosphere of Darquin Prime, the home planet of the Drislogan clan. Most of them are just notices that two of your heatsink vents are clogged with sand and other small (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jan-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build, lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | [rtlToronto] rtlToronto/train3 Show Tomorrow
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| Hi folks, rtlToronto/train3 Lego Train Show Saturday, January 19, 2002 10AM-4PM Toronto Public Library, Lillian H Smith Branch 239 College St, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Hi folks, A reminder that tomorrow is rtlToronto/train3, the third Lego Train (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jan-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events)
| | | | | Blacktron I Contest Results
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| copied from the Legoland Times - January 18, 2002 Blacktron Activity on the Rise Space Police units around the Galaxy are now on Full Alert. "We have seen a dramatic increase in appearances of new Blacktron vehicles and even a new base." Says a (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jan-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.announce) !!
| | | | | All Southeast LEGO Display - Feb 2-3, 2002
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| Everyone, I am proud to announce the first ever All Southeast LEGO Display! The All Southeast LEGO Display is a public AFOL event with MOCs of all kinds with a primary focus on LEGO Trains. The display will feature the best MOCs built by the members (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jan-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.us.fl.jac, lugnet.loc.us.fl, lugnet.loc.us.ga, lugnet.loc.us.al, lugnet.loc.us.sc, lugnet.org.us.gflug, lugnet.org.us.dixielug) !
| | | | | MTU Winter Carnival coming up! Feb 6-10 2002...
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| The Michigan Tech Winter Carnival Is coming up, Febuary 6-10! Look at the statue building pics & webcams here: (URL) those of you who don't know what this is, go & have a look, they build some amazing snow sculptures! There's a few ideas for your (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jan-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.fun, lugnet.loc.us.mi)
| | | | | LDraw.org MOTM & SOTM submissions
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| Um Hello.... Anybody out there? It's getting close to the cut-off date for submissions to the Model Of The Month and Scene Of The Month. (23rd of each month) I need entries. Please. I currently have 3 model entries and zip, zero, nada for scene (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jan-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !
| | | | | The biggest Lego based game ever to be held
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| Hi everyone! I am pleased to announce the launch of a major landmark in Lego gaming. SECTOR62 is a space based game (kind of like an RPG) in which everyone is competing to be the first to discover the secret of the Acquinar system. The website - (...) (23 years ago, 15-Jan-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build, lugnet.publish, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.games, lugnet.events) !
| | | | | SCLTC@GATS Images on Website!
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| The official website of the Southern California LEGO Train Club is now fully updated with pictures from our first ever exhibit! Read our article on the event and check out our extensive photo gallery of setup and operation. At this moment we do not (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jan-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains.org.scltc, lugnet.org.us.lugola) !
| | | | | Et In Arcadia Lego returns
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| howd all, Et In Arcadia Lego has returned (thanks to the amazing Arcadia architecture that allows me to swap out website components at will) [hey, mssql.dll isn't working? fine, use ODBC... :-) ] (URL) (23 years ago, 12-Jan-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
| | | | | Survey, new LEGO story. Check it out.
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| Hello! I've been working on a majot story that revolves around my two Lego sig figs. However, I havent's built a website yet because I'm still working on the story. I was wondering if you could take a few minutes, read the overview of my story, then (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jan-02, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Lego * Spider-Man
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| *Lego & Spider-Man; `all is good in the world now! :) The ol’ Web-Slinger looks so completely Spectacular; TLG did a fabulous job on capturing the visage of the Web-Head upon our trusty-old Minifig!!! (URL) my question is ‘What’s-up wit’ da Green (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jan-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.year.2002, lugnet.general)
| | | | | Yet Another BricksWest Schedule Update-Large Sculptures and Mosaics Session And More!
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| As we get closer to BricksWest 2002, the schedule just keeps looking better and better. This is going to be a SPECTACULAR success...how can it not be with so many talented folks volunteering their time to present such wonderful sessions...in fact, (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jan-02, to lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | UPDATE! (to: URGENT! BricksWest Lodging Question...)
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| OK folks... The Internet special rate for the Grand Pacific should be your room rate now. If you have not reserved a room, do so ASAP...they are almost full from the golf tournament. If you have reserved a room, call back and make sure you are (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general) !
| | | | | 100,000th upload!
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| I just noticed that recently Brickshelf passed the milestone of 100,000 uploaded files. The number of files currently in the gallery is smaller, since some files have been deleted along the way (currently there are about 81,000 files in the (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | URGENT! BricksWest Lodging Question-Time Is Running Out
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| I have a very urgent situation to work out, and must make this public plea. I need a head count of people who have or are planning to stay at the Grand Pacific Palisades Hotel during BricksWest. According to the hotel, they have not received one (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general) !!
| | | | | BricksWest 2002 Schedule Updated - Mecha, MindStorms and Microfig...OH MY!
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| Hi folks! I wanted to let you all know that, thanks to the much appreciated dedication some of your fellow AFOL, BricksWest has been able to add several new sessions to our event schedule. Remember, BricksWest is a completely fan run event, so it is (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build) !!
| | | | | BricksWest™ 2002 Animation Festival And Competition - Official Call For Entries
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| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact Todd Thuma (706) 202-9226 thumat@gactr.uga.edu (URL) 2002 Animation Festival And Competition - Official Call For Entries January 9, 2002 - We are happy to announce the official Call for Entries for the BricksWest 2002 (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.announce, lugnet.animation) !
| | | | | ULF Database Update
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| Hi, All, I have built two new LEGO creations for my website. They are: -The Hector Medium Dropship (URL) Personnel Transport (URL) look at them and tell me what you think. Curt Tigges Commander-in-Chief of Starforce (URL) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Abston Church of Christ completed today
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| More than a year in the making, my Abston Church of Christ project was completed today. It was necessary to wrap it up today to mark the passing of the kitty who so enjoyed romping through the church - the one mentioned numerous times in the (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town) !!
| | | | | Legoland will be closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays
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| I just received a letter in the mail today announcing that LEGOLAND will not open their doors on Tuesdays and Wednesdays during the spring and fall this year. Starting January 15th, and going until May 22, with only the last week of March, and first (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.legoland.california)
| | | | | New newsgroup for MOC announcements
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| A new group/list for personal announcements of "MOC"s ("my own creations") has just been created, the purpose being to focus these types of announcements and offload them out of the main lugnet.announce group, which was never intended for (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.cad, lugnet.admin.nntp) !!
| | | | | [rtlToronto] January Monthly Dinner, Friday January 11th, 2002
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| Hi folks, rtlToronto November Monthly Dinner Friday, January 11th, 2002, 6pm Mel's Montreal Deli, 440 Bloor Street West (E of Bathurst) (URL) yer friendly reminder of the rtlToronto Monthly Dinner, this Friday. You know the place, you know the time, (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jan-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | New MOC: "Ranger" Dual-Role Mecha
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| (URL) Pejic, over and out! (URL) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-02, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.build.military, lugnet.space, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Monthly MOC: Heinkel He-162A-2 (German WWII jet fighter)
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| I have uploaded pictures of my model of a Heinkel He-162A-2, a German jet fighter that was hurriedly produced as a last ditch effort during the last months of the war. Please visit (URL) let me know what you think. Christian (23 years ago, 6-Jan-02, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.adventurers)
| | | | | Scans of old idea book, and introduction of plates posted
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| Hi all, I have scanned all the pages of a very old (I believe it is 1966) idea book I have. I base the date on the fact that trains are included, but only of the set 111 variety. There are no numbers or dates of any sort on the book, but it may be (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-02, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Peeron.com crosses 1000 inventories posted!
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| It's been a while since we started the 'experemental inventory system' [1], but now, a year and a half later, I'm proud to say that we now have more than 1000 inventories in peeron. Thank you to all the hard working inventory-ers! (URL) and Jennifer (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jan-02, to lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.announce) !!
| | | | | New Creations for ULF Database
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| Hello, Everybody, I know I have been posting a lot lately, but I havn't announced any creations other than the U.S.S. Orion-C and the U.S.S. Sabre. I just need a chance to catch up :-). Since I don't think that anyone has seen these, I have decided (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jan-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Rules for the voting process of the 1. ISCC
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| Dear Lego®-Fans! René Hoffmeister, the webmaster of www.1000steine.de and the man behind the First International System Creativity Contest (ISCC) is extremely busy in preparing all the galleries, that have entered the contest in the last days of (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.general, lugnet.town, lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.space) !!
| | | | | SPIN magazine features The Brick Testament
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| Huzzah! I'm famous! The February issue of SPIN magazine (with KISS on the cover) has a full-page feature about The Brick Testament on page 41. It's the first page in their Exposure section. Kind of wish they'd given the right URL, but at least the (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.build.ancient) !!
| | | | | New MOC: NH-1 'Eisen'
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| Hey everyone! New mecha! Yah! The tiger was just a testbed for the removable armour idea, this is what it was supposed to be... The pics are self explanatory, all of the armour is removable, ALL of it, except on the arms, the arms are small though, (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.military)
| | | | | Construction of the U.S.S. Orion-C Complete!
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| Hi, Everybody, After four weeks of building and taking pictures, I have finished my new ship, the U.S.S. Orion-C, an Orion-class David Battlecruiser. It's location (at my NEW!! website) is: (URL) is (I hope!) much better than my previous ship, the (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish, lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | some medieval ships, castle hoardings
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| Hi all, Thanks to Jeff Stembel who kindly took pics of some of my creations at a recent brickwars bout, there are a few pics of some of my newest MOCs online. (URL) castle wall is part of a larger castle I've been working on for a while now, and we (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Monthly MOC: Raupenschlepper Ost
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| After a while without posting I have finally uploaded pictures of my model of a WWII German tracked tractor called Raupenschlepper Ost. Please visit (URL) let me know what you think. Happy New Year from Denmark Christian (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.build, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | LEGO Geometry Puzzle
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| Folks, In the spirit of my recent 'Soma Cube' puzzle made of LEGO bricks, I have another puzzle: Cubic Dissection (URL) don't think the answer I have given on my webpage is the best reulst possible, so if anyone is able to improve upon my results, (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | Bucke Wheel Excavator (ISCC entry)
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| Hi @ll, I build a Bucket Wheel Excavator as my entry for the 1st International System Creativity Contest at 1000steine.de (URL) maschine like this works in the brown caol district "Garzweiler" near Cologne and Duesseldorf in West Germany. It is 200 (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic) !!
| | | | | Gatehouse similar to Neuschwanstein (facade)
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| Hello all, I have completed a minifig scaled Neuschwanstein Gatehouse. Pictures are located here: (URL) is not on a mountain top, but I have a small contingent of troops arrayed in formation before it, to show scale. I know that the side towers (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | Let the BT1 voting begin!!!
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| To all competitors. Here it is, the final ballot: (URL) note, we have extended voting to the end of day on the 8th of January to help make up for the long weekend. I wonder if Tom won much in Vegas? :-) Copy the ballot to an email fill it in and (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.contests) !
| | | | | ldraw.org's MOTM & SOTM Winners for December 2001
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| Happy New Year! Hard to believe it's 2002 already.... The December winners in LDraw.org's Model & Scene Of The Month are: Anthony Sava - "Imagination Takes Flight" for the MOTM. Carsten Schmitz - "Diver's Treasure" for the SOTM. Great work by both. (...) (23 years ago, 1-Jan-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !!
| | | | | New MOC: Z-22 Mobile Defence Platform
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| (URL) (23 years ago, 1-Jan-02, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.build.military, lugnet.space, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | New Dark Night Rail Racer
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| After a bit of a LEGO break during the holidays my son and I spend this cold morning building the newest Rail Racer (www.railracers.com) to join in the fun. The "Dark Night" is a rear engine racer with an open cockpit. After resolving a few design (...) (23 years ago, 1-Jan-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains) !
| | | | | BricksWest 2002 Registration Re-Opens
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| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact Matthew Gerber (866) 422-8993 VOICE/FAX admin@brickswest.com (URL) 2002 Registration Re-Opens January 1, 2002 - Registration for BricksWest is now re-open, with a new pricing scheme to help placate those attendees who (...) (23 years ago, 1-Jan-02, to lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce) !!
| | | | | LDraw.org 2001-03 Parts Update Now Available
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| [FUT lugnet.cad] Coming in just under the wire (it's currently 11:55pm), the final parts update for 2001 is now available. There are some 45 files in this release, including 25 new parts. Get it at (URL). Full details are available there. As usual, (...) (23 years ago, 31-Dec-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad) !
| | | | | My Latest Creation - Ogel Drone Harvester
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| My Latest Creation - Ogel Drone Harvester (URL) Stranger to Danger Dark Knight (23 years ago, 31-Dec-01, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Expert Builder website - Great response results in first update
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| I want to thank all those who have taken the time to stop by the new Expert Builder website. The response to my initial announcement (just 5 days ago) has been fantastic. Feedback has already been received in the form of 'Dear LEGO' letters, which (...) (23 years ago, 31-Dec-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | New MOC: Battrax II (Blacktron I contest entry)
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| My evolution of one of Lego's coolest space vehicles: (URL) modular, articulated, and has yellow hoses. Please LMKWYT! (Comments, criticisms, questions, etc) --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu www.bldesign.org (23 years ago, 30-Dec-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.space)
| | | | | Two new town buildings plus WAMALUG photos
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| Hi all, Happy Holidays! I hope your Christmas/Hannukah/New Year have been or will be fun. I finally got a break from vacation (hehe) and uploaded pics from the December WAMALUG meeting: (URL) also posted pics of my yellow building, which was (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.announce, lugnet.town)
| | | | | Two new spacecraft MOCs: Avenger & Prospector
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| In a couple of recent lucky visits to K-mart, I recently acquired several <set:7159 Podracer Buckets> and one <set:2153 Robo Stalker>, and from these plus a few pieces from my collection, I built a couple of new spacecraft which I think are good (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build)
| | | | | announcing Eon project
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| howD all, I have a large ship in the works called the Eon. It is both a ocean-going luxury yacht as well as a space-going, er, luxury yacht ;-) It is based largely on various multimillion dollar luxury yachts and luxury 747 aircraft (yes you read (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build, lugnet.aquazone, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Launch of the ASC Inceptor Stormscape class Destroyer
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| Hi there Everyone! After a lot of building, photographing, typing and HTMLing, I have finally finished the web pages for my minifig scale starship the ASC Inceptor. You can see it over here: www.ozbricks.com/bat..._index.htm features include: - (...) (23 years ago, 29-Dec-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build, lugnet.publish, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.au)
| | | | | RIS 2.0
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| The Target in Watsonville, CA has the RIS 2.0 on sell for 139.99, they also have alot of other sets for 30% off. Gary (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Griswold Place
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| Hello peoples,here is one of my latest buildings.It will be appearing in our next train show in 2 weeks along with being entered in the ISCC. The building is based on one in downtown Detroit that my company is helping to restore.After seeing John (...) (23 years ago, 27-Dec-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.town) !!
| | | | | Watch the 2002 racers sets!
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| I gotta call LEGO tonight, but today I purchased a racers set, #4593 (I also have #4594, & #4583), and received 2 normal large wheels, & 2 of the needed 4 notched larger wheels! This may be a normal accident, but it could be more. After that (...) (23 years ago, 26-Dec-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.town)
| | | | | Expert Builder website back online - New look, New mandate
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| Just in time for the new year! I'm pleased to announce that the Expert Builder website is now back online for the first time in over a year. It has a simpler look and a much different purpose than the first time around. You can find the site at its (...) (23 years ago, 26-Dec-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
| | | | | New MOC: Artist's Studio Retreat (ISCC Entry)
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| Well, after 5 days or so, my entry still isn't up on the ISCC website, so I decided to go ahead and post the pictures on my own site. My entry is a modern architecture studio on the beach, designed in the style of architect Le Corbusier: (URL) (...) (23 years ago, 26-Dec-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.general, lugnet.town) !!
| | | | | New MOC: Cathedra Donati
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| Howdy! I'm no Dan Siskind, but here's my version of a minfig-scale cathedral. The interior--pews, altar, pulpit etc.--isn't finished yet, but the exterior is complete, right down to the two spires afront. I'm proud of this church, which I'm calling (...) (23 years ago, 26-Dec-01, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | [rtlToronto] Train3 Show, January 19th 2002
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| rtlToronto/train3 Lego Train Show Saturday, January 19, 2002 10AM-4PM Toronto Public Library, Lillian H Smith Branch 239 College St, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Hi folks, I'm very happy to finally announce the presentation of rtlToronto/train3, the (...) (23 years ago, 25-Dec-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.events)
| | | | | Finally! My own homepage WITH actual content.
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| Finally! Exactly one year after I registered my own domain, some content is actually visible now. At www.el-caracho.de you can see pictures of all my 14 currently assembled MOCs. There's also a "museum" section where you could see a lot of models I (...) (23 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | Merry Christmas! Scene on Brickshelf.com
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| After "playing" with LDraw, MLCAD, POV-ray, etc. for better than a year, I finally took the plunge and finished something. Check out: (URL) started with wondering how light would project through a "stained-glass" window in POV-Ray, and the idea (...) (23 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Pics: The Santa Special (Christmas Train)
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| Although Santa's big night out is Christmas Eve, he also does a lot of pre-Christmas traveling as well. Many children to write Santa, informing him of their wants for Christmas, but many choose to visit him at malls to deliver their lists (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains) !
| | | | | [rtlToronto] rtlToronto9 Robotics Competition Photos and Video Online
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| Hi folks, I've finally posted the photos from rtlToronto9: Show Me the Monkey, the seventh rtlToronto robotics event. Go and check them out: (URL) of course, Iain Hendry has put together an amazing video to go along with it. For a limited time, you (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.events, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.ca) !
| | | | | Source files now available on Brickshelf for Cathedral of Ice
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| Last year, around this time, I introduced my "Cathedral of Ice" MOC. This model proved to be quite popular and I still get requests for the .dat files to make this model. To make this process easier, I've now posted the .dat files on brickshelf at (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.cad.ray)
| | | | | Caerany update
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| After some building and photographing, I'm pleased to announce an update to my site. (URL) More News (story), including two battles! (relatively small) the plot thickens! * News Pictures of Coplton Marketplace with Rikly's Blacksmith shop and the NA (...) (23 years ago, 18-Dec-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Another great find!
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| I don't know if I'm lucky, or what... I won an auction of legos, & to my suprise I have once again received OLD parts! This time I found several "Pat. Pend." (Patent Pending) plates. Is it just me or are older parts showing up more? And as last (...) (23 years ago, 18-Dec-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.appraisal)
| | | | | Bricktopia Park Train Station
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| This is the latest addition to Bricktopia. It is another train station on the far side of town. This one is significantly smaller than the primary transit terminal, but still has some interesting architectural features to it. (URL) usual, on the (...) (23 years ago, 18-Dec-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains) !
| | | | | Launch of my new Website
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| Hello Everyone. I am pleased to announce the launch of my personal LEGO website. I finally finished work on it this morning. Please go and take a look. It has many pictures of my town and also a want list and set list. Enjoy!! (URL) (23 years ago, 16-Dec-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.western, lugnet.town)
| | | | | New Chateau MOC
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| Hello all, Here is my latest creation: (URL) is a large mansion styled after a French chateau. This is actually a model of a real house in Palos Verdes Estates, (Los Angeles CA). The actual house is currently for sale. I found it in a high-end (...) (23 years ago, 16-Dec-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town) !
| | | | | Northstar Computer Systems Planned Outage
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| On Saturday, December 15th, between 11am and noon EST, the brickbay.com site, as well as all other Lego-related sites on my servers, will be down for 15 minutes for my ISP to perform a router upgrade. You can find a complete list of sites affected (...) (23 years ago, 15-Dec-01, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | New custom; UCE Vader's TIE
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| My new UCS-style Vader's TIE is up at www.fbtb.net, under "Gareth's Customs" Please check it out and leave me feedback! I need feedback to live! (23 years ago, 14-Dec-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Guild of Bricksmiths is 2 years old!
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| Put two candles on the birthday cake! (LEGO, of course). The Guild of Bricksmiths was formed exactly 2 years ago in Dec 1999, sparked by discussions on LUGNET (URL) it's a very appropriate day for a Bricksmith's kit to become the first "MOC" kit (...) (23 years ago, 14-Dec-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.theory) !
| | | | | three fantastic castles
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| Hello, there are three new entries for the ISCC, three wonderful castles! #26 Castle with Keep (James Stacey, United Kingdom) (URL) story- #28 Wizard's Castle (Patrick Bosman, The Netherlands) (URL) castle is occupied by seven wizards and several (...) (23 years ago, 14-Dec-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | Red Baron's Albatros DIII
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| Hi everyone, I want to share my most recent creation: Manfred von Richthofen’s Albatros DIII bi-plane. It is my second entry in the ISCC contest. Pictures of the plane can be found here: (URL) tell me what you think of it. Thanks, Ben Ellermann (...) (23 years ago, 13-Dec-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build) !
| | | | | BattleSpace archives updated
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| Hi everyone, I'm announcing yet another update of BattleSpace. Daggerwrist class AT Mech: www.ozbricks.com/bat...rwrist.htm New comic: Shock Tactics: www.ozbricks.com/bat..._st_p0.htm New battle account (with overview picture): (...) (23 years ago, 12-Dec-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.publish, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | OMG - GONK PROOF (was Re:Google archives Usenet back to '81)
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| (...) Please forgive my enthusiasm, but Jon's post meant something very special to me :) You see, about 8 years ago I made a post to a Star Wars usenet group, coining the term "Gonk" to refer to the two-legged power droid that shows up in every (...) (23 years ago, 12-Dec-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.announce, lugnet.off-topic.fun) !
| | | | | Knowledge base
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| The train group is currently talking about collaborating on a book. I have long thought that the community might want to develop a knowledge base of lego expertise. I envisioned this as a collection of articles rather than a book and It would (...) (23 years ago, 12-Dec-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | Important: Maybe a misunderstanding in the ISCC rules
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| Hello, Maybe a misunderstanding in the rules for the ISCC causes less entries. There is the sentence: "Do not send in contributions that are already known, as we want original works." It only means, that the entries need to were unknown or were not (...) (23 years ago, 11-Dec-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.general, lugnet.town, lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.space) !!
| | | | | Rail Racers web site
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| I would like to announce that the Official Rail Racers™ web site has gone live. You can visit the site at: (URL) and get the latest information on Rail Racers™ events, rules & regulations, race galleries and track setups. (Galleries and Track Setup (...) (23 years ago, 11-Dec-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org) !
| | | | | Lego Day at the Library
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| Hi We recently had a kids day at a local library here in Richmond VA. We have posted some pictures for you all to see of there creations and some of ours. you can find pictures here: (URL) (23 years ago, 10-Dec-01, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Octan World Headquarters
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| Hey gang, here's my latest creation, and a contest entry in the Creativity Contest too. It's part town building, part sculpture. You can find the Octan World Headquarters on the town page. Cheers Adrian -- www.brickfrenzy.com (23 years ago, 10-Dec-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.town, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.build.arch) !!
| | | | | Four excellent buildings...
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| Hello! There are four new buildings as entries for the ISCC ((URL) The little town "Legostein" (Heiner Berg, Germany) These are pictures of a really neat little town with lots of details, bringing life into the scenes. Have a look at a marriage in (...) (23 years ago, 9-Dec-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.town) !!
| | | | | Merry Christmas from The Brick Testament
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| Just in time for the holidays, The Brick Testament is pleased to present a new illustrated story from the New Testament: Jesus Is Born See it at: (URL) and Merry Christmas! -The Rev. Brendan Powell Smith @8^D ___...___ Vendetta: A Christmas Story (...) (23 years ago, 7-Dec-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.ancient) !
| | | | | LEGO Puzzle: Soma Cube
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| All, Here's a very quick addition to my LEGO page about geometric puzzles: The Soma Cube: (URL) ---...--- Eric Harshbarger / eric@ericharshbarger.org / www.ericharshbarger.org "Oh please, if people are going to start telling the truth around (...) (23 years ago, 5-Dec-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.announce) !!
| | | | | Bricksburg Hotel
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| Well I am proud to announce the unveiling of my newest building, the Bricksburg Hotel. Standing 63 bricks high, 96 wide, and 32 deep, it is one of my largest buildings to date. It also is my entry in the Internation System Creativity Contest. (URL) (...) (23 years ago, 5-Dec-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.contests) !
| | | | | My 2nd Find Of The Year!
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| A few weeks back, I won some auctions, 1 of them was a large number of 1xN bricks. I was figuring, "Wow, a ton of parts to build with!" I got the parts today, after a week & a half wait, & discover about 50 Old, & I mean Old lego bricks, the ones (...) (23 years ago, 4-Dec-01, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.appraisal, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | My site - Lego Lord of the Rings etc
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| Hi all, I've finally got my Lugnet membership and posting priveliges, so I'd like to invite the community to visit my site, creatively titled "Bruce's Lego Site". Mostly story telling on a minifig scale. My main project is The Lord of the Rings, (...) (23 years ago, 3-Dec-01, to lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | BricksWest™ 2002 Official Web Site Updated
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| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact Matthew Gerber (866) 422-8993 VOICE/FAX admin@brickswest.com (URL) 2002 Official Web Site Updated December 1, 2001—Today the volunteer committee of organizers is proud to officially announce that the official BricksWest (...) (23 years ago, 2-Dec-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.events.brickswest) !!
| | | | | Steve Jackson To Attend BricksWest™ 2002 - Evil Stevie's Pirate Game Scheduled
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| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact Matthew Gerber (866) 422-8993 VOICE/FAX admin@brickswest.com (URL) Jackson To Attend BricksWest™ 2002 - Evil Stevie's Pirate Game Scheduled December 1, 2001—Today the volunteer committee of organizers is proud to (...) (23 years ago, 2-Dec-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.events.brickswest) !!
| | | | | Registration Opens For BricksWest™ 2002
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| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact Matthew Gerber (866) 422-8993 VOICE/FAX admin@brickswest.com (URL) Opens For BricksWest™ 2002 December 1, 2001—Today the volunteer committee of organizers is proud to officially announce the opening of registration for (...) (23 years ago, 2-Dec-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.general) !!
| | | | | LDraw.org 2001-02 Parts Update Now Available
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| [FUT lugnet.cad] The LDraw.org parts update 2001-02 is now available! This is the second parts update using the new Parts Tracker, and it seems to be working well. There are 62 files in this release, including some 41 new files. Get it at (URL). (...) (23 years ago, 2-Dec-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev) !
| | | | | SEALUG meeting pics 12/01/01
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| Hey Everyone, We had a good SEALUG meeting today. In attendance (according to my memory) Mark(1) Sandlin Mark(2) Rideout Mark(3) Neumann Sean Forbes (Host) Shawn Davis Todd Kubo Ian Gerdes Joel Parker Stephen Fisher Wayne Hussey Terri Walter Ashley (...) (23 years ago, 2-Dec-01, to lugnet.announce)
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