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| (...) Scott: This kind of thing belongs offline. To all: Please don't clutter up newsgroups with bickering. It wastes my, and many other people's, time. -Suz Suzanne Rich LUGNET Admin (22 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.finance, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | MonLUG and ParLUGment train show pics
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| Hello all, Well, the first MonLUG-ParLUGment joint train show was a complete success. Both groups worked very well together and pulled off the setup like pros. We received alot of praise and good words for our efforts. We are doing it all over again (...) (22 years ago, 8-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.monlug, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains) !
| | | | | So, you wanna talk strategy….
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| To outsiders, Lego collecting appears like a reasonably sedate hobby. After all, Lego is fun and colorful, and anything meant for kids must be inherently pure and good. Therefore, onlookers regard collecting Lego as a relatively peaceful pursuit. (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.people)
| | | | | New Website and X-Wing Starfighter MOC!
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| Hi guys and gals. My new website is up at (URL) It's a newer version of Brucey-Wan's Homepage at my new domain ((URL) with a new layout and some new sections. Also, I've finally released my MOC X-Wing Starfighter. It's on a 1 foot:1 stud ratio and (...) (22 years ago, 6-Apr-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars)
| | | | | 3450 back on LSAH!!!
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| I'm not any lego employee but I found this while on LSAH online and jumped with glee. I always wanted to get one and then it was gone. Not any more!!! It does say preorder for shipment in June but oh well. At least we can get it at all. :-) (URL) (...) (22 years ago, 5-Apr-02, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.announce.lsahs, lugnet.market.shopping)
| | | | | At The Inn Of The Prancing Pony
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| Hello again, Here is the next addition to my Tolkien creations folder, "The Inn of the Prancing Pony". (URL) in the Village of Bree, The Prancing Pony is the original destination of the 4 hobbits as they attempt to find Gandalf the Grey. Operated by (...) (22 years ago, 5-Apr-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.castle) !!
| | | | | MonLUG and ParLUGment hold first joint train show
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| Un message francais suit. A french message follows. Hello to all, I'm proud to announce the Montreal Area Lego User Group (MonLUG) second and the Ottawa Lego User Group's first participation in a Montreal Area train show. It will be held at (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.monlug, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.ca.qc, lugnet.loc.ca.qc.mon, lugnet.org.ca, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.ca) !
| | | | | The Slow Revivification of Pete's Page of Random and LEGO Fleet
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| Due to the sad, yet true fact that Angelfire doesn't care even slightly about people who've had decent and good sites on their servers for nearly two years, I have lost my server due to the apparent violation of some rule, but that's not the point (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-02, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | ldraw.org MOTM & SOTM Winner for March 2002
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| Hi all, If you carefully read the subject line, you may have noticed something odd. I said 'winner', not 'winners' Yep, that's right, this months awards are a sweep for just one person. Congratulations to Cale Leiphart for winning both the Model and (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !
| | | | | New newsgroup lugnet.admin.finance
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| A new newsgroup lugnet.admin.finance has been created for the discussion and brainstorming of LUGNET financial aspects. Previously, this had simply been a webpage placeholder at (URL) one level above the Donations info page. CHARTER/PURPOSE (...) (23 years ago, 3-Apr-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.admin.finance) !!
| | | | | Suggestion Box
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| I am announcing the start of a new newsgroup: lugnet.admin.suggestions. This is a suggestion-box area. Note that your comments and suggestions may, alternately, still be sent privately to feedback@lugnet.com. While I will try to keep visibly engaged (...) (23 years ago, 3-Apr-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.admin.suggestions) !
| | | | | NELUG to display at 4/6 - 4/7 Greenberg show.
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| NELUG will be displaying a new expanded layout at the Greenberg show this comming weekend 4/6/02 - 4/7/02. For show details please follow the link below. (URL) layout will be approximately 33% larger than our past layouts. Your best chance to see (...) (23 years ago, 3-Apr-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.ma)
| | | | | MoTeC March: Vote now!
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| FUT lugnet.technic Hi all! New month and time to vote for the best Technic MOC in the Monthly Technic Contest - MoTeC. Vote here: (URL) you want to submit your own model for April, read here: (URL) months winner will be announced shortly. /Tobbe (...) (23 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.technic)
| | | | | Town Building Contest... and the winner is.....
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| Check here for the winners! (URL) Lego Building contest! (URL) 2396 piece kit - only one left! (URL) Lego parts store: (URL) Guild of Bricksmiths(TM): (URL) Lego Web page: (URL) (23 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.arch) !!
| | | | | Lego acquires new license
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| Hey all, I heard some great news yesterday! I was talking to a friend of mine at Bandai Entertainment, and he said that the toy division was very excited over a new Licensing Agreement they had just reached on Friday. Apparently, Lego has acquired (...) (23 years ago, 1-Apr-02, to lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | 2x4 Cheezy Brick Packs Now In Store!
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| Some of you know I've been consulting for a new clone brand. It's time to reveal the Marz Cheezy Brick! Here's a scan from the ad (in today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) (URL) WIRE)––March 30, 2002––Marz Cheese Company announces the arrival of Marz (...) (23 years ago, 1-Apr-02, to lugnet.announce) !!
| | | | | Brickset.com receives overhaul
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| Following numerous complaints about response times, I have rewritten brickset.com from scratch using ASP.NET. Initial tests suggest that it is up to 200% quicker serving search results. For now, it looks and behaves much like the old site, but over (...) (23 years ago, 27-Mar-02, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | T-ANK R19
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| *Backstory* In an effort to create cool new mecha with a non-leathal enviroment, I have created the Mecha Combat Federation or MCF. I see it as a new 'sports entertainment' of the distant future. A hybrid of Pro Wrestling, BattleBots, and the (...) (23 years ago, 26-Mar-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
| | | | | new ezboard
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| ive made an ezboard for lego users. come and visit it at (URL) . (23 years ago, 26-Mar-02, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Legowars 2002 Opinion, It counts!
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| Ok, Grant wants to shut down Legowars 2002, a site with over 10,000 visitors and 6 pages of guestbook entries. He knows that its not updated. But he is entering the Dark Ages. We must stop him. Fellow LUGNETers, please help him to keep his site. Go (...) (23 years ago, 23-Mar-02, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | The New LSA site 2.0
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| Greetings, fellow LUGNETers. My computer went crazy, drives got corrupted and the cookies and stuff got deleted. So did me LUGNET ID. So I made a new one. Anyway, as some of you know, my previous LEGO site was (URL) but Tripod and me had (...) (23 years ago, 23-Mar-02, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Fan Sculpture at CII
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| As you may or may not know - FBTB was selected to exhibit at the second Star Wars Celebration this May in Indianapolis. Event organizers are forecasting over 35,000 people, and I'm going to do my best to bring a lot of Brick to a genre that is (...) (23 years ago, 23-Mar-02, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events) !
| | | | | Mega Bloks IPO
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| I just read on the Bloomberg news wire that Mega Bloks, Inc. will IPO and list its stock as "MB" on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The underwriters are Merrill Lynch, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, and National Bank of Canada. This is big news (...) (23 years ago, 22-Mar-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands) !!
| | | | | FBTB at CII
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| As revealed at Starwars.com today, we have been selected by Lucasfilm to set up for The Big Show the first weekend in May. I have a lot of things planned, and I hope to see some of you there. Tim (URL) (23 years ago, 21-Mar-02, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general) !
| | | | | Chapter Four has arrived!
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| Hey guys and gals, After weeks of promising, here it is, the fourth chapter in the chronicles of Velaria! It's been added to my site: (URL) the Chronicles section, but if going there on your own is too much work, here's a direct link: (URL) always, (...) (23 years ago, 21-Mar-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
| | | | | Town Building Contest: voter registration now open
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| If you would like to vote in the Town Building contest, please read the Voting page at (URL) follow the instructions. Voting will be open from 00:01 PST Friday March 22nd, to midnight PST on Sunday March 31st. Between now and Friday, when voting (...) (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Town Building Contest: entries close midnight PST Sunday 17th March
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| Last call for entries!!! The Town Building Contest closes on Sunday 17th March, at midnight Pacific Time. I'm eagerly awaiting all your breathtaking creations! Go to: (URL) read the rules and enter. I will post voter registration info and rules on (...) (23 years ago, 14-Mar-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.general)
| | | | | BrickFest 2002
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| www.brickfest.com Christina (23 years ago, 11-Mar-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.announce) !!
| | | | | Access a LEGO set DB with your phone!
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| Hi all, I've been playing with VXML and wanted some pet projects to help me learn. So I've been looking at my hobbies for applications. I am continually amazed at how many of you can remember so many LEGO set numbers/names/prices and other stats. (...) (23 years ago, 11-Mar-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.org.us.gardenslug) !!
| | | | | A Request
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| Hello, I have been a part of the online Lego community since June of 1998. But I think it's time to call it quits. I would like to request that anybody and everybody who has my name, e-mail address, creations, original documents, and/or website (...) (23 years ago, 11-Mar-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
| | | | | MonLUG and ParLUGment hold their first joint Train Show!
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| Un message français suit. A french message follows. Hello to all, I'm proud to announce MonLUG's second and ParLUGment's first joint participation in a Montreal Area train show. It will be held at Georges-Vanier High School in Laval (just north of (...) (23 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.org.ca.monlug, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.qc.mon, lugnet.loc.ca.qc, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains) !
| | | | | ISCC: The winners are...
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| Hello, here they come: The winners of the 1st ISCC in 2001. Have a look at www.creativity-contest.net or www.1000steine.de/english.htm for the ranking site and for browsing all entries again, if you want. Have a nice sunday, René (23 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.general, lugnet.town, lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.space) !!
| | | | | Re: Lafayette (Indiana) Area Lego Robotics Club.
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| Steve, This is great news, but do you need to post like this? Why not just cross post in one shot. (i.e. copy and paste the names into the Newsgroups space) Then again I could not fit all the newsgroups you posted to into the space? See Ya... Robin (...) (23 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.indylug, lugnet.org, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.org.us.gmlug, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.loc.us.in.ind)
| | | | | Lafayette (Indiana) Area Lego Robotics Club.
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| We're proud to announce the formation of the Lafayette Area Lego Robotics Club in Lafayette, Indiana. The Lafayette Area LEGO Robotics Club is a group of people who meet once a month to discuss and build Lego robots and related subjects. We hope to (...) (23 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | New Book - Core Lego Mindstorms
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| As some of you know I've been working on a Lego Mindstorms book for Java programmers. The official release date is March 15, 2002 so it seems like a good time to announce it. The intent of this book is to get Java programmers interested in Lego (...) (23 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics) !
| | | | | 1st PLUGfest! / 1º PLUGfest!
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| (Portuguese translation in the end) Hi all! PLUG is proud to announce its first meeting, to be held in Porto (Oporto) on March 16, 2002. The place for this event is the Engineering school (FEUP), which kindly lent us one room and will allow us to (...) (23 years ago, 7-Mar-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.pt, lugnet.loc.br)
| | | | | New MOC: Rebel Snowspeeder!
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| Hey guys, Here's my latest custom, an Incom T-47 Modified Airspeeder (Snowspeeder). It's the same scale as my A-Wing (1 foot:1 stud) and my upcoming X- and Y-Wings. I'll have the MLCad instructions up hopefully this weekend so check back soon. (URL) (...) (23 years ago, 7-Mar-02, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | ldraw.org MOTM & SOTM Winners for February 2002 (belated)
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| Hello, Sorry about the delay, but I've been sick for the last week. :-( So I apologize to everyone, especially the winners, which are; MOTM: Jeremy Sproat for "Icosahedron", his fascinating exercise in hinged complexity. SOTM: Rick Hallman for (...) (23 years ago, 7-Mar-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
| | | | | Lego Fan Fantasy Baseball
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| Hello Lego Fans! This is an announcement for all lego fans who happed to also be baseball fans. I have started a private fantasy baseball league at Yahoo!Sports. It is completely free. The idea is to have a place for likeminded people to play (...) (23 years ago, 7-Mar-02, to lugnet.announce)
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