 | | MoTeC March: Winners
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FUT: lugnet.technic X-Post:announce, build.contests, robotics, modelteam & technic Hi all! The MoTeC winners from March: #1 with 37% of the votes: Ross Crawford with his stunning helicopter! #2 with 20% of the votes: Andrew Bisell with his Caterham (...) (22 years ago, 1-May-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.technic)
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| | New Town Planning information site
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I recently completed work on the first few sections of a new website for "Planning and Building Lego Towns." (URL) sections are "Types and Styles of Lego Towns" "Tables and other Underpinnings" "Design Tools" Coming soon: "Designing your Town (...) (22 years ago, 30-Apr-02, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.publish, lugnet.announce) !
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| | New BimP Feature
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It is my pleasure to welcome another member to the BimP team. Ton van Waas is now on board to provide us with a humorous look at the world of advanced LEGO modeling. His weekly (give or take a few days or weeks) contributions to BimP are sure to be (...) (22 years ago, 27-Apr-02, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: BrickZone - Top 50 Gallery *MOC pics wanted*
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Ok, several pics are up, at the bottom of the page (on the site) I have attached some progress notes. So far any pics that come through will be added. Once I have collected a large enough amount, I will post them up and the Top 50 can be chosen. So (...) (22 years ago, 25-Apr-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.announce, lugnet.fun, lugnet.build)
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| | LDraw.org Parts Update 2002-02 Now Available
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[FUT lugnet.cad] Fifth in a series, collect them all! There are 204 files in this release, including 91 new parts and a bunch of fixes. Besides the 12 horse parts, there are also a bunch of revised primitives, newly BFC-compliant. Get the update at (...) (22 years ago, 25-Apr-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad) !!
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| | Browse the Web with an RCX Brick
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Lawrie Griffiths, one of the developers of the leJOS project, has created some cool packages that allow web browsing among other things. Check out the details and photographs of this in action: (URL) (22 years ago, 22-Apr-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics.rcx) !!
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| | All New Shipyard!
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(URL) took a small break from MOCs and decided to redesign The Shipyard.[1] Everything is up right now except for the button/banner section and a special feature secton which will contain articles, essays, stories, contests and any other random (...) (22 years ago, 22-Apr-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space)
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| | MoTeC February: Winners!!!
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FUT: lugnet.technic Hi all! Finally I got a finger out and did the much needed updating on my homepage and announced the winners from February! With no further a due: Overall winners: #1 - Brian Sadowski with his amazing Biped 9! He got 31% of the (...) (22 years ago, 20-Apr-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | BrickZone - Top 50 Gallery *MOC pics wanted*
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G'day all! Get ya pics out!!! BrickZone is searching for 50 top MOC's to go into a Gallery I have set up on the site. All you need to do is send your pics (pic's or link's) of MOC's - only one pic per person will be chosen, but you may wish to send (...) (22 years ago, 20-Apr-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.announce, lugnet.fun, lugnet.build)
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| | Petition to Lego for more Legends
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Currently, I am forming a petition to send to the Lego company requesting Legends to be released for all sets made during the 1980s and I need your help! Please check out (URL) for information on how you can help. -Justin- (22 years ago, 20-Apr-02, to lugnet.announce)
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| | SCLTC Website Updated! (New look and loads of images!)
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The official website of ths Southern California LEGO Train Club has been entirely redone and given a brand new look! Check it out at: (URL) free to explore the site and find out about our club, our layouts, and our goals as we expand. Or you can (...) (22 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org.scltc)
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| | Cartoons Needed
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BimP is looking for original cartoons that characterize the LEGO experience. If you are a budding cartoonist and would like to submit your cartoon for possible use by BimP, send your cartoons in electronic format to: BimP@graphics-plus.com Subject: (...) (22 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Ask Your Questions
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The latest article posted on BimP is "20 Questions with Jacob McKee." Jake is a Senior Producer with LEGO Direct. If you would like to find out how to submit a question for Jake or read the interview as it progresses, visit: (URL) B. Combs, Editor (...) (22 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.announce) !!
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| | ISCC "database" - all entries and their marks
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Hello@all, you can now browse all 157 ISCC entries and watch the results for each entry at (URL) Godt, René (22 years ago, 15-Apr-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.contests) !
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| | Re: Grand Re-Opening of A&M Lego Place now iwth LEGO TRON!
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<snip> I have to LEARN how to type: =) The correct link is: (URL) Ahui (22 years ago, 13-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.space, lugnet.announce)
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| | *** LDView Version 1.9.3 Released ***
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LDView version 1.9.3 is now available, in both source and binary forms. You can download either from: (URL) of the highlights of version 1.9.3 include: Added ability to set the default color (useful for part authors). Added ability to reset (...) (22 years ago, 13-Apr-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
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| | Grand Re-Opening of A&M Lego Place now iwth LEGO TRON!
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Well, I finally did the move to a AD-Free Web Hosting site! At the grand re-opening of A&M Lego Place at (URL) have a special suprise for you. We have the ONLY LEGO TRON site on the net! I'm not talking about one or two images as two other adbonded (...) (22 years ago, 13-Apr-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.space)
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| | (canceled)
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| | Huge Church on Slashdot
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Subject line says it all. A huge church built by Amy Hughes is featured on Slashdot. The links to her site are clogged, but if you follow the post, there are links to some mirrors. (URL) (22 years ago, 12-Apr-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | Final Notice: Houston AFOL Meeting, Saturday April 13
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Hello all, On Saturday, April 13, the Houston AFOL community will be holding a local meeting at the Texas A&M Health Science Center Institute for Biosciences and Technology (also known as IBT) in Houston, Texas. We plan on having a train layout (...) (22 years ago, 10-Apr-02, to lugnet.loc.us.tx.hou, lugnet.loc.us.tx, lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.texlug) !
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| | noise (was: Ideas ready to be shot down)
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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 (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.finance, lugnet.announce)
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| | 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 (...) (23 years ago, 8-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.monlug, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains) !
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| | 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. (...) (23 years ago, 4-Apr-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.people)
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| | 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 (...) (23 years ago, 6-Apr-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars)
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| | 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) (...) (23 years ago, 5-Apr-02, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.announce.lsahs, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | 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 (...) (23 years ago, 5-Apr-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.castle) !!
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| | 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 (...) (23 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) !
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| | 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 (...) (23 years ago, 4-Apr-02, to lugnet.announce)
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| | 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 (...) (23 years ago, 4-Apr-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !
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| | 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) !!
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| | 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) !
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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) !!
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| | 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) !
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| | 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) !!
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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) !
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| | 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) !!
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| | 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) !
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| | 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)
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| | 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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| | (canceled)
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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)
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| | BrickFest 2002
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www.brickfest.com Christina (23 years ago, 11-Mar-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | 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) !!
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| | 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)
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| | 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) !
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| | 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) !!
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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) !
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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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| | LDDesignPad v0.9 released!
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Hello! New version is out now. Get it at (URL) ! + = New feature * = Bugfix - = Removed feature v0.9 2002/03/05 + Added Change/Replace Color dialog (added palette file) + Undo now possible even after save - Reverted to colored speedbuttons. Think (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev) !
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| | NILTC first show a success!
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The Northern Illinois LEGO Train Club's show this weekend at High Wheeler '02 went great!! Here are some links to pictures taken by Eric Wackerfuss, one of our newest members, he joined the club at the show. (URL) will be more pictures coming soon (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains.org.niltc, lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.us.il) !!
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| | Help Get Brickshelf Instructions on www.lego.com
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I encourage EVERYONE to go to (URL) to the Buying BULK LEGO BRICKS After several page you get to this page. What other building tips or instructions would you like to have on www.LEGO.com? Add the following Instructions for all Lego Sets When you (...) (23 years ago, 3-Mar-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.announce.brickshelf, lugnet.lego, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade) !
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| | Re: Chapter Three is here! Rejoice in the sheer mediocrity!
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X-posted to .announce ---...--- Hey guys and gals! Well, after alot of computer-related troubles, I present to thee the third chapter of the Chronicles of Velaria. It, along with the first two chapters, can be found under the "Chronicles" section on (...) (23 years ago, 3-Mar-02, to lugnet.announce)
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| | New BrickDreams Site - 7 New Scenes
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The new BrickDreams site is up. Nothing fancy, I just streamlined the site by removing the splash page and bringing the scene index right up front. I also discontinued 9 of the old scenes, for one reason or another. In their place are 7 new scenes, (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish)
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| | LDraw.org MOTM/SOTM voting for March is open
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We have entered a new month, and that means that it is time to take a look at all the nice renderings entered in the competition for the title LDraw.org Model/Scene of the Month for March 2002. Take a look at (URL) make a (hard) decision. Play well, (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce)
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| | BLdb version 0.1 Previews announcement
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BLdb version 0.1 announcement An application to register and manage your LEGO collection data (parts, sets and MOCs) After several attempts to design a database that could help manage my LEGO sets' collection and another one to manage my parts' (...) (23 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.pt) !!
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| | LDDesignPad v0.4 released!
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Hello! LDDesignPad v0.4 is released. Get it at (URL) ! + = New feature * = Bugfix - = Removed feature v0.4 2002/02/27 +Added self-defined program feature +Added syntax-highlighting for optional lines +Added options to set Username / Email / (...) (23 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev) !
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| | First NILTC Show - This Weekend - Palatine, IL
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"Joel Kuester" <septenemae@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Gs79LF.LG4@lugnet.com... (...) message there. Per the URL above, the NILTC will be showing at High Wheeler '02 in Palatine IL this weekend. Below is the text of Joel's original message. (...) (23 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Weekend Train Station Raising Building Session - MichLUG Members - 02/23/02
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To All, I had the absolute pleasure of having some great company this weekend at my house. I wanted to start getting my train station elevated after our GATS show in Novi. Guests: Steven Ringe Tony Hedglen Jason Spears Here are the overall pics in (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.announce)
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| | NELUG at New England Home Show 2/23/02 - 3/03/02
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Well I don't have a lot of time for a full debriefing but here is a little appitizer. NELUG was commisioned about 6 months ago to present at the New England Home Show in Boston MA. We were commisioned to build a replica of the new LPZ Bridge in (...) (23 years ago, 24-Feb-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.org, lugnet.org.us.nelug) !!
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| | BricksWest 2002 Wrap-Up
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WOW! That, in a word, easily sums up all of the fun, excitement, building, play and friendships that were a part of BricksWest 2002! I would like to once again personally thank everyone who attended this inaugural event. It is difficult to support (...) (23 years ago, 23-Feb-02, to lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | TEXLUG Meeting: March 9
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Hey Texas AFOLs, We're going to have a meeting in March, and the date has been picked: Saturday, March 9th. The meeting will take place in Austin, at the house of Jason Spangler. The meeting will be from 10am to 8pm. Out of the many responses I've (...) (23 years ago, 23-Feb-02, to lugnet.org.us.texlug, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us.tx, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus, lugnet.loc.us.tx.hou, lugnet.loc.us.tx.dfw)
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| | Mor e Episode II Sets
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I just got this in my starwars.com newsletter: (URL) are some new sets that haven't been announced to date...check out the minifig Yoda in the first picture with Count Dooku! Eric (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Do You Like Fire Trucks
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Do you like fire trucks? If yes, visit the Mutual Aid Association of Lego Fire Departments. Now home to 24!! departments. Including the new Lego Hills FD and Point Lego FD. (URL) MAALFD@aol.com (23 years ago, 21-Feb-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.town)
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| | *** LDView Version 1.9.2 Released ***
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LDView version 1.9.2 is now available, in both source and binary forms. You can download either from: (URL) of the highlights of version 1.9.2 include: Option to texture map LEGO logo onto studs. Wireframe Cutaway Faster lighting (on some cards (...) (23 years ago, 20-Feb-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Santa Fe Super Chief Train Engine Registry
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In February 2002 LEGO® released the 10020 Santa Fe Super Chief as a special numbered limited edition. In effort to track the release numbers this registry has been created. If you own a limited edition LEGO® Santa Fe Super Chief please visit the (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains) !!
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| | BrickDreams is Back
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Same old site, same old scenes. I should have some new scenes up soon though, time and CPU horsepower permitting. (URL) set to lugnet.publish (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish) !!
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| | New Web Site '...brickzine.com'
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G'day, I'm unleashing a new web site... It's still in the works so please don't start assessing it just yet ;p It's called Brick Zone (couldn't register it under that name as it was taken), so it comes under www.brickzine.com instead. That is what (...) (23 years ago, 18-Feb-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: LDraw.org Parts Update 2002-01 Now Available
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Augh! I posted the wrong URL for the update page. Serves me right, cutting-and-pasting announcements. :\ The correct URL is (URL). Sorry about that. You may now download your part updates. :) Steve (...) (23 years ago, 18-Feb-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
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| | LDraw.org Parts Update 2002-01 Now Available
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[FUT lugnet.cad] The first update of the new year is now available. There are 83 files in this release, including 30 new parts and a bunch of fixes. Get it at (URL). Full details are available there. For once, the preview page is available right (...) (23 years ago, 18-Feb-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad) !
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| | traditional knowledge in the manufacture of toys
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"After deciding to stop using offending words in any further launches of the Bionicle range, Lego now wants to set out a code of conduct for the use of traditional knowledge in the manufacture of toys." I'm sure many of you have heard about the (...) (23 years ago, 18-Feb-02, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.announce)
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| | Bulk Purchase survey on Lego "My Opinion"
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A call to arms!!!!!!! Well, looks like a chance for the masses to make their opinion known. Don't know how long its been up but Lego is doing a survey on bulk Brick purchasing - click on "My Opinion" bottom bar at site entry (URL) seen mention of (...) (23 years ago, 18-Feb-02, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | 10037 Breezeway Cafe at LEGO S@H
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I was just checking out LEGO S@H online, and found that they posted the order information and 2 pics of the Breezeway Cafe. It is under "Exclusives & Treasures" - "Hard to Find". Here is some info: Item #10037 Pieces: 178 Price: $22.99 Backorders (...) (23 years ago, 17-Feb-02, to lugnet.announce)
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| | 2nd Annual TOWN Building Contest continues!
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I've had some entries so far, but really only a trickle. Don't delay, enter today! Please point your browsers to (URL) see full details of the contest. I have narrowed the focus of this years contest to traditional Town models in Minifig and Classic (...) (23 years ago, 16-Feb-02, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
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| | BricksWest...The Excitement Begins!
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Hello all! The family and I are about to leave the house...heading out on the 5 hour drive to beautiful Carlsbad, California...BRICKSWEST HERE WE COME! This will likely be my last opportunity to post until I return from BricksWest...I wanted to (...) (23 years ago, 15-Feb-02, to lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.announce)
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| | Entries needed for LDraw.org MOTM/SOTM
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hi all, I suspect that the flood of entries for the current competition has probably scared away entries for next month. Don't let that happen. Its Valentines Day and so far I only have one entry for each category. Not good. If you've been thinking (...) (23 years ago, 14-Feb-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Single set Technic Power Pulling.
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FUT: lugnet.technic Hi! Here's yet another Tehnic genre booster! Challenge: Build a model that can pull as much load as possible using pieces from _only_one_ official LEGO set! One class for each set so you can all be winners, no matter what set you (...) (23 years ago, 14-Feb-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Challenge: Technic Model of the Month!
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FUT: lugnet.technic Hi all! I've decided the Technic genre needs a boost so I have made a Technic model of the month competition/challenge similar to ldraw.org's MOTM & SOTM. Each month a winner will be elected by an e-mail voting process. For more (...) (23 years ago, 14-Feb-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Received new Pizza to Go(10036) today
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I was one of those people who managed to place an order for a Pizza to Go last week, before it was pulled from the Lego website. I'd kind of been waiting for a message with a sorry, but we screwed up. However, I was slightly shocked when I returned (...) (23 years ago, 13-Feb-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general) !
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| | BricksWest Attendee Resources Available-Event Web Site Updated
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As promised with the sending of the official registration confirmations for BricksWest, we have just added some important resources to the BricksWest web site for both registered attendees and those planning on joining us at the door rate for (...) (23 years ago, 11-Feb-02, to lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Two new CAD development newsgroups: LCD (LEGO Connection Database) and Macintosh
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Two new CAD (Computer Aided Design) software development newsgroups have just been created for the discussion of new CAD software projects. CHARTER/PURPOSE ===...=== -> lugnet.cad.dev.lcd (group): LDraw Connection Database forum: in-depth technical (...) (23 years ago, 8-Feb-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.lcd, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Site Update
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I got around to some site updating today. (URL) for looking. -- Nicole~ (23 years ago, 8-Feb-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
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| | ISCC: There are 157 entries with 1470 pictures - vote now!
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Hello @ all! Do you remember? There was (there IS) the ISCC ;-) Over two thirds of the entries came short before New Years Day (deadline was Dec-31), so it took time until now to place all 157 entries. But now it's done and I wouldn't know what to (...) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.general, lugnet.town, lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.space) !!
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| | BrickHeap Wars!
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BricksWest will host the first ever BRICKHEAP WARS event. This is a competition loosely based on Junk Yard Wars. This particular episode will be a LEGO Mindstorms competition. All materials (1) will be provided at the competition. No outside LEGO (...) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics) !!
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| | To all PAST winners of of the LDraw.org MOTM or SOTM
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Hello to all, Just a short request. In the conversion to the new LDraw.org site format, it occured to me that many of the past winners in the archive could use a little "oomph". What I would like to see is a little more in-depth coverage of your (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Vote Now! LDraw.org MOTM/SOTM for February
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Eat an energy bar now.... The voting pages for LDraw.org's Model & Scene of the Month are ready and waiting at: (URL) are a LOT of entries this month. Its going to be tough. Perhaps even grueling. So get on over and do your civic duty. Now you know (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !
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| | ldraw.org MOTM & SOTM Winners for January 2002
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A little late.... The first winners for 2002 are: Model of the Month - Ralph Döering's "My House". A beautiful virtual version of the building Ralph lives in. I would like to see more of this one. Ralph, any more images we could link to? Scene of (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | BricWorx announcement
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Hi All, The BricWorx foundry would like to announce the following: Chessie System Engine Production Run Extended The first run of the Chessie System diesel engine was quite successful, so management opted for a second production run. This limited (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains)
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| | [rtlToronto] February Monthly Dinner, Friday February 8th, 2002
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Hi folks, rtlToronto February Monthly Dinner Friday, February 8th, 2002, 6pm Mel's Montreal Deli, 440 Bloor Street West (E of Bathurst) (URL) on out to the big rtlToronto Monthly Dinner, this Friday. Come and make cryptic boasts about your ProjectX, (...) (23 years ago, 2-Feb-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.announce)
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