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Hi All! My Lego drawing program BlockCAD has reached version 1.6 What's new in 1.6: - Minor bug fixes (they are _always_ minor :-) - New pieces: Rounded plates, small wings, panels, minifigs (sort of...) - A group can be saved as a sub-assembly - (...) (26 years ago, 20-Feb-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | ZIP Version of LDraw Tutorial
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I just uploaded a ZIP file of the entire LDraw and LEdit Tutorial [1] ( (URL) ) so that anyone can now read the tutorial offline. Please remember to contact me before using it for anything else, though. To get it it, go to: (URL) only 410 Kb! (...) (26 years ago, 20-Feb-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Group/list for NQC created
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[Followups set to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc] A new newsgroup/mailing-list for focused NQC discussions has been created: CHARTER/PURPOSE ===...=== lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc (group): Focused discussion group for NQC ("Not Quite C"), an unofficial (...) (26 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Group/list for legOS created
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[Followups set to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos] A new newsgroup/mailing-list for focused legOS discussions has been created: CHARTER/PURPOSE ===...=== lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos (group): Focused discussion group for legOS, an unofficial replacement (...) (26 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Old scans - new URL
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My scans from old Disney comics magazines are back at a new URL: (URL) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Girls *CAN* build
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Howdy, ...just posted version one of a page discussing the issue of introducing girls to technology using Legos. www.weirdrichard.com...irlsed.htm Please check it out. Richard rwright@pcsedu.com www.weirdrichard.com (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | LEGO Barcodes have changed!! :-(
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I noticed on the new 1999 Space Port and City sets they come with a barcode that doesn't have the set number contained within. eg. Old form 5 702010 9nnnnx Where x is any number n is the set number. Also 702019 and 702011 - these are for promotional (...) (26 years ago, 14-Feb-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: Lego Easter Eggs!
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Looks like the image link is broken, by looking at the page source I found the picture of the egg packaging here: (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.announce)
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| | Virtual Flower Delivery Service
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In honor of Valentine's Day, "Flowers-By-Harry" Online wishes to extend the following reminder of their online flower delivery service: (URL) from four lovely Valentine Arrangements, write a custom greeting, address the card, and it's off to the (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
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| | Lego Easter Eggs!
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Lego Easter Eggs! Seen in the UK today, cost GBP4.99! Contains 1 of 4 sets and a big, chocolate easter egg! See my site for a picture of the packaging. Select the egg reference on the side. (26 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | New newsgroups lugnet.robotics.events & lugnet.robotics.events.robot-arena
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[Followups set to lugnet.robotics.even...bot-arena] (...) Both of these groups have just been created. Here are their brief charters: CHARTER/PURPOSE ===...=== lugnet.robotics.events (group and hierarchy): Organized events, competitions, (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.robotics.events.robot-arena)
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| | Perilous Pirates Re-Unveiled!
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Hey Lugnet! I took the occasion of my birthday (yesterday 2/11) to announce the Perilous Pirate Page on RTL. I 'm now extending an invitation to the Lugnet nuts to check the page out at: (URL) the present time only 3 of the 6 links work. I will (...) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | New web site
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I published my personal web site, which includes a Lego section. It's a very simple site, don't expect too much. (URL) Lego section covers my Mindstorm robotic creations and a collection of images of Lego pieces from the Sixties and Seventies. Any (...) (26 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | New newsgroup lugnet.cad.dev
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[Followups set to lugnet.cad.dev] -- A new newsgroup lugnet.cad.dev has just been created for developers of LEGO- style CAD systems and components. Here is the charter: lugnet.cad.dev (group): CAD developers forum: in-depth technical discussions, (...) (26 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce)
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| | Gary Louie Death
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I was just catching up on some rtl news today when I saw a message posted yesterday (2/7/99) about Gary Louie's death. I had limited contact with Gary - he once participated in one of my auctions - but I always read many of the messages he posted to (...) (26 years ago, 8-Feb-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | New website - Wild West MOCs
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At this point I only have 4 photos scanned in, but here's a first look at the Top Hat Saloon and the Patriot Hotel: (URL) (26 years ago, 8-Feb-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Allanton NZ ... Web pages updated
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I have finally got around to updating pictures of my latest creations plus added my Western creations made over 1 1/2 years ago. In the Business Directory ... Adventure Tours ... Tourist Submarine that holds 10 passengers and 1 pilot. Fisheries ... (...) (26 years ago, 7-Feb-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | GRAND OPENING!
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< * > < * > < * > < * > < * > < * > < * > < * > Announcing the GRAND OPENING of The Brick Yard! (URL) * > < * > < * > < * > < * > < * > < * > < * > "This is it... the big one... the one you've all been waiting for." 'Pop Goes the World', Men Without (...) (26 years ago, 6-Feb-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | tente page
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the construction clone site has the recent addition of a tente page. (URL) been curious about these sets for quite a while and the recent acquisition of a 1991 catalog has given me the chance to add some scans for other fans that might not have (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Mindstorms announcement
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There's a message in the "announcements" forum on www.legomindstorms.com asking if any adult Mindstorms users from the Washington, D.C. area want to be interviewed by Swiss TV. It's dated Feb. 1, 1999. -- Thomas Main main@appstate.edu (26 years ago, 1-Feb-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Working for LEGO
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A brand new LEGO Truck Show starts its New Zealand tour on February 13. During the ten weeks that the truck is touring the country, I am going to be the LEGO Truck Show Co-ordinator and will travel with the truck. This is a very responsible position (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | My try at a Castle
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After seeing Dr. Carney's castles, I had to try my hand at one. Follow the link in my sig file, go to the Lego pages, scroll down. Let me know what ya think. I also added pictures of my 60" yellow bridge and more images of my "wooden" trestle (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | LDraw Add-On updated; version 2.0.2
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[follow-ups set to lugnet.cad] The new version of LDraw Add-On (LDAO) is now available. This is version 2.0.2. Almost all bug fixes, with one enhancement/course correction. Get LDAO 2.0.2 at (URL) Steve (26 years ago, 31-Jan-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | 40 new Photos of my City; more
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All: Hello! I have a whole TON of announcements about changes to my site! I've added a whole ton of stuff in the last 2 weeks. A list of the most recent changes are at (URL) Here's a brief summary: - I just put up about 40 new pictures of my city (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | train availability in canada
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According to Canadian S@H sales rep I contacted yesterday (99/01/25) 4533, 4553 and 4556 should be available in Canada by the end of March. I hope that they will now support full range of train set in Canada to. Martin (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Instructions on set #315 available
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(The 196x Veteran Car European Taxie) (URL) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish)
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| | my new "news" web pages
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I have created a web site to archive news stories about The LEGO Group. I have several stories there already. (URL) (26 years ago, 24-Jan-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Lego Loss details, from BBC news....
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Apologies if it has already been posted. To view it on the site, go to (URL) do a search for Lego, they are the top two returns. Monday, January 18, 1999 Published at 15:01 GMT Business: The Company File Red brick for Lego Lego has been slow to (...) (26 years ago, 22-Jan-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Slight change in gateway addressing method
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[Followups set to lugnet.admin.general] [This message is also being e-mailed to news-by-mail subscribers] The Quick Summary ===...=== The format of the 'From' lines on news-by-mail messages is improving to be more useful and intuitive. However, it (...) (26 years ago, 22-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | Lego Has updated its online Catalog!!
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Yup!! Starwars are in there now! They Also updated (URL) but you have to be a webclub member. I guess I'll have to join now. They don't seem to have the Episode 1 sets yet though. Jeff (26 years ago, 22-Jan-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | New models on my Web page
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Hi folks, I've added six new Lego models to my Web page "In the Service of Her Majesty's Secret Death Squad", at (URL) that might be of high interest: the Mako Project and the "Mad Wabbit" Battle Armor. (1) Check out the What's New? page at (URL) (...) (26 years ago, 22-Jan-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | LDraw Add-On 2 Now Available
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[follow-ups set to lugnet.cad] The new version of LDraw Add-On (LDAO) is now available. This is version 2.0.1 (For those of you who downloaded December's beta-test, this is the fix). The main new feature is a Modeler tool. This tool works with (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
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| | NEW Super Car has SIX Gears!
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The UK 1999 Catalogue is available. Here's the info you want: (URL) around 400Kb - at 150dpi - I had to get this resolution to read the text. (26 years ago, 17-Jan-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Robert G. Carney, Jr.'s castles!
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Robert G. Carney, Jr.'s castle page is this week's Cool LEGO Site of the Week pick. If you haven't seen these yet, these are a MUST SEE! (I've called web pages "must see" before, but these reach a new level!) (URL) is the CLSotW review-text: Once (...) (26 years ago, 17-Jan-99, to lugnet.build, lugnet.announce)
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| | New newsgroup lugnet.announce.lsahs
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[Followups set to lugnet.market.shopping] -- A very special new newsgroup lugnet.announce.lsahs has just been created. Here is the charter: lugnet.announce.lsahs (group): Unofficial announcements pertaining to LEGO® Shop-At-Home Service: summaries (...) (26 years ago, 17-Jan-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | Web Page Update
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Finally, I've got some more images up. Start here (URL) ,go to Lego Pages. Comments welcome. Thanks Tom (26 years ago, 16-Jan-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Duane's LEGO page
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My new webpage is now up and functional. (URL) not pretty, but I hope that the content will make up for the presentation. I welcome any suggestions for improvements. Duane (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | www.zacktron.com is online
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Greetings all: Tonight I have just uploaded the first public release of www.zacktron.com. It is far from complete, but I wanted to get it up as soon as possible. Currently, the only section available is the Zacktron Alliance, and the new Lego (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | Contest: Win a Mindstorms
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Howdy all, The PCS Academy of Engineering is giving away a LEGO Mindstorms! It will be given away in a drawing held on January 29 in Boise Idaho. To sign up, attend one of the three JA & Kathryn Albertson Foundation Technical Initiative Conventions: (...) (26 years ago, 12-Jan-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | US S@H Phone Specials 1/11/99 - 1/17/99
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Duplo/Freestyle 2029 Medium Primo Stack & Learn $6.75 $3.50 CD100 Lego Island $39.75 $29.75 P100 Kids Polo Shirt $18.00 $9.00 (call for size and availability) System 3200 Scala Dressing Room $16.50 $8.50 4022 Sea Cutter $33.00 $16.50 6836 V-Wing (...) (26 years ago, 11-Jan-99, to lugnet.announce)
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