 | | Mechastruct Contest Winners
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Hello everyone! I have calculated all the votes and the winners are as follows... 1. Military/Combat-Oriented Mechs/Mechas Under 8" Tall Winner: GOBLIN 2. Military/Combat-Oriented Mechs/Mechas Over 8" Tall Winner: Gunjin 3. Non-Military/Utilitarian (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.contests)
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| | *** LDView Version 1.9.9 Released ***
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LDView version 1.9.9 is now available, in both source and binary forms. You can download either from: (URL) highlights of version 1.9.9 include: Fixed smoothing of curves. (It was broken completely in 1.9.8.) Changed from ZIP-based distribution to (...) (22 years ago, 13-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
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| | IndyLUG Inaugural Train Show Jan 18 and 19
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IndyLUG is pleased to announce our first public event: The Indianapolis GATS show. January 18 & 19, 2003 11:00am to 5:00pm, both days Indiana State Fair Grounds More show info: (URL) will be displaying among other things 3 running loops, 3 large (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug) !!
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| | Train Operating Weekend invitation (Vancouver, BC Canada)
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Ever get tired of watching the trains go round and round at a show? Ever want to build a really *big* layout? Ever want to run trains that really go somewhere and do work? Ever wanted to run Lego trains using DCC? Then here's your chance. On the (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.ca.bc.van, lugnet.loc.ca.bc.vic, lugnet.org.us.sealug)
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| | [PRESS RELEASE] BRICKSWEST™ 2003 REGISTRATION UPDATE-NEW OPTIONS ADDED
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact Matthew Gerber BrickMedia, LLC Post Office Box 1292 Santa Maria, California 93456-1292 (805) 347-8460 telephone admin@brickswest.com (URL) 2003 REGISTRATION UPDATE-NEW OPTIONS ADDED January 8, 2003—Today BrickMedia™, (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events.brickswest) !
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| | Spybotics Internals
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I recently was told via e-mail that I needed to post this as an announcement for other Spybot fans to view and to garner their support. So here goes: (URL) page speaks for itself. Steven (22 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Copenhagen Metro subway station!
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Hello all LEGO train fans! My most recent model is an underground station from the new Copenhagen MiniMetro opened October 2002. (URL) station is primarily based on the station Lergravsparken but includes elements from the other stations on the line (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.dk, lugnet.loc.dk.kb.kob, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Blue Express passenger train with a cool front (?)
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Hello all LEGO train fans! Please have a look at my Blue Express passenger train on (URL) earlier trains have all been red or white so now I wanted to try the blue color. Also, I wanted to use all my transparent panes and the cool front window from (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.dk, lugnet.loc.dk.kb.kob) !
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| | BimP Updates (5 January 2003)
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Updates this week include: * Questions 12-14 with Jon Palmer have been posted and Jon unveils his new K-wing fighter(a BimP exclusive!) * A new toon by Ton (after a few holiday toons, Ton returns to his previous storyline) * A new tips and tricks (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce) !!
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| | MichLTC Show Report from Toy & Hobby Expo 2002
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MichLTC had another great show the weekend of Dec 27-29, at the Toy & Hobby Expo 2002. It was in the Novi Expo Center in Novi, MI. It was our first 3 day show and it went off great. We had a 20'x20' display featuring Larry P's mountain, Ken K's (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.announce, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains) !!
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| | ldraw.org MOTM & SOTM Winner for December 2002
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Huzzah! Sorry for the delay... Holidays and all. MOTM for December is Jeff Kiser's "Piano Keys". An intriguing concept, better explained now with Jeff's text. I wonder if it could actually work? SOTM is Peter Palfy's "Prison!". I like this scene. (...) (22 years ago, 3-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !
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| | New Seed Part
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There is a new Seed Part in the .space sidebar. Check it out! (URL) will have a new computer review ready soon. I'm also going to fill in more of the URLs on the Roll Call. [ j o n ] -- | Lego - (URL) Shipyard - (URL) Moonbase - (URL) Store - (URL) (22 years ago, 1-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.space)
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| | LDraw.org 2002-06 Parts Update Now Available
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Happy New Year! It's a few minutes after midnight, ldraw.org server time (ie, GMT). The final parts update for 2002 is now available. This is update 2002-06, a small package of just 54 files. It's become a tradition for me to put out an update just (...) (22 years ago, 31-Dec-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev) !
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| | Mechastruct Contest Voting!
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Hello everyone. Today is the final day for the Mechastruct contest and I would like to thank everyone that entered and participated! The whole experience went off without a hitch! (URL) have TWENTY TWO entries in seven different catagories! That is (...) (22 years ago, 31-Dec-02, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.announce)
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| | Next TCLug Meeting (January)
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Hi Everybody! We are looking to hold our TCLug January meeting on Saturday, January 11th at Brian's House (we thought this might be a more flexible day). Right now, we are looking at an early afternoon or possibly and early evening start , but we (...) (22 years ago, 31-Dec-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | BlockCAD version 3.0 is out, web pages updated
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I have released version 3.0 of my Lego drawing program BlockCAD. (URL) web pages has also gotten a face lift, so I'm sure there are some wrong links, etc. Please inform me if you notice anything. Off topic: Also note that BlockCAD has gotten a (...) (22 years ago, 28-Dec-02, to lugnet.announce)
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| | LTrax v0.01, an LDraw-Compatible "Track Designer"
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I'm proud to present a working (well, sort of) sketchy version of my latest creation, LTrax. In (URL) , you'll find the 108 kb zip file. It's a program inspired by Matthew Bates' Track Designer, but *much* less advanced. (I spent a couple of days (...) (22 years ago, 28-Dec-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.trains)
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| | BimP Updates (23 December 2002)
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Since the BimP staff is enjoying the holidays, there is not much to announce this week. * New holiday toon by Ton * Continuing interview with Jon Palmer * Donations to our favorite charity (FG Syndrome Family Alliance) can now be made from our web (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | [rtlToronto] rtlToronto Makes the Front Page. Literally.
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The December 22nd, 2002 Sunday edition of the Toronto Star features a Lego brick mosaic of the paper's banner, in place of the normal banner on the top of the front page. It also includes a detailed article about rtlToronto and Lego enthusiasts in (...) (22 years ago, 22-Dec-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.announce, lugnet.mediawatch) !!
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| | New Version of leJOS
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leJOS Version 2.1.0 has just been released. There are plenty of new features, including: - a Vision API for Lego Vision Command - USB support for Linux - exhanced USB Mac OSX support, including josx.rcxcomm - a new remote control package - 100% Java (...) (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | BimP Updates (15 December 2002)
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This week's updates include: * A new Holiday toon by Ton. Ton is taking a break from his current story line the next couple of weeks and offering up some holiday cheer, OOP style. * A new 20 Questions feature with Jon Palmer of Alphabet Fighter fame (...) (22 years ago, 15-Dec-02, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | Lego® 9V Technic Motors compared characteristics
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Hi everybody, I have completed a 9V technic motors comparison page. See it at (URL) ! Philo www.philohome.com (22 years ago, 15-Dec-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic) !!
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| | A new website with a bonus! New Movie!
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I am pleased to announce the release of a brand new website. For those of you who are fans of The Chronicles of Ikros, this website will contain the sequel to that story. And for those of you who enjoyed viewing my previous two introduction movies, (...) (22 years ago, 15-Dec-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.org.us.texlug, lugnet.publish)
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| | LUGNET logo products at CafePress
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Woo-Hooo! LUGNET logo products are back. It's time to show your pride in the hobby and in our online community! Profits from sales, $2 per item, go straight to our account that pays website hosting fees - so your purchases really help! Choose from (...) (22 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.announce) !!
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| | [PRESS RELEASE] BricksWest™ 2003 Registration Opens
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact Matthew Gerber BrickMedia, LLC Post Office Box 1292 Santa Maria, California 93456-1292 (805) 347-8460 VOICE admin@brickswest.com (URL) 2003 Registration Opens December 12, 2002—Today BrickMedia™, LLC ((URL) and the (...) (22 years ago, 12-Dec-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events.brickswest) !!
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| | Annoucing the BricksWest 2003 Animation Festival
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BricksWest 2003 is proud to announce the BricksWest Animation Festival to be held at the BricksWest 2003 Convention located at Legoland and the Windmill Banquet and Meeting Facility. The Animation Festival will feature a Comedy Competition and (...) (22 years ago, 12-Dec-02, to lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.animation, lugnet.announce)
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| | BimP Updates (11 December 2002)
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This week's updates include: * Just in time for Christmas, "2002 Top 10 Lego Gifts to Find Under Your Christmas Tree" article * A new toon by Ton * The completion of our interview with the Reverend Happy Holidays from the BimP Team! Steven B. Combs, (...) (22 years ago, 11-Dec-02, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | NELUG at First annual Sleigh Bell Festival / Festival of Trees in Boston MA
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Followups to org.us.nelug NELUG participated in the first annual Sleigh Bell Festival in Boston Massachusetts from 12/06/02 - 12/08/02. This event included a Festival of Trees to benefit The National Kidney Foundation and in particular children with (...) (22 years ago, 11-Dec-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.events, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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| | My website and my Brikwars write-up...
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Well, I took the plunge, made my own lego themed website, and realized I had nothing for it. Well over the summer at GenCon2002 Others and me had a TL2(Medieval) Brikwars battle. These were the contestants; Evan Butzlaff(credited to getting me back (...) (22 years ago, 8-Dec-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.gaming)
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| | NILTC Show This Weekend - Cantigny Park in Winfield
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Hey Everybody - Well, in my (excruciatingly) busy schedule, I accidentally neglected one of my duties -- announcing the next NILTC show. So, here goes: This weekend, the Northern Illinois LEGO Train Club will be displaying at Cantigny Park in (...) (22 years ago, 7-Dec-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains.org.niltc, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.wi, lugnet.loc.us.in)
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| | NGLTC Festival of Trees Setup is complete
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After two days of work the NGLTC has finished it setup of our tree for the Children's Healthcare of Georgia Festival of Trees in the Georgia World Congress Center in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. NGLTC members Lewis Valentine, Scott Lyttle and myself (...) (22 years ago, 5-Dec-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.ga.atl, lugnet.loc.us.ga) !
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| | Golden Gate Bridge, #3of 3
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Here is my Golden Gate Bridge. I wanted this to be my first posting on Lugnet but Eric posted his a few days before I was going to post, so I held off. The bridge took me almost 2 years and two trips back home to San Francisco to complete. I was so (...) (22 years ago, 4-Dec-02, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.sculpture) !!
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| | BimP Updates (4 December 2002)
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I just returned from a trip to Orlando, Florida where my daughter and I spent about 6 hours in the LEGO Shop at Downtown Disney. I was really inspired by my visit and have many ideas up my sleeve for the coming year. For now I have some small (...) (22 years ago, 4-Dec-02, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | December TCLug Meeting
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We will be meeting again this Friday, 12/6 (Yes, I checked the date! :)) at Brian's house starting around 6:30pm. If you need directions, email me! (He has moved and is no longer at the old location). Like always, feel free to bring your MOC'S, (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-02, to lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.announce)
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| | LPub 2.1.0.3 released
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LPub 2.1.0.3 has been released to (URL) is a bug fix release: - Single image generation complains that lsynth is not installed - LPub forgets where LDraw and L3P are installed when saving global config - Selecting specify output file name for (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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| | MINIFIG HALL OF FAME WEBSITE !!!!
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MINIFIG HALL OF FAME The project was an idea of Suzanne Rich, the co-founder of Lugnet. She did a poll some months ago and I never saw follow-ups. (URL) I asked her permission to take the project over. She agreed, saying she wouldn't have time to do (...) (22 years ago, 1-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.fun, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.build.minifigs) !
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| | WINNERS of the Poster Contest !!!!!!
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Thanks to read this message. I am pleased with the results of our contest. Though not many people did participate, the number of visitors have been considerably high. I think this means many people liked the concept, but few were willing to take the (...) (22 years ago, 1-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.fun) !
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| | ldraw.org MOTM & SOTM Winners for November 2002
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Hello all, And the winners are; MOTM - Allister McLaren for his Technic Trike. A very clean and simple model, well thought out minimalist design. SOTM - James P. Hilton for his untitled boat/trailer scene. Very imaginative insertion of a model into (...) (22 years ago, 1-Dec-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | LDraw.org Parts Update 2002-05 Now Available
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This fifth update for 2002 contains 199 files, including 116 new parts. As always, along with the new parts, there are various fixes, new primitives, and name changes. The Parts Tracker is now up and running again, but the 2002-05 parts preview (...) (22 years ago, 30-Nov-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev) !
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| | *** LDView Version 1.9.8 Released ***
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Whoops! The previous subject line was wrong, but the message was correct. 1.9.8 is now available. Sorry about that. --Travis Cobbs (tcobbs@REMOVE.halibut.com) (22 years ago, 30-Nov-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
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| | *** LDView Version 1.9.7 Released ***
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LDView version 1.9.8 is now available, in both source and binary forms. You can download either from: (URL) highlights of version 1.9.8 include: Added support for multiple named sets of preferences Added examine/fly-through mode indicator icon to (...) (22 years ago, 30-Nov-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
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| | Invitation to LEGO fest, Sweden, Ludvika. 13th December
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Hi! I'm hosting a LEGO fest in Ludvika, Sweden. When? Start Friday the 13th of December End Sunday the 15th of December If you only can make it one day, aim for Saturday. Where? Dalecarlia, Ludvika, Sweden. Smallish town next to Borlänge. 2h drive (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.se, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.fi, lugnet.loc.dk, lugnet.loc.no) !
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| | LPub 2.1.0.0 Available
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LPub 2.1.0.0 is now available at (URL) number of bug are fixed in this release: - a major problem with numeric fields in the graphics user interface. - crashes when starting LPub without POV-Ray installed - other sources of crashes - the version (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Additions to my Town Planning site
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I've added two new articles to my Town Planning site, one on Layout Design: (URL) one on Ideas for Buildings: (URL) you have comments, corrections, additions, or ideas for more articles (especially if you'd like to write one!) please let me know. (...) (22 years ago, 27-Nov-02, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce) !
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| | MOC: Dutch Otherdam downtown and Suburbian home 'Wybert'
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New on LEGO on my mind: *Otherdam downtown* Otherdam downtown is a LEGO version of an imaginary Dutch city block. Have a look at a mix of old and new, along a typical canal. Take a visual tour through town. Building tips will be added soon. Also, (...) (22 years ago, 27-Nov-02, to lugnet.town, lugnet.announce, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.general) !!
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| | NCLTC Christmas Layout Display @ South Hills Mall - Raleigh, NC
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The North Carolina LEGO Train Club will have a 10'x20' layout on display from December 1st through December 28th at South Hills Mall in Raleigh, North Carolina. Our layout is part of the Christmas theme of the Mall and will be set up in the open (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains.org.ncltc, lugnet.loc.us.nc, lugnet.org.us.nclug, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events) !
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| | livejournal lego trains community
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i didn't see an existing lego trains community on livejournal.com, so i went ahead and created one. if you are a livejournal user, and would like to join the community, come on over. this is not meant as a replacement for lugnet in any way, simply a (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce)
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| | MichLTC train/town display at local NMRC show, Livonia MI
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The Michigan Lego Train Club displayed in Livonia this past Sunday. While this was an extremely small layout for us because of limited setup time, I think we had a very strong display with a lot of great detail. Many of the buildings have already (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | #2 of 3 San Francisco landmarks, Sunol Water Temple
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Here is #2 of 3…. For those who aren’t from the bay-area here is a piece you probably haven’t seen. This is the Sunol water temple located in Sunol Ca, a very small town southeast of San Francisco. Famed San Francisco architect Willis Polk, who (...) (22 years ago, 24-Nov-02, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.disney, lugnet.announce)
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| | Lego RPG DraK'en.
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Hello, I've recently completed one of my comprehensive lego rpgs for your enjoyment, so here goes. (URL) before you click on the aforementioned site link, I'll explain some of the features further. 1. Rules can be fixed to fit the interests of the (...) (22 years ago, 23-Nov-02, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | SCLTC up and running at SDMRRM now through New Years!
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The SCLTC multilevel LEGO train layout that debuted for 2 days at the Discovery Science Center in Santa Ana in October and 2 days at the Cal Stewart show in Pasadena earlier in November is is up and running for 6 full weeks at the San Diego Model (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Re: NovaLUG 2nd Show (Dartmouth)
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Hello again, I forgot to mention that I motorized all the switches for the train yard. Nothing fancy, like no mindstorms involved, but I built 5 different version to test and they worked well for the display, because they would have been hard to (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.events, lugnet.announce, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.ca.ns, lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | More than 42,000 click thrus!
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WOW! I just did a query on the Building Instructions Portal and found that there have been more than 42,000 click thrus from the 200 Building Instruction links on the B.I. Portal! ((URL) just in case, you need another reason to add your links, just (...) (22 years ago, 20-Nov-02, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.announce)
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| | NovaLUG 2nd Show (Dartmouth)
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Hey folks, Our fledgling NovaLUG is proud to announce the successful completion of our second public event. We were invited to participate in the Dartmouth Model Train & Hobby Show on November 16th in the Dartmouth Sportsplex. We couldn't have asked (...) (22 years ago, 20-Nov-02, to lugnet.events, lugnet.announce, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.ca.ns, lugnet.loc.ca) !
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| | National Hockey League and Lego Company announce multi-year global alliance
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The National Hockey League and the LEGO Company today announce a multi-year global merchandising and marketing alliance uniting one of the most popular international sports leagues and entertainment brands, particularly among young people, with one (...) (22 years ago, 19-Nov-02, to lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Second NGLTC Children's hospital LEGO building session
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This past weekend the North Georgia LEGO Train Club (NGLTC) completed it's second LEGO ornament building session at the Children's Hospital of Atlanta (CHOA). Children (and adults) were given the opertunity to come play with the bricks and make some (...) (22 years ago, 19-Nov-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org) !
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| | Pictures and Movies from NELUG Greenberg show 11/17/02
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I will let the pictures do the talking, although I will say if you have the bandwidth to open the second movie on the top of the first page of pictures it is well worth it. It shows our amusement park in action which is the only way to do it (...) (22 years ago, 18-Nov-02, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.town) !!
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| | TransAmerica Building
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I hope this goes through. I'm new at Lugnet so stay with me. I posted this once and was told I should post it in other areas. So that's what I'm doing. Enjoy. Well here is 1 of 3 San Francisco landmarks I've done. The TransAmerica Building in San (...) (22 years ago, 17-Nov-02, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.announce) !
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| | LEGO Books list
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Hi, I've added some new book titles to the sidebar at (URL) let me know if I've missed any) Of note: a curious collection of instructions for building classic puzzles with your LEGO bricks and plates by Doug Walker. And don't miss Dave Baum's (...) (22 years ago, 14-Nov-02, to lugnet.books, lugnet.announce)
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| | Satisfying my mosaic *website* envy
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(...) I do indeed and they will appear on (URL) they're done, along with any other things of LEGO interest I come up with. For anyone who has waited patiently, mosaic related questions are in the FAQ section. Follow up to .build and ask any others (...) (22 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Kindergardeners help out the NGLTC
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To day local kindergarteners helped out the North Georgia LEGO Train Club by making ornaments to decorate our tree at this years Children's Healthcare of Atlanta's Festival of Trees. The children are students at Matt Elementary school in Forsyth (...) (22 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Peeron crosses 2000 inventory mark!
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Been a while since our last post [1], but we've added more than 500 sets since then, and now have more than 2000 sets inventoried! That about half of the sets in the LUGNET Guide[2], and with more inventories added daily, I hope we'll continue to (...) (22 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.db.inv) !!
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| | MichLUG Logo Contest
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For some time we have been using a MichLUG logo (1) that has been sort of a placeholder until we can up with something better. Now is that time. We want a new, nice logo that will look great on a shirt. Something that will hold its own against the (...) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.org, lugnet.publish.html) !!
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| | BimP Updates (11 November 2002)
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Updates this week include: * Continuation of our interview with the Reverend. The Reverend has also provided us with an exclusive image. Be sure to check it out under question 12. * A sample chapter of Ralph Hempel's new Spybotics book. Over 800 (...) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-02, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | NGLTC Greenberg show pictures
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The NGLTC had a great time at the Atlanta Greenberg Toy & Train show this past weekend. We had quite a turn out of fine Train MOCs from club members: Lewis showed off his new Shay #5: (URL) had his Big Boy (not sure the version, I've lost count :) (...) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.ga, lugnet.loc.us.ga.atl) !
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| | SCLTC at Cal Stewart Show in Pasadena, California!
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We've done another show! (And it's still happening!) On November 9-10, 2002, the Southern California LEGO Train Club displayed their mountain layout at the Cal Stewart show in Pasadena, California. (Wait a second... today's the 9th, so why am I (...) (22 years ago, 10-Nov-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains.org.scltc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ca.la) !
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| | Reminder: MonLUG and ParLUGment's joint Train Show this weekend
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Hello, I'm proud to announce MonLUG's third and ParLUGment's second participation in a Montreal Area train show. It will be held at Georges-Vanier High School in Laval (just north of Montreal) on Saturday, November9th from 10am to 5pm and Sunday, (...) (22 years ago, 8-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.loc.ca.qc.mon, lugnet.org.ca.monlug, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.town)
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| | Next TCLug Meeting
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Hi! Our next TCLUG meeting will be this Friday, November 8th @ 6:30pm. It will be at Brian's new house. Email me for directions! (cowrack@yahoo.com). Bring along any sets, MOC, or lego items you wish! I hope to see you there!! Remember, Brian has (...) (22 years ago, 7-Nov-02, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Minifig Generator Plugin for LDDesignPad Version 1.3
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I finally got around to fixing the Hat Accessory problems. Get it here: (URL) in this version: 1.3 11/05/02 -Changed color sort order to that of the order of the colors in MiniPart.ini -Added ability to manually enter color number -Fixed the Hat (...) (22 years ago, 6-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce)
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| | BimP Updates (5 November 2002)
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Updates this week include: * A new review of the RC Race Buggy (8475) by Tels * A new toon by Ton * Editorial notes for the September toon archive * Numerous BimP Board additions Enjoy! Steven B. Combs, Publisher Bricks in my Pocket (BimP) (URL) (...) (22 years ago, 5-Nov-02, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | ldraw.org MOTM & SOTM Winner for October 2002
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Kinda late, but here goes: Keving Dixon won both categories this month. A rare occurance, but well deserved. Both his model and scene were excellent. And of course the rendering quality is superior - almost looks photographic. I really need to check (...) (22 years ago, 5-Nov-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !
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| | LEGO and NASA team up...
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A friend transmitted me the announcement below. (it seems that the mentionned (URL) is not yet available) Philo www.philohome.com ---...--- NASA SELECTS LEGO COMPANY TO RUN MARS ROVER NAMING CONTEST NASA announced a contest, which will give American (...) (22 years ago, 4-Nov-02, to lugnet.announce)
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| | See the Midnight MOCkery winners! And send your comments for next year's contest
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Firstly a MASSIVE thank you to everyone who took the time and trouble to enter. I think you'll agree that there was some great work going on here: (URL) is a link to the start up of the Third Annual Midnight MOCkery, and you can enter at any time (...) (22 years ago, 2-Nov-02, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | Medieval Marketplace web site is online!!!
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After a late night, the Medieval Marketplace web site is finally online! www.ozbricks.net/medievalmarket The web site further explains the published "Market Standard" along with 10 color-coded diagrams, includes a full list of shop ideas to get you (...) (22 years ago, 30-Oct-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.castle.org.cw, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish) !
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| | * LDrawDesignPad LDDP 1.3 released *
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Hello! New version is out now. Get it at (URL) ! + = New feature * = Bugfix - = Removed feature Changes since version 1.2 v1.3 10/26/2002 + Looking for parts.lst instead of LDraw.exe for location check of LDraw parts * Drag and Drop fixed + Changed (...) (22 years ago, 29-Oct-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | MichLUG at Train-O-Rama in Dearborn 10-27-02
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My photos of MichLUG's train show yesterday are now public on Brickshelf. Highlights of the show included: My St. Mary's of Redford: (URL) Haunted House and Graveyard: (URL) Art Deco auto dealership: (URL) wienermobile: (URL) Leach's fire station: (...) (22 years ago, 28-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Formally Announcing: The Medieval Marketplace, A Common Castle Builders Project
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Hello All!!! After much anticipation, I am both excited and pleased to formally announce The Medieval Marketplace: A Common Castle Builders project. Below is the final version of the "Market Standard", the building standard for all market shops. (...) (22 years ago, 28-Oct-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.castle.org.cw) !!
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| | 2nd NovaLUG meeting in Dartmouth, NS
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Hello, I'm proud to announce our 2nd participation at a model train show on November 16 in Dartmouth, NS. It will be held in the Dartmouth Sportsplex, Wyse road near the MacDonald Bridge from 9am to 4:30PM We had so much success during the October (...) (22 years ago, 27-Oct-02, to lugnet.events, lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.ns)
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| | MonLUG and ParLUGment will hold their second joint Train Show
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Hello, I'm proud to announce MonLUG's third and ParLUGment's second participation in a Montreal Area train show. It will be held at Georges-Vanier High School in Laval (just north of Montreal) on Saturday, November9th from 10am to 5pm and Sunday, (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.loc.ca.qc.mon, lugnet.org.ca.monlug, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.town) !
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| | LMPOPC : less than a month remaining !!!
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My LEGO contest, The LEGO Movie Poster Open Project Contest, is finishing on November 23 at 23:59. This means that less than a month is remaining for you people to enter the contest and have a chance to win great prizes. Details of the contest and (...) (22 years ago, 25-Oct-02, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.contests)
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| | NELUG welcomes your participation in the Boston area Festival of Trees
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NELUG will be participating in both the Sleigh Bell Festival and the Festival of Trees in Boston Massachusetts December 6-8 2002. The main event will be the Sleigh Bell Festival where NELUG will have its 10'x20' train layout set up. This event is (...) (22 years ago, 25-Oct-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Heads Up: LoTeK has a new URL!
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Hi all! My website LoTeK has moved! Previous URL: (URL) URL: (URL) moved the files and folders around a bit too so the site has had a major overhaul. Please update any bookmarks to my site. All folders on the old site has a redirecting index.html (...) (22 years ago, 25-Oct-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.se, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.reviews, lugnet.gaming)
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| | New Syngress RIS 2.0 Book!
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Syngress has published another LEGO book, continuing the series started by the Dark Side Developer's Kit book, and to be finished up by the Ultimate Builder's Set book. I think all three will be available in a kit too. This current book is specific (...) (22 years ago, 24-Oct-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.books, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic) !
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| | Collection of LEGOWORLD 2002 picture gallery links
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Hello all, I've noticed that a lot of people took the effort of posting the pictures they shoot at the great LEGOWORLD 2002 event. Thank you all very much for that. For the benefit off all, I've compiled a list of all the links that Marcel van der (...) (22 years ago, 24-Oct-02, to lugnet.events, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.eu) !!
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| | Confederation Site moves
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The Confederation of Planets site has moved to (URL) update your links accordingly. <>-------<> Rick Hallman Member of MichLUG: (URL) of Planets: (URL) Instant Messenger: The bRicktron <>-------<> (22 years ago, 24-Oct-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce)
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| | LEGO GREAT PUMPKIN GIVEAWAY!
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This weekend at Potomac Mills Mall.. The LEGO GREAT PUMPKIN GIVEAWAY! Saturday, October 26th 2700 Potomac Mills Circle Prince William, Virginia 22192 Bring a new, unwrapped toy to the Grand Court to benefit Toys for Tots and receive a free LEGO (...) (22 years ago, 24-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us.va)
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| | Fully Transformable Robotech Cyclone
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Had the urge to make the Robotech Cyclone. Hope you guys like it. This is just a standard issue Cyclone armor. When I have time I will make all the characters and their armor like Joel and Todd did. They were a great source of inspiration. I could (...) (22 years ago, 23-Oct-02, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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| | LotR update - 3 new chapters
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Hi all, Three new chapters have been added to my Lord of the Rings project: (URL) home page: (URL) next big thing will be the creation of Helm's Deep, but I'm not sure how soon I'll be able to start on that. Bruce (22 years ago, 23-Oct-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.castle)
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| | SCLTC to present at BricksWest 2003
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Come all to BricksWest 2003 and attend the train sessions. The SCLTC has been invited to do a session on "The Making Of a Multi-Dimensional Train Layout". We'll run thru the initial design, sync-ing up with each other, infrastructure, and bricking (...) (22 years ago, 23-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains.org.scltc, lugnet.events.brickswest)
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| | SCLTC to present BricksWest 2003
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Come all to BricksWest 2003 and attend the train sessions. The SCLTC has been invited to do a session on "The Making Of a Multi-Dimensional Train Layout". We'll run thru the initial design, sync-ing up with each other, infrastructure, and bricking (...) (22 years ago, 23-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains.org.scltc, lugnet.events.brickswest)
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| | Mechastruct Still On
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Hello! I just wanted to remind everyone that the Mechastruct Contest is still on! I hope you guys are building some great mecha out there! If you haven't heard about the Mechastruct contest or you wish to read the rules, check out the official site: (...) (22 years ago, 22-Oct-02, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.announce, lugnet.space)
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| | Pictures of SCLTC's Latest Show
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Pictures of the Southern California LEGO Train Club's latest show are online at www.scltc.org. These pictures show a LOT more than the teaser, so don't think you saw everything the first time! Deep link: www.scltc.org/pages/...layout.htm Excerpt (...) (22 years ago, 22-Oct-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains.org.scltc) !!
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| | [PRESS RELEASE] Announcing BricksWest™ 2003 - The Second Annual LEGO® Fan Event On The West Coast
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact Matthew Gerber BrickMedia, LLC Post Office Box 1292 Santa Maria, California 93456-1292 (805) 347-8460 VOICE admin@brickswest.com (URL) BricksWest™ 2003 - The Second Annual LEGO® Fan Event On The West Coast October 21, (...) (22 years ago, 21-Oct-02, to lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Pictures from our trip to Legoland Billund 2002
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Hi Lugnet, I've uploaded some pictures from our trip to Legoland in Billund, Denmark on October the 19th 2002. Sorry, but my digi-cam is not the best in the world and the beautiful danish autumn sun did interfere wherever it could. You can access (...) (22 years ago, 21-Oct-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.legoland.billund) !
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| | leJOS T-Shirts and More
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The leJOS web site now has T-Shirts, hats, mouse pads, mugs, wall clocks and stickers available at www.lejos.org. If you order before the end of Monday, October 21 (tomorrow) you save $3 on T-Shirts, ceramic mugs and mouse pads. p.s. If anyone would (...) (22 years ago, 20-Oct-02, to lugnet.announce)
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| | NGLTC Children's hospital LEGO building session
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In the first phase of the North Georgia LEGO Train Club's (NGLTC) Festival of Trees project we held a LEGO ornament building session at Egleston Children's Hospital. The ornaments built will be used to decorate our club tree that will be on display (...) (22 years ago, 19-Oct-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains.org) !!
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| | The Brickish Association - A club for UK AFOLs
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After several months of development, meetings and false starts, we are very proud to announce the formation of The Brickish Association. It is our hope that the Association will become the meeting place for most, if not all, of the 'usual suspects' (...) (22 years ago, 17-Oct-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.uk) !!
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| | Motopod - tank treads!
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Following my tradition of motorized space pods, and having JUST received my 1st set of tank treads (ok, "conveyer chain links") I again became inspired to create an addition to the pod fleet... Well, 2 additions, since one is just to look cute, and (...) (22 years ago, 15-Oct-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.space) !
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| | MonLUG and ParLUGment hold their second joint train show
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Hello, I'm proud to announce MonLUG's third and ParLUGment's second participation in a Montreal Area train show. It will be held at Georges-Vanier High School in Laval (just north of Montreal) on Saturday, November9th from 10am to 5pm and Sunday, (...) (22 years ago, 13-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.loc.ca.qc.mon, lugnet.org.ca.monlug, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.town) !!
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| | SCLTC Discover Center Teaser Photo!
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The Southern California LEGO Train Club has finally completed its latest layout, currently on display at the Discovery Science Center in Santa Ana, California! I've posted a teaser picture on our official website at www.scltc.org. Be prepared for (...) (22 years ago, 13-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general) !!
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