 | | Mickey Mouse
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This has been a ongoing project for some time. I first started it last year but it was destroyed when I dropped it during a move from one room to another. It was torn down and the parts used for other projects (red M & M guy and some of the Golden (...) (22 years ago, 3-Feb-03, to lugnet.disney, lugnet.announce, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.sculpture)
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| | The LEGO Maniacs Webring Lives!
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Tim Courtney has handed webring management off to me. The Webring is now alive, kicking, and most importantly accepting submissions. if you have a LEGO related website, go here to join: (URL) (22 years ago, 2-Feb-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.publish) !
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| | Show Your Support of STS-107
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I would encourage everyone to post a symbol of unity and condolences to the family of STS-107 on their web sites. Let's show our LUGNET and LEGO community support. The STS-107 Patch can be found here: (URL) B. Combs, Publisher Bricks in my Pocket (...) (22 years ago, 1-Feb-03, to lugnet.announce) !!
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| | LAST DAY TO REGISTER FOR BRICKSWEST™ 2003
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Today is the LAST DAY to register for BricksWest 2003! If you've been thinking of whether or not to attend all week, today is the day to decide. Don't pass on this and miss out on all the fun! Remember, BricksWest is run by volunteers as a (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events.brickswest)
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| | Minifig Hall of Fame Update !!!!!!
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Hello everyone ! I was very busy this monh, so here it comes, a bit late : The Minifig Hall of Fame update you all have been waiting for ! :-) First, There are 2 new Minifigs in the HoF. Majisto and the Pirate Captain won for January and February. (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.events, lugnet.fun, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.general) !
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| | Robot and R/C Competition reminder
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BricksWest 2003 is only a few weeks away, and that means *ROBOT COMPETITIONS*! Well at least for some of us. Remember, there will be prizes for all these competitions, so it will be worth your time to enter! Check earlier postings by me or the (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | Philohome site moved...
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Hi everybody, I had recently to change my site hosting, it is now available again on (URL) already used this domain name, but it was a simple redirection showing my host address. Thanks to those who had links to my site looking like (URL) to modify (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, lugnet.cad)
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| | Scheduled downtime Friday, January 31, 2003
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The lugnet.com server will be taken off-line briefly on Friday, January 31 for an operating system software and disk upgrade. The outage may be as short as five minutes or as long as several hours. E-mail delivery is most likely to resume first, (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general) !!
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| | Train Display in Staffordshire this weekend (1st/2nd Feb)
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This weekend, on Saturday and Sunday (1st/2nd Feb), Mark Bellis will be displaying his 'scale' model trains built entirely from LEGO, at Staffordshire County Showground. I've posted previously about Mark's trains in the NBLTC discussion group (...) (22 years ago, 28-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce)
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| | LPub 2.1.0.6 Available
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LPub 2.1.0.6 is available at (URL) 2.1.0.6 solves bugs: - flakey installation problems with directory creation and deletion - install directory is now completely cleaned and eliminated - registry is no longer needed for LPub installation information (...) (22 years ago, 28-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce)
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| | THE OFFICIAL BRICKSWEST™ 2003 ROLL CALL
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Greetings BricksWest attendees! This is the official LUGNET BricksWest Attendee Roll Call. As you may know, we do not publish an attendee list for BricksWest, due to privacy issues. However, enough attendees wish to see who else is coming, so I am (...) (22 years ago, 27-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events.brickswest) !
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| | HoMa's Big Boy
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Hi folks, after nearly 12 month of moc-abstinence I started off again and finished my 8-wide model of the Union Pacific Big Boy! I wanted to use the old spoked wheels and the 1/4 panels from droid escape for the boiler. See what it is like at: (URL) (...) (22 years ago, 27-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Red M&M guy
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I think we've all seen this guy before. Red M&M was built from a smaller M&M dispenser we have. Took only about a week to complete. Unsure how many bricks. I hope you enjoy. (URL) (22 years ago, 27-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.sculpture)
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| | BrikWars Superheroes
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On January 18th, NELUG had its first BrikWars game featuring superheroes. While I'm still in the process of doing the write-up, I have created a Web site in support of this game. It has the basic storyline along with pics and bios of all the heroes (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.org.us.nelug) !
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| | LOUNGE LIZARD KARAOKE AND LAS VEGAS BUFFET - BRICKSWEST™ 2003 SPECIAL DINNER EVENT
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BricksWest 2003 attendees will be treated (or tortured) during our special dinner event: Lounge Lizard Karaoke and Las Vegas Buffet! This event is the official launch party for Bricks™ Magazine, the first LEGO® fan magazine ever published... created (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events.brickswest)
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| | FINAL WEEK TO REGISTER FOR BRICKSWEST™ 2003
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Today begins the final seven days to register for BricksWest 2003! If you have been sitting on the fence regarding your attendance, it's time to come on over. We need to pre-register an additional 50 or more attendees to guarantee that our event (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events.brickswest) !
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| | BRICKSWEST™ 2003: IMPERIAL STAR DESTROYER TIMED BUILD
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See the official BricksWest web site for further event details: (URL) we're proud to officially announce the full details of the BricksWest 2003 Imperial Star Destroyer Timed Build competition! At BricksWest, we're assembling a team of up to 20 (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.events.brickswest) !!
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| | LEGO Theft
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Has anyone seen this news yet? (URL) LEGO lost their Stanley Cup replica. (22 years ago, 25-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | Hoverbike MOC
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Here's my MLCad attempt at a hover bike; enjoy! Pre-moderation sneak peeks (beware of text wrapping): (URL) (folder): (URL) (22 years ago, 24-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.space)
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| | IndyLUG pictures at Indy January GATS
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For everyones enjoyment here are the pictures I took for the show. Also we won 2nd place in the competition. And had tons of good comments by the model railroaders. And it was awsome to see the kids reaction to the LEGO. We were in two papers and (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.us.indylug, lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce)
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| | Holden Ute construction update
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Hi All, My Aussie icon in LEGO, the HZ model Holden Utility, is nearing completion and I have uploaded some new pics showing body, engine, suspension and differential detail. I still need to create a gearbox, steering column and interior when I get (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jan-03, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.announce) !
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| | Lame Parts Competition - The Prize Winners
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My sincerest apologies for the delay in making this announcement. I hope no-one was getting too anxious about it. Anyway, the time has come to announce the winners in the Lame Parts Building Contest. First, Category one, which was decided purely on (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jan-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.announce)
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| | Starship is Go for Launch!!
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Galactic Greetings! You may have seen brief comments in earlier posts about the development of the Starship RPG by-email game (which gives everyone a reason to build more MOCs of brick). As of this morning, the game is ready to take off. The main (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.space)
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| | Images from SCLTC's Latest Shows!
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Pictures of our club's latest shows at Knott's Berry Farm and the San Diego Model Railroad Museum can be found on our redone Gallery section of our website. www.scltc.org/pages/...events.asp To read about our shows, go here: (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains.org.scltc) !!
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| | MOC: Mini Tie Interceptor CAD and Instructions
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My mini TIE Interceptor is now up... www.multiboard.com/~...wmpage.htm LMKWYT! Sincerely Marlon Wuytenburg (22 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce)
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| | [rtlToronto] Watch Chris and Calum make fools of themselves
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Hey folks, For those of you in the Toronto/Ottawa/Ontario area with access to CHUMcity stations like the Pulse24, NewVR, CityTV, the NewRO (we think), we'll be making an appearance on BreakfastTV, a regional early morning television show, tomorrow (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.announce)
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| | Brickish Association @ LEGOland Windsor
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Over the weekend of the 4th and 5th of January, the Brickish Association was invited by the LEGO Club to take part in its 'Meet the Modelmakers' event at LEGOland Windsor. Six members of the association displayed their models, helped LEGO Club (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Naboo & Droid Fighter Mini's Take 2! Heres the address!
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Doh! I knew I forgot to do something! Heres the address for my Naboo and Droid fighters and instructions! Sorry! www.multiboard.com/~...wmpage.htm Sincerely, Marlon Wuytenburg (22 years ago, 19-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Mini Naboo & Mini Droid Starighters with Instructions!
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I finally started using LDRAW and came up with some Star Wars Mini ships. I've made a Naboo fighter and the Droid fighter, and instructions on how to build both. The Droid fighter legs swivel down to walking mode, and the head extends out. LMKWYT!!! (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce)
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| | [PRESS RELEASE] BRICKSWEST™ 2003 FINAL SCHEDULE POSTED - JUST TWO WEEKS LEFT TO REGISTER!
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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 (805) 349-8872 facsimile matthew@brickmedia.com (URL) 2003 FINAL SCHEDULE POSTED - NEW EVENTS ADDED - JUST (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events.brickswest) !
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| | lsynthcp community development project setup on sourceforge
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Hi, I'm happy to announce that lsynthcp, a synthesizer of bendable LEGO/LDraw parts, is now a project on sourceforge. This allows all who are able and motiviated to join in future development of lsynthcp. lsynthcp is an text based ANSI C program, (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce)
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| | BimP Updates (16 January 2003)
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Before listing this week's updates, the BimP crew wants to thank the LUGNET community for making us the LUGNET Cool Site of the Week for January 5-11, 2002. As BimP gets closer to its one year anniversary (coming in February), we have seen many (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | MISBI Lego Price Guide available NOW!
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Hi Folks Announcing www.misbi.com the web's first fully searchable archive of historical prices achieved by MISB and MIB Lego sets on Ebay. Not only can you check previous prices in US Dollars, Euros and Pounds Sterling, but you can also see (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade) !!
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| | Announcing BrickHeap Wars at BricksWest 2003
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There will be three robot competitions held at BricksWest 2003: R/C Off-Road Racing: (URL) Drag Racing: (URL) finally there will be the third installment of BRICKHEAP WARS. BrickHeap Wars is a LEGO Mindstorms competition loosely based on Junk Yard (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics)
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| | LPub 2.1.0.5 available
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LPub 2.1.0.5 is available at (URL) version of LPub includes new features: Overrides for reflection, ambient and diffuse settings in POV-Files. POV-Ray quality affects building instruction images Parts in part list images no-longer have LEGO logo (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce)
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| | * LDrawDesignPad LDDP 1.4 released *
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Hello! New version is out now. Get it at (URL) ! + = New feature * = Bugfix - = Removed feature Changes since version 1.3 v1.4 01/16/2002 * Fixed some L3P problems with long filenames or -paths * Fixed list of recently used files * Fixed a problem (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev) !
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| | When a "Trek" fan finds cheap Lego...
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...he makes a Klingon K'Tinga-class battlecruiser! (URL) a doubt, the most Basic Trek model I've ever made! :-) PLMKWYT! onedaycnn (sid) (URL) Now why can't I post followups to "lugnet.startrek"? ;-) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | Alt-universe Parthenon and other MOC's
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Howdy all! A few MOC's... nothing great. "Anthenon," aka the Parthenon in another universe: (URL) a Republic Gunship at a thrift store, and here's my alternate model: (URL) finally, a dicey little model I displayed at last year's BrickFest: (URL) (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | Et In Arcadia Lego Resurrected
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well thx to kyle keppler and a little effort Et In Arcadia Lego is now back up @ (URL) of you who actually LIKE my stuff feel free to browse around and let me know if anything is still broken. And don't forget to check out all the HallOfFame (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.announce) !
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| | LSynth 2.0 Available
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I'm pleased to announce the internet release of LSynth 2.0, a bendable part synthesizer for the LDraw family of CAD tools. 2.0 synthesizes: Ribbed hoses Flex-System hoses Flexible axles Pneumatic hoses Electric cables Fiber Optic Cables Rubber bands (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce)
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| | 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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