 | | LUGNET set guide now links to BrickLink set inventories
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BrickLink.com is kindly allowing LUGNET to deep-link directly into its growing collection of BrickLink Set Inventories from the LUGNET Set Guide. This is permitted on a set-by-set basis. Accordingly, I've added the links in the right-hand column of (...) (21 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.inv, lugnet.announce) !
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| | Return of The Random LEGO Set Name Generator
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Seth McCarus wrote me today and asked if the old random LEGO set name generator was still around anywhere. It was something I wrote waaaay back in the last century and it had gotten lost over the years. I dug around a bit and found it, and have (...) (21 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.fun, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | De you have a LEGO-related problem of any kind?
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If you have any kind of LEGO-related problem, or a questiona bout anything that is even remotedly related to LEGO, we have a new free help service for you : "Ask Merliz and Friends !" You'll find this service at : www.rotule.qc.ca/askmerliz/ Merliz, (...) (21 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.fun, lugnet.general)
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| | LPub 2.1.0.7 Released
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Hi All, I've released LPub 2.1.0.7 for general use. It contains a few new minor features, but more importantly there are fixes to the combination of rotation steps and buffer exchange, as well as "previous step color scaling" combined with CLEAR and (...) (21 years ago, 7-Apr-03, to lugnet.announce)
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| | "My Collection" download page
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I just added a quick "download" page feature for members who maintain personal set listings using LUGNET's Set Guide. This lets you download data in a simple tab-separated text format which you can import into your favorite spreadsheet program or (...) (21 years ago, 7-Apr-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.people) !!
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| | *** LDView Version 1.9.11 Released ***
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LDView version 1.9.11 is now available, in both source and binary forms. You can download either from: (URL) highlights of version 1.9.11 include: Added ability to have LDView draw just edge lines Added ShowAllType5 and ShowType5ControlPoints (...) (21 years ago, 6-Apr-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad) !
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| | The Hobby Show 2003 - Toronto, Ontario Canada
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The Hobby Show 2003 - Toronto, Ontario Canada For those interested... (and I hope that will be a number of you!) I am beginning the process of organizing a LEGO builders booth for The Hobby Show this year in Toronto. (Nov. 7, 8, 9 / 2003) For anyone (...) (21 years ago, 5-Apr-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.ca.on) !
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| | Todd Lehman's brain
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We've gone mad, some might say, to do a LEGO Picture Captionning about Todd Lehman's Brain (picture sent by Paul Sinasohn), but the picture is simply too hilarious ! www.rotule.qc.ca/humor/ Todd is, from our experience with him and by reading the (...) (21 years ago, 5-Apr-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.fun, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.galidor) !!
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| | Largest Bricks Ever Produced?
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I just want to know if anyone has seen anything like these before? I picked them up at a garage sale a few years ago. What was told that they might have been from a Toys R Us promotion about a decade ago. I thought I would share them with the rest (...) (21 years ago, 5-Apr-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.loc.us.mi)
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| | Humor section updated and other news
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Hello all! We have just updated the Top 10 section with a new question : What excuses Minifigs would use not to help clean the room. This is a derivated question of last week's list that was "Waht would minifigs say if they could talk". We had some (...) (21 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.fun, lugnet.town, lugnet.space)
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| | LEGO Train Clubs of the South combine forces at NMRA convention
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I would like to announce that on May 9-11 at the NMRA Southeastern Region 2003 Convention at the Chattanooga Choo Choo Holiday Inn Resort in Chattanooga Tennessee the North Georgia LEGO Train club will join forces with the MidSouth LEGO Train Club (...) (21 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.fl, lugnet.loc.us.ga, lugnet.loc.us.tn, lugnet.loc.us.ar) !!
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| | BrickFest LOGO submission
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The organizers of BrickFest™ 2003 would like to extend an invitation to all AFOL's to submit their logo ideas/artwork for possible use as the 2003 BrickFest logo. This is a BrickFest tradition and an opportunity to exhibit the many talents of our (...) (21 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.announce, lugnet.people) !
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| | Dagada Lautem Houses, 2nd Draft
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Hi all, A very long time before I became a member of LUGNET, I built these Dagada Lautem houses. I got most of the idea first from a computer game, then from an Indonesian-style architecture book. One of the pictures in that folder is a shot from (...) (21 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.build, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.build.arch)
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| | Dagada Lautem Houses
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Hi all, A very long time before I became a member of LUGNET, I built these Dagada Lautem houses. I got most of the idea first from a computer game, then from an Indonesian-style architecture book. One of the pictures in that folder is a shot from (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.pirates)
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| | Minifig Hall of Fame update: Darth Vader Destroys The Competition !
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It wasn't even close. Darth Vader won with 520 votes over Blacktron 1 who had 160 votes in second place, Black Falcon (98 votes in 3rd place) and Princess Leia (92 votes in 4th). Blacktron has finished 2nd in all the previous ballots except for the (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.fun) !
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| | Rate the LEGO Posters !!!
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Hello to all! The LEGO posters section is certainly a popular feature of our website, so we decided to make it even more enjoyable and interactive by adding a rating system. www.rotule.qc.ca/posters/ Just visit a poster's page, rate it with a smple (...) (22 years ago, 31-Mar-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.fun, lugnet.announce)
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| | New Website and Debut MOC
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Hello, I've just redone my website; it's no longer just for Star Wars. I've added sections for all the LEGO themes I have worked in. They're a bit sparse as of now but with time I plan to work more in those themes. Anyway, here you go: LEGO @ (...) (22 years ago, 29-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars)
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| | NEW LPC and TOP 10 List at LEGO HUMOR !
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This week, we've learned that LEGO is better than sex. Well, according to the AFOLs that submitted their entry to the Top 10 list why LEGO is better than sex or why sex is better than LEGO. You can see the results of this Top 10 List at (...) (22 years ago, 29-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.fun, lugnet.general) !
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| | A&M LEGO Place Update with new BIs
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The A&M LEGO Place has had some major changes these past 2 weeks. Most of the changes have been 'behind the wall' so you might NOT notice much new. However, not everything was maintance web work we do have some new goodies for everyone. =) Here is (...) (22 years ago, 28-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Box Art for 2003 LEGO Train Products!
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Hello again LEGO® train fans! The ILTCO is pleased to announce some exciting news, as part of our growing partnership with The LEGO Company. LEGO has supplied the ILTCO with box art for the new 2003 LEGO Train sets. (set numbers 4511 through 4514) (...) (22 years ago, 28-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains) !!
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| | MonLUG's 4th Train Show, April 5th and 6th
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A french message follows. Un message français suit. Hello, I'm proud to announce MonLUG's fourth participation in a Montreal Area train show. It will be held at Georges-Vanier High School in Laval (just north of Montreal) on Saturday, April 5th from (...) (22 years ago, 28-Mar-03, 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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| | New World LUG Map demo
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Hey all, I've been working on a brand new mapping facility for charting LEGO organizations worldwide. It's for mapping all types of LEGO user groups (LUGs, LTCs, MUGs, etc.) as well as for events (BrickFest, BricksWest, NWBrickCon, LEGO World, etc., (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general) !!
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| | Train Engine Shed Sneak Peek Photos!
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Hello LEGO® train fans! The ILTCO is pleased to announce some exciting news, as part of our growing partnership with The LEGO Company. LEGO has supplied the ILTCO with detailed photos of the new 10027 Train Engine Shed (663 pieces), as debuted at (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains) !!
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| | MOC: Airwolf helicopter
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Hi all, After many years I finally found out that there was a program called LDraw in which I could put my old MOC airwolf, with retractable weapons. I'm working on the building instructions of the helicopter right now. (Yippie I can almost use the (...) (22 years ago, 25-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.cad)
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| | Garden State Lego User Group - New Jersey Club Sign
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Hey all, Jenny and I built this sign today in preparation for a Science Fair Exhibit that GardenSLUG will be contributing to. Garden State Lego User Group - New Jersey Club Sign (URL) built the Lettering and we both built the entire design. The base (...) (22 years ago, 25-Mar-03, to lugnet.org.us.gardenslug, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build)
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| | Photo's of first human foot steps on Mars!
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The Red Planet has been reached! Photo's of first human foot steps on Mars! Just a few captions to go with the pictures... Several MOC's that form a complete expidition to the Red Planet including: * Mars Expedition 1 Lander "Columbia" * Mars (...) (22 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.space) !
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| | Introducing biomechanicalbricks.com
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www.mylegomaster.com is comming down at the end of the Month - 4/03. Please update your Links. Enjoy the last days of the site. Software Issues. :( My new home is: (URL) Sophie eric@biomechanicalbricks.com (22 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha) !
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| | When was your LUG/LTC/MUG formed?
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Hi! This is a periodic "call for information" regarding the dates of formation of all LUGs, LTCs, MUGs, etc., around the world. I've been maintaining a comprehensive list for the past couple of years... (URL) I'm thinking of putting into a database (...) (22 years ago, 20-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains.org.msltc, lugnet.trains.org.scltc, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.org.ca.vlc, lugnet.org.ca.viclug, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.org.us.carlug, lugnet.org.us.cmlug, lugnet.org.us.gardenslug, lugnet.org.us.gmlug, lugnet.org.us.hrmug, lugnet.org.us.legotics, lugnet.org.us.lugola, lugnet.org.us.sealug, lugnet.org.us.texlug, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.org.us.wafol, lugnet.loc.jp, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.robotics) !
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| | Humor Section Update
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Hello everyone ! We have updated the LEGO Picture Captioning and the TOP 10 lists in the HUMOR section of our website. You can visit it here: www.rotule.qc.ca/humor/ Thanks for all the submissions we received for the 1st Captioning. Not (...) (22 years ago, 19-Mar-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.fun)
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| | Important Announcement from Brickmania (I'm quitting custom kits!))
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Brickmania to Halt Custom Kits Sales!!! Announcement made March 18, 2003 Hello there! This is an important announcement and update containing timely information, so please read carefully! You are receiving this message, because you have either (...) (22 years ago, 19-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade) !!
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| | MichLTC at Curious Kids' Museum in St. Joe
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MichLTC had quite the busy weekend. With only 2 days to plan we pulled off our very first museum show. We were very pleased with the result and the Museum was even more so. They definitely want us back and we are looking forward to it. Check out the (...) (22 years ago, 18-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.events, lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.mi) !!
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| | DAT Curves Plugin For LDDesignPad Version 2.5
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I've updated my DAT Curves plugin. New is this version: -Internalized the Preview feature. As usual it can be downloaded here: (URL) would like everyone to try out the new preview at let me how it works for them. Ultimately I'd like to implement (...) (22 years ago, 18-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce)
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| | NILTC at Highwheeler 2003 and the All American Road Show
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Greetings LUGnetters! It's been a busy 2 weekends for the Northern Illinois LEGO Train Club members. On March 8-9, we participated at the HighWheeler 2003 show at Harper College in Palatine IL. This was NILTC's second time at this show and we've (...) (22 years ago, 17-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains.org.niltc, lugnet.events, lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.il) !!
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| | *** LDView Version 1.9.10 Released ***
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LDView version 1.9.10 is now available, in both source and binary forms. You can download either from: (URL) highlights of version 1.9.10 include: Added ability to assign hot keys to preference sets Added six preset viewing angles (front, back, (...) (22 years ago, 17-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
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| | MISBI.com Update
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Dear All February data is now online and for the first time, includes sales from AuctionBrick. AuctionBrick items are identified with a green icon in the "View" column on the results page. Thanks to Matt for re-formatting his data to help me with (...) (22 years ago, 15-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Et in Arcadia Lego: Mako
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I always forget to post these in .announce please use the following post for replies (URL) much -paul (22 years ago, 13-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce)
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| | The Ugliest Thing You'll Ever See Made Out of Transparent Lego
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Howdy all... For those of you who know me from BrickLink and eBay purchases, you're aware of my quasi-obsession with transparent Lego parts. While I really prefer collecting bricks and plates in all trans-colors, I also procure parts like those (...) (22 years ago, 13-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | LDraw.org Parts Update 2003-01 Now Available
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This first update for 2003 contains 93 files, including 27 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 2003-01 parts preview page (...) (22 years ago, 12-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad) !
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| | From Prusiia with love
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Hi All, Steve Barile designed some lovely Prussian 3-axle wagons plus a 4-6-2 engine to go with. All these can be found on a new poster on (URL) I also want to thank Jan-Albert "Anvil" van Ree for helping out with some render "issues". (22 years ago, 11-Mar-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce)
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| | New curators added
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(...) OK, following up on this, the following curatorships have been activated... /aquazone/ - Felix Greco (94) /build/ - Clark Stephens (1410) /build/minifigs/ - Clark Stephens (1410) /build/microscale/ - Ashley Glennon (90) /castle/ - Benjamin (...) (22 years ago, 11-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.curators)
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| | The GFLUG/GFLTC Events Weekend...
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LEGO Fans, The Greater Florida LEGO Users Group and Train Club will have displays and more at the following three events in central Florida on the weekend of March 14-16... Event one is the Spring H & R Trains Show, in Pinellas Park, Florida March (...) (22 years ago, 11-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.trains, lugnet.castle, lugnet.loc.us.fl, lugnet.org.us.gflug) !
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| | BimP 2.0 Update!
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Many of you may have noticed or read that BimP has been down for the past couple of weeks. Well, today I am happy to announce that the new BimP 2.0 beta is now online for your review. With this new version, BimP makes server, cosmetic, feature, and (...) (22 years ago, 10-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce) !!
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| | NGLTC at NMRA Piedmont Division show
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This weekend the North Georgia LEGO Train Club presented a layout at the NMRA Piedmont Division Train show in Cobb County Georgia. The space we where given was a bit tight but we managed to pull off a nice detailed layout. The display featured a (...) (22 years ago, 10-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org) !
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| | Minifig Generator Plugin for LDDesignPad Version 1.5
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I found this great graphics library for Delphi on Sourceforge. It's called GLScene and it can be found here: (URL) I used GLScene to build a basic preview into my Minifig plugin. As usual, you can get the latest version at my Website: (URL) issues: (...) (22 years ago, 8-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce)
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| | New feature at our website: LEGO Picture Captining
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Hello all! First, i'd like to take the opportunity to thank everyone for the 999 votes we have so far for the Minifig Hall of Fame this month!!! It's a huge improvement over last month's 37 votes. We are very happy to announce we have added another (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.fun, lugnet.general) !
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| | Re: Scheduled downtime Thursday, March 6, 2003
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(...) Unfortunately, this is being postponed until either later today or early next week. There's still one more software issue to resolve on the new hardware. I'll try to make an announcement today if we go forward today, but be prepared for an (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Call for curator requests
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If there are any outstanding curatorship requests, please e-mail me at <todd@lugnet.com> and I'll try to get you set up this weekend after the server upgrade. I set up a couple earlier this week but I think there are still others that managed to (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.curators) !
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| | New Technic Sets & Bulk Discounts on S@H
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[DELURK] I've not been keeping a close eye on Lugnet recently, so sorry if any of this has been announced by others already, but I've just spotted the new Technic sets on sale at S@H - at a glance, UK and Germany have them on sale now, so I guess (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.announce)
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| | Scheduled downtime Thursday, March 6, 2003
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The lugnet.com server will be taken off-line for approximately two hours on Thursday, March 6, 2003 for a software and hardware upgrade. --> Going down at: 10:00AM EST (that's 10 o'clock a.m. New York time) <-- The outage may be as short as one hour (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general) !!
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| | MOTM/SOTM for February 2003
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Do I ever hate the cold & flu season..... Anyway, here goes; MOTM is Cale Leiphart's "1949 John Deere Model A". This was actually a tough call. Cale's model tied with Carlos un apellido's Supercar model, so I had to be the tie-breaker. The supercar (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Mega Port Block
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Well, people, we face a tragic event... The Cool site of the week could very well be awarded to a megablock website :-( Yes, Port Block Yards and New Pacific, 2 different entries in the poll for the same website (!!!), are actually websites that use (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce)
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| | New newsgroups for Micro-scale building, Mosaics, and Sculpture
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Three new newsgroups in the lugnet.build hierarchy have been created for the focused discussion of specialty building. Micro-scale building (as in "microfig" scale) is coming into its own in a big way, thanks in a large way recently to the efforts (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.build.mosaic, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.admin.nntp) !
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| | A big day for the Building Instructions Portal
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All, Today was a landmark day for the Building Instructions Portal...today we surpassed 100,000 click thrus! (URL) more than 100,000 occasions, a user of the B.I. Portal has searched for an instruction, clicked the link to that instruction, and then (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce) !
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| | Coming soon, Free web hosting for MOCs
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Over the past few months I've been building a web service that will allow anyone to create their own mini web site for their MOCs. It's free, you can make unlimited pages, there are no annyoing ads or pop-ups, and it's easy -- you don't even need to (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish, lugnet.general) !!
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| | MOC MAGLEV Prototype at BW
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Hi, In case you missed it at the diner, or didn't make it to BW '03, (or a BayLTC pizza meeting) Ross showed the prototype Maglev vehicle and short "track" that he and I built. Eric Sophie was kind enough to snap and post a pic of it. Its at: (URL) (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.fun, lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.baylug, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf) !
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| | The debut of GLUG!
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It is my pleasure to announce the formation of GLUG -- The Game-LEGO User Group. The purpose of GLUG is to facilitate discussion about, and organization of, LEGO-based games of all kinds. This includes the creation of new games, the alteration of (...) (22 years ago, 2-Mar-03, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.announce, lugnet.org, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Skeleton is March 2003's Minifig Hall of Famer !!!!!
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Oyé Oyé ! For a second month in a row, a castle Minifig is the winner of the Minifig Hall of Fame poll. The skeleton won the poll over Darth Vader and Blacktron 1. www.rotule.qc.ca (in the Minifig Hall of Fame section) To stimulate the voting (only (...) (22 years ago, 1-Mar-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.off-topic.fun) !
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| | IDOL time draws near: International Day Of Lego
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Citizens of LUGnet and non-citizens alike, Having no authority vested in me whatsoever by the Luna Colony Moonbase, or any government on this or any planet, I proudly proclaim again the joyous news: The 18th of March shall be forevermore the (...) (22 years ago, 1-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce)
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| | NCLTC to display at South Hills Mall March 1st and 2nd in Raleigh, NC
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This weekend, March 1st and 2nd, the North Carolina LEGO Train Club (NCLTC) will have our layout on display at the South Hills Mall Model Train Show at South Hills Mall in Raleigh, North Carolina. The Mall is open from 10 AM until 9 PM on Saturday (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us.nc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.events, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains.org.ncltc, lugnet.org.us.nclug)
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| | BricksWest™ 2003 Event Coordinator's Report
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BricksWest™ 2003 Event Coordinator's Report February 27, 2003 community \com·mu·ni·ty\, n. 1) A group of people having common interests. 2) Similarity or identity: a community of interests. 3) Sharing, participation, and fellowship. I would like to (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events.brickswest) !!
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| | BricksWest 2003 and 2002 pictures posted
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Last year I took hundreds of pics at BricksWest 2002 but never got around to uploading them to the Web for all to see. I didn't want to make the same mistake this year so I did it before the end of February. And while I was at it, I uploaded last (...) (22 years ago, 27-Feb-03, to lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.baylug, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | NEW Créations Rotule Website : More MOCs, more Posters, Minifig Hall of Fame
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We at Créations Rotule are proud to announce that our new website is up and running. (URL) have completely redesigned the website so it's more easy to navigate. New features: Bilingual site : all pages are in both English and French (except for (...) (22 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.loc.ca.qc, lugnet.loc.ca.qc.mon, lugnet.loc.ca.qc.que) !
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| | NEW Créations Rotule Website : More MOCs, more Posters, Minifig Hall of Fame
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We at Créations Rotule are proud to announce that our new website is up and running. We have completely redesigned the website so it's more easy to navigate. New features: Bilingual site : all pages are in both English and French (except for Tarobot (...) (22 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.loc.ca.qc, lugnet.loc.ca.qc.mon, lugnet.loc.ca.qc.que)
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| | Technic Model Renderings
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I have been meaning for a while now(about a year) to announce the start of my Lego technic renderings. I have one completed and am in the middle of a second (which I can no longer render because the polycount is too high for my machine to complete!) (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.announce) !
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| | ozBricks Fans Websites
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Hi everybody. Since a lot of LEGO fans have websites under ozBricks, and most of us don't even know of their existence, I made a website that contains a full list of links to those websites. www.ozbricks.net/links It's divided so far to sectors like (...) (22 years ago, 23-Feb-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.castle, lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.robotics) !!
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| | Minifig Generator Plugin for LDDesignPad Version 1.4
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Hi all, I thought I'd let everyone one know that I've updated my Minifig Generator for LDDesignPad. New in this version: -Added Hips rotation buttons Now you can rotate the entire upper body of the Minifig with one easy button click. As always, the (...) (22 years ago, 23-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce)
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| | Looking for someone to take over the LUG Map...
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Unfortunately I really don't have the time needed to keep the LUG Map up to date. There have been several clubs waiting to be included but I just havn't had the time. Having a new infant and a 2 year old tend to take up any free time one has... (...) (22 years ago, 22-Feb-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.general) !
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| | A&M Productions name change
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In the process of making my software company, A&M Productions, becoming a Limited Liability Corporation (LLC) I need to ensure that the A&M Productions name is being used properly. As such all of my copyright notices on my animations, images, (...) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-03, to lugnet.announce)
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| | New UK Bricklink store - NinjaBricks!
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Just a quick post to advertise my bricklink store NinjaBricks, which opened today. Come and buy lego from me - you know you want to!!! James waferthinninja@hotmail.com NinjaBricks: (URL) (22 years ago, 18-Feb-03, to lugnet.market.brickshops, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: FBTB's Coverage of NY Toy Fair 2003
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I've just 40 more images from Spidey, Potter, Trains, World City and the cool new Make and Create - enjoy! (URL) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-03, to lugnet.year.2003, lugnet.announce, lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.trains)
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| | x-post: IDOL is coming...
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Greetings, Earth-mortals! I've been working recently (and hopefully for the long term - I want this to be THE ONE) at a job with excellent benefits, among those two paid "floating holidays" where we can choose any day to make our own holiday. We've (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-03, to lugnet.announce)
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| | LEGO Relief Mosaic: PEGASUS
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Hi all, Today I completed an all white, Studs Up, 'relief' mosaic of the mythological horse Pegasus: (URL) wrote up an account of it's construction, and any comments or questions are welcome. I hope to take this mosaic as well as several others up (...) (22 years ago, 19-Feb-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.general, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | FreeLUG : a new LEGO association in FRANCE
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Bonjour a tous (english part after fench). Je me permet d'utiliser le Cross Post pour vous annonce la creation d'une association regroupant les passionnes de LEGO en France. Les statuts ont ete depose la semaine derniere sous le nom de FreeLUG (...) (22 years ago, 19-Feb-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.fr, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.be, lugnet.loc.it, lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.loc.bg, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.cs, lugnet.loc.dk, lugnet.loc.de, lugnet.loc.gr, lugnet.loc.es, lugnet.loc.ie, lugnet.loc.it, lugnet.loc.lu, lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.loc.no, lugnet.loc.at, lugnet.loc.pt, lugnet.loc.ch, lugnet.loc.fi, lugnet.loc.ca.qc) !!
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| | FBTB's Coverage of NY Toy Fair 2003
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Tim has finally made it home from snowy New York with 165 images from LEGO's showroom at Toy Fair. Click here for complete coverage: (URL) pics to be uploaded soon. (22 years ago, 19-Feb-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.year.2003) !!
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| | "Virtual LEGO" by Courtney, Bliss, and Herrera, From No Starch Press
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Virtual LEGO: The Official LDraw.org Guide to LDraw Tools for Windows by Tim Courtney, Steve Bliss, and Ahui Herrera We are thrilled to have the opportunity to publish this book, targeted for release in May, 2003. LDraw.org will also have an (...) (22 years ago, 17-Feb-03, to lugnet.books, lugnet.general, lugnet.org, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Missing Mania Magazine
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I just noticed I am missing the July-August 2002 Mania Magazine and the accompanying Bionicle comic book (#7). Anyone have an extra? Thanks :-) (22 years ago, 17-Feb-03, to lugnet.announce)
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| | DeSubPart Plugin for LDDesignPad Version 1.0
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Here's the first release of the DeSubPart plugin. I've decided to postpone the standalone version for a while. You can download it here: (URL) plugin will inline all the subparts in a model but not any of the parts, official or unofficial. The (...) (22 years ago, 16-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce)
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| | BimP Downtime
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BimP will not be posting any new features for the next few weeks to prepare for the roll-out of the new enhanced BimP 2.0. Details about the new site will be released at a later time. During the conversion, the site will also be experiencing periods (...) (22 years ago, 14-Feb-03, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | Competition V Press Release
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For Immediate Release! [January 30th 2003] Ivy Tech State College and the Evansville Chapter 73 of The Society of Manufacturing Engineers announce the Student Robotics Challenge V titled "The Seeker". This event is a departure from the last (...) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-03, to lugnet.announce)
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| | MISBI Market Report Jan 2003 Available NOW
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This month's MISBI Market Report features 42 pages covering over 5000 sales of more than 985 different sets. Starting with this issue, you will find a new "price movement" column together with colour coded entries, so that you can see at a glance (...) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
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| | BricksWest™ 2003 Keynote Address Q&A
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At events past, Brad Justus, Senior Vice President, LEGO Direct has graciously given attendees unprecedented access to information related to the LEGO hobby. He has presented new and surprising product announcements, and has accepted live questions (...) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events.brickswest)
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| | BricksWest™ 2003 Public Expo : Emergency Update For Attendees
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This message is an emergency update regarding the public expo portion of BricksWest. If you are bringing models to display at LEGOLAND, please read this posting. Due to exceptionally heavy local rainfall, the LEGOLAND Grand Pavilion is no longer (...) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events.brickswest) !!
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| | Final BricksWest™ 2003 Update...See You In Carlsbad!
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Can you believe that it's been an entire year? This is the final official BricksWest posting before I head out to Carlsbad tomorrow morning! I will attempt to head off as many possible last minute questions in this post as I can. By now all (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events.brickswest) !!
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| | New features at Peeron.com
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We've been working on adding a bunch of new features on the Peeron inventory system lately: * Peeron Reports are now available! Now you can see when colors were first introduced, or what is the most common piece in our database of over 2200 LEGO (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.market.auction) !!
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| | B.I. Portal reaches 300 instructions!
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Today was another landmark for the B.I. Portal... we reached 300 uploaded instructions! We are quickly approaching the 400 instruction number...at which time, we will give away a 5563 Model Team Racing Truck! In an ongoing effort to help build and (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | Blockheads: Regular People, Amazing Creations
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I'm constantly amazed by all the great things people build with LEGO. Our eclectic hobby is a rich and expressive nexus of art, science, and humanity. I've often wished there were a simple way to share this amazement with people outside the hobby. (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.books, lugnet.publish.photography) !!
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| | NPR Feature on NPR
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See the BimP News page for a link to a 30 minute streaming audio NPR story about LEGO Mindstorms. Very interesting stuff! (URL) to Jake McKee for the info! (22 years ago, 11-Feb-03, to lugnet.announce)
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| | WAMALUG/WAMALTC Greenberg Show Pics, Feb 8-9, 2003
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I have posted pics from WAMALUG/LTC's presence at the Greenberg Toy and Train Show in Upper Marlboro, MD this past weekend. Here's the link: (URL) are welcome. PLAY WELL!!!! Mike Harrod WAMALUG WAMALTC (22 years ago, 11-Feb-03, to lugnet.announce)
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| | First Lego Classics poster ready (at last!)
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Hi all, This weekend the first picture for a Lego Classic poster finished rendering. It took some time but the result is very nice. The models are build and the scene is composed by Jan Folkersma. The scene was rendered with LEGO logo on the studs (...) (22 years ago, 10-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | First Lego Classics poster ready (at last!)
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Hi all, This weekend the first picture for a Lego Classic poster finished rendering. It took some time but the result is very nice. The models are build and the scene is composed by Jan Folkersma. The scene was rendered with LEGO logo on the studs (...) (22 years ago, 10-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Toy Fair
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I'm due into the LEGO showroom early this upcoming Sunday the 16th. Anyone have any specific requests at something they want to see? Let me know and I'll do what I can to accomodate . . . Tim Webmaster, "From Bricks to Bothans" (URL) (22 years ago, 10-Feb-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.announce)
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| | The LDraw Webring Lives!
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As you may have read earlier, Tim handed control of the Lego Maniac's Webring over to me. What I did not mention is that he also gave me permission to adopt the LDraw webring as well. I highly encourage anyone with an LDraw related website to join (...) (22 years ago, 9-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce)
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| | Announcing the Aquarium: the new Sea Monkey home.
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I was going to wait a while and add more content to this page, but Joe Meno's new MOC got me excited. (URL) the future, I hope to add detailed information regarding Sea Monkey biology, politics, and history. I'm open to any suggestions, so your (...) (22 years ago, 9-Feb-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.aquazone) !
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| | My friend's newly built homepage
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Hello, I am Jackie from Hong Kong. My friend, Yicke, who is also from Hong Kong, has built his first lego homepage. Pls go there and have a look. (URL) (22 years ago, 9-Feb-03, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | new lego group in la
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Ive posted this in other forums before but here it goes I am starting a lego users group (LALUG) fot NW louisiana Actually anyone from louisiana can join but i would perfer people from NW louisiana. Email me at ejhow4@earthlink.net for details (22 years ago, 9-Feb-03, to lugnet.announce)
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| | ISCC II voting has begun
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Didn't see an announcement anywhere, but it looks like voting has begun for the 2nd annual ISCC: (URL) sure to vote! Take care, Gary (22 years ago, 8-Feb-03, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Unoffical LEGO Event Web Calendar
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I've put together a handy calendar of all upcoming LEGO®-related events I could find in North America and Europe. The web-based version is available at this URL: (URL) of Apple's iCal or other iCalendar-compatible software may subscribe via this (...) (22 years ago, 7-Feb-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | The Brickish Association hits 50!
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After being in existence for only three and a half months, the Brickish Association yesterday accepted its 50th membership application. Founded in October 2002, the Association is aimed at building and supporting the community of adult LEGO (...) (22 years ago, 6-Feb-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Robotics Competition V
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[February 6th 2003] Ivy Tech State College and the Evansville Chapter 73 of The Society of Manufacturing Engineers announce the Student Robotics Challenge V titled "The Seeker". This event is a departure from the last competition. "Seeker" will take (...) (22 years ago, 6-Feb-03, to lugnet.announce)
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| | MOTM/SOTM for January 2003
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Hello, Another delay, due to a drive failure. :-( But finally, MOTM goes to Jumpei Mitsui for the model of the Japanese Battleship-YAMATO. I would love to see more details of that one. SOTM to Tore Eriksson for his scene of Lego Play. Hmm.. Lego (...) (22 years ago, 5-Feb-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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