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I am very happy to announce three changes today to the LUGNET News web interface: Fixed-width font now used for plain-text messages. Once upon a time, when LUGNET first served up messages via the web, messages were displayed in a fixed-width font. (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish, lugnet.admin.nntp, FTX) !!
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| | Humor update @ www.rotule.qc.ca
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Hello everybody, Some of you have probably noticed that recently, our website wasn't updated as usual. Indeed, we have updated the Humor! section for the first time in 3-4 weeks. But we had good reasons not to do so, our search of a new place in (...) (21 years ago, 27-May-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.fun) !
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| | Announcing www.fleebnork.com!
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Hi Everyone, I made a small announcement to the .space newsgroup a few weeks ago, but now it's time for the official website launch announcement! (URL) am in the process of porting some of my MOCs over to the new website. Older MOCs will probably (...) (21 years ago, 27-May-03, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | B.I. Joe: A Real Imagination Hero!
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Greetings! Several months ago, Jamie Neufeld and I were chatting about the toys of our youth and how they were some of our earliest inspirations for our Lego builds of today. In these conversations, we talked often about G.I. Joe and how the (...) (21 years ago, 27-May-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.military) !!
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| | BIP Contest II - Let the building begin!
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Once again, the Building Instrurctions Portal (BIP) is running a contest to help drive participation with the site. This one is a biggie! The prizes for this contest are intense! Entering the contest is easy: Simply add a link to your own building (...) (21 years ago, 25-May-03, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build) !!
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| | NEW BELGIAN LUG
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Since May the 1st of 2003, three belgian Legofan's formed an informal group to start up BeLug (The Belgian Lego Users Group). Ludo Soete, a member of the Dutch legoclub De Bouwsteen (The Buildingbrick)together with Hans De Vlieger and Peter (...) (21 years ago, 22-May-03, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | MichLTC - Durand Railroad Days - Show Report & Pictures
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MichLTC had a modest 8x13 layout in Durand Michigan this past weekend. Featuring models by Jason Spears, Larry Pieniazek & Chris Leach, this show was a fun & relaxing show for everyone. Lots of Town buildings & Train creations to see, so check it (...) (21 years ago, 22-May-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.events, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.us.mi) !
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| | MichLUG Show Report & Pictures- Castle & Space Layouts
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Contrary to popular opinion, MichLUG is not all about Train layouts. This past weekend we had a Space (partial Moonbase) layout and Castle layout at the Motor City Comic Con in Novi MI. A mix of Moonbase modules and other space creations, along with (...) (21 years ago, 22-May-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.events, lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.us.mi) !!
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| | Important Announcement regarding final days of Brickmania
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Hello everyone! Things have not gone as smoothly as hoped in what I had planned to be my final month of Brickmania kit production. The result of a family health emergency, being swamped at my other job, volunteering several days for GMLTC events, (...) (21 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Call for club links
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This is an invitation to all clubs and organizations that have at least one member registered to attend BrickFest 2003. We have started a list of clubs that will be represented at BrickFest. Simply email info@brickfest.com and include the clubs (...) (21 years ago, 18-May-03, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.announce, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.org) !
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| | SCLTC to display at National Orange Show, San Bernardino, CA
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The Southern California LEGO® Train Club is pleased to announce our second appearance at the 88th National Orange Show at the Orange Fairgrounds in San Bernardino, California. Our club members are busily expanding the recently displayed layout from (...) (21 years ago, 17-May-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains.org.scltc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ca.la, lugnet.org.us.lugola, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sbe) !
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| | NGLTC display at Dawsonville LEGO Outlet store Memorial day weekend
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The North Georgia LEGO Train Club will be presenting their annual train display on May 24th at the Dawsonville Georgia LEGO Outlet store at the North Georgia Premium Outlet Mall. The layout will be setup in front of the store from 10am til 7pm. So (...) (21 years ago, 16-May-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ga)
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| | jain's guide reborn! (http://wildbrick.com)
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Ok... Some of you may remember Jain's Guide, my attempt to promote story-telling and universe-building in the .space community. Well, it broke when my provider changed and I never got around to fixing it... (I'm so slack I haven't even built much (...) (21 years ago, 16-May-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | BioniWars: Jango Fetoa, Intergalactic Bricky Hunter
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This is easily one of the better MOCs in my BioniWars series, and if he hadn't turned out so well I probably wouldn't have ever expanded the series beyond the first few: (URL) (21 years ago, 15-May-03, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.starwars)
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| | BioniWars: BatToa Droid
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Getting into the more meaty BioniWars MOCs, I present the BatToa Droid, loosely based on the TOA design. Very loosely. Shaft Windu would have fallen down laughing if he saw an army of these guys advancing on him... (URL) (21 years ago, 14-May-03, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Biggest event in the Netherlands (and the World), LEGOWORLD2002
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LEGO®WORLD 2003, Maybe you have already heard something about this, but here is the official announcement. From October 17 until October 21, The IJsselhallen in Zwolle, The Netherlands will be once again be devoted to LEGO, as Europe’s biggest (...) (21 years ago, 14-May-03, to lugnet.events, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.loc.de, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.it) !!
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| | LEGO fans to participate in LEGO Road Show 2003
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On behalf of LEGO fan organizations across North America, we would like to announce our participation in the 2003 LEGO Road Show! This Road Show centers around the company's core values by promoting open-ended play and creativity, via LEGO's new (...) (21 years ago, 13-May-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.org.ca, lugnet.trains.org) !!
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| | BioniWars: Qui-Gon MatorJinn
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Star Wars was the first LEGO theme that I really followed with a passion (mostly because I grew up on Star Wars), but Bionicle is currently my favorite. Like peanut butter and chocolate, it only made sense to mash them together, in a way that only (...) (21 years ago, 13-May-03, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.starwars)
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| | LEGO mosaic Exhibit: UCSD
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Hi all, For anyone in the San Diego area, in addition to visiting LEGOLAND, you may consider dropping by the University of California, San Diego campus to see a mosaic exhibition by Henry Lim and I. It will be viewable through 1 June 2003. I have a (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-03, to lugnet.build.mosaic, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Wheels, Tyres and Tractions
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Hi all, You will find here: (URL) results of a few experiments on pulling power of different Lego® wheels and tracks. Enjoy! Philo www.philohome.com (21 years ago, 11-May-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.announce, lugnet.technic) !
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| | Insert LDraw parts into your LUGNET pages
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Members: You can now insert LDraw parts into your FTX pages simply and easily. Details and examples appear in the updated FTX User Guide: (URL) here is a rainbow color chart example: (URL) (21 years ago, 11-May-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.cad, lugnet.publish) !
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| | Insert LEGO sets into your LUGNET pages
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Members: You can now insert LEGO sets into your FTX pages. Details: (URL) (21 years ago, 11-May-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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| | Box Art for 2003 LEGO World City Products!
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Hello again LEGO® Train and Town (aka World City) 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 World City Police (...) (21 years ago, 11-May-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town) !!
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| | LEGO Random Name Generator updated!
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Todd and I have managed to update the data file that drives the name generator with all the sets that have been released since early 1997, when the generator was originally written. New categories include Harry Potter, Adventurers, (...) (21 years ago, 9-May-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.fun) !
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| | Unifying LUGNET user types
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All, We're going to begin soon unifying the many types of LUGNET users into a single, coherent base system. This will greatly simplify sign-up, configuration, and daily usage, and consequently I think this will make a lot of people very, very happy (...) (21 years ago, 9-May-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general) !!
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| | A Change
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.A Change ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (Not so much a` BIG change, but a `SMALL improvement!) !An open letter to the Lugnet community and it’s creators: I'm proposing that a change take place in our lovely Lugnet community. Not a radical revolution, but simply just a (...) (21 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.people, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.curators, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: BrickFest LOGO submission
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The deadline to submiting your logo idea for the BrickFest 2003 event is approaching. Christina Hitchcock BrickFest Coordinator (...) (21 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.announce, lugnet.fun.community)
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| | Lego Road Trip of TN, GA, SC, NC, VA, NY
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Hello friends. I have been busy planning and preparing for a Lego road trip that begins tommorrow and will last about 10 days. I will be traveling through Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and New York. The primary reason (...) (21 years ago, 7-May-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.people)
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| | LEGO sponcoring an ASCAR racer
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Hey, I'm a race junkie which ends up taking too much of my Lego time, but what are you gonna do? Check this out: (URL) is the Australian version of NASCAR. I'm sure it's not as expensive to sponcor a car in ASCAR, but I would expect the sponcorship (...) (21 years ago, 6-May-03, to lugnet.announce)
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| | SCLTC - Fullerton Railroad Days - May 3-4, 2003
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Hi all - SCLTC has just finished its latest show! (URL) the weekend, the club displayed at the Fullerton Train Station. We had a great time, showing off what we do best to a semi-drenched public during Saturday's downpour and a massive crowd on (...) (21 years ago, 6-May-03, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Galactic Greetings!
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Welcome to lugnet.gaming.starship! Starship RPG is a system of related role-play by email games where particpants base their adventures around Lego® Space creations. Anyone with internet access and the ability to build ABS (or ABS-CAD) spaceships is (...) (21 years ago, 5-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship, lugnet.announce) !
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| | Renaming Gaming group
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OK, whew, it's completed. The lugnet.fun.gaming group has been renamed to lugnet.gaming, and subgroups for BrikWars (URL) and Starship (URL) have now finally been created. If you run or participate in an RPG and would like a focused discussion (...) (21 years ago, 5-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.announce)
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| | A Clockwork Orange and Harry Potter 2 LEGO Posters
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Visit the Posters section at our website: (URL) just added 2 posters you might want to see and rate! Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (URL) Clockwork Orange (URL) you haven't done so already, please take a few minutes to rate the other (...) (21 years ago, 5-May-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.fun, lugnet.general, lugnet.harrypotter) !
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| | OOPS, sorry for the trip down memory lane!
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If you're subscribed to lugnet.announce, I apologize for the flood of reposts of old messages from lugnet.publish.cinema (now lugnet.animation) and/or lugnet.football (now lugnet.sports). I forgot to tweak a data file which contains message counts (...) (21 years ago, 4-May-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Brickwith Hill
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Just a simple monitoring sys-I mean, uh, "communications relay centre". Gotta keep track of all those communications sattelites somehow, right? Don't worry, we're not making copies of anything. (URL) you are a foreign national of significant (...) (21 years ago, 4-May-03, to lugnet.announce)
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| | *Un-opened* Lego Sets for sale
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Good day to everyone, I currently have moved to a new/used home and need some extra cash to do some work around the place. So, I am selling off a bunch of my boxed sets. The Blockade Runner is the only set that has been built in this list. It was (...) (21 years ago, 3-May-03, to lugnet.announce)
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| | The Brickish Association displays at LEGOLAND Windsor, April 2003
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On April 12 and 13th, the Brickish Association was invited to put on a display at LEGOLAND Windsor as part of the LEGO Sports event being held in the park over Easter. A full report and photo gallery is now available on the Association's website: (...) (21 years ago, 1-May-03, to lugnet.legoland.windsor, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.events, lugnet.announce) !
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| | Johnny Thunder steals the victory !
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A blitz in the last 2 days made Johnny the victorious minifig, only 7 votes ovber Blacktron 1 who had lead by a good margin the whole month. But Johnny has been around for a while too and it's no surprise to see him elected in the Minifig Hall of (...) (21 years ago, 1-May-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.castle, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.fun, lugnet.general, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.western, lugnet.town, lugnet.underground)
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| | LEGO Site Relaunch!
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(URL) you haven't been there in a while please take a second to check out my new LEGO site. I think this is much more organized than my last site, and I now have more creations on display than ever before. Also check back later for full gallery (...) (21 years ago, 1-May-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.general, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars) !
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| | LD4DModeler 1.0 Available
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I've put up the newest version of LD4DModeler, it's the release of 1.0 (finaly). You can find it on (URL) in the 'download' section. Note the new url, It's only a redirector at the moment but I appriciate it if people use this url to link to (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev) !
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| | AFOL get together at Odyssey of the Mind World meet in Ames
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A couple of years ago at the Odyssey of the Mind competition in Knoxville, TN several AFOL's got together one evening. Both Steve Bliss and I will be at Ames the last week in May for this years competition. This is an ALL CALL for AFOL's that will (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.us.ia.des, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us.ia)
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| | Announcing LEGO Digital Designer 1.0
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All, I would like to take this opportunity to announce a cool new project many years in the making. I hope you find this as exciting as I do. == A new LEGO building application == LEGO has been making building software for many years now (like LEGO (...) (21 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.lego.direct) !!
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| | Last 2 days to vote for the Minifig of the Month
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Hello All ! We have had a great month in the Minifig Hall of Fame. Over 400 votes and still 2 days left. If you haven't voted yet, now is the time. (URL) an upset, Johnny Thunder took the lead this morning after Blacktron 1 dominated the poll for (...) (21 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.fun)
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| | LPub 2.2.0.0 Available
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In the previous version of LPub I released some prototype new features for creating "callout" images, which are images of small assembly contruction, all tiled together into a single image, like this: (URL) this (URL) above callout image generation (...) (21 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| | LUCNY Finger Lakes Train show pics
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A fun time was had by all; (URL) a look when they become publicly viewable. JB (21 years ago, 28-Apr-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.lucny) !
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| | BrickFest Registration
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BrickFest™ Registration form is now available via the website. (URL) will be a bit different this year. Everyone that registers will get a password. The password will give each person access to their own registration information so that they may (...) (21 years ago, 28-Apr-03, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.announce, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.people) !
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| | First Third Party product for the LEGO(r) Trains market?
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Pretty exciting news! This is posted on behalf of BayLTC's David (Zonker) Harris, with his permission (and request to so post), who related the following to me: - - - - My home machine has lost the cookie to post to LUGNET, and Todd's on a bus to (...) (21 years ago, 28-Apr-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org) !
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| | Caption and Top 10 previews
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The response to our LPC and Top 10 changes is outstanding! We can tell you right now, it's going to be the best week yet in thos 2 sections! Here is a preview for the LPC and the Top 10: Lego Picture Captioning (The picture is of a T-Rex and a (...) (21 years ago, 24-Apr-03, to lugnet.fun, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
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| | Dragonstar Reloaded!
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Enjoy! :) Deep links: (URL) moderation: (URL) Props to Brian Stokes for pimpin' me 100's of gray slopes and special thanks to Kyle Keppler for design tips on the main gun turrets. (21 years ago, 22-Apr-03, to lugnet.announce) !!
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| | New MOC: HVFD Truck 12 - A 1997 Seagrave 100' Tiller
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Hi all, In a few days of semi-fervent construction, I have nearly completed the first vehicle to go with my large fire station ((URL) is a model of a 1997 Seagrave 100' Tiller Ladder Truck. Pics are on BrickShelf (upon moderation) at (URL) deep (...) (21 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build)
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| | Legoroscope : Daily Lego Horoscope at www.rotule.qc.ca
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(URL) it is. We had promised you a new feature for about 10 days now, it's now finally ready and running. The Legoroscope : LEGO Horoscope daily updated. Just go on our website, write your birthdate in the textbox and click. A cookie will be set on (...) (21 years ago, 20-Apr-03, to lugnet.fun, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce) !
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| | After a failure you have to bounce back
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Well, Last question of Top 10 lists was: Top 10 LEGO recors it would be fun to watch someone break. It didn't generate enough answers, so we dropped it. Apart from stucking parts up your nose or swallowing then, there was nothing really interesting. (...) (21 years ago, 19-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.fun, lugnet.announce) !
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| | LD4DModeler status
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I feel a little bad about the gigantic pause in LD4DModeler's (members.rott.chello...4DModeler) development. But I have picked it up again, currently I am fixing reported bugs and making the whole application ready to go 1.0 But also the long pause (...) (21 years ago, 19-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.announce)
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| | New MOC: My Fire Station - Hillandale Stn. 12
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Hi all, I've been working for quite a while on building a more-or-less scale model of the fire station I volunteer at. It is finally almost done, and posted to Brickshelf: (URL) Lego model is 72 studs deep and 104 studs wide (yowza). The scale came (...) (21 years ago, 17-Apr-03, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.announce)
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| | Looking for the creator of these custom Minis
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Several days ago I posted this in general, space, and auctions. I've got all the images now and am hoping someone knows this creator. Sorry about the repost but I have been looking for this person for a while now. ****ORIGINAL POST***** In 2001 on (...) (21 years ago, 17-Apr-03, to lugnet.announce)
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| | LPub 2.1.0.8 Available
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LPub 2.1.0.8 is available from (URL) version of LPub adds these new features: - Sub-assembly callout image generation - Unique construction image background colors for up to four sub-model levels. - Proof mode to make Lpub do a dry run through the (...) (21 years ago, 16-Apr-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Power Outage at Northstar Computer Systems
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Note: This announcement applies to all sites hosted at NCS, which includes a large number of clubs, private seller sites, and Bricklink.com. NCS is currently experiencing a power failure. It is due to a traffic accident with at least one fatality (...) (21 years ago, 16-Apr-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.market.brickshops) !
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| | MonLUG's Latest Train Show pics!
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Hello, Last weekend, MonLUG participated in it's fourth Montreal area train show. And what a great weekend! :-) It was our best layout ever, we were as popular as ever with visitors, Jean-Marc Détraz from NovaLUG dropped by for a visit and we were (...) (21 years ago, 14-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.ca.monlug) !!
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| | New LPC, new Top 10, new Ask Merliz
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We've updated our website this weekend. Todd's Brain results : (URL) Caption: (URL) 10 excuses Minifigs would give not to help clean the room : (URL) Top 10 List: (URL) Merliz new question/answer: (Question submitted by Manfred Moolhuysen) (URL) (...) (21 years ago, 13-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.fun, lugnet.announce) !
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| | Some Weird Action Team turns 4 years old!
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Hey everyone! Long time no see... It's been a while, eh? Man.. I haven't posted here in well over a year, maybe even 2. What sparks this new post you ask? Well, it's because my website "SWAT: Some Weird Action Team" celebrated it's 4th birthday on (...) (21 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
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| | 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 (...) (22 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 (...) (22 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, (...) (22 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 (...) (22 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 (...) (22 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 (...) (22 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 (...) (22 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 (...) (22 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 (...) (22 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 (...) (22 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 (...) (22 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 (...) (22 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 (...) (22 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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