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There is a certain art to certain things. There is an art to painting, an art to cooking, yes, even an art to driving. But, did you know that there just might be an art to brick? No, I’m not talking about those heavy blocks that spiders like to hide (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jun-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce, lugnet.technic, lugnet.build)
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| | Et In Arcadia Lego: Crab
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Et In Arcadia Lego: Crab new moc (URL) posted at (URL) Et In Arcadia Lego> LMKWYT -paul (2 URLs) Paul Hartzog (URL) Et In Arcadia Lego> (custom sig image courtesy of CGidd) (21 years ago, 27-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
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| | Treebeard from Lord Of The Rings!
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Hi! I've completed a new moc: Treebeard (from LOTR) (URL) welcome comments, suggestions or complaints about the model! More pics are to come when i get my MOCpages account complete=) Best Regards: Sebastian, Sweden THE BLACK LEGION (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.announce)
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| | New MOC: Police APC
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Hi! I have recently completed a new MOC, Police APC. Go check it out on my website www.geocities.com/cy...egion.html click "MOC's". //Sebastian=) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.announce)
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| | New LPC and Top 10 at www.rotule.qc.ca
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NEW TOP 10 LIST Last Top 10 list was about ways to convince the LEGO company to re-release Monorail sets. It wasn't the funniest list ever, but some entries were very funny. Go check it out! The new Top 10 List asks the questions : What Minifig (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jun-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.fun, lugnet.announce, FTX) !
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| | Getting ready to engrave
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New spiffy fun on your fest info page www.wildlink.com/fest/fest.php It now includes an image of what your BrickFest 2003 badge will look like (approximately, of course). We are going to send the list of people to the engraver soon, so it'd be a (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jun-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.general)
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| | MOC Display Cards for BrickFest
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Rather than do what I should have done - Namely: fix the core engine running the BrickFest Database - I instead worked on getting the Display Card function ready to run! On your Fest Info page (www.wildlink.com/fe...fest.php), you now have the (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.general)
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| | The Two Towers : New poster at www.rotule.qc.ca
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LORD OF THE RING : THE TWO TOWERS I'm very pleased to announce a great new addition to our LEGO posters archive : LOTR : TTT Click on thumbnail to go to the page... (URL) ***...*** One Poster to rule them all I made this image on a 2 days period, (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, FTX) !
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| | Minifig Generator Plugin for LDDesignPad Version 1.6
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I decided to take a break from working on other projects and finally revamp my Minifig plugin. New in this version: Added support for the upcoming LDDP.ini file Improved Color edit boxes Added ability to change preview window background color (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | Lego Road Show: the Prequel
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As I'm sure many of you know, Lego's planning a tour of about 20 major cities across the US this summer: (URL) in case you didn't know, they've also asked a bunch of local LUG groups to help out at these shows by showing up with their own creations (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jun-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.events) !!
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| | BUGS Site BACK!!!!
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Many thanks to Michael Golaszewski over at OZBricks who has managed to help get the Bugs site back up and operational. Please check out the new design, and layout, and LMKWYT ( let me know what you think). www.ozbricks.com/bugs (21 years ago, 19-Jun-03, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: PDA or phone # for lego set prices
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x-posting to annouce in the hopes of hitting a larger crowd to see if anyone knows what I am talking about. -Ahui (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jun-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | SCLTC to Display at TCA 49th Convention
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The Southern California LEGO® Train Club is pleased to announce our second appearance at the TCA 49th National Convention at the Ontario Convention Center, Ontario, California ((URL) ). The Ontario Convention Center, is located at 2000 Convention (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.org.us.lugola, lugnet.loc.us.ca.la, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sbe, lugnet.announce)
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| | LUCNY to show at A Day Out With Thomas The Tank Engine, Utica, NY
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The Lego Users of Central New York (LUCNY -- pronounced luck-nee) will be setting up a live Lego train display at the Utica Children's Museum in conjunction with The Adirondack Scenic Railway and A Day Out With Thomas the Tank Engine. The dates of (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jun-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.org.us.lucny)
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| | Rubic Cube Movie (was Rubic Cube)
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Hi, I've managed to make a small mpeg movie of my Technic Rubic Cube in action. It's about 30 seconds long and shows two rotations. I had to be careful since the cube can dramatically self destruct!! Anyway it will give you an idea of what it looks (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jun-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.technic)
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| | Rail Racers Summer Nationals at Brickfest 2003
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Gggggeeeeeettttttt readyyyyy toooo Rumble!!!! It's Rail Racers® at Brickfest 2003!!! This is your chance to show the LEGO world what you are made of. We will be holding a head to head competition of Rail Racers at this year's Brickfest. You will be (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jun-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX) !
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| | Announcing BIP Blog
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It's a morning of announcements! Head over to the BI Portal to check out our latest addition, the (URL) BIP Blog>. This blog, as most blogs are, will be a collection of random thoughts, musing, links, and other random content. The BIP Blog will be (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jun-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.inst, lugnet.announce.biportal, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Announcing BIP Model Inventories
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For the last few weeks I have been spending my time working with Richard at (URL) BrikTrak.com> and Dan at (URL) to help develop an exciting new addition to our sites. Today we would like to announce the availability of BI Portal Model Inventories (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jun-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.inst, lugnet.announce.biportal, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general, FTX) !
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| | MOC: Roboranger Cyberwolf of the 4099 designer set
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Hi all, Very challenging to create a MOC with limited bricks. I really like to do that. So I picked up box 4099 of the designer sets and created my own Robobot. See for yourself what the result is. (URL) you like it. Nathanael Kuipers (21 years ago, 16-Jun-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | BrickFest™ Registration
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Only two weeks left till the June 30th deadline for registration. (URL) Hitchcock BrickFest (21 years ago, 15-Jun-03, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.announce, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.org) !
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| | Re: marble rail
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Hello, I’m proud to announce a new version of my marble rail. (URL) The most noticeable change is a new more advanced base that incorporates up and down as well as left and right. Some Other changes include a Watts link to center the rail, increased (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jun-03, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Et In Arcadia Lego - Picking Your SNOT
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Just posted a new article on Et In Arcadia Lego about SNOT construction, entitled (URL) Picking Your SNOT> Take a look and LMKWYT! -paul (2 URLs) Paul Hartzog (URL) Et In Arcadia Lego> (custom sig image courtesy of CGidd) (21 years ago, 15-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX) !!
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| | Technic 9V motor comparison update
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Hi, I updated my motors comparison page, to include the RC race buggy motor and some considerations on motors protection, RCX current limitations... (URL) (21 years ago, 13-Jun-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Combat Pizza Delivery
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Next time you're pinned down by enemy fire and get the urge for some pizza, just call Combat Pizza Delivery: (URL) Combat Pizza Car features all-terrain treads, a handy roof-mounted side-swivel vulcan cannon and a personal Death-Rifle(tm) with (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jun-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build) !!
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| | Rubic Cube
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Hi there, I've just updated my LEGO page with pictures of my Technic Rubic Cube. You can find it by following the LEGO Technic link on the side menu at: (URL) a fully working replica of a Rubic Cube. At the moment there are only a few photos and (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Rush Hour game made with LEGO
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I recently had to travel to Montreal to look for a new appartment. I wanted to buy a little puzzle game for the travel, but being real good at these games, I thought it would be cheaper just to build my own with LEGO parts instead of paying 20$ for (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general) !!
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| | Re: Duncan Titmarsh will be on BBC Radio 4 tomorrow morning
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As Tony Priestman announced yesterday, Brickish Association member Duncan Titmarsh was on BBC radio this morning, the same day that the Queen visits LEGOLAND Windsor. During the show he built a model of the Radio 4 studio and gave a couple of short (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jun-03, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Announcing the Danish Lego club Byggepladen!
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Hi all, I'm happy to say, that Denmark - the homeland of LEGO, now finally has a Lego Users Group too! The Danish Lego club was founded saturday, june the 7th 2003. The name for the new club(association) is "Byggepladen" which means "The Baseplate". (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jun-03, to lugnet.loc.dk, lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.org, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | New Lego Painting
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Hi everybody, After a long weekend of hard painting, I've managed to finish up a painting I've been working on for quite some time, and I thought I'd share it with everyone. I have to apologize in advance for the subject, which is so hackneyed that (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jun-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general) !!
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| | Duncan Titmarsh will be on BBC Radio 4 tomorrow morning
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Duncan Titmarsh, UK AFOL and Brickish Association member, will be appearing on BBC Radio 4's Today program tomorrow morning, the 10th of June. He will be building a model of the Today studio and the presenters during the programme, which runs from (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jun-03, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.announce, lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | New MOC: Valkyrie Gunboat
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Hi! New MOC: Valkyrie Gunboat www.geocities.com/cy...egion.html enjoy! //Sebastian (21 years ago, 8-Jun-03, to lugnet.announce)
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| | BrikWars Write-up!
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My latest(and first)write-up. The battle pitched the government Spyder-forces against the Hillbillys & Aliens in a bloody battle for the control of a Plasma Cannon. www.geocities.com/cy...egion.html enjoy and don't forget to sign my guestbook! (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.announce)
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| | RSC Rebirth: Rounded Slope Compendium
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(2 URLs) When I started the RSC for the mech-heads back in early 2002, it was with the intent that we'd have a growing resource for all the beautiful slopes, wedges, and canopies that LEGO has released recently. It was a nice intent, but without (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Pictures from VLC Surrey Museum Show
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(URL) Our first show for 2003. It is a layout of Vancouver at the turn of the century to about 1930's. Details to follow if anyone has questions or comments. (21 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.ca) !!
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| | Check out this poster !
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Well, Yaron Dori has done it again. With a beautiful poster that may someday be ranked by the visitors as one of the best of the bunch, "Le Pacte des Loups" is a very nice piece of work, simple, yet accurate and true to the original. You can see and (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.fun, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general) !
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| | *** LDView Version 2.0 Released ***
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LDView version 2.0 is now available, in both source and binary forms. You can download either from: (URL) only changes in version 2.0 from the previous release are bug fixes. This version is Windows-only. Despite appearances to the contrary, the (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
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| | Clock Tower on Gravette Island
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Was watching Star Trek: First Contact the other day... and I got to wondering about what sort of architecture would be found by the Enterprise crew arriving in their escape pods, here on this tiny (and apparently non-existent) island in the Pacific (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jun-03, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | Guess who finally won a place in the Minifig Hall of Fame?
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It's only the second time that Blacktron 1 doesn't finish 2nd and this time, it's for the victorious spot. Blacktron 1 finally escapes the title of "forever second" and takes a deserving stance in the Minifig Hall of Fame. It will be very (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jun-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.fun, lugnet.announce, lugnet.space)
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| | 10028 Level Crossing Sneak Peek!
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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 10028 Level Crossing. The ILTCO is pleased to be able (...) (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Announcing FTX for discussion groups
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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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