 | | Believe It Or Not: LEGO! -- Part 2
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As promised, I have written up a webpage documenting the craziness I recently experienced out in Hollywood... a rather lengthy webpage, at that: (URL) or comments are welcome, and feel free to corner me at Brickfest if you want to hear more stories (...) (21 years ago, 6-Aug-03, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.build.mosaic, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Announcing COLTC's inaugural show, and the next one too...
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Having been founded eralier this year, we are now ready for our inaugural show, and the next one too. First, On August 8-10 we will display a 75 sq .ft. layout as part of the Lego Road Show, at (near) the Great Lakes Science Center, Cleveland, OH. (...) (21 years ago, 6-Aug-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events) !
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| | New web site release: Space Bricksploration
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Announcing... Space Bricksploration! (URL) seen surprisingly little about the new Discovery space series just released, so I thought I'd take the opportunity to put together a web site with pictures, reviews, and some images that might interest (...) (21 years ago, 6-Aug-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.space)
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| | BrickFest 2003 Keynote Broadcast - BrickCast 2003
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Hi folks, (URL) Friday we're going to attempt a very experimental (read, unprofessional) live broadcast of the BrickFest 2003 Keynote Address from Lego Direct SVP Brad Justus. This will be a live video and audio streaming webcast. This will allow (...) (21 years ago, 6-Aug-03, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general) !
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| | SIGGRAPH Wrap-Up
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The Event Well, all good things must come to an end. We wrapped up the (URL) SIGGRAPH 2003> [1] LEGO display on Thursday afternoon, after an exhausting but fun week of building and hanging out with conference attendees and fellow AFOLs. What an (...) (21 years ago, 5-Aug-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sd, lugnet.cad, lugnet.events, lugnet.trains, FTX) !
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| | NCLTC Takes 1st Place at Raleigh GATS! (Long)
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This past weekend NCLTC had our layout on display at the Great American Train Show (GATS) in Raleigh, North Carolina. This is the third GATS show we have done and while our layout has always been popular, we have never won the competition. Much to (...) (21 years ago, 5-Aug-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us.nc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.events, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains.org.ncltc, lugnet.org.us.nclug) !!
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| | NWBrickCon 2003
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Ladies and gents and Lego enthusiasts of all ages, It is my pleasure to announce NWBrickCon 2003, hosted by the local LEGO enthusiasts of the Pacific NorthWest. NWBrickCon03 will be in Seattle at the Seattle Center Snoqualmie conference room ((URL) (...) (21 years ago, 5-Aug-03, to lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Legoshow in Valga, Estonia
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Hi all! On August 16th I will show some Lego trains in Valga, as a part of the Eurobuss tour. The Eurobuss will drive around in Estonia and inform about the European Union. As a part of this there will be an addition to the local paper, which can be (...) (21 years ago, 4-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
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| | Mini Fair Diorama
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Finished building this model on Friday night. It has a Ferris wheel in the center and other little details. (URL) Thanks for looking and enjoy! Brian (21 years ago, 4-Aug-03, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Announcing the formation of a new LEGO Users Group in Upper Indiana - Michiana-LUG!
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To All, I'm proud to announce the formation of a new LEGO Users Group in the Michiana area (Located in the north central part of upper Indiana), aptly named Michiana-LUG. This club came into being formally in June, 2003, but has been talked about (...) (21 years ago, 3-Aug-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us.in, lugnet.loc.us.in.sbd) !
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| | Brick Fest Presentation - Robotics Design by Eric Sophie
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Presentation - Robotics Design Saturday, August 9th 1:30pm - 2:30pm Room - 246 (URL) JAMOCKLAQUAT > Presenter: Eric Sophie Jamocklaquat: "A Technic Fig Scale Mecha Perhaps the largest fan created mecha ever, Jama is a fully articulated Lego (...) (21 years ago, 2-Aug-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | BrickSet XRef Version 1.1 Available Now
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An upgrade to version 1.1 is now available for download as a 351 kb zip file at (URL) new users, a full install is also available for download. Changes from version 1.0 include: -Added ability to show only parts with on hand qty -Expanded the (...) (21 years ago, 1-Aug-03, to lugnet.announce)
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| | NCLTC to display at South Hills Mall March 1st and 2nd in Raleigh, NC
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This weekend, August 2nd and 3rd, the North Carolina LEGO Train Club (NCLTC) will have our layout on display at the Great American Train Show at the Raleigh Civic and Convention Center in Raleigh, North Carolina. The show is open from 10 AM until (...) (21 years ago, 1-Aug-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us.nc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.events, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains.org.ncltc, lugnet.org.us.nclug)
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| | LDraw.org 2003-02 Parts Update Now Available
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Hi there! The latest batch of LDraw part files have been posted in the 2003-02 update. There are some 160 files in this release, including about 45 new parts. One of the reasons there are so many updated files is that we've started to convert (...) (21 years ago, 1-Aug-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad) !!
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| | * LDrawDesignPad LDDP 1.5 Beta released *
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Hi all! Well after 2 months of hacking away, we finally feel that a public release is necessary so that we can get some fresh minds on the program development. You can download an installer, a zip file, and a snapshot of the source at: (URL) you (...) (21 years ago, 1-Aug-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
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| | Believe it or Not: LEGO!
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Ok, so my details on this are somewhat sketchy still, but I'll try to relate as much as possible. I wanted to wait until I at least had my plane tickets in hand. What I do know: - This upcoming Monday, 4 August 2003, will see me and an extensive (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jul-03, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | SIGGRAPH: Too Much Fun for Words!
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Everyone - We are having an absolute blast at SIGGRAPH 2003! (www.siggraph.org/s2003). We hundreds, if not thousands coming by the booth throughout the day, and some even took time out of their schedules to sit with us and build! The tables are like (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jul-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sd, lugnet.cad, lugnet.events, lugnet.trains) !!
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| | Job Opening with First - Volunteer Resources Manager
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Our friends at First (the group that runs First LEGO League) have just posted the job opening below. This position is not associated with the LEGO Company, but I figured this would be of interest to folks here. === Position Posting Volunteer (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jul-03, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, FTX) !
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| | LSC: Call for Votes
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Re-printed from (URL) LDraw Community Members - The time has come to select the members of the first (URL) LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC)> [1]. This ballot and these voting procedures have been compiled on behalf of the ad-hoc organizing (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
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| | B.I. Joe Deployment: Cobra Moray
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Greetings! A new Joe rollout...the Cobra Moray! (URL) Again, our apologies for posting to .space, but with the riduculous nature of most of these models, they're almost science fiction. Well...maybe not. ;) Please use the follow-up to (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jul-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.military, lugnet.aquazone, FTX) !
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| | A&M LWorks Presents a Andrzej M. Szlaga's Koef 3 Switcher Engine BIs
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A&M LWorks is proud to present Andrzej M. Szlaga's Koef 3 Switcher Engine Building Instructions! This is a wonderful model and best of all it's *SO CUTE* (according to my wife). =) Without further adue you can get the BIs either in LDraw or Flash (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jul-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.inst)
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| | BrickFest t-shirt
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It has taken much longer then I had hoped to make a decision regarding which logo to use on the BrickFest event t-shirt. There were so many great ideas and logos submitted. I am pleased to announce that Jim Green submitted the LOGO idea selected for (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jul-03, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Quarry
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NELUG recently participated in the LEGO Roadshow. We decided that we wanted to do something special for the event, so we built a fully automated quarry scene that had working vehicals with a Rube-Goldberg feeling to it where "gravel" would (...) (21 years ago, 14-Jul-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town) !!
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| | New Inventory/Set Cross Reference Software
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BrickSet XRef is a freeware software application that you can use to inventory all your LEGO parts and then compare your inventory of parts to the set parts inventories from Peeron.com to see which sets you can build. You can also view the Build (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jul-03, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Brickish Association member on TV
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Brickish Association member Duncan Titmarch and Guy Bagley, chief modelmaker at LEGOLAND Windsor, were interviewed on LivingTV's Loose Lips programme on July 9th. They talked about the search for a new LEGO masterbuilder, the new Designer sets and (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jul-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.mediawatch) !
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| | BFD Engine 1 Gets Super-Sized
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I've finally taken the plunge and made my first sixby fire truck. Please have a look and let me know what you think. BFD Engine 1 (URL) Fire Department: (URL) Bricksburg Depot: (URL) (21 years ago, 10-Jul-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.town) !
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| | New Poster Art - on Biomechanical Bricks
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New, Orginal Poster Art, Enjoy. (all of the backgrounds started out as Grey Base Plates) Zolqwith (URL) Rin Tin Tin Din Din (URL) RG Mech (URL) GG Mech (URL) Jamocklaquat (URL) Poster Prints Available Soon. (URL) Eric Sophie> (21 years ago, 10-Jul-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Hot off the Press "Artist builds comprehensive LEGO robot"
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Hot off the Press - Artist builds comprehensive LEGO robot - July 9th 2003 - (URL) On Lego.com (URL) e (21 years ago, 9-Jul-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | 2003 .space Roll Call!
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Alright folks, from now till say, BrickFest, let's sound off. Read .space? Post in .space? Love .space? Are you, yourself, "Space"? Do it like so: [Name] [Homepage or Gallery URL] If you keep it just like that it'll make it really easy for me to add (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jul-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.space) !!
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| | LEGO Fans in Germany set NEW Star Destroyer™ World Record
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As most of you remember, I'm sure, BricksWest attendees built the Imperial Star Destroyer in 1 hour 43 minutes. Quite a feat...one I rubbed in to my European counterpart, Kate Sutch. Last Saturday, July 5th, 10 German LEGO Fans took on the challenge (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jul-03, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
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| | Jon Palmer has left MoonBase
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<ducks> Anne Carasik has offered to take over the MoonBase page and I'm gonna let her. :-) Just lettin you know what's up. It'll probably take a week or so to make the change but I'm sure it's for the better. Right now I'm going to work on the (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jul-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.space) !
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| | New LTC
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I am pleased to announce the formation of the Southern Pacific LEGO® Train Club (SPLTC). We are based in the southern California region and plan on doing shows throughout the southwest. Our website will be up within the next few weeks at (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jul-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains, FTX) !!
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| | Tim Courtney has left BrickMedia
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I am posting this message to the community at large to inform you I have left BrickMedia (www.brickmedia.com) and therefore am no longer involved with any of its properties. I have made several requests to Matt over several weeks' time to remove my (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jul-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.people, FTX) !!
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| | New lego fan site
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Hi! A new Lego fan website is born in Italy! (URL) is "Lucajuventino Lego HP" and you can find a lot of ideas for your Lego creations. Now it is still under construction, but you can visit it. Everyday there is something new. What can you find on (...) (21 years ago, 4-Jul-03, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: Thomas event in Utica, NY
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(...) estate changes. Apologies for the poor colors and horrible shadows in our pictures -- the room were were in was severely lacking in lighting. My attempt at using a portable halogen work lamp was not very successful and it appears that I got my (...) (21 years ago, 4-Jul-03, to lugnet.org.us.lucny, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.announce)
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| | Pictures of SCLTC's latest show!
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SCLTC finished its latest show, which ran June 27-28, 2003. We displayed at the Ontario Convention Center in Ontario, CA. (URL) let the picture the rest of the talking (insert overused cliche here). (URL) - Thomas Michon (21 years ago, 3-Jul-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains.org.scltc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.town, lugnet.org.us.lugola, FTX) !
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| | Et In Arcadia Lego: Narwhal
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new moc @ (URL) Et In Arcadia Lego> (URL) LMKWYT! -paul (2 URLs) Paul Hartzog (URL) Et In Arcadia Lego> (custom sig image courtesy of CGidd) (21 years ago, 2-Jul-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce, FTX) !
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| | Interview with a Sorting Bot on the "Daily Brick"
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When I created little minions to help me clean and sort my work area, I had no idea the (URL) Bots> would become stars! Read the Daily Brick's Interveiw with a Sorting Bot on (2 URLs) Image Courtesy the Daily Brick & Eric Sophie Goto (URL) LEGO.com> (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jul-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.inst, lugnet.lego, FTX) !
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| | All Treebeard pics now posted!
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Hi! All good Treebeard pics are now posted, you can find them here: (URL) link is also at my website. <=THE BLACK LEGION=> ______ /_ _\ /(_) (_)\ \ /\ / \ / IIIIII IIIIII www.geocities.com/cy...egion.html (21 years ago, 29-Jun-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.castle)
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| | Alternate 8458 MOC: Sportscar with instructions
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Hi! After a long time I've finally finished the instructions of my alternate model from the 8458 Silver Champion. So if you have a Silver Champion and maybe have seen the official models long enough, you may want to build this Sportscar. The (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jun-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.cad, lugnet.technic)
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