 | | Moonbase Corridor Floor Height Should Be Raised 2 Bricks
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Wait. Put down that shovel. This is the deal: We will be adding some new features to the Moonbase Project standard soon. These include vertical corridors, higher horizontal corridors and a a permanent Monorail integration standard. All of these new (...) (21 years ago, 28-Aug-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.events, lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.general, lugnet.space, FTX) !!
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| | "CHRISTMAS THROUGH THE EYES OF A CHILD" CONTEST
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ENTER AND WIN A $5000.00 GRAND PRIZE ===...=== The Shrine in Belleville, IL is hosting a Christmas LEGO® exhibition featuring LEGO® toy model displays representing the spiritual aspect of Christmas through the eyes of a child. for more information (...) (21 years ago, 28-Aug-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX) !!
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| | MichLTC - LEGO Roadshow - Chicago, IL
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MichLTC had a great time doing the roadshow this past weekend. Featuring one of our most unqiue layout plans yet, we had 2 trains running, 5 city blocks and a small area for misc MOCs. (4 URLs) MichLUG.org> -Jason Spears Webmaster (21 years ago, 28-Aug-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.events, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.us.mi, FTX)
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| | NWBrickCon Registration Deadline
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Just a reminder that the early registration deadline for NWBrickCon is fast approaching. If you want to save money, and be guaranteed a name badge, I recommend filling out a registration, and putting it, with your check in the mail today or (...) (21 years ago, 28-Aug-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events.nwbrickcon)
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| | Two new posters
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Hi all, Sometimes simple thing can take a while and/or cost more engery than one hoped for. Today I am proud to present you two posters of MOCs by Higasi Nakano. If you haven't seen his work, I'll advise you to take a look at his Brickshelf pages ( (...) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.jp, lugnet.announce) !
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| | *** LDView Version 2.0.1 Released ***
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LDView version 2.0.1 is now available, in both source and binary forms. You can download either from: (URL) of the changes in this release are bug fixes. However, I added support for arbitrary FSAA modes for newer video cards that support more than (...) (21 years ago, 24-Aug-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
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| | The Classic Castle City Standard
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(URL) I am proud to announce the official release of the Classic Castle City Standard developed at Brickfest 2003. Feel free to give any comments, thoughts, or ideas. The idea is that this will be a motivating point, around which castle-heads can (...) (21 years ago, 23-Aug-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.general, FTX) !!
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| | Help setting up a new LUG
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Sup all, I was wondering if anybody in the Virginia area would be interested in setting up a new LUG. I don't have to many ideas as of yet, but I thought it'd be good to have one for the more eastern part of the state as well as one that can (...) (21 years ago, 22-Aug-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | News from Switzerland - Major Site Update
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Hello all You may believe it or not - I finally managed to finish work on my newest webpage update. After more than a year, 'Engineering with ABS' features new MOCs and new building hints. So, what's new in detail? The first MOC I am proud to (...) (21 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
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| | COLTC Mall at Tuttle Crossing Show Report
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Following close on the heels of the inaugural show of the Central Ohio LEGO Train Club (COLTC), we had our 2nd display at the Mall on Tuttle Crossing, in Dublin, Ohio. Set up was on Friday night & the display lasted 2 days. Now to the picts! We have (...) (21 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains) !!
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| | NILTC Show at Illinois Railway Museum - Aug 15-17 and Aug 23-24
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The Northern Illinois LEGO® Train Club is showing at the Day Out with Thomas event at the Illinois Railway Museum this weekend and next. Show dates are: August 15-17,23-24. For more details, see the Illinois Railway Museum site at (URL) site is (...) (21 years ago, 14-Aug-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains.org.niltc, lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.us.il) !
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| | New poster by Larry Pieniazek/MTW
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Hi all, I am proud to announce a new poster with some fine models by Larry Pieniazek. Please point your browser at (URL) and click the MOC poster item. De groeten, Jeroen (21 years ago, 14-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | BrickFest 2003 Followup Survey
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I just sent out a message to everyone who made it to BrickFest and wanted to follow up here just in case we have your email wrong ---...--- Thank you for being at BrickFest 2003. To help make next year even better, we hope you can take a minute to (...) (21 years ago, 14-Aug-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.events)
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| | New MOC's; MPBS Mk V and Diorama!
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Hi! Recently I completed a bunch of new moc's; The MPBS Mk V: (URL) Diorama: (URL) velcome critisism, comments & suggestions. /Sebastian -=The Black Legion=- www.geocities.com/cy...egion.html (21 years ago, 14-Aug-03, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Windows Vulnerablity - PATCH ASAP
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from Microsoft TechNet and forums.winamp.com: The following is an advisory for those people running the following operating systems: Microsoft Windows NT® 4.0 Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Services Edition Microsoft Windows 2000 Microsoft (...) (21 years ago, 13-Aug-03, to lugnet.announce)
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| | BrickFest(TM) PDX 2004 Announcement
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Hi All, There have been some responses to an announcement made at BrickFest 2003 about the 2004 west coast fest. I truly apologize that this wasn't accompanied by a post to LUGNET with more details. I have been a bit busy the last two weeks with the (...) (21 years ago, 12-Aug-03, to lugnet.events, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | InfoWorld: Lego dumps HP for IBM
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(URL) article is interesting if you want to know how Lego runs its computer infrastructure. (21 years ago, 12-Aug-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
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| | COLTC Cleveland Road Show Report
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The inaugural show of the Central Ohio Lego Train Club / Lego Builders Group (Coltc) took place during the Lego Road Show, in Cleveland. The location was nice, in the back of the Great Lakes Science Center, with a view of the lake and the (...) (21 years ago, 11-Aug-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.trains.org) !
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| | Trackside Tower
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After seeing pics of a tower in a train mag I decided to give it a shot. The railings took the longest to figure out and I think they work pretty well. (URL) (21 years ago, 11-Aug-03, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | B.I.Joe Deployment: J.U.M.P and The Polar Battle Bear
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Well the B.I.Joe site rolls out 2 more Moc's, albeit small ones. So I present the J.U.M.P.: (URL) The Polar Battle Bear: (URL) I hope our fellow .Spacers aren't too annoyed with us posting in .space. But we know you guys were and still are Joe's (...) (21 years ago, 8-Aug-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.military)
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| | 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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| | Announcing new Lego website: The Art of Brick
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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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