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Hello Gang- Got my Lugnet access going. You can view the picture of the new plane set #2532 at: (URL) new set is not all Town Jr. The front of the plane is your usual airplane windshield, however the side windows look real small for "glass". It has (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | LEGO Mindstorms Challenge
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Hello, Once again, Thames Science Center in Newport Rhode Island will host a LEGO Mindstorms competition and is looking for LEGO robot builders of all ages to participate. The rules for this challenge and registration information are posted on (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | www.ldraw.org Registration Sent
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This morning Jacob Sparre Andersen sent me the information for the hugin.risoe.dk server where ldraw.org will be hosted, along with the technical contact info for the administrator at the Risø National Research Centre where the server resides. This (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | U.S. and Canada: New groups for states and provinces
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60 new local newsgroups have just been created: 12 at province level in Canada and 48* at the state level in the U.S. Rationale for creating the new groups: - Help people locate one another and hold discussions across sparsely populated areas. - (...) (25 years ago, 16-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | New version of BlockCAD - 1.7 - with shading and background pictures
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I'm happy to announce the version 1.7 of my building program BlockCAD. Ever since Paul Gyugyi released LdLite, I have wanted to have shading in BlockCAD too, and now it's there! Another new thing is the possibility to have background pictures on the (...) (25 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: Builder's Gallery
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(...) -Tom McD. (25 years ago, 9-Apr-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build)
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| | Builder's Gallery
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The official Lego site ((URL) has a "Builder's Gallery" area now where people can upload their own creations. Each month, eight creations will be chosen for a vote by web club members for a "Builder of the Month." Each web-club member can have 4 (...) (25 years ago, 9-Apr-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Prototype Starwars Pictures ONLINE!
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OK, I had to go on a mission and walk 30 mins to my friend's house. Anyway, these scans are big but they are good quality. (URL) (364KB) (URL) (345KB) (URL) (119KB) - not so good quality. Hope these work - they are case dependent - I had to use (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.starwars)
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| | The Gary Louie Memorial Auction
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Subject auction, which we discussed here and via e-mail in the February timeframe, will hopefully get under way soon. I have begun constructing the lots at SeriousCollector and hope to launch by Friday. Featured lots so far: 4537 Twin Tank unopened (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-99, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.announce)
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| | Carlsbad Legofest Pics Online
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Greetings.. I have recently assembled a gallery of Carlsbad Legofest pics I took a couple weeks ago tonight for you all to see. Please take a look and let me know what you think at tcourtney@avenew.com The url is: (URL) also threw in a couple pics (...) (26 years ago, 4-Apr-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | Halloween Lego Design Contest
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Hello Everyone, I don't know about all of you, but my favorite time of the year is Halloween and my favorite pastime is building with my Lego collection. This year, Erik Wilson's Ancient Design Contest sparked an idea and soon Felix Greco, Anne (...) (26 years ago, 3-Apr-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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| | SeriousCollector
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Check THIS out: (URL) this isn't for real, it is one of the most elaborate practical/April Fool jokes I have ever seen. Note the anti sniping policy! Any bid keeps the auction alive for 24 hours. ** I LIKE that ** I am not so keen on having to give (...) (26 years ago, 2-Apr-99, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.announce)
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| | LDraw Add-On 2.0.3 Now Available
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[follow-ups set to lugnet.cad] The new version of LDraw Add-On (LDAO) is now available. This is version 2.0.3. The major change is a fix so Visual Basic 5 runtime files are no longer needed (this affected new users trying to install LDAO 2.x). Also (...) (26 years ago, 31-Mar-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Bidder Wizard (beta) ready to download
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Bidder Wizard is a FREE program to help internet auction bidders to keep track of their lots. It has been developed with Lego parts auctions in mind. The name "Bidder Wizard" has been proposed by Chuck Cottrill. Thanks Chuck! The main features (...) (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | How to
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Howdy, ...for those of you interested, I spent my spring break cleaning the school's Legos. You might want to take a look at: (URL) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Pictures of (very?) old Lego Idea book
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Hi all! I've tried to take pictures (no scanner yet!) of my old Lego idea book. It must be from about 1960, I'm not sure exactly when - perhaps someone else can give more details... (URL) page is slow, and the picture quality is not the best, but (...) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | LEGO Mindstorms Competition
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Hello, Thames Science Center has a LEGO Mindstorms competition this Saturday March 27. You can register following the instructions on (URL) or you can simply WALK-IN with your robot the day of the challenge. The mission rules are published on (URL) (...) (26 years ago, 22-Mar-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | LEGO Mindstorms Competition
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Thames Science Center in Newport, Rhode Island will have a LEGO Mindstorms Competition on March 27th at 2:00 PM. The General Rules are posted in (URL) The mission rules will be published on March 18th. This is their third challenge so far, it is (...) (26 years ago, 17-Mar-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Another Math Lesson
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Howdy, ...jsut added another math lesson ( thanks to Erik Brok! It was his suggestion...he is super cool! ) to my website! (URL) it out and let me know what you think. Richard rwright@pcsedu.com www.weirdrichard.com (26 years ago, 17-Mar-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Duane's Lego Page Update
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I have restructured my Lego page to (hopefully) be a little more user friendly. Please send me some feed back to let me know what other changes could be made to my pages to make them more enjoyable. Thanks, Duane (URL) (26 years ago, 16-Mar-99, to lugnet.announce)
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