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| Hi folks, We attended our fourth public presentation last weekend. It was a important milestone for us, because it was our first anniversary. Yes! one year already and it was in the same location. This time we had a little more time to prepare (...) (21 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.ns, lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.novalug, lugnet.town, FTX)
| | | | | ParLUGment at Railfair 26, Ottawa, Canada
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| ParLUGment just had our first showing here in Ottawa, and everybody loved it. The word "LEGO" was on the lips of both young and old at the Train Show. Everybody was coming back again and again. It was such a joy to see. The layout was the most (...) (21 years ago, 20-Oct-03, to lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town) !
| | | | | BrickVista October Update
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| (2 URLs) Update: October 2003 ==== M.O.P Rover Red Rover Goes To Mars Project DIY MOC Pre-Classic Space Rovers (URL) Phew, how time flies. It’s now halfway through October and it seems like only last week I was putting the finishing touches on the (...) (21 years ago, 18-Oct-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.space, lugnet.technic, FTX)
| | | | | New Technology from Venus
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| Hello, I finally got authorization from Mitzi, the Venusian Technology Delegate to show images of her shuttle. She says that hopefully, she can provide us other Venusian craft later. Here is her shuttle: (2 URLs) Top View> (URL) Side View> (you can (...) (21 years ago, 17-Oct-03, to lugnet.announce, FTX)
| | | | | Sacramento, CA LUG is forming!
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| Hello all! I am pleased to announce that we are in the process of forming the Sacramento Lego Users Group, aka SacLUG. We have begun by asking adults and kids alike to sign up at the (URL) Sacramento Lego Road Show stop>. We got a lot (over 100!) of (...) (21 years ago, 17-Oct-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sac, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sto, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, FTX) !
| | | | | COLTC at GATS in Dayton, Ohio
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| Exhausted & delighted, COLTC has completed our first GATS show in Dayton, Ohio this past weekend -- Oct. 11-12, 2003 -- at the Exposition Center at Dayton Airport. We set up the display Saturday morning before the event opened in about 4 hours & had (...) (21 years ago, 14-Oct-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.loc.us.oh.day, lugnet.loc.us.oh.col) !!
| | | | | Master Builder candidates on Wired.com!
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| WIRED.COM has an article on the search for a new Master Builder. The article includes quotes from the original announcement, and from Russell Clark and myself, Aaron Sneary. It's really exciting that the media is interested in this job search. Take (...) (21 years ago, 14-Oct-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX) !
| | | | | Wow what a for LEGO events weekend!
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| Here is a list of events this weekend: LEGO WORLD October 17-21, 2003 (URL) Will You Make LEGO Roadshow, Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ (URL) display in Truro, NS, Canada October 18, 2003 (URL) at GATS Ft Myers, FL October 18-19, 2003 (URL) at the Motor (...) (21 years ago, 14-Oct-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.org)
| | | | | NovaLUG display in Truro, NS, Oct 18th
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| Hey folks, NovaLUG is proud to announce our fourth public event. We will be participating in the Model train show in (URL) on October the 18th from 9am to 4pm. For this occasion, we decided to work with all new creations of our favorite train and (...) (21 years ago, 14-Oct-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.ns, lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.novalug, lugnet.town, FTX)
| | | | | GFLTC at GATS Ft Myers, Florida...
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| Hi all, The Greater Florida LEGO Train Club will have a layout at the Great American Trains Show (GATS), October 18 and 19, 2003 in Fort Myers, Florida. The 22ft X 15ft layout will feature two main lines of trains, a large yard area, a large (...) (21 years ago, 14-Oct-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.fl, lugnet.org.us.gflug)
| | | | | MichLUG to display at the Motor City Comic Con in Novi, MI
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| Motor City Comic Con Description: ComicCon is a huge comic book convention, featuring lots of dealers, anime and gaming, and a long list of guests, including the actors who played Geordie LaForge and Tasha Yar in Star Trek: The Next Generation. - (...) (21 years ago, 13-Oct-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.org) !!
| | | | | ParLUGment to Display at Railfair 26, Ottawa, Canada
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| Hello, The Ottawa LEGO club ParLUGment is pleased to announce our first local showing in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. On October 18th and 19th, we will be displaying a 16' x 9' LEGO Train layout at Railfair 26. The show is at Algonquin College near (...) (21 years ago, 13-Oct-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment) !
| | | | | *** LDView Version 2.0.3 Released ***
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| (NOTE: This version only affects people who are not running Windows 2000 or Windows XP. If you are running LDView 2.0.2 in Windows 2000 or Windows XP, there's no need to update.) LDView version 2.0.3 is now available, in both source and binary (...) (21 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
| | | | | European LUG MAP
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| Hi, For the interested ones, here's a link to our site with a European LUG MAP. Because the one on LUGNET isn't up to date, even after asking Todd & Suzanne, our webmaster desided to create one for our site. You can find it here : (URL) over a (...) (21 years ago, 9-Oct-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.dk, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.pt, lugnet.loc.fr, lugnet.loc.it) !
| | | | | Underworld movie poster
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| Well.. this was done a couple weeks ago but with vacation I never got the post put up. After seeing Underworld I finally got the incentive to finish the poster as I'd had the idea for a few months based on promo pictures, etc. (URL) you like it. :) (...) (21 years ago, 9-Oct-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.build.minifigs)
| | | | | Virtual LEGO now available!
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| Hey everyone! Writing to let you know that the book Virtual LEGO (by yours truly, Steve Bliss, and Ahui Herrera) has finally hit the shelves! It is now shipping from Amazon.com and showing up in your local bookstore soon (if its not there already). (...) (21 years ago, 9-Oct-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.books, lugnet.publish, FTX) !!
| | | | | LDraw Design Pad Version 1.5 Released
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| 5 months in the making, LDraw Design Pad 1.5 is finally released. A installer for new users and an update for users of 1.5b can be found here: (URL) (LDDP) is a tool for editing and handling LDraw files in a very comfortable way. Features are: (...) (21 years ago, 9-Oct-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Seattle Road Show (whoops- a week late...)
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| The Road Show came to Seattle on the last weekend of September, running from the 26th to the 28th. PNLTC, SeaLUG, and SMART all shared the small space with a 3-layer layout in 4 sections. You can check out a sampling of the pictures on the SeaLUG (...) (21 years ago, 6-Oct-03, to lugnet.events, lugnet.announce, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.space, lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics, FTX)
| | | | | Angus Young Minifig Instructions and Bitmaps
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| For those of you who requested it, my Angus Young Mini-Fig instructions and bitmaps are now online... www.blockaholic.com/...ldpage.htm For best results for the Gibon SG guitar, use the CorelDRAW file, provided you have CorelDRAW. Enjoy! For those (...) (21 years ago, 6-Oct-03, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | *** LDView Version 2.0.2 Released ***
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| LDView version 2.0.2 is now available, in both source and binary forms. You can download either from: (URL) biggest change in this release is an update to use your currently selected visual style when running in Windows XP. Most of the other changes (...) (21 years ago, 4-Oct-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
| | | | | LEGOLAND® MASTER MODEL BUILDER SEARCH
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| All, Another one of those cool things I just LOVE to announce! Let's get the word out about this, and maybe it can help bring some closet-AFOLs out into the open! --- LEGOLAND® MASTER MODEL BUILDER SEARCH IS COMING TO YOUR BLOCK THIS FALL National (...) (21 years ago, 2-Oct-03, to lugnet.build, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, FTX) !!
| | | | | Star Wars Golfcarts Batch 2!
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| Here's the next batch of my Star Wars carts! They include: Naboo Fighter Sith Infiltrator Jedi Starfighter A-Wing B-Wing www.blockaholic.com/...lfpage.htm Up next: The Y-Wing! LMKWYT!!!! Sincerely, Marlon Wuytenburg www.blockaholic.com (21 years ago, 2-Oct-03, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | admin change
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| Hi All! As I mentioned at BrickFest in August, I'm retiring from my position as a LUGNET administrator. I'll still be around as an AFOL, but am not receiving LUGNET's admin e-mail. Please direct questions to Todd. thanks, Suz (21 years ago, 30-Sep-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general) !!
| | | | | Important message for people connecting via NNTP
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| Due to a recent distributed denial of service attack, we have shut down NNTP service on port 119 to prevent further service interruptions. Alternate ports 1119, 8000, and 8080 are still available. --Todd (21 years ago, 26-Sep-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.announce) !!
| | | | | The Great American Biomechanical Bricks Northern USA Tour 2003
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| I'm hitting the road tonight and its North West Brick Con or Bust! I have the pleasure and rare experience to go on a (URL) Lego Fan Road Trip.> Stopping at ADFoL homes along the way. Some of the stops include picking up MOCs for transport to the (...) (21 years ago, 25-Sep-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, lugnet.people, FTX) !!
| | | | | The VLC participated at the LEGO® Sponsored "What will you make Americas?" RoadShow!
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| The Vancouver LEGO® Club was put to the test against Master Builders as they constructed a layout for the "What will you make?" LEGO® North America RoadShow tour. Approximately 9 members of The VLC built the impeccably detailed layout in 3 weeks, (...) (21 years ago, 24-Sep-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.events, lugnet.town, lugnet.org.ca.vlc) !!
| | | | | MichLTC - Hamburg Railroad Days - Show Report & Pictures
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| MichLTC completed another show this past weekend. This time at the Hamburg Railroad days show. Chris created a few new buildings for this layout. Steve Ringe showed some new train models for the first time at this show as well. We also had a small (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.events, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.us.mi, FTX)
| | | | | NGLTC at the 27th Annual Festival of Trees
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| Once again the North Georgia LEGO® Train Club (NGLTC) will be supporting the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta by sponsoring a tree at the 27th Annual Festival of Trees. The Festival of Trees, Atlanta’s premier holiday event, benefits Children’s (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ga)
| | | | | Introducing Star Wars Golfcarts!!!!
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| For the last few weeks I've been working on the follow-up to my Star Wars Wrestling video: Star Wars Golf! I've created a bunch of Star Wars Golfcarts that are going to be featured in the video, and I've put the pictures online! They include: (URL) (...) (21 years ago, 22-Sep-03, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | NWBrickCon and SEALUG websites redesigned
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| The SEALUG website has been refreshed with every page and section redesigned for easier navigation and consistent look. Also hosted on the SEALUG website is the NWBrickCon micro-site - and not to be outdone by its host, the NWBrickCon micro-site now (...) (21 years ago, 22-Sep-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.org.us.sealug)
| | | | | The Alphabet Project Strikes Back!
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| The T-wing has finally been finished and I've completely redone the Alphabet section on FBTB: (URL) I'll have the R-wing done soon. Tell me what you think! (URL) j o n (URL) zemi.net> (URL) the-shipyard> (21 years ago, 21-Sep-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.general, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, FTX) !!
| | | | | MichLTC to display @ Hamburg Railroad Days - Hamburg, MI - September 20th
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| The city of Hamburg, MI is having their annual Railroad Days festival and MichLTC will be diplaying. Our members have been busy working on new creations to fill those city blocks. We will have an area approximately 19'x13'. The current plan includes (...) (21 years ago, 18-Sep-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.org) !
| | | | | The 2003 Great Edmonton Model Train Show
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| This Weekend! Edmonton, Alberta, Canada The Mainline Model Railroaders Fellowship is holding their annual train show this very weekend, September 20-21 2003. If you're in the neighbourhood, please drop by and check it out! It's located at the (...) (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug, lugnet.loc.ca.ab, lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains) !
| | | | | LEGO Poem: The Girl Over There
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| Hello all, I'm pleased to annocue a new LEGO poem called "The Girl Over There". Click on the image to see the poem. (URL) As always you can see the rest of the poem here: (URL) Also for those of you that have download the virtual museum, I have (...) (21 years ago, 15-Sep-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.publish, FTX)
| | | | | Got Rules?
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| Greetings, MICHLUG: We down here in the small but steadily growing TEXLUG (Texas LEGO Users Group) are kicking around, in our online correspondence, the possibility of incorporating some kind of charter or bylaws or whatever you want to call them, (...) (21 years ago, 15-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Introducing Classic-Castle.com
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| Introducing Classic-Castle.com community website On behalf of all of the people involved in its creation, I would like to take this opportunity to introduce everyone to Classic-Castle.com, which can be found at the following address: (URL) is (...) (21 years ago, 15-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.castle.org.cw) !!
| | | | | icosahedron in soccer-ball style
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| Inspired by Steve DeCraemer's (URL) S.P.U.> (picture by Rob Hendrix) first shown at Brickfest 2003, I decided to build a bigger version. Six BrickLink orders, over 4000 pieces, 180 triangles - and this is what I came up with. (2 URLs) Gallery (after (...) (21 years ago, 15-Sep-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX) !
| | | | | ACDC's Angus Young Mini-Figure
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| I've just posted a decent picture of my custom Angus Young mini-figure, dressed in his school-boy outfit and his Gibson SG guitar! (URL) Wuytenburg (21 years ago, 14-Sep-03, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Christmas Contest Revision & Lifesize LEGO Nativity Scene
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| I'm posting the following for our Client: "Based upon feedback from the Lego community, we have changed the contest guidelines to allow Lego enthusiasts to submit their model without glue. In regard to the contest theme, the contest is being hosted (...) (21 years ago, 14-Sep-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.general, FTX) !!
| | | | | 3 nw posters, LPC and Top 10 updates
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| Hi everybody! Ok, so I have a good news and a bad news for you all. The good news is, there will be a new feature in the Humor! section at (URL) very soon. The bad news is, I'll be on the operating table tuesday morning, so if I don't get it done (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.fun, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
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