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Hey all, A couple of nights ago while trying to maximize the number of 2x4 bricks I could fit into a cup in a far easier format than the previous record. I found that I had actually beat the old record by quite a bit. The new record is 149. (URL) I (...) (21 years ago, 1-Dec-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | Last Chance for Submission to LDraw.org Model/Scene of the Month for December
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Last chance to submit picture for consideration in the December Model/Scene of the Month contest. I will not accept entries past 1600 Eastern US Time on November 30th. If you submit you entry late then your submission will be held until January. All (...) (21 years ago, 30-Nov-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general) !
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| | Optical Illusions
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Just something I've been kicking around for a while. Suggestions welcome! (URL) (21 years ago, 29-Nov-03, to lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Parts Tracker outages in next few days
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Please expect some availability outages on the Parts Tracker in the next few days, as I begin work on the next parts update. I am not able to set any expectations as to the likely delivery date of 2003-03, as this will be the first time I have (...) (21 years ago, 28-Nov-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.announce) !
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| | Michiana-LUG @ GATS Fort Wayne
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Michiana-LUG's first GATS appearance was a great success and a lot of fun. Report to follow. Here are some pics... (5 URLs) GATS Fort Wayne 2003> Amy (21 years ago, 25-Nov-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.org.us.michiana-lug, FTX) !!
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| | Introducing the SG-Wing: The AC-DC/Star Wars ship!
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(URL) came the X-Wing, then the Y, A and B Wings, and now here's the SG-Wing! This is what AC-DC's Angus Young would be flying if he were in the Star Wars universe! LMKWYT! Sincerely, Marlon Wuytenburg www.blockaholic.com (21 years ago, 23-Nov-03, to lugnet.announce)
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| | LEGO Art in Saturday Telegraph Magazine (UK)
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Hi there, This Saturday's (22 Nov) Daily Telegraph Magazine (a UK newspaper for non-UK people) has an article about two British artists (John Cake & Darren Neave) who use LEGO for their work. They build replicas of larger works by more famous (...) (21 years ago, 22-Nov-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | NELUG displays at 11/03 Greenberg Train Show in Wilmington MA.
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NELUG showed one of its most changed layouts at the 11/03 Greenberg train Show in Wilmington MA. About 80% of all the buildings were new to the layout. Pictures can be found at. (URL) Kingsley (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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| | MichLTC to display at the SE MI Model Train Show
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MichLTC will be displaying at the Annual Southeast Michigan Model Train Show in Ann Arbor, Michigan on November 30th, from 10am till 4pm. There will be over 100 tables of model trains and railroadiana for sale, several operating layouts, and trains (...) (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.org)
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| | Colossal Castle Contest
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The Classic Castle Team is proud to announce our first building contest: The Colossal Castle Contest. (URL) This contest is a bit different than other contests. We have a variety of categories each with one prize for the winner. Some categories (...) (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.castle, FTX) !!
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| | New Poll regarding new colors
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I slapped together a (URL) poll> about the new colors. PLEASE sound off! James Wilson, Dallas, TX Lugnet Member 1783 (21 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, FTX) !!
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| | Our Lady of the Snows Exhibit - My setup experience
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Hey all, This past weekend (URL) Our Lady of the Snows Shrine> in Belleville, IL launched the Way of Lights event, so I'm free to post this now. Last weekend (October 7-9) I drove down to St. Louis from Ottumwa, IA to help Dan Parker and Gary (...) (21 years ago, 17-Nov-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.people, lugnet.loc.us.mo.stl, lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX) !
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| | BrickCase, Mini-Itx form-factor lego case
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Here's the second case design I've built around a mini-itx VIA EPIA 800 mainboard: (3 URLs) The BrickCase is entirely made of Lego bricks and uses no glue whatsoever (but does make use of several nylon washers, nuts, bolts and miniature screws) and (...) (21 years ago, 15-Nov-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.build, FTX) !
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| | Hooklift Truck Poster
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Jeroen de Haan has kindly made a poster of my hooklift truck render and placed it on (URL) . Thanks Jeroen! I rendered the poster at a far higher resolution than previously to allow better quality prinouts; it took an Athlon XP 2000 over a week to (...) (21 years ago, 14-Nov-03, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.technic, lugnet.announce)
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| | Pictures!... SCLTC at the San Diego Model Railroad Museum
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SCLTC is up and running at the San Diego Model Railroad Museum in Balboa Park! Fifteen members set up shop on Sunday, November 9 and manned our opening day on Tuesday, November 11. Pictures are online at (URL) SCLTC website>. Here are some samples (...) (21 years ago, 14-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
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| | * LDrawDesignPad LDDP 1.51 released *
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Hi! This is mostly a maintenance release. Thank you to everyone who gave feedback on version 1.50! Download it here: (URL) (LDDP) is a tool for editing and handling LDraw files in a very comfortable way. Features are: -Fully customizable editor with (...) (21 years ago, 14-Nov-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | I'm a Master Builder finalist from DC!
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Greetings all. I wanted to share my excitement of being chosen as one of three DC finalists for the position of LEGOLAND Master Model Builder: (URL) I'm at the bottom of the page. The next step is the final build-off in San Diego, CA at LEGOLAND in (...) (21 years ago, 13-Nov-03, to lugnet.events, lugnet.space, lugnet.org.scibrick, lugnet.announce, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX) !!
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| | E Harshbarger at N'tnl Toy Hall of Fame, 15-16 Nov
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Hi all, Just a note to say that I will be at the Strong Museum this weekned in Rochester, NY. Here is the (copied and pasted) text of the associated press release: “Adventures in Toyland” Weekend at Strong Museum November 15 & 16 ROCHESTER, New (...) (21 years ago, 13-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce) !
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| | MichLUG to display at the 19th Annual Festival of Trees - Detroit
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MichLUG is happy to announce that we will be supporting the Children's Hospital of Michigan by sponsoring a tree at the 19th Annual Festival of Trees (Detroit). Festival of Trees is the largest annual special event fundraiser for Children's Hospital (...) (21 years ago, 13-Nov-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.loc.us.mi) !
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| | BrickFest™ PDX website & registration launch!!!
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BrickFest PDX 2004 Portland, OR USA - February 13-15, 2004 We are pleased to announce the launch of the BrickFest™ PDX website and the opening of the event registration! A very special THANKS to Kelly McKiernan (our webmaster) for doing such a GREAT (...) (21 years ago, 13-Nov-03, to lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
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| | Posable Horse Instructions
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Okay, it's not up to Lego publication standards, but it should be helpful: (URL) parts list is also included. Alan (21 years ago, 11-Nov-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.castle)
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| | A&M LWorks Presents MAFIA: City of Lost Heaven BIs
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A&M LWorks is proud to annouce not 1... not 2... or 3... bUT 6 NEW building instructions!! These 6 BIs are part of a new series by Andrzej Szlaga entitled: Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven Set I This project has been on going for over 4 months now and (...) (21 years ago, 10-Nov-03, to lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | New Posable Horse pictures
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As part of my ongoing vain, and ultimately futile, attempt to gain MOC immortality within the Lego community, I present my Posable Horses: King's Horsemen (URL) Apocalypse (URL) So far I have not been able to create a MOC horse that will fit inside (...) (21 years ago, 10-Nov-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.castle) !!
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| | NGLTC building event at Scottish Rite Children's Hospital in Atlanta
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This weekend North Georgia LEGO Train Club (NGLTC) held an ornament building session at Scottish Rite Children's Hospital in Atlanta. Here the patients and families were invited to come down and build ornaments that will be a part of the NGLTC tree (...) (21 years ago, 10-Nov-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | 4099 transformer
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Uhm not quite sure where this topic should be. I guess somewhere over here. I built a transforming jet out of the 4099 robobot designer set. (URL) is a picture with both models;the jet and the robot. (URL) is the folder including the transformation (...) (21 years ago, 8-Nov-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build) !!
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| | LUCNY exhibiting at the Oswego Valley Railroad show
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LEGO Users of Central New York; LUCNY... ...will be displaying our latest buildings, rolling stock, automated switches, modified track geometry, stock LEGO train kits, etc. at the 21st Annual Oswego Valley Railroad Association's Train Show in (...) (21 years ago, 8-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.ny.syr, lugnet.loc.us.ny.uti, lugnet.org.us.lucny, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.announce)
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| | New LEGO User Group for Teen Fans of LEGO!
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I am pleased to announce the formation of TeenLUG of Middle Tennessee. An organazation for Middle Tennessee based Teen LEGO fans to gather and share creations and Ideas. Meetings will be held once a month at various places throughout the community. (...) (21 years ago, 6-Nov-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us.tn.nas, lugnet.org.us)
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| | Sacramento Brick Builders - our first meetings!
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Hello fellow Sacramento area Lego enthusiasts! I am pleased to announce that we have found a meeting location for the Sacramento Lego club, and I have scheduled our first two meetings! They are still some time away due to room availability, but I (...) (21 years ago, 6-Nov-03, to lugnet.org.us.sacbb, lugnet.org.us.baylug, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sac, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.announce)
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| | Two posters of Ben's models
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Hi all, For those who visit my site now and then or recieve the newsletter (subscribe!) this is not new: there are two new posters of 2 steam train models made by Reinhard Beneke; the BR24 and BR50. Hopefully he has time to convert more of his fine (...) (21 years ago, 5-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.announce)
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| | LEGOFESTIVAL 2003 BRUSSELS HITS 18,000 VISITORS
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For the first time TLC organised LEGOFESTIVAL at the Heizel Exhibition Centre in Brussels. After been in Zwolle with BeLUG for the first time, we didn't know what to expect from this "little brother-event". As it was only 2 weeks in between, we (...) (21 years ago, 4-Nov-03, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | LDraw.org MOTM, SOTM Submissions
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Due to the hard work of the team members, we hope to have the Model of the Month (MOTM) and Scene of the Month (SOTM) contests up and running by next month. As such I'd like to ask for any and all submissions to these two contests. If you are new to (...) (21 years ago, 4-Nov-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.announce)
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| | MOC: Citroen DS (7 studs wide)
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Hello, this is my newest creation: A Citroen DS. I always wanted to build one, but I did not know how to build the headlights. When I saw Mattias' Mazda Miata, I knew it: With trans-white plates. Last week I constructed the rest of the model. Here (...) (21 years ago, 2-Nov-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | SCLTC at the San Diego Model Railroad Museum
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The (URL) Southern California LEGO Train Club> returns to the San Diego Model Railroad Museum this holiday season with its biggest and longest running exhibit ever. The layout features six operating trains (including two fully automated ones), a (...) (21 years ago, 1-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
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| | Welcome the Sacramento Brick Builders!
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Hello all! I am pleased to announce the formation of the Sacramento Brick Builders, which will be the LUG for the Sacramento, California area. Folks from all over the central valley, and out east as far as Reno, NV are welcome to join. Right now I (...) (21 years ago, 31-Oct-03, to lugnet.org.us.sacbb, lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.baylug)
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| | Call for BrickFest 2004 Event-Graphic
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The organizers of BrickFest(TM) PDX 2004 would like to extend an invitation to the community to submit their graphic ideas/artwork for consideration in the BrickFest PDX event-graphic contest. The event-graphic (not to be confused with the BrickFest (...) (21 years ago, 27-Oct-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.events, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.org, lugnet.people, FTX) !
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| | MonLUG's 5th Train Show, November 8th and 9th
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A french message follows. Un message en français suit. Hello, I'm happy to announce MonLUG's fifth participation in a train show at the « Expo Train Modélisme » in the Montreal Area. It will be held at Georges Vanier High School in Laval (just north (...) (21 years ago, 25-Oct-03, to lugnet.org.ca.monlug, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.qc, lugnet.loc.ca.qc.mon, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains) !
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| | MichLUG @ the Motor City ComiCon - Caslte & Space Layouts
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MichLUG was happy to display this past weekend at the Motor City ComiCon in Novi, MI. This is our second time displaying with them and we again had a great time. We had a complete castle layout, with 2 castles, 1 haunted keep, a village, a forest, a (...) (21 years ago, 24-Oct-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.us.mi, FTX) !!
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| | BrickSet XRef Version 1.2 Now Available
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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. An upgrade to version 1.2 is (...) (21 years ago, 24-Oct-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.inv)
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| | Pictures of GFLTC at GATS Ft. Myers...
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Train Fans, The Greater Florida LEGO Train Club had a display at the Great American Train Show in Fort Myers, Florida last weekend (October 18-19, 2003). But as you view the picture keep one thing in mind, none of the other GFLTC members could make (...) (21 years ago, 22-Oct-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.fl, lugnet.org.us.gflug) !
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