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| Brad Ventura Around the World ===...=== I'm pleased to announce today that the project to send a Minifig in a trip around this big world is about to begin! Brad Ventura, World Explorer, has been selected in a small elite group of Minifigs from (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.fun, lugnet.publish, lugnet.adventurers, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Next Lugola meeting - May 22nd - San Clemente
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| FOR THE BEST EXPOSURE, THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN REPOSTED HERE! Hello All, The next LUGOLA meeting will be held on May 22nd at my house in southern San Clemente at noon o'-clock (map below). I don't have a big house, but I will have plenty of room for (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.lugola, FTX)
| | | | | New Website/MOCs
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| Hey guys, I just finished a complete remake of my website. The address is the same as before: (URL) think I have found all the bugs, however, there still could be a few. If any of you had problems viewing my robots you should be able to see them (...) (20 years ago, 16-May-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
| | | | | Den ukendte galakse - A LEGO Publishing comic from 1986, rediscovered
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| I admit to being the secret owner of a real treasure: The LEGO Publishing comic Den ukendte galakse (The Unknown Galaxy for the non-Danish reader). Here is the cover, Copyright 1986 LEGO Publishing: (URL) You might recognize the gray robot on the (...) (20 years ago, 15-May-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce, lugnet.books, FTX)
| | | | | her majesty's new sloop! HMS Tempest has arrived!
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| well, with Orion being a rather ageing man of war, she sailed back to England to be refit. as a replacement, the Admiralty sent out the first of the newest class of sloop, HMS Tempest. (URL) her design is a vast improvement over the prior ships. she (...) (20 years ago, 15-May-04, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.announce, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
| | | | | LDraw.org Ad-Hoc Organizing Committee - Wrap-Up and Thank You
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| The LDraw.org Ad-Hoc Organizing Committee (4+1) would like to take the time to publicly wrap up its duties as the provisional authority for LDraw.org with a few words. First, a big thank-you to everyone who helped in the organizing process. We thank (...) (20 years ago, 14-May-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
| | | | | Steering Committee results
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| All: The winners of the LDraw Steering Committee Election are (in alphabetical order by last name): Kevin L. Clague Tim Courtney* Chris Dee Larry Pieniazek Orion Pobursky A total of 86 votes were cast. I did not cast a vote in this election. (...) (20 years ago, 14-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, lugnet.org) !!
| | | | | BrickFest participants for 2004
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| I am looking for a participant of BrickFest 2004. I want someone who is a minifig fan and has some promo and rare minifigs that they wish to display. Or even just a fan that wishes to display some figs. I want to donate a cabinet to this effort. I (...) (20 years ago, 14-May-04, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | 2nd Annual Midwest Lego Train Show ........call for participation........
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| 2nd Annual Midwest Lego Train Show NILTC is pleased to announce that we will be holding the 2nd Annual Midwest Lego Train Show in Wheaton, IL December 4-5th. This show was proven to be a great success last year smashing all previous attendance (...) (20 years ago, 14-May-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.trains.org.niltc, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.org.us.michiana-lug, lugnet.org.us.indylug, lugnet.org.us.lrgoaa, lugnet.org.us.gmlug, lugnet.trains.org)
| | | | | Call for Group Train Layout at BrickFest™ 2004
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| Call for Group Train Layout at BrickFest™ 2004 Once again we would like to extend an invitation to all individuals, LEGO® train clubs or clubs that organize other displays with trains in them to set up a display at BrickFest™. For those of you who (...) (20 years ago, 14-May-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, FTX) !
| | | | | Got an AFOL record setting Lego MOC!?
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| Comming in the next MONTH, an "unofficial AFOL records site". I came up with this idea today. Basicaly I'm aiming for largest, and most catagories, i.e.: Most minifigs Largest castle Largest Caslte Army Tallest Minifig Building Tallest Tower ... the (...) (20 years ago, 14-May-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.publish.photography, lugnet.general, FTX) !
| | | | | Less then 3 months till BrickFest
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| BrickFest, the largest AFOL event in North America, is three months away. Registration for the event opened over a week ago, with many people already registering and planning to attend the Fest. (URL) year marks the 5 anniversary of BrickFest. From (...) (20 years ago, 13-May-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.people, lugnet.org, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.events) !!
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| | | | | | CedarLUG Meeting Tonight
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| First of all I would like to say, "I am nervous to be posting". This is one of my first posts to LUGNET and I hope that I have done it correctly (If not I know I will be told :) ). Second, I placed lugnet.org in the "Request Followups to:" field (...) (20 years ago, 12-May-04, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Top secret project - we need your help
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| All, Richard and I (mostly Richard, thanks Richard!) have been working on a new survey tool to get a better handle on the AFOL part desires. We have been working on a super top secret project – we’ll call it Project X - for many months now, and it’s (...) (20 years ago, 11-May-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.lego.announce, lugnet.color, lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
| | | | | Newest member of the LCD Team
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| I have some good news to pass along – Jan Beyer, a LEGO colleague has joined the LEGO Community Development (LCD) Team to help me out. Jan will be working with the German community. Jan will report into me, but will be the main point of contact (...) (20 years ago, 11-May-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.announce, lugnet.lego.announce) !
| | | | | NGLTC club house at Discover Mills Mall this summer
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| Once again the North Georgia LEGO Train club (NGLTC) will have a summer “club house” at the Discover Mills Outlet Mall in Gwinnett county Georgia. Like last year we will be occupying an empty store in the mall and filling it with our LEGO train (...) (20 years ago, 11-May-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us.ga, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
| | | | | COLTC to display at Dennison, Ohio's TrainFest from July 30 - August 1, 2004
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| COLTC will have a 30 x 30 foot layout at the Dennison, Ohio Train Festival from July 30 - August 1, 2004. We are still working out the details of the layout, but we have been asked by the TranFest event co-ordinator to bring along Paul Janssen's 4+ (...) (20 years ago, 10-May-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.oh) !!
| | | | | MichLUG to display at the Motor City Comic Con - Castle & Space - May 14-16
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| MichLUG has been invited to display at the Motor City Comic Con for a third time now. We will have a Moonbase layout with 10 regular sized modules and 4 super sized modules. Along with a monorail, many lading pads and ships galore there will be 75 (...) (20 years ago, 10-May-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.org, lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, FTX) !!
| | | | | New newsgroup lugnet.color
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| A new newsgroup/list lugnet.color has been created for the focused discussion LEGO colors. Cross-posting is OK, within reason, but please be careful to set the followup field to direct color discussions to lugnet.color -- especially rants, (...) (20 years ago, 9-May-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego) !!
| | | | | My Honours Project
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| Last year I completed an Honours year in Applied Mathematics at the University of Melbourne. My project was on the segregation of granular materials in a rotating drum. If a horizontal cylinder is approximately half-filled with two granular (...) (20 years ago, 8-May-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.edu, lugnet.announce, FTX)
| | | | | Update: Universal colors - beginnings
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| Many people have asked what colors are currently considered "universal" or locked. This means that these colors will almost certainly never be changed. Universal colors are colors that we consider to be untouchable for change. While the final list (...) (20 years ago, 6-May-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.announce) !!
| | | | | The prefect answer to deciding which parts to make in the old colors
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| Basicly, builders for each theme (well certainly the core themes like space, castle, pirates, town, trains & technic) would come up with a list of the parts that they most use. Then, from there, the lists would be combined (I suspect that quite a (...) (20 years ago, 6-May-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | New MOCs
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| Hi folks! I've posted a few new MOCs on my Brickshelf area, mostly those that were displayed at the 500 Festival Kid's Day in Indianapolis on May 1. It includes my first attempt at a Mecha figure, as well as a space pirate ship, grandstands and a (...) (20 years ago, 6-May-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
| | | | | More pictures!
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| Just in case you haven't had enough, there are now 78 more photos from (URL) SCLTC>'s display at Fullerton Railroad Days! (URL) Follow this link for more pictures: (URL). Enjoy! - Thomas Michon Webmaster, (URL) SCLTC> (20 years ago, 5-May-04, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.org.us.lugola, lugnet.general, FTX) !!
| | | | | Jake did good Thanks!!
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| It's past time to get beyond debating the "why" of the color change (and especially haranguing Jake about it). I don't see any reason not to take Jake and the TLC at their word that the new colors work better with the core market at point of sale: (...) (20 years ago, 5-May-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, FTX) !!
| | | | | Color Change - Final Update
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| You’d think I would have learned my lesson by now about the color change and just taken refuge in a concrete bunker. Nope, not that bright I think! I come to you with a final update, and some good news, as well as bad. Bad news first – After much (...) (20 years ago, 5-May-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.lego) !!
| | | | | Risque images at Legoland
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| Hey everybody! For those of you that are in the San Diego area, Channel 8 news is doing a bit about the "risque" scenes in Legolands Miniland. I am not sure if this is an off-shoot of the story that appeared in the San Diego Union Tribune a few (...) (20 years ago, 3-May-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | BrickFest™ Registration now online
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| BrickFest™ Registration form is now available via the website. BrickFest 2004 August 13-15th Washington, DC (URL) Registration will be a bit different this year. If you registered and attended BrickFest PDX, your account may already be set up. If (...) (20 years ago, 3-May-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.announce, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.games, lugnet.org, lugnet.people, lugnet.build.schleim) !!
| | | | | April Model and Scene of the Month Contest Winners
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| Congratulations to the winners of the March Model/Scene of the Month contests: (URL) MOTM, Jorgen Andersson, Volkswagen Typ 82 "Kübelwagen"> (URL) SOTM, Robert Leahey, Perspectives 2 - Making Orbit> Voting for May's contests in is now open This (...) (20 years ago, 2-May-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
| | | | | Igor Last Quest (or my entry for the Booby Trap Contest)
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| Some said a picture worth 1000 words... so I ask and how much a movie worth :) (URL) Enjoy! P.S. I forgat to mantioned that this is for the Booby Trap contest for CC:) Yaron "Webrain" Dori (20 years ago, 2-May-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.announce, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX) !!
| | | | | Pictures from SCLTC at Fullerton 2004!
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| (9 URLs) Pictures of SCLTC's latest show are now available! Our club is displaying at the Fullerton Railroad Days event from May 1-2, 2004, held at the Amtrak Train Station in Fullerton, CA. Follow this link for the photo gallery: (URL). Our show is (...) (20 years ago, 2-May-04, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.org.us.lugola, lugnet.general, FTX) !!
| | | | | Minifig Hall of Fame Winner : Yellow Castle Knight Blue
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| Hi all! This is to announce that the winner of the April-May 2004 election for the Minifig Hall of Fame is Yellow Castle Knight Blue. He finished in front of Ghost who will be in the next election's second round. Visit www.minifigville.com/mhof to (...) (20 years ago, 2-May-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.general, lugnet.fun, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | CC2: discus, Hammerhead the CD thrower
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| Here is the write-up about (URL), the CD thrower which won (URL) CONTEST # 2: Discus>, with shooting distance of 20 feet. (URL) You will find (URL) there> detail images, movies... Thanks to the LEGO Mindstorms Forum team who organized this contest, (...) (20 years ago, 1-May-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, FTX)
| | | | | Announcing the Fleebnork.com Civilian Space MOC contest!
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| Hi Everyone! After Jon Palmer's successful P38 contest, I have decided to run one of my own. I am resurrecting a contest some of you may recall from Mark's Lego Creations about 4 years ago. (URL) The Civilian MOC contest! The rules are simple: You (...) (20 years ago, 30-Apr-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.space, FTX) !!
| | | | | Coupe/ Cabrio car
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| Hi! After a long time I'm able to present a new technic car: (URL) I tried to put as many cool features in this car I possibly could do. Some specs: - All wheeldrive with a double wishbone suspensionsystem - V 12 engine and a 'normal' 5+1 speed (...) (20 years ago, 30-Apr-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.technic)
| | | | | SCLTC at Fullerton Railroad Days 2004
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| The (URL) Southern California LEGO Train Club> (SCLTC) returns to Fullerton Railroad Days this coming weekend with its first new layout of 2004. Items appearing for the first time: An automated light rail system A brand new town area Area 51 A new (...) (20 years ago, 30-Apr-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org.scltc, lugnet.town, lugnet.org.us.lugola, FTX) !
| | | | | LDraw.org Steering Committee Election Open
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| The LDraw.org Steering Committee election is now open. To vote, please visit (URL) and log in with your user account. Next, visit the announcement on LDraw.org here: (URL) the Ballot link. You may vote for up to five candidates. Please cast only one (...) (20 years ago, 30-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce) !!
| | | | | Lego in a government fraud article
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| I was doing my daily scan of news stories when I came across the following article: "Government Credit Card Abuses Detailed" So I took a read. Lo and behold, in the bottom, look what I found: In another instance $200 of LEGO toy robots were bought (...) (20 years ago, 30-Apr-04, to lugnet.announce, FTX)
| | | | | Guide to Jade Empire
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| I put this together to help out those people who may be wondering just what exactly this whole Jade Empire business is all about. If anyone else has anything to contribute, please feel free to post! Some time ago on Lugnet (and in chat conversations (...) (20 years ago, 29-Apr-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, FTX)
| | | | | www.malug.hu --- LEGO User Group in Hungary
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| (URL) Hi there, Akos form the Hungarian LEGO User Group asked my to post his annouce here at lugnet. So here we go: ***...*** We are pleased to announce the formation of MALUG, the de facto LUG for Hungary! Our website can be found here: (URL) Be (...) (20 years ago, 29-Apr-04, to lugnet.announce, FTX)
| | | | | The GeeBee is Ready. [Image Heavy]
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| Hey all, I got tired of responding to myself for updates ((URL)), so I'll start a new thread for the good stuff. A bit of a late update, but what can I say? I'm just finishing up :) Pictures: (URL) The front. I like the little engine details; the (...) (20 years ago, 29-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.general, FTX) !!
| | | | | disk failure
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| The LUGNET production server (still the older server, hosted at Pair Networks) suffered a disk failure today at what appears to be, according to the logs, 11:30am EST. The disk has been replaced, data restored, and we seem to be set back about 8 (...) (20 years ago, 28-Apr-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce) !!
| | | | | New Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2004 Collection
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| Dear Ladys, Holly Wood, your favorite fashion designer, proudly presents its new female runway spring/summer collection 2004. (URL) As usual we have put our attention to a clean line, exclusive fabrics, exceptional attention to detail and a subtle (...) (20 years ago, 28-Apr-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
| | | | | BrickParts will be having a new owner
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| Hi Everyone! Just to let everyone know, BrickParts will soon have a new owner! ;*( Yes, after three and a half years I am selling my business and will be consentrating full time on my career. I want to thank eveyone who has done business with me. (...) (20 years ago, 28-Apr-04, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | The League of Extraordinary Spaceships
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| Wow, two posts in one night..One to trains and one to space. I hope I don't get shot for supporting both groups. Anyway, I was at the NCLTC Train show this last weekend and had an opportunity to hang out with the Space Papparazzi himself. We started (...) (20 years ago, 28-Apr-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.space, FTX) !
| | | | | NCLTC Show at GATS in Raleigh
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| Hi All. I finally attended and participated in a train show. I was priveledged enough to be a part of the NCLTC show in Raleigh this weekend. It was awesome. Mike Walsh and company put on a heck of a show. I got to meet some new people, see some (...) (20 years ago, 28-Apr-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, FTX) !!
| | | | | Lego Chess Table
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| Hello all, This will be my first post. And also my first try at lego sculpture/lego furnture You can view some of the picks here (URL) I took me about a 2 weeks to build the table. It stands 20" hi. It is about as tall as an average coffee table. Is (...) (20 years ago, 28-Apr-04, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Unofficial LeoCAD parts update #17
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| LeoCAD parts update matching LDraw.org Parts Update 2004-02 is available from (URL) to everybody who confirmed me that these updates were useful... Philo www.philohome.com (20 years ago, 26-Apr-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.leocad)
| | | | | MLCad.ini 2004-02 Update Now Available
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| Hi, I just updated the MLCad.ini file accordingly to the latest LDraw.org parts update 2004-02. The .ini file defines the parts available in MLCad's minifigure generator. Download the file from my website: www.holly-wood.it/mlcad-en.html The update (...) (20 years ago, 25-Apr-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
| | | | | Galactic Requiem update - More dystopia
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| After long and ardous work, I am ready to present the updated (URL) Galactic Requiem> page. For those of you who missed the last announcement, Galactic Requiem is a dystopic comic, illustrated entirely in LEGO bricks. Improvements since last time: (...) (20 years ago, 24-Apr-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce, FTX)
| | | | | LEGO.com Nominated for a Webby!
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| That's right, our favorite toy company's web site is up for a Webby award! LEGO.com has been nominated for the Best Practices category. Take a look here: (URL) can sign up to vote for the Webby awards by following this link: (URL) go, sign up, and (...) (20 years ago, 23-Apr-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish)
| | | | | Curious Kids' Museum Show - Caslte, Town/Train, Space & Aquazone
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| MichLUG was pleased to display at the Curious Kids' Museum for a second year running during their annual LEGO creation contest. This year we assembled displays for four seperate themes. The Space and Aquazone were a little on the small side and we (...) (20 years ago, 23-Apr-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.space, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.castle, lugnet.aquazone, FTX) !!
| | | | | LDraw.org 2004-02 Parts Update Now Available
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| Wee-hoo! This one's a biggie! :) The 2004-02 parts update has been unleashed. It includes 408 files, with 122 new part files. A special treat are the two largest parts we've ever had the privilege of including in the LDraw.org parts library. The (...) (20 years ago, 23-Apr-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad) !!
| | | | | New Tutorial: How to make thumbnails for your inventory using a batch file for LDView
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| hi folks, do you fancy thumbnails for your inventory or do you feel that the parts list of your model also deserves images of the single parts? (URL) one of the ways to render effortlessly a bunch of identical part images is batch-filing LDview. (...) (20 years ago, 21-Apr-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev, FTX) !
| | | | | P-38 Space Contest Winners!
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| Thanks to everyone who entered. You are all rad and awesome. I'm still building the 4 trophies and I'll show them and display the winners on the contest page in a bit, but until then: The microfig scale winner: (URL) MINI A38 by Miklos Hosszu: The 3 (...) (20 years ago, 21-Apr-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.military, lugnet.general, FTX) !
| | | | | James' Castle Project
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| After a few months of sitting on my hard drive I've uploaded the pictures of my latest project to my site. The project is to build a castle modularly, each time building on the previous so at the end of each stage I havew a full castle. Stages 1-3 (...) (20 years ago, 21-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
| | | | | BIP Contest II comes to an end
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| Well, after several months, and with 850 Building Instructions added to the BIP, the (URL) Contest II: Contest Reloaded> has come to an end. You can check out the winning entries at the (URL) (as well as the fat prizes the winners have coming soon), (...) (20 years ago, 21-Apr-04, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, FTX) !!
| | | | | NYCLUG Meeting #2 Minutes & An Invite
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| Hey guys: Thanks again for being there... and thanks also for forgiving my tardiness (in both coming to the meeting and for this email). As always, it's fun to get together, show off our MOC's, sort for pieces aaaaandto keep playing while some (...) (20 years ago, 20-Apr-04, to lugnet.announce, FTX)
| | | | | A GeeBee for the Zoo...
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| Oh, forget the delay, I can't hold out on this! I've been commissioned by the (URL) Kalamazoo Air Zoo>, a new air & space museum in Kalamazoo, MI, to build a sculpture for their grand opening. I got to choose the subject, so what better than a (...) (20 years ago, 19-Apr-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.loc.us.mi, FTX)
| | | | | 1000steine-Land 2004 in Berlin (2nd-4th July)
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| (URL) Hi all, after last years big success there will be another 1000steine-Land in Berlin's Novotel near Tegel Airport this year! The open days for the public will be on • Friday, 2nd July 2004 - 9.00 am till 7.00 pm + Pirates Bar-B-Q • Saturday, (...) (20 years ago, 14-Apr-04, to lugnet.events.1000steine-land, lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
| | | | | zemi.net
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| My site recently went live for what I feel like is the first time. This is its 4th and best build. Kyle Keppler helped me with the php and he is awesome. Check it out: (URL) [ j o n ] (URL) zemi.net> (URL) moonbase> (20 years ago, 12-Apr-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.general, lugnet.space, FTX) !!
| | | | | The Brain-Trusts newest weapon.
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| The Brain-Trust is proud to unveil its newest weapon. Designed to defend our installations, by striking fear into the hearts of the enemy. It's heavily armored to protect our squishy squishy brains from your flesh-o-poid weapons. As you check out (...) (20 years ago, 11-Apr-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, FTX)
| | | | | The Great Breathe Some Life into .loc.au Competition!
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| G'day, The Great Breath Some Life into .loc.au Competition ===...=== Prizes have been donated by Mel Caddick, OzBricks and Richie Dulin. Entry is open to all MOCs submitted by Australians, of an Australian theme, or submitted by a person physically (...) (20 years ago, 8-Apr-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.general, FTX) !
| | | | | [Press Release] MichLUG to show at Curious Kids Museum
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| Contact: Jason Spears jason@michlug.org 269.556.1989 (home) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Benton Harbor Area, MI - The Michigan LEGO Users Group (MichLUG) is pleased to announce that it will be displaying at the Curious Kids Museum in St. Joseph, MI. This (...) (20 years ago, 8-Apr-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.org, lugnet.trains, lugnet.castle, lugnet.space) !
| | | | | BrickFest 2004
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| I'm pleased to announce that BrickFest 2004 will beheld on the weekend of August 13-15th, 2004 Please review the website for more information. (URL) Hitchcock BrickFest (20 years ago, 6-Apr-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.announce, lugnet.people, lugnet.build, lugnet.events, lugnet.fun.community) !!
| | | | | Crystal Reef
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| (URL) Some of you guys have come up with ways to make nano-scale Moonbase modules, but I figured why stop there? Why not make them so they'll fit in with a standard Moonbase layout? After all, there's an added potential for scale-based humor. When I (...) (20 years ago, 6-Apr-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.michlug, FTX)
| | | | | MichLUG April Meeting Report
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| Another meeting, although we had a strange run of last minute cancelations from members, we still had seven members in attendance and one guest. A number of interesting new creations were brought and our guest (John M. Knight) brought more than (...) (20 years ago, 5-Apr-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.loc.us.mi, FTX)
| | | | | 2nd NYCLUG Meeting -- Sunday, April 18
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| Howdy all! Please highlight this message to ensure visibility on LUGNET. Looks like Sunday, April 18th is the (mostly) agreed upon date for the second NYCLUG. As with the first, it will take place at the Citigroup Center in Manhattan, again starting (...) (20 years ago, 4-Apr-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us.ny, FTX)
| | | | | Voting now open for April's MOTM and SOTM contests
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| The voting for the April Model of the Month and Scene of the Month contests is now open at LDraw.org. Visit the (URL) voting page> to cast your vote. This is the first month of the new MOTM rules format. Any comment regarding this new format are (...) (20 years ago, 4-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, FTX)
| | | | | March Model and Scene of the Month Contest Winners
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| Congratulations to the winners of the March Model/Scene of the month contests: (URL) MOTM, David Thomas, Williams F1 Team Racer> (URL) SOTM, Jorgen Andersson, Truck in Snowstorm> Due to computer problems, the April MOTM and SOTM contests are not yet (...) (20 years ago, 2-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, FTX)
| | | | | [rtlToronto] rtlToronto Announces New Blueprint 2004 Shirt
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| Hi folks, As you know, 2001 Blueprint shirt was well received and sold almost a hundred units. We are now coming to the end of stock for this product. I have finished the design for the new 2004 rtlToronto shirt. You can see a preview for it here: (...) (20 years ago, 1-Apr-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | LEGO discount coupons
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| SCANDINAVIAN NEWS SERVICE – (BILLUND, DK, 1-APR-2004) The LEGO Group will reportedly announce next week that it is making minor changes to its flagship toy building blocks as part of a “last ditch effort to keep the company independent and return it (...) (20 years ago, 1-Apr-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.market.shopping) !!
| | | | | NELUG layout at 3/27 - 3/28 Greenberg show (Animated King Kong!!! included)
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| NELUG continued its tradition of doing a new layout that includes some really new stuff including our goal of adding lots of automation to the layout. For this layout that included an animated King Kong climbing a sky scraper. This was put together (...) (21 years ago, 30-Mar-04, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
| | | | | MichLUG presented 2 Build Workshops at the Curious Kids Museum
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| MichLUG members were pleased to present two Build Workshops at the Curious Kids Museum in St. Joseph, MI on Saturday, March 17th. The kids seemed to have a lot of fun and we may find ourselves doing more of these in the future. (2 URLs) Event (...) (21 years ago, 28-Mar-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.org, FTX) !!
| | | | | Biomechanical Bricks on LUGNET: An Online History of Lego Creations by Eric Sophie
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| I developed this set of pages on LUGNET to help chonicle the creations and adventures I have, had, and continue to pursue and ejnoy. An online history of Lego Creations by Eric Sophie. Contains just about everything I have done and connects it with (...) (21 years ago, 28-Mar-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.people, lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.technic, lugnet.org.scibrick, lugnet.org.us.gardenslug, FTX)
| | | | | MonLUG's 6th Train Show, April 3rd and 4th
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| A french message follows. Un message en français suit. Hello, I'm happy to announce MonLUG's sixth 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, 27-Mar-04, 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) !
| | | | | Last Week to Submit Entries for April MOTM/SOTM
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| One week to sumit entrie for LDraw.org's Model of the Month and Scene of the Month contest. If you win you will have you entry displayed for a month on LDraw.org's website and you will be entered into the running for Model or Scene of the Year. (...) (21 years ago, 26-Mar-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
| | | | | New Web Site
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| Hi all, The Brisbane Lego Users Group (BUGS) has found itself a new home. Our site can be found at www.ozbugs.org All the best. Please update your links. Aaron (21 years ago, 26-Mar-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.au)
| | | | | Our 2nd GATS
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| We finished our 2nd GATS event last weekend in Collinsville, Ill.. I have posted pix on Brickshelf. I hope you enjoy. We arrived very early and not so bright Saturday morning and started assembling our tables. We had already designed the track (...) (21 years ago, 23-Mar-04, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | LDraw Organization now allows individual membership
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| In preparation for the upcoming LDraw.org Steering Committee elections, LDraw.org now allows you to become a member of the organization. By registering as a member, you will have voting privileges for elections of the organization's Steering (...) (21 years ago, 22-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce) !!
| | | | | NovaLUG to display in New Minas, Nova Scotia, March 20th
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| Greetings all, NovaLUG will participating in the Kings county Hobby Show at County Fair Mall in New Minas, Nova Scotia, tomorrow, March 20th. The show is from 9 am until 3 pm, free admission. New Minas is near the start of the Annapolis Valley, just (...) (21 years ago, 19-Mar-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.novalug, lugnet.loc.ca.ns)
| | | | | Last chance for real grey -- let's send a message
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| As you may have seen in this thread: (URL) the limited production run -- 10,000 bags each -- of the classic grey, dark grey, and brown parts packs is now available at (URL). I know that these packs aren't necessarily a great deal compared to what (...) (21 years ago, 18-Mar-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.market.shopping) !!
| | | | | 6 new bulk packs at S@H
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| Hi all, at (URL) www.brickset.com> are 6 new bulk packs shown which might be available form S@H soon: (URL) #10150 Bulk Bricks - Assorted Brown Plates (URL) #10149 Bulk Bricks - Assorted Dark Grey Plates (URL) #10148 Bulk Bricks - Assorted Light (...) (21 years ago, 18-Mar-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.lego.direct, FTX) !
| | | | | G.M.L.T.C. to display at La Crosse & Three Rivers Model Railroad Show
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| The Greater Midwest LEGO Train Club will be showing this weekend at the La Crosse & Three Rivers Railroad Club 23rd Annual Model Railroad Show See the the GMLTC's huge ever-expanding modular all-LEGO town/train layout featuring many new trains. As (...) (21 years ago, 17-Mar-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.loc.us.wi)
| | | | | More opinions needed - possible future Legends
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| If you haven't noticed it on the LEGO MyOpinions site already, we're currently running a session to get some feedback on the most desired sets for possible future LEGO Legends. Head over to MyOpinions or go straight to the survey here: (URL) fun! (...) (21 years ago, 17-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.lego.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce) !!
| | | | | I'm gonna drive there and get them - Biff and Sandy Retrieval Ship
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| re: P.S. I'm gonna drive there and get them. We should have a contest, build a Biff and Sandy Retrieval Ship. #1. It has to have a single pilot. #2. It has to have room for Biff and Sandy when you rescue them! #3. 18 years and over , sorry. *17 (...) (21 years ago, 17-Mar-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space) !
| | | | | IDOL: International Day of LEGO
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| Greetings Earth Mortals! Looking forward two days hence A time for fun shall then commence For grown-up kids, no work, just play Some IDOL time will fill our day March 18 2004 International Day Of LEGO How will YOU celebrate? Peace and Long Life, (...) (21 years ago, 16-Mar-04, to lugnet.fun.holiday, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.events, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ne.oma)
| | | | | NGLTC NMRA Piedmont Division show pictures
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| This past weekend the North Georgia LEGO Train Club (NGLTC) participated in the local NMRA Piedmont Division train show in Cobb County Georgia. This is the 4th year we have been invited to show at this event. It is a much smaller event than we (...) (21 years ago, 16-Mar-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | MichLTC to display at the Ypsilanti Railroad Days
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| MichLTC has been invited to display at the Ypsilanti Railroad Days event. It will be at the Ypsilanti City Farmers Market. Our 10x12 layout will feature creations by our own Chris Leach, Spencer Rezkalla and Steve Ringe. The Market is open from 8am (...) (21 years ago, 15-Mar-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.org) !
| | | | | GtwLUG to show at GATS on 20-21 March
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| This weekend March 20th and 21st GtwLUG (Gateway LEGO® Users Group) will be at the GATS show in Collinsville, IL (URL) GATS Calendar page> from 11:00 to 5:00 both days. Admission is $7 for adults, kids under 12 are free. Our layout is the same size (...) (21 years ago, 15-Mar-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | | | I need your help... and info!
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| (Note: please trim newsgroups on reply) All, As you know, I work both with you and with colleagues inside the LEGO Company. My efforts internally include a large bit of "training and introduction" about AFOLs. Projects like the "AFOLs" comic are (...) (21 years ago, 15-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.announce, FTX) !!
| | | | | Galactic Requiem - A dystopic LEGO comic
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| It has taken blood, sweat and tears (in that order), but I have finally gotten my LEGO comic up and running. It is illustrated entirely in LEGO bricks, pluss come "ditital remastering" (Photoshop). So without further ado: (URL) An uneasy truce (...) (21 years ago, 12-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.announce, FTX)
| | | | | New unofficial LeoCAD parts update
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| I had no negative returns for my previous parts update (URL) (but I had no positive ones either!), so I have prepared a new part update in-sync with latest LDraw parts. The files are available from (URL) if you hear me, it would be better to keep (...) (21 years ago, 12-Mar-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.leocad)
| | | | | Brickshelf Viewer
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| Several weeks ago, I created a php interface for Brickshelf which incorporates many of the features I've asked for many times. I know Kevin probably won't approve of this since it doesn't carry over his advertisements or count hits, but I wanted to (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.publish) !!
| | | | | MichLUG March Meeting Report
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| This past Saturday we met, talked LEGO, drafted some 7000 parts, dashed some creations to the floor and met some potenial future members. You can read the (URL) full report> for more details and pictures. (2 URLs) -Jason Spears (URL) MichLUG.org> (...) (21 years ago, 9-Mar-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.loc.us.mi, FTX)
| | | | | my latest moc
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| Hi, as you might have noticed my lates moc is now on brickshelf. (URL) as always please give any comments you like ... greetings, Didier ps: It was showed in Antwerp during the "hobbybeurs" at the belug stand. (21 years ago, 8-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.be, lugnet.announce, FTX)
| | | | | Server installation photos
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| Phase 1 of installation of the new LUGNET servers is a success The new servers arrived yesterday in a pair of giant cardboard boxes... (2 URLs) ...which, though mildly annoying, did give us some much needed exercise. We went up one at a time. (2 (...) (21 years ago, 7-Mar-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
| | | | | BIP Contest II - Update
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| We've reached another milestone on the (URL) BIP>, we've passed 800 added building instructions! The site has had a (URL) running for a while now to help encourage link additions, and it's worked like a champ. Joseph Gonzales won the Teaser Prize at (...) (21 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
| | | | | Getting Started with LEGO Trains
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| The book is finally here! I saw today that you could order the book from Amazon, which means most other sources should have it now or VERY soon. If you've already read the book, please post a review on Amazon if you are so inclined. Oh, and if you (...) (21 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.books, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.announce) !!
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