 | | Legend set of Royal Knight's Castle
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I noticed that a new Legend set appeared on Shop at Home: #K10176 - Classic Castle, a recreation of set #6090 - Royal Knight's Castle "with updated parts and colors". At this moment only for the European/Oceana side, will ship by 14 Jul 2006. With (...) (18 years ago, 30-Jun-06, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.announce) !
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| | Classic-Castle Story Telling Contest
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(URL) Text from Classic-Castle.com Purpose: The object of this contest is to encourage the creation of castle theme stories. Subject matter may be anything within the castle theme, including historical and the fantastical. All stories must have a (...) (18 years ago, 29-Jun-06, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.contests, FTX) !!
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| | New LEGO city at FAO Schwarz
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Hi everybody! A few weeks ago, Dan Parker, Nathan Sawaya, and myself -- along with members from The LEGO Company -- unveiled a new LEGO display at FAO Schwarz in New York City. The minifig-scale city of "Bricktropolis" is built on a 6-foot (...) (18 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.us.ny.ny, FTX) !
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| | Announcing the new LUGNET Link List
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Hi All, I would like to announce the new LUGNET Link List: (URL) former Link List, Michael Dorneichs great "Everything LEGO Link Page", is located here now: (URL) this list was last updated more than 3 years ago and it has too many broken links to (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jun-06, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org, lugnet.trains.org) !!
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| | Come build at LEGOLAND on the Fourth of July
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To celebrate the Fourth of July: Red, White, and Boom! event at (URL) LEGOLAND California>, all park guests are invited to help (URL) SCLTC> build the world's largest US Flag made entirely from LEGO bricks. Construction gets underway at 10:00. (URL) (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jun-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains.org.scltc, lugnet.legoland.california, FTX) !
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| | New newsgroup for LEGO Digital Designer
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A new group dedicated to LDD has just been created. CHARTER/PURPOSE ===...=== lugnet.cad (group and hierarchy): Discussions of CAD software/models/animations, LDraw, LDLITE, LeoCAD, L3G0, L2P, L3P, BlockCAD, etc. -> lugnet.cad.ldd (group): Focused (...) (18 years ago, 25-Jun-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ldd) !
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| | Pullman Style Passenger Car LEGO Factory
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Here is a (URL) Pullman style passenger car> built with LEGO Train Factory parts inspired by some pics of such a car on English rails. (URL) to this Pullman car at LEGO Factory>. (URL) Thanks for checking it out. later, James Mathis (18 years ago, 23-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce, FTX) !
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| | MegaBloks announces Mobile Suit Gundam License
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(URL) MegaBloks announced the license for Mobile Suit Gundam on their Japanese website today. This doesn't come as much of a surprise to me, considering they've had Power Rangers for a while, not to mention a few other anime properties, so they've (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, FTX) !
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| | Mecha Presentations at BrickFest 2006!
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Okay folks, we've got a few Mecha presentations to announce! MechaHub: Q&A With the opening of the MechaHub website, Lego Mecha builders have a single point they can gather to discuss and display all aspects of Lego Mecha building. Join Bryce (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.events, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
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| | News subscriptions fixed!
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Okay, this is probably worthy of an official announcement: I have identified an error in the newsgroup subscription setup that prevented subscriptions for immediate delivery from being sent out to all of you. The error has been identified and fixed. (...) (18 years ago, 22-Jun-06, to lugnet.announce)
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| | BrickFest Bulletin: Town/Train Contests
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(URL) Town/Train Contests Announced for BrickFest! The BrickFest Staff is happy to announce the Town and Train Competitions for BrickFest 2006: There will be 5 awards for train, and 5 for town. Train 1) Best Steam Engine-Themed MOC --Must be (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jun-06, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.events, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX) !!
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| | Bricksmith 1.4.1
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(2 URLs) Bricksmith 1.4.1> fixes the following bugs: Lines are colored much more consistently Fixed crash when referenced models had missing pieces Fixed problem with decorated elements getting incorrect coloring Fixed bug where typed-in part names (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jun-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Addressing concerns about Outsourcing LEGO Production
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This is the response Consumer Services is giving in response to today’s announcement: “LEGO Group to outsource major parts of its production to Flextronics” Thank you for letting us respond to you regarding our recent announcement about changes in (...) (18 years ago, 20-Jun-06, to lugnet.announce)
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| | A few more MOCs using only parts in LEGO Train Factory
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LEGO Train Factory Constrained: Latest to the yard is an attempt to model the (URL) German DB 103 locomotive and an intercity set> (think LEGO train set 7740). While this version is red and tan, the colors are inverted due to part shape (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce, FTX) !
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| | Important: Index rebuild under way and some other issues
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Hi all, we are currently rebuilding the indexes of the LUGNET news server. This affects display and performance of the news web pages, but does not affect the NNTP access. We expect rebuild to complete by about 7 a.m. EDT, and reported search issues (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jun-06, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | This is it: We're moving!
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Hello everyone, this is the "last warning": I will be switching servers tonight (CEST), if all goes well, the switchover will take effect around midnight CEST which will be around 6 p.m. Eastern Time in the U.S. (Daylight Savings Time of course ;) ) (...) (18 years ago, 17-Jun-06, to lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Crysilons Love - a dark space tale!!
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Hi, I've been building Alien spacecraft recently and wanted to flesh out the Aliens a bit. I call them Crysilons, they are made by sticking a Clikit butterfly (the ones with a hole not a connector) on top of a minifig body. Crysilons love clashing (...) (18 years ago, 15-Jun-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.space) !!
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| | MechaHub - Global Lego Mecha Database - Site now Live!
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In the last 6 years the Lego Mecha genre has produced thousands of models. Until now Lego Mecha models were spread across the web... alone... scared... (but well armed)... and... homeless... Until now. It is my pleasure to announce a new website (...) (18 years ago, 14-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, FTX) !!
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| | BrickFest Bulletin: Mindstorms/Technic Contests
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(URL) Official Rules to Two Mindstorms Challenges Released! And odds and ends! ===...=== We are pleased to release the rules to two of the upcoming Mindstorms challenges. PDF Rules to these are the (URL) Sumo> and (URL) Ball Gathering.> “Great Ball (...) (18 years ago, 15-Jun-06, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.events, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
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| | TexLUG Austin meeting cancelled; line follower contest postponed
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All, This Sunday's TexLUG Austin meeting is cancelled. The robotic line follower contest scheduled for 6/11 has been postponed. Look for an announcement here for a future date. Future TexLUG Austin gatherings will be announced as they are arranged. (...) (18 years ago, 8-Jun-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.texlug, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus, lugnet.loc.us.tx)
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| | The Move Is On...
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Hi all, I think it is time to let all of you know that LUGNET will switch servers - as some delinquent computer firm liked to put it - "real soon now". We are currently sorting out the domain re-routing procedure, but after that it is anticipated (...) (18 years ago, 8-Jun-06, to lugnet.announce) !!
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| | BrickNebula Episode 15: Marcon Recap
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I am pleased to announce the (URL) BrickNebula> PodCast, (URL) Episode 15: Marcon Recap>. This is a quick podcast -- it's a audio recap from our club meeting about the Marcon display. It might be boring to the casual listener -- and if you're a fan (...) (18 years ago, 7-Jun-06, to lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.loc.us.oh.col, FTX)
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| | Crocodile : amphibian machine for adventurers
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Hello everybody, A new moc : a 19th century machine for exploration. For more, follow the link. (URL) Comments welcome, Enjoy, Eric (18 years ago, 7-Jun-06, to lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | Re: German DB v200 and others for LDD/LEGO Factory
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In lugnet.trains, James Mathis wrote: (snip a lot of errors) Ugh! I'm sorry. I found another error in the model. I had some part collisions inside where the fake diesel motor sits. OK, round three: The DB v200 without the 9 volt train motor (504pcs, (...) (18 years ago, 6-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce)
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| | My Legoland competition MOC's
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I was a finalist in Legoland Model Builder contest held two weeks ago. To prepare for the regional and final contests I gathered twenty some-odd pounds of bricks and plates and tried to build some sculptures. As a math teacher/math geek I sort of (...) (18 years ago, 5-Jun-06, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | New Custom Molded MODERN Minifig Weapons from BrickArms
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BrickArms is OPEN! Hi all! I've just opened my new BrickArms store offering custom molded minifig-compatible modern weapons (try saying that five times fast!). Each was designed using a 3D CAD program, and the molds were made using Computer (...) (18 years ago, 5-Jun-06, to lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
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| | Server switchover
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LUGNET is in the midst of its change-over to new servers. I apologize for any dupicate posts you may receive via e-mail. I'm not sure what the cause of that is yet. There's potential for a short outage. -Suz (18 years ago, 1-Jun-06, to lugnet.announce) !!
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| | BrickFest Bulletin: 200 and building! And calls for....
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(URL) 200? Already? BrickFest has passed the 200 registered attendee mark a little faster than I thought. While this is a great thing, it does mean I have to reevaluate things to make sure that things run smoothly. So I will encourage those who have (...) (18 years ago, 1-Jun-06, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.events, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
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| | List of authors who have not yet affirmed the LDraw.org Contributor Agreement
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We (LDraw.org) are still trying to contact all the authors who have contributed to the Parts Library over the years but have not yet affirmed the current version of the Contributor Agreement (URL) Below you will find a list of all the authors (...) (18 years ago, 29-May-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX) !
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| | GeekBrick Live Episode 1 Available!
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(URL) GeekBrick Live is ready and available for download. (URL) del.icio.us Links> (URL) Flickr Set> Click below to get the episode: (URL) Normal Feed> (URL) (18 years ago, 29-May-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Announcing... The Second Annual Joe Vig Contest!!!
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Announcing... ====== (URL) You will find all the contest information on (URL) The Second Annual Joe Vig Contest> page. This contest does not begin until June 1st, 2006, so please don't post your entries before then. (The curators of .vignette are (...) (18 years ago, 27-May-06, to lugnet.build.vignette, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.build.contests, FTX)
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| | News Video Podcast, Ideas Needed!
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Hey everyone, I am planning on starting up a video podcast that talks about some of the different building techniques, and then demonstrates them using real bricks. Each episode will probably only be a few minutes long, depending. Question is, where (...) (18 years ago, 26-May-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
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| | Wayne Manor Building Contest at BrickZone.net
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Hey everybody! I hope this is the right place to post this. If not please accept my apologies and advise me on how to move it to the right place. Thank you! I am sponsoring a contest at BrickZone.net. It's the Build Wayne Manor Contest. Check out (...) (18 years ago, 26-May-06, to lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | 2nd International LEGO MINDSTORMS Competition
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We have great news for you. The 2nd International LEGO MINDSTORMS Competition is on the horizon We are in the early planning phase but for now we can disclose the date and the location. It will take place the weekend of October 6-8 in Billund, (...) (18 years ago, 25-May-06, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | BrickJournal 4: The LCAD Issue
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(URL) is here! This issue is 96 pages, and includes event reports from Europe, interviews with Alban Nanty and Mark Larson, and how-tos on LCAD software! Not to mention the Bat stuff.... You can download Issue 4 here: (URL) Full Torrent,> (URL) (...) (18 years ago, 25-May-06, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, FTX) !!
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| | GeekBrick.com, Podcast Only!
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GeekBrick.com will no longer be posting news on the site, as it is now going to be a weekly podcast. In a way, it is similar to the Bricks in my Pocket podcast in the sense that they have most of their LEGO news, etc, on the podcast. The two full (...) (18 years ago, 25-May-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Jason Poland wins Model Builder Search
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We have a winner: (URL) TEXAS MAN OUTBUILDS 22 HOPEFULS TO BECOME NEW MODEL BUILDER AT LEGOLAND® CALIFORNIA> CARLSBAD, Calif. (May 23, 2006) - Hopeful contenders came from as far away as Virginia to compete in a battle of creativity and strategy, (...) (18 years ago, 24-May-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX) !
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| | Spamcast, Lego News Podcast
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Announcing the Spamcast, a Lego enthusiast news podcast, endeavoring to post weekdays at (URL) Headlining fan news from the official Lego® site, around the world, new set reviews, and community events. Finding it challenging to make time to keep up? (...) (18 years ago, 22-May-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, FTX) !
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| | SNVT Build-a-Train Contest
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Save 9v Trains would like to announce its first (and hopefully not only) contest. The contest has been set up to support 9v Trains by using LEGO Factory to build a quality database of models that can be purchased by long time AFOLs and Newbies. Our (...) (18 years ago, 22-May-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, FTX) !
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| | Mecha Contests at BrickFest 2006!
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BrickFest is fast approaching, and it's time to get the ball rolling on our Mecha contests! Our first contest is the Fantasy Mecha Contest. Participants are asked to imagine what ancient, medieval, or fantasy cultures might design if they had the (...) (18 years ago, 21-May-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.events, lugnet.space, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.contests, FTX) !!
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