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My new website is online at (URL) now the site includes the Brick Exchange trading section, a sneak preview of my PlastiCity town layout, and some snap shots of a few MOCs, and Kansas City's Great Create. Feedback is certainly welcome. Andreas (...) (25 years ago, 24-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.town, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Very Interesting PRESS RELEASE from Respond.com
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Howdy All- I got this very interesting press release in my emailbox: Enjoy, Chet ---...--- Toys Found on Respond.com Bring Back Childhood Memories; Collector Finds Discontinued Set of Lego Bricks REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 22, (...) (25 years ago, 23-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | MIT Press now has copies of Jonathan's book
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The MIT Press Bookstore received an initial shipment today of 8 copies of Jonathan Knudsen's book, The Unofficial Guide to LEGO® MINDSTORMS™ Robots: (URL) Press is open until 8:30 pm tonight. There were 3 copies left at last count. If you happen to (...) (25 years ago, 21-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.books, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.announce)
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| | [ldraw.org] Model of the Month
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I have just added the Model of the Month pages to ldraw.org. We're going to shoot for the first award being given for November. Entries are being accepted until Monday October 25, and voting will take place until Sunday October 31. The winning entry (...) (25 years ago, 20-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Colin and Wanda visits Sweden (MWT)
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Eskilstuna, Sweden On their round the globe trip, the two famous minifig adventurers Colin and Wanda has made a stop in Sweden. You are welcome to take a look at their diary at: (URL) Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 URLs) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
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| | Launch of new site yellowcastle.com
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This is to announce the launch of my updated web site at my new URL (URL) have several new models and castle building ideas, my new gray turret and yellow wall battlements under the My Original Creations section. In The Library I have an updated (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.castle, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.books, lugnet.build)
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| | A Call to Educators Attending MindFest
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<I am posting this message on behalf of Richard Wright, one of the speakers scheduled to present at MindFest. - Chris.> I would like to talk to fellow educators attending Mindfest about using Lego in the classroom. Please contact me directly via (...) (25 years ago, 12-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Freeware LEGO Software in an German Computer magazine
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Hi! I couldn't believe my eyes today when I browsed (the oldfashioned fingers-between-paper-browsing) my favourite computer-magazine, the c'T from Germany. There was a 2/3-page article about freeware Lego-building programs, LDraw, LEdit, MLCAD und (...) (25 years ago, 11-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Open NELUG Meeting Saturday 10/23 @ 7:00 PM.
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The New England Lego Users' Group (NELUG) will be hosting an open meeting on Saturday, October 23rd at 7:00 PM, during the upcoming MindFest event. The MindFest organizers at the MIT Media Lab have graciously offered us a large room for the (...) (25 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics)
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| | New SW Lego Design Contest Info and Website
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I've added a lot of stuff recently in addition to completely redesigning the site. I still have a lot of entries that I have not had time to setup yet. But I will soon, so don't worry if you sent in something and haven't seen it up yet. Here is a (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | DUPLO at McDonalds too...and a rebate coupon
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In the Duplo advertisement/catalog I received today, it mentions there will also be a Duplo toy available at McDonalds in the happy meals. There is no picture. It also mentions "a special $3.00 LEGO rebate inside every LEGO McDonalds model". The ad (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Signed up for MindFest
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I'm so happy! I have to post this list. From the online LEGO community, we have some great representation signed up for MindFest at MIT. Names marked with a (*) are guest speakers. NELUG will have an exhibit table and a welcoming evening. LDraw (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | LEGO for Life Sweepstakes
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Apparently, this isn't new, but I don't remember seeing anything about it on LUGNET before. In the Parent's section at www.lego.com, there's a sweepstakes running from now until the end of April. The sweepstakes is only open to US residents. The (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Bram's Site updated: Model of the Month, Naboo Fighter, 2 airplanes, modified 8880
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I've just updated my LEGO Site: (URL) the space/Star Wars buffs: The model of the month (based on your ratings) is the Colonial Viper. I've added an N-1 Starfighter (I actually buil this, too, but I had to use gray macaronis instead of yellow) For (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.cad, lugnet.technic, lugnet.publish, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Lugnet Newsgroups Anniversary!
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(...) Aha -- found it! Here's that message: (URL) 'Date' header says "4 Oct 1998 00:00:00 GMT", which is obviously wrong, but there's another header which says "04 Oct 1998 17:13:50 CDT", which sounds right on. So if my TZ math is correct, this (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | PRESS RELEASE- LEGO Watch Systems Range Launches; It's Time for LEGO Watches
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This press release was dated 09/24/99, but I did not see anybody else post it so here goes: LEGO Watch Systems Range Launches; It's Time for LEGO Watches ENFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 24, 1999--"Is that a LEGO watch?" "Does it really tell (...) (25 years ago, 2-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Utah Legomaniacs Get Together
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Hey all, We Utah Legomaniacs are forming a lego user group! Joseph Gonzales, my wife Barbara and I are looking for anyone and everyone who would want to attend a small LEGOfest at my Orem, UT residence, on the evening of Friday October 15, 1999. You (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ut, lugnet.loc.us.ut.slc, lugnet.announce)
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| | Animated Space Station
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| | Re: lugnet.com upgrade/downtime/heads-up
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(...) (The above was quite a while back.) The OS upgrade is scheduled for sometime mid-tomorrow morning, hopefully around 9-10 a.m. EST. (...) I've been working proactively as a background task to head off any problems like this ahead of time so (...) (25 years ago, 29-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | ldraw.org up and running again (Was: ldraw.org down until Monday)
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As I promised Friday: ldraw.org is up and running again thanks to a friend of mine who installed a new kernel on hugin. Play well, Jacob PS: I have recieved a message from the Danish backbone operator, warning me that the connection to Risø will be (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce)
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