 | | Re:Keeping me on a string...By Figueifoto
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About “Keeping me on a string...” ((URL) truth must be said, and the real facts have to be spoken. I do not allow my name to be put in jeopardy when I did everything in the most honest way possible. If someone was not honest, it wasn’t me. It is (...) (17 years ago, 18-Sep-07, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Lego Cruise Ship Challenge
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Hey All, I just got an email about this and thought some you might be interested. "Norwegian Cruise Line and the LEGO Group are teaming on NCL’s LEGO Cruise Ship Building Challenge, exclusively for LEGO Club members. Young builders are invited to (...) (17 years ago, 16-Sep-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.boats, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | NWBrickCon reaches 100 registered attendees!
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NWBrickCon is very happy to announce that we have reached 100 registered attendees. You still have 3 days left to register. NWBrickCon 2007 Advance Registration Closes on September 15th. Benefits of Advance Registration include a lower price ($44 (...) (17 years ago, 13-Sep-07, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.events, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, FTX) !
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| | NWBrickCon - The Wacky Race Continues!
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NWBrickCon Seattle, Washington, USA October 5, 6 and 7, 2007 The Wacky Race will be at NWBrickCon 2007! Will You? This will be the 4th year that competitors have built and crashed their crazy and wacky racers here in the Pacific Northwest! Each (...) (17 years ago, 12-Sep-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.events, FTX) !
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| | Indiana Jones sets leaked?
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(Picture deleted by request of holder of rights (copyright violation)) Do we need a lugnet.licensed.indiana ? (17 years ago, 12-Sep-07, to lugnet.licensed, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.announce, lugnet.year.2008, FTX) !
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| | NWBrickCon SPACE and Moonbase - call for MOCs
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We have are going to have a spectacular SPACE and Moonbase display this year at Northwest Brick Con. There are 18 tables to fill between the two themes. That seems like a lot but it could fill up super fast with just a few enormous MOCs. I already (...) (17 years ago, 11-Sep-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.events, lugnet.space, FTX) !!
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| | NWBrickCon Town / Train Area - call for MOCs
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Calling all MOCs for the town/train/city display for NWBrickCon! This year, we have another great space to show off a fantastic town/train/city display and I encourage everyone to bring anything they’d like to display. Please email me with what you (...) (17 years ago, 10-Sep-07, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.events, lugnet.announce, FTX) !
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| | Math display case filled with Lego models
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Last spring, my colleagues got funding for two shiny display cabinets for my math department. Appropriate displays were just slow enough in coming that I could (quickly) haul out several of my Lego math demonstration models and fill an entire case (...) (17 years ago, 10-Sep-07, to lugnet.edu, lugnet.announce, FTX) !
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| | NWBrickCon 2006 Castle Area
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NWBrickCon is less than a month away. Tedward over at Classic Castle emailed me about having a Grand Tournament as the theme for our castle layout. I think this is an excellent idea and the plans are in motion for bringing this together. More (...) (17 years ago, 10-Sep-07, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.events, lugnet.announce, FTX) !
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| | Update to the LDraw Library Header Specification
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At the request of the PT Admins, the LSC has amended the format of the !LDRAW_ORG meta-statement to permit zero or more qualifiers. The format of this meta-statement is now 0 !LDRAW_ORG Part|Subpart|Primiti...e|Shortcut (optional qualifier(s)) (...) (17 years ago, 7-Sep-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce)
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| | LDraw.org's August 2007 Model, Scene and Part of the Month Winners
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Congratulations to the winners of the August 2007 Model/Scene/Part Of The Month (MOTM/SOTM/POTM) contests: (URL) MOTM, German Rail Bus VT 95 by "Primus" Burkhard> (URL) SOTM, Backlot by Willy Tschager> (URL) - Best Part, Minifig Mechanical Head and (...) (17 years ago, 7-Sep-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, FTX) !
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| | Keeping me on a string...
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A few months ago, I made the announcement (in the correct newsgroup!) that I would sell my entire collection (Technic, Model Team, and 12V trains) of sets from 1978 untill 2004. All the sets were really low priced (compared to the lowest (...) (17 years ago, 6-Sep-07, to lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Ten Days Left: NWBrickCon 2007 Advance Registration Closes September 15th
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NWBrickCon 2007 Advance Registration Closes on September 15th. Benefits of Advance Registration include a lower price ($44 vs. $50 at the door) and a personalized engraved brick badge. Note that you must have both registered and *paid* by September (...) (17 years ago, 5-Sep-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events.nwbrickcon) !!
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| | lugnet.fun
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Only a few days late, here are (URL) september LEGO horoscopes>. Enjoy! (URL) en Français)> (URL) in het Nederlands)> I can't believe I've bothered doing this for a year now... Jean-Marc (17 years ago, 3-Sep-07, to lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | LEGO Fan Lives
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A small group of fans and LEGO Ambassadors have been working behind the scenes to make a new LEGO Fan site after the server crashed earlier this year: (2 URLs) The site has new content and a new logo. Certain areas are under construction and we will (...) (17 years ago, 30-Aug-07, to lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
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| | Search by tag on BrickBuildr
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Just a quick FYI, I've added a tag cloud on BrickBuildr, now you should be able to view images by a particular tag: (URL) (17 years ago, 30-Aug-07, to lugnet.announce)
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| | United States Capitol finished after 4 years
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(URL) Dear LEGO fans, Dominik Gerlach, a 26-year-old AFOL from Germany did it. He has build the United States Capitol with LEGO bricks. I was happy to be able to interview the masterbuilder recently: HoMa: How comes that you had the idea of building (...) (17 years ago, 29-Aug-07, to lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
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| | New MOC: Cub CISM
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Another CISM. My next design will be something different...sort of. (URL) Cub CISM> Thanks for looking. Please vote and leave a comment. Bill (17 years ago, 29-Aug-07, to lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | Palisades Building event needs you
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Hey everyone, There will be a building event this weekend (August 31-Sept 2) at the Palisades LEGO Brand Retail store. The folks at the store are looking for some volunteers to help with the event, most specifically on Sunday night for the break (...) (17 years ago, 28-Aug-07, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Atlanta Airport Art Project--potential for huge AFOL joint display
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Some time ago, I found out that the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, GA (one of the two busiest airports in the USA) had something called the "Airport Art Program". This had come about from my working on a large airport MOC that (...) (17 years ago, 27-Aug-07, to lugnet.announce)
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| | L(EGO)Draw parts
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Hi folks, as announced in this thread: (URL) members of the Steering Committee (SteerCo) have been in contact with LEGO to look at ways of working together to ease the conversion between the LEGO Digital Designer and the LDraw System Of Tools. This (...) (17 years ago, 27-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
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| | Change in email handling policy for LUGNET
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@all, the recent dramatic surge in spam attacks against the LUGNET server has called for drastic measures. I have implemented a new access control mechanism for email delivery. Since the old mechanism was fairly open, it is now possible that a few (...) (17 years ago, 24-Aug-07, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | New site: BrickBuildr
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A little bit of background... I remember reading (URL) this> and thinking to myself I think Flickr is great for surfing MOCs if you know where to look. About a few weeks ago, I started playing around with phpFlickr, thinking that it would be easy to (...) (17 years ago, 24-Aug-07, to lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
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| | New BIONICLE.com webmaster
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I guess it's no secret, but I haven't exactly spread it around the AFOL world quite yet. So it's time - more than time - to announce that I've taken a position with The LEGO Group. My new role is Internet Content Manager for BIONICLE, Racers, and (...) (17 years ago, 22-Aug-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.people, lugnet.general, FTX) !!
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| | Toad CISM
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Another Close Infantry Support Mech, this time with new and improved PNG files! (URL) Toad CISM> Let me know what you thinkand thanks for looking. -Bill (17 years ago, 22-Aug-07, to lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | *** LDView Version 3.2 Released ***
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LDView 3.2 is now available for download from the LDView downloads page here: (URL) Please note that the translations have not yet been updated to work with this release, and translations created for version 3.1 will refuse to load. The 3.2 (...) (17 years ago, 22-Aug-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, FTX) !!
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| | New rule for SOTM/MOTM
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Dear all, We have decided to introduce an additional rule to the MOTM and SOTM contests on LDraw.org in order to make them a little more interesting. We will now only run these contests if there are a minimum of five entries. The current situation (...) (17 years ago, 22-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce) !
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| | Scott Wardlaw's GM EMD SD80 in Norfolk Southern trim
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(URL) Please take a look at the rest of the pictures here: (URL) Thanks for looking, Scott (17 years ago, 21-Aug-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, FTX) !
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| | NCLUG Harry Potter Goblet of Fire Display
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Greetings, This post is long overdue, my bad. Our group NCLUG was contacted by a local movie theatre to provide a display to accompany the release of Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire. (2 URLs) built a 192 stud square display that stayed up for (...) (17 years ago, 21-Aug-07, to lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | "Building with Bricksmith" screencast video
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I have recorded a silent video "screencast" of the creation of my most recent (URL) LDraw model> (yet another B-Wing variant). It is not a short video, but it shows the whole process from start to finish. Watching it has already given me a few ideas (...) (17 years ago, 19-Aug-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | 1960's cabins motel
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...For our upcoming Exporail ((URL) show this weekend in Montreal : (URL) created a 1960's cabins motel. When moderated : (URL) of the shots : (URL) neon sign : (URL) used the ink jet AVERY Clear Decals (03276) for the FREE TV and NO VACANCY sign... (...) (17 years ago, 17-Aug-07, to lugnet.town, lugnet.announce) !
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| | 1960's road side restaurant
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Totally inspired by this bus : (URL) our upcoming Exporail ((URL) show this weekend in Montreal : (URL) created a 1960's roadside restaurant built in an old city bus. When moderated : (URL) overall view : (URL) front : (URL) rear : (URL) year (...) (17 years ago, 17-Aug-07, to lugnet.town, lugnet.announce)
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| | ModelTeam Motors at NWBrickCon
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(for Lino...) Model Vehicle Builders Rejoice! My name is Lino (AtomicBuilder on Brickshelf) and I’m pleased to announce that I am the Coordinator for a new theme at NWBrickCon called ModelTeam Motors. If you are inclined to build realistic looking, (...) (17 years ago, 10-Aug-07, to lugnet.events, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
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| | LDraw All-In-One-Installer - Seeking permission from software programmers
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Dear contributor to the LDraw System Of Tools, We would like to include your program files listed below (the “Product”) in our new LDraw.org All-In-One-Installer, (the “Work”) to be published by LDraw.org: ___...___ Program The purpose of this (...) (17 years ago, 6-Aug-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Scott Wardlaw's GE Dash 9 in Union Pacific Trim
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(URL) I've had this one for a while, but this is my first post to lugnet.trains. It took several hours to make the stickers, and then several more hours to create a computer program that would turn them into an LDRAW part file, so that I could (...) (17 years ago, 6-Aug-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Your Thoughts on Image Hosting Sites...
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Recent events have put the issue of image hosting in the spotlight. There are a lot of choices out there, from popular sites like Brickshelf and MOCpages to newer sites like MOCShow, YouBrick, BrickImage, and even commercial, non-LEGO sites like (...) (17 years ago, 4-Aug-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, FTX) !
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| | Horoscopes - August 2007
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(3 URLs) Enjoy, Jean-Marc (17 years ago, 1-Aug-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.fun, FTX)
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| | LDraw.org's July 2007 Model, Scene and Part of the Month Winners
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Congratulations to the winners of the July 2007 Model/Scene/Part Of The Month (MOTM/SOTM/POTM) contests: (URL) MOTM, Prinoth Leitwolf Snowgroomer by Han Crielaard> (URL) SOTM, Valley of the Dark Lords by Philip Heinrich> (URL) POTM - Best Part, (...) (17 years ago, 1-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, FTX) !
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| | ULUG will be attending the Train Show in Evanston, Wyoming
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To all, ULUG will be attending the 10th annual Roundhouse Festival in Evanston, Wyoming August 4th and 5th. Whereas Evanston is about 90 minutes from Salt Lake City all of the members will be staying in hotels. If you live in or around Evanston, (...) (17 years ago, 31-Jul-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.ulug, lugnet.town, lugnet.announce)
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| | BrickJourna.com is online!
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Hi all, I'm happy to announce that the BrickJournal website has been launched: (URL) www.brickjournal.com > Issue 8 is online and available for viewing. Issue 7 is also uploaded but is only available to web subscribers. I am uploading other issues (...) (17 years ago, 31-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
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