 | | Remy is in the clear (was: Re: YEAR-2000 LEAKS STOP HERE)
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Remy, I want to apologize to you both personally and professionally for what I said and what I did. I was taking near-panic-speed actions based upon evidence which seemed completely sound at the time, but which, in 20-20 hindsight, was unsound. It (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | YEAR-2000 LEAKS STOP HERE
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(...) NO MORE YEAR-2000 LEGO PRODUCT LEAKS ON LUGNET. I'M NOT SAYING PLEASE. ANYONE ELSE POSTS WRONGFULLY-OBTAINED INFORMATION ABOUT A LEGO PRODUCT AND SOMEONE NOTICES IT AND DRAWS IT TO MY ATTENTION, YOU'RE OUT. REMY, YOU'RE OUT. --TODD (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Server being voluntarily taken down (was: Re: Cats and pigeons...)
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(...) The only answer at this point is to shut the server down. That's a kneejerk reaction and it won't solve the problem but it's the only responsible thing to do for now. (...) This is not good. --Todd (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: Train Creations - Updated
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Just put up some more creations. (URL) out my water tower in Town Creations, pictures of my bedroom, and underside detail of the tank car in Train Creations. (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build)
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| | New 2000 sets in Lego.com European catalog!
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I was looking at the (URL) official LEGO web site and checked to see if any catalog entries had been updated. Sure enough, there were plenty of them in Europe! I'll admit that I checked most of these numbers by typing them at the end of a (URL) of (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
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| | Introducing LEGO Direct
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To LEGO enthusiasts everywhere: We hope that we are the bearer of some holiday cheer for you all. For those of you who have felt that your love for LEGO was unrequited, this is a new day. With this missive, the LEGO Company asks to open a dialogue (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.dear-lego) !!
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| | Train Creations
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I finally got myself a digital camera, and you can see some of the results on my new page of train creations at (URL) to lugnet.trains. (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build)
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| | New Technic Figure scale P-51 Mustang
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I have finally finished updating my web page to add my newest creation, a Technic figure scale WW2 Era P-51 Mustang, just in time to commemorate the anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. It includes two motors to control propellor, landing (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.technic, lugnet.build)
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| | Lots of new creations at Allanton NZ
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My LEGO creations site "Allanton NZ" is at (URL) to "Allanton's Latest News" page to see creations of: (Car & Truck Painters & Sprayers) Formula 1 transporter refurbished in red & white with "Formula 1" tow truck signs. Octan tanker refurbished in (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.nz)
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| | Re: Scheduled downtime: Monday, December 6, 1999
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(...) Reminder: This is coming up in just a few hours... See you on the other side! --Todd (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | FIRST Lego Leage competition at MSI Chicago
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I just returned from the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago where they held the Illinois state FIRST Lego League Mindstorms competition. FIRST is an organization that uses Lego Mindstorms to help prommote kids pursuing careers in engineering (...) (25 years ago, 5-Dec-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.general, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Brickset - A 'new' online database
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"Huw and Grahame's LEGO set database" has now officially become BrickSet. This is an alternative to Pause and should be considered as a second-opinion rather than a duplication of information due to the fact the database has been independently (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.publish, lugnet.announce)
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| | Press Release- Put the 'Toy of the Millennium' Under the Tree....
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Howdy, Here is another Lego® press release. It appears Lego® is very happy with 1999. Hope you enjoy the reading. Chet ---...--- Put the 'Toy of the Millennium' Under the Tree With a Little Help From LEGOLAND California CARLSBAD, Calif., Dec. 3 (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: Scheduled downtime: Monday, December 6, 1999
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(...) This move will affect the NELUG web site www.nelug.org as well as it also uses pair Networks as its ISP. This also means that the Mailing list will not work nor will you be able to send E-mail to any @nelug.org addresses. Fortunately I will be (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.loc.us.ri, lugnet.loc.us.nh, lugnet.loc.us.vt, lugnet.loc.us.me)
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| | Scheduled downtime: Monday, December 6, 1999
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lugnet.com will be down for approximately three to five hours in the middle of the day on Monday, December 6, 1999, as its ISP (pair Networks, Inc.) is moving to new headquarters and the server needs to be physically relocated. More details: (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | Lego.com Holiday contest
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Hi everybody, I know most of you aren't to keen on lego's official website. I hope the fact that I scan through it every once in a while to see what's new (1) doesn't lessen me in your eyes :-). But I do, and yesterday I happened to see the new (...) (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Dreaming of a European Legofest
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The great experience of meeting in person other Lego enthusiasts at the MindFest and at some Italian Legofests, makes me dream of a European Legofest. Some remarks about this topic (talking freely): - Saying "European" I use the term in its (...) (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.org, lugnet.loc.at, lugnet.loc.be, lugnet.loc.ch, lugnet.loc.dk, lugnet.loc.de, lugnet.loc.es, lugnet.loc.fi, lugnet.loc.fr, lugnet.loc.ie)
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| | ldraw.org December Model of the Month Winner
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The winner for ldraw.org's December Model of the Month competition is Thomas Burger, with his 'Datsville LMT Out From MacArthur Tunnel' image. Check it out at (URL) Congrats Tom! -Tim Courtney ldraw.org Project Coordinator (URL) timcourtne ICQ: (...) (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Partsref is Moving to LUGNET
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The LEGO Elements Image Catalog, currently at (URL), is in the process of relocating to a new home on LUGNET. See it at (URL). Right now, the catalog is at both locations. This will continue at least until the next release of new parts for LDraw. (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.announce)
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| | Dennis Bosman's LEGO Trucks and Construction Machinery
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Humina humina humina! Dennis's trucks are the most amazing LEGO models I've ever seen in my entire life! (IMHO, these beat out anything made even by professional LEGO model builders...) If you haven't been to Dennis's site yet, ya gotta check it (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.build, lugnet.announce)
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| | New newsgroups for Fun Projects & Group Activities
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A new topic hierarchy dedicated to fun projects and group activities has just been created with five new newsgroups: CHARTER/PURPOSE ===...=== lugnet.fun (hierarchy): LEGO-centered projects and group activities for amusement, learning, or awareness: (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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| | Bored? Check out my Site!
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Hi all, Just want to share my li'l site with you all. Nothing spectacular there yet, except for my list of sets. Of particular interest is a few "stories" about me and my personal experiences with certain sets. Here's the address: (URL) a link to my (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | New newsgroup for for MLCad
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A new group dedicated to MLCad has just been created. MLCad is a free program written by Michael Lachmann for modeling LEGO designs (or other construction systems). CHARTER/PURPOSE ===...=== lugnet.cad (group and hierarchy): Discussions of CAD (...) (25 years ago, 26-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | New newsgroup for for LeoCAD
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A new group dedicated to LeoCAD has just been created. LeoCAD is a free program written by Leonardo Zide for modeling LEGO designs (or other construction systems). CHARTER/PURPOSE ===...=== lugnet.cad (group and hierarchy): Discussions of CAD (...) (25 years ago, 26-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.leocad)
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| | Eric Kingsley's site move complete.
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Well I finally got around to completing the transition of my personal site from my old GeoCities site: (URL) my new NELUG site: (URL) have only moved over those parts of the site that I have decided to continue to maintain (Mainly my Model pages). (...) (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.publish)
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| | new and improved(?) craigo-lego
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hi y'all ~ i just want to announce a couple of new things in the world of craigo-lego... first off, is the new e-mail address. i've activated an entire webtv account for nothing but lego. this gives me lots more storage (memory is a precious thing (...) (25 years ago, 21-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Global Explorer Website Finally Finished - Space Theme
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At the beginning of this year I build a large-scale planetary exploration vehicle called "Global Explorer". After much procrastination, the website for this project is finally up. It can be found at: (URL) site is simple, but contains over 100 (...) (25 years ago, 20-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.space)
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| | WAMALUG was NOVALTC
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This is to annouce that the Northern Virginia LEGO Train Club has officially changed it's name to the WAshington Metro Area LEGO Users Group. This was done in order to meet the varied interests of the train club and to foster new membership who may (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.org, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.va, lugnet.loc.us.md, lugnet.loc.us.dc, lugnet.announce)
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| | NELUG Turns 50!!
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This is a quick message to announce that NELUG now has 50 members. The member breakdown by region is as follows... (Some of my earlier guesses were a little off. These are official numbers from submittal forms) 30 - Massachusetts 4 - Connecticut 2 - (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.loc.us.ri, lugnet.loc.us.vt, lugnet.loc.us.nh, lugnet.loc.us.me, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.announce)
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| | LUGNET Memberships
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I'm happy to announce that formal LUGNET memberships are now available. :) Things won't be very fancy initially (no map or other web-toys yet) but this gets the ball rolling and begins to pave the way for much more to come later down the road. At (...) (25 years ago, 14-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.people) !!
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| | Stay tuned...
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Stay tuned for an exciting announcement later tonight... :) --Todd (25 years ago, 14-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Make-A-Wish
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Hi All, This message is of most benefit to people living in Perth, Australia, but I thought others in the LEGO community would be interested too. The Make-A-Wish Foundation of Australia have organised a fundraiser for 8 year old Ben Hamilton who's (...) (25 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.au.wa.per, lugnet.announce)
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| | LEGO name change
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This is an important announcement for any LEGO fan who has a web site containing disclaimers. The descriptive phrase "the LEGO Group" has changed to "the LEGO Company." Its use applies to all LEGO companies, workplaces, and the organization as a (...) (25 years ago, 11-Nov-99, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.announce)
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| | Chicago Legofest/Museum of Science and Industry Mindstorms event Dec 4
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Well, there's been a little interest in the Chicago Legofest idea. Its been brought to my attention as well that the Museum of Science and Industry is having a Mindstorms robotics competition on December 4th. It would be a good idea to couple that (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.il.chi, lugnet.org.us)
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| | 2000 catalog FOUND!
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Acting on the tip from the RTL post, I stopped by Target today on my way home from work and picked up a snow speeder. Jackpot! I'm scanning it now... KL (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | New newsgroup lugnet.cad.ray for LEGO ray-tracing
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A new newsgroup lugnet.cad.ray has just been created. CHARTER/PURPOSE ===...=== -> lugnet.cad.ray (group): Ray-Tracing as it applies to LEGO: software tools and libraries; tips & techniques; in-depth technical discussions about element modeling, (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Three Cheers
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[Crossposted to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.robotics, and lugnet.announce; followups to lugnet.dear-lego] All, This is a rally for everyone to give a round of applause to the LEGO Group for its unprecedented overture this past week. (...) (25 years ago, 7-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: New robotics sub-groups for RCX-Java, Palm Pilot, Telerobotics, VLL, Scout, Micro Scout, and Code Pilot
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(...) Oops, almost forgot CyberMaster (thanks, Ralph!)... (...) lugnet.robotics.cybermaster (group): LEGO TECHNIC CyberMaster™ programmable brick: software, ideas, radio link, connections to/from/with other programmable bricks and host machines, (...) (25 years ago, 7-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.robotics)
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| | New robotics sub-groups for RCX-Java, Palm Pilot, Telerobotics, VLL, Scout, Micro Scout, and Code Pilot
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Seven new subgroups of lugnet.robotics have just been created, covering the following topics: - JVM/Java/Jini for RCX - Palm Pilot / Palm Computing - Telerobotics - LEGO MINDSTORMS Visible Light Link (VLL) protocol - LEGO MINDSTORMS Scout (...) (25 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Charters for product-line/themed groups clarified
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All, The written charters for the product-line/themed groups created a couple months ago were too restrictive and over-simplified. Except for lugnet.trains and lugnet.starwars, which were created at the beginning, the themed groups mentioned only (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Fabuland group (was: Re: 34 new newsgroups!)
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(...) Oh, my!...Fabuland got lost in the shuffle somewhere. OK, there's now a Fabuland group: lugnet.fabuland <==> (URL) can't believe nobody noticed! I *know* there are tons of Fabuland fans out there! :) --Todd (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Been to Datsville Lately?
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If you haven't, check it out at www.lugnet.com/cad/datsville. Lots of great new archetecture has been added, and minifigs have started to appear (even if some seem to be "floating"). Residential lots in central Datsville are becoming scarce. If (...) (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Updated web site
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I've updated my web site at: (URL) still contains mostly links, but I've copied all the stuff off my AOL web page, so now there's some non-LEGO stuff there also (some of which may be of interest - some caving and train pictures). I've been slowly (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | BAYLIT suggestions
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All: (This hurts) I'm reaching an impasse with BAYLIT. My job situation will soon require me to travel extensively, severely impacting my ability to run BAYLIT. I don't know how long this will last - could be awhile Thus, I would appreciate your (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | NELUG Star Wars Display in The Construction Site store window
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For those that are interested, Dave Eaton, Shaun Sullivan, and Eric Kingsley have set up the NELUG Star Wars display in the store window of The Construction Site in Waltham MA. (URL) can see some pictures at the NELUG site. Unfortunately because it (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.general, lugnet.org.us)
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| | New newsgroup lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab
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A new newsgroup/mailing-list lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab has just been created. ROBOLAB is a cross-platform (PC & Mac) graphical environment for programming the LEGO® MINDSTORMS™ Robotics Invention System (e.g., RCX). ROBOLAB, like NQC, does not (...) (25 years ago, 1-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.edu, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Ed Boxer Goes to Enfiled - reformatted and updated
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I have reformatted my Enfield site(s) into one site with thumbnails. I have also rescanned the photos (better quality and smaller file size). I would appreciate your thougths. www.geocities.com/~e...field.html Thanks (25 years ago, 31-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish)
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| | Future Brick page updated
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hi all! Just spent some time today making the page presentable... please stop by and have a look-see! (URL) know that some of the links are not working yet, but all the ones that are relevent to LUGNET are. also, Todd Lehman, please note the new (...) (25 years ago, 31-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Conclusion of the Halloween Lego Design Contest....
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Hello Everyone! Well, here it is the day before Halloween and it is time to announce the conclusion of the Halloween Lego Design Contest! First, I would like to thank my Co-Judges, Anne Sullivan and Felix Greco for helping me run the contest. (...) (25 years ago, 30-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Lego Airplane #1775 Arrives!
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Howdy Gang, I had not seen anybody else post this...so here goes. The Airline promotion set #1775 is nice, very nice..... What I found most interesting was the copyright date (1994,1995). So this sets is an good oldie.... For those of you who track (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | First Lego 2000 Sighting
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I'm not trying to steal anybody elses claim, however this is the first I have seen of Lego 2000... It was posted on RTL and I thought all of us on LUGNET would be interested, very interested: Subject: preview 2000 From: "Stephan Kalms" (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | New newsgroups lugnet.robotics.edu & lugnet.edu
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lugnet.robotics.edu and lugnet.edu have just been created. For background information on how these came to be, please see the following messages and related threads: (URL) <-- especially this one (URL) <-- and this one (3 URLs) new discussion groups (...) (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.robotics.edu, lugnet.edu, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.dacta, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | McDonalds Happy Meal Set information
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From the PR Newswire (which I follow since I'm a McD stockholder)... PR info on the new sets they're offering... (URL) to market.shopping ++Lar (in sunny Melville NY, Detroit later today, then on to MSP tomorrow and Thu) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Launch of new site: SimiLego
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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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| | visit transy-lego-vania!
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hi y'all ~ i've just added a new three page section to my site. (i appologize in advance for the cookies at my site; something that is beyond my control right now.) it features custom mini-figs and constructions in a horror vein, just in time for (...) (25 years ago, 25-Sep-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | LUGNET Welcomes Donations
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Every so often, someone asks if there is any way to make financial contributions (i.e. gift donations) toward the development and support of LUGNET. There never was a good 'yes' answer, so here finally is a page of information for anyone who is (...) (25 years ago, 25-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | Lego at Gerf.Org
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***...*** Announcing Lego at Gerf.Org ***...*** Want a location to post your Lego ideas, but don't want to build a whole web site around it? Want to share your ideas with others in the Lego community? Or maybe you're looking for a way to do (...) (25 years ago, 25-Sep-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Tank Police pages posted
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Hey all, I have recently posted a page covering a new "theme" I am working on- the Tank Police. Loosely based on the Japanese anime of the same title, this is a post-modern cyberpunkish theme were the large corporations control everything and the (...) (25 years ago, 24-Sep-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | ldraw.org down until Monday (was: ldraw.org failing DNS lookup?)
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(...) Jacob asked me to post the following message... --Todd ___...___ From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@cats.nbi.dk> Message-Id: <199909241830.UAA100...ts.nbi.dk> Subject: ldraw.org down until monday To: lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman) Date: (...) (25 years ago, 24-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce)
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| | Duane Hess Temporarily Off-line
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This is just a note to let everyone know that I will be temporarily off-line starting October 8th while I make another employment change. If you have any concerns, send them to my E-mail after that time, and I will respond as soon as I can. - Duane (25 years ago, 23-Sep-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Anyone heard from Gail Meagher?...
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Hello- Has anyone heard from Gail Meagher recently? I have been emailing her, and waiting for a response, but to no avail. If you hear from her, or know any information, please contact me. Thanks in advance for your cooperation. Most Kindest (...) (25 years ago, 23-Sep-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | PRESS RELEASE: LEGOLAND California to Host Exclusive LEGO Friends(TM) / Loose Chippin's Concert
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LEGOLAND(R) California to Host Exclusive LEGO Friends(TM) / Loose Chippin's Concert New LEGO Friends Software to Feature British Pop Band ENFIELD, Conn., Sept. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- LEGO Media International -- the software division of the LEGO Group -- (...) (25 years ago, 22-Sep-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Themed groups are for discussions, not ads (was: 34 new newsgroups!)
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(...) It's been pointed out that a few initial FS and WTB posts are beginning to show up in the new themed groups, for example: (2 URLs) these types of posts are indeed annoying, it should be noted that new groups often: a) attract a few more people (...) (25 years ago, 20-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | Greater Midwest Lego Users Group
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The Greater Midwest Lego Users Group (GMLUG) is now up and running at (URL) website is still a work in progress but we are now accepting members from WI, MN, IL, IA, OH, IN. Paul (25 years ago, 19-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.announce)
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| | Newly scanned: Some very old instructions!
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I thought these were lost in a break-in, but found them last night! (URL) there a more appropriate newsgroup to announce this in?) /Tore (25 years ago, 19-Sep-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish)
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| | 34 new newsgroups!
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34 new newsgroups have just been created: * 10 for LEGO games, software products, and books * 20 for LEGO product lines from Adventurers to ZNAP * 3 for organizations (clubs, user groups, etc.) * 1 for LEGO people (humans, not minifigs :) ---...--- (...) (25 years ago, 18-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | funworld.com Press Centre open!
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Finally I have gotten around to it. The first stage of funworld.com (not the actual URL). This is the Press Centre, featuring current and previous Fun World press realses and the launch dates for all four funworld.com web sites. For those who don't (...) (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | 6745 new messages injected
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(You can probably skip this if you don't read via the web...) A copy of the entire 6745-message archive of the Handy Board mailing list -- going back approximately four years -- has just been injected into the LUGNET newsserver as part of the (...) (25 years ago, 13-Sep-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Minifig art museum update
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I updated my Minifig Art site this morning. The updates include: 1.) Two new works in the West Hall that appear in positions 1 and 2 when the page is launched. 2.) A brand new Glass Works Gallery II with rare, transparent bricks and plates. 3.) An (...) (25 years ago, 12-Sep-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | New Website
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I finally have started to set up my website. Right now all I have is a ton of links which I have been accumulating over the past months. Tonight or this weekend, I may get some pictures up. Check it out at: (URL) Frank Filz ---...--- Work: (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | New Minifig Site
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I have recently completed a website featuring minifigs touring a modern art musuem. Have a look at: (URL) is my first website so I am not too savvy on html and design (yet). The site features lots of JPEGs and may download slow. I've debugged it the (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | LEGO annouces fourth park.
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Here is the PR: German Town To House New Lego Park .c The Associated Press GUENZBURG, Germany (AP) - A rural Bavarian town will be the site of the world's fourth Legoland amusement park, Lego's president said Wednesday. Guenzburg, about 60 miles (...) (25 years ago, 8-Sep-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Handy Board newsgroup
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[Crossposted to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.admin.general, & lugnet.announce; followups to lugnet.robotics] Fred G. Martin[1] of the MIT Media Lab[2] has expressed interest in hosting the Handy Board[3] mailing list[4] as a real newsgroup on LUGNET[5]. (...) (25 years ago, 5-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | TLG: 44+ Internet domains and counting...
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Wow!!! It's incredible! InterNIC says there are now 44(!) TLG domains (this only counts .com, .org, and .net...) LEGO A/S (CONSTRUCTOPEDIA-DOM) CONSTRUCTOPEDIA.COM LEGO A/S (FIRSTLEGOLEAGUE-DOM) FIRSTLEGOLEAGUE.COM LEGO A/S (FIRSTLEGOLEAGUE2-DOM) (...) (25 years ago, 5-Sep-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: O'Reilly book news
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(...) [forwarded to .announce] --Todd (25 years ago, 3-Sep-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | PRESS RELEASE- LEGO Toy Company Propels Imaginations Around the World Into Hyperdrive
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Howdy gang, Got this is my email box today and had not seen anobody else post it yet......Happy Building!!!! Chet PS- What I find most interesting is the mention of "adults" for the first time. ---...---* LEGO Toy Company Propels Imaginations Around (...) (25 years ago, 3-Sep-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: Halloween Lego Design Contest Reminder and Update
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One major oops, The prize amounts are $20, $10 and $5 for each category of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror. Sorry about that. Hell of time for a typo. Matthew Verdier wrote in message ... (...) the (...) a (...) yard. (...) and (...) winners (...) (25 years ago, 2-Sep-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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| | BRICKS @ Guarded Inn - now live!
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Well, I'm comfortable with saying that my BRICKS online auction site is live and ready to go for anyone to use. It's still not the prettiest thing in the world, but it has improved thanks to some suggestions and a little hacking on my part. It can (...) (25 years ago, 2-Sep-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Brick News online!
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Hi all! I recently created Brick News, a news site devoted to our favorite plastic building blocks. Brick News summarizes and links to the major LEGO(R) related news of the day. The URL is (URL) News also generates a bricknews.rdf file that can be (...) (25 years ago, 2-Sep-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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