 | | (Update) Regarding to $6,000 worth of LEGO stolen - been found
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Some of Fremont family's stolen LEGO recovered from stolen truck By Ben Aguirre Jr. Oakland Tribune Updated: 02/17/2010 10:25:27 AM PST FREMONT, CA — A late-night phone call brought good news to Mark and Jannet Benz some of their stolen (...) (15 years ago, 17-Feb-10, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, FTX) !
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| | $6,000 worth of LEGO stolen from man's truck
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LEGO San Franciso Street Scenes Stolen From Truck February 10, 2010 FREMONT, CA -- Fremont police asked for the public's help Wednesday in locating several elaborate Lego scenes of San Francisco landmarks that were stolen out of a locked truck (...) (15 years ago, 11-Feb-10, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | 2010 Brickworld Theme
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(URL) Share - Learn - Explore - Discover After much deliberation, the Brickworld Team is excited to announce that the theme for this year's event is: 2010: Bricks In Space So, let's all try to work something "spacey" into our displays somewhere in (...) (15 years ago, 10-Feb-10, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.events, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains, lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, lugnet.people, FTX)
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| | German and Italian language add-on for MLCad 3.30 available
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Hi folks, I upgraded the German and Italian language add-on for MLCad. Both add-ons are now fit for version 3.30. You'll find the .zip-files along with a tutorial for how to change the language interface at: German - (URL) - (URL) w. (15 years ago, 8-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.mlcad) !
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| | Collectible Brick Show!!!
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Just released, A huge Collectible Brick Show will be held Sunday July 18th at the Ramada Inn 1083 Route 206 north Bordentown New Jersey 9am-4pm where Lego Collectors & Fans Meet. DOOR PRIZES!! 50 TABLES!!! Featuring, New Set, Retired Sets, Old Sets, (...) (15 years ago, 8-Feb-10, to lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | Announcements of one type or another...it's been a while!
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Hi all, it's been some time since I posted here about BrickJournal, and for those wondering, no I haven't fallen off the face of the earth. Far from it. And I'll be telling you what's been going on... BrickJournal BrickJournal has grown from an (...) (15 years ago, 8-Feb-10, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish.brickjournal, lugnet.events, FTX) !
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| | LDraw.org Parts numbering scheme for parts with unknown numbers.
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The LSC has just ratified the LDraw.org Parts numbering scheme for parts with unknown numbers. It should allow to add parts to the library where the part number is not known. As the systematic that is used up to now has reached its limits this (...) (15 years ago, 5-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce)
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| | Registration open for Bricks by the Bay Convention April 9-11 2010, Fremont California
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The San Francisco Bay area in California is hosting a new LEGO convention later this spring called Bricks by the Bay. The event will be held in Fremont on April 9-11, 2010. You can now (URL) for Bricks by the Bay> on our website. Hurry - early (...) (15 years ago, 4-Feb-10, to lugnet.events, lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
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| | Updated Unofficial parts pack for LeoCAD
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Following LeoCAD official parts update ((URL) here is an new version of my unofficial parts pack. It contains all LDraw unofficial parts available as of February 4, 2010. (URL) (15 years ago, 4-Feb-10, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.leocad)
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| | Brick Dice
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Hi all, I'm betting there's a fairly large overlap between LEGO-geeks and game-playing-geeks. For that audience I present these "brick dice". Instead of digits 1-6 on the faces, I have building block representations with one to six "studs" showing. (...) (15 years ago, 30-Jan-10, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | LEGOLAND® Florida : A new theme park
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Yes that's right LEGOLAND® is coming to Florida. As mention and reported from different websites. News was leaked Wednesday afternoon in e-mails that the former home of Cypress Gardens Adventure Park in Winter Haven, Florida has been purchased and (...) (15 years ago, 21-Jan-10, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.legoland, lugnet.announce, FTX) !
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| | GallaghersArt.com Forums now open
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I just made my own forums live over the weekend. The main purpose at this time is to allow me to release some of the LDraw files that go with some of my MOC’s, enable more info to be posted without creating more pages and bogging down my main site, (...) (15 years ago, 12-Jan-10, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | LEGOCLICK.COM : Find Your Inspiration
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ENFIELD, Conn., Jan. 11, 2010 /PRNewswire/ Great Ideas Just CLICK: LEGO Systems Launches Program to Celebrate Moments of Inspiration -LEGO® Photo, the First Official LEGO iPhone Application, Available for Free Download- -Original Short Film and Blog (...) (15 years ago, 12-Jan-10, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | DATHeader Update (The Reviewer Tool) Version 3.0.4
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I just finished the next update for DATHeader. The new localisation files will now be supported and for entering the keywords you can now choose from the keywords that are already used in other official parts. For this new functions you will need to (...) (15 years ago, 10-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce)
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| | LDTranslator Update (1.0.5.3)
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I have just finished version 1.0.5.3. New is the possibility to create from LDTranslator a 'language pack' for each language as zip file that can be used like the update zip files for the library. I hope you like this. Download from (URL) (15 years ago, 9-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce)
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| | LDTranslator released
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I released today LDTranslator 1.0.5.0 It can be used to create the localisation files according the LDraw.org Localisation Guideline ((URL) can download that tool (windows only) from (URL) (15 years ago, 8-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce)
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| | LDDMaker Version 1 Released
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Some time ago I finished LDDMaker but I think I have forgotten to make it public. Here it is now. This app makes it easier to create Shortcut_Physical_Colour files. You can download from (URL) hope you like it. cu mikeheide (15 years ago, 7-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce)
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| | LDraw.org Localisation Guideline ratified
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The LSC has just ratified the LDraw.org Localisation Guideline. It should be a guideline for implementing localisations for the LDraw System of Tools. Read more here: (URL) Heidemann On behalf of the LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC) (15 years ago, 7-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce)
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| | DATHeader Update (The Reviewer Tool) Version 3.0.3
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I have just uploaded the current version of DATHeader. Now the colour names that are shown to you in DATHeader can be localised. Also two new checks are integrated for scaling of primitives. There are some primitives that should not be scaled in any (...) (15 years ago, 3-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce)
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| | Brickworld Registration Open
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(URL) Share - Learn - Explore - Discover The team at Brickworld is excited to announce that registration for the 2010 event at the Westin is now open. Preorder items will be posted on the web site soon (including 2 event kits). The theme is (...) (15 years ago, 1-Jan-10, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.events, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains, lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, lugnet.people, FTX) !
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| | MLCad.ini 2009-03 Update Now Available
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Hi folks, I just updated the MLCad.ini file accordingly to the latest LDraw.org parts update 2009-02. The .ini file defines (among other things) the parts available in MLCad's minifigure generator. Download the file from my website: (URL) w. (15 years ago, 30-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | BrickMaster set 20013 contains 1x3 tiles!
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I got the latest BrickMaster set today, a mini-scale Atlantis submarine. It has a Christmas present inside: two red 1x3 tiles! Yes, you read that right: 1x3 tiles. Tiles. Three studs long, one stud wide. And red. The instructions list them as part (...) (15 years ago, 24-Dec-09, to lugnet.parts, lugnet.inv, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Brickworld Registration & Brickworld Indy
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(URL) Share - Learn - Explore - Discover The team at Brickworld is excited to announce that registration for the 2010 event at the Westin will open on January 1st. We look forward to seeing everyone in Chicago in June. We are presently updating the (...) (15 years ago, 20-Dec-09, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.events, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains, lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, lugnet.people, FTX) !
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| | Bricksmith 2.3.1
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(2 URLs) Bricksmith 2.3.1> fixes the following bugs: Empty steps no longer prevent files from being opened Split and Close tooltips appear Split and Close buttons always work Bricksmith requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later, and may be download it at (...) (15 years ago, 15-Dec-09, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX) !
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| | James Jessiman Memorial Award for 2009 awarded to Tim Courtney
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The SteerCo is pleased to announce that the James Jessiman Memorial Award (JJMA) for 2009 will be awarded to Tim Courtney. Tim's work on behalf of LDraw cannot be understated. Upon the sudden death of James, the LDraw community was in turmoil. Tim (...) (15 years ago, 13-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, lugnet.people) !!
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| | LDraw.org's November 2009 Part of the Month Winners
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Congratulations to the winners of the November 2009 Part Of The Month (POTM) contests: (URL) POTM - Best Part, Electric Power Functions IR Handset Incremental (Complete) by Philippe Hurbain (Philo)> (URL) POTM - Most Desired Part, Tyre 37 x 22 ZR by (...) (15 years ago, 8-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | *** LDView Version 4.1 Released ***
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LDView 4.1 is now available for download from the LDView downloads page here: (URL) Some notable changes: Curve smoothing in POV-Ray exports. Customizable toolbar on Windows and Mac versions. Note: the default toolbar is now missing some features (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | LDConfig Manager 1.0
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Because of the current discussion about the LDConfig.ldr I needed a tool to visualisise all the used colors. So I just coded LDConfig Manager. It is far from beeing complete and maybe buggy, but it works for me. Maybe you are also interested in (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
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| | Color page updated
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Hi folks, the colors page at LDraw.org has been updated: (URL) find links to localized versions of the color table as well as Philo's Visual LDConfig.ldr picture: (URL) w. (15 years ago, 1-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce)
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| | 2009/2010 LDraw Standards Committee (LSC): Election results
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The winners of the 2009/2010 LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) election are (in alphabetical order by last name): Travis Cobbs Mike Heidemann Santeri Piippo Allen Smith Scott Wardlaw Congratulations to the new LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) members! (...) (15 years ago, 1-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce)
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| | SCLTC holiday show at Nixon Library
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The Southern California LEGO Train Club ((URL) SCLTC>) opened its first ever show at the (URL) Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum> in Yorba Linda, California earlier this month. SCLTC joined the Train Collector Association ((URL) TCA>) in (...) (15 years ago, 29-Nov-09, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX) !
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| | DATHeader (The Reviewer Tool) Version 3.0
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Today I have finished the work on the new DATHeader version 3. There are only a few new functions build in but a major redesign of the GUI. I hope you like the changes. As my standard webspace is currently down, you can download the new version from (...) (15 years ago, 21-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce)
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| | Festival of the Masters 2009 & my MOC: Wizard of Oz
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GFLUG participated in the 2009 Festival of the Masters in Downtown Disney (Orlando, FL) in front of the LEGO Imagination Center last weekend (Nov. 13th - 15th). This year's theme for building our creations was "Legends and Icons". This year, we had (...) (15 years ago, 18-Nov-09, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, FTX) !
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| | Hispabrick Magazine 006 released
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It's that time again:we are happy to announce the release of Hispabrick Magazine 006 In this issue you will find a couple of articles about builders and their MOCs, a historical overview of Castle, some great ideas on how to clean your LEGO pieces, (...) (15 years ago, 18-Nov-09, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | *** LSynth 3.1 Released ***
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Hi folks, Don Heyse, has asked me to announce the release of LSynth 3.1 which is now available for download from: (URL) he has done all the coding for this update. My role was nothing more than whining when things didn't work as I expected them (...) (15 years ago, 18-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !!
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| | 2009/2010 LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) Election is open
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The 2009/2010 LDraw Standards Committee[1] election is now open. To vote, please visit (URL) and log in with your user account. Next, visit the ballot page on LDraw.org here: (URL) LDraw organization members may vote and you may vote for up to five (...) (15 years ago, 17-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce)
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| | LEGO® Launches Battle Over Trademark
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LEGO® Launches Battle Over Trademark Nov. 3, 2009 -Press Association/UKPA- LEGO, maker of the iconic toy brick, is launching a legal bid to win back its trademark. The company was last year stripped of the right to keep the brick's three-dimensional (...) (15 years ago, 6-Nov-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | 2009/2010 LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC): List of candidates
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Hi folks, I have put together a summary of the LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC) candidates for your reference. I’ll do my best to keep it up to date as new nominations or acceptances are coming in. You can find it at: (URL) are listed in (...) (15 years ago, 6-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce)
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| | (correction) LEGO® Expects 15% Profit Growth in 2009: CEO
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(...) -Correction- LEGO Group CEO corrects erroneous forecast story By Katie Roberts Nov. 4, 2009, 9:53am CEO Jorgen Vig Knudstorp is keen to correct recent reports on his sales predictions for 2009. The story claimed that the CEO was hoping to post (...) (15 years ago, 5-Nov-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | Stilzkin Igniz offroad vehicle
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(2 URLs) The Stilzkin Igniz is a tracked articulated, all-terrain carrier developed by Stilzkin Inc. for the Russian Army. It is mostly used for (troop) transport, it's not designed to be used in combat. It consists of two units, with all four (...) (15 years ago, 4-Nov-09, to lugnet.announce, FTX) !
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