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| FAO Schwarz has been an American luxury toy store tradition since they first opened up in NYC in 1862. Their Fifth Ave. flagship store was the equivalent of Harrod's of London's toy department. Very up market and exclusive. The went thru way too (...) (10 years ago, 16-May-15, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Intermittent Outage Notification: Lugnet Server Move
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| Dear Lugnet Community, after roughly 8 years of residing on the same server platform, it has become inevitable to move Lugnet contents to a new server. We have had the odd intermittent outage because of server components failing, but much worse is (...) (10 years ago, 6-Mar-15, to lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | LEGO Matriarch EDITH KIRK CHRISTIANSEN 90th Birthday today!!
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| The Dowager LEGO Lady herself, Edith Kirk Christiansen turns 90 years old today, May 29, 2014. Edith was born on May 29, 1924, is the daughter-in-law of LEGO founder Ole Kirk Christiansen, widow of LEGO chief Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, and mother (...) (10 years ago, 29-May-14, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
| | | | | A Lego puzzle
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| The explanation is on the web page, but briefly: we wanted some different kinds of stairs, etc. It took us a while, but we got what we needed. The puzzle is: how did we do it? Don't post your solutions - just email them to me (cg@graysage.com), and (...) (11 years ago, 29-Mar-14, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Change in News Display
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| All, following an increasing number of requests, I have today disabled display of the "From:" field on the News article pages. This means, while the author's name will continue to be visible, the From: header line containing the author's email (...) (11 years ago, 28-Aug-13, to lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | Ladies and Gentleman, LEGO fans of all ages...
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| Ladies and Gentleman, LEGO fans of all ages... Don't miss a great LEGO festival in Toronto, Canada. July 13th & 14th, 2013 10am until 3pm www.brickfete.com (URL) The public is invited to view the awesome LEGO Creations on display and we can not wait (...) (11 years ago, 3-Jul-13, to lugnet.announce, FTX) !
| | | | | Act by the end of the weekend...
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| ...or this message will self destruct. Looking for a AFOL Convention in Toronto, Canada? Brickfête is only one month away, on July 11 - 14, 2013. Regular exhibitor/AFOL registration for Brickfête ends this weekend. By Sunday night at midnight we (...) (11 years ago, 14-Jun-13, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.ca.obb)
| | | | | Journey to the Moon - repremiere after 40 years (w/link)
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| Back in 1973 when I was 12, together with my younger cousin I made a 6 minutes Lego film in Super 8, half of it using stop motion animation. Inspired by the popular Apollo program, we built a rocket with several stages and room for the LM, a launch (...) (12 years ago, 16-May-13, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.animation) !
| | | | | Journey to the Moon - repremiere after 40 years
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| Back in 1973 when I was 12, together with my younger cousin I made a 6 minutes Lego film in Super 8, half of it using stop motion animation. Inspired by the popular Apollo program, we built a rocket with several stages and room for the LM, a launch (...) (12 years ago, 16-May-13, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.animation)
| | | | | Barbie's Apocryphal Dream Mech
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| Mobile infantry combat just got a whole lot more fabulous! This mighty mech can duke it out in style, standing up to anything that the enemy can throw at it. Twin shoulder-mounted rocket launchers can lead the assault from a distance, while the (...) (12 years ago, 6-Apr-13, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
| | | | | Brickworld 2013
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| Good afternoon everyone, If you have not heard, Brickworld 2013 will be held at a new home - The Renaissance Hotel & Convention Center in Shaumburg, IL. This move is in response to the attendees desire to hold the event in a single room. We will be (...) (12 years ago, 15-Feb-13, 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)
| | | | | LEGO announces latest MINDSTORMS verion: EV3
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| In case no one has noticed, earlier today LEGO announced their newest MINDSTORMS version at CES. This version is called the EV3, and will be released later this year. I'll let you do your own web searches for official announcements, pictures, and (...) (12 years ago, 8-Jan-13, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | PennLUG at the Greenberg Train Show in York, Pennsylvania January 12th and 13th
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| The (URL) Pennsylvania LEGO Users Group> is going to be displaying at the Greenberg Train Show in York PA on the 12th and 13th at the York Expo Center. Our layout will be featuring our (URL) class LEGO trains> including many (URL) steam engines> and (...) (12 years ago, 1-Jan-13, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce, FTX)
| | | | | HispaBrick Magazine 015 available
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| (URL) little later than usual, but here we are again. This issue has had to wait for our annual event to finish, images of which you will find inside, but be assured that it has not affected the work we have put into HBM 015. In this issue you will (...) (12 years ago, 17-Dec-12, to lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | TRU Bricktober Minifig Series
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| Got them all! (5 URLs) AC (12 years ago, 6-Oct-12, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us, FTX)
| | | | | altBricks.com website ready for order with new stock
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| Hi All, The www.altBricks.com website is ready for orders!!! It took way longer than planned to get the site all up and running. And we have been so burried in "side" orders that we keep running out! But we just received a large shipment so there (...) (12 years ago, 9-Sep-12, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.town)
| | | | | HispaBrick Magazine 014 is out
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| Number 014 of (URL) HispaBrick Magazine®>, the magazine for fans of LEGO® constructions, is now available. In this new edition Gary King presents his fleet of Battlestar Galactica ships, Akiyuki Kawaguchi amazes with his GBC modules, Katie Walker (...) (12 years ago, 31-Jul-12, to lugnet.announce, FTX) !
| | | | | LEGO Fan Survey results & feedback (2012)
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| Dear LEGO® Fan community, We hereby share top line, aggregated results of the LEGO Fan Survey which was conducted in May 2012. Over 6.000 LEGO fans over the age of 13 participated in the survey. A majority of you who participated in the survey were (...) (12 years ago, 6-Jul-12, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, FTX) !
| | | | | AltBricks Fall Leaf Collection :)
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| Hi All, AltBricks (Brick Link Store) has released the "Fall Leaf Collection"... • 100 Mixed Leaves (20 of each color): Brown, Dark Tan, Dark Red, Yellow, & Orange. $20.00 ea • 100 Brown leaves • 100 Dark Tan leaves • 100 Dark Red leaves • 100 Orange (...) (13 years ago, 16-Apr-12, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.town, FTX) !
| | | | | LEGO DINO movie
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| The LEGO® Group offered three North American LUGs the opportunity of displaying three complete collections of the LEGO DINO theme sets in an innovative way for spring 2012. QuéLUG (Québec LEGO® Users Group) was one of the three LUGs selected for (...) (13 years ago, 9-Apr-12, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.qc, lugnet.org.ca.quelug)
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