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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 (...) (9 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 (...) (9 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 (...) (10 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 (...) (11 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 (...) (11 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 (...) (11 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 (...) (11 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 (...) (11 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 (...) (11 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 (...) (11 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 (...) (12 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 (...) (12 years ago, 9-Apr-12, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.qc, lugnet.org.ca.quelug)
| | | | | RAILBRICKS Issue #11 Available for Download
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| Nice to see some traffic in .trains again. For those who are interested, RAILBRICKS Issue #11 was released this morning. It is available for free download at (URL). Print copies may also be purchased at (URL). Please enjoy the latest issue. -Elroy (12 years ago, 17-Mar-12, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish.railbricks, lugnet.publish) !
| | | | | Alt Bricks
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| Hi All, “Alt Bricks” (my new BrickLink.com store) is proud to announce its first custom product. Green Plant Leaves 6 x 5. This element is similar to the LEGO 6 x 5 plant leaf. This is NOT manufactured by LEGO. It is a custom element made for Alt (...) (12 years ago, 10-Mar-12, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.town, FTX)
| | | | | Attempting to replace LUGNET server(s) (again)
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| Dear LUGNET Community, as you may or may not have noticed we have had a few issues with out main LUGNET server recently. During the last outage we tried to move everything over to new hardware but failed due to architectural incompatibilities of the (...) (12 years ago, 29-Feb-12, to lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | Monorail Record
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| NELUG recently held an event dedicated to setting the world record for the longest LEGO monorail track. From everything we had seen, the previous record was somewhere around 200-300 linear feet of monorail track, depending on how you counted it, (...) (12 years ago, 27-Feb-12, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.general, lugnet.org.us.nelug) !
| | | | | LEGO arm and hand
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| Check out this life-size LEGO arm and hand. It's pretty amazing. (URL) (12 years ago, 23-Feb-12, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | LUGNET Outage 17/18 Feb 2012
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| Dear LUGNET Users, as you will have noticed, LUGNET experienced an outage on 17 and 18 Feb 2012. This was due to the main server having gone down under heavy load during a backup cycle. Since this issue has been haunting us for a while, I have (...) (12 years ago, 18-Feb-12, to lugnet.announce) !!
| | | | | Bricks by the Bay 2012 Call For Presentations
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| Bricks By The Bay 2012 is looking for LEGO-related talks, roundtables, and special activities for the Convention, taking place March 16 -18 in Santa Clara, CA. Going to and putting on sessions are one of the things that makes a Lego convention fun. (...) (12 years ago, 9-Feb-12, to lugnet.events.bricksbythebay, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Please join us, for Brickfete 2012 - Mark your calendars!!!
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| Ladies and Gentlemen, builders of all ages... Mark your calendars for (URL) Brickfête 2012!!!> AFOL Convention starts Thursday, July 12th to Sunday, July 15st Public Exhibition on Sat, July 14th and Sunday, July 15th Located at the Hilton on Airport (...) (12 years ago, 5-Jan-12, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.ca.obb, lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, FTX)
| | | | | Bricks by the Bay 2012 - March 16-18 - Santa Clara, California
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| The third annual Bricks by the Bay LEGO® fan convention will be held Friday-Sunday, March 16-18, 2012. All serious LEGO® builders are welcome to attend and participate. See (URL) for more information. The Convention will run all three days and be (...) (12 years ago, 31-Dec-11, to lugnet.events.bricksbythebay, lugnet.announce, FTX)
| | | | | LDraw.org 2011-02 Parts Update Now Available
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| The 2011-02 LDraw parts update has been now been released. This update includes 786 files in the core library, including 474 new parts. A further 19 parts have been redeveloped by authors who have affirmed the Contributor Agreement, replacing files (...) (12 years ago, 29-Dec-11, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
| | | | | GETS 2011 & Red Deer shows
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| The web pages for NALUG's display at the 2011 Great Edmonton Train Show are now finished. This year we had many new creations based on well-known business chains, as well as a variety of other MOCs. Also back for another appearance were the High (...) (13 years ago, 5-Dec-11, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
| | | | | HBM 012 IS OUT!!!
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| The 12th issue of HispaBrick Magazine is available now (URL) In this issue you will have the opportunity to learn more about Mike Doyle and his abandoned houses, trains created by Anthony Sava, the robots of Simon Burfield and the game Super Robo (...) (13 years ago, 30-Nov-11, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish, FTX) !
| | | | | BrickCon Presentation and Sessions Proposals Due by September 7
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| The deadline to submit proposals for sessions at BrickCon 2011 is Wednesday, September 7. Earlier submissions are better and more likely to be scheduled at a preferred time (for example, not during the scheduled meal breaks 12-1 and 6-7:30 each (...) (13 years ago, 28-Aug-11, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.events, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us.wa, lugnet.loc.us.or, lugnet.loc.us.id, lugnet.loc.us.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.bc)
| | | | | LDraw.org 2011-01 Parts Update Now Available
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| The 2011-01 LDraw parts update has been now been released. This update includes 904 files in the core library, including 486 new parts. A further 4 parts have been redeveloped by authors who have affirmed the Contributor Agreement, replacing files (...) (13 years ago, 25-Jul-11, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad) !!
| | | | | LETGUI Update (1.6.1.1)
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| I just released a new version of LETGUI. Added support for stl2dat (now version 1.22). Added support for dat2qp (now version 1.3). Added support for coverer (now version 1.3). You can download like usually from (URL) you run into any trouble, please (...) (13 years ago, 24-Jul-11, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | DATHeader Update (The Reviewer Tool) Version 3.0.9.0
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| Hi guys, like already posted on (URL) it has been time to update DATHeader. Download version 3.0.9.0 from (URL) comments are welcome at (URL) (13 years ago, 24-Jul-11, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | 2011/2012 LDraw.org Steering Committee: Nominations closing tomorrow
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| Hi folks, As outlined here: (URL) for the 2011/2012 LDraw.org Steering Committee election will close tomorrow, at 11:59 PM GMT on 15.07.2011 and elections will start on 16.07.2011. Only those candidates that have been nominated, seconded, and have (...) (13 years ago, 14-Jul-11, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | 2011/2012 LDraw.org Steering Committee: Call for Nominations
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| Per the LDraw.org Bylaws at (URL) Subsection 6.03(a), the 2010/2011 Steering Committee should have called sometimes in January for the community to nominate individuals as candidates for the 2011/2012 Steering Committee[1]. But ... it's never to (...) (13 years ago, 2-Jul-11, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | New North American Community Coordinator
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| Published in the LEGO ambassadors forums on June 24th, 2011 : Well, it’s finally been finalized, stamped, and approved and everything is official. The newly appointed North American Community Coordinator is Kevin Hinkle. Kevin comes to us from Texas (...) (13 years ago, 1-Jul-11, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Fana'briques 2011, 24th, 25th and 26th June
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| Fana’briques, that’s LEGO in all its forms, meeting fans like you, sharing experiences, shopping parts and sets, enjoying your time, snacking and more! This event takes place in Rosheim, Alsace, East of France, the 24th, 25th and 26th June of June. (...) (13 years ago, 23-Jun-11, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.be, lugnet.loc.ch, lugnet.loc.de, lugnet.loc.dk, lugnet.loc.es, lugnet.loc.fr, lugnet.loc.it, lugnet.loc.nl)
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