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| Well. Wow. What can I say? It certainly appears as if we have opened Pandora’s Bucket… First, allow me to thank you all for your overwhelmingly warm welcome. I can assure you, it is as thrilling to us to be able to make the announcement of LEGO (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | Partsref is Searchable
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| Partsref now has text search! You can now search for any word(s) in a part's title, filename, keywords or category. Parts are listed by relevance, showing which words matched (since keywords and category are not shown in the results). See it at (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | ldraw.org General Update, Added Press & Awards
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| I just finished doing some general housekeeping updates to ldraw.org, as well as adding a new Press & Awards section. This section will feature press articles which have been written about LDraw/ldraw.org and awards the site has won (only one of (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
| | | | | Re: Language slipping?
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| (...) James, if anyone flames you for saying what you wrote, then I think they have a major attitude problem. Thank you for drawing this to my attention, and thanks to others who pointed out (publicly and via email) two flagrant transgressions this (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | NYC Legofest
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| I'll try this one more time. Anyone in the tri-stae area want to have a LEGOfest the last weekend of January? Ed "Boxer" Jones (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us.ny.ny)
| | | | | Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
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| Please allow me to provide some further clarification. I agree that perhaps our position regarding the viewing of images on LEGO.com was somewhat hard- line and legalistic. It was not intended to be so. (I'll take the heat here, as it was my (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.publish)
| | | | | Policy clarification regarding catalogs
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| Questions have been raised recently regarding our stance toward the publication (scanned and posted) of our catalogs, both those intended for consumers and those for retailers. During my visit earlier this week in Billund, and also following (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.publish) !
| | | | | SW Lego Contest Winners Announced and Voting Available
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| Check it out! (URL) J (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.starwars)
| | | | | New newsgroup lugnet.loc.is
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| A new newsgroup for LEGO enthusiasts in Ìsland (Iceland) has just been created. CHARTER/PURPOSE ===...=== -> lugnet.loc.is (group): Ìsland (Iceland) lugnet.loc.* (hierarchy): General-purpose discussion groups for LEGO® enthusiasts, for hundreds of (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.loc.is, lugnet.loc.dk, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.no, lugnet.loc.se, lugnet.loc.fi)
| | | | | New newsgroup lugnet.loc.eu
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| A new wide-spanning newsgroup for LEGO enthusiasts in Europe (European Union and European countries) has just been created. This will help minimize massive crossposting in the case of wide topic discussions such as a European LEGO Fest. (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.loc.at, lugnet.loc.be, lugnet.loc.cz, lugnet.loc.dk, lugnet.loc.de, lugnet.loc.ee, lugnet.loc.gr, lugnet.loc.es, lugnet.loc.fr, lugnet.loc.ie, lugnet.loc.it, lugnet.loc.lu, lugnet.loc.hu, lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.loc.no, lugnet.loc.pl, lugnet.loc.pt, lugnet.loc.ru, lugnet.loc.ch, lugnet.loc.sk, lugnet.loc.si, lugnet.loc.fi, lugnet.loc.se, lugnet.loc.tr, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.loc.il)
| | | | | Minifig-scale mech pages posted!
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| I have just uploaded three pages for the 86th Mobile Armored Police Division of the NYPD. These pages highlight three new minifig scale mechs I built late one night. All mechs use combinations of pieces from Throwbots and classic lego and space (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.space, lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
| | | | | 2000 Sets found in the US
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| [follow-ups to lugnet.market.shopping--that seems as logical as anything else] Weee-haaaa! I just got back from Meijers, and they had a *ton* of new LEGO sets. :):):) I restrained myself, mostly. I only spent about $180, and $40 of that was for a (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.town, lugnet.castle)
| | | | | Pics of FIRST Lego Leage Competition in Chicago
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| I just scanned in the pictures I took at the FIRST Lego League Mindstorms competition at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago last Saturday. I couldn't get to zacktron.com's FTP server, so I threw em up on ldraw.org. The URL is: (URL) is a (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.people)
| | | | | Students win Legos robotics competition
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| I'm stoked about the coverage on this one. The more press the better. (URL) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.co.den, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Brad Justus is real
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| (...) Brad, I'm very sorry this happened. It seems that cheap attention is easy to be had these days. I wish LEGO the best of luck in determining the source of the forgery on Usenet/rec.toys.lego and hope that it does not discourage the ongoing (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | 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)
| | | | | 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)
| | | | | 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)
| | | | | 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)
| | | | | 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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