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| I just updated the ldraw.org Feature Article to a short BFC Extensions teaser by Jacob. Also, all future Feature Articles will appear at (URL) and the past articles will be archived there as well. -Tim (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
| | | | | Merry Christmas from SimiLego
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| I have posted our "plasticized" annual Christmas letter on my web page for your enjoyment. Here is an excerpt: ...the yellow and blue bricks began to shimmy in their tub-homes. The other colors quickly joined the dance, and soon all bricks were (...) (25 years ago, 24-Dec-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.mo.kan)
| | | | | Aus service packs and goodbye
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| Hi All, Sadly, my contract with the University of Western Australia ends this month, and today is my last working day of the year. Thus my access to the web and email will be cut off. I'm going to miss the online LEGO community, especially now that (...) (25 years ago, 24-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.au.wa.per, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | My web page to be discontinued (for now)
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| Hello everyone, This is a general message going out to anyone who might have links or bookmarks to my Lego web page. I have just graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, and this means that my current web page found at (URL) disappear whenever (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
| | | | | MOTM Voting Online
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| Voting for the January ldraw.org Model of the Month competition is now online. -Tim Courtney ldraw.org Project Coordinator (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
| | | | | Thanks for the welcome
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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)
| | | | | 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) !!
| | | | | 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)
| | | | | 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)
| | | | | 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)
| | | | | 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)
| | | | | 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)
| | | | | 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)
| | | | | 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)
| | | | | 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)
| | | | | 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)
| | | | | 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)
| | | | | 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)
| | | | | 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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