| | PRESS RELEASE- LEGO Company Posts 17% Increase in 1999 U.S. Consumer Sales
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Howdy All- I had not seen anybody else post this since it came out yesterday, so here goes.... Another Lego® press release, and some feature points: -17% sales increase in the USA -LEGO® digital camera for Mindstorm® and more Enjoy, Chet PRESS (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Acronym FAQ posted!
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Ever wonder what a MOC means? Wondered why SNOTs are annoying, and POOPs are hated by many AFOLs? If a BURP is more than just impoliteness? If a SPUD is more than a potato, and a KABOB more than a piece of meat? Why the annoying girls that sing "No (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | dino-craigo-lego
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hi, y'all! it's not just about custom mini-figs anymore... (URL) later ~ craig~ (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | New "knight's kingdom" feature on lego.com
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Hi Castle fans, Well, lego.com added a new castle section with detailed "stories" about the Knight's Kingdom sets/characters. It's in the middle "circle", you can't miss it... (Note - I wouldn't have seen this if I wasn't baby-sitting 5 y/o twins, (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.announce)
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| | New newsgroups: Architecture, Contests, Mecha, and Minifigs (subgroups of lugnet.build)
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Four new focused sub-groups of lugnet.build have just been created. CHARTER/PURPOSE ===...=== lugnet.build (group and hierarchy): Good old-fashioned building discussions: creations, modeling ideas and techniques, tips & tricks, insights, custom (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | February MOTM Winner
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I'm proud to announce the MOTM winner for this month is Bram Lambrecht with his Pentapterigoid Fighter. Check it out at: (URL) Courtney ldraw.org Project Coordinator (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Auld Dragon's Legotaku Lair Updated
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Hello Everyone! I added a couple items to my website, so please check them out. :) The Link is at the end of the message. New Stuff: ~The History of Dragonia This page is a quick rundown on what has happend over the last 1000 years in the lands that (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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| | Lion's Cove Update
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Hi, I've added a big part to my Lion's Cove Teasers on my page. (At least, big compared to what I had up till now ;-) Here it is: (URL) Tell me what you think! -Shiri (URL) (25 years ago, 30-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.announce)
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| | New LEGO Outlets are coming
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New LEGO outlets are opening in: San Fransisco, California New York City, New York Honolulu(?), Hawaii Chicago, Illinois I also know someone working on the new Dolphin Mall and Theme Park in Miami and, according to him, LEGO is among many companies (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Pixelego Application (v1) available
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Folks, Woohoo! I met my self-imposed deadline. The initial version of my Pixelego application is available for free download. This Java (1.1.7) application allows you to generate pictures that appear to have been constructed out of LEGO (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
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| | BATR - Toy of the Century
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Take a look at this from the British Association of Toy Retailers Toy of the Century Award You can vote for Lego, but its already winning as you would expect. (URL) Walton Email: d.walton@ndirect.co.uk Take a look at my homepage (still under (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | 100,000th Message
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This is the 100,000'th message on LUGNET! Congratulations! KL (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | [CW] - Castle World Online!
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The framework for Castle World is up: (URL) there will be mad changes for a little bit (adding, referencing, etc), but the hard part is over with. Browse around and express your opinion. Special thanks to Craig Hamilton for helping me co-design this (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | Pixelego Viewer available
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Hi all, As a preamble to a much more involved LEGO-like tool that I am working on, I thought I'd going ahead and make the following applet available: Pixelego Viewer (URL) just go to (URL) and follow the links). This applet is freely available for (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
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| | February MOTM Voting online
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The voting for the February ldraw.org Model of the Month competition is now online! Please stop by and vote on your favorite model. (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: NQC 2.1 b3 released
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Linux builds of NQC are now available in tar.gz and RPM format at: <URL://www.mattdm.or...orms/nqc/> including the new 2.1.b3, as well as the stable 2.0.2 release and some docs packaged nicely. To the best of my knowledge, these binaries work (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Rare Magenta Goblets donated to Minifig Museum of Art
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An anonymous donor has given the Minifig Museum of Modern Art five magenta goblets. I have posted a picture of these goblets on the entry page to my minifig art site. To see these goblets, visit: www.minifigmuseum.fr...ervers.com The freeservers (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Lutz Uhlmann's New URL
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Greetings Lutz just emailed me and asked me to post information regarding his new url at his own domain: (URL) also says, "Anyway, my page now has moved officially and is up to date with an new LGEO package (adding 69 new parts) and the latest parts (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.people)
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| | DixieLUG pictures
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Well, even though our official pictures are still not in, we thought that you might get a kick out of a few DixieLUG teasers: (URL) am inspired to build a huge penguin now ... -- pn (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.org.us.dixielug, lugnet.announce)
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