 | | LUGNET Terms of Use clarification
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The LUGNET Terms of Use document, (URL) changed slightly and is now a little bit clearer regarding the posting of auctions. This is not a change in site policy but a clarification of existing site policy. (You do not need to re-accept new terms.) (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | ANNOUNCE: LEGO::RCX 0.9 (old Lego::RCX );
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All I would like to announce the release of version 0.9 of LEGO::RCX.pm. This perl module allows you to communicate with your RCX. It has been developed and tested under Linux, though it most likely will run under other UNIX's. To find out more (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.announce)
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| | Castle Survey Results!
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After 43 replies to the survey (one or two via email) and many wisecracks about the male question... finally, the wait is over - results are in. The questions were: 1. Do you have 375, the Yellow Castle? 2. Are you a male? 3. Are you over 18? 4. (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.announce)
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| | March MOTM Winner
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Greetings I'm proud to announce this month's winner for the ldraw.org MOTM is Pat Justison. Check it out at: (URL) sorry for the delay. -Tim Courtney ldraw.org Project Coordinator (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Ross Young's Fantasy page
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just a head's up about a page i hadn't seen before ross has two truly incredible castle constructions (palace and tree house) check 'em out! (URL) g (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.castle)
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| | Castle World - a new site.
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Hey! Castle World has a new location. I think it's more user friendly, but comments are always welcome. The old page will be around for a little bit, but will mostly act as a link. Check it out at (URL) useful features on the new site: 1) Search (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
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| | Several New Buildings added to my Site...
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Well I have finally gotten around to updating my Castle pages again. (URL) have added the following structures... 1. Right now this is just a generic building for my town although I do like it quite a bit. This building came about mostly because I (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Silicon Valley techies taken with kids' toy
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(Forwarding to a few more groups -- this needs more visibility! :) Way to go, Tom!!! --Todd (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Eiffel Tower
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New picture of my Eiffel Tower using basic bricks: (URL) sign my guestbook if you enjoy it. All comments welcome. (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | New newsgroup lugnet.market.services
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A new newsgroup lugnet.market.services has just been created for the discussion of third-party market services. CHARTER/PURPOSE ===...=== lugnet.market.* (hierarchy): Auctioning, buying, selling, trading, exchanging, and shopping for LEGO® products (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: Factoring going off line for a while
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(...) OK, we have moved. I have the Gateway set back up. However, I have some mail challenges. The Dell laptop where I do all my mail picked (well, Murphy did the picking) the worst possible time to act up. It's throwing blue screens of death (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | CONTEST: First Guelph LEGO(TM) Robot Competition
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The Computer Science Club of the University of Guelph is pleased to announce its first LEGO(TM) Robotics Competition. Any and all enthusiasts are invited. The contest is to be held in conjunction with the University's annual College Royal(TM) open (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | PRESS RELEASE- Lego says 1999 sales rise 25 pct
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Howdy- I know this information is three days old, but I did not see it posted or mentioned anywhere on Lugnet. This first part of my message, is a Reuters new article (summary) about the official Lego® press release which is also listed at the end (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | James Jessiman Photos
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Greetings I recently received photographs of James Jessiman from his parents in Australia. I have placed one on the main memorial page here: (URL) there are others, not linked to by the site, at: (URL) below I've typed out the letter his parents (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.people)
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| | Date & Time? (Re: LUGOLA proposal)
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Hi LA area (including OC and nearby places) LEGO fans It looks like there's a good number of us and therefore could probably make for a fun get together. So let's start planning. I suppose weekends are prime times. How about the first weekend of (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.la, lugnet.announce)
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| | Announcing the 'Vancouver Lego Club' (VLC)
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February 22, 2000 Greetings and salutations fellow Lego enthusiasts. We are pleased to announce the birth of the Vancouver (BC, Canada) Lego Club. During the past several years our own Lego Hobby blossomed and continues to escalate in new and (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.ca.bc, lugnet.loc.ca.bc.van, lugnet.loc.ca.bc.vic, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.announce, lugnet.org)
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| | Factoring going off line for a while
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Important announcement regarding factoring... I have just processed a big batch of factor requests. I am about to pack the office, so this service that dozens, if not hundreds, of people, have used is about to go off the air for a little while, (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | I've added feedback!
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I have added a model rating feature to my website at (URL) . Alan This message's random set is: 6572, (URL) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.announce)
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| | New banner program at the Lego Gif
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For anyone who is interested, I have started a banner ad program on my site (URL) Anybody who wants to can submit one banner (for now) under 15K at the standard 468 x 60 pixels size. Check out my site for details! Regards, -Chris- (25 years ago, 20-Feb-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | New group lugnet.admin.council
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All, A new group lugnet.admin.council has just been created for the consideration, deliberation, and reconciliation of delicate administrative issues. Examples include: - Terms-of-Use transgressions (for example, gratuitous use of profanity, (...) (25 years ago, 20-Feb-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.council)
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| | Lego in the newspaper
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Today's (2-19-00) Close to Home comic strip featured Lego as its inspiration. All of us should be able to relate. And on Feb 15, I found an AP photo of Alexi Lalas in a victory pose after scoring a goal in a Lego Soccer match at the NY Toy fair. I'm (...) (25 years ago, 20-Feb-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | My webpage is up!
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I have put up a webpage for my LEGO creations. See it at: (URL) . (Todd, is my link to your background page acceptable? If not, I'll change it.) Alan This message's random set is: 1959, (URL) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish, lugnet.general)
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| | New pics on Marsbase
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I've updated the Ronin mech on site. There are lots of POV renderings now, along with some descriptive ramblings. Beware, the images in the gallery are 300k+ LMKWYT. Ben -- ===...=== Ben Vaughan buster@marsbase.com (URL) few, the proud...the (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | LUGOLA proposal
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Hello fellow LA area LEGO fans I'd like to propose the formation of LUGOLA (LEGO User Group of LA). It'd be a chance to meet local freaks and share creations, cause let me tell ya, seeing LEGO in real life is better than looking at photographs. And (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us.ca.la)
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| | Jessiman Family in Europe
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Greetings Don and Robyn Jessiman, parents of the late James Jessiman, are travelling to Europe tomorrow. They would like to see if they can meet people in the Lego/LDraw community who live in the UK, Ireland, and Germany on this trip. Since they do (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.ie, lugnet.loc.de, lugnet.announce, lugnet.people)
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| | Folks, we are not playing well
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I'm probably going to regret this post. So be it... Some of you may be aware of a variety of bad stuff brewing over misplaced, or possibly misplaced, auction and trade posts. There has been a lot of discussion about how some people might be so (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Max's Motorhome
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Max is like my Dad... if there's something he wants and it isn't on the market, then he'll build it himself. This is one example of Max's latest work. He call's it the "Locomoto". It started as an old train that he bought from his neighbor. Then (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | PRESS RELEASE- LEGO Company Replaces SAP R/3 System With Internet-Enabled Oracle
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Howdy Gang- Very interesting press release from Oracle, and I quote: "The new e-business enterprise suite will enable LEGO Company to transform into an e-business, allowing administrative tasks in connection with sales, receipt of orders, (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | ldraw.org off-line for three hours Tuesday morning
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Due to a planned power cut at Risø tomorrow, Tuesday, ldraw.org will be off-line 7am-10am Danish time. Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL: (URL) > -- ---...--- (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Lego Beach's Newest Acquisition
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The Lego Beach Fire and Rescue Service is pleased to announce another acquisition. Our newest piece of equipment is a 1991 Hess Firefighting Apparatus Commercial Tanker. The new Engine Forty Two can be seen at the following URL: (URL) the (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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| | PRESS RELEASE- LEGO Company's New Product Assortment 'Kicks';
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Also old news, but I guess soccer is the big push this year..... Happy Reading, Chet ---...--- LEGO Company's New Product Assortment 'Kicks'; -- Featuring the New LEGO Soccer Build-And-Play And Innovative High-Tech Offerings ENFIELD, (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | PRESS RELEASE- LEGO Media Announces New Products for 2000
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Howdy All- This press release is a few days old, but nobody else posted it (that I could find). The only think news worthy, is a Knights' Kingdom CD for the Creator software. Happy Reading! Chet ---...--- LEGO Media Announces New Products for 2000 (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | New wallpaper scene and customizable POV file
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I've finished a new scene. The models used have all been published before, but the focus is on the landscape. I've written the POV file so as to make the landscape very easy to customize. Feel free to use it, but please give credit. (URL) because of (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.general)
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| | STL2DAT Download Page and Runtime Error 200 Fix
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I've added the STL2DAT download page to ldraw.org at: (URL) also placed the long awaited Runtime Error 200 Fix on the Get Started page: (URL) this will save headaches from new users. -Tim (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | L3Lab - yet another LDraw viewer
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As you may know I have been cooking on this L3 program for more than two years now (not that this tells anything about its size and quality ;-) However, I believe L3 now has so many useful features that many of you (especially part authors) also (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | 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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| | Finally, I have a page!
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Hi everyone, I finally have a page! Meanwhile, it contains only castle minifig MOCs. Buildings will come soon (once I build them :-) (URL) is just a beginning, I have more pics just waiting for appropriate captions and s'more time... Tell me what (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | Castle World - the new fan-created site in progress
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Hi everyone! (You might have seen this already - you might not have. Depends if you read .castle regularly...) For the past few days, a new idea submerged (by Pawel) and immediately gained acceleration (translation of phrases might be off here, (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jan-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.castle)
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| | LDLite Download Page Online!
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Since Paul Gyugyi's site crashed some time ago, LDLite has not been available on the web for download. Paul and I exchanged some email about a week ago and we set up the LDLite download page on ldraw.org, to make it available once again. The page is (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jan-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Dark Gray Tanker
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Here is my first attempt at a train car MOC. It uses only pieces from the Sith Infiltrator plus a few other commons. Forgive the crude page. I just wanted to post the image. I may get some more up later this weekend. (URL) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Looking for Corporate Sponsors for .datFest
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At this stage of planning .datFest, it is critical to find some way of financing the event. If you know of a company which works with CAD or a university taht does the same that might be interested in sponsoring .datFest, please let me know. At this (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.datfest)
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| | New newsgroups for LEGO user-groups/clubs
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New newsgroups in the lugnet.org.us.* hierarchy have just been created for 6 LEGO user-groups in the United States: BayLUG Bay Area LEGO Users Group (San Francisco, California, U.S.A.) DixieLUG Dixie LEGO Users Group (Southeastern U.S.A.) GMLUG (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.org.us.baylug, lugnet.org.us.dixielug, lugnet.org.us.gmlug, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.org.us.wafol, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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| | Introducing and Planning .datFest
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Greetings For about a month now, a few people have been thinking about holding datFest, a convention for Virtual Lego modelling/LDraw in Boston, similar to Mindfest. A few ideas have been exchanged and then discussion fizzled on the topic, as we (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.datfest)
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| | New newsgroup lugnet.cad.datfest
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A new newsgroup lugnet.cad.datfest has just been created. CHARTER/PURPOSE ===...=== -> lugnet.cad.datfest (group): ".datFest" virtual LEGO building convention: discussion, planning, facilities, advertising, fund-raising, curricula, technology, (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.datfest)
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| | In Case You're Wondering
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Some readers have noticed an increase in my involvement here on LUGNET. This might seem odd in light of my previous post: (URL) keep the curious informed, here's an update. In November I withdrew from the Lab. From then through the Spring '00 term I (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Two new LEGO pages
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Hello all. This is my first post to LUGNET. I just wanted to let you all know that I have created two LEGO pages of my own, and I invite everyone to come check them out! (1) The Crossbots Pages: I was inspired by Jim Cane's Ultra Throwbots page, and (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | New Page: Tim Courtney's Lego Info
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I just threw together a small page about myself and more importantly, links to a couple photo collections I have online of events I've participated in. Check it out, send comments etc... The URL is: (URL) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.people)
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| | Looking for James Jessiman Photo
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I am seeking a picture of James Jessiman for the ldraw.org website. I did not know one existed until Papp Imre emailed me yesterday claiming he had seen one on a website somewhere. He suggested James' site, but I couldn't find any there. My best bet (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.people)
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| | NYC LEGOfest - Saturday, February 5th
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The NYC LEGO Fest is on for Saturday February 5th at my apartment in Staten Island (easy commute via public transportation from all 5 boroughs as well as an easy drive from NJ, LI and beyond). If you are interested in attending, please let me know. (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us.ny.ny, lugnet.loc.us.nj, lugnet.loc.us.ny)
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| | LBFR has moved
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The Lego Beach Fire and Rescue Service has moved yet again. This move was necessary due to space limitations on my ISP's server. I wanted to provide zipped instructions for my fire trucks but there was no room for them, so... Our new (and hopefully (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jan-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Featured LEGO animation page is up
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I finally finished a page listing some animation files that I have made. They are all of starwars models or space MOCs. (URL) J (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Partsref Updated
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Partsref, (URL), has been updated with the changes from the 99-06 L-CAD parts update. (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | BlockCAD version 2.1 is out!
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Hi all! I'm happy to announce version 2.1 of BlockCAD, my LEGO building program! BlockCAD: (2 URLs) The big thing in this release is that pieces can be placed anywhere in X, Y and Z, not limited to a stud width/height increment anymore. This makes (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.cad)
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| | Darth Vader
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I am seeking a 1-2 foot tall model of Lego Darth Vader, as soon as possible. Please contact me either by e-mail, or you can call me at 714-444-3533, indicate this is re: Darth, and I or my assistant will call you right back. I am located in Costa (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | "Just Build" at www.lego.com
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I don't know how long this has been in place, but it's new to me. In the members area under "what's new," there is a live, on-screen brick builder app. It contains many of the elements seen in the LEGO Advent Calendar set. Drag and drop. Two-button (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Web Page is FINALLY Up
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Well after months of anticipation I finally got my webpage up. I plan to make changes as I get feedback so things may change often over the next couple of months. I was originally going to post at 12:00 EST, but figured that it is already 12:00 ZULU (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | ldraw.org Model of the Month - January 2000
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I'm getting this month's MOTM winner a little bit early. Ah well, its 2000 in certain parts of the world :) 6 hours to go here. Birger Garbe is the winner for January with his Tower of Bricktown model. Congratulations Birger! (URL) Courtney (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | LDraw: New Parts Update Available
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A new parts release has been posted to www.ldraw.org. You can find it here: (URL). This update is called 99-06. In my part of the world, it's still 1999, so we made it just in time. Those of you already on the other side, happy Y2K! But the update (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Fujita LEGO Star Wars Website
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This link sent in by Jin Sato <jinsato@magi.com>... (URL) Mr. Fujita spent "155 weeks of work from the summer of 1992." Incredibly mindblowingly excellent. Check it out. --Todd [crossposted to .starwars, .loc.jp, .build, and .announce; followups to (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.loc.jp, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce)
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| | Website update - town, trains, Legoland Windsor pics
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After a good deal of delay I have completed updating my site: (URL) pictures of a trip to Legoland Windsor this summer: (URL) of my recently completed (and then torn down) town layout: (URL) few train pics: (URL) school Technic class pics: (URL) you (...) (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.legoland.windsor, lugnet.general)
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| | Legosub Remote Controlled underwater robot
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I found this really cool project called Legosub when surfing the Mindstorms site! It appears someone took a Divers submarine and outfitted it with some Mindstorms equipment as well as some high-tech gadgets like a live camera, laser, propulsion (...) (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.aquazone)
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| | New ldraw.org Feature Article - BFC Extensions
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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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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) !
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| | 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) !
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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) !
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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