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| I am pleased to announce that I have a new Lego website, telling of its history. The URL is (URL) (24 years ago, 4-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | July MOTM
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| Hey everyone... You may have noticed this month's MOTM didn't have a vote. I ended up totally forgetting about it until too late. But, luckily there was only one submission this month, and might I add well deserving of this title. Here's Ryan (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
| | | | | Summer Shop at Home Catalog just arrived!!
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| (follow-ups set to market.shopping) Well, I just got the brand new Summer S@H catalog! Here's the list of new stuff (at least I think it is all new): 3404 Black Bus - $19.99 3405 Blue Bus - $19.99 3406 Americas Bus - $19.99 3407 Red Bus - $19.99 (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping)
| | | | | Ray-Tracings of models
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| I have put up some ray-tracings of some models on brickshelf at (URL) . There are some never before seen models, too. lmkwyt. Alan (fut lugnet.cad.ray) (24 years ago, 29-Jun-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.town, lugnet.announce, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space)
| | | | | Favorite Adventurers Minifig
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| There is now just over 24 hours to participate in the vote for the Favorite Adventurers Minifig. Just visit www.geocities.com/En...urers.html and select an option in the pop window. Christian (24 years ago, 29-Jun-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | PNLTC invites participation in world record attempt
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| PNLTC officially invites clubs, and anyone else interested, to join our world record breaking attempt. Send us an "ambassador" box car, we will document it as a part of this historic event. In order to make this undertaking manageable we will use (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.events, lugnet.org)
| | | | | Preview: LUGNET T-Shirts, Mousepads, Coffee Mugs
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| LUGNET T-Shirts are just around the corner...we're finalizing color-matching adjustments this week. Here's the design: (2 URLs) the photo, some parts are real and some parts are fake. The shirt itself (wrinkles courtesy of the humid weather this (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general) !!
| | | | | LDraw at the Kidvention Update
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| Hey everybody... Here's an update on the status for LDraw at the Kidvention so far: I sent off the artwork for the banner to the company (FastSigns) today, and they will get back to me soon on approval. Thanks to everyone who donated to make this (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sd, lugnet.loc.us.ca.la, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.org.us.lugola) !
| | | | | Need more $$ for ldraw.org banner...
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| Hey everybody... I've been working with John Neal and we thought we could get the ldraw.org vinyl banner for $100, but realized that different printing methods wouldn't give us the result we need. This means that I'm in need of $130 more towards the (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.org.us)
| | | | | New newsgroup lugnet.events
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| A new newsgroup lugnet.events has just been created. CHARTER/PURPOSE ===...=== lugnet.events (group and hierarchy): Organized community events, festivals, competitions, tournaments, shows, etc.: announcements, ideas, collaboration, planning, (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jun-00, to lugnet.events, lugnet.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | LEGO contest with prizes! X-COM/Space related.
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| Hello LEGO enthusiasts, (This release has been sent to both the X-COM and LEGO communities, so it might be a little OT for each group) Have you ever played a game called X-COM: UFO Defense for the PC? Do you still enjoy LEGOs? Then I have a contest (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
| | | | | GMLTC layout on its way to Carlsbad!
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| It's official: The GMLTC train layout is on its way to LEGOLAND Carlsbad. The big truck pulled away from my house around 10 minutes ago. Hopefully it doesn't get lost in "the system", or our display won't be nearly as impressive... ;-) Hope to see (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | New newsgroup lugnet.fun (was: New newsgroups for Fun Projects & Group Activities)
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| Hiya, lugnet.fun has been activated as a newsgroup. (Previously it was an empty category with subgroups only.) The main reason for its activation is (1) as a place for LEGO-related "silliness" or amusement -- i.e., sort of an "on-topic" version of (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.fun, lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | L3DView v0.5 view LDraw models in real-time 3D
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| I have written a program called L3DView which allows you to view LDraw models in real-time 3D via OpenGL. The program is available from: (URL) supports both .DAT and .MPD files. You will need a 3D-accelerated video card with OpenGL acceleration to (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
| | | | | More Brickest Pics!
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| Hi all, I just wanted to let you know that I just put up some pictures I took from Brickfest 2000 on my website. (URL) the servers at Xoom.com have been flakey lately. If you don't get through, I just want you to know that IS the correct address. (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Brickbay.com is Ready
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| After 2 months of work, the site is finally stable, bug-free (hopefully) and ready to be used. I wiped out all test information on the site including everyone's inventories, orders and profiles. The site can now be accessed by its domain name: (URL) (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | The Sanburn Systems Company is Now Online!
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| To All, After 8 months of intense work, picture taking, counting, sorting, and the like, I am very proud to announce that The Sanburn Systems Company is now on-line, for the first initial launch and testing, here: (URL) will provide $0.50 in free (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Mosaic Maker
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| This is sort of a cross between an online toy and a computer-aided-design tool: (URL) serious work, check out Eric Harshbarger's "Pixelego" application: (URL) & Suz (24 years ago, 17-Jun-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build, lugnet.fun.crafts, lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | L3Lab v1.2 20000616
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| I have also made a new L3Lab, mainly because of a stupid bug in v1.1, where the model was always drawn twice per redraw!! -effectively slowing down rendering to half speed... (L3Lab v1.0 is OK though) I have also added some commandline options for (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
| | | | | L3P v1.2 20000616
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| My (former) site is closed for renovation, and it seems to take a while, so here is new site (ldraw.org is also updated) and a also new version with a small bug fix: the camera angle defaulted to 1 degree (in stead of 67.38 degrees) resulting in no (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
| | | | | Models for Display at Kidvention
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| Hey everybody... I am looking for a few models to display at the Kidvention with the LDraw setup. They need to have a virtual representation in .dat format so we can print up a poster of a rendering of the model. I'm looking for stuff from a lot of (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.space, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.aquazone, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !
| | | | | Kidvention, GMLTC, and 'Logo' train cars
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| Hi all. I know several LTCs ("LEGO Train Clubs" for the uninitiated) are building containers and cars to run on the PNLTC layout when then make their world record attempt in August. On behalf of the GMLTC, I'd like to make an offer: Send your (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jun-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | LD selections: price breakdown of bulk order sets
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| I'd like to annouce a page that I'll be using to track the "evergreen" sets, as well as the currently produced and currently nominated types of pieces. Right now, the page contains a listing of the current bulk-order sets, sorted by Partsref name, (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | LEGO Model Designer postings on Brickshelf
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| Looks like one of the large display model designers at LEGO posted a few pics of his creations. Nice job Paul, I like that polar bear. I also love that Orlando girl. I have actually seen her at the Orlando LIC. Great job, post more! Bickshelf: (URL) (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | bulk ordering is here!
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| Greetings! After a somewhat longer-than-intended absence, I’m back, and with good news: LEGO Direct is pleased to announce that bulk sales from LEGO start today, June 14. Our first bulk releases include standard bricks (1x4, 1x6, 1x8, 2x2, 2x4, 2x8) (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.announce, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.market.services) !!
| | | | | Acronym FAQ - FTX version
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| Fiddling around with the FTX stuff today, here's what I came up with: (URL) to Richard Franks who suggested this long ago :-) The only problem I had was with the bulleted list... it didn't seem to work. No biggie, tho'. `-Shiri (as I have to write (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jun-00, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | 2001 Catalogue!!!
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| Well, you can probably guess what happened after I got home and opened a Flash Speeder from TRU... what appears to be a sellers' guide or mock up of next year's catalogue fell out! I am busy scanning right at this very moment, but I have uploaded a (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jun-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish, lugnet.starwars)
| | | | | Organizational business for ldraw.org as pertains to future activities
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| Hello! I believe there are some group issues to attend to before ldraw.org starts selling CDs. I got to talk to a lot of people this weekend and received valuable input towards the direction of this now nebulous group and what needs to take place in (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.datfest, lugnet.org.us) !!
| | | | | BRICKFEST, BRICKFEST, BRICKFEST (the pictures)
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| Greetings from not so sunny Washington DC (its dark out, and late) I've got a bunch of Brickfest photos on Brichshelf... (URL) a great time meeting all of you and putting faces to many familiar names. Hope to fest again soon...WAMALUG you're (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.va) !
| | | | | Virtual Brickfest 2000
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| The cam is here: (URL) chat is here: (URL) like some of us will be here for quite a while. -Nick (24 years ago, 9-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | BrickFest Live on-line!!!
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| ...BrickFest is live and online! Check out our live video feeds on: (URL) 1 is in our workshop room (at the moment, kinda empty) Cam 2 is on our big ol sorting/play pile! (24 years ago, 9-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | BrickFest!!!
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| ...BrickFest is live and on-line! Check out our cams at: (URL) 1 is on our castle room Cam 2 is our town/train/historical display We have historical displays of lots of older sets and will prolly post a 'walk thru' video. (24 years ago, 9-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | Brickbay Beta Testing
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| Hi Folks, Whoever is interested in beta-testing may do so for a free parts reward. The site is basically done and I expect it to be fully operational this upcoming Monday or after the domain name is transferred since Brickbay can't generate e- mail (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Announcement: Member pages
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| Members: You can now make your own web pages on LUGNET -- right from your web browser. Here are some examples... (URL) more details, check out the User Guide and the FAQ: (2 URLs) fun! --Todd & Suz p.s. We're also putting together a "community (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish, lugnet.admin.general) !!
| | | | | LDraw not to sell CD-ROM at Kidvention in July & Misc CD-ROM issues
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| Greetings I just talked with Heidi Bailey again today, and she informed me that TLC will not be allowing us to sell the CD-ROM at Legoland this summer for the Kidvention. We are allowed to distribute literature about LDraw and of course, hold our (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
| | | | | Permanent Chatroom
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| Kyle Keppler has set up a permanant Lego Chatroom here: (URL) requires AOL Instant Messenger, however, if you dislike/don't want to use AIM, wou can vote for a web-based chatroom. We hope to see you there! :) Jeff (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | animation demo at brickfest
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| ...By the way, I am proud to announce that BrickFest we will be showing the _award_winning_ stop motion work of Greg Perry! Greg found out today that he is one of the winners of the LEGO Coolest Home Video contest! His winning entry and several (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
| | | | | Draft Schedule for BrickFest
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| ...Well, its a draft, but its a start. ...The draft schedule for BrickFest is up at: (URL) (also linked off the brickfest.com site). Note: There are _lots_ of things that are tentative on the schedule, and we are still looking for input on ideas or (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
| | | | | Rocket designs on my lego page
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| I just put a few rocket designs on my Lego page. Take a look at (URL) and let me know what you think. Axel ---...--- Axel Poque email: axel.pq@t-online.de Aachen, Germany home: (URL) Space Flight Center: (URL) (24 years ago, 6-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | BrickFest June 9 - 11, 2000 Washington DC, USA!!! Last post!!!
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| posted to:lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.castle.org.cw, lugnet.fun.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.va, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains fut: lugnet.org.us.wamalug What: (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.castle.org.cw, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.va, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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