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| | New newsgroup lugnet.sports for Football/Soccer
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A new newsgroup lugnet.football has just been created. Brad Justus of LEGO Direct said that Soccer (i.e., Football) is officialy not part of the Town product line and that it's its own product line. Going by this and by the set numbers, it seems (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.sports, lugnet.town, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: Web interface to LUGNET news moving from www.lugnet.com to news.lugnet.com
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(...) OK, I'm posting this message from news.lugnet.com, which is now officially the new web interface to news. Everything on www.lugnet.com still works, but things related to news will gradually be cut over to news.lugnet.com. (Don't worry -- I'll (...) (24 years ago, 2-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | Improvements to ldraw.org
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I just uploaded a few improvements to the Get Started part of the site, including highly visible links to getting started and downloading parts updates from the main page. LMKWYT - I plan to keep this area as easy as possible for people to get (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | MOTM Winner for August
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Hey! This month's MOTM winner is Todd Lehman, with his Chess Set rendering. Congrats! (URL) Courtney - tim@zacktron.com (URL) - Centralized LDraw Resources (URL) - Zacktron Alliance ICQ: 23951114 AIM: TimCourtne (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !
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| | Announcing my web site: eLEGO
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This is the official announcement of my web site, eLEGO (elliot + lego). Not a whole lot there yet, but I'm working on it. Current MOCs shown are: - - - - - Castle Realm: Coming Not So Soon Star Space: My Ice Planet 2000 version of 6833 (Beacon (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | LDraw Kidvention Display Pictures (a little late)
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Hey everybody... I just uploaded some pictures of the LDraw Kidvention event to Brickshelf. Check them out: (URL) there isn't that many. I was terribly busy then, and we couldn't get my USB smartmedia drive to work with any of our computers. So I (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !
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| | edy lego art
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Hi, here is one of my 'edy lego art': (URL) for all those who are not able to view PNG the same as GIF: (URL) set the follow-up to lugnet.general, because I couldn't find a newsgroup dealing with Lego art. In my opinion it would be good for lugnet (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | FunBrix Pic of the Week #3
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Hi All, The 3rd FunBrix Pic of the Week is here! Eric Kingsley's LEGO Brickingham Inn. This is one cool model, so check it out! (URL) --- Click on FUN --- Click on FunBrix Pic of the Week. Build on... Robin W. FunBrix (24 years ago, 31-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.castle, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Later May-June 2000 issues of Mania Magazine DID Include a disclaimer
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A relative of mine received his issue of the May-June 2000 Mania Magazine late last month and it did include the disclaimer. The disclaimer was featured on the last page under his address. I will be posting a scan of the page before 10:00 EST. -Rich (24 years ago, 28-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | Web interface to LUGNET news moving from www.lugnet.com to news.lugnet.com
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This is just a quick "heads-up" to let you know that some things are going to be moving around a bit on the LUGNET webserver. In order to make room for a newer, friendlier LUGNET homepage while keeping the current news-focused homepage easily (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general) !!
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| | My web pages have been updated, especially pirate stuff!
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Check out my LEGO web pages at: (URL) updated some stuff here and there. The largest new content is in the pictures area, and all the pirate pages. Especially note my writeup of the Pirate Game at Brickfest 2000. In doing the game writeup, I've (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jul-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.announce)
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| | BrikWars 1942!
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Achtung! Shaun Sullivan and I got together last night and played a bit of BrikWars. Inspired by Shaun's awesome WWII models, we decided to go with a scenario set in 1942. We took a few pictures, and I prepared a little website for everyone's (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.gaming) !
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| | Major Web update for the ADPolice
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*****PRESS RELEASE***** Qualification Trials, Western Wastelands, Unified States of New America, July 28, 2003 Master Arms latest tank, the MA1192 medium assualt completed the second portion of its grueling qualification trials. The first part of (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | No MOTM Entries for August
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Hey... Just letting all of you know that so far I don't have any MOTM entries for this month, and its coming down to the time to make up the vote. I *have* seen MANY renderings though more than worthy of the title. If you would like to be in this (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Calling all pirates - I need to identify whose ships these are!
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I'm starting to collect all the postmortem and all from the Pirate Game at Brickfest 2000, and I'd like to get as many peoples ship names as possible. I have the following ships names (with player name if known): Captain Bad Jim the Funny Hat of the (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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| | Bricks on the Brain adds over 2,000 parts!
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That's right, we have added more than 2,000 parts of our newest inventory additions. This is only about half of the total lot, so be sure to keep up with the new additions. We have also recently added the ability to pay for your order via PayPal.com (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | Junk Box #3 is Starting!
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(...) Just noticed that the tracking page is set up. Please start signing up, and I will try and get this into the mail to the first person ASAP. (24 years ago, 24-Jul-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya, lugnet.announce)
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| | FunBrix Pic of the Week #2
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Hi All, The second FunBrix Pic of the Week has been selected! Ben's LEGO Millennium Falcon. It nearly a year old, but it’s still a great model and picture! (URL) --- Click on FUN --- Click on FunBrix Pic of the Week! Build on... Robin W. FunBrix (24 years ago, 24-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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| | First meeting of GardenSLUG!
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Hi all, I hosted the first meeting of the newly formed GardenSLUG yesterday from 3:00 to about 9:30. It was fun. I was joined by (in order of arrival, I think) Cletus Romano, Andy Lynch, Bianca Nebab, Laurajean Murphy, and Erik Olson. We built from (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us.nj, lugnet.loc.us.ny, lugnet.loc.us.pa, lugnet.org) !
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| | Ohio BrikWars battle July 15, 2000 writeup completed
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Well, I finally was able to complete the writeup for this battle. It went on, including setup and teardown, for close to 15 hours. The writeup can be found here: (URL) didn't use all the pictures (I barely used a 4th of them) The rest can be found (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jul-00, to lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.announce)
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| | New Advent Calendar spotted in Utah: Set 2250
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Tonight while checking the latest clearance wave at Target, I noticed the year 2000 advent calendar, set number 2250. The set includes 234 pieces. The printing on the face of the calendar is significantly different from the 1999 calendar and depicts (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | New animation location and site info
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Hello everyone, In an attempt to archive all of my LEGO related files in my Brickshelf account I started moving my finished animation files there. The folder contating all of my finished animations can be found at: (URL) still have to finish up some (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Bricks on the Brain Launchs Wireless Capabilities!
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Today, BricksontheBrain.com, the Web's easiest way to buy bricks, launched a Palm VII application to follow current and past order status. You can download this application at www.bricksonthebrain...wnload.cfm Please let us know what you think! (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.robotics.palm)
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| | Dixielug.org is now online (Re: linking "DixieLUG" site to gallery)
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Well, I had not gotten around to announcing to the 'public' yet, but now that you mention it: DixieLUG.org is now on the air! Check it out at (you guessed it): (URL) are appreciated. Please forward all disparaging remarks to /dev/null. :-) (...) (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jul-00, to lugnet.org.us.dixielug, lugnet.announce)
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| | Newsserver downtime
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The LUGNET newsserver was down for approximately 30 hours (as you probably noticed) and is now back up and running. (Actually, the newsserver itself never stopped running and serving articles, but it did stop accepting articles.) The problem: (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
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| | Canadian Summer S@H catalogue
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I just got my Summer Catalogue, and there is no McDonalds :( There is a lot of Soccer, Dino Island, and Race. Knights Kingdom is gone (temporarily, I assume), but Arctic is still there. (24 years ago, 18-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | [rtlToronto] September Lego Event Preliminary Announcement
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the 6th Annual Lego Robotics Event: Fear of a Bot Planet Preliminary Announcement Date: September 16th, 2000 (Tentative) Location: TBA Hi. It's been a few weeks after the May 28th Lego Event and as promised, we're planning another one, complete with (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | FunBrix Pic of the Week #1
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Hi All, The first ever FunBrix Pic(ture) of the Week has been selected! Kumamoto Castle by KK Quah of Tampa, Florida, USA. (URL) ----- Click on FUN! Build on... Robin W. FunBrix (24 years ago, 17-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.castle)
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| | DixieLUG: Pictures from July 8 meeting on Brickshelf
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The pics from last Saturday's DixieLUG meeting are now on-line at Brickshelf: (URL) Greg (24 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.dixielug, lugnet.org.us)
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| | WAMALUG/WAMALTC show in Chantilly Va July 15th-16th
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...Ok, so its short notice, but we are doing the Greenberg Toy and Train show this weekend (July 15th-16th) in Chantilly Va at the Capital Expo Center (directions and more info at (URL) will have our largest display yet at 32'x13' with over 330' of (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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| | Brickset now a .com
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I am pleased to announce that Brickset, the popular LEGO set database, is now available at (URL) www.brickset.co.uk address will also remain for the time being, but please update your bookmarks. There are three supported entry points to the site: (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Live from Kidvention!!
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Hello everyone! I'm posting to you live from our LDraw and GMLTC train layout display at Legoland California for the Lego Maniac Kidvention. We're having a blast here with the displays talking to people and informing them about the online Lego (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.legoland) !
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| | ldraw.org Vinyl Banner Arrived! :)
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Hey everybody... The vinyl banner for the ldraw.org Kidvention display just arrived, and it looks GREAT! :) Its something that we can keep around for a long time and reuse at future events - and I'm very happy with what we got. I'd like to take the (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Kidvention in the news
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Check out the article: (URL) (24 years ago, 10-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Soft Opening of FunBrix.com
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LEGO fans, It’s time to unveil my new concept “FunBrix” to all! The idea behind FunBrix is a one stop place on the web for fun, bricks, news, links and more. This is the place for people young and old, who like to collect, build, display and play (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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| | Mark's Lego Contest Prizes!
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Check out my website for all new pics of the prizes! (URL) a month left! Send in your entries now! ~Mark (24 years ago, 9-Jul-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
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| | LUGNET T-Shirts are in!
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Here they are! (URL) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general) !!
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| | Even more BrickFest stuff
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Hey there, I just uploaded the three animations that were done at the Brickfest Stop-Motion Animation workshop. Send all praise to animators-in-training Richard and Mike Shamus. (URL) Foote (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | New History Page!!
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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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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) !!
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| | 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) !
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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) !
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| | 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) !
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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) !
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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) !
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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) !!
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| | 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) !
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| | 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)
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| | 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) !!
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| | 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) !
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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) !
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| | 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)
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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) !!
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| | 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)
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| | 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) !
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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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| | More Parts at Bricks on the Brain!
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All, I just wanted to give you all a heads up that there is more than 500 new parts up in the Bricks on the Brain store! Also, another heads up, there is now T-Shirts, MousePads, and Coffee Mugs available as well! You can see this all and more at: (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.announce)
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| | Great Deals at Toy Liquidators!
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Hello, I just visited a Toy Liquidators in Vacaville California, and I found some great deals! They had #8480 Space Shuttle / "FOS Light" Space Shuttle for $69.99 (about 10 left) and they had #8479 Barcode Multi-Set for $99.99 They also had some (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jun-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.announce)
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| | Colin and Wanda Visit Midwestern U.S.A.!!
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Colin and Wanda, the intrepid couple who are in the middle of a world tour, visited the Greater Midwest LEGO Train Club's layout recently. It was an adventure from the start, as Colin and Wanda arrived air mail to Minneapolis, Minnesota, only to be (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | One Week to go! BrickFest 2000 June 9-11 Washington DC
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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, 2-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Brickbay is Online! (still Beta)
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Brickbay.com is up and running in beta mode. It can be reached in 3-5 days under it's proper domain name: (URL) until then by the following temporary address: (URL) site contains only bogus shop data that was entered by folks during the last (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | L3P v1.2 20000602
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Well, it's been more than a year since the last official L3P release. Mainly because I have spent more time on L3Lab. But nevertheless several nice features have been added during that time. So here it is: STUDS flag in POV file ---...--- Turn off (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Temporary Castle World site
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Hi everyone, and especially CW people, As most of the castle fans probably know, Pawel N. has been absent for lugnet for quite a while. Over in Castle World, we started to get worried... A few days ago, I got an email for him. He said he was in (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.castle, lugnet.castle.org.cw) !!
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| | Newest version of the World Map "LUGMAP" available on LUGNET
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Followups to lugnet.org & lugnet.general The newest and most recent version of the LUGMAP has been copied over to LUGNET. (URL) are links to the maps from the LUGNET homepage and throughout the .org.* and .loc.* hierarchy's I have included all the (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.org, lugnet.org.ca, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.org.nl, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.it, lugnet.loc.jp)
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| | I'm exiting the world of LEGO.
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After weeks of soul-searching and discussions with my wife, I have decided it is time to exit the LEGO scene, at least in large part. After 6 months in our new house we are finding there is no room for this hobby, either financially or time wise. I (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
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| | More Specials at The Store!!! (Buffie's Potomac Mills LEGO Outlet Store)
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Buffster got a new shipment!! Woohoo!! Lots of damaged stuff (1/2 off!!!) rare $1.99s 1094 Johny Thunder 1097 Rescue Set 1099 Ninja Blaster 6400/1096 Race Buggy 2849/1068 Air Patrol 1271 Jungle Surprise (girl minifig!) 2847 Alien 1088 Road Burner (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.announce)
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| | MFSC homepage up
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M.S.F.C. - Minifig Space Flight Center June, 1st 2000 TO: All interested parties FROM: Axel F. Poque, Assoc. Admin. MSFC SUBJECT: MFSC homepage is up! The MSFC can now be reached on the internet via it's own homepage. The URL is (URL) Our homepage (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.general, lugnet.space) !
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| | PNLTC to break Guinness record!
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Pacific Northwest LEGO Train Club Official Press Release ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** "It's a snap with LEGO: Enthusiasts' Club Attempts Train Track World Record" The Pacific Northwest Lego Train Club (PNLTC) has announced plans to set a (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Now offering Bricks on the Brain merchandise!
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We have just added Bricks on the Brain branded T-Shirts, Mousepads, and Coffee Mugs to inventory! Check them out at www.bricksonthebrain.com! Thanks! (24 years ago, 31-May-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.announce)
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| | More new photos of my city, "The Brick Apple"
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Greetings all! I have added about 20 new photos of my city to my website. They're scattered around in different places: I have added lots of "city-wide" photos.. a lot of you have been asking to see photos of the whole city at once. here you go! (...) (24 years ago, 31-May-00, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce, lugnet.town)
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| | Apollo Lunar Module Pictures on Brickshelf
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M.S.F.C. - Minifig Space Flight Center May, 29th 2000 TO: All interested parties FROM: Axel F. Poque, Assoc. Admin. MSFC SUBJECT: First pictures of Apollo lunar mission We are proud to announce that the first pictures of the first Lego(tm) Apollo (...) (24 years ago, 30-May-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.space) !
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| | Help Wanted (Lego Pirates at Dragon*Con)
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Hi! I was wondering if any of y'all were planning on attending Dragon*Con [1] here in Atlanta next month. As you may already know, Steve Jackson will be here to run his Lego Pirate Game [2]. Steve has asked me if I might be able to get volunteers to (...) (24 years ago, 30-May-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ga, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.org.us.dixielug, lugnet.announce)
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| | BrickFest June 9 - 11, 2000 Washington DC, USA!!! Only two more weeks!!
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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, 30-May-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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| | Favorite Adventurers Subtheme
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It is now the last chance to participate in the vote for the favorite Adventurers Subtheme. Just visit www.geocities.com/En...urers.html and select an option in the pop window. Christian (24 years ago, 30-May-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.announce)
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| | Star Wars 7181 & 7191 (Tie &X-Wing) purchased in NE
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Tonight I spotted and purchased set 7181 (Tie Interceptor) and set 7191 (X- Wing) at a Toys R Us in Lincoln, NE (27th Street). The 7181 cost $99 and the 7191 cost $149. The TRU received two of each. The sets are printed in black and white on the (...) (24 years ago, 30-May-00, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | GMLTC to Display at Kidvention in July
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We weren't going to publicize until we had all of our ducks in a row, but since Tim let the proverbial cat out of the bag and we are pretty well set in our plans, I am proud to announce that the GMLTC has been invited to display their train layout (...) (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general) !!
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