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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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