 | | Re: Survivor poll (was Space Football at my Pathetic Website!)
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(...) I know, someone HAS been stuffing the ballot box!!! But remember, this is only POLLING, not necessarily an accurate indicator of who the ultimate LEGO Survivor is. If I recall, Timmy was leading before the ballot-stuffer got his hands on my (...) (24 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Classic Space set design and building contest
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I grew up on classic Space (1978-1986) and I still have a huge soft spot in my heart for old simple smileys and single-color astronaut uniforms. It's seeming more and more like the LEGO Space System product line (originally LEGOLAND Space, followed (...) (24 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Space Football at my Pathetic Website!
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Howdy! Would y'all so terribly mind checking out my newest model--a Space Football--at my pathetic little website? (URL) me what y'all think! And while you're at it, vote preliminary polling continues for LEGO Survivor! onedaycnn (sid) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | November LDraw MOTM competition
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Hi all, The November entries are available for viewing and voting at: (URL) that the only "rollover" entry is the one that requested I do so. If you wish for your previous entry to be re-entered, you must let me know by email. I will not be (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LEGO 2001
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(...) The direct link (URL) Harry Potter on the way later this year and their new catalog's look, appears Lego continues to inch even more towards licensing on future releases and believe you me I hate most of it so far except for Star Wars Classic (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | LEGO 2001
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FBTB now has clear scans of both the main and Technic brochures for 2001 online for your viewing pleasure. (URL) also found on lugnet.starwars (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Are we all too nice?
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This is ultimately a CFD (call for discussion) for a new newsgroup, but also asking what I think may be an important question. It's a taboo question, so do try to keep an open mind. The question is: Are we trying to be too nice to one another? The (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | FLL/Robotics play opportunity at LEGOLAND (Volcanic Panic activity)
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Dear robotics fans, LEGO enthusiasts and LEGOLAND passholders: On Dec. 2nd, 2001, LEGOLAND California will host a FIRST LEGO League statewide robotics tournament. Using LEGO MINDSTORMS robotic creations, 30 different teams (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.legoland.california, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.announce) !
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| | single motor pneumatic pump and switch
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Pneumatic pump and switch using a single motor: Do you need pneumatics on your robot? You want to produce the pressure and you want to switch the valve by motors. With my idea you can do both with a single motor. Have a look at: (URL) for my bad (...) (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.announce)
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| | 2 Stud Wide LEGO® Train Cars!
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A while back I had some fun building some 4 wide train cars which were amazingly similar to HO scale in model railroading. Well, my daughter and son (12 & 10) thought it would be fun to build some *2* wide train cars, and so that is what they did. I (...) (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | New Lego Fire Pics
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Hey everyone. New pics up on my brickshelf site: (URL) pretty much include all of the airport trucks that I have designed so far, but more will be added on a regular basis. No update for the regular Woodchuck site as of yet, but i wull let everyone (...) (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.brickshelf, lugnet.loc.us.va.roa, lugnet.loc.us.va, lugnet.town)
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| | New newsgroups for product line years
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A new newsgroup hierarchy for focused discussion of product line years has been created. Many thanks to Frank Filz for coming up with this idea several months ago. As information about the upcoming 2001 product line becomes available, please feel (...) (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.admin.nntp) !
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| | Space Mini-build-a-thon
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Hi Everyone, I went over to Mark Rideout's house today, and we worked on his exploration capital ship. Mark had a good start on the cockpit and main section, and was building aft, so I decided to start on the engines and work to the fore. I managed (...) (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Customised Superhero Minifig
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Yet another project documented finally thanks to my new digital camera. Warning: This one involves painted LEGO elements. Well, one, anyway. But I did take the time to document how I did it. Those of you who took the time to look at my VW B3 page (...) (24 years ago, 21-Oct-00, to lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.announce)
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| | Free legos at www.labvantage.com
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As I was looking through the latest issue of Scientific Computing and Instrumentation, I came across an ad for LabVantage. It gives the total number of combinations for 6 Lego bricks. If you go to www.labvantage.com and fill out a page (to get junk (...) (24 years ago, 21-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
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| | HTO Town sets sighting
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In the Pharma Plus drug store in the Zellers mall in Lindsay, Ontario, they have two HTO sets (and some RoboRiders, but they are pretty common). They are in plastic display sleeves that are designed for a set to be pulled out from the bottom. There (...) (24 years ago, 21-Oct-00, to lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.town, lugnet.announce)
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| | BMP-2-LDraw32 homepage is up!
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Hello, finally I managed it to put up the BMP-2-LDraw32 homepage. Have a look at (URL) you will find there some parts I already created and which will be hopefully released after next part-vote. -- Greetings, Carsten Schmitz (24 years ago, 21-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
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| | Just a little something...
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Hi all, I am finally getting around to building my website again, and I figured I'd post a bit of a teaser. See it here: (URL) Get ready - Broken Earth is coming. -Jeremiah- PS - please ignore the quality (or lack thereof) of the cover shot. That's (...) (24 years ago, 21-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.space)
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| | No More T-Shirts
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Hi Everyone, I was contacted by Robin Smith, Legal Counsel for The LEGO Group, and was asked to remove the Classic Space T-Shirts from cafepress.com. I have done so, in the interests of continued goodwill toward and from TLG. I exchanged a couple (...) (24 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | 2001 LEGO Line (When?)
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Hi all- It's usually about this time of the year (around the middle to end of October) when we hear the first news about the new upcoming LEGO items for the next year. Has anyone heard ANYTHING about the 2001 line at all? I'm so used to hearing (...) (24 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Volkswagen B3
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Having recently acquired a digital camera, I want to start documenting some MOCs I've had sitting around for a while. The first one can be found here: (URL) feel free to tell me not only what you think about the model, but about the presentation as (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.space) !
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| | DATSort, a utility for sorting .DAT files
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Hey gang, For a while now I've wanted a way to sort the entries in a .DAT file according to X-Y-Z coordinates, that way after I build a file in MLCad I can sort the elements so they're in an order much like original LEGO instructions (bottom to top, (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.announce) !
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| | Erase the 49th parallel
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I don't have my BB store (URL) yet, but given the timing of AucZilla XIV and the unique benefit to "my fellow Canadians", I figured I should post this ASAP. " As part of our effort to provide you with the best service, StRuCtures has teamed with (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.market.services, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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| | Shop at Home up and running?
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If I missed an announcement earlier, sorry. Just went to Lego.com and noticed the shop link. After going there noticed Orange Bulk Brick message, which is actually a pumpkin you can make. 87 bricks for $9.99 Haven't checked it all out yet or ordered (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct) !!
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| | *** LDView Version 1.0 Released ***
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LDView Version 1.0 has been completed, and can be downloaded from the following location: (URL) full source code is also available at that location.) LDView is an OpenGL-based real-time viewer for LDraw models written for the Microsoft Windows (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Partsref Update
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Partsref has gotten a slight facelift! Where possible, I've added links from the parts entries in the Partsref browse pages to other parts-references websites. To accomodate these links, the part listings were rearranged slightly. As of now, links (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general) !
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| | Robotized panoramic head
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Hi everybody! I recently uploaded on my site PanoBot2, a RCX-controlled panoramic photography head, which can be build with RIS 1.5. See it, along with full building instructions, LeoCad files and sample panorama photographs at (URL) (24 years ago, 16-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Brick'n Fun Fest - Orlando, Florida, USA...
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Greetings Florida LEGO Fans, In less then two week the Brick’n Fun Fest kicks off in Orlando, Florida! The home base of the fest is the Greater Florida LEGO Train Club display at the Great American Train Show. We will have our main display plus (...) (24 years ago, 16-Oct-00, to lugnet.loc.us.fl.orl, lugnet.loc.us.fl, lugnet.events, lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains) !
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| | New Sculpture: The Tick
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When I get inspired, there's not much that can stop me. Presenting my latest creation, a bust of The Tick, Ben Edlund's fine comic book creation. Find it on the sculpture page. Adrian -- www.brickfrenzy.com (24 years ago, 15-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.general) !
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| | Kyle's Universe of LEGO officially changed to high velocity LEGO !
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Hello! After completly redoing my site, changeing servers and names I present to you High Velocity LEGO! Home to Keppler Imdustries, the official BrickLUG chat page, and the soon to come Cellestial Alliance. The new url is: (URL) the direct url is: (...) (24 years ago, 15-Oct-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general, lugnet.publish, lugnet.announce)
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| | Bricks on the Brain is closing its virtual doors....
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Greetings once again from Bricks on the Brain! We are both happy and sad to report that BotB will be shutting its virtual doors to parts sales. I am following a new oppportunity that won't allow for continued parts sales. Once things are a little (...) (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.announce)
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| | L3PAdd-On Version 1.2.3 is up
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Seems there has been a resurgence of L3P and L3PAO use lately (I know I've been doing a lot!) and people have found a few bugs. I decided to correct these problems and also added in new features to bring L3PAO up to speed with L3P version 1.2. (...) (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.announce)
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| | NYCLUG, Anyone?
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New York City has *at least* eight million people. It is the center of a burgeoning megalopolis that comprises *at least* Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore and just about all of North Jersey. There's GOTTA be some interest in starting up a NYCLUG. Let (...) (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | LEGO Survivor Early Voting Underway!
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Yes, another reason to visit my pathetic website: preliminary voting for LEGO Survivor has begun! Be mean-spirited under the guise of anonymity. Vote someone off the island of Okhmosk Isaya! There are 12 castaways in all--not including the host, who (...) (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | New Sculpture: Marvin the Martian
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The subject says it all. Looney Tunes' Marvin the Martian, in all his ABS glory. Head to the sculpture page. www.brickfrenzy.com Adrian (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.general) !!
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| | LDraw CD-ROM Issues
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Well... I guess its about time for an update. First off, I must apologize to everyone, because I've been way too busy to work on this project. I feel like I'm letting you down. At this point, I have too many things going on to think about an LDraw (...) (24 years ago, 9-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !
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| | Partsref Updates
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[FUT lugnet.cad] A couple of Partsref news items: First, the changes and additions from the LCAD 2000-02 parts update have been applied to Partsef. Second, after recent discussions in lugnet.cad.dev, Partsref's category browsing pages have been (...) (24 years ago, 9-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
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| | NGLTC pictures from the October Greenberg show
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The North Georgia LEGO Train Club survived another show, we had a blast. Not only was there the standard layout, we had a few new additions. Including the Kids Layout (great stuff these guys built), video train camera (got to see the layout though (...) (24 years ago, 9-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org) !
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| | Redux of Moonbase Beta-1
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If you remember a couple monthes ago i made a post about a moon base, now. I need parts. I am willing to pay $$ for LARGE ( i mean HUGE) amounts of white and grey pieces. Maybe a brickbay seller could give me a discout for buying all his/her white (...) (24 years ago, 9-Oct-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.announce, lugnet.technic)
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| | SEALUG Meeting Minutes Oct. 7th, 2000
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Hi everyone, We had our second SEALUG meeting at Gary Gerdes' home yesterday. Members present: Gary & Ian Gerdes Wayne Hussey & Terri Walter Jonathan McKay Joel Parker Mark Rideout Mark Sandlin Especially notable is that Jonathan's mom drove him all (...) (24 years ago, 8-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce)
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