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  Life on Mars sets in Detroit Area!
 
Hi All, I went on a metro-area-wide hunt today to find some 2001 sets, and while there's nothing impressive yet, it's looking good. The only sets I could find at any of the TRU's (and these were the only ones available at all of them, strangely) (...) (24 years ago, 19-Nov-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us.mi)
 
  Upcoming PNLTC Events
 
We have updated our calendar: (URL) next 3 events are: THIS WEEKEND! (Nov 18-19) GATS at the Western Washington Fairgrounds, Puyallup, WA 2 Shows next weekend (Nov 24-26): NMRA show at the Pacific Science Center, Seattle, WA and The Science of Toys (...) (24 years ago, 18-Nov-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce)
 
  Another Storyline Update for UA/GA Universe
 
On behalf of Kenneth Tam and I, I'd like to announce another large update to our Lego Space universe. This is the first major happening since we've linked. Enjoy. His site(GA 826): (URL) (UA Explorien Command): (URL) The updates are made to both (...) (24 years ago, 18-Nov-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.space)
 
  2001 at Retail NOW?!?
 
I have received word of the Life on Mars line hitting TRU in FL. Tim Saupé Webmaster, "From Bricks to Bothans" (URL) (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.announce) ! 
 
  Holiday Activities at LEGOLAND California
 
The holiday season is upon us and I am pleased to announce a great lineup of building activities and fun at LEGOLAND California. For those of you who live in Southern California, LEGOLAND will kick off the holiday season with the lighting of (...) (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.legoland.california, lugnet.announce) !! 
 
  Legoland Windsor Photo Gallery
 
I recently took a vacation to London with my folks, and Legoland Windsor was on the list of places to visit. I'm in the process of creating my webpage for the whole vacation, but Legoland Windsor was on the second day, and therefore is "done" (well, (...) (24 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish, lugnet.legoland.windsor) ! 
 
  LEGO Giveaway
 
Howdy, ...my company is sponsoring a LEGO giveaway. To enter visit: edventures.com/giveaway?code=wr PRIZES: *1- LEGO® Technic® Resource Set 9609 plus a 1 year subscription to Edventures.COM * 3 - Slammer Racer LEGO® Kits plus a six month (...) (24 years ago, 15-Nov-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)  
 
  Race pictures from Atlanta GATS
 
This past weekend the North Georgia LEGO Train Club displayed at the Atlanta GATS. Pictures from the event will be load on the ngltc.org site soon. Currently I have loaded the pictures from the train races on Brickshelf. This event quickly became a (...) (24 years ago, 14-Nov-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org) ! 
 
  www.castle-world.org !!!
 
We now have a domain name thanks to Dave Eaton! Update your links if you'd like =). (URL) is registered and if you type it in it will take you to (URL) until the automated site goes live (whenever that may be). Thank you Dave! =) ~~~...~~~ In other (...) (24 years ago, 14-Nov-00, to lugnet.castle.org.cw, lugnet.castle, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general) !! 
 
  creation of MonLUG
 
Hello every one, I am proud to officially announce the creation of MonLUG, the Lego User Group of Montreal and surrounding. Thursday last week at our 4th meeting we agreed on the official name of the club. We presently have 4 members: founding (...) (24 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.qc) ! 
 
  Another Technic Creation
 
Hi again folks, I've just put my latest creation online, a Technic figure scale small(ish) excavator. The model is powered by motors and pneumatics, and there are MPEG videos of it working to download. You can find it here: (URL) me know what you (...) (24 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build, lugnet.loc.uk) !! 
 
  Trains 2000 (Burnaby, BC Canada): Award Won
 
Greetings! Today, November 12, 2000, a milestone was reached in the short history (so far) of the Vancouver Lego Club. Today, after a couple months of painstaking planning (as can be attested by the number of posts recently), we debuted at the (...) (24 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.ca.bc.van, lugnet.loc.ca.bc.vic, lugnet.loc.us.wa.sea, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org) ! 
 
  Re: Server freakage today
 
(...) Good news. It turned out to be a bug in some of my own code. It was hard to find but easy to fix. Technical details follow. I was able to reproduce the symptoms of the problem by asking the webserver for a bogus URL that confused it, for (...) (24 years ago, 11-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)  
 
  LEGO.com updated more!!!
 
Lego.com has been updated with a new story contest, "Minifig Comic Adventures" Game, and "COMING SOON: Lego Comic Maker" or something like that. The Life On Mars website is up, but with only a picture and a COMING SOON sign. I got the adress for the (...) (24 years ago, 11-Nov-00, to lugnet.announce)
 
  Server freakage today
 
Twice today in the past two hours, the load average on the lugnet.com server has shot up to extremly high levels. Normal activity is between 0.5 and 2.0 or so during the day. It spiked up to 300 twice today and then back down to normal levels. I (...) (24 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)  
 
  Lego Star Wars Trilogy
 
Dunno if you've seen it yet, but there's a rendition of the Star Wars trilogy in Lego at (URL) it seems to be slashdotted at the moment.... Enjoy, ROSCO (24 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.announce)
 
  more than 160 additional inventories posted to peeron.com
 
Just wanted to let everyone know, that thanks to Heather Patey, peeron.com now has the Margo Kubiak inventories posted. This brings the number of sets now up to 259! Thank you Heather, and to all other contributers. Check it out at: (URL) & Jenn (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.db.inv) !! 
 
  So did you wonder about me?
 
Greetings all! If you haven't forgotten me since I took my BricksontheBrain.com site down, this is Jake McKee. I am happy to tell you all that the wonderful opportunity that I referred to when I announce BotB was going out of business is my joining (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.lego, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general) ! 
 
  Vancouver Lego CLub to participate in Train Show Nov 12
 
We're pleased to announce that the Vancouver Lego Club will be taking part in "Trains 2000" on Nov 12th at the Cameron Recreation Centre in Burnaby, BC, Canada (9523 Cameron St) from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. We'll be exhibiting a 16' x 6' lego train (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.ca.bc.van, lugnet.loc.ca.bc.vic, lugnet.loc.us.wa.sea) ! 
 
  Newsserver downtime
 
As you may have noticed, the LUGNET newsserver stopped displaying new articles for approximately 90 minutes today. According to the server logs, there was an extremely abnormally high load average for several minutes around 10:00 EST, which seems to (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.nntp) ! 


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