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I was a Zellers in Lindsay, Ontario, and they have a lot of 2001 in stock! LEGO STUDIOS- Most sets were there, including the big one! <set:1325 Explosion Studios>. $40. <set:1354 Dino Head Attack>. $15. Has a white kitty and a baby T. rex, lots of (...) (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.space, lugnet.technic, lugnet.announce)
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| | LEGO 2001 a TRU Exclusive?!?
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Yes, you read that right - I received word from LEGO about this yesterday, and FBTB has the information about the initial release in the U.S. . . . Tim Webmaster, "From Bricks to Bothans" Your Star Wars LEGO News Source (URL) (24 years ago, 23-Nov-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Hear ye, hear ye
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NELUG members recently got together and played a BrikWars game set in the Time of Legends. I have prepared and posted a page on Ye Olde Worlde Widee Webe and invite you all to come and have a look. (URL) holidays, eric (24 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.announce, lugnet.gaming)
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| | Community to design new LEGO T-shirts
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Brad Justus of LEGO Direct approached us last week with a bold new idea: He would like to allow the community to design its own collection of LEGO branded items, to be sold online by The LEGO Company through a third party such as CafePress.com, with (...) (24 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.publish, lugnet.admin.general) !!
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| | LEGO.COM/mars now running!
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The LEGO company must have been waiting untill one of us found the mars sets. It looks like a mission log. Pretty cool. it has some real space photos, but so far it is only one page. Check it out! (URL) (24 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | The LUGNET FAQ
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I've converted all of the recent questions with answers in the .faq newsgroup into FTX format. You can see the results here: (URL) let me know what you think. The FAQs about the FAQ are here: (URL) feedback about the content and the format is (...) (24 years ago, 21-Nov-00, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | 4819 avalible for 2.99 at S@H!! (Chrome set Rebel Chariot)
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Well, I haven't seen any posts about this so........ The 4th castle chrome set, 4819 is availible at S@H for $2.99 US!!!!!!!! Now this is good and great, but just remember, none of the chrome sets are in their computers, so you have to insist that (...) (24 years ago, 21-Nov-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Princess Mononoke/San -- LEGO sculpture
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Well, For those at all familiar with the Japanese Animation film MONONOKE HIME (PINCESS MONONOKE), I hope you enjoy viewing my latest sculpture. A five feet statue of the character 'San': (URL) not familiar with the film should probably still (...) (24 years ago, 20-Nov-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build) !!
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| | 2001 In Rome, GA... If it's here it's everywhere....
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I picked up the gray and blue Red Planet Protector #7313 this weekend. They had the scorpion looking Mech and the Lego Studio set. They probably have more to put out, but they just haven't done it yet. So like the subject says... if it's here it's (...) (24 years ago, 20-Nov-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us.ga, lugnet.space)
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| | Life on Mars sets in Detroit Area!
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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)
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| | Upcoming PNLTC Events
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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)
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| | Another Storyline Update for UA/GA Universe
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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)
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| | 2001 at Retail NOW?!?
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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) !
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| | Holiday Activities at LEGOLAND California
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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) !!
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| | Legoland Windsor Photo Gallery
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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) !
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| | LEGO Giveaway
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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)
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| | Race pictures from Atlanta GATS
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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) !
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| | www.castle-world.org !!!
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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) !!
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| | creation of MonLUG
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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) !
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| | Another Technic Creation
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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) !!
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| | Trains 2000 (Burnaby, BC Canada): Award Won
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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) !
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| | Re: Server freakage today
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(...) 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)
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| | LEGO.com updated more!!!
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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)
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| | Server freakage today
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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)
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| | Lego Star Wars Trilogy
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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)
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| | more than 160 additional inventories posted to peeron.com
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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) !!
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| | So did you wonder about me?
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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) !
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| | Vancouver Lego CLub to participate in Train Show Nov 12
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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) !
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| | Newsserver downtime
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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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| | [rtlToronto] November 10, 2000 Toronto Dinner
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Hi folks, As usual, it's the rtlToronto second monthly Toronto get together and of course, everyone is welcome, especially those new to the Toronto Lego "scene" (?!) It is at: Mel's Deli 440 Bloor Street West (1 block east of Bathurst) Toronto (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.ca.on)
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| | Re: Classic Contest Entries
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(...) I didn't know there were so many parts in this model :) (URL) LMKWYT! --Bram (24 years ago, 4-Nov-00, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space, lugnet.announce)
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| | Frank's LEGO Castle Links Page
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I've done a re-work of my Castle Links Page. It is now broken down into several pages with tables of contents and internal links. Please check it out at: (URL) you have any castle stuff on the web at all, please check this out. If your page isn't (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general) !!
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| | Re: Classic Contest Entries
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I took a bunch of pictures of my first entry: (URL) LMKWYT! Comments, questions, and tips appreciated. --Bram (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space, lugnet.announce)
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| | New Partsref is pure bliss
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Steve Bliss has just completed a major facelift of the Partsref interface. I think the results are wonderful! Check it out: (URL) made it easier to browse, easier to look things up by keyword, he gives you cross-links to other reference materials (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | LDraw MOTM winner for November 2000
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Hi all, The winner of the November 2000 LDraw Model of the Month is Jay Jacinto with his cool "Ice Rat" model. Great work, Jay. See it at: (URL) Terry K -- legoverse@yahoo.com (And if you want your model to be in next months competition, get it to (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | DINO COP ON THE WEB- IT'S BRILLIANT!
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The day is Nov 1st... The place is (URL) ! The dinocop primere is excellent!!! Mind of a Crime fighter; Body of a 50ft dinosaur!!! SPOILER (tells story SPOILER (tells story)SPOILER (tells story)SPOILER (tells story)SPOILER (tells story)SPOILER (...) (24 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | Lego Movie!
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I was watching Cartoon Network when I saw a lego ad. I thought it was for the movie-maker set, but it's really for a lego movie!!!...!!!DINOCOP !!!...!!! The plot looks like a dinosaur cop is either killing everyone, or saving everyone. The (...) (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce) !!
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| | ADPolice web site updated
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I have updated my ADPolice web site on BayLug. I have posted some pictures of my small city layout, as well as two new pages- one for a small six-legged (unmanned) walker, and one for a small one person patrol craft. You can get there from my main (...) (24 years ago, 28-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | Season's Greetings from The Brick House of Horrors
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Ghoulish Greetings Fellow LEGO fans: For Halloween this year I decided I would build a Haunted House and make an animated video for it. Both of these turned out to be some of my best brickwork yet. Pictures of “The Brick House of Horrors” can be (...) (24 years ago, 28-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce) !!
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