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hello all, i am new to lugnet, but not to legos :-) I have put up a lego website of my own @ (URL) models, tips, sci fi art, etc. please enjoy thx much, -paul p.s. feedback is always appreciated, here or via the website. (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Town building contest begins!
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Announcing the first annual Town building contest! Go here for details: (URL) must be in by Feb 15th. Kevin ---...--- Victorian House: Limited edition kit (URL) Kits & Custom Lego models: (URL) store: (URL) auctions: (URL) Lego Web page: (URL) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.town, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.boats, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general) !!
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| | Ed Boxer's website has new URL
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Geocities changed their naming conventions. Any links to my website will need to be reset. Simply delete the tilda, "~", before edboxer ("www.geocities.com/...lego.html" to "www.geocities.com/e...go.html"). (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.town, lugnet.castle, lugnet.announce)
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| | Possible virus in "complete.exe"
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Bad news: According to Bas Oskamp <aldjia@freeler.nl> the LDraw parts distribution file, "complete.exe", may contain a virus. I have temporarily made the file unavailable on the ldraw.org web site. Meanwhile the parts distribution is available as a (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | LDraw MOTM Winner for January 2001
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Hey all, Sorry for being a few days late.... This months winner - by a *very* large margin - is Brad Hamilton and his beautiful Cathedral of Ice: (URL) architectural design and detail - good job, Brad. -- Terry K -- (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Announcing the "Buying LEGO" FAQ
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Some months ago I started writing a "Buying LEGO" FAQ with the idea of linking to it from my eBay auctions so as to help (especially beginner) LEGO buyers find what they needed without paying through the nose for it. It got put on the back burner (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.faq, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.theory) !
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| | Winners in the First Annual Classic Space Set Design and Building Contest
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The votes have been cast, tallied, and audited -- it's time to announce the winning entries! 30 people entered a total of 67 entries. There were a total of 205 vote- points applied to the entries and tallied up. Thanks to everyone who participated, (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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The LUGNET News search function is now re-enabled. I completely revamped the index data structures and list-merge algorithm and rewrote the core query engine in C. It's a much more solid implementation. Everyone's patience during the outage is much (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | New newsgroups for LEGO moviemaking, still photography, and HTML
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Three new subgroups of lugnet.publish have just been created. Some of these are long overdue. Accordingly, the breadth of the main .publish group has been scaled back slightly. Legal issues are still part of the main .publish group (i.e., not their (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.publish)
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| | Proposal: TOWN building contest
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(Forgot to post this to .announce originally - FUT .town) In the spirit of the recent Classic Space building contest, I'm proposing (and am willing to organise) a building contest for us TOWN junkies. I have some ideas of how we can do it (and I've (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | January LDraw MOTM Competition
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Wow. That time of month (and year!) again. Sneaks up on a person. Some really excellent entries this month. This ones gonna be tough: (URL) the entries that included them, I have added page links to the model names. Adds a little to the fun, I (...) (24 years ago, 24-Dec-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Elwood and Bubbas' Big A** Crane
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Is now up for your enjoyment: (URL) and Bubbas' Big A** Ship is now at: (URL) and Bubbas' House-o-Lego is here: (URL) & Bubba (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.technic, lugnet.general) !
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| | Re: STUDS at Powerhouse!
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(...) Here it is! (URL) on the thumbnails for larger (blurrier) images. If I've missed anything special, let me know and I'll update the report. For more info check out James' post at (URL) . While in FTX mode I've also thrown together a homepage (...) (24 years ago, 21-Dec-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.general)
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| | The Animated Brick Co. Presents: SANTA 2000
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Yuletide Greetings to All! I have updated my website, The ABC Showcase, with some holiday related videos. The main feature is the stop-motion animation video "Santa 2000" which was created last year as part of my Video Greeting Card for friends and (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | LDraw.org announces new MLCad subdomain and re-organization of resources
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For the past week, I have been working with Michael Lachmann and Jacob Sparre Andersen to give LDraw.org a more MLCad focus. We are proud to announce the new subdomain at LDraw.org: (URL) notice there's not much there yet. Because of some unforseen (...) (24 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !!
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| | Hard to find 12v track at Georgia LEGO Outlet store
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The Georgia LEGO Outlet store has recieved a shipment of hard to find 12v track, and some other little goodies. Train: 7858 12v switch points 19.60 7850 12v/4.5v straight track 6.99 7855 12v curved electric rails 6.99 Technic 8408 Desert Ranger (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Post Count
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We should all congratulate Julie Krenz on the 200,00th post since LUGNET was started! Her post can be viewed here: (URL) McMillin P.S. At the current rate, 300,000 will arrive in about 159 days(May 22, 2001). (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
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| | Looking For Ali Vahidsafa still
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Mr Ali Vahidsafa please contact me regarding the pirate sets you wish to part with. Thank you, Jon Furman (24 years ago, 12-Dec-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Announcing the Seattle Mindstorms and Robotic Techies
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After the November 6th "Workshop 3D LEGO RCX Challenge" in Seattle, Gus Jansson and I decided it was time to start a LEGO Robot specific group in this area. Well, it's about a month later, and we're through talking, time for some action! So this is (...) (24 years ago, 12-Dec-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.wa, lugnet.loc.us.wa.sea, lugnet.loc.us.wa.tac, lugnet.org.us.sealug, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.technic) !
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| | Announcement for Train Event in Braunschweig/Germany
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Hi Folks, as some of you might have heared already, the FGLTC (First German Lego® Train Club) is starting the 5th train event in Braunschweig / Northern Germany. Braunschweig is a town right between Hannover and Berlin (and for e.g. just 415 km away (...) (24 years ago, 12-Dec-00, to lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.loc.de, lugnet.loc.dk, lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains)
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| | Battlestar Galactica on Mars?
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Has anyone else noticed the distinct name sharing going on between life on Mars and battlestar galactica, the most horrilbe, yet strangely entertaining, space saga known to man? The air tube hangar comes with minifigs named Riegel, and Cassiopeia. (...) (24 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space)
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| | News search function temporarily disabled
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The system crashed again. Either it's running out of memory and that's causing a downward spiral or it's running out of CPU cycles and starving enough processes to build up and cause a meltdown. Either way some tuning needs to be done. This is going (...) (24 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.announce) !
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| | edy lego art: Magic Movers can do it
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Magic Movers can do it. See (URL) lugnet.fun (24 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | BYFMTWW: Bring Your Favorite Minifig To Work Week
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Almost forgot! -- BYFMTWD is right around the corner!!! (...) [The above is from 1 year ago. :-] Timothy, that sounds great to me! What does everyone else think? If you bring your favorite minifig to work this week (Monday the 11th through Friday (...) (24 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | 1 of 3 FULL-SIZE Lego Darth Vader's available!
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Good evening! I have the means of getting 1 of 3 FULL SIZE Lego Darth Vader's in the world. This guy is absolutely phenomenal. He stands about 7 feet tall and an average human's width. The piece count is basically unknown but you can imagine how (...) (24 years ago, 10-Dec-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | MARS INFO!
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(URL) is updated!!! It has info on the sets and figures. Also, on the enlarged picture of the base, it shows that the mars guys shot through the pipes do have a "container", so it isn't just a dry waterslide! Check it out! NICK ;^D (24 years ago, 9-Dec-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | LEGO Company Welcomes Adult LEGO Enthusiasts
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There's a new TLC press release at: (URL) the good stuff: (URL) (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.org, lugnet.robotics) !!
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| | NELUG Meeting, 12-18-2k 19:30:00
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(Sorry for the wide distribution, but I didn't want to miss anyone who might be interested. Follow-ups set to lugnet.org.us.nelug) NELUG will be having its next meeting on Monday, December 18, at Bison County BBQ in Waltham, Massachusetts. The room (...) (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.loc.us.me, lugnet.loc.us.nh, lugnet.loc.us.vt, lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.loc.us.ri, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.announce) !
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| | NELUG Train Show Pictures
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Here's some more pictures of the NELUG train show this weekend. (URL) show was a blast! Unfortunately I wasn't able to contribute significant amounts of brick, but perhaps next time. The models on the layout were amazing, and the layout was a hit at (...) (24 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.general) !
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| | MOTM entrance question
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Hi all, Just a quick survey of opinion. Given the fact that I oversee the voting, is there any objection to me submitting an entry in the MOTM? Am I trustworthy enough to handle it, or would it be preferable to have some oversight of the results? (...) (24 years ago, 2-Dec-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Winner of the December 2000 ldraw MOTM is.......
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Hi all, I was going to do this later, but won't have time, so mid-Saturday it is. The winner for December 2000 is "the Gorgon" by William Fitzgerald. (URL) William for a very cool model. Most all the entries did pretty well, but William had a clear (...) (24 years ago, 2-Dec-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Life on mars now available at shop.lego.com!!!
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ALL the LOM sets are available at shop.lego.com, including the areo tube hanger(out of stock though, but to be shipped by Dec 12)! I didn't check the new star wars yet though. NICK :^A (24 years ago, 2-Dec-00, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | There WILL Be african-american figures in 2001?!? (or will they? 2002?)
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In the fourth Harry Potter book (The Goblet Of Fire), it clearly states and I quote: "A tall black girl who played chaser on the Gryffindor Quidditch team, Angelina came over to them,". Angelina is mentioned multiple times, so she will probably (...) (24 years ago, 2-Dec-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.announce)
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| | NELUG to display its first Train Layout this weekend in Wilmington MA
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The New England LEGO Users Group (NELUG) will be participaiting in their first ever train show this weekend (December 2nd and 3rd) at the Greenberg Train Show in Wilmington MA. Show times are: Saturday, December 2nd 11:00am - 5:00pm Sunday, December (...) (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ma) !
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| | [rtlToronto] The Plastic Dust is Normal, February 17th, 2001
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The Plastic Dust is Normal: rtlToronto 7 Lego Robotics Event presented by rtlToronto, a Group for Lego Enthusiasts in the Greater Toronto and Southern Ontario Area February 17th, 2001 Toronto Public Library, Lillian H Smith Branch 239 College (...) (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events)
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| | MOTM voting irregularities - Florida all over again?
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Hi all, OK, listen up. This message is for a small percentage of people out there. Voting more than once for a model does not work. All IP addresses are logged and it is easy to spot duplicates. Duplicates are deducted from the score. Easy to spot, (...) (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | MLCAD Tutorial in french - Tutoriel MLCAD en français
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Bonjour à tous. Le tutoriel pour MLCAD est disponible en français sur la page officielle (URL) The tutorial for MLCAD is available in french on the official page (URL) Klein (24 years ago, 27-Nov-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | December 2000 LDraw MOTM competition
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Hi all, It is that time of the month again(1) - time to vote! And unlike Florida, I have no problem hand-counting votes. So shake off any excess chads and visit: (URL) real good entries this month - an excellent variety. Plus the winner will be the (...) (24 years ago, 27-Nov-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Website & Entries page for Classic Space contest
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I've set up some web pages on LUGNET for the 1st Annual Classic Space Set Design and Building Contest: (URL) date, we have 26 entries from 13 entrants (PLMK if I missed anyone or if an entry is misplaced): (URL) 2 entries - Itty Bitty Polybag-Size (...) (24 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space, lugnet.announce) !
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| | Lego Mindstorms Europe Tour
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This weekend there is a large meeting of the members of the largest computer club in the world (about 150,000 members) in the netherlands. On this meeting there was a display of LEGO MINDSTORMS. The LEGO Compagny has build a bar-tender with 17 (...) (24 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | More piece counts and prices, Techinic sighting!
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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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| | 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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