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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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