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| Wow, This was a *close* one. Tim, biting his nails over the outcome, has been needling me to count the votes and resolve which one is the winner. He will be happy to know that this months winner is Amnon Silverstein and his scene "Hot Rod Race". (...) (24 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
| | | | | New organization: Mutual Aid Assosciation of Lego Fire Departments
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| Good evening, I am posting this per request of Shane Brunazzi on behalf of the new group formed for those who create firefighting apparatus using Lego. The group's name is Mutual Aid Assosciation of Lego Fire Departments, or MAALFD for short. There (...) (24 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.town) !
| | | | | New newsgroups for LEGO Technic Slizer/ThrowBots, RoboRiders, and Bionicle
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| Three new subgroups of lugnet.technic have just been created -- one for each of Slizer (a.k.a. ThrowBots), RoboRiders, and Bionicle. CHARTER/PURPOSE ===...=== lugnet.technic (group and hierarchy): LEGO TECHNIC®: products (information, opinions, (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.technic)
| | | | | 10 wide AM General HMMWV MOC
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| For everyone who wanted to see a Humvee instead of a Hummer, I've modified the original quite a bit to create a military vehicle that looks a lot less tame than the civilian model. As always, please LMKWYT and feel free to use the rating form on the (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.modelteam) !
| | | | | 1957 Chevy Corvette pics
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| Hi everyone! It's been a while since I've posted anything at all so I figured I'd announce my latest project. I recently finished an 8-wide '57 'Vette. I have quite a few renderings of different styles of the car on my Brickshelf page. See (URL) car (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.ray)
| | | | | Jambalaya Mini-junk box #1 - New Idea for Jambalaya
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| Ok, having just came up with a new idea for a junk box, I'm getting ready to start a new one. This will be a small box which should just cost a buck or two to ship. What I'm looking for in people to sign up is: + 0-3 (1) people who have a few parts (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.jambalaya, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Acronym FAQ Update - links to sets, "play themes" and "lego lines"
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| Hi everyone, I just updated the LEGO Acronym FAQ: (URL) free to visit, bookmark it if you'd like, and of course comment if there's anything to comment about. I added links directly to all sets and themes mentioned. -Shiri P.S. I'm not quite so sure (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jan-01, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.announce) !!
| | | | | www.brickset.com rehosted
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| Brickset has been rehosted, onto a server in the US, which should mean it is quicker for those in the US, as well as being more reliable. I have personally been experiencing some DNS errors connecting to it today, but that might be because the (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish)
| | | | | Ohioans build giant green arch and working ferris wheel!
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| Come see the picture from our latest gathering in Northeast Ohio: (URL) old classic sets are Adrian's The cool bug is Gino's The idea for the arch was Gino's, and the large arch was built by Gino and Adrian. The smaller arch was built by Eric. The (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.us.oh.cle, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us.oh) !
| | | | | MOC: Brick mixer
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| You will find the Brick mixer at (URL) device reads a value on a card, then an arm places colored bricks picked from four feeders on a conveyor belt, ordered according the value read. You will find here photos, films, code and full building (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics) !
| | | | | More Dinosaur Instructions now online!
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| NEW Allosaur head with biting action- (URL) for those who haven't seen it- (URL) (24 years ago, 26-Jan-01, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | 10 wide Hummer MOC
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| I've put the photos up on my redesigned website: (URL) slightly different from the one in the two pictures in my Brickshelf gallery, and there are of course many more pictures of it. Details include a winch, opening doors, 4 comfortable seats, (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jan-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.publish) !!
| | | | | MOTM voting for February
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| Salutations virtual brickheads, Voting for the ldraw.org MOTM is now up and running; (URL) intriguing variety this time 'round. -- Terry K -- (24 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
| | | | | "Lego-Bowl 2001" to take place in Cleveland, Ohio on January 27, 2001
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| Hello Ladies and Gentlemen, It is once again time for all fans of the brick in the vicinity of Ohio to gather and play! In honor of that "other" event that will also be happening this weekend, I have cristened the event "Lego-Bowl 2001". Event Info: (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.us.oh.cle, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.loc.us.oh.akr, lugnet.loc.us.oh.cin, lugnet.loc.us.oh.col, lugnet.loc.us.oh.day, lugnet.loc.us.oh.tol, lugnet.loc.us.oh.you, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
| | | | | [rtlToronto] rtlToronto 7 Event on February 17th, 2001
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| rtlToronto 7: The Plastic Dust is Normal! Saturday February 17th, 2001, 10AM Competitors, 1PM Audience Lillian H Smith Branch, Toronto Public Library 239 College St, Toronto. Just west of St George and east of Spadina. Hi folks, Only a month till (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.events, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.ca.on)
| | | | | Town building contest update
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| We're progressing well with entries for the Town building contest. There are many buildings and vehicles so far, but we could do with more entries in the large and small boats and ships, dioramas, structures, aircraft, microfig, and macro scale (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.town, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.trains, lugnet.boats)
| | | | | L3P v1.3 20010120
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| As you can read in "The motive to L3P" it was Lutz Uhlmann's LGEO library (or rather its incompleteness) that inspired me to get started in the LDRAW business. It resulted in my L3 (Lego+Ldraw+Lars) project, which has spun off L3P and L3Lab. The (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray) !!
| | | | | Re: Scheduled downtime 18 Jan 2001 for memory upgrade
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| (...) The memory upgrade is now complete -- although it wasn't 100% successful. The system's motherboard was reluctant to recognize any DIMMs in the 3rd slot, meaning we failed get to 768 MB and we are stuck with only 512 MB. It may be a faulty (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Re: Scheduled downtime 18 Jan 2001 for memory upgrade
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| (...) My apologies -- this didn't happen today as planned. My guy at the other end of the line (where the lugnet.com box is co-located) called in sick yesterday and today[1], so the upgrade is postponed. I'll post again when we have a new date and (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Buying lego FAQ updated - new questions and answers.
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| I've added a resource list of stores in Utah (thanks to Mike Quesnell), and 2 new sets of questions on buying on eBay and international buying (thanks to William Brumbach for the suggested questions). The updated version is now available at (URL) . (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.faq, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.theory)
| | | | | Instruction and Catalog scans
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| I'd like to remind everyone that uses the BrickShelf gallery that *complete* instruction and catalog scans do not belong in gallery folders. Uploading that material has always been a violation of the TOS. I'd like to explain some reasons for this: (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general) !
| | | | | Missing stickers
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| Not quite sure if this is the place for this posting, but here goes- i bought 2 ucs x-wings recently, one from TRU and one from e-toys (which has them for 50% off right now) and BOTH of them were missing the tech spec decal sheet! Does anyone know (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Online Ideas Page...
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| I've updated my page, and will be updating it multiple times today, I've decided to stick with the JPEG's for now, the GIF's turned out to be larger & slower loading. If a model has more then 10 steps it will get more then one page, with 10 steps (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.publish, lugnet.town, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.aquazone, lugnet.basic, lugnet.boats, lugnet.castle, lugnet.sports)
| | | | | Technic Aeroplane
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| Hi, My technic aeroplane can be viewed through the link on my LEGO page: (URL) has working extendible flaps, ailerons, rudder, elevators, joystick, and six cylinder rotary engine. There are also instructions for some of the features. As usual any (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | New Online Ideas page!
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| I have started an online ideas page, with directions created with MLCAD. All ideas come with a full parts list, usually in order of use, and all pages are printable. To view this page go to: (URL) am also taking idea at shi_web@hotmail.com , and you (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.publish, lugnet.town, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.aquazone, lugnet.basic, lugnet.boats, lugnet.castle, lugnet.sports)
| | | | | Scheduled downtime 18 Jan 2001 for memory upgrade
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| On Thursday, 18 Jan 2001 at approximately 5:00 pm EST, lugnet.com will go offline briefly for a memory upgrade (adding another 640 MB of DRAM). This will involve shutting down the webservers and newsserver and physically powering down the machine. (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | New Crossword Puzzle: 003
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| Hi all, I've made another interactive crossword puzzle here at LUGNET. You'll notice by the clues that it's made with the LEGO enthusiast in mind. It runs in Java and has features for checking your puzzle as you go and for help filling in words that (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.fun, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | Lego car!?!
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| You probably already know this, but Lego.com has info on a car called the "Inmotion or something". It is a car either designed or sponsered by lego. Go and check it out! NICK Will lego be a car company in 2001? (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | 8 wide Dodge Viper RT10
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| Got the windshield, so I took the pictures. (URL) (more to come, maybe): (URL) files: (URL) always, please LMKWYT! --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu (URL) (24 years ago, 14-Jan-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | New LUG -- RichLUG
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| Hi I just wanted to announce that I am starting a LUG here in Richmond Va. I have several friends who are interested in taking part in this endeavor and we would like to welcome anyone who wants to take a look at our activities in the future to come (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Every Magazine Scans are now online
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| Above says it all - Just opened on 19:00 GMT 13th Jan 2001 www.lugmag.co.uk Note There may be missing scans that I don't know of or its not display please let me know, and I will update the archive Also, full indexing will come soon, with full (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Lego Cool Kids page (Lizzie's trip to Antarctica)
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| Lego sponsored my daughter Lizzie to go on the Students On Ice expedition to Antarctica over the Xmas break, and they've just put put up a page which will have her journal and pictures on it soon. it's at: (URL) House: Limited edition kit (URL) Kits (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
| | | | | My Space Web Site is up!
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| My space web site is up. uh... so check it out! (URL) Hyde ehyde@mac.com (24 years ago, 13-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.space)
| | | | | About Colors (article)
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| hey all, i keep seeing interesting posts about color schemes and design aesthetics, so I'm revising the order in which I'm putting up tutorials/tips on my website. I'll be putting up the "About Colors" diatribe in the "Aesthetics" section of my site (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build, lugnet.aquazone, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Back to the Future DeLorean
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| I knew there was a reason I brought my LEGO collection home for break besides sorting the miscellaneous parts... This may come as a bit of an anticlimax after the Diablo, but I just finished a Miniland scale (12 wide) rendition of the time machine (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.town, lugnet.space) !!
| | | | | Lego to make Xbox, online games for Microsoft
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| (URL) article says that Lego will make nonexclusive games for the Xbox, and "activities" for the children's section of the Microsoft Network. (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Bart Simpson, LEGO sculpture
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| All, I have a very brief webpage detailing my latest LEGO model: a three and a half foot 'Bart Simpson'. (URL) ---...--- Eric Harshbarger / eric@ericharshbarger.org / www.ericharshbarger.org "Oh please, if people are going to start telling the (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce) !!
| | | | | Model Team scale Lamborghini Diablo 6.0
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| I believe my LEGO Diablo phase has come to an end...I think I have finally succeeded in creating a likeness (but that's for you to decide). Modeled after the latest Diablo, my LEGO rendition is fully motorized (with a geared motor and a micromotor (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.technic, lugnet.modelteam) !!
| | | | | Instruction Libraries for LUGs
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| Todd and I have aprox 10 cubic feet of sorted LEGO set instructions which I wish to distribute. There are many copies of some sets, few of others. They represent somewhere around 250 different LEGO sets of all types. If put into page protectors, (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.org, lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | Fuji Power Armor
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| I recently created a Brickshelf account and uploaded pics of my latest creation, Fuji Power Armor. (URL) goal when building the armor was to create a mech along the lines of the Scopedog and those in Heavy Gear-- small, bulky armor that looks more (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.announce)
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