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With the current offical selection going toward Jr, I am asking if anybody here would want to consider working out thier own theme using L-Draw/ML-CAD to work out the new parts and sets. Already I am (in tandem with the magazine project) working (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) Canals are a real nice idea Alex. The obvious set missing from your list is a lock! Another possible would be a waterside inn. Separate boats as well. One thing to bear in mind is that canal systems vary widely from country to country and are (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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In lugnet.cad, Kevin Wilson writes: <snip> (...) You could freeze it in winter and have a festival. Here in Ottawa we turn our canal into a skating rink :-) Gotta love those BeaverTails. Jude (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) Well no lock because I was thinking more along the lines of the systems in Europe (and possibly Norfolk?) which as far as I am away don't have locks. Ie canal as in Ship Canal? (...) Not at all. Like I said above. Think navigable waterway (as (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) Oh sure, we could envision something along the Intercoastal Waterway in Florida. We could have a marina for boats and waterplanes, maybe a hurricane harbour. Hey wait! That's the idea behind Sail'n Fly Marina and Hurricane Harbour! Geez, I (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.town)
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There are indeed locks on the Mississippi. I have seen them in Saint Louis. (...) some (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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Sorry to repsond to own posting. My main reason for posting was in case anyone else was working on Canal type parts themesleves. Is anyone? Alex (...) some (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) Inland navigable water systems have to have some method of changing level, which usually means locks (there are other methods, but they are less common). Water going downhill tends to get a bit too exciting for reliable passenger or freight (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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Instead of developing a lock plate with a fixed width, why not create a 'bluff' plate--the equivalent of one of the proposed lock plates, but cut in half lengthwise. A builder could stick any number of flat baseplates between two halves and create (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) The intercoastal is actually quite large, it extends at least up to Virginia. It definitely has sections which would look like a canal (because in fact, they are canals in the sense of being man made), but don't have any locks that I know of. (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.town)
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(...) Ie (...) "Mississippi." (...) Don't get me started with British-scale industry. They made the clearance rate for their railroads too small to handle more sizely loads. They will never see a double-stack (DTTX) container well car, unless it's (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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Better watch it kevin, I've actually had an american friend visiting who thought it "kinda cruel to eat a beaver's tail". Mmmmm, Beaver :o) Braden Fox Oh, and when i finally get my lego site up (snail pace, worse than Calum's rate of updating his (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) The Intercoastal is at sea levlel all the way, isn't it? It connects to the sea at multiple places IIRC. (...) Just trying to imagine the St Lawrence Seaway in Lego... to scale :-) Kevin ---...--- Personal Lego Web page: (URL) Air Market: (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.town)
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(...) Ie (...) That said some ideas for new X-trem team sets could have a waterfall? (...) Perhaps we could have a lock plate at the upper end of 'canal' built using the theme? The problem is then how you suppourt the uuper plates? or produce a (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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Okay, so if we do build canals, what are yours gonna be like?? I've been wanting to build one since the working lego ones i saw at legoland, but who has the grey bricks to do the side walls?? Or, would you guys mae it like a trench in a lego layuout (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) discussion, (...) See my other post for my sugestion, even if it is a totally non-pure solution. (...) Yep. Ontario has Trent-Severn, and Rideau. Also, the seaway, with the major locks being at Port Welland (near Niagara Falls...hence the (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) My idea was to have baseplates with a flatened portion to be the canal rather like the roads have a road portion- Problem. - Cant have actual floating boats. However there are a number of other ways 2 nd soloution - Have a trench to float the (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) A cool element would be a 16x16x4 part which is intended to support a baseplate. 4 of them of course would be used to support a 32x32 baseplate. The part would have a flat top (but it could be lacy to reduce weight, it just needs to be strong (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) you mean something like ---...--- |00|\ /|00| |00| \ / |OO| |-- |--| .... 00 00 is a 2x2 tubed section... Agree with you about needing interlocking. - Actaully perhaps 16X16X3 might be better. Then you could use it other purposes. But I think (...) (24 years ago, 17-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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I made an elevated platform that has 2 space landing plates on top of a brick frame work. I set the plates right on the studs though. This makes the baseplates perfectly even with normal plates around the baseplates. Maybe I should take a picture. (...) (24 years ago, 17-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) The (...) I'm confused as to whether this is a top view or side view. (...) You're right, 3 high is the correct height to make them. That, or a multiple thereof, is the step height on most (all?) of the raised baseplates. Interlocking will (...) (24 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) top (...) at (...) There (...) Meant to be view from the bottom and I admit it's not very good! I am at present working on a differnet idea regarding pillar suppourts. L-CADing in progress. (...) be (...) ITSOIDKS (I Think so , I don't know (...) (24 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) How about "Shoplifters?" It would consist of a series of already opend boxes which are stuffed back behind other LEGO sets. This would bnot require ant retooling at the factory, nor much in the way of design, as nothing would be needed except (...) (24 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) [snip] (...) ......^^^^^......... You might want to think a wee bit before using that term in this context. It is not quite a Slur but close enough to get me to post this flame. DaveG (24 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad)
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"Stephen A. Campbell" wrote: <snip> (...) Did anyone else see the article on CargoLifter that appeared in Wired: (URL) would be quite a Lego project....would take a lot of bricks :) -- Thomas Main main@appstate.edu (24 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) or "Freight Mover" theme. I know there are a lot of cargo sets out now but they fall under the general Town umbrella. What I would like to see is a unifying theme where sets like 6542 Launch and Load Seaport are tweaked into a giant (...) (24 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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