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(...) Good fun! Like Tim said, the timing is a little off 'cause it changes frames just after all the text visualize on some of them. A word of warning for non-broadband users; The file is ~25.2MB! (zipping it it became 24.8MB). (23 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Well played. Very funny! :-) A small bit of feedback on the slide show - it went a little too fast to read the captions and see all that was going on in the image. Perhaps slow it down a couple seconds? -Tim (23 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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For those of you classic theme fans, the Classic Wars continued at Northwest BrickCon with Episode 3: The Battle Between Good and Shpleem. What is the Classic Wars? Why it's a good natured and prankster-style competition between the castle and space (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) You raise the interesting question of just what is NWBC? NWBC is clearly first and foremost an "expo" event. This is not a bad thing, but participants need to understand that. Now it also happens that NWBC has some "after hours" time where (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon)
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| | Re: Services in Zwolle (was Re: Help with registering and accommodation
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I guess your best bet is an email to this address: info@vvvzwolle.nl VVV in the Netherlands is Tourist Information. They can probably answer your questions. Zwolle is not too big a town (100.000 people. To put it in perspective: Amsterdam has (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-03, to lugnet.events.legoworld)
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In lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, Mark Neumann wrote: <snipped> I'm responding only to the case for/against the mall as a location. (...) Not at all. The sq footage is about 2/3 and broken up. Further, the mall is providing the space because it can't (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-03, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon)
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(...) This was my first time attending NWBC. I've attended BrickWest once also. As an attendee, the one major feedback item I have is "why did I pay the extra $20?" I feel like I should have just brought my MOCs for display and stand around for free (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-03, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon)
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(...) How big is Zwolle, and what kind of general stores and suchlike stuff does it have? Will it have a photocopy shop? An electronics shop where phone adapters can be purchased for other countries (such as DK)? An internet cafe if I can't get my (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-03, to lugnet.events.legoworld)
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(...) We stayed here in 2001. Cheapest hotel, but the room is not much.... Like, we wished we had payed more for a room :-) We had to take 6 stairs to get to our room, packed with loads of Lego. We won't go back over there. Oh, and we had to pay in (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-03, to lugnet.events.legoworld)
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(...) Free shouldn't be underestimated- and the location this year provided a nice surrounding but very little foot traffic. I think we'd be likely to actually get more traffic inside any mall than what we got this year. If we simply can't (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-03, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, FTX)
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(...) I think you meant "well played". :-) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-03, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon)
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(...) Outstanding. ;) Snow Daddy (23 years ago, 9-Oct-03, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon)
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(...) 'Tis true, in fact, it's one of the first things Ashley said to me while he was unpacking his stuff...the quote was something like "Keith's outstanding big wall creation was so awesome, I had to build one myself." My response was along the (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-03, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon)
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(...) I consider these to be two really large cons against having it in the SeaTac Mall. Seattle Center, while expensive, is centrally located and out of towners will enjoy seeing the Space Needle and some of the local attractions. While the (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-03, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, FTX)
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Mark, no apology necessary, the whole problem was that I accused when I should have questioned. Hopfully by now many people know I'm a sarcastic reactionary and not to take me too seriously. Everybody I've met in the hobby (with one exception) is (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-03, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon)
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This year we had an outstanding event. I'm happy to report this post mortem message should be substantially shorter than last years due to fewer issues. The space was awesome. One large room that perfectly accomidated what we aimed to accomplish. I (...) (23 years ago, 8-Oct-03, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.general)
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(...) Thanks. My motives are easy; I like seeing lots of stuff at these events, it sounds like shipping would be a bear, it looks like I got the necessary parts, and (selfish bit) it looks like tons of fun to play with! But I'm kind of a believer in (...) (23 years ago, 8-Oct-03, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) So I've got a bit of time then. I actually sat down last night and modeled it in MLCAD, but before I could save it I got an infinitely looping error message and had to abort the program and lost the lot :( (I know - you'd think a professional (...) (23 years ago, 8-Oct-03, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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1. Here's a list of B&B's on the zwolle tourist information site: (URL) There's no difference. In holland you can only make reservations for international trains, so there's no need for advance fares. There are no open returns either. There is a (...) (23 years ago, 8-Oct-03, to lugnet.events.legoworld)
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(...) Again Ashley, thanks a bunch. It's always great to see people utilize a design and push past it in some way. You and Mark deserve a bunch of credit for actually going thru with the project and making it one of the biggest hits of the show. (...) (23 years ago, 8-Oct-03, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon)
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