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(URL) Town/Train Contests Announced for BrickFest! The BrickFest Staff is happy to announce the Town and Train Competitions for BrickFest 2006: There will be 5 awards for train, and 5 for town. Train 1) Best Steam Engine-Themed MOC --Must be (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jun-06, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.events, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX) !!
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| | Re: BrickFest Bulletin: Mindstorms/Technic Contests
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(...) The ball you refer to is at least 6 studs in dianmeter, or 2". There is quite a big difference with a 1 1/2" ball like a ping pong ball. I think this is to be clearely identify. Thanks in advance, JM (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jun-06, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: BrickFest Bulletin: Mindstorms/Technic Contests
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(...) I think it's the same as the standard Duplo ball. Unfortunately I don't think there are many recent sets that had any in them. A Knights Kingdom set was the most recent. (URL) WILL be two such balls in the NXT set when it ships. But if you (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jun-06, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: BrickFest Bulletin: Mindstorms/Technic Contests
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(...) Each match of the competition shall be 90 seconds. (...) Do you have a part# for the FLL ball and where can we find them? Thanks in advance, JM (20 years ago, 16-Jun-06, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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(URL) Official Rules to Two Mindstorms Challenges Released! And odds and ends! ===...=== We are pleased to release the rules to two of the upcoming Mindstorms challenges. PDF Rules to these are the (URL) Sumo> and (URL) Ball Gathering.> “Great Ball (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jun-06, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.events, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Brickvention 2006!
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(...) I would like to thank the Melbournians for putting on a brilliant show and making us feel welcome. I would especially like to thank Sue Ann and Trevor for being unbelievably awesome people, whom I can not think of enough superlative adjectives (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jun-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| | Re: Brickvention 2006!
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In lugnet.events, Ross Crawford wrote: snipped all the incredible looking and sounding event details... NICELY PLAYED all of you, passes the pats on the back all around! Oh yeah,.... So when it the next one guys??? wink wink Janey "Maybe next time, (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jun-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| | Brickvention 2006!
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(URL) Melbourne>> On the weekend of 10th-11th June, the inaugural public Australia-wide LEGO convention, Brickvention 2006, was held in Melbourne. There were a myriad of activities to keep AFOLs busy - a summary follows. Contests: ===== Speed Build (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jun-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.au, FTX) !
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| | Military building at BrickFest 2006
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Hi all, Just trying to drum up a little interest for military MOCs at BF2006 here. I've been building a lot of modern military style MOCs this year, and will be bringing them to BrickFest06. They'll need other tanks, APC etc to pose next to, and (...) (20 years ago, 5-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: LEGOMASTER - Family Day - Hoboken - Pictures
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In lugnet.events, Eric Sophie wrote: (URL) Family Fun Day - June 10th 2006 - Hoboken New Jersey - Biomechanical Bricks Exhibit at the Historic Museum - Many thanks to Nadia and Lith for helping out - We had a great time. (URL) click to see the (...) (20 years ago, 12-Jun-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.us.nj, FTX)
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Hi all, right before I took off out of country, there was a note from Frank Filz about shuttles and room availability. I passed the question to a fellow staffer with the intent of having a timely response. I goofed because i forgot the person I (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jun-06, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: BrickFest hotel airport shuttle
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(...) Joe is out of town, so I'm posting on his behalf. Some of the nights are sold out (Thursday night in particular), so if you try to book a room that includes one of those nights, it'll show up as unavailable. Joe submitted a request for more (...) (20 years ago, 7-Jun-06, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: BrickFest hotel airport shuttle
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(...) Yes - the Sheraton has a courtesy shuttle from Dulles Bryan (20 years ago, 7-Jun-06, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | LEGOMASTER - Family Day - Hoboken
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(5 URLs) (20 years ago, 2-Jun-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.us.nj, FTX)
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| | Re: BrickFest hotel airport shuttle
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(...) Hmm, and one more question - it looks like they're already out of rooms. Is that really true? Frank (20 years ago, 1-Jun-06, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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Does the Sheraton offer a courtesy shuttle from Dulles? Frank (20 years ago, 1-Jun-06, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | BrickFest Bulletin: 200 and building! And calls for....
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(URL) 200? Already? BrickFest has passed the 200 registered attendee mark a little faster than I thought. While this is a great thing, it does mean I have to reevaluate things to make sure that things run smoothly. So I will encourage those who have (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jun-06, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.events, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
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| | Brickvention 2006 - Dirty Brickster!
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Less than 2 weeks till Brickvention 2006! And one of the fun activities will take place on Saturday evening, Dirty Brickster. If you haven't ever played, the basic idea is (URL) here>, but all you really need to know is this: it's great fun, and if (...) (20 years ago, 31-May-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.au, FTX) !
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| | Re: Merrist Wood Summer Show Lego Display 21/5/06 - report
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Due to it pouring with rain all day visitor numbers were down significantly (7000 on the gate this year as opposed to 12000 last) and less visitors made it as far as the Display. Our visitor numbers to the display were still in excess of 1000. We (...) (20 years ago, 25-May-06, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.events, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Mecha Contests at BrickFest 2006!
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(...) Letting me know directly (here, email, IRC, in person, etc.) is about as formal as it gets. Stating it is an entry on the MOC card would work, too, although I'm more likely to miss that. I won't automatically disclude entries that just show up (...) (20 years ago, 23-May-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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