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Well, we did it!!!! 70+ AFOLs from 13 clubs and the CUT team build a 50-70 foot Lego display at the National Train Show in Cincinnati. It took approx. 750 (wo)man-hours to build. It will be impossible to describe in words how much fun it was, but we (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jul-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.events, lugnet.town) !!
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A new game was invented last nite at Billy and Kirsten's house party at the Cincinnati NMRA/NTS convention... Basically it works like this: (these rules are subject to cleanup, lots of people were involved in inventing this, we made it up as we went (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jul-05, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.trains, lugnet.events, lugnet.build)
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| | NMRA layout poster of group areas
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Hello LUGNET members, With just a few days left and unless someone else has made a map of the participating groups for the NMRA Cincinnati show I was going to. I continued my super-micro scale of part of COLTC’s display and made a MLCAD render with (...) (21 years ago, 4-Jul-05, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.trains.org, FTX)
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| | Re: Comfort Bistro - Art Show
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(URL) Saturday JULY 2, 2005 e (21 years ago, 3-Jul-05, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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| | NMRA show in 1 week!!
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In exactly 7 days, no less than 70 AFOLs will begin construction on the ILTCO layout at the National Train Show of the National Model Railroad Association. The NTS will be held in the Cinergy center in Cincinnati, OH. Address: 525 Elm Street, (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jun-05, to lugnet.events, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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| | Re: Comfort Bistro - Art Show
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(...) Opening day - July 2nd 2005. Eric Sophie Bots - Mecha - Robotics - Moonbase Biomechanical Bricks e (21 years ago, 28-Jun-05, to lugnet.events, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: catapault target offerd up.
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(...) Nice twist here Steve! Am X posting to .castle Steve, will your MOC be in the Castle Room do you think? Magnus (21 years ago, 22-Jun-05, to lugnet.events)
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| | Re: KCCUSA Summer Block Party
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(...) I bought 9 cans myself and we went through almost all of them (not all on Tony however). One of the interesting lessons we learned about working with glued brick conglomerations is that they don't dissipate their energy by shattering apart (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jun-05, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Inside Tour
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(...) Todd, The LEGO Fan tour descriptions are great! Thanks for all the effort writing those so the rest of us could glimpse the LIT. I've also been looking through the terrific BrickShelf folders. Unless I missed it, I didn't see photos of the LIT (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jun-05, to lugnet.events, lugnet.legoland, lugnet.legoland.billund)
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| | Re: KCCUSA Summer Block Party
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(...) Thanks! (...) Lowes doesn't seem to carry it, but Home Depot does. Depending on where in the state you are, it runs from $4 to $5 a can. I'm not exactly sure, but I think we went through approx 16 or more cans for the whole project. (Spencer (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jun-05, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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(...) Cool.... you guys did a great job. Really high quality stuff for a first time! Can't wait to see more stuff like this. I burned out all my brain cells long ago with MEK, so I stopped being able to smell the stuff long ago. But at least peanut (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jun-05, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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| | Re: KCCUSA Summer Block Party
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(...) Spencer is selling himself (and other team members) a bit short here... (1) he's proved his chops multiple times at multiple scales, and other team members have incorporated mosaics into town buildings in the past as well. But he is right, we (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jun-05, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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| | Re: KCCUSA Summer Block Party
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(...) All the steel was designed and fabricated by the amazing Steve Ringe - and it worked perfectly the first time we installed it in the statues. For glue, we used Oatey All Purpose. We glued outdoors and in an open garage with fans running. At (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jun-05, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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(...) Great job guys! Therrrre GREAT! (Sorry, couldn't resist!) Excellent job everybody. My favorite being Tony the Tigers head. Really captured the essence and look perfectly. Cool to see such high caliber work coming from others out there! So what (...) (21 years ago, 14-Jun-05, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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(...) Thanks. I think everyone at Kellogg's Cereal City USA™ (KCCUSA) is quite pleased with how things turned out. I know we are. We didn't hear directly from Kellogg Company®(1) corporate. (...) I was in Orlando in April and MTW did then look into (...) (21 years ago, 14-Jun-05, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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| | LEGO Inside Tour
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I was looking for postings to LUGNET about the LEGO Inside Tour and have found nothing. So, I decided to post a few details and send you off to previous posts at LEGO Fan.org. First, I attended the first LEGO Inside Tour on May 26, 27, and 28 of (...) (21 years ago, 14-Jun-05, to lugnet.events, lugnet.legoland, lugnet.legoland.billund)
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| | Re: KCCUSA Summer Block Party
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(...) Scott..all 5 of the statues were contracted for and purchased by KCC.Chris Leach. (21 years ago, 14-Jun-05, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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| | Re: KCCUSA Summer Block Party
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(...) Wow! That's just simply incredible--the characterizations of faces are beautiful--I hope Kellogs was very impressed! I heard you had orange--we just got some in at our PaB..I only wished it was sooner--I could have sent some your way. Now, I'm (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jun-05, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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(...) Quite a few non-purist materials and techniques came into play for the construction of Tony. Just off the top of my head: -welded steel -bolts -wood -carpet -cardboard -concrete -glued Lego -cut Lego -melted Lego Spencer (21 years ago, 14-Jun-05, to lugnet.events)
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| | Re: KCCUSA Summer Block Party
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(...) Bob..LOL that would be my ugly mug in those pics. holding a printout of the mosaic of the froot loop box(taken by fellow michluger Ken K).It is a great program and credit goes to Ken for the hours he spent coming up with a printout we could (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jun-05, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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