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(...) There are Coca-Cola sets? How come I never heard about this! (...) I wish I could have been a fly on that wall! Did you hit on any issues we didn't cover at BricksWest? I'd love to hear more about how those discussions went, either in (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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Hi All, I also wanted to take a moment and join the shorus of people posting their reactions and thoughts on BF2K+2. I went down to Virginia fully expecting to have a wonderful time, and I was not in the least disappointed. From start to finish, (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Bill Changing Machine
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(...) I noticed some minifigs in little plastic containers (those roundish ones with the caps that little toys come in in those candy/trinket machines at the entrance to every supermarket in the U.S.) in some pics taken by Jon Palmer of his (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Bill Changing Machine
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In lugnet.events.brickfest, Suzanne D. Rich writes: [snip] (...) [snip] (...) From Stephen F. Roberts' "scattered thank-you's" post, this much is revealed. "Best use of a candy machine : Suz's candy machine full of minifigs" Suz, it sounds (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: The clock is ticking
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(...) He does have a bit of a point. The directions to the venue are hidden under Hotel Directions. There is no explicit link on the home page to a location map. -Rob. (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Brad J Brickfest 2002 Keynote Speech synopsis
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(...) I guess that makes sense. Maybe I should be thinking well at least I got one pack. Then again TLC(not just LD here) is in the buisness of making plastic parts as Hop-Frog points out. If there is demand for a product and profit to be made it is (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Photos of Lindsay Braun's giant cruiser at BrickFest
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(...) just... well I already said that. :-) Kind of makes me wonder what you will do the next time you build something Space. :-O -Mike Petrucelli (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.build.military)
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| | Re: The clock is ticking
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(...) HUH??? You say you are kidding and I hope so. Right on the front page of www.brickfest.com it clearly states the information you were looking for: WELCOME to the official web site for BrickFest! July 19-21, 2002 - Arlington, Virginia Seems (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Brad J Brickfest 2002 Keynote Speech synopsis
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(...) His question was no more inane than your comments, and perhaps a bit less, since it's illuminative of some doubletalk on your part. (...) I disagree strenuously that it was mismanagement. If they had done that, some small number of people (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Back Home
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(...) I believe those would be the custom weapons that were recently available at (URL) Armoury, on the right-hand side) although the link appears to have been disconnected, the direct link (URL) works. (...) (URL) capital letters in address for (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Brad J Brickfest 2002 Keynote Speech synopsis
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(...) Which may be precisely the reason they chose not to say so. They knew the item was in demand. They knew they could only make a limited number. They wanted as many people to get in on it as possible. So, they didn't mention the limited number, (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | My Thoughts on BrickFest 2002
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Well, now that I'm feeling a little more rested (after spending a day at work struggling to stay awake), I thought I'd share my thoughts: - I really appreciated the airport pickup. Everything went smoothly (including watching TJ Avery hauling my big (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Photos of Lindsay Braun's giant cruiser at BrickFest
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(...) I have enough space to have posted one of my photos of the cruiser (named Takao, not "giant damn ship" as some have speculated ;) ) at: (URL) I also have a photo of its "current state," meaning, the only way it will fit on the two 30x60 tables (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.build.military)
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| | Photos of Lindsay Braun's giant cruiser at BrickFest
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Here are some pictures I took of Lindsay Frederick Braun's amazing giant Japanese war cruiser on display at BrickFest: (URL) full collection of Lindsay photos was 120MB at full size, so I batch- resized them resized down to 800x600 resolution for (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.build.military)
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| | Photos of Shaun Sullivan's creations at BrickFest
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Here are some pictures I took of Shaun Sullivan's creations on display at BrickFest: (URL) The full collection of Shaun photos was 85MB at full size, so I batch- resized them resized down to 800x600 resolution for web viewing. Let me know if you (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.military)
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| | Re: Back Home
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Ouch....mass carnage on the ol' Alphabet! Those little ray guns in your haul....MegaBloks? Cheers, -G (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: My random thoughts and comments on Brickfest 2002
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(...) You could also throw in other competitions like the International System Creativity Contest over at 1000Steine.de or the Classic Space/Blacktron/Iceplanet contests here. There was a big Star Wars contest a while back. Lots of smaller contests (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: My random thoughts and comments on Brickfest 2002
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(...) I actually rather like Scott's idea. The problem with implementation, of course, is that the "master class" wouldn't be especially large now given that this was only our second year with a major, formal slate of awards--and if you give people (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Brad J Brickfest 2002 Keynote Speech synopsis
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(...) I have to agree big time here. I only ever got one pack. I was planing on ordering at least a dozen more IF TLC ever decides to offer the only bulk pack I NEED. (everything else is just nice to have) Since I was about 8 years old the bigest (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: My random thoughts and comments on Brickfest 2002
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<snip> ok, Adrian, for you, no sweatshirt...and I only asked ya once...cause I didn't want to push the issue.. (...) <snip> Would that be the "Lindsay Frederick Braun Huge-A** Ship" Award or the "Jeez (...) I don't think that people are too irked, (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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