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(...) Holger, What wonderful Schleim, you continue to create. Your schleimy skills just ooze. Its great that you have this schleim skill and your desire to share schleim with all. I look forward to seeing more schleim productions. May Schleimers (...) (21 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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Hi Schleimers, Hi Todd (Mr. Time-lapse-Schleimer :-) You wanna see a Schleim Minifig? No problem: (URL) You see my unique Schleim-Fig and and a "normal" BrickFest PDX attendee. Thanks to Ben for the great minifig-Schleim-shirt. And special thanks to (...) (21 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX) !
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| | 2000-photo BrickFest PDX photo montage and slide show
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OK, here is a collection of 2,115 photos taken at BrickFest PDX last weekend, presented two different ways: a fast-paced epileptic montage (2 minutes long) and a more traditional slideshow (45 minutes long). (URL) Montage (fast)> (480x480, 101.3 MB, (...) (21 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, FTX) !
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| | Re: ISD in 60 seconds: a time-lapse animation of the Imperial Star Destroyer build at BrickFest PDX 2004
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(...) Too bad there's no sound :) Did anyone capture actual video? I'd love to see that. --Todd p.s. Ted, I have a special surprise for you later today with regard to .mpg files. (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: ISD in 60 seconds: a time-lapse animation of the Imperial Star Destroyer build at BrickFest PDX 2004
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Todd- Thanks for posting this (and taking the pictures and processing them and ...) so we can share it with those who could not attend. -Ted (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | ISD in 60 seconds: a time-lapse animation of the Imperial Star Destroyer build at BrickFest PDX 2004
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Recap No doubt by now you've already heard about and/or seen photos of the world-record breaking (URL) Imperial Star Destroyer> build at BrickFest PDX last weekend... (9 URLs) ...but there's something that only BrickFest PDX attendees have seen so (...) (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.animation, FTX) !
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| | Re: general session starting.
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(...) Thanks for giving us the details of the comic. You did a great job of getting across our frustrations across to TLC employees. Based on your comments on FBTB, I was afraid you were going to make a less sympathetic portrayal of AFOLs and their (...) (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: My BrickFest moments
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(...) Yay! Awesome list, Ted!!! (...) Train SNOT James? (...) You're not the only one... *grin* (URL) These two photos are from NWBrickCon in October. Needless to say, there were a lot of water bong jokes going around all weekend. (URL) (...) Augh! (...) (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | SchleimWars!
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I think it would be fun to see teams of people battling it out at an in-person building event/tournament where the objects is to out-schleim the other teams and come up with really cool SNOT MOCs on the spot. There'd have to be some kind of judging (...) (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX) !
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Does anyone have contact info for Gene Small, he was the gentleman in the corner of the Bazaar room selling Pitsco/DACTA products. I need to reach him. Thanks! -Tim (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: general session starting.
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(...) ... (...) ... (...) Greg, I'm looking forward to seeing the comic. I'm not into Castle or Space, nor am I bothered by the color change, but I still find your examples funny. I can't wait to see more, Steve (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) Uh, I'll field this question! That's exactly what we're planning to do. I'm sure we'll have it ready for BrickFest. The comics were done orignally for a presentation to illustrate a cross-section of what LEGO fans do for the folks at LEGO in (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) Hi, Jake, how about making the comic public so we all can see what kind of image of us you are spreading? This would be the easiest way to squelch rumours about "Lego making fun of us". Yours, Christian (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: General session Q&A
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(...) Funny thing about Coke, Denmark, and LEGO. When they flew us over (business class) on KLM in 1992 from NY to Copenhagen, they served Coke and LEGO on board. But for the short hop from Copenhagen to Billund, the local airline served the (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Re: "My First Fest," or "PDX Freakin' Rocked"
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(...) The child in the red shirt points out, much to Jon's dismay and embarrassment, a pair of Fleeb-lice mating on Jon's scalp. --Todd (URL) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: What is this woman holding?
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(...) stores. The only place I know that has them in the database is Bricklink: (URL) are just plain 2x4 (that pack) with rather powerful magnets stuck in the tubes on the underside of the brick. There are other sets like that, you can see them (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) the tubes on the bottoms, so they can still connect to regular bricks. Most of the LEGO stores carry them for around $10 jt James J. Trobaugh North Georgia LEGO Train Club (URL) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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"Justin Ritter" <justin@lekvar.com> wrote in message news:HtCn0z.1L73@lugnet.com... (...) holding up? (...) (URL) new refrigerator magnets :-) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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Does any one know what the thing is the woman in the black shirt is holding up? It looks like some sort of rainbow pack of bricks. Maybe 2x4s? (URL) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: PDX Pictures
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(...) Here's the short story on how things worked out: Bruce and I taped a black plastic bag over the window, since it was raining pretty hard. We went to a hardware store, bought clear plastic, taped it up and got on the road for the 880 mile trip (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: general session starting.
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(...) To be 100% clear, the comic that Greg and I created was positive, humourous, and informative. We didn't make fun of the AFOLs at all. I'd be happy to email you a copy for your review if you like. Jake --- Jake McKee Community Liaison LEGO (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: general session starting.
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(...) And that's precisely why he should look here instead, for what EuroBricks is about: (URL) it as a kind of knowledge center platform where newer LUG's can profit and share the experience from the longer established LUG's, for instance in the (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.general)
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| | A name for every fig! (was: SigFig Lineup...)
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Here they are: (3 URLs) AndroDan>> Tony Hafner (URL) www.hafhead.com> (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.fun.community, FTX)
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| | Re: Brickfest PDX 2004 photos
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(...) If I did it as a custom I'd either have to source a LOT of purple from Billund or somewhere (it used up about 1/2 of the stash I got there after LEGOWORLD) or change colors. But I can't see doing it, I have too many other projects awaiting (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | "My First Fest," or "PDX Freakin' Rocked"
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Hey all, Everybody and Derek's mom has been writing up one of these threads since PDX ended a couple days ago, and I felt my experience was significant enough to warrant another new topic. First off, my Brickshelf gallery of the weekend goings-on: (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.org.scibrick, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Minifig roundtable and swapmeet at Brickfest PDX
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(...) Geoff, I'm looking forward to hearing the results of the roundtable. I'm curator of the lugnet.build.minifigs group. All of the websites previously mentioned in this thread appear on the minifigs portal sidebar (minifigville being a recent (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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| | Re: pleh.
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(...) Yes and no. I mean, yes, in that comments can be added if you view the 800-wide image (clicking on a thumbnail brings you to that), but no in that the thumbnails don't show any of this metadata beneath them. (...) That plastic tube that Gary (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: general session starting.
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Hallo Jojo, (...) (URL) only in German regards Marmaris (Volker Draschka) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) It doesn't offend me. I find it bizarre and hilarious. No offense at all. (...) Are you now attacking me for expressing my feelings? What do you get out of attacking Lego for expressing their feelings that the new greys are better than the old (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: PDX Mecha award update
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(...) Gosh, thanks. And thanks for building it Mark. It's interesting that all three mocs are kinda wacky. I think I commented on the TM before, but I gotta say Nik's little Rooster Mechs are awesome. Long live the Wackymechs! :^) Cheers, Allister (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | PDX Mecha award update
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I'm rather embarrassed but there was a snafu in the shipping of the prizes and I didn't quite got them in time for BrickFest PDX. They arrived to me on Monday the 16th, and I am proud to say two of the three are already mailed out. The awards for (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | ID this builder
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Hi all, Could anyone who was at BFPDX answer this? See the creature in the lower right of this photo: (URL) assume that's a Nazgul on a winged fell beast from LotR: RotK. Who built that, and do they have better photos in a Brickshelf gallery (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Brickfest PDX 2004 photos
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(...) A lot of nice things can be seen in all these pictures. If only the purple didn't make it such a "loudmouth", I would love to buy Larry's building as a custom set. Several other pretty and original buildings, carts and siege-machines catched (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) I have also talked to Greg in person (at last year's Brickfest), and he seemed like a swell guy. He was very humble about his outstanding artwork, and was kind of amused when I suggested that he was undercharging for it. But I find his (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) As someone who has met with Greg on more than one occasion, that some of this is crazy. I don't really care with what Greg does on his on-line posts and stuff, but as someone who does some great stuff and is a very cool guy in person.... ... I (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Brickfest PDX.. another photo gallery.
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I've just uploaded my photos from Brickfest PDX and from DC last August. (URL) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: general session starting.
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(...) Greg Hyland works for TLC, at least part of the time. It's generally not good business practice to mock the people that pay your salary. I know we complain that TLC ignores us AFOLs, but having TLC make fun of us isn't an improvement. What is (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Brickfest PDX 2004 photos
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That was an awesome fest! It was great visiting with everyone and putting faces to those I had not met in person before. Just to name a few it was great visiting with... Keith Goldman - You got a Brammy! Ryan Rubino - Looking forward to the (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.general, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.castle, lugnet.space) !
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