 | | Re: Brickfest Pneumatic Master and new Pneumatic Gate Circuits
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In lugnet.technic, Mark Bellis wrote: [SNIP] (...) Well, I think people were pretty impressed with pneumatics at BrickFest! I've been contacted already by people who want to use pneumatics in their non-technic MOCs. We are fortunate to have a (...) (19 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Flex tube (was: Brickfest Pneumatic Master ...)
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(...) Hi Mark, not sure what LEGO flex tubes are made of, but I've had good results with 1/8" polystyrene model makers tubing which comes in 24" lengths in most hobby shops. It's white, so you can paint it to the colour you want. It's slightly less (...) (19 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Brickfest Pneumatic Master and competitions
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(...) Many people shy away from "competition". I'm pretty sure Kevin is always trying to make the best creations he can. Not because he wants to be better than you or me, but he just loves making cool stuff. Actually, Kevin's not a good competitor. (...) (19 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Brickfest Pneumatic Master and new Pneumatic Gate Circuits
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(...) I mean "competition" in jest, since we are a community learning from each other. I do feel a bit tucked away out of sight in the UK. It seems that only the US is currently big enough to attract enough attention from TLG. I'm also trying to (...) (19 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: The Great Ball Contraption at BrickFest
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(...) Nothing to apologize about - Gus was out there "on his own" because we wanted to make sure everybody *elses* modules got in. Gus has been videoed before. The only thing I wanted a video of with respect to that was the amazed looks on so many (...) (19 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: BrickFest Photo Gallery Online
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(...) Brickshelf folder of my photos from BrickFest2005: (URL) -dw (19 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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(...) ...aaaaaaand once more, this time as I wipe the egg off my face... I've just been informed that my ISP has throttled the max size of email attachments to 8MB - that's new and unexpected. Anyone who has sent a large email attachment that (...) (19 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: The Great Ball Contraption at BrickFest
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(...) I taped the entire loop Saturday starting from my pirate ship. I forgot to tape Gus (sorry, Brian!) and the train unloading itself into the module just after Gus. The module layout on the high-maintenance side of the table changed after my (...) (19 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: The Great Ball Contraption at BrickFest
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(...) ... (...) I didn't know you cared. :) Actually, it went very, very well. It was more successful than we expected. I hope to write something up, but right now I'm just trying to relax. If anyone has good video, I'd like to take a look at it. I (...) (19 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Brickfest winner Pneumatic Master
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(...) I'm not that big a fan of head to head competition. I think that every person who brings a MOC is a winner, as are those who don't. One thing to note is that Steve Hassenplug, that genious robotics/techic guy (who is also great to be around in (...) (19 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: The Great Ball Contraption at BrickFest
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(...) Well, Steve may have more infomation coming, but for now... It Went Terrific!! We had more than 40 modules built by 30+ builders in a rectangular layout serviced by two trains running in one loop with (at one point) eight loading & unloading (...) (19 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | My BrickFest Thanks
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General Impressions - What a blast! Man, fans of the brick RULE!!! So glad to see so many of you again, meet some new faces, touch base with "old faces" and get to know many of you better. Although BrickFest is wonderful, it is nice to return home, (...) (19 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.build.vignette)
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| | BrickFest coverage in Seattle and Dallas
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A story about BrickFest made it to the second page of the Seattle Times featuring a picture of the Taj Mahal (8/16/05). Also, a brief story ran on the news in Dallas according to my family, there. Ashley Glennon (19 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) well???? tick tick tick what happened? can i see the GBC in "da books yet" how did it go? Chris (19 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | my first BF - I had a blast
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Thanks to all who made me feel so welcome at my first BF. I especially want to thank Kevin Clague, who calming presence kept me from going ballistic when I learned we couldn't disassemble the instruction books for the timed 8421 crane build. But we (...) (19 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | BrickFest2005 - Photos From Thursday Night Set-up
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Hey All, Well, I finally joined the Digital Media Age (DMA?) this year when my wife and I purchased a digital camera. Well I brought it to BrickFest2005, along with Marvin. Marvin and I went to 'snapping' pictures of just about everything and (...) (19 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Brickfest makes local news in Minneapolis, Chicago, Atlanta and TAMPA too!!
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(...) Two of my coworkers said it was on WTVT 13 (FOX) here in Tampa and one guy thinks he was watching FOX News Channel on Direct TV and saw it too. Robin Werner GFLUG (19 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Brickfest hits Montana!
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Just to let you all know, While my wife says she saw nothing of Brickfest on any Lancaster PA news or papers (which btw is only 2 hr away from BF) my parents in Montana let me know that Brickfest made the Sunday paper there. They promise to send me (...) (19 years ago, 16-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Brickfest makes local news in Minneapolis Minnesota , Chicago, ATLANTA, too!!
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(...) Apparently, it made Atlanta as well. I got a call from a friend who saw it on the Atlanta Fox Affiliate this morning. I also found this link via yahoo search today: (Virgina Beach station) (URL) Lyttle (19 years ago, 16-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Brickfest makes local news in Minneapolis Minnesota , CHICAGO too!!
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(...) it made fox chicago's news at noon as well! i'll try to tape it toninght if they play it again. it would be a cool addition to the dvd. ondrew (19 years ago, 16-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Recipe for Shots Janey had us drinking at Brickfest
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(...) THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. and it's perfect timing too. my bro's birthday is tommarow. ondrew (19 years ago, 16-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: Recipe for Shots Janey had us drinking at Brickfest
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(...) IANAL, but I believe mixing Crown Royal with Pucker qualifies as a hate crime. Marc Nelson Jr. (URL) Marc's Creations>> (19 years ago, 16-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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| | Recipe for Shots Janey had us drinking at Brickfest
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Can I have your attention please... To continue with my theme of posting about Brickfest related alcohol at Rocklands, here is the recipe for the shots Janey had us drinking: Janey Shots 2 parts cranberry juice 2 parts Apple Pucker 1 part Crown (...) (19 years ago, 16-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: What a fest!!!!
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In lugnet.events.brickfest, Kevin L. Clague wrote: snip (...) There is one person I forgot to mention. There was a very bright young man, who out of the blue, was there and helping demonstrate models. Extremely polite, great with the models and the (...) (19 years ago, 16-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Brickfest makes local news in Minneapolis Minnesota
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I'm told by friends in Minnesota that Brickfest made the local news way out in Minnesota last night! To my knowledge, this is a first! Kevin (19 years ago, 16-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: BrickFest Photo Gallery Online
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(...) I would like to invite any attendees who would like to share their photos of this event to email them to webmaster@brickfest.com, and I'll put them online with photo credits. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get the module customized enough to (...) (19 years ago, 16-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: What a fest!!!!
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(...) I'm still all aglow from Brickfest 2005! It is so wonderful to put faces with the names of old, yet new friends. And of course it is great to be able to talk, in person, with old friends. (...) My thanks to you as well! Your lighthearted and (...) (19 years ago, 16-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | BrickFest was GREAT! (and this is long...)
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Hi all, BrickFest was simply an incredible experience this year. Thanks need to go to all the people involved in the production and execution of this fest, from the coordinators to the volunteer help. Personally, I met many old friends and made some (...) (19 years ago, 16-Aug-05, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, lugnet.events.brickfest) !
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| | Re: What a fest!!!!
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(...) This was my first BrickFest, but I have to agree, It Was Fantastic!! (...) You can't fool us - those off-the-wall comments were actually brief glimpses into the inner workings of Larry's brain ;-) (...) As one of the folks deeply involved (...) (19 years ago, 16-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | What a fest!!!!
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I'm still overwhelmed at how awesome this fest was, I'm late for the road this morning, we have miles to go before we get to our next amusement park but it's way past due that something was said! I want to say thank you to each and every one of you (...) (19 years ago, 16-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX) !
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| | Re: Automated Brick Layout Software Session
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(...) I presented the Automated Brick Layout Software session. PDF of the powerpoint presentation will be (URL) as soon as the folder becomes publicly viewable. Thanks for the interest! I'm happy to answer any questions. -dw (19 years ago, 15-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: Brickfest 2005 Questions
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(...) Thanks for the reply Frank. Though I read the previous posts on BrickFest, your reply helped elucidate some details. Now I wonder how I can get a hold of the DVD! I did not see any details posted on it (perhaps I missed it). (19 years ago, 15-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Brickfest 2005 Questions
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(...) Yes and no. Much more detail was given on LEGO Factory. More future product information than ever before ("Technic palette by mid next year" [per Larry's post in lugnet.trains] - no more of Brad's canned response of "No theme is dead."). (...) (...) (19 years ago, 15-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Brickfest 2005 Questions
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I was wondering if someone could help with the following questions: 1. were there any new products previewed (like last year) 2. there was a S@H code provided to buy some bulk items at a good discount, were there any such thing this year? 3. Any (...) (19 years ago, 15-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Great show!
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Congratulations and thanks to everyone on the BrickFest team. I didn't get to stay as long (or arrive as early) as I would have liked, but I enjoyed every minute I was there. One small suggestion for next year: I think BrickFest has outgrown its (...) (19 years ago, 15-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | THANK YOU
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I would like to personally thank Christina and Larry as well as the rest of the BrickFest crew for another fantastic event. I truly had a great time and I look forward to next year’s where ever it may be. I would also like to thank Kevin Salm for (...) (19 years ago, 15-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.general, lugnet.events)
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| | Automated Brick Layout Software Session
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Can someone post info on this session that was scheduled for today at BrickFest? Who presented, a quick summary, etc. Thanks! Dustin (19 years ago, 14-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | BrickFest Photo Gallery Online
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BrickFest Photos! Some preliminary photos (sans captions) are now available on the (URL) BrickFest web site> in the new (URL) Photo Gallery>. There will be many more in the next hours and days, take a few minutes to browse through them. Note: the (...) (19 years ago, 13-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Web Broadcast of Brickfest?
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(...) I agree it was always nice to see the Webcams. I'm hoping there are going to be some but it doesn't look promising. Thomas (19 years ago, 12-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: Web Broadcast of Brickfest?
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(...) On a related note, is there going to be Webcams set up as in previous years? They're one of the consolations to not attending the Fest. Seeing as how it all starts in a matter of hours and there's no sign of a page for it anywhere, it's not (...) (19 years ago, 12-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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