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(...) I have added links to video files, as well as some commentary, to the write-up on the Crate Contraption shown at BrickFest. These video files all come from David Schilling, Thank you David. The write-up page has several embedded Brickshelf (...) (17 years ago, 18-Apr-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | BrickFest™ 2007 Mindstorms Events Wrapup
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It's been a couple weeks since BrickFest was over, but I wanted to thank everyone involved in the Mindstorms activities. I've only now had a chance to upload the many megabytes of videos that I wanted to have ready before I posted the results of the (...) (17 years ago, 17-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Space Complete! At the Classic Space Fly In...
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WOW! Fantastic! Kudos to all! This is the most amazing collection of Lego space I have ever seen! If I had known this was going to be at the Brickfest (and if the Brickfest was held on any other weekend) I surely would have made the trip. Four years (...) (17 years ago, 11-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: BrickFest 2007 - Organizer's Recap (Including pictures)
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thanks for putting that together Ben and thank you Kelly, Steve, and Christina for putting on such a great event. Its always so neat to go to these events and feel like part of such a strong group of like minded people. I appreciated the creativity, (...) (17 years ago, 11-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: My BrickFest 2007 Pictures are posted to Brickshelf
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Hey, FYI. If you would like to have high-resolution images of any of the photos posted to BrickShelf (my images only), email me at todd[at]toddthuma.[n...ease]info. Include the image file name and I will send you a 3.2 MB image of approximately 2048 (...) (17 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) Bah, its not Star Wars complete unless it has a Death Star, UCS Falcon AND UCS ISD in the display :P (17 years ago, 6-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.space)
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(...) [SNIP] (...) Hi Matt, Brickfest has been a great party and I enjoyed the Space tables and the sets i used to know from childhood days... Just as a sidenote on complete collections: Star Wars complete has been done in spring 2007 at Frechen: (...) (17 years ago, 6-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: BrickFest 2007 - Organizer's Recap (Including pictures)
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In lugnet.events.brickfest, Kelly McKiernan wrote: Dear Kelly, thanks a lot for your summarization of a few of the many highlights from the Brickfest 2007! (...) (URL) (...) (URL) (...) (URL) (...) (URL) (...) (URL) (...) (URL) (...) (URL) (...) (...) (17 years ago, 6-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: My BrickFest 2007 Pictures are posted to Brickshelf
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(...) Actually, I think that it's MetallicGold (I think it's the same as in the 50th anniversary buckets). (17 years ago, 6-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Reporting from BrickFest PDX 2007 on LUGNET's homepage
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(...) Now remember, Todd, the next event you attend, it's your turn to bring the King Cake! Them's the rules. Kelly (17 years ago, 6-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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<snip> (...) Matt, BRILLIANT! I'm really enjoying the pictures of this display more than anything I've seen in a long time. As more galleries show up on Brickshelf I see new perspective on the display. It would have been worth an airline ticket from (...) (17 years ago, 5-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.space)
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| | BrickFest PDX 2007 Photos Are Up!
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I've finally got all the photos up on BrickShelf- (URL) to viewers- there are about 400 photos in that folder but they are all screen friendly (800x533 or 400x600). The photos are arranged by date & time taken, not by theme. Enjoy, Adrian (17 years ago, 5-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.announce)
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(...) As Tommy explained, he did the markers. They were my idea - I didn't want a big MOC card type thing to distract from the display, but I wanted some sort of marker that would identify each set. Tommy and I worked out the details, and they (...) (17 years ago, 5-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.space)
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Tommy, I thought you might be behind those beautiful little markers. Thanks for sharing your talent with AFOL community. Brian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tommy Armstrong" <tfa@brickengraver.com> To: <lugnet.events.brick...gnet.com>; (...) (17 years ago, 5-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.space)
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(...) Yeah, the 1526 is naturally a bit of a guess since all we have is box art to go from, but I think we got it pretty close (except the 4x4 radar dish fell off the front of the vehicle during shipping and since none of us knew the set very well I (...) (17 years ago, 5-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.space)
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Hi, everyone! As threatened, I've uploaded my pictures (such as they are) from Brickfest 2007 to Brickshelf. The address is: (URL). Enjoy! Play Well and Prosper, Matthew (17 years ago, 5-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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(...) I will take partial credit for the neat little slope markers with the set number and year engraved on them and the logo on the 1x2 caps. Matt came up with idea and even designed me a jig/vise (out of LEGO of course) so could do them on my (...) (17 years ago, 5-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.space)
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Woah, that really IS Space complete. You even got the unreleased set 1526 AND the rare dacta space set in the display. Maybe next year you could try Castle :) (17 years ago, 5-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.space)
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| | BrickFest 2007 Gallery
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I've uploaded my BF2007 pics to BrickShelf: (URL) (17 years ago, 5-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.announce)
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Matthew, I just finished looking at some of the pictures of this display and it was awesome! What a beautiful way to show off your collection's of classic LEGO space sets. Tell me more about all those little red markers...FANTASTIC! Kudos to all (...) (17 years ago, 5-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.space)
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| | Space Complete! At the Classic Space Fly In...
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Yes, we did it. We displayed space complete! We pulled it together, and by early afternoon on Saturday at BrickFest 2007 in Portland we had pulled together a display of every single numbered Classic space set from 1978 though 1999. This (...) (17 years ago, 4-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.space) !
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| | Re: BrickFest 2007 - Organizer's Recap
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(...) Christina, Kelly, and Steve-- Just wanted to add my thanks again to the three of you for organizing this wondrous form of chaos. And to all the attendees as well--thank you so much for making us feel like a part of the family. We had a ball (...) (17 years ago, 4-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: My BrickFest 2007 Pictures are posted to Brickshelf
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(...) Thanks for the photo's, Todd. And, congrats to all who participated in what appears to be a great fest. I mostly focused on the town/train photos. There are many great creations in there from the factories, the tree house, the colors on the (...) (17 years ago, 4-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: My BrickFest 2007 Pictures are posted to Brickshelf
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(...) Thanks for posting those, Todd... some great pix in there. My biggest regret about the event was that I didn't take enough time to take pictures of all the people and MOCs that I wanted to. Nevertheless, here's my Brickshelf BF07 gallery: (...) (17 years ago, 4-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | My BrickFest 2007 Pictures are posted to Brickshelf
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Attendees and non-Attendees, Check out the pictures I posted to Brickshelf: (URL) to all that brought something to photograph! Todd (17 years ago, 4-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: BrickFest 2007 - Organizer's Recap
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(...) Kelly- And thanks to you for everthing you did to make this happen and happen well. -Ted Michon (17 years ago, 4-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) -Snip- lot's of good stuff. (...) -Snip- More great stuff! (...) Wow, that is great to hear! ....and it must have been a very warm welcome. kudos - Eric Sophie (17 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Some anti-bley t-shirts left
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If you missed the cool shirts that Bob Kojima made and was selling at BrickFest this year it is not too late to get them. (URL) As of this writing the following shirts in the following quantities are left: got bricks 4L 2XL bley sucks 2L 1XL (...) (17 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.color, FTX) !!
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| | BrickFest 2007 - Organizer's Recap
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It's Tuesday. I think. That means BrickFest 2007 must be complete. I'm pretty sure, through the lack of sleep haze. And before the glow fades (or consciousness fully returns), I'd like to present a recap of the event. First, some numbers. Date: (...) (17 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.general) !!
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| | Re: Reporting from BrickFest PDX 2007 on LUGNET's homepage
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(...) Yes it was, but don't forget who got the baby! :) (URL) -Duane (17 years ago, 30-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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(...) Heh, I wondered what you were doing over in the corner of Registration, hunched over your computer! Thanks for doing this, Rene. Hopefully we'll have a lot of noteworthy events for you to post about. The King Cake was excellent, as was the (...) (17 years ago, 30-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) very very cool. quick question, will brickworld be getting this cool coverage as well? cheers!, ondrew (17 years ago, 30-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.events.brickworld)
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| | Reporting from BrickFest PDX 2007 on LUGNET's homepage
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Hi all, I'm in Portland for BrickFest since yesterday, and I will try to give short summaries from what happened during the event for all those who stayed at home. I will not do this by posting messages to the groups but make small entries to the (...) (17 years ago, 29-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest) !!
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| | Re: BrickFest 07 Draft
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(...) Looks like this set has around 123 unique pieces. There are a few lots that we will probably split like the 2x2 blue tile, 1x2 white tile, and 1x8 red tile. We will match and split the wedges too. (pair up the left and right wedges and then (...) (17 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: BrickFest 07 Draft
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(...) Not sure if Bob saw this, so I'll take a shot... generally we'll set lots by number of unique pieces in the set. In the event of a lot being overly large and/or coveted, it's sometimes split by common agreement. For example, when GPLR did the (...) (17 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: BrickFest PDX 2007 - who's getting paid?
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(...) Should we assume that the Brickfest PDX organizers are refusing to answer this question? Marc Nelson Jr. (URL) Marc's Creations>> (17 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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(...) Bob- Is the number of lots set by the number of total pieces in the set or the number of unique piece types in the set? -Ted (17 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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(...) Am I the only one that read that and immediately thought: Wouldn't it be great to build each of them in jet form and create an enormous "BrickFest 07 Squadron"! What? Just me? Drat. It's too bad the speed build won't use this set and the Jet (...) (17 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | BrickFest 07 Draft
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Yes there will be a draft at BrickFest this year! In case you forgot, a draft is where everyone brings an unopened copy of the same set. All the sets are sorted into lots and then lots are chosen in a round robin fashion till all the lots are gone. (...) (17 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.fun.community) !
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| | Re: BrickFest™ PDX 2007 - Robotic Easter Egg Hunt
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Do we loose points for melting the eggs? At any rate, it makes the foil stay on better. ;-) --Peter (17 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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