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Hey all, I just realized that tomorrow morning is the Lego contest in Greenville, MI as part of the Danish Festival - and I'm the head judge! Yay! Wow, I'd better get to bed... -Jeremiah- (26 years ago, 18-Aug-00, to lugnet.fun.community)
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| | Re: Suggestions for Buildathon
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I thought of one more. I need to set up a Duplo table for lil' ones and paranoid parents. Although there's an age limit, there is a Kindergarten to 2nd grade night. Sometimes parents will bring the baby childs and even if they're not there, kids (...) (26 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.fun.community)
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| | Re: Suggestions for Buildathon
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(...) you (...) Enfield or (...) an (...) the (...) is (...) without (...) youll (...) able (...) Sounds like a good starting point. By Nicos estimation, I'll need about 80 kg of bricks then for my expected 80 kids. I guess the next question is, (...) (26 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.fun.community)
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| | Re: Suggestions for Buildathon
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Hi Markus, (...) Good idea (...) Youre right, we do it all the time at our Bouwsteen meetings, but LEGO Nederland is so kind to support us every time we have an clubmeeting, with 2 large boxes of 10 kilo LEGOs each and one box containing the same (...) (26 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.fun.community) !
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| | Re: Suggestions for Buildathon
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(...) Good ideas! Kids like building things like.. elephants on wheels too, so the only other thing I can think of is a jumble table, with bits of everything on it? Richard (26 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.fun.community)
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| | Re: Suggestions for Buildathon
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(...) What do you think of this? I could have specialty tables for the town 1) "Building" Tables with baseplates and lots of bricks, windows and doors 2) "Vehicle" Tables which specialize in accessories like wheels, windshields, and wings 3) "Zoo" (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.fun.community)
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| | Re: Suggestions for Buildathon
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(...) Minifigs, now they have feelings.. and they assure me that out of all my toys they are the only ones that are sentient. And that all the rest aren't plotting to lock me in my room and make me play with them after years of neglect. They (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.fun.community)
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| | Re: Suggestions for Buildathon
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(...) That depends on if you get your "real" theology from the Velveteen Rabbit or from Toy Story. Cuz if you're going Velveteen (not Velveeta, please) then they've got some years left. (...) too much of an issue. Good questions I need to think (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.fun.community)
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| | Re: Suggestions for Buildathon
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(...) You shouldn't talk to your puppets.. _they're_not_real_ ;-) (...) Task-based or free-style? What age-group are they? Could they co-operate in teams? From a LEGO event that I went to at a local bookshop, I saw that the kids will invariably take (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.fun.community)
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| | Suggestions for Buildathon
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Hey, I'm seriously considering doing a Buildathon for the kids in my city. I do a Kids Night at our community center every Monday night, and my puppet team and I have had some dialogue about having a Lego Night. I've wandered around Lugnet and (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.fun.community) !
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| | Re: FREEBIE: "The Ultimate LEGO book" from DK
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(...) [Nitpick part snipped because it's correct... nothing to add] (...) I would say this "rijmpiet"[1] could be a proffessional, I'll tell him when I see him ;-) (...) Not at all, it's rather hard to translate a poem. [translation stuff snipped] (...) (27 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.fun.community)
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| | Re: FREEBIE: "The Ultimate LEGO book" from DK
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Yesterday I received my prize, and a wonderful prize it is! (thank you Richard!) Along with the book Richard wrote his own 'Sinterklaas'-like poem: It has come a long way, from that wooden shed, there are bricks you can code and books to be read. (...) (27 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.fun.community)
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| | Re: FREEBIE: "The Ultimate LEGO book" from DK
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I forgot to ask everyone if they would allow me to publish their efforts here - ooops, so here (after permission sought) is Anders Isaksson's entry :) The background to this is his entire family (five of them) had spent most of Christmas in bed (...) (27 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.fun.community)
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| | Re: FREEBIE: "The Ultimate LEGO book" from DK
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(...) Ah - my mistake! Thanks for the info though! (...) Thanks for the re-translation too :) Cheers, Richard (27 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.fun.community)
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| | Re: FREEBIE: "The Ultimate LEGO book" from DK
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On Fri, 7 Jan 2000 04:15:36 GMT, "Richard Franks" <spontificus@__nospa...yahoo.com> wrote: <nitpick> (...) Technically, Sinterklaas and Father Christmas are different traditions. Though I do believe the name "Santa Claus" originates with the Dutch (...) (27 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.fun.community)
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| | Re: FREEBIE: "The Ultimate LEGO book" from DK
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We have a winner! Frank Buiting sent in a story and poem combined which made me smile the most, not least because it describes a Christmas tradition that I would like to adopt! This is the tradition of giving gifts with a small poem attached - for (...) (27 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.fun.community)
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| | Re: Ronald McDonald House
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Hi Russell, They do in Holland, I made an office building for an constructor firm. I hoped to get the stones back after several months, but they gave it away after the building has been on display for only 2 days and it tokk me several days to get (...) (27 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.fun.community)
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| | Ronald McDonald House
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Does anyone know if the Ronald McDonald House takes toy donations? All I could find on their web site was info on monetary donations. Russell (27 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.fun.community)
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| | FREEBIE: "The Ultimate LEGO book" from DK
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I actually got two copies of this from friends and family at Christmas - ooops! Although it is a wonderful book, I can't really do that much with two copies that I can't do with one, so I'm going to give one of them away - Christmas Spirit etc :) I (...) (27 years ago, 27-Dec-99, to lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | Re: Donation Fun: Christmas toys
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(...) This is not a SERIOUS suggestion (this IS .fun... after all) but who's to say that we could not, with our community resources, create packaging that would look like a sealed package, sufficient to fool the mundanes. Actually I am NOT (...) (27 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.fun.community)
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