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Hello all! First, i'd like to take the opportunity to thank everyone for the 999 votes we have so far for the Minifig Hall of Fame this month!!! It's a huge improvement over last month's 37 votes. We are very happy to announce we have added another (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.fun, lugnet.general) !
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"Rob Hendrix" <rhendrix.removebefo...g@cei.net> skrev i meddelandet news:HB919E.Bpz@lugnet.com... (...) Welcome to the guild! (...) Some :-) Since 1973, done it for a living since 1980. -- Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 URLs) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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Thematically I suppose I could have waited a couple of weeks and announced this small sculpture on my own birthday, but I'm sure I'll have something else to announce by then, so here goes: (URL) welcome, eric (22 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build) !
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(...) I have used a liquid disinfectant soap to great success. What I do is dump the smokey parts into a soapy bath and leave them for at least a day, if not several. Then I dump them out (the water often runs black), rinse them, and then run them (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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I would bet that this decrease in mass/stud as the brick lengthens has to do with the fact that for the smaller bricks the end 'walls' account for more volume on a percentage basis. eric (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Look a little bit harder. Note that the bottom studs, in a normal brick extending all the way up, are interupted by the pegholes in a technic brick. I estimate that the surface to subtract for the two holes in the brick wall and the surface to (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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Use Lysol Kitchen Cleaner - white bottle with purple trim. I use it full strength on ABS Lego that is really bad, or cut it all the way down to about 1/8 strength for the old Acetate Lego or really weathered stuff. It will even take the smoke smell (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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I purchased some bulk Legos on eBay recently and unfortunately they must have come from a smoking house. Any recommendations on washing Legos to cut this smell down? Thanks. (22 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) from a thread about two years ago- of course this is half the length you need. (URL) brick = 3.06061 g 1x8 technic brk = 2.89084 g It's interesting to note the relative mass per stud appears to decrease as the length of the brick increases. I (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: The "return" of Town in 2003
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(...) You may find these sets now called 'Junior' instead of Jack Stone. They are exactly the same. We have had the new road plates for a while, and what we have noticed is that on the back of the pack where you have the suggestions for your town, (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: The "return" of Town in 2003 - new road plates sighted
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Kmart Brunswick - new WIDE roads. Picture shows "Cre8r"&"Jax" dudes living in relative harmony with "Minis". No 2003 catlogs though. Sorry didn't check price. I am happy to see new road plates, I used to love mixing up my Road, Crater and Space (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Jake, generating thumbnails automatically is actually pretty easy to do. There are several ways of doing it, depending on your OS, etc. Even if you are not able to generate them on your server, it's still easy to set something up. If you're (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general)
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"Nick Oranzi" <cheez11111@yahoo.com> mumbled in news:HB9B36.C7q@lugnet.com: (...) just tried to find the formula so we could get the molar weight... Acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) resins consist of a styrene- acrylonitrile copolymer matrix (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.fun, lugnet.general)
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"Nick Oranzi" <cheez11111@yahoo.com> mumbled in news:HB9B36.C7q@lugnet.com: (...) well that's an interesting question.. let's see.. search google for "lego material plastic carbon" lots of results.. but this one: (URL) us that the material is in (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.fun, lugnet.general)
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Just met a guy in a bar tonight that told me his good friend named George that lived in Omaha Nebraska died when he was 10 or so from inhaling and choking on a Lego brick. I'm guessing that this was about 14-16 years ago. I was amazed, but not quite (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) snip (...) HEY!!! I got a 2003 catalog in the Geonosian Fighter set (#4478)! woohoo! I can scan & post pics on Brickshelf if anyone wants, but there's nothing new that hasn't been seen on the Marz Distribution website. Jeff (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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does anyone know the molecular weight of legos? How much is one mole of our favorite building bricks? Ever since i began chemistry, this question has been bothering me. Fire up the ole mass specs and let's get some data! (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.fun, lugnet.general)
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Hello, Well, after experimenting with another batch of parts from bricklink, I built a small village module. (Unfortunately, it's about 1.5 times larger than MM standard. 24x24) Here's the gallery. (URL) some more description behind the pictures. (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle)
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I hope this is the right group to post this, i didn't seem to find a .poetry section... Here's my sonnet i wrote for English class, It is really bad but it was my first attempt at iambic pentameter. I based it on the italian sonnet style but i (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Ask Kevin Loch how he generates the Brickshelf thumbnails... ROSCO (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general)
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(...) How about resizing the images via code. i.e. look at the dimensions of the image and scale it down to meet your requirements. I guess it depends on the type of code you are working in, I know that Java has something, (I believe its part of the (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general)
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Thanks Eric! :-) Dave "Eric Harshbarger" <eric@ericharshbarger.org> wrote in message news:HB7Es3.6z7@lugnet.com... (...) holes (...) to (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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:D, that's OK. You can show me up!! I've only been doing this 6 months... You may have been programming for years! -Rob "Anders Isaksson" <isaksson.etuna@REMO...tninet.se> wrote in message news:HB8pCn.uq@lugnet.com... (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Lego Layoffs
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From WFSB-CBS Channel 3 in Hartford, CT Danish toy maker Lego is laying off workers from its Enfield-based operations. The company's North American operations are based in Enfield. A company spokesman says today's 72 layoffs are part of the (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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(...) Hmmm interesting. My conclusion from that would be that the "cylinder" containing the holes is significantly thinner than the brick walls. ROSCO (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I have thought about that a lot. The problem is that it increases the amount of time I have to moderate... meaning, what if someone submits an image that is 4mb? Do I reject it and then go back and forth via email to explain why? Or do I open (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general)
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(...) as long as i'm not the only one on the list :) (...) how about hosting the thumbnails? each thumbnail should be in the range of 2.5kb, so even at 1000 instructions, you'd be under 5mb. (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general)
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(...) Very good ideas. So what would be interesting is a way that users could upload a text file or something that contains description data for the parts... something more "formalized" than a simple dump from MLCad, but not much more than that. (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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(...) Noted and added to the list. I have noticed this problem too, and really the key is that I need to add the ability to add an instruction to more than one category. This is a major requirement and first step. Once that's done, then I need to (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general)
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(...) Hi Jake, I don't know how hard this would be, but how about a searchable flag or label for instructions that are alternate models from another set or set(s)? This would be good for folks who are looking to see what neat models they can build (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general)
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"Sonnich Jensen" <sonnich@hot.ee> skrev i meddelandet news:HB6tu7.JqI@lugnet.com... (...) Well, as you noticed, it's not so small - you need to download one or more VB dll:s to get it to work (up to 2-4 MB). A 300kB Delphi prog. wouldn't need (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) you asked, so here it goes :) there seem to be a lot of instructions mis-categorized, like lots of vehicles directly under town, instead of being in the vehicle sub-category. i realize that this is a big job, so here's the idea -- how about (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general)
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Hello, I decided to build a dark red building and went with plates since they are so readily available. In building, I had to stack about 18 1x2's next to 18 2x4 wing plates (like from the mini jedi starfighter). They do not come out to be the same (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) << Major great ideas snip-o-rama >> Jason, great point, and thanks for the suggestions. I will try to figure out a good way to get this changed up. You are probably right, the nav might be a bit hidden. So on this front, what else would you (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general)
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(...) I had never seen one until two tan ones showed up in Yoda. However, I just call them 1 x 16 'bricks'. I only think of 'beam' when referring to the Technic versions. I'm not sure how much it matters... they're both LEGO pieces. :) Here's a list (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) You can actually use nothing but LEGO bricks to answer the original question. Since the question was "Which weighs more?" I went on the assumption that he didn't care "how much does each beam weigh?" but rather which one is heavier as compared (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | LEGO TRON Animation done with LDRAW & FLASH
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I've got a another update for the A&M LEGO Place website! This one is a new FLASH animation entitled LEGO TRON! Check it out at: (URL) to the bottom of the page) For those of you who atteneded brickswest 2003 (www.brickswest.com) this version is an (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general, lugnet.cad)
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(...) Amazing!(1) And quite counterintuitive, if you ask me. Volume and surface are not always tightly correlated but the Technic beam has lots more surface area. 1 - I'm assuming you actually weighed 50 of each and did the math or whatever. I have (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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Nope, My scale shows: 1x16 regular brick: 6 grams 1x16 Technic beam: 5 grams Eric Harshbarger (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I've never seen a non-Technic 1x16 beam. (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) My guess is the technic beam would probably weigh slightly more. ROSCO (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | A big day for the Building Instructions Portal
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All, Today was a landmark day for the Building Instructions Portal...today we surpassed 100,000 click thrus! (URL) more than 100,000 occasions, a user of the B.I. Portal has searched for an instruction, clicked the link to that instruction, and then (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce) !
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| | Coming soon, Free web hosting for MOCs
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Over the past few months I've been building a web service that will allow anyone to create their own mini web site for their MOCs. It's free, you can make unlimited pages, there are no annyoing ads or pop-ups, and it's easy -- you don't even need to (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish, lugnet.general) !!
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That is because you do not have that DLL in your computer. There are numerous websites that allow you to download that file from the internet. I will add this file to my website in case anyone else needs it. Thanks for pointing that out. -Rob (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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It gives an error: A required .DLL file, MSVBVM60.DKLL, was not found! Seems like you made in VB60 :-) Amazing how small it is. The same thing in Delphi would be 300 Kb. Sonnich Rob Hendrix <rhendrix.removebefo...g@cei.net> wrote in message (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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Lar, I'm not sure about the popup blocker aspect. I didn't take those into consideration when designing this software. My first assumption would be that if you are having problems, then you may have to disable the popup blocker. I have a firewall (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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I can. I'll put in the next release just for you! :P Thanks for the kind words! -Rob "James J. Trobaugh" <james@ngltc.org> wrote in message news:HB6FGA.M34@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) as (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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I'm taking notes for future versions, so your suggestions are so noted! Thanks for the wonderful response! -Rob "Lars Gjerløw Jørgensen" <lgjPURGE@jyde.dk> wrote in message news:Xns93335EF62B23....63.236... (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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I'd be happy to include your site. Email me, and we'll see if we can reach some common ground. Thanks for downloading it! -Rob "Jake McKee" <sink@countersinkdg.com> wrote in message news:HB6Aw1.A6H@lugnet.com... (...) as (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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Has anybody determined whether there is a non-destructive way to remove one of the springs in the new NBA legs? I'm hoping to be able to reduce the spring force in the legs, but still have enough to get the fig to return to the standing position. (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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Hi! I found an auction (URL) a three mast tall ship. I like idea and the pictures, which are also avaialbe in XXL. Who can take care that they get saved to Brickshelf's Gallery somehow? Reg. (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Found a strange part
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(...) Rack elements-- they were in a few sets from 1987 to 1993: (URL) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Thanks to both of you. That's the part. Both pieces I have are black. I've never had any models in that line, that's why I'd never seen it. I was assuming it was a technic part, but apparently not. Oh well, time to build it into a technic MOC! (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) As a followup to my own post, a picture of this 2 part set is (URL) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) It's also used in the Message Intercept Base, but it's black and yellow there. (URL) the description, I'm quite sure that's it. Adrian -- (URL) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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From your description, it sounds like the mechanism used in the crane of the Mega Core Magnetiser (URL) . Is the strip in red? Stefan. (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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I received a bulk pack I got off of eBay over the weekend. It's technic stuff and this part is a technic part, but I can't find it on peeron.com It's a two piece set. The first part is a long 1 stud wide strip with dips in it that gear teeth fit in. (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Nifty. How does it interact with popup stoppers (which prevent multiple windows of a browser being launched, to stop those pop up adds)? Do you have to turn those off or temporarily disable them while running this? Thanks for sharing. No idea (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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Nice Rob. Can you add the option to search LUGNET newsgroups as well as the Set Reference? jt (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Neat tool! I'm downloading now. I'm not sure how you are doing this from a tech standpoint, but we can probably figure out some way to include the B.I. Portal in the search. Let me know if you would like to discuss. Jake --- Jake McKee LEGO (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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"Rob Hendrix" <rhendrix.removebefo...g@cei.net> mumbled in news:HB5K77.Jq@lugnet.com: (...) Great idea :) I also like the icon How about an "always-on-top" option? and a search on brickshelf? Good work (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Who is Henrik Amsrtup?
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"Sonnich Jensen" <sonnich@hot.ee> mumbled in news:HB3Ftq.JI3@lugnet.com: (...) google is your friend :) well.. the guy's listed here as a part of lego's "advanced technology group". (URL) omhandler legos organisationsstruktur. (og er på fransk! This (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | FBTB mentions the Minifig Hall of Fame on their front page !
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We are working very hard these days to make of the Minifig Hall of Fame a website worthy of the attention of the AFOLs. Some think we have achived our goal. From Bricks to Bothans, the famous Star Wars / LEGO related website has posted a message on (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Which weighs more?
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Hey all, In my latest project (making a Gunstar) I'm using a lot of 1x16 Technic beams, however there are two where I'm using none of the friction peg holes for anything. Would a regular 1x16 beam weigh less or more? I'm trying to reduce weight (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | A&M LEGO Place open again with new BIs, poems, and more...
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After a week of being off-line A&M LEGO Place is officially open once again. We have several new goodies for everyone. ***...*** NEW BUILDING INSTRUCTIONS First off we have made another set of building instructions uploaded. We are honoring a very (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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Does anyone have any info on this? All I know is it lets you control motors from a PC via serial interface. anyway here's some pics: (URL) help appreciated! Thanks ROSCO (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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| | New Program available that will make your life easier
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Announcing BrickPix, a new internet search helper for making your Lego related item searches simpler and faster. Hope this is as useful to you as it is to me! (URL) (go to Creations) -Rob (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.general) !
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| | NBA/Basketball sets - what fun!!
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Everyone -- I just got <set:3432> for my birthday, and it's a blast!! I fell in love with these sets when I traded Kevin Clague for <set:3428> at BricksWest, so I had to get the full court. It was a lot of fun to play with a mixed crowd of kids and (...) (22 years ago, 2-Mar-03, to lugnet.year.2003, lugnet.general, lugnet.games)
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| | Re: Best Lego Year of all time?
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(...) uh huh huh, you said: "stiffies." Uh huh huh, huh. Dave I hope that TLG never reaches the TOP of its game because that way the product will always be improving. (22 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Skeleton is March 2003's Minifig Hall of Famer !!!!!
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(...) I don't know, but Skeleton is included in the Castle series for longer, so it's why it is in that category. (...) I always visit the polls by going to the cool site of the week, then there is a poll and i go from there. It's true that LUGNET (...) (22 years ago, 2-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 1920's fire engine
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(...) I agree.... that one is a winner. I love the fenders, especially the angle of the ones in the front. Excellent use and great choice of parts for this model. Check out the hood ornament. :) Great work. Allan B. (22 years ago, 2-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | 1920's fire engine
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Just noticed this fire engine on Brickshelf: (URL) by William Toenjes. It's one of the most brilliant MOC's I've seen in a while. Big thumbs up hats off for that one! Duq (22 years ago, 2-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | The Village of Dahyart version 2.0
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After reading the very helpful constructive criticism I recieved, and after reviewing my recent village MOC, I decided to redesign it. So... I did. I've totally redesigned the layout of the city and added much more detail. Such details include (...) (22 years ago, 2-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general) !
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| | Re: Skeleton is March 2003's Minifig Hall of Famer !!!!!
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(...) Skellie has appeared in quite a number of different lines, but did he appear first in Castle or Pirates (dunno, which is why I ask)? And why am I saying "he"? No, don't answer that!!! :-) (...) Yes, but I like not being able to stuff the (...) (22 years ago, 2-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Gobble Gobble!
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In lugnet.castle, David Eaton writes: <SNIP> (...) A big mess :) --Anthony (22 years ago, 2-Mar-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Actually, Anthony's duck/chicken/goose designs inspired me to try playing around with chickens again (my 1st design): (URL) I *love* the chickeny look that this model has, but, it is a bit too large. Maybe it'd work as a technic-scale or (...) (22 years ago, 2-Mar-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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can't wait: (URL) a Anthropological Research Starship, studying feral humans. It is the Karalehn Industries Akins Class, Proxia. note: this is the 2nd version of this ship. It has gone from three decks to one. I realized I was trying to do too much (...) (22 years ago, 2-Mar-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.general) !
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| | Re: Skeleton is March 2003's Minifig Hall of Famer !!!!!
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Well, at 20:50 today, there was 37 votes for the new poll. It seems that the change was a good one ! Go vote at www.rotule.qc.ca/mhof/ (...) (22 years ago, 2-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Who is Henrik Amsrtup?
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I have a Star Wars postcard with the text Fortsat go' fornoejelse med lego byggeriet Med venlig hilsen Lego Danmark A/S (hard to translate, something like "continue the joy building with lego) Signed Henrik Amstrup No idea where I got from. Sonnich (22 years ago, 1-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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Hello, I normally don't post here, but spending the last week experimenting with the new Jedi Starfighter cockpit and 8x8 radar dishes, I ended up with this: Note: The gallery is already moderated, so no need for deep links :) (URL) wanted the craft (...) (22 years ago, 1-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.general, lugnet.space)
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Probably from a large vehicle ((URL) used that style of plates, but I could not find any sets which could have used that piece. Anyway, it is most certainly from the late 60'ies or 70'ies Sonnich Bob Hayes <bobhayes1@aol.com> wrote in message (...) (22 years ago, 1-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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Found it. It is ldraw part 781, from set 384 or 780. You should have a similar plate 7x6 too accoding to this: (URL) Hayes <bobhayes1@aol.com> wrote in message news:HB35qG.KKA@lugnet.com... (...) a (...) can (...) (22 years ago, 1-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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I did a little used Lego shopping today a bought a pile. In the pile are a number of parts that I have not seen before and was wondering if anyone can identify them and their set origins. Here is one: (URL) (22 years ago, 1-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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I was wondering if anyone else was wondering this.... Since 1998 brought us the 35th anniversary buckets and tubs here in Canada I was thinking that 2003 must then be the 40th anniversary of LEGO in Canada. However, I suspect that since we haven't (...) (22 years ago, 1-Mar-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | When Lego made die-cast models
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This is a list of Lego die-cast models that I stumbled across while looking for something else. (URL) there any here that the guide does not have ? Ray (22 years ago, 1-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Skeleton is March 2003's Minifig Hall of Famer !!!!!
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Oyé Oyé ! For a second month in a row, a castle Minifig is the winner of the Minifig Hall of Fame poll. The skeleton won the poll over Darth Vader and Blacktron 1. www.rotule.qc.ca (in the Minifig Hall of Fame section) To stimulate the voting (only (...) (22 years ago, 1-Mar-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.off-topic.fun) !
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I always enjoy looking through old SAH catalogs the same way I like looking through old product line catalogs. The SAH catalogs can give you a price reference though, whereas the regular catalogs don't. (Anyone remember the good ol' days when you (...) (22 years ago, 1-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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Well, I am a just-turned 17 very soon to be Eagle Scout who still subscribes to the BSA official magazine, Boys Life. I was pleasantly surprised to find two Lego mentions. #1: A full page official ad for the Lego Star Wars Minis line. Page 17. #2: (...) (22 years ago, 1-Mar-03, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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| | Two birds with attitude to spare
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(...) Further exploration into Dave Eaton's Turkey-Chicken design has lead me to another creature creation, and being encouraged to post it, I have. Using Ineke de Laat's peacock design as inspiration: (URL) after looking up a picture of a peacock (...) (22 years ago, 1-Mar-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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(...) Your new MOC really mooves me. I snapped this pic at LEGOWORLD 2002, it's from (Reinhard) Ben Beneke's train layout. (URL) you enjoy, and perhaps it will help you in your story :-) -Tim (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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| | What do you do with completed MOCs? Recap post.
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Hello, Okay, so after the failure of my last thread and being stricken with a cold this week, I can honestly say I'm back on my feet again. (thank god) Anyway, I wanted to start this thread over to collect some opinions about what builders do with (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.general)
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I have been saving all Lego S-A-H catalogs since about 1997 (I tossed all prior to then) and would like to know if they are worth keeping? Most of them have my address on a label or printed directly on the catalog. I will probably keep the best ones (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yes, I do like them much better now! (...) Yes, please stop ;) ~Kevin Blocksidge~ www.lugnet.com/~1763 (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Jaws, Fight Club, Ghostbusters
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(...) It has been a while since I've checked out your posters- very nice. They're all great, but my favorite has to be Ghostbusters. -- Tony Hafner www.hafhead.com (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Is it Lego?
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LLL! Dear Legofans! I've a simple question: Is this suit-case Lego? I got this suit-case form my grandparents, who bought it for my parents, so it must be very old (50th). There is no Lego-logo on it, but i know that there was Lego inside and there (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Udderly nice. Hey, have you maybe tried using the 2x3 inverse slope for the head. Rev.Powell uses it (see the Joseph stories), and the inverse slope works really well because of those little slits for the peg make it look kinda like eyes. (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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| | Where's the Beef?
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(...) I'll admit they're pretty thin. So I decided to beef them up. I started with the design that I used, Franklin Cain's bovine design (credit where credit is due): (URL) spent an hour on the hoof, grazing through my parts stock. After bullying (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: NEW Créations Rotule Website : More MOCs, more Posters, Minifig Hall of Fame
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(...) We added Jaws, Fight Club and Ghostbusters today. Take a look! www.rotule.qc.ca Terry (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.general)
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3 new posters at Créations Rotule's website. www.rotule.qc.ca JAWS FIGHT CLUB GHOSTBUSTERS LMKWYT !!! Terry (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce.moc) !
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| | Unofficial LEGO Event Calendar Improvements
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The HTML rendering of iCal files published on .Mac has recently been revised, so I am pleased to announce a few improvements to the Unofficial LEGO Events Web Calendar: (URL) at a Glance - a new sidebar calendar displays four months at a time. Days (...) (22 years ago, 27-Feb-03, to lugnet.general)
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