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Answers based on NELUG. www.nelug.org (...) We started by posting to the local groups that are part of the New England area. Once a couple of people connected we met a couple of times and then decided to form NELUG. (...) Now we usually start at a (...) (22 years ago, 20-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.org)
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| | Re: new pictures from the Lego archive Billund
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(...) Wow. That place puts Aladdin’s cave to shame. Scott A (22 years ago, 20-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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Any How-to for creating a LUG ? Where do you meet ? Do you charge something ? What are the usual/normal expense a LUG normally has ? What are the services you provide to users (t-shirts, containers, special bricks, literatures, etc) ? Any (...) (22 years ago, 20-Aug-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) If it's anything like a REAL vault (i.e. the ones in banks), they wouldn't want people taking pictures for security reasons. :) "Yes, you can come see my LEGO room. But pictures are prohibited." -Bryan (22 years ago, 20-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Hi Sven, "Tobak" and "Banken" are Danish names. I find very interesting the picture with the "minitalia" boxes (2nd picture from left upper corner). Those sets were available only in Italy during the 70s (see more here: (...) (22 years ago, 20-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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The parody of the US had occured to me too, it depend how you translate it. Tim (22 years ago, 20-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) 25% is a far higher rate of VAT than you actually pay anywhere in Europe. Tax considerations do narrow the price difference, but there's still a difference. There's also the problem that the dollar is pretty weak compared to the Euro, so if (...) (22 years ago, 20-Aug-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.general) !
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In lugnet.general, Gerhard R. Istok wrote: Hi Gary, (...) I'm very sorry but I have no number for the box. I made the photo because the "Post"-brick is printed in gold. I will try to find out the number of the box. Sven (22 years ago, 20-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I find it really interesting that LEGO allows pictures of the archive/vault now. When I visited a couple years ago, I was asked to put my camera away for that portion of the tour. Very cool, just surprising -- I didn't see anything in there (...) (22 years ago, 20-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) And with good reason, since the Empire was essentially a fascist governmnent with a leader who (as we later learned) was accidentally elected to the leader-for-life position, much like Hitler was (though the circumstances were considerably (...) (22 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Thanks Sven for the wonderful pictures of "the vault", Lego's own archives. I was especially interested in 2 photos. The first one is of 1958-59 Named Beams spare parts pack #226 (if it were from before 1958, there would be 8 named beams, not (...) (22 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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Hi, today I had the chance to visit the Lego archive in Billund. I just uploaded the pictures I made on my homepage. I had only about 40 minutes this time so I made only a few pictures. I hope you enjoy them anyway. I will add some comments asap. (...) (22 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Hi, Jason, Thanks for the quick reply. We too almost have a "wall o' Lego". Our plastic storage shelf is a bit sturdier-looking than yours, and the shelves are spaced just a wee bit closer together. As I wrote earlier, it's almost as if the (...) (22 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage, FTX)
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(...) Yes. (URL) 3033> & (URL) 4107> are the same size. I also know set (URL) 4400> to be the same size as well. Looking through the lugnet guide, it would appear that (URL) 4013>, (URL), (URL) 4279>, and (URL) 4405> are all that size. However (URL) (...) (22 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage, FTX)
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Hi, folks, I'm on a quest for empty blue tubs of the kind used to package set #3033. I have a bunch of these already, and the perfect shelf to store boxes of this dimension. Our family's Lego collection has expanded, so I need more empty boxes. Set (...) (22 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yes, I'm a lurker, but I decided to throw in my two cents on this considering I'm fluent in German (and am actually posting from Berlin right now). For all you non-German speakers "Vereinigte Staaten" is German for the United States. (...) (22 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I can't speak to the builder's inspiration, but having actually *read* some of the smack in his MOCpages account, we can assume the following about the Iron Reich: - It glorifies big, old grey walls - It glorifies big-ass numbers embedded in (...) (22 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.space)
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"Mark Jordan" <mark.jordan@oracle.com> wrote in message news:I2oruA.JMG@lugnet.com... (...) There (...) and (...) title for (...) it as (...) I understand now then. My German isn't good enough to have seen 'Fascist'. That certainly does lean it more (...) (22 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Or George Lucas, whose Imperial forces uniforms (and names - stormtroopers) are pretty clearly inspired by Nazi imagery. Which then carry through to standard Lego sets... Talk about slippery slopes... (22 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) My German might not always be spot on, but I can see "Fascist" in the title for the page. According to the Google language tool, it means something like "vehicles OF combined fascist states new of the realm". I would translate it as "Vehicles (...) (22 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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