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(...) Brickshelf.com is not going away, at least not if I can help it. I am working with someone to rehost the instruction scans, and they will be in their new home as soon as we can get them moved and they can get the necessary permission from (...) (21 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.general) !!
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(...) What's the traffic for the instructions? I mean I've been running a little website for years and if you need hosting space, I'll get a somewhat large HD installed. I can't guarantee 100 percent uptime, but for the past 10 years, my little (...) (21 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Have you visited The Brick Factory (URL) ? You can probably find the instructions there. -Steven (21 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I'm trying to not go into a total panic on this. Even if we can shift everything over to Maj.com, it would be a huge hit to the community. For one, not everyone will shift everything over, either because they don't reallize that the site is (...) (21 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) What about legofan.org picking this up? Jude (21 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.general) !!
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(...) Ah, crud. This stinks, seriously. I was going to rebuild my Black Falcon's Fortress next month, too, but I didn't download the instructions yet because I figured they'd always be there. However, I have a simple solution: Host the library via (...) (21 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) "Cross Contamination" continued as late as 1997. I have some copies of 5561 Big Foot 4x4 that had non-grooved grilles as well as at least one Divers set, which I think is the Diving Expedition Explorer. I vaguely remember seeing it in another (...) (21 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.general)
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The instruction and catalog scans have been removed. Kevin posted the following message ... "Due to the loss of our major sponsor, Instruction and Catalog scans are no longer available at Brickshelf.com. We are working to find them a new home. When (...) (21 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.general) !!
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Nice. I'm going to adopt this one myself : ) (...) (21 years ago, 26-May-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.faq)
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(...) Go right ahead! I tried checking briefly to see instances of how often 'AFOL' was used to mean 'Adult Friend Of Lego' (because I've seen it said that it can mean either), however I could only find about 5 occurances of it being used that way (...) (21 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.faq)
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(...) I dislike the term "AFOL" and would gladly support a shift to use "ALE" or another non-acronym based phrase. -- Thomas Main thomasmain@myrealbox.com (21 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) May I blatantly copy your words to create a Wikipedia article for the term "AFOL"? Yours, thankfully, Christian (21 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.faq)
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(...) Oh, I forgot to mention.... as an example of old part continuing to show up in new sets... the old gray, old dark gray and old brown will be showing up in various sets for years to come, as we are already starting to see. As long as there is (...) (21 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hi Dave, looks like others beat me to the punch.... But speaking of grooves, Lego tiles, which first came into production in late 1965, came without grooves in the tile parts packs #510 (1965), and #471 (1966-68). Trying to date a specific (...) (21 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) When I came across some sets that had never been "cross-contaminated" by other sets I went ahead and took some notes. You can add them to the rest of the observations you get: (URL) it seemed that in 1991 they had introduced the grooved tiles (...) (21 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) According to peeron (not definitive, but certainly a good indicator) there's a fairly neat split around the end of 1994 - (URL) those without grooves> do not appear in any sets after 94, and (URL) those with grooves> don't appear in any sets (...) (21 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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Hey all, After another major re-sort of my collection, I decided to separate all the 1x2 grille tiles without the fingernail groove out of my big bag of the grooved kind since it's kinda hard to tell 'em apart while digging. I was surprised to find (...) (21 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) This is probably my biggest issue with it as well. When I hear the word 'fan' I have a hard time disassociating it from 'fanatic'. Also, I work in an environment where I'm besieged with acronyms daily... sometimes two or three per sentence. I (...) (21 years ago, 26-May-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.faq)
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(URL) Announcing... the First Joe Vig Contest!!! ======== You will find all the contest information on (URL) The First Joe Vig Contest> page. This contest does not begin until June 1st, 2005, so please don't post your entries before then. (The (...) (21 years ago, 26-May-05, to lugnet.build.vignette, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.build.contests, FTX) !!
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(...) Suz's drive-by butt-in.. I don't use AFOL in ref to myself because I don't like it either. Not that it's -horrible-, but I don't feel as though it covers me. "Fan" implies "fanatic", which I'm not. (Though I certainly was ten years ago..) Plus (...) (21 years ago, 26-May-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.faq)
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