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(...) I personally don't like it when people clean out their galleries. What you think is unimportant might be something really cool to me. I'm getting in the habit of saving pictures of stuff I like, but usually I just bookmark the link. Right now (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Methinks he doth protest too much. Out with it-- that dirty little secret will eat you alive, Dave! <snip> (...) It may have been a little wily, but I categorically deny any nilly! If it ain't OT yet, I'll make it so, number 1! (FUTOTF) JOHN (21 years ago, 2-Jun-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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In lugnet.general, Bob Kojima wrote: Someone asked: (how can one back up one's entire gallery on BrickShelf?) (...) Wow, what a great idea and what a nice thing to do for the community. Where do you want bug reports? (21 years ago, 2-Jun-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Interesting idea! I'll check it out tonight. You know, I was thinking that it might be smart for all of us to do some spring cleaning on our Brickshelf galleries. I'd be willing to bet that we all have some extraneous images in our galleries (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) give this a try: (URL) About: A program used to back up your Brickshelf.com directory. Set the destination directory, enter the user ID name or the folder ID and press the get button. All the sub folders and files in the folders will be (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-05, to lugnet.general, FTX) !
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(...) As Joe said, I don't think the issue would be with the instructions themselves-- plus, the gallery is what generates the heaping swaths of traffic from what I understand. Not that the instructions don't generate their own heaping swath, it's (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) "mock" is already a word, so I propose we pronounce it like "smoke" and "choke" ~Kevoh (21 years ago, 2-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I'm not sure what a Bionicle avatar is, but I do agree that bandwidth is likely the major expense. (...) Right. And, while I'm not disparaging Kevin's efforts -- Brickshelf has been a valuable service to the community for years -- its (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Renaming be damned! I like old-school, old-time. (Eddie Shore!) Signed, An AFOL who builds MOCs who also may be a Curmudgeon, JOHN (21 years ago, 2-Jun-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Actually, the instructions on LEGO's website only represent recent sets. These instructions compliment those hosted on Brickshelf because of Brickshelf's self imposed rule of not accepting instruction scans from current and recent (1-2 years (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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ALE is Adult Lego Enthusiast, a newer (and preferred by at least some) term over AFOL. It's easier to pronounce as an acronym, sounds less stilted when you say it in words, and is generally more accurate too. See (URL) for the thread where it was (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) ALE is Adult Lego Enthusiast, a newer (and preferred by at least some) term over AFOL. It's easier to pronounce as an acronym, sounds less stilted when you say it in words, and is generally more accurate too. See (URL) for the thread where it (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) TLG's instruction database is pretty incomplete, though. For example, their themes list doesn't contain Pirates at all, and when I tested a particular Pirate set (6285, Black Seas Barracuda), they had no instructions for it. I think it's great (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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Ok, Lego does its own job of hosting instructions at: (URL) TLG was funding BrickShelf, I can see why they would drop this duplicate expense. My questions are: What instructions on BrickShelf are not duplicates of the TLG ones? Is TLG committed to (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) The selection at the PAB is fairly poor. There are maybe 30-40 different bins and are usually 2x2 bricks and larger, wheels, rubber tires, and windows (windshields). Once in a blue moon, there may be some transparent parts. They do carry some (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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I've got a co-worker that will be visiting the Mall of America soon... Does anyone know what the current selection of parts/colors sold in the Mall of America Pick-A-Brick? Thanks! --Mike. (21 years ago, 2-Jun-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.loc.us.mn)
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Hi Kishin, Welcome back! What's your favorite theme to build? Bruce (21 years ago, 1-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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Think this year is going to be the same ol' (URL) Think that you can put off coming a year? Well, we have some news that might make you reconsider! The BrickFest organizers have invited a number of representatives from the LEGO Group to attend, and (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jun-05, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.org, lugnet.people, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.general, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX) !!
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(...) It's a new acronym that's being tossed around to replace 'AFOL'-- ALE = "Adult Lego Enthusiast" (...) I don't think disk space is really the issue so much as bandwidth. IIRC he filled up 2 T1's easily, which ain't cheap. People use BrickShelf (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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Thanks everyone for the welcome everyone and expect to see some MOCs from me soon ;) (21 years ago, 1-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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