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(...) Maybe it's been hacked? I can't imagine he wouldn't have given people a chance to save their images.... :-( Maggie C. (19 years ago, 14-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Kevin's known for taking a good idea, starting something we want, and then abandoning all administration of it. Oh, without passing the torch gracefully. I estimate I probably lost 3/4 of my MOC photos. Aaron (19 years ago, 14-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Good job giving everyone time to back there stuff up, Kevin Everyone else, get on Flickr. Brickshelf has sucked since the 90's. (19 years ago, 14-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Nice of Kevin to give us some warning. Jeff (19 years ago, 14-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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Just been to Brickshelf and it reports Brickshelf has discontinued operation. We apologize for any inconvenience. Maj still seems to be up Tim (19 years ago, 14-Jul-07, to lugnet.general) !!
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In lugnet.general, Doug Dropeskey wrote: Snip (...) I think it was a bit of both. The community wanted websites with more specialized content. Needs were not being met (articles, chat, easy to join) so other sites were started. (...) Yes. Major (...) (19 years ago, 14-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Impressive as ever. Which reminds me, can lego trains be weatherized (run outdoors)? I have to take that up in .trains (...) From my reading it appears that lugnet went through some management turmoil--unprocessed memberships, infrequent (...) (19 years ago, 14-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Oh, baby, (URL) does it ever!>:-) I use my LUGNET NG as our web site. No jumping ship, here! (...) One might say that LUGNET is a victim of its own success. It brought us all together, and all of the little sects got together and formed boards (...) (19 years ago, 13-Jul-07, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
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Hello! I was just roaming the recent galleries on BrickShelf. Embedded inbetween the Lego folders was this advertisement: (URL) made me smirk. I remember a picture that concentrated on a female bust covered by a Lego t-shirt once caused uproar and (...) (19 years ago, 11-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I must say they chose a very creative solution to the issue of how to run cables :) (so as not to tease, each end of a cable is represented by the modular connector and a small length of wire. Colored arrows are used to match up which end runs (...) (19 years ago, 11-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad)
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OK, it looks like the Mac version isn't quite ready for prime-time, but I'm curious if anybody else has noticed this: (URL) tried it out yet? I've got one model (my NXT remote) already made, and the learning curve was far easier than I expected (it (...) (19 years ago, 10-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad)
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(...) Thank you, that all makes sense. Some quality issues can be overlooked. However I do not like having different shades when I build something. It makes it look a bit cheap and unplaned. I hope that Lego listens as to the the color problem. It (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Thank you, I knew that I read it somewhere on Lugnet. Reading the article again, it appears that things might get worse unless Lego does something about the quality control in the next three years. (What I understand and this may be wrong is (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Well I have an update, if anyone is interested. It looks as if the TSRR has been saved, but not in the most favorable way. Instead of giving it the money it needs, the Texas Government decided to give operational control to a specifically (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jul-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) John, from what I understand, Flextronics took over Duplo manufacturing first. LEGO had molding operations in the Czech Republic, and that factory has been doing very well. Bagging operations in Enfield are being moved to Juarez, Mexico. (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I think this is post you're referring to (and it does include a link to "Journal Inquirer"): (URL) my understanding, the production of basic parts has indeed been outsourced - i.e. those parts are made using machines that aren't owned & (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I've seen color variations in the same part. I ordered a batch of dark-red 1x10 bricks off Bricklink, and about 1/3 of them came in extra dark. Fortunately, only half of them were going to be built into front-facing surfaces, so all the (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I know that I didn't imagine it, but there was a post on Lugnet that linked to a story in a financial publication that said they were out sourcing the production of the brioks to Flextronics with has sites around the world mostly in emerging (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I 2nd what Ted is saying. At Brickworld the LEGO REPs told us that they are aware of the color issue and have corrected it. TLC changed the way they make the bricks. Before they would use a batch of "colored plastic" and send that into the (...) (19 years ago, 5-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I'm sorry I was not clear. This WAS a problem and the inventory needs to be cleared out of the warehouses but this should NOT be a problem moving forward. Dye jobs happening right now are supposed to be fine and new sets should not have the (...) (19 years ago, 5-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I had this problem, my wife and I were assembling set, and it was apparent to both of us. I think each type of brick matched it'self, but that the different shades were between 1x2 and 1x4 bricks or somesuch. It was not a major thing, but I (...) (19 years ago, 5-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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Magnus ol' buddy, I was disheartened to see such a sexist expeditionary force at Brickworld. I'm glad you had a racially integrated fighting force but I saw not a single female trooper. Does this mean that in your future military, you suscribe (...) (19 years ago, 4-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I don't own that set, but I can tell you it's not a fluke. The first set that really sparked notice in this problem was the Harry Potter Knight Bus, with the then-new dark-purple color. Dark-red has since started showing up in seriously (...) (19 years ago, 4-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yes, resampling is costly when using anything other than linear scaling. This was the main reason I had to make my gallery script cache the resampled images, especially when it suddenly has to resample 100 odd images all at once.... (19 years ago, 4-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) The dark blue 2x2 corner bricks in 10182 were noticably lighter than the rest. However the ones I had previously were tha same dark shade as the rest of the dark blue Tim (19 years ago, 4-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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Given the colour variations in MEGA BLOKS I am sure they do just in time dying as well. BUT man it sure drops the quality of LEGOs product. So instead of pre-dyed plastic pellets, they either batch dye or on the fly dye them as they mold. NEITHER (...) (19 years ago, 4-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I do believed that they out sourced the making of the bricks to Flextronics. I could be wrong, but I remember reading that somewhere. They are building a factory in Juarex Mexico to make the bricks. I hope that you are right, but I do remember (...) (19 years ago, 4-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) LEGO has NOT "outsourced" making the bricks. They did change the way colour is handled. They now add dye to the plastic at the LEGO factory. The change over was not perfect and those colour problems are supposed to go away over time but they (...) (19 years ago, 4-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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Are You a Hardcore LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT User? Do you want to have a seat in our closed webforum, the Mindstorms Community Partners, where we involve you in our development and tests of new ideas, concepts, prototypes, products and discuss various (...) (19 years ago, 4-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Another factor may be Safari's color management: (URL) I've always been curious about the way Brickshelf has the browser scale the full sized image to fit the page. You don't see that too often these days. I agree with Tim that unless the full (...) (19 years ago, 4-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I haven't heard anything about 10190, but a lot of people over on Eurobricks reported problems with 10182 Cafe Corner having different colors. -Elroy (19 years ago, 4-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Handy to know. I often wondered why Firefox just uses linear scaling when bicubic is so much better and it looks like Safari has finally done it properly. Let's hope the other browsers pay attention and copy the idea. Of course it doesn't (...) (19 years ago, 4-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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In Brickshelf and other websites that have a smaller previews for a picture I have notice a low quality pictures in IE and Firefox. (Unless you click on picture you will not see the correct resolution.) I found a few articles on Lugnet that mention (...) (19 years ago, 4-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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| | color problems with 10190
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I just put together 10190 and find that the navy blue bricks come in two or three shades. Has anyone else had this observation? I hope that this is a fluke and not a overall problem since Lego has outsourced the making of the bricks. I opened up a (...) (19 years ago, 4-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Sometimes LEGO makes me crazy
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(...) [snip] (...) Hi Duane, for a rectangular shape of a tunnel this propellor would not be perfectly right, but I would guess, that this is the so far best prop, which LEGO has done: (URL) a weak spot this one has the gear wheel fixed to the axle, (...) (19 years ago, 3-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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We often have big adult + kid parties. Both the boys and girls love to play with our big LEGO collection. Does anyone know a source for official LEGO themed stickers? I would love to have a stash to hand out to the children. Bryan (19 years ago, 3-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Thanks for the idea. I'm currnetly using two of these, (URL) nested together (they're apparently designed to do that) to make a four-bladed prop. I use four sets of them in an array. That seems to be my best option so far. Here are some pics: (...) (19 years ago, 2-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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The logo appears to be the same as the logo on the recent hospital sets (which were available at retail). I think its supposed to be a generic "hospital" icon. (similar to how real-world hospitals etc are using said icon instead of the old red (...) (19 years ago, 3-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Dunno, but if you download the instructions[1], you can see the logo, which looks suspiciously like the logo for the Mississippi State Dept of Health's Emergency Medical Services[2] logo. Hope this helps ROSCO 1 - (URL) - (URL) (19 years ago, 3-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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Does anyone know who is selling this set? I see from some places that to get one you have to fly on a certain airline. But which one? (19 years ago, 3-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) You know, you would think I would have checked first. On the other hand, you know me, so perhaps you wouldn't think I would have checked first! (19 years ago, 2-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Yeah, I had almost exactly the same revelation, but examined the blades first. I've tried to come up with a ducting that would make them useful (they will "pump" air if you could route the central outflow back into the annular "inflow", and (...) (19 years ago, 2-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Sounds like an interesting problem you're facing. Although the blade area is still quite small, the LEGO Znap large wheels, 68mm (if you can find them) have a blade profile which should be able to drive a small wind tunnel. See this part (...) (19 years ago, 2-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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A while ago I built a wind tunnel, and I've been wanting to try out the Exo-Force turbines to see if they can provide any more propulsion than the propellers I've been using. After all, they have more blades and the blades have a greater pitch than (...) (19 years ago, 2-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Haha, thanks for keeping the thread from becoming too tediously PC! :) Magnus (19 years ago, 1-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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Using my two Mini Land scale American La France antique fire trucks, I hoisted the Canadian Flag to celebrate Canada Day. See the pic at www.brickshelf.com/c...i?f=263256 Enjoy Jacub (19 years ago, 1-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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The problem with throwing a wig on a gender neutral face is that the "female" will either be butch or a plain Jane. My male troopers deserve hot counterparts! (19 years ago, 30-Jun-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: New Contest - Name the LifeLites Lbrick
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(...) Hm..can't wait to drop one of these into an airplane... two red flashing lights..one on top, one on the bottom, wingtip lights, and lighting pointing at the aircraft tail..not to mention some landing lights... (Then there's the airport runway, (...) (19 years ago, 29-Jun-07, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: New Contest - Name the LifeLites Lbrick
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(...) (I am cross-posting to .trains and .town because I think they would benefit from this post) Folks, Rob was kind enough to allow us to place his new product, the Lbrick (as it is currently named:-) into my emergency vehicle, and it was nothing (...) (19 years ago, 29-Jun-07, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Building equality one female minifig at a time.
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(...) Per Peeron, yes, all colors of blank flesh head DO exist (I actually own the medium flesh color myself). Plus there is always Brasso to remove print from heads :) (19 years ago, 29-Jun-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) At BrickFest last year the LEGO store gave away some cardboard/foamboard displays during the raffle, and one of them was a sequence of pictures called "The Many Faces of LEGO" -- something like that. Here's a crude re-creation from memory: (...) (19 years ago, 28-Jun-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I know that LDD doesn't offer "fleshies", (so this won't help you, John) but it does offer a five different minifig heads. You could create your own minifig head pack. I'm certainly planning on buying some faces, figs, and hair whenever I (...) (19 years ago, 28-Jun-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) radical=depraved ;) (...) Which must make it really hard to make female figs. The range of female options in flesh is far more limited, particularly for the darker skinned fleshies. (...) Can you get blank flesh heads of either hue? Tim (19 years ago, 28-Jun-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Brickworld was a Blast!
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(...) The GMLTC isn't big on tooting our own horn. Heck, our website probably hasn't been updated in a year or more. Conan and Chuck's collection is probably between 2.5 million and 3 million bricks. Obviously we don't have an exact count, but we've (...) (19 years ago, 28-Jun-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Though I am radical in my decision to use only "fleshies" on our train layout (but using all of the tones of flesh), I am quite traditional when it comes to faces. I would be perfectly happy with all of my figs being good ol' smilies. What if (...) (19 years ago, 28-Jun-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I'd be happy with less of those too... the facial hair fashions of minifigs differ greatly from those I've observed in any country I've been to. Tim (19 years ago, 28-Jun-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) What do you do about figs with facial hair (beards, mustaches etc) (19 years ago, 28-Jun-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Uh, he was passed LONG ago. I'm pretty sure there are more than a few BL stores with more bricks for sale than they own. JOHN (19 years ago, 28-Jun-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) <snippage> Not at all. When you raised this issue at Brickworld during the Q&A, it got me to thinking. What do you think about the idea of simply including female wigs in every set? I mean, a fig is essentially gender neutral until wigs are (...) (19 years ago, 28-Jun-07, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | BrickWorld Highlights
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As many others have said already on LUGNET, BrickWorld was a fantastic event! All of us coordinators were blown away by the attendance at this very first year for BrickWorld. Here are some event highlights that I really enjoyed: • Watching a new (...) (19 years ago, 28-Jun-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.fun, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.il.chi, FTX)
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(...) accurate? If so, that should easily pass Conan & his uncle for the largest AFOL collection. Spencer (19 years ago, 27-Jun-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I certianly agree! It was nice to have an event close enough to drive to (I can't fly with my 11 Rubbermaid bins!) without spending using up two whole days enroute. Like others said, it was also great to put faces with the people behind those (...) (19 years ago, 27-Jun-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.general, FTX)
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In lugnet.events.brickworld, Chris Magno wrote: (snip) (...) I'm not going to ask..... Joe (19 years ago, 27-Jun-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.general, FTX)
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Some of us were talked to by an interviewer from The Telegraph, a UK newspaper. The story can be found, if I did the link right, at (URL) course, I talked to the guy for 10 minutes about all sorts of things and in the article I get branded as the (...) (19 years ago, 27-Jun-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.general)
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(...) Yep, they are - and interestingly enough TLC's nightmare is proven true again: The talk is about giving the creatures "Legos" to play with. But after learning recently, that even pigs require more sophisticated toys than iron chains and old (...) (19 years ago, 27-Jun-07, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Brickworld was a Blast!
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What a Great Time! I was unfortuntately unable to attend the whole fest, but I came on Sunday for the public exhibition. All I can say is WOW! It was my first LEGO fest, and I had a great time. It was neat to see in person some of the creations (...) (19 years ago, 27-Jun-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | 2007 Aus catalogue Mk. 2 released...With a couple of nice surprises :D
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G'day all, Just a heads up that the June edition of the world club magazine is out. It includes the new catalogue (no obvious item number). The interesting items in the catalogue, however, are: Exoforce: (URL) 7721: Bad Guy Vehicle> (And no, I did (...) (19 years ago, 27-Jun-07, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Wow, thats a great shot, and hard to tell that you two arent wearing pants, nothing else would explain a smile that big on my face. (...) I dont believe I signed that waiver in blood... and I'm still waiting on your wife's cell number. Wink. (...) (19 years ago, 27-Jun-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) :-) (URL) HERE> is the rest of the story, complete with offending thumb. Speaking of offending digits, I will always cherish the repartee between you and Nick, Janey. What happens at the Ram, stays at the Ram! (...) :-) (...) The pleasure was (...) (19 years ago, 27-Jun-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) OH MY GOODNESS, I recognize those hands and that ni... ummmm errrrrr, logo. Wow, brick events sure bring out the best in people. I must say, here and now, it was a total pleasure meeting Mr Bold John face to face, and even more of a pleasure (...) (19 years ago, 27-Jun-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Brickworld was a Blast! (and a big thanks... )
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(...) Here's my pictures as well: (URL) Cotterman showed me how to take some panoramic pictures with my wife's camera, so I managed to take a few good ones of the event. --Mike. (19 years ago, 27-Jun-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Edit and cropping???? I got your edit and crop (URL) RIGHT HERE>, pal! :-) JOHN (19 years ago, 27-Jun-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.general, FTX)
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"Matthew Crandall" <matthewcrandall9@lycos.com> wrote in message news:JK8zn1.J04@lugnet.com... (...) I believe that the blocks in the video areMaxi Mega Blocks, not Lego. My youngest son has some that he got for Christmas and the large studs have a (...) (19 years ago, 27-Jun-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) John, I guess the reason we are NOT seeing the pictures from you is cause of all the time you need to edit and crop the naughty gestures i managed to sneak in? :) Chris ps. man, if ~i~ had a camera to take a pic of Joe M's face when he met me (...) (19 years ago, 27-Jun-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Well, that would be (URL) here> I plan to write much more notes - almost all of these are written at 3 or 4 am... (...) More are coming - not only from me, of course. I got to take 1500 pics and now have to edit them down to a reasonable size. (...) (19 years ago, 26-Jun-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Where's Joe's online journal? Keep the Flickr images coming. BrickWorld was a blast -- it was good seeing a bunch of old friends, meeting new ones, and finally meeting people I've known online for years. A few shoutouts... The NILTC gang Orion (...) (19 years ago, 26-Jun-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.general, FTX)
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I know LEGO is popular with humans...but with octopi as well??? Check this out: (URL) Play Well and Prosper, Matthew "The Brick Detective" (19 years ago, 26-Jun-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Keep the stories coming everyone! We love hearing about all the goings-on. It sounds like this was a great event and will be even better next year. :-) Stacy and I are glad to hear everyone had a good time and we want to see all your pictures. (...) (19 years ago, 26-Jun-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Hi John and attendees, It was nice to meet you too. I also had the chance to meet many nice people I have known over the years but never met in person, that was very cool. It was good to meet many others for the first time too. The event was (...) (19 years ago, 26-Jun-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.general, FTX)
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The subject line says it all! Although I am still recovering from the weekend and still need to post my pics, I'll just post a quickie to say how much I enjoyed this event and that I'm already looking forward to Brickworld '08. Kudos to Adam and (...) (19 years ago, 26-Jun-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.general, FTX) !!
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Erik taught me through his website. He showcased so many techniques, styles, and solutions, and I was inspired. From close-coupling for trains, dioramas, SNOT, Technic geometry, to mechanization he gave us so many solutions and foundations for how (...) (19 years ago, 24-Jun-07, to lugnet.general)
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In lugnet.general, Karl Paulsen wrote: snip (...) Every January, two rubbermaid totes filled with a variety and wide selection of my bricks take a trip to two grade schools in my area. These schools have 'Options'--which sounds like 'Leisure Ed' (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jun-07, to lugnet.general)
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Hi all, I was curious to hear if any of you had experienes or suggestinons on how to use LEGO to benefit the wider human community. Background: I live and work in Community Development in inner city Chicago, and considering that some weeks I spend (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jun-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yes, they are having technical difficulties. I believe they have multiple servers and only certain ones are affected, thus the hit-or-miss ability to reach certain sites they host. My LUG's site ((URL)) is one of the sites that is down as (...) (19 years ago, 19-Jun-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Yes, there are issues with Northstar, I'll let Eric post details, but a number of LEGO sites appear to be affected. Club sites that use a database, as well as the ones you mention, and others like BrickFest.com, are currently offline. (...) (19 years ago, 19-Jun-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I believe Brickset is hosted at Northstar too. Tim (19 years ago, 19-Jun-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I don't know if its related but www.brickset.com is also giving wierd database errors. (19 years ago, 19-Jun-07, to lugnet.general)
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I have been unable to access www.brickish.co.uk (page not found) and www.jlug.net (MySQL error) for the last couple of days. Both these sites are hosted by Northstar so I'm guessing they have a problem. Bricklink is also hosted there and is OK but I (...) (19 years ago, 19-Jun-07, to lugnet.general)
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Looks great. A nice present. I was wondering if the logo on the ball cap is a decal? Any close up pictures available? I need some ball cap logos done and was thinking I might have a very small rubber stamp made but the detail in a decal would be (...) (19 years ago, 18-Jun-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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Here's the father's day gift I gave my Dad yesterday: (URL) The story behind it: My grandfather owned 40 acres of land in the outskirts of Texarkana, Arkansas, 15 of which was cleared (the rest is dense forest). My grandfather didn't do much (...) (19 years ago, 18-Jun-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Eric Brok has passed away!!
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(...) Prostate cancer is only of the commonest cancers that affect men, but sadly many men don't get diagnosed until it is too late. Next time you have any symptoms or your doctor suggests a routine test for prostate problems; remember Eric, and go (...) (19 years ago, 18-Jun-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Eric's funeral took place on Friday. A number of people from the LEGO community was also present for the last honor to Eric. Eric told me of his illness last September. He knew since the beginning of 2006 that the had cancer and that it would (...) (19 years ago, 17-Jun-07, to lugnet.general) !
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(...) Just a heads-up to anyone who might not have noticed: I was just checking out the Brickworld site and noticed that the Brickworld folks have extended their deadline for registration and, perhaps even better, the hotel has extended the deadline (...) (19 years ago, 16-Jun-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.events, FTX)
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| | Re: town/train jambalaya box missing attention: Clifton D. Chambers
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(...) this is still missing. i have had no luck contacting this person by email and more recently by phone. i Really need to get this box by next thursday. if you know this person please help me. ondrew (19 years ago, 16-Jun-07, to lugnet.market.jambalaya, lugnet.general)
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(...) Truly sad... My heart goes out to his family. I too never met Eric, and like all of you I was blown away not only by his models but by the way he presented them on his web site. He has clearly left his mark by touching the lives of many people (...) (19 years ago, 14-Jun-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Reading this bad news at Lugnet has left me in total sadness. Eric has been one of the most remarkable personalities I have ever met due to my LEGO hobby. The results of his partizipation in this community will be alive for a really long time, (...) (19 years ago, 14-Jun-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Terribly sad news for the AFOL and LEGO communities. Working with Erik during the Ambassador program was a great honour. His ideas, comments, and suggestions will be missed for sure. It's good to see that he had completed his ride and large (...) (19 years ago, 14-Jun-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Truly a sad day for the AFOL community. I had the chance to meet Eric at BrickFest 2005, when I was handling the PaB bulk boxes. I had no idea of his illness. Eric will be missed greatly by all. Scott Lyttle (19 years ago, 14-Jun-07, to lugnet.general)
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Very sad news indeed. I remember being utterly blown away by a highly innovative castle that he built many years ago, and I had the opportunity to meet him briefly at a BrickFest a few years ago. I never knew him well, but he stands out to me as a (...) (19 years ago, 14-Jun-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I'll miss his LEGO musings, and surely his contributions will live long in our hearts and minds. I still remember reading his insightful posts to rec.toys.lego so many years ago. May his family find peace and consolation. Good-bye, Eric. Ed (19 years ago, 14-Jun-07, to lugnet.general)
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