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Subject: 
Return of The Random LEGO Set Name Generator
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lugnet.fun, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce
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Date: 
Wed, 9 Apr 2003 00:59:40 GMT
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Seth McCarus wrote me today and asked if the old random LEGO set name generator
was still around anywhere.  It was something I wrote waaaay back in the last
century and it had gotten lost over the years.  I dug around a bit and found
it, and have resurrected it here at this URL:

   http://guide.lugnet.com/fun/namegen/

--Todd



Message has 23 Replies:
  Re: Return of The Random LEGO Set Name Generator
 
(...) YEAH!! :-D Thanks, Todd! Now I wonder what these would look like in the ABS: Love 'n Lullabies Bedroom Starion Spy Bathroom Dolphin Bathroom Aqua Bathroom Vanity Probe Fun-Day Aqua Peace Keeper Skull's Eye Playmates Mobile Highway Family Room (...) (22 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.fun)
  Re: Return of The Random LEGO Set Name Generator
 
(...) may remember that this went online in January of 1997(!) The data file it works from goes like this: There's a "format" specification saying various ways that words can be combined -- for example az, ayz, bz, byz, abz, abyz, etc. The meanings (...) (22 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.fun)
  Re: Return of The Random LEGO Set Name Generator
 
Hmmm, Some of these are so funny! Magic Bathroom Rocket Bulldozer Mach II Bathroom Smugglers Spy Bedroom Sidewalk chopper Gold Passenger Snorkel Multi-Core Cutter Sacred Baja Teepee Mountain Rocket Front-End Bike Castaway's Arcade Inter-Galactic (...) (22 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.fun)
  Re: Return of The Random LEGO Set Name Generator
 
(...) This is just too much fun!!! Here are a few interesting ones: Mission Bathroom Secret Weapons Playland Sacred Bathroom Fun Intruder Love 'n Lullabies Stalker I can just picture some of the sets ;-) Jude (22 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.fun)
  Re: Return of The Random LEGO Set Name Generator
 
Got to love the "Love 'n Lullabies Rocket Playground", can't wait for it to come out. jt (...) (22 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.fun)
  Re: Return of The Random LEGO Set Name Generator
 
(...) Ok, i have to admit, it got me to laugh out loud: Rolling Acres Fire Ranch Raindance Command Station Flying Weapons Jet Snow Truck Skeleton Cargo Fighter Rocket Tow Sub Off-Road Shark Carriage Cops Tug Supply Playmates Rocket Tow Sub? Pretty (...) (22 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.fun)
  Re: Return of The Random LEGO Set Name Generator
 
(...) Wouhou! River Teepee I don't know about you, but it seems dangerous to build a teepee on water, especially on a river! I guess it's just faster to move this way! Terry (22 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.fun)
  Re: Return of The Random LEGO Set Name Generator
 
(...) Imagine you get builders block and have no idea what to do. Just go to the name generator, select a couple of thems you like and fire away! Surely one of the names will be a good one and one that you see in front of you. Now, build it! The (...) (22 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.fun)
  Re: Return of The Random LEGO Set Name Generator
 
All Right!!! I've really missed this "utility" for dreaming up set ideas. since it went off-line with the demise of the "fibblesnork" domain name. Now it's on to building the "Pneumatic Command Bedroom" -- Oh, right, this is a "G-rated" site. Well, (...) (22 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.fun)
  Re: Return of The Random LEGO Set Name Generator
 
(...) Oh, yeah - the "Road 'n Rail Hovertron"! Got get me one those! Steve Martin IndyLUG (22 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.fun)
  Re: Return of The Random LEGO Set Name Generator
 
"Sacred Playland" "Raindance Catamaran" "Pretty Point Patrol" Too much fun! Paul Sinasohn LUGNET #115 (22 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.fun)
  Re: Return of The Random LEGO Set Name Generator
 
(...) Pretty Loading Shanty I should make one of those for the train layout... Magic Red Bird Sundaes Hmm, what's in a Magic Red Bird Sunday? Battle Metroliner Hmm.... Battering Club Bathroom Sand Dollar Club Playmates I thought LEGO was a (...) (22 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.fun)
  Re: Return of The Random LEGO Set Name Generator
 
In lugnet.fun, Todd Lehman writes:> (...) "Sub-Mountain Command Dual Scooter" This could be a real set. Maybe start a whole space theme of "Rock Planet 2102"... "Majisto's Boulder Hauler" I picture a couple of dragons with a harness to drag all (...) (22 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.fun)
  Re: Return of The Random LEGO Set Name Generator
 
Awesome! A combination of Pirates and Belville gives some pretty fun results. My current favorite being "King Kahuka's Playmates." Bryan (22 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.fun)
  Re: Return of The Random LEGO Set Name Generator
 
(...) I see 204,938,448 set names are possible... I wonder how long it will be before they're all listed on this thread :-) Cheers Richie Dulin (22 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.fun)
  Re: Return of The Random LEGO Set Name Generator
 
Todd, this is really funny. Another site I frequent has a random bad Bluegrass Band name generator: (URL) what Front-end Snow Playmates would look like, Darrell (22 years ago, 10-Apr-03, to lugnet.fun)
  Re: Return of The Random LEGO Set Name Generator
 
This thing is great! Haven`t laughed so hard in a while!!! Paradisa Point Buccaneers Flying City Decoder - What could this possibly be? Forestmen's Dragster - supercharged horses? Paradisa Lock-up - a jail in Paradisa? Tractor Fire Tunnelator Garden (...) (22 years ago, 10-Apr-03, to lugnet.fun)
  Re: Return of The Random LEGO Set Name Generator
 
My favourite was the "freight freighter" - very zen... (22 years ago, 10-Apr-03, to lugnet.fun)
  Re: Return of The Random LEGO Set Name Generator
 
(...) Hmm... Enchanted Blaze Kitchen Island Flash Garden Isolation Sweeper Boulder Playmates for water polo: Poolside Stables A real challenge for the trains people : Tri-Wheeled Railroad And for the NAVY: Love 'n Lullabies Oarsmen Benjamin (...) (22 years ago, 10-Apr-03, to lugnet.fun)
  Re: Return of The Random LEGO Set Name Generator
 
Fun-Day Ambulance Pony Rally Spy-Sundaes Pretty Wishes Showdown Pony Lock-up Sidewalk Motorcycle Dig 'n Dump Kitchen King's Response Bathroom The king must have visited the Dig n' Dump kitchen. Jeff J (22 years ago, 10-Apr-03, to lugnet.fun)
  Re: Return of The Random LEGO Set Name Generator
 
The best is just using Homemaker names: Bathroom Bathroom Bathroom Bathroom kitchen Bathroom bathroom Love it. -G (...) (22 years ago, 10-Apr-03, to lugnet.fun)
  Re: Return of The Random LEGO Set Name Generator
 
(...) I'm on auto-giggle after a long work day... Besides being an interesting way to start a new MOC ("Wheel of Morality, turn, turn, turn, and tell us the lesson we must learn"), some of the names are just beyond funny... for instance, I'm (...) (22 years ago, 10-Apr-03, to lugnet.fun)
  Re: Return of The Random LEGO Set Name Generator
 
My favorite was always: Pizza Rescue Plane You may remember it from threads years ago. Mark (22 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.fun)

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