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I emailed LEGO and just got a reply that the USA flag set IS now available for delivery in the USA. As far as I know, it's only available through their call-in odereing system though. Here's their exact reply to my message: Dear LEGO® Builder, The (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jun-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I suppose we can blame one of your countrymen for perpetuating that misconception: "There was an Old Man of the Cape, Who possessed a large Barbary Ape; Till the Ape, one dark night, set the house all alight, Which burned that Old Man of the (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jun-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(URL) The chimalis evolves...again. It's an okay result, I guess... Osprey, over and out, M. Aaron Hein (URL) (22 years ago, 10-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Why would set 10042 not be available in the United States?
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(...) I had seen it. It's a good one. I've only done a tiny one for the back of my piggy-back train car - about five studs by 8 plates. There's no real detail, but you can just about tell what it's supposed to be. It's the French and Germans that (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jun-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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Has anyone seen this Mini-fig generator? (URL) (22 years ago, 9-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Why would set 10042 not be available in the United States?
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(...) Have you seen the one I did to liven up the loc.uk sidebar a bit? I've been meanign to tell you about it since your the big mosaicist. I plan to get a better lit pic soon and I've spotted one small error which I have to fix first. This is the (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jun-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Why would set 10042 not be available in the United States?
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< Snip > Quote previous: And Apple Pie is a German recipe, not American. < Snip > Ah. But they immigrated here and brought their strudleie goodness with them. My wife's family is 100% German and Americanized quite well, which I think is the (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Everyone still calls it that. I don't think anyone would be upset by what you call it, apart from the highly pedantic... ;-) Okay, so technically, it's the 'Union' flag. A 'Jack' is the national penant hung at the rear of a ship, so it's only (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)
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Yup, "we're going to war!" Why...'cause i feel like it. ;) This post was created with the intent of learning your (yes, you... I'm speaking directly to you sitting right there) favorite 'war-slogan.' So, do you have a favorite war-cry or slogan, or (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jun-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | FTX (was Re: Mega Bloks)
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(...) (URL) fun with it-- Maggie C. (22 years ago, 8-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Currently it's just freestyle/vert skateboarding and big air/cross race/half-pipe snowboarding. No downhill skateboarding, no street luge, no BMX, no Motorcross, no inline skating, no wakeboarding...and I can't remember if there's anything (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) REALLY?!?!?! AHH TIGHT!!! Will they have skating??? If they do, I hope they get Takeshi Yasutoko and Eito Yasutoko!!! ROCK ON YASUTOKO'S!!! :) Skating rules and will for all eternity!!! DUN DUN DUN!!! (hee hee, I'm so happy!!!) No really (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Ah, but MB isn't being endorsed by Gravity Games, Bob Burnquist, or Ross Powers. LEGO is, and will be releasing skateboarding and snowboarding sets featuring minifigs of both Bob and Ross and lots of GG logos sometime later this month. (22 years ago, 8-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Mega Bloks
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(...) Snippola (...) (URL) (22 years ago, 8-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Mega Bloks
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(...) Yeah, like Xtreme Stunts -- Island Xtreme Stunts is NOT COOL!!! The MegaBloks one is WAY better. I just got four minifig packs of MegaBloks, (9171, 9172, 9173, and 9174) they are SOO cool. (plus it was $1 each instead of $3.25 each at KB Toys; (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Some Questions For TCLUG...
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(...) Hello Nathan, My name is Erik Knopp, I belong to TCLUG and will try to answer your questions. (...) I'm not sure about this, will have to look into it. (...) There is, (URL), we haven't made use of it, yet. We've been using a Yahoo list (URL) (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jun-03, to lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Why would set 10042 not be available in the United States?
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(...) My guess is that it will be introduced for July 4th in the US. Bert Waters (22 years ago, 8-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Some Questions For TCLUG...
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Hi all, After (URL) finding out> there is a LUG group near St. Cloud (TCLUG), I have a few questions: 1) When was TCLUG formed? 2) Why is there no newsgroup for TCLUG? 3) Can Members join for free? 4) How often do you meet? 5) Where do you meet? 6) (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jun-03, to lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Why would set 10042 not be available in the United States?
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Nope. Have a closer look. They're definitely 1/2 pins. Duq "Tom Stangl, VFAQman" <talonts@vfaq.com> wrote in message news:3EE16440.300DB8...faq.com... (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Why would set 10042 not be available in the United States?
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It doesn't look like haf-pins to me - it looks like it uses 2 1x4 blue technic bricks with white 1x1 round plates pressed into them. (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (22 years ago, 7-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Why would set 10042 not be available in the United States?
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(...) (URL) Ken (22 years ago, 7-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Why would set 10042 not be available in the United States?
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Had to look it up at Lugnet, 'cause overhere in the Netherlands it's not available.... The only reason I could see to get this would be the white technic half pins.... Duq "James J. Trobaugh" <james@ngltc.org> wrote in message (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Poll: Use of Images in Signatures
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(URL) it might be useful to have people vote to voice their opinions on the use of images in signature files on messages posted to LUGNET, now that this has become an option. The idea here is to gauge whether more LUGNET members like or are annoyed (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
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| | Re: Why would set 10042 not be available in the United States?
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(...) Good try, but its something you would never have guessed. An American flag. But don't worry, IIRC the stripes were just stacks of red and white (1 x n?) plates and the blue area seemed to be more plates with probably six headlight bricks to (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Why would set 10042 not be available in the United States?
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(...) So what is this set? All I see is an orange "this product not available in this country" banner, even when I change my shopping cart to another country. I'm guessing it's an NBA set. Frank (22 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Why would set 10042 not be available in the United States?
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"James J. Trobaugh" <james@ngltc.org> wrote in message news:HG0wo8.19os@lugnet.com... (...) Huw (22 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: New LEGO sets in this year.
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Maybe you can confirm if you saw some of these? (URL) Steinnes" <phoenix@online.no> wrote in message news:HFxt3J.8JA@lugnet.com... (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Why would set 10042 not be available in the United States?
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(...) LEGO interntional PR pulls off a corker again! I can see the whole of Europe rushing out to buy these to hang in streamers next time Dubya decides to demonstrate his international diplomatic skills to the UN... Jason R (22 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | NGLTC Discover Mills store "Club House"
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I am proud to announce that the North Georgia LEGO Train Club (NGLTC) will be getting their own store front at the Discover Mills Outlet mall (same mall as the LEGO Outlet store) just outside of Atlanta. The mall has agreed to give NGLTC an empty (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.ga, lugnet.loc.us.ga.atl, lugnet.general) !
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| | Re: A few things added to my website
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(...) Hi Anthony, Nice updates to your website. It was neat reading the About the Author section and I signed your guestbook. Good job with your epic! Josh (22 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Set number #10000 seen in shops in Norway
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I just wonder if it was in the shop all over the world and not in Norway only? Look at (URL) found it in a shop in Alta, Norway (149 NOK), have not seen it else yet. And it had a black&white box like the S@H only sets. There was no colors on the box (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Why would set 10042 not be available in the United States?
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I wonder why this set would be available in Europe but not the US: (URL) really a big loss I guess, I'm not that impressed with it to start with. jt (22 years ago, 5-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: New LEGO sets in this year.
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"Saskia van Doesburg" <info@doesdigitals.nl> wrote in message news:HFx5sE.1L14@lugnet.com... (...) there, (...) on (...) Well, since I didnt get the folder with me home I cant be to sure, but there was two designer sets that I dont have seen (...) (22 years ago, 4-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Thing that happen when you are on holiday...
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Hi all, When I got home today (from a well deserved vacation in beautiful France) I recieved a message to congratulate me with the Lugnet Cool Site of the Week. Wow! Thanks for all who voted. Jeroen (22 years ago, 5-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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| | A few things added to my website
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I added a few things to my website. I've updated things here and there, but the biggest additions (which they really aren't big) are a guestbook and an 'About the Author' page. Yes, now you can learn all the stuff you didn't want to know about me (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jun-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | 8448 All-Wheel Drive
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Not sure where I should post this, so I'm just sorta guessing here as to where to post. Whatever gets me an answer, I suppose. So here goes. Does anyone have a good, strong, and small (emphasize strong)(similar in size to the original) solution to (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jun-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.build, lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Sig help?
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Howdy, Fooling about with this sig business. Anyone know why this keeps getting squashed into a smaller square? Has there been governances put on the sig size? The original image is only H 95, W 209. Any ideas? (URL) Cheers & Thanks, -Gil (22 years ago, 4-Jun-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | LEGO® Company Asks: What Will You Make?
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--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 3, 2003-- LEGO® Company Asks: What Will You Make? LEGO MasterBuilders Launch Global Search for Building Apprentices; International Celebrities Rise to the Challenge. To commemorate the launch of unique new classic (...) (22 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.general) !!
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| | Re: New LEGO sets in this year.
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"Øyvind Steinnes" <phoenix@online.no> schreef in bericht news:HFx2zL.180r@lugnet.com... [snip] (...) Tell us! What was in the pictures?! Saskia (22 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | New LEGO sets in this year.
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I was in a toy-shop here in Tromsø, Norway today looking for new LEGO-sets. And I asked the lady behind the desk if there had arrived any new sets lately. I was actually looking for that 4094 set with that new motor. Then she did something that I (...) (22 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | New Castle, Space, and Town MOCs
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Hi all, Well I've finally got some time, my camera, and lego all in one place. So I've put some pictures of my creations (that have been sitting around for over a year) up on my website. Hopefully more will be coming soon. The main page is: (...) (22 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: My first (and probably only) poll
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(...) Interesting poll. I wonder what level of honesty is being used. I chose "try and pick up the pieces and reseal the box myself" as being the closest to what I would do. I wouldn't actually try to reseal the box, but if there is an open box and (...) (22 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | My first (and probably only) poll
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I felt like killing time and writing a poll. After all, I'd never done one before. I have had this situation happen to me before on several occassions, so I figured it must happen to other people, and it might make for a good poll. (URL) If you find (...) (22 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | RSC Rebirth: Rounded Slope Compendium
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(2 URLs) When I started the RSC for the mech-heads back in early 2002, it was with the intent that we'd have a growing resource for all the beautiful slopes, wedges, and canopies that LEGO has released recently. It was a nice intent, but without (...) (22 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Submitting instruction scans to Brickshelf
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How do I submit instructions these days? There's no upload link (or I just can't find it). Recently (22/5) I've uploaded scans of an old set (276) and put them in my own folder. That folder is still not available (after two weeks), but the scans (...) (22 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Pictures from VLC Surrey Museum Show
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(URL) Our first show for 2003. It is a layout of Vancouver at the turn of the century to about 1930's. Details to follow if anyone has questions or comments. (22 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.ca) !!
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| | Re: Matrix stuff
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(...) ayup (...) It can also be seen here: (URL) But in the this second film there was something else that intrested me; (...) Yeah, I saw that. If you stick around to the end of the movie's credits, they show a trailer for the third movie, and (...) (22 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Matrix stuff
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Øyvind Steinnes's utterance expressed in news:HFtGKC.nxq@lugnet.com: (...) two times :) (...) and that is one cool MOC! (...) yes - it looked a bit like the loader from aliens - just bigger and equipped with huuuge guns...yippiieee (...) ...in real (...) (22 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Matrix stuff
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Hello fellow Matrix-fans. Has anybody seen the Matrix - Reloaded movie (stupid question, I know...) ? From the first film and from this second this ship could be seen (Nebuchadnezzar Hovership) (URL) by Arian Drake) But in the this second film there (...) (22 years ago, 1-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | uploading to brickshelf
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dunno if this is the right group to post in but here goes I have uploaded images to brickshelf in the past but not for a year or so I am trying to add another .jpg image to an existing folder but get the error You must assign content tags to this (...) (22 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Glory, glory! (reviews of various sets)
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UPDATE: Here's a pic of me with my new sets: (2 URLs) "Breath deep, seek peace, fly high." -- from the book Dinotopia (22 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Check out this poster !
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Well, Yaron Dori has done it again. With a beautiful poster that may someday be ranked by the visitors as one of the best of the bunch, "Le Pacte des Loups" is a very nice piece of work, simple, yet accurate and true to the original. You can see and (...) (22 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.fun, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general) !
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| | Re: Daniel Siskind's Blacksmith Shop rated best official LEGO set of all time!
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(...) I was one of the many who bought the set and rated it 100. Let this be a CLEAR message to the Lego company that WE WANT MORE MOCs as official sets!! Stephane S. (22 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | A general question to the masses: looking for a picture
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Hi, all. So far as I'm aware, virtually every new piece from the 2003 lineup has appeared in photograph form except one: 44224 + 44225 (part designation), the leg hinge on the AT-TE and the AT-AT. I have no idea what these look like, nor how they (...) (22 years ago, 1-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Daniel Siskind's Blacksmith Shop rated best official LEGO set of all time!
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Daniel Siskind's "Blacksmith Shop" (official LEGO set #3739) (URL) the highest-rated LEGO set of all time, as ranked by LUGNET members: (URL) (22 years ago, 1-Jun-03, to lugnet.general) !
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| | Re: BZP hits 7,000th member-Lugnet is lagging behind.
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the main thing i was saying was that i dont post to much here anymore because i have to go to my hotmail to get it to work. i wasnt saying that BZP is struggling with Lugnet or anything like that. i just would like to be able to post and be done (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: BZP hits 7,000th member-Lugnet is lagging behind.
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What a collosal waste of time (which I will now add to). First, let me say that I wasn't around for the first bioncle vs. brick brawl, and I admit to being agitated by the subject line of this post. "Lugnet is lagging behind" My website gets more (...) (22 years ago, 1-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Guess who finally won a place in the Minifig Hall of Fame?
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It's only the second time that Blacktron 1 doesn't finish 2nd and this time, it's for the victorious spot. Blacktron 1 finally escapes the title of "forever second" and takes a deserving stance in the Minifig Hall of Fame. It will be very (...) (22 years ago, 1-Jun-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.fun, lugnet.announce, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: BZP hits 7,000th member-Lugnet is lagging behind.
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(...) But why? The original post had nothing to do with what you replied to. You just took his post as an invite to bonk BZP on the head. And for what? Was it really to "help defuse another Brick Vs. Bionicle argument before it could happen"? I (...) (22 years ago, 1-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: New Accessories
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(...) (URL) Wickedly-awesome color choice! The medium dark-gray seems to have a shimmer to it! (or maybe It’s just the excitement making my eyes go blurry) ;) I never thought the weapons would look so natural in relation to the Minifig. I mean, I've (...) (22 years ago, 31-May-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.castle.org.cw, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | Re: BZP hits 7,000th member-Lugnet is lagging behind.
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(...) Most people are likely to leave their e-mail password always-on, so they don't have to bother with it whenever they want to check for new messages. If you have access to the computer, you probably have access to the e-mail as well. The only (...) (22 years ago, 31-May-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: BZP hits 7,000th member-Lugnet is lagging behind.
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(...) I'm sorry you feel that way, but it was not the intent. My intent was primarily to point out that this was an apples/oranges comparison, and also to help defuse another Brick Vs. Bionicle argument before it could happen. I figured if people (...) (22 years ago, 31-May-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | lego component stereo
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(URL) (22 years ago, 31-May-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: The way we were: January, 1994
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(...) i see the mandroid mentioned in lou's sig....that brings back lots of memories! wasn't mandroid the guy that also went by the name cerberus? i remember what a jerk he was. also found my own first/test post: (URL) for the trip down memory (...) (22 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Legoshow in Finland
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Hi fellow AFOLs! I have know of this for some time, but just now I got the link to the show. (URL) is basically an exhibition; I intend to take the 3 hours to get there during the summer. I'll take pictures and post them by then. Note: I post the (...) (22 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.fun)
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| | Re: Master Lego Builder Dies
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(...) I am sorry and touched by the story of Conner. My heart goes out to his family. May all the young fighters in this life be graced with both Lego® and such devoted family and friends! With prayer, -Hendo (22 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Master Lego Builder Dies
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Thank you LEGO. May 28, 2003 In short life, boy rose to challenges BY LAUREN SHEPHERD TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER David Copeland says his son's days of building Lego creations aren't over. But the plastic "Star Wars" figures and model cars his son (...) (22 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Foobar
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(...) To make you happy again, I can inform you that in Outlook Express equipped with OE-Quotefix (a 3:rd party add-on), you were a "...rainbow maN", although QuoteFix seems to cycle around only seven colors... -- Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (...) (22 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.test, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: BZP hits 7,000th member-Lugnet is lagging behind.
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(...) Some might like to view it as a friendly competition, but that's as far as I think it should go. I think we should be more oriented towards sharing resources in the community than trying to beat each other out for who's best, biggest, etc. I (...) (22 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: BZP hits 7,000th member-Lugnet is lagging behind.
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(...) Indeed. (...) Plus, Todd and Suz are working on improving this system. Additionally, I point out that we cannot really compare these two forums based on number of members anyway. The two of them cater to different audiences and do not (...) (22 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: BZP hits 7,000th member-Lugnet is lagging behind.
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(...) Don't forget to look at the title of this thread... "BZP hits 7,000th member-Lugnet is lagging behind." Which indicates a sort of compitition. I know that the topic of Lugnet member posts is a very old, beat up topic, but I guess we might as (...) (22 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Foobar
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O.k. (...) Very fun! Thanks for testing the idea, this is what i wanted to do since i thought it was possible! It appears to cycle every ten (10) arrrows '>'. Such Fun!!! --==Richard==-- (...) Heyyyyyy...it stoped... :( There goes my fun. ;) IT (...) (22 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.test, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: BZP hits 7,000th member-Lugnet is lagging behind.
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(...) -snip- (...) So what? Sorry Dave, you are just coming off as bitter here. BZP is a great place to hang out. And yes, it _is_ one of, if not the most popular Lego site out there - and yes even more popular than.... Mask Of Destiny (gasp!). (...) (22 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Bricksmeat 2003 - or how not to transport large MOCs!
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(...) Yes, I think part of the problem was the MOCs themselves. Both were facades and the white one in particular was pretty flimsy (especially in the open retail shopping area at the bottom of the building), so I wasn't totally surprised to find (...) (22 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Bricksmeat 2003 - or how not to transport large MOCs!
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(...) Yes, this is what I am intending to do on my next attempt as I suspect shock absorption was probably to blame. Just for the record, I did successfully rebuild both MOCs (apart from 2 2x2 white bricks left over, oh well ...) so they will be on (...) (22 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: BZP hits 7,000th member-Lugnet is lagging behind.
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(...) And during giveaways? How sure are you that noone has an extra chance or two in the lottery draws? (...) How many? It hardly seems fair to rank the popularity of your forum based on people who haven't even participated in it. (...) But the (...) (22 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) David, Well thanks for checking on this. I realized after the last post that our comments probably should only go to .general and not to the LEGO Company page...sorry Todd. Hasbro must think of themselves as awfully sneaky if they thought (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Sorry for replyin' to myself, but I ment to put this in .general and .market.auction FUT to .space unless you folk see it needs to go somewhere else. Admiral Giddens <>< (URL) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.auction, FTX)
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I guess it was April 1996 when I joined in by offering this little tidbit: (URL) thought my comments here were interesting (and still true): (URL) as I can tell, this was my first Roll Call post: (URL) find it curious that most of my personal (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I wonder how many of us can say that clone bricks dragged us into online AFOLdom? See, my first post was about clonedom too. I beat you by 19 months, but I was talking about TENTE, so I think the obscurity/time comparators are about equal. :) (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.general)
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Interesting to dig around there. My first posting (though I'd been reading since the dying days of atl): (URL) It is especially embarassing because, as luck would have it, my first LEGO-related posts were about a clone brand. (TENTE) Yeah, yeah, (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Here's my first: (URL) never saw the replies the first tim around... Here's my second, about 6 months later: (URL) Six months after the second post, I was finally reading the group regularly, so I filled in my first roll call: (URL) bet my mom (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Here's me as a newcomer: (URL) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Ouch. Sorry to hear this my friend. Although we all understand that Real Life must take precedence over this hobby sometimes. We certainly hope you don't slip into a full-fledged or long-lasting dark age. ...I will keep your ships and sectors (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship, lugnet.general)
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(...) I found this RollCall from me back in January of 1996 (URL) pretty lame looking back at it...LOL jt (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: *NEW* LEGO brick-ish Transformers by Hasbro -- What's the deal?
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(...) Okay, here's what I've got after chatting with my boss about it. What he distinctly remembers is that about five years ago, Hasbro was actually set up to purchase Little Tykes, but the FTC nixed that because Hasbro already has a very similar (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)
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(...) Heh. Here's the earliest one I could find from me: (URL) was a lack-of-anything-better handle before I felt like committing my name to public consumption. Goofy. Anyway, I'm glad to see that I've been consistent in my pro-clone views all these (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: The way we were: January, 1994
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(...) too bad though. -Tim (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.general)
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"Frank Filz" <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:3ED3A29F.D6191A...ing.com... <snipped> (...) I decided to go ahead and do some goofing though google and look up some "old timers", but only on RTL. I also kept the span between Jan 1, 1996 (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: *NEW* LEGO brick-ish Transformers by Hasbro: BTR line
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(...) Hi Andrew: I've been casually following the BTR product line for GI Joe, but I've found annoyingly little information online except for a few pictures, and none of my local retailers seem to know anything about them. I suppose this is a Hasbro (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)
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| | Let’s see what this puppy can handle !
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Let’s see what this puppy can handle ! Move Out ======= On the double What’s the diff’ between boldface and secondary header Normal Italicksss Computer Wordzzzzz </fibblesnork/lego/g...sic-5.html </fibblesnork/lego/g...jpeg>>1984 +good [LEGOSet (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.test, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: BZP hits 7,000th member-Lugnet is lagging behind.
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(...) All of those were found and deleted. Cheating and bribery taking place during MOC contests are treated very seriously at BZP. (...) Banned accounts are not added to the membership total. We have just over 200 banned members. The price of (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: BZP hits 7,000th member-Lugnet is lagging behind.
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(...) I've often wondered how representative the quoted membership numbers are. I remember hearing about instances of people signing up for multiple accounts so they could stuff the ballot boxes during prize-awarding MOC contests. There might also (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.general)
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i couldnt believe it. go to www.BZPower.com . they have 7,000 members making them the most popular lego-based site on the internet. its crazy! I was thinking that Lugnet should make a few changes which would improve posting and membership. The first (...) (22 years ago, 26-May-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Humor update @ www.rotule.qc.ca
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Hello everybody, Some of you have probably noticed that recently, our website wasn't updated as usual. Indeed, we have updated the Humor! section for the first time in 3-4 weeks. But we had good reasons not to do so, our search of a new place in (...) (22 years ago, 27-May-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.fun) !
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Sup all, Don't know how much this affects anybody, but because of a lot of stuff I have to do now I have nearly no time for lego. I hope it won't become a dark ages but I prolly wont be around much anymore, if you could say I was in the first place. (...) (22 years ago, 27-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: The way we were: January, 1994
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(...) Google. Here's what would appear to be my first Usenet post: (URL) possible there could be an earlier post that I didn't sign my name to but still used this account. Hm poking around at a few other names, I see Lar++ used to run a BBS (and I'm (...) (22 years ago, 27-May-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Bricksmeat 2003 - or how not to transport large MOCs!
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(...) It's hard to tell for sure of course, but looking at those MOCs I'm not too surprised they took a lot of damage. I have successefully transported MOCs in my checked baggage but they have all really been very strong MOCs. My wharf section for (...) (22 years ago, 27-May-03, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Metal LEGO Brick
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(...) Thanks for your comment. I really think it is, I'll try to send picture of it soon. Yaron "Webrian" Dori (22 years ago, 27-May-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Metal LEGO Brick
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(...) Hi Dave Thanks for your comment, but I really think the one I've got is a real TLC. On the round circles of the top it's written the word "LEGO" like the other LEGO bricks Yaron "Webrain" Dori (22 years ago, 27-May-03, to lugnet.general)
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