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I recently made a trip to the pick-a-brick at the Orlando LEGO Imagination Center and spent time stacking bricks to fit inside the large cup. After I returned home and counted my booty (1071.67 cubic bricks) I decided to investigate what the (...) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping) !
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| | Re: How bricks comes to be...
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That is so cool. I'd never seen it before. In Legoland California (and presumably other Legolands?) there is a display that shows how things are made including some working machines and a miniland-scale mock-up of a factory: (URL) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | How bricks comes to be...
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I found this wouderfull litle pice about how LEGO-bricks are made and I just have to share it. Apperently bricks aren't scraped of magic trees by tiny danish elves... I'm shocked. (URL) Sorry if this has been posted before, I did try to make a (...) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.se) !
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| | String question
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Hi all, What are the materials for LEGO string? I think the thinner string is cotton, but the larger one seems synthetic... is it? Is there any published reference on this matter? I need to replace some old string and I'd like to use the closest (...) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: New C-C Article: Minifig Torso Designs and Stickers
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Very nice article and very nice torsos. I noticed that you did not mention the use of self adhesive labels. I know a lot of folks print directly to these labels and then just cut-and-peel them off and stick them on. You can even get the labels in (...) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Interesting question...
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(...) Hello Jonathan, If I may be so bold as to attempt to answer some of your questions... (...) Technically, the custom parts are not Lego so far as they are not made by The Lego Group A purist uses 100% Lego in their MOC's...with no exceptions (...) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)
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Now that we are seing more "custom" parts being made (for example the Starwars weapons, the Castle accessories and the Train wheels), it raises an important question... are these "Lego"? For example, if I use them, am I no-longer a purist? Does (...) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains, lugnet.castle, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New C-C Article: Minifig Torso Designs and Stickers
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(...) Wow!...Wow! Wicked great job & excellent service to the Lego community! Jeff (22 years ago, 10-Nov-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: THANK YOU!!!...!!!
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(...) Maybe you need a script to watch the script (that watches the script. :-) ) (22 years ago, 10-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: THANK YOU!!!...!!!
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(...) Me too... I'm not 100% sure what happened, but basically the auto-restart script that monitors the NNTP server failed to restart it correctly after it fell down for some reason. I killed a hung process this morning and it restarted fine. Very (...) (22 years ago, 10-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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