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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 (...) (17 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 (...) (17 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 (...) (17 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 (...) (17 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 (...) (17 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 (...) (17 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 (...) (17 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 (...) (17 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 (...) (17 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. (...) (17 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 & (...) (17 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 (...) (17 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 (...) (17 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 (...) (17 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 (...) (17 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 (...) (17 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 (...) (17 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 (...) (17 years ago, 4-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Different quality of pictures between different browsers in Brickshelf
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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.... (17 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 (17 years ago, 4-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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