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"Suzanne D. Rich" <suz@baseplate.com> wrote in message news:G54HvL.382@lugnet.com... (...) So that's what having your mind blown feels like. The possibilities become endless. The quest for the holy grail is at an end. I'm sitting here trying to get (...) (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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"Ben Roller" <broller@mail.clemson.edu> wrote in message news:G54pu9.KEz@lugnet.com... (...) 1955 (...) make (...) Perhaps Kevin's site will somehow be involved. (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Jonathan Wilson wrote in message <3A2DBF9B.B4FBF12F@t...com.au>... (...) Look here: (URL) and you'll see this: "The LEGO Shop at Home, the largest LEGO store in the world, offers consumers from Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, (...) (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) www.brickshelf.com. It seems like LEGO (if they do it right) is going to make those scans obsolete. I'd like to hear from Kevin on this issue. Ben Roller (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Definatly cool! Of course there is bucklies chance of this coming down under for the forseeable future. (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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What you said, Baby! I wondered upon these issues almost immediately. Are they reinventing the wheel, or reusing the wheel that has already been made? -- Richard (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Oh. My. I just can't help but feel that everything is about to change WAY to quickly for any of us to keep up. OK, I have to much to write, and to little time to write it (or type-who cares). Don't you guys realize what this means for all of (...) (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Well, as exciting as this is (and it's a HUGE step in the right direction -- one can see that at last TLC is starting to "get it"), one has to wonder at the limitations. I presume that the software/sets will be limited by brick type and color (...) (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Hmm, that is odd. It looks like the list came from the dates page listing[1], which lists train clubs as well as general local user groups. Well, on that page I just added a graphic and a link to the world LUG Map, which includes the new (...) (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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"Nathan Falslev" <nfalslev@netscape.net> wrote in message news:G54o7E.GuF@lugnet.com... (...) creation (...) How about the part where it states that all instructions to sets from 1955 onward will be available online? Second paragraph on this page: (...) (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Quoting from the article: "...builders will be able to build any three dimensional creation using free software to create building instructions for their model - and then order the appropriate number and type of bricks" -- Torben Ballegaard Sørensen (...) (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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This is the part that gets me excited! "In 2002 LEGO builders will be able to build any three dimensional creation using free software to create building instructions for their model - and then order the appropriate number and type of bricks." (...) (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Hey Robin,You are right about helping LTCs,Brad has offered help(plates etc.)for our train show next month.He said they are have helped train shows in the past(PNTLC and others)and will increase this help in 2001. (...) (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Hooray! Hmmm, LEGO is using Quicktime for their video. Hopefully they aren't going to leave us Mac users out in the cold when the Design-your-own software comes out. Still, I stand and applaud their support of... US! Yahoo! ~Mark "Muffin Head" (...) (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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This is great news, it look like people are getting recognize by the LEGO Company. There is a new hope for AFOL in the future... Maybe more support for LUGs, LTCs, group events and conventions? Who knows, time will tell? Robin Werner Greater Florida (...) (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Hmmm,hey Tom does this mean we can design and order sets with garage doors?Or sets with dare i say MONORAIL! (...) (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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"richard marchetti" <blueofnoon@aol.com> wrote in message news:G54K0r.7vy@lugnet.com... (...) truly (...) anything (...) you (...) It is described on this page: (URL) is pretty amazing IMHO. Mike - mike_walsh@mindspring.com (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) In the year 2002 the LEGO Renaissance will be upon us… The possibilities will be endless! (Unless quantity, size, color or piece availability restrictions occur.) I do believe that this concept has been proposed in the past, but it appears as (...) (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Read down the left side of: (URL) just above Eric's arm. :) Ben Roller (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I nearly missed it myself! Go back to (URL) scroll down. There should be 3 "blocks" of text, in orange, green, and purple. Click on the orange block "Online LEGO users design their own sets" and you'll find the relevant text on that page. This (...) (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Where precisely did you see this? I tried to scan around through various links from the main links that began this thread, but did not find anything along the lines of the above comment. Plus, what can I say, a lot of the content at those (...) (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Cool. (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Plus they have links to quite a few LUG's (but no LTC's?). (URL) to start designing some sets. Eric Kingsley The New England LEGO Users Group (URL) (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Wow, very cool indeed! Nice write up on Eric, Henry, Todd and Suz. Glad to see you guys get the recognition that you justly deserve. jt -- James J. Trobaugh North Georgia LEGO Train Club (URL) (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Let me be the first to say HOLY (expletive deleted for your protection) The ability to buy any piece in any quantity in perhaps any color is truly mindbendingly awesome. 2002 won't get here soon enough. Wow. Adrian -- www.brickfrenzy.com (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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There's a new TLC press release at: (URL) the good stuff: (URL) (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.org, lugnet.robotics) !!
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(...) I hope youre right. I would like to see more kind of points, and a return to the first 9v train models (and some 12V models where great too !). I hate those new models (4560/4561 & 4559). I bought some for the pieces but i don't build them. (...) (24 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Being a vegetarian, I would not want TLC associated with leather jacket making. I feel guilty enough about really liking the McDonald's sets, the Shell Oil promotional sets, and for that matter...the ABS itself :) How about a hemp jacket? ;) (...) (24 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Mark Sandlin wrote in message ... (...) Space (...) Nice idea, but.... I'd rather have a LEGO patch to put on my existing jacket. I have an emotional investment in the leather jacket I already have! Kevin (24 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Yes, yes, YES, YES, YES!!!!! Oh man, I would LOVE to see a nice black leather jacket with a Classic Space logo on the back! Please make it a nice, trendy straight-cut style. No elastic waist, please! MmmMMmMMmmm... leather jacket. ~Mark (...) (24 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Wow! This is a long thread! Guess that means there's some interest, huh? Pardon me if some of this stuff has been suggested already. I'd like to see the following: Classic Space t-shirts exactly like the ones Mark made. They were super cool! Two (...) (24 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Perhaps this is a good place for LEGO Direct to step in and clear up a mystery with some rather harmless inside info? I can't see why these were included being a trade secret. eric (24 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) That's probably a good idea. That way it allows for some group discussion (some good, some bad) about what's going on with the design ideas. (...) Wow, I don't think I've seen those shirt pages before. But yeah, that's exactly the idea I had (...) (24 years ago, 3-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I was able to get Mosaic to work through a proxy server, but it took literally 5-10 minutes between each step. I decided it wasn't worth the wait. :( James (24 years ago, 2-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Dear Lego... Any chance of taking advantage of the year 2002, "Ice Planet 2002" rereleased? Or even just making available Ice Planet parts in some (sub)theme? Cool white and transparent orange pieces perchance? [F-ups set to (...) (24 years ago, 2-Dec-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.year.2002, lugnet.space, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) OK - The problem is/was the firewall/proxy server. I connected my computer "directly" to the Internet and after several tries, I was finally able to use Mosaic. It doesn't like the proxy server. SRC StRuCtures (Brother can you spare a thousand (...) (24 years ago, 2-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Hmmm, I spend a lot of my time in T-Shirts because I spend a lot of time at work (actually, these days, I almost never wear anything but T-Shirts [well, pants, socks, underwear, and shoes also...) FUT: lugnet.off-topic.fun Frank (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) A shirt duplicating one of the train torsos would be ever so cool! Frank (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Yes! A MindStorms shirt would be cool as well, even if it just had the programmable brick amidst the "MINDSTORMS" storm background that is used on the RIS box. -Peter (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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