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Brisbane Lego Train Group I’ve been asked by the members of the Brisbane Lego Train Group to make regular reports on our activities on Lugnet, as was done previously, many years ago. So in response I submit the following report. On Sunday 18th May, (...) (17 years ago, 19-May-08, to lugnet.loc.au.qld.bri, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LEGO Magnet and coupler statement.
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(...) Kerry, I remember you telling me the magnets were not that succesful in holding the Natasha together, so I would probably think that in future a different method would be used if a magnet was considered in any new creation. As has been (...) (17 years ago, 18-May-08, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Scotfest 7th June
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Saturday 7th June 10:00am to 5:00pm The Aberdour Boat Club, Aberdour, Fife, Scotland. Aberdour is just over the Forth Bridge from Edinburgh. By air, there is now a bus to Edinburgh Airport. By car, the Forth Bridge Toll has just been abolished and (...) (17 years ago, 18-May-08, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: LEGO Magnet and coupler statement.
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(...) i imagine those parts will be redesigned as well. imagine a 2x2 plate with a two plate high cylinder on top. i imagine it will look something like that if they do infact redesign it. on another mildly related note, the redesigned buffers may (...) (17 years ago, 18-May-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: LEGO Magnet and coupler statement.
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The Natasha ... ah that brings back memories ... The magnet holders in the Natasha are small pieces: (URL) are the ones used in the current trains: (URL) with the trains the magnets were always part of the buffer assembly, so coming up with a (...) (17 years ago, 17-May-08, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: LEGO Magnet and coupler statement.
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I think the crux of this notice is the 'magnets in small parts'. So they will keep selling magnets, but the piece that contains the magnet must be above a certain size (standard non-swallowing size, presumably). How small are the magnet-holding (...) (17 years ago, 17-May-08, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Taj Mahal for an Aussie movie
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Take a look at the Taj Mahal MOC being built for filming an Australian movie: (URL) hope some of us can get to meet Arthur when he's in Oz for the movie making. Kerry Proudly a member of LUGnet & Brisbane Lego Train Group (BLTG) (17 years ago, 17-May-08, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) magnets. Does that imply that TLG will stop using magnets in other sets? Or will the new train magnets be used more widely. I am thinking of sets like the UCS Imperial Star Destroyer etc that make extensive use of magnets. Kerry Proudly a (...) (17 years ago, 17-May-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Sales information up for coming week
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Hello all, Just a quick post to say that those using the web interface will now know about the upcoming sales. I would post them here, but if I did that, then what's the use of having the sidebar? (Besides which, if someone else posts them here, (...) (17 years ago, 13-May-08, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Kit Review Time Again ( has to break the monotony)
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(...) I can't recall this kit comming with sensors. Should i report this to Lego Support ? (...) I built a few for a demolition derby (URL) (...) I made a few mods to mine though to increase the top speed for drag races. I took out the 12:20 drive (...) (17 years ago, 12-May-08, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| | Re: BLCRBA - First Meeting
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(...) It would, but they tend to disband as quickly as they form. I only hope to have a (URL) LEGOmatrix> as impressive as your's one day ;) (...) On behalf of the membership (if I may be so bold - we have yet to elect a president(1)), thanks. (...) (17 years ago, 11-May-08, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: BLCRBA - First Meeting
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(...) The Cave Racer phenomenon continues! The proliferation of new LEGO organisations in the Brisbane area is quite remarkable. I hope the cross membership of the various organisations facilitates communication and cooperation between the various (...) (17 years ago, 11-May-08, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: BLCRBA - First Meeting
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(...) It was a great night and I feel very lazy for only taking an adjudicating role but I guess it takes all sorts to build community. Tim (17 years ago, 11-May-08, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: New Curator Ben W
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(...) Ahh. I read lugnet.loc.au via NNTP so of course I never see the sidebar. It all becomes clear ... Kerry (17 years ago, 11-May-08, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: New Curator Ben W
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(...) Hello Kerry, An interesting question...The main area in which curators work is in maintaining and updating the sidebar in the forum. One of the main reasons I applied for this position is that for the past few years, areas like the listing of (...) (17 years ago, 11-May-08, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | BLCRBA - First Meeting
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The Brisbane Lego Cave Racer Building Association held it's inaugural meeting last week. After much beer and smack talkin', we somehow managed to spend a few minutes in the building room. These were the result. First, Aaron's anime-ish (...) (17 years ago, 11-May-08, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.space, FTX) !
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| | Re: New Curator Ben W
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(...) Sorry to appear deeply ignorant but what exactly does the curator (or co-curator) do? Apart from remove the letter t from your name? :-) Kerry (17 years ago, 10-May-08, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | New Curator Ben W
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Please join me in welcoming our latest .loc.au co-curator - Ben Whycross. Hopefully he'll be able to keep those sale dates more current :) ROSCO (LEGO ambassador and .loc.au co-curator) (17 years ago, 10-May-08, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Australian Ambassadors - nominations/voting
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(...) Out of interest who are the 'right people'? (...) If you read the words carefully you'd notice that this isn't a formal nomination. (...) I have a suspicion the other sites think it's all rather amusing if they think anything of it at all. I (...) (17 years ago, 9-May-08, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Australian Ambassadors - nominations/voting
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--snip-- (...) --snip-- (...) The 'up to 3 people' part of the rules is why I started this thread. I hoped to insure that there would be three candidates who could act on Australia-specific issues were they selected. Tim (17 years ago, 9-May-08, to lugnet.loc.au)
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