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(...) Hi Shirley, We were glad you could come out and let us know you were in Ottawa. Sorry the picture didn't turn out great. Must have caught you in mid-sentence. We were talking and agreed that we should be posting more to LUGNET, rather than (...) (21 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Kev from Australia
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(...) Kevin, Simcoe is just a short drive from where I am - Brantford. Simcoe is a nice little town in the heart of tobacco country. Brantford isn't too bad either. Lots of growth here due to cheap commercial and residential land. Plus, when you do (...) (21 years ago, 20-Oct-03, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: ParLUGment at Railfair 26, Ottawa, Canada
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Hi Tim, Kevin and everyone else! The Lego display this weekend was awesome! I got so many great ideas from viewing it. I'm seriously considering buying the ISD just so I can get the transblue radar dishes to make fountains like in the park that was (...) (21 years ago, 20-Oct-03, to lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.trains)
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| | ParLUGment at Railfair 26, Ottawa, Canada
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ParLUGment just had our first showing here in Ottawa, and everybody loved it. The word "LEGO" was on the lips of both young and old at the Train Show. Everybody was coming back again and again. It was such a joy to see. The layout was the most (...) (21 years ago, 20-Oct-03, to lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town) !
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| | Re: Kev from Australia
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(...) Isn't this gonna be _GREAT_ Ben!!! (We can finally hold a Brick Warz game @ my house now) Kevin may be the inciting force to great things in the Castle development area here. I'm really happy about this. till then, --==Richard==-- (21 years ago, 18-Oct-03, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: Kev from Australia
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(...) WOW... what a response... I am so looking forward to moving to Canada.... I dont know exactly where I will be living... depends on work... but I will be staying with my best friend when I get there... she lives in Simcoe...south Ontario. And (...) (21 years ago, 17-Oct-03, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: Kev from Australia
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(...) UK's loss is Canada's gain!! :) That would be awesome, another castle-head in Southern Ontario. It would mean at least 4 of us in the area... you, Richard, Eric DeGuili, and myself (...) Yup. I agree. having someone else from castle at the (...) (21 years ago, 18-Oct-03, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Looking 4 Castle Accessories!
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Hi y'all, I was hoping you could help me. I'm looking for: 15 black Bat Lord helmets (minifig helmet with bat wings) (URL) to pay no more than 50 cents each) & 4 white horses (no more than $1.00 a piece) Even if you don’t have these quantities, I'd (...) (21 years ago, 17-Oct-03, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.loc.ca.on.tor, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Kev from Australia
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(...) That would be wicked!!! Your post should be in the announce section because it's so fantastic. ;-) We certainly need more Castle guys around here. Do you have an idea of about where you'll be residing? (Down near the border in Hamilton, In the (...) (21 years ago, 17-Oct-03, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Kev from Australia
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Hiya all... havent posted here for a while.... I am currently living in the UK.. have been for the past year.... but am moving to Canada start of next year.... So hopefully I will be able to meet up with some people again when I move there.... will (...) (21 years ago, 11-Oct-03, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Assorted LEGO sales in Canada
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Greetings, Some assorted LEGO sales in Canada. Sears has LEGO 20% off this week. Zellers has a BOGOHO sale from the 18th to 24th. Kaboodles ( (URL) ) in Vancouver and Victoria has 25% off everything in the store. Kaboodles is a small independant toy (...) (21 years ago, 15-Oct-03, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | NovaLUG display in Truro, NS, Oct 18th
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Hey folks, NovaLUG is proud to announce our fourth public event. We will be participating in the Model train show in (URL) on October the 18th from 9am to 4pm. For this occasion, we decided to work with all new creations of our favorite train and (...) (21 years ago, 14-Oct-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.ns, lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.novalug, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | ParLUGment to Display at Railfair 26, Ottawa, Canada
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Hello, The Ottawa LEGO club ParLUGment is pleased to announce our first local showing in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. On October 18th and 19th, we will be displaying a 16' x 9' LEGO Train layout at Railfair 26. The show is at Algonquin College near (...) (21 years ago, 13-Oct-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment) !
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| | Re: The Southern Alberta Lego User Group
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(...) I just thought I would add to this we have decided to have regular meetings on every second monday of the month so if anyone in Calgary wants to join our little group feel free to contact us. Bartek (21 years ago, 9-Oct-03, to lugnet.org.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.ab.cal)
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| | Re: Toys R Us deals this week (Oct 4th - 10th)
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(...) hey.... the $30 Scary Lab was at Walmart not at Toys R US. Just thought I'd point that out. But yeah, an additional $5 is great. I agree that there is some neat stuff with that set. Ben (21 years ago, 4-Oct-03, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: Toys R Us deals this week (Oct 4th - 10th)
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(...) WoW!!! Thanks so much for posting this Ben! I too saw this set at Winners and was going to buy it because I thought it was a good price...but now, @ Toys 'R' Us with a price that's $5 less! I’m totally getting this set...Can't wait to have my (...) (21 years ago, 4-Oct-03, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: Toys R Us deals this week (Oct 4th - 10th)
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(...) Thanks for posting this. I think the Sears sale is still on, IIRC. Also, I have seen Walmart with some Clearance stuff... Alpha Team Command Patrol (URL) $30 USD, on sale for $15 CDN Ogel Underwater Base and AT Sub (URL) $50 USD, on sale for (...) (21 years ago, 3-Oct-03, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Toys R Us deals this week (Oct 4th - 10th)
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I just saw this weeks TRU Flyer, and thought I would post the deals: 20% off of: NHL Hockey sets Racers sets X-treem Sports sets 3420 Championship Challange (Soccer) and the Stopwith Camel is $39.99 While supplies last. Enjoy. Jeff VW (21 years ago, 3-Oct-03, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Nearly last call for Hobby Show participants
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As many of you already know, The Hobby Show in Toronto is fast approaching. The dates are November 7, 8 & 9 / 2003. This is the first full weekend (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) in November. The LEGO builders booth that I have been organizing is (...) (21 years ago, 26-Sep-03, to lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Sale @ Sears
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I was just at my local Sears store in Kitchener and saw that they have a sale of 28% off all regular priced Lego. I was told the sale is on well into October. I couldn't pass on the opportunity to get the designer set #4404 Land Busters for about (...) (21 years ago, 25-Sep-03, to lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Star Wars items @ Winners
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During a quick trip to the mall (Ch'town, PEI) I noticed several of the pens (Darth Vader, Jango, Clonetrooper) and the big Yoda set. I might get a pen ($6 or 7) but Yoda isn't on my wish list (still almost $60). Hopefully selection will improve as (...) (21 years ago, 18-Sep-03, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | The 2003 Great Edmonton Model Train Show
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This Weekend! Edmonton, Alberta, Canada The Mainline Model Railroaders Fellowship is holding their annual train show this very weekend, September 20-21 2003. If you're in the neighbourhood, please drop by and check it out! It's located at the (...) (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug, lugnet.loc.ca.ab, lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains) !
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| | Big Comfy Couth(tm) tour in town 17th and 18th
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Greetings, Just wanted to remind people that the Big Comfy Couch(tm) tour, with LEGO as a guest, will be at Penhorn Mall in Dartmouth on Wednesday September 17th and Thurday the 18th. BCC shows are at 2 and 5:50 both days (1/2 hour show). It will be (...) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.novalug, lugnet.loc.ca.ns, lugnet.loc.ca.ns.hal)
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| | Re: Hailfire/New MINI's in Canada?
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(...) Well, they *are* a discount retailer... Can't expect them to necessarily carry the big ticket items. Although, that being said, the Zeller's in my part ofthe work carry the expensive sets. (UCS Yoda, Hogwarts Castle, Chamber of Secrets). I've (...) (21 years ago, 11-Sep-03, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: Hailfire/New MINI's in Canada?
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(...) Zellers just plain SUCK when it comes to Lego. Even more so since MegaSuk appeared. I have yet to see even ONE Zellers carry a large set ($100 or higher) of ANY Lego theme. (21 years ago, 11-Sep-03, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: Hailfire/New MINI's in Canada?
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Well, after finally finding the Hailfire Drois at TRU in Yonge St in downtown TO, I called S@H and added teh MINI's to my outstanding order for 4502 and 10123. Yes, this can be done. I ordered 10123 when it was available, then called and added 4502 (...) (21 years ago, 11-Sep-03, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: Hailfire/New MINI's in Canada?
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(...) Yup. Pretty much the same deal as last fall, I believe. Free shipping with any order over $99. Last year, several people in my office, including me, went together to place two big orders both well over 99 dollars. That way everyone gets free (...) (21 years ago, 9-Sep-03, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: Hailfire/New MINI's in Canada?
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(...) Or, while the Canadian dollar is still strong, order them for less from Shop at Home. There's a free shipping deal on for Canada right now, if memory serves correctly. Retail on these is $10 CAD each. I saw them at TRU (briefly) in the summer, (...) (21 years ago, 8-Sep-03, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: 486-33 8Mb
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(...) I can suggest: Float test (if it floats, you failed) Radiator Test (smash it against the radiator until it breaks) Drop Test (out the window- just make sure no-one is below it) Bulletproof test (only if you vote for the alliance, in which (...) (21 years ago, 2-Sep-03, to lugnet.loc.ca.on)
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| | Re: 486-33 8Mb
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(...) You can use it as a good firewall. That's what we use for our home network - an old 486, with (less than [1]) 8Mb of RAM, and ~200M disk space... And it's the firewall for ~8 machines at any given time, doing pretty smart stuff, with an (...) (21 years ago, 1-Sep-03, to lugnet.loc.ca.on)
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| | Re: 486-33 8Mb
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(...) I have heard of people running linux on tired iron like this (there's even a linux on a floppy distribution, I hear, that's already set up to do this) and using the box as a firewall/dhcp server between the outside world and the rest of your (...) (21 years ago, 1-Sep-03, to lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: 486-33 8Mb
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(...) This reminds me of when as a student I went on a work experience assignment with a computer company and my home computer was more powerful than anything they had. They then bought a 486 33mhz server. I wondered at the time if it was just so (...) (21 years ago, 1-Sep-03, to lugnet.loc.ca.on)
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| | 486-33 8Mb
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I got this 486 - 33Mhz with 8Mb RAM that taking up too much space and all I can think of using it for is a boat anchor and forgetting to put a rope on it. So if anyone can think of a use for it, or would like to have it, let me know. You have until (...) (21 years ago, 1-Sep-03, to lugnet.loc.ca.on)
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| | Re: Sears Wishbook is out
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(...) I wasn't really thinking of the decals (there are other issues with those) so much as just the name of the set itself. You said the key word in your last sentence... 'Apollo'. This is really an Apollo mission set. The Saturn V is just once (...) (21 years ago, 31-Aug-03, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: Sears Wishbook is out
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(...) Allan, I didn't find that as odd as the extra decals left over after assembly. I checked the instructions and they don't show placement of five decals - 3 NASA logos and 2 US flags, but some pictures in among the literature show the NASA (...) (21 years ago, 31-Aug-03, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: Sears Wishbook is out
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(...) Well I went over to the Walmart and discovered a nearly empty Lego shelf! So I headed over to the clearance aisle just to see where all the sets had gone (hoping they were there), but no Lego there either. In typical Walmart fashion I then (...) (21 years ago, 31-Aug-03, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: Sears Wishbook is out
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....speaking of Sears, I was going to mail off a package at the post office at my local shopping mall, I decided to check out Sears. I seen they had a 75% off clearance sale (on Starwars sets). I got over $60 worth of LEGO for $15. I thought that (...) (21 years ago, 31-Aug-03, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: Sears Wishbook is out
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(...) Which was my point exactly. :) The name they went with is only partly accurate to describe what's in the box. Which might be o.k. if this wasn't a smart and sophisticated company, putting out a line of their products in association with (...) (21 years ago, 30-Aug-03, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: Sears Wishbook is out
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(...) Cool. I'll have to look around. (...) I guess they called it that because of the thrusters. They were Saturn V rockets (bottom 3 stages). I think it should have been called the Apollo Project, because it had the Saturn V rocket, the (...) (21 years ago, 30-Aug-03, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: Sears Wishbook is out
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(...) I got mine at a Wal-mart in London, ON. Also $19.86. I still am wondering about the name of the set itself though... does anyone else find it odd? :) Allan B. (21 years ago, 30-Aug-03, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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