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(...) How often would you want regular meetings? How about every other week, Monday night at McDonalds across from the Nortel office? :) Calum (24 years ago, 29-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.ca.on.tor)
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(...) Hi Richard! Welcome to Toronto! Check out the rtlToronto home page: (URL) aiming to make it the central info place for Toronto Lego stuff. I'll add your address (and any others, email me!) to the rtlToronto announce list. Calum (24 years ago, 29-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.ca.on.tor)
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(...) Maybe finding >1 driver and sharing driving and costs could work out? (...) Yeuch! Not too bad if you are desperate to go. But you're right - Toronto seems well placed for me mostly because it requires moderate travelling to get to a typical (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.ca.on.tor)
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(...) there (...) out (...) them) (...) to (...) want (...) who (...) Hi, if you accept invasion from province of Québec (Actually I'm near Montréal), I could probably be in, maybe not for each meeting but once in a while. Martin (24 years ago, 29-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott)
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I've heard a few people muttering about not being able to locate the newer Star Wars sets in Canada and/or Toronto, so I thought I'd post an update: So far, I've found the MTT, the AAT, the Falcon, the UCS X-Wing and the UCS Tie Interceptor here. (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.ca.on.tor, lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) should (...) Er - perhaps you're a more adventurous soul than I, but BrikFest was in Washington D.C. (or environs), and that is a teensy bit of a drive from Toronto... about 10 or 12 hours or something? I'd've gone, but I don't have a car, and (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.ca.on.tor)
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(...) when (...) group (...) I think Shiri is right in her reply to my questions about starting a LUG (URL) when she says 2 can be a group. I believe it can happen, even if it is small at first then we can let it grow on its own. There is no way I (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.loc.ca.qc)
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(...) Don't (...) here (...) I would be interested but I am no organizer for anything like that. And there may be too few AFOL in Ottawa to make it happens. May be we need some way to make Lugnet more visable in Ottawa. I see the RIS in Bay all gone (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott)
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(...) Thanks, I am trying to get through to St-Laurent and their line is busy. Grrrr!!! Don't they know this is a Lego Emergency?!? :-) R U interested in a LUG starting here in Ottawa? Check out my last post in loc.ca.on.ott. Thanks again, Jude What (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott)
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Jude I tried to mail you this first, but @home is refusing my mail... I just saw two 3411 Team Bus today in TRU Merivale, and now they have only one left, $24.99. They also have one 3401 left for $8.99. Don't waste gas if you have to drive far to (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott)
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I just want to ask all AFOL's and JRFOL's who are in the Ottawa area, if there is any interest in starting an Ottawa Lego Users Group. Please reply if you are interested along with what area you live in. Myself, I live in Blackburn, for now... Oh (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott)
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(...) Woo hoo! I'm in downtown T.O. myself. We don't have regular meetings, none of us being organizationally inclined, but we do have semiannual robotics competitions, and I'm rarin' to go at BrikWars... Jeff (24 years ago, 26-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.ca.on.tor)
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(...) Thanks! (...) East York for the first few weeks, then prolly somewhere more downtown - anyone looking for a LEGOy flatmate? :) (...) Sounds like fun! When is your next meeting? Richard (24 years ago, 26-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.ca.on.tor)
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(...) Well, hello from Canada! Any idea whereabouts you'll be staying while you're here? You might as well hook up with the local LUG, just so that you don't get withdrawal symptoms and the like... Jeff Elliott (24 years ago, 26-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.on.tor)
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Unless I get involved in an unfortunate and untimely bizzare accident, I'll be in Toronto for a year starting July 11th! :) I've got an open work authorisation, so if anyone knows of any places needing a graduate Software Engineer/Computer Bod, (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.ca.on.tor)
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(...) Doh. 3411. 3411 is 3405 (white windows, blue body) plus this 6" soccer ball. The large ball is an actual leather ball with an inflation pin, so I suppose it's not that bad of a value for $20 when the US MSRP is $22USD without the ball. I (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.ca.on)
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(...) What?? I didn't know you could get rainchecks..., nuts! I would've ordered my X-Wing right off the bat. Oh well, made off with the M-Falcon, Tie Int., AAT, MTT, the 4561 train set, some Dino's, some arctic... T'was a huge haul. I think I (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott)
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(...) I think the Team Bus sets should be 340x. 3211 is a very different, very interesting set... :) Does the Team Bus you got come with the female head and hair conversion bag, like those from S@H? (24 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.ca.on)
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Upon the suggestion of Victor and Jeff, I dropped by the local TRU. Lots of selection, 20% off! I bought two 1200 piece 3033 tubs (thanks for the dist breakdown Jeff!) and the 3211 Team Bus from the soccer line that comes with the silly bonus soccer (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.ca.on)
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(...) Just a follow-up. I went to the Merivale TRU Saturday afternoon and when I went to check the price of the USC Tie-Interceptor the store manager saw me and asked if I was interested in the Falcon. They had gotten more in that day and displayed (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott)
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