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| (...) Imagination Centres", "LEGO Brand Stores", and "LEGO Outlets", from the point-of-view of buying selection. They sound the same as the 3 franchise stores we already have in Ontario (Windsor, Waterloo area, and north of Toronto). And compared to (...) (20 years ago, 5-Apr-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment)
| | | | | Re: Dear LEGO...
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| (...) Don't forget the southern US, too(1)! Here in South Texas, I'm more than a 15 hour drive from any LEGO Outlet, probably a lot more than that. I mean, talk about pent up demand...(2) Texas(3)! It's a good place to have one, too! C'mon LEGO... (...) (20 years ago, 5-Apr-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.loc.us.tx)
| | | | | Re: Dear LEGO...
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| (...) I know GTA would be a great spot in Canada economically for a new store, but you know I had to put in a plug for Ottawa. :-) (...) If they had outlet pricing for a small selection, we'd be there as least weekly to check for new items. (...) (...) (20 years ago, 5-Apr-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment)
| | | | | Re: Dear LEGO...
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| (...) Niagara Falls of course. It is already a huge tourism hotspot, with large numbers of outlet style/specialty stores and attractions. 14 million people visit Niagara Falls annually. (URL) (20 years ago, 5-Apr-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Dear LEGO...
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| (...) Well, if you're going to put it anywhere, you'd put it in the nation's REAL capital, Toronto. You know, the one that leads in economy, population, culture etc. :) It only makes sense that you'd go for Toronto: If you had to pick a place with (...) (20 years ago, 5-Apr-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment)
| | | | | Re: Dear LEGO...
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| I think there was a published list a ways back, I just couldn't find it. I know that Chicago-area got 2 stores, Boston got another one, Southern California (LA-area) got another store, NY City Metropolitan got 2 (1 in NJ - Paramus Park) and 1 Nyark) (...) (20 years ago, 5-Apr-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment)
| | | | | Re: Dear LEGO...
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| (...) Well, it's not really a "list" per se, but I was referring to this page of new store openings on the LEGO site, which lists cities by country: (URL) Strutt (20 years ago, 4-Apr-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment)
| | | | | Re: Dear LEGO...
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| (...) G'day Tim, To which "big list" are you referring? Can you post a link? Thanx, KDJ ___...___ LUGNETer #203, Ontario, Canada (20 years ago, 4-Apr-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment)
| | | | | Re: Dear LEGO...
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| (...) As a side note, our benevolent member-at-large has been willing to help us by shipping 50, yes, 50 large PAB containers worth to us so far from Boston. And we have orders for many more still. That number would be a lot higher if we were able (...) (20 years ago, 4-Apr-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment)
| | | | | Re: Dear LEGO...
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| (...) I agree Jake. Ottawa would be an excellent choice as it is between Canada's two largest cities, Montreal and Toronto, it is Canada's Capital, it has a population of over 1 million people in the region, it lies on the border of the two largest (...) (20 years ago, 4-Apr-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment)
| | | | | Dear LEGO...
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| Jake, ...or whatever other LEGO representative that might be reading this... Why has Canada been left out of this big list of LEGO store openings?!?! Not to ignore other countries, but Canada actually had a LEGO S@H until a couple years ago, and (...) (20 years ago, 3-Apr-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment) !
| | | | | Re: MonLUG's 6th Train Show, April 3rd and 4th
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| (...) x-posted to Ottawa and ParLUGment Looking forward to seeing those who can make the trip. Jude (21 years ago, 30-Mar-04, to lugnet.org.ca.monlug, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott)
| | | | | Re: PlayValue Clearance Items
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| Thanks Tim, that was a lot of work you did! I stopped by there today at lunch to pick up a couple of items. Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Strutt" <heidi.strutt@sympatico.ca> To: <lugnet.org.ca.parlu...gnet.com>; (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-04, to lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott)
| | | | | PlayValue Clearance Items
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| I took a trip to PlayValue today and decided to write down all the clearance items, not including Bionicle and Duplo/Primo. For those who aren't familiar with PlayValue, they are located at 1501 Carling Ave in Ottawa, and are the best location for (...) (21 years ago, 9-Mar-04, to lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott)
| | | | | Walmart Price Clearances...
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| I seen that they are trying to get clear out some of their remaining holiday stock. They had Dragon Fortresses for $70 down from $100 CDN. They had a bunch of Nasa Shuttle Discovery sets for $50 CDN. They had some other NBA old stock, a bunch of (...) (21 years ago, 14-Jan-04, to lugnet.loc.ca.on)
| | | | | Hobby Show thoughts and afterthoughts
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| It's been a few weeks since the The Hobby Show in Toronto: (URL) I'm curious to know what you think now that some time has passed. The 'you' I'm hoping to hear from is anyone who was a booth participant, anyone who came by to visit, anyone who (...) (21 years ago, 14-Dec-03, to lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.general)
| | | | | Can-Brick Builders at The Hobby Show - Report
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| (URL) This year marked the 25th anniversary of (URL) The Hobby Show> which takes place every first weekend in November, at the International Center in Toronto, Ontario. This year was also the first time that the LEGO hobby was represented at the (...) (21 years ago, 12-Nov-03, to lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.general, FTX) !!
| | | | | Re: ParLUGment at Railfair 26, Ottawa, Canada
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| I would also like to give credit for the following building I built for the show: (URL) is Reinhard Ben Beneke's design as can be seen here: (URL) built a fairly close copy using the ldraw file he had posted. I must say it is an amazing model. (...) (21 years ago, 29-Oct-03, to lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: ParLUGment at Railfair 26, Ottawa, Canada
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| (...) Hi Tim, Thanks for these pictures! I've added them to my collection and if I win any money in Las Vegas (leaving on Saturday) I'll buy the ISD and make some. And thanks to Jason for creating them. Hugs to all, Shirley. (21 years ago, 24-Oct-03, to lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: ParLUGment at Railfair 26, Ottawa, Canada
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| (...) I notice your two 'people' pictures have your wife in them. Yes, Pam is a person but I think there might have been a few other individuals at the show. :-) Jude (21 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott)
| | | | | Re: ParLUGment at Railfair 26, Ottawa, Canada
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| (...) Hi Shirley, The fountains were Jason's, since he was the only one with an ISD at his disposal. :-) I uploaded a couple more pictures of the fountains for your benefit. (URL) Play well. Tim Strutt (21 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: ParLUGment at Railfair 26, Ottawa, Canada
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| Hi Kevin, Thanks for posting your pictures. The one of the restaurant has the best picture yet of those fountains I'm so enamoured of. Tim's fountains I think? Hugs to all, Shirley. (21 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: ParLUGment at Railfair 26, Ottawa, Canada
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| Here are my pictures from the show: (URL) (21 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: ParLUGment at Railfair 26, Ottawa, Canada
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| Very nice work! I particularly like the 6X6 trans-light blue radar dishes in the 8X8 gray dishes as water in the fountain. (I bet the ISD creator wasn't thinking of THAT when he included those pieces.) I also like the way you've taken some of the (...) (21 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: ParLUGment at Railfair 26, Ottawa, Canada
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| Really good pictures Tim! Very sharp and clear, and you did a really thorough job. These are my favorites: (URL) should be posting the rest of my pictures in the next day. Kevin (...) (21 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: ParLUGment at Railfair 26, Ottawa, Canada
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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)
| | | | | 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)
| | | | | 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) !
| | | | | 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)
| | | | | 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) !
| | | | | 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)
| | | | | 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)
| | | | | 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)
| | | | | 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)
| | | | | 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)
| | | | | 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)
| | | | | Walker sumo
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| Ok, so for that last while people have been bugging use about not doing Sumo events. And we always say they've been done to death and they are to simple. What if we did Walker Sumo? No wheels allowed. Must be autonomous. Must be maneuverable. We (...) (21 years ago, 18-Aug-03, to lugnet.loc.ca.on)
| | | | | working on new local club...
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| Hi. I am currently trying to get a local group together. The current URL for the site is: (URL) isn't much to look at, yet. All are welcome to join. Thanks, Ben. (21 years ago, 13-Aug-03, to lugnet.loc.ca.on)
| | | | | Re: What kind of events do Ontario LEGO builders want? (WAS Re: [rtlToronto] Roadshow 2003 Toronto)
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| (...) Hi Tim, Thanks for taking the time to comment on this! (...) Here's a thought. I'll throw it out there, and you can see what you think. What if 2, or 3, or more Ottawa area builders car-pooled and then shared lodging in Toronto? Even if they (...) (21 years ago, 14-Jul-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott)
| | | | | Re: What kind of events do Ontario LEGO builders want? (WAS Re: [rtlToronto] Roadshow 2003 Toronto)
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| (...) Hi Allan, Personally, being in Ottawa, I did travel to rtl/Train1 & Train2, but that was down and back the same day, which is a lot of driving time and gas. Staying over could get really costly, especially for those of us "income-challenged" (...) (21 years ago, 14-Jul-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.loc.ca.on)
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