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| Not to dash water but a few hundred to rent a room may be a deal breaker... I'm not sure we're well enough organized to take such a thing on, or that it's a good use of funds. (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wi, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.loc.us.in, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.org.us)
| | | | | Chicago Legofest
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| A little interest has been sparked within GMLUG about having a Chicago Legofest in the near future. I'm in favor of the idea, cause I don't have to travel very far to get there :) What I'd like to get a feeling of is when people would be interested (...) (27 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wi, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.loc.us.in, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.org.us)
| | | | | Greater Midwest Lego Users Group
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| The Greater Midwest Lego Users Group (GMLUG) is now up and running at (URL) website is still a work in progress but we are now accepting members from WI, MN, IL, IA, OH, IN. Paul (27 years ago, 19-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Diving Expedition Explorer #6560
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| I hope that maybe you can help me. My grandson wants me to get him for his birthday, the Lego Diving Expedition Explorer (#6560) that is now discontinued, but was in the 1997 catalog. Can you give me several leads as to where I might be able to go (...) (27 years ago, 5-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us)
| | | | | Re: Lego Expo at The Toy Connection [Chicago IL Area]
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| (...) I'm surprised that you say its a small store. I figured cause of the size of the website the store would be bigger :) It just seems like for a place to hold an event with a TLG representative and other events as advertised on the site the (...) (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.us.il.chi, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.general)
| | | | | Re: Lego Expo at The Toy Connection [Chicago IL Area]
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| It's about a 10 min ride from my house :) It's a pretty small store, actually, a very, very small store. I'm not the greatest at measurements, but I would guess the store is only 30 feet wide, maybe less. As of today they haven't been running any (...) (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.us.il.chi, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.general)
| | | | | Re: Lego Expo at The Toy Connection [Chicago IL Area]
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| (...) [...] I'm 99% sure I'm going to this. Is anyone else planning on doing so? If so, could you email me and we could arrange a way to identify ourselves etc to be able to meet face-to-face. *sigh* Crystal Lake is like a 40 mile drive from (...) (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.us.il.chi, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.general)
| | | | | Join the Jambalaya Boxes!
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| COME JOIN THE JUMBLE! 1. What is a jambalaya box? A jambalaya box is a collection of LEGO® elements. It is sent through the mail to different people. Each person takes out some pieces that they would like, and replaces them with pieces that others (...) (27 years ago, 25-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya, lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.loc.ca)
| | | | | Auction 8480 Technic Shuttle
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| Hello all I have two 8480 Lego Technic Space Shuttles for Auction, set has 1366 pieces each all in Mint condition, unopened with seals intact and no wear what so never. #1. 8480 (1996) MIB starting bid $120 Bid:no name #2. 8480 (1996) MIB starting (...) (27 years ago, 1-Jun-99, to lugnet.loc.us)
| | | | | Re: Meijer - Lego Horse
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| (...) And I thought it reffered to the parts of MI, OH, PA (and others?) that had thriving steel industries that dried up - and are now just producing rust. (27 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.loc.us)
| | | | | Re: Meijer - Lego Horse
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| (...) I thought the 'rustbelt' just implied that there was a lot of heavy manufacturing going on. Steve (27 years ago, 4-May-99, to lugnet.loc.us)
| | | | | New newsgroups for LEGOLAND parks
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| [Followups set to lugnet.legoland] Newsgroups for LEGOLAND parks have just been created. For background on what has led up to this, please visit the following thread: (URL) lugnet.legoland (group and hierarchy): General LEGOLAND® (not (...) (27 years ago, 4-May-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.dk, lugnet.loc.dk.rb.bil, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.uk.en.bk.win, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.loc.us.ca, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sd, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.loc.us.fl, lugnet.loc.de)
| | | | | Re: Meijer - Lego Horse
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| OK, before I get into the Midwest topic, I'll discuss something LEGO related..... Macaroni bricks are not found in any Basic/Freestyle sets. OK, now back to the Midwest.... There is no easy answer. If you say that there are 4 areas of the USA, then (...) (27 years ago, 3-May-99, to lugnet.loc.us)
| | | | | Re: Meijer - Lego Horse
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| [followups set to lugnet.loc.us] (...) Yeah, I count 7 articles here now on this thread discussion what "midwest" is. Probably a good time to take this over to .loc.us...it's getting pretty far off-topic for .general. (...) Well, everyone knows (...) (27 years ago, 1-May-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us)
| | | | | Re: LEGOLand newsgroups?
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| (...) [Crossposted to lugnet.loc.dk, lugnet.loc.dk.rb.bil, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.uk.en.bk.win, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.loc.us.fl, lugnet.loc.de, and lugnet.general for more visibility -- with followups set to (...) (27 years ago, 26-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.dk, lugnet.loc.dk.rb.bil, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.uk.en.bk.win, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.loc.us.fl, lugnet.loc.de, lugnet.general)
| | | | | U.S. and Canada: New groups for states and provinces
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| 60 new local newsgroups have just been created: 12 at province level in Canada and 48* at the state level in the U.S. Rationale for creating the new groups: - Help people locate one another and hold discussions across sparsely populated areas. - (...) (27 years ago, 16-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.loc.ca)
| | | | | Re: Please visit my site
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| (...) (27 years ago, 10-Feb-99, to lugnet.loc.us)
| | | | | Please visit my site
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| Web Site: (URL) 92 models and rising :-) (27 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.loc.us)
| | | | | Newsgroup created for Coachella Valley, California
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| CHARTER/PURPOSE: lugnet.loc.us.ca.cva (group): Coachella Valley (Indio, Palm Springs, Palm Desert, Coachella, Desert Hot Springs, Indian Wells, Cathedral City, Rancho Mirage, La Quinta, etc.), California, U.S.A. lugnet.loc.us (group and hierarchy): (...) (28 years ago, 2-Dec-98, to lugnet.loc.us)
| | | | | Zany Brainy Alert!
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| I made my rounds of the local Zany Brainy's and found an interesting sign on the Mindstorms display: "Mindstorms are not included in the Lego one day sale" ooh, so what day is THAT? Friday (of course) I diddn't ask what percent the discount would (...) (28 years ago, 26-Nov-98, to lugnet.loc.us)
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