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| (...) Cool now there are 3 (Eric K. from NELUG here). Just so you all know we are going to be participating in the MIT Mindfest in October. This event is mostly for Robotics and Mindstorms although we are hoping to have a more general LEGO display (...) (25 years ago, 17-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wi, lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.loc.us.ia, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.loc.us.in)
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| (...) Cool! Can't wait to see the site grow!! (...) Try Patrick Delahanty's Regional Shopping Guide - (URL) - I believe there is a map of the US with clickable regions, you might wanna ask him if you can use the midwest, or where he got the graphic (...) (25 years ago, 17-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wi, lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.loc.us.ia, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.loc.us.in)
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| (URL) is up and running (sort of). I have put together a bunch of basic information, enough to get the site up and going. It still needs work and I'll listen to any and all comments/complaints/whatever. Paul ps. Anybody know of a good place for (...) (25 years ago, 17-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wi, lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.loc.us.ia, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.loc.us.in)
| | | | | Re: Greater Midwest Lego Users Group
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| (...) They're both pretty nice. I'd prefer the first with higher contrast colors--red, orange, and green tend not to stand out from each other for us partially color-blind folks. Primary colors maybe? 3 studs would look great on it too--sort of like (...) (25 years ago, 17-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wi, lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.loc.us.ia, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.loc.us.in)
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| (...) Patent != trademark. (25 years ago, 16-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wi, lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.loc.us.ia, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.loc.us.in)
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| (...) Sounds tubular, dude! ;John (...) (25 years ago, 16-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wi, lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.loc.us.ia, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.loc.us.in)
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| (...) No way. The tube is the first thing LEGO patented. Actually, they probably couldn't do anything. That original patent has expired, and I don't remember the tubes being used in any way that could be construed as trade dress. Steve (25 years ago, 16-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wi, lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.loc.us.ia, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.loc.us.in)
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| (...) How about the *underside* of a 2x2? Charles (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wi, lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.loc.us.ia, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.loc.us.in)
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| (...) Oooh! Oooh! ohhh! can I answer that? Just kidding. Where DOES the midwest end? Isn't mizzourah part of the south? (yes, I know it wasn't part of the Confederacy) (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wi, lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.loc.us.ia, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.loc.us.in, lugnet.loc.us.mo)
| | | | | Re: Greater Midwest Lego Users Group
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| I'd like it to be officially fun looking, or, if you'd rather, offical looking in a fun way. Hope that helps. MN only: (ignore if not MN) So is the meeting next week Wed or Thu? Heck I may just come over both nites, who knows. (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wi, lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.loc.us.ia, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.loc.us.in)
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| (...) What's wrong with us Missourians? I'm the only AFOL in MO that I know (I've seen traffic in .loc.us.mo.stl, though) I live in Springfield which is pretty far south in the state, but I still consider myself in the Midwest. Over and out, Amos (...) (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wi, lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.loc.us.ia, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.loc.us.in, lugnet.loc.us.mo)
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| (...) Yeah, well that was definitely the idea BUT perhaps TLG would choose to ignore. Would prolly have to contact their sharks first... (...) Well, then I think we are infringing on Todd's property. I purposely *didn't* put studs on it, but I (...) (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wi, lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.loc.us.ia, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.loc.us.in)
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| Stylistically it is neat. And it's a cool design exercise. However it pretty clearly violates trade dress IMHO. So I vote for a variant on the first one. Perhaps putting studs on some faces of the bricks the way LUGNET did? (...) (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wi, lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.loc.us.ia, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.loc.us.in)
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| I vote for Logo2!!!! Or possibly put a brick in place of the cube on logo1??? (...) (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wi, lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.loc.us.ia, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.loc.us.in)
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| (...) I will share with you all my thinking on this shape. I didn't want it to be representational of a brick per se, but as a collection of two-dimensional and three-dimensional geometric shapes. I wanted to emphasize the different possibilities (...) (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wi, lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.loc.us.ia, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.loc.us.in)
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| (...) I prefer the first one. Possibly a little more definition on the vertices of the cube, and a stud or two or three :) (...) Cool :) -Tim <>< (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 'You have a pretty sexy voice for being a Lego maniac.' - Matt Dearman, (...) (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wi, lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.loc.us.ia, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.loc.us.in)
| | | | | Re: Greater Midwest Lego Users Group
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| I like the second one best. John Matthews Columbus, OH Paul Foster <paul.foster@sgi.com> wrote in message news:FI2yGG.L46@lugnet.com... (...) (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wi, lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.loc.us.ia, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.loc.us.in)
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| Another update, I've been swamped between home and work but John Neal (Thanks J2) came up with two ideas for logos: (URL) which one do people prefer? The domain has been registered and is up but not much will be there until Friday proably at the (...) (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wi, lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.loc.us.ia, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.loc.us.in)
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| (...) That sounds like a cool way to navigate to the sub-areas as long as it doesn't need CGI access, (didn't spring for that). I'm guessing John is working on an overall logo which would be needed also, (as long as it doesn't irritate everybody by (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wi, lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.loc.us.ia, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.loc.us.in)
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| (...) I'd started this (with Michigan) a few weeks ago, but then I got a new Hard Drive. My plan was to use 1x1 rounds to represent the cities in each LUGNET loc.* group. Charles (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wi, lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.loc.us.ia, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.loc.us.in)
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