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| (...) Here's a LEGO map I just threw together: (URL) fits on a 50x50 baseplate) I can easily change the quality of the JPG, the colors of the states, the viewpoint, and the size of the image. With a little effort, I can change the resolution (eg, (...) (25 years ago, 18-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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| (...) Could you post more details on the event, including directions to get to MIT? Though its a good days' trip for me, I'd consider coming up if the time is convenient for me with school and all. If I could know what's goin on, I could bring some (...) (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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| (...) I can do this easily. I could even translate the map into LDraw using the colormap feature of Jacob's landscape generator... --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (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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| (...) I have found usual sources lacking. LMK if you experience trouble as I can do it manually:-) -John (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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| Another alternative is to do it within Visio (which in addition to state shapes also has a great lakes shape, and has ontario as well, I believe, which we had discussed including), and then export to a .gif or .jpg (...) (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 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)
| | | | | Re: Michigan Legofest.
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| Count me in... Gary Istok wrote in message <37CE8C36.8FD68229@u...ch.edu>... (...) (25 years ago, 17-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mi)
| | | | | Re: Greater Midwest Lego Users Group
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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)
| | | | | Re: Greater Midwest Lego Users Group
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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)
| | | | | Re: Greater Midwest Lego Users Group
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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)
| | | | | Re: Greater Midwest Lego Users Group
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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)
| | | | | Re: Greater Midwest Lego Users Group
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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)
| | | | | Re: Greater Midwest Lego Users Group
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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)
| | | | | Re: Greater Midwest Lego Users Group
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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)
| | | | | Re: Greater Midwest Lego Users Group
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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)
| | | | | Re: Greater Midwest Lego Users Group
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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)
| | | | | Re: Greater Midwest Lego Users Group
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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)
| | | | | Re: Greater Midwest Lego Users Group
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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)
| | | | | Re: Mc Donald's Lego
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| Ditto in Plainwell - they (McD's) usually only have a box/case of one or two different toys/junk at hand, though are good at searching for any (having two boys, they don't usually want the same toy). Steve Bliss wrote: (clip..) (...) Now all this (...) (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mi.grr)
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| (...) Lowell is very good about letting us get what we want--as long as they have it on hand. We've even been known to hold on to duplicates (or undesired items) for later trade-in. (...) It all depends on how you arrange the plastic. (...) I don't (...) (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mi.grr)
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| (...) Merely when I waltz in with an entire tribe of 4-11 year olds (Taya, Nik, and all the first and second cousins won't fit in 2 cars) to let me pick and choose which ones I get. I imagine I'll be eating a lot of happy meals myself. In fact I (...) (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mi.grr)
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| (...) Wheedle how? To sell you all the sets at once? Check with the manager, there's usually a mail-in form to obtain all the sets. Unfortunately, the offer includes special packaging or display add-ons, and the price is boosted. Getting everything (...) (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mi.grr)
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| (...) Yes, I was rather wondering why I could buy 10 different ones in one fell swoop. I saw a LOT of those at the flea market I was at last weekend (at which I found a very incomplete beta command base with a fair condition box...). But I plan to (...) (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mi.grr)
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| I would think McD's will, if they follow in their normal fashion, hand out one set and when supplies are out, start on the next set. After all, there are 8 sets to collect to build the "super model", and if sets are handed out randomly how can this (...) (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mi.grr)
| | | | | Re: Mc Donald's Lego
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| John DiRienzo wrote in message ... (...) Does anyone know if the sets will come out in a specific order (like the Beanie Babies promotion -- when the supply of the first one ran out, we got the second, and so forth) or do we just get one of the (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mi.grr, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
| | | | | Re: Greater Midwest Lego Users Group
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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)
| | | | | Re: Greater Midwest Lego Users Group
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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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| (...) Hi, someone already posted they are working on a logo, but I have an idea for something I want to add. we should have a map of all the states that are in the org, made out of Lego. so that you can click on the state for info on that area... I (...) (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)
| | | | | Re: Mc Donald's Lego
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| John DiRienzo wrote in message ... (...) I like McDonald's fires myself, but Burger Kings are much more combustible. Maybe it's the extra grease. (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mi.grr, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| I am going to be buying a lot of Happy Meals. I love McDonald's fires, and my cat loves the so-called hamburgers! Plus, free Lego! -- Have fun! John AUCTION Page (More soon!) (URL) Page (URL) & IG88888888 on AOL pamela fryer wrote in message (...) (25 years ago, 8-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mi.grr, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
| | | | | Re: Mc Donald's Lego
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| (...) I am not interested in the sets, but some of the pieces will be interesting to quite a few people. Notice that at least one of the sets has pink plates. That should get a few people's interest, as those are very hard to come by. Timbo (25 years ago, 8-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mi.grr, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| Bricks are bricks so I'll no doubt try to score a bunch. Who says happy meals are just for kids? In actual point of fact, a hamburger happy meal probably has a more appropriate level of calories for a single diner than a Big Mac combo does... that's (...) (25 years ago, 8-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mi.grr, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
| | | | | Re: Mc Donald's Lego
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| I received the S@H catalog yesterday, which shows the sets offered at McD's. There will be 8 sets available free with a Happy Meal, each a small Freestyle-type vehicle to build featuring the face of a McD character (including Ronald & Hamburgler), (...) (25 years ago, 8-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mi.grr, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
| | | | | Re: Greater Midwest Lego Users Group
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| I'll give it a whirl;-) -John (...) (25 years ago, 8-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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