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Hey there Lego fans! I just moved to Vancouver last week, but I have been a Lugnet member for a while now, so I already knew about the VLC. I am here just for the summer (contract work), so I won't be much of a long term VLC member, but I would (...) (24 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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(...) I know how that is. :) I started my castle months ago, and still haven't finished it... :\ (...) 640x480 is probably best for detail vs. size. If you have a limited amount of server space, you can always upload the larger images to Brickshelf, (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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(...) Thanks much. I would have had more torture devices, but lacked time. What size pictures would be best? They are grabbed at 640 X 480, then I shrink them to 320 X 240 -- then thumbnails are made of the latter. The tiny thumbnails can be clicked (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Re: VLC Castle Meeting a Success
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(...) Wow, those are really cool torture devices! I really liked that Iron Maiden. ;) The castles are great, too. I hope you can get some more, bigger, pictures of them. It looks like you all had a lot of fun! :) I also looked at some of the older (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc, lugnet.castle)
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| | LUGWORLD map pages 1st try at some pages.
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Followups 1 level higher this time to lugnet.org OK based on some of the descusion today I gave a try at some pages tonight and here is what I've got. Basically this is a single thread of pages as it stands from a world map down to the regional US (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc, lugnet.org.nl, lugnet.org.us.baylug, lugnet.org.us.dixielug, lugnet.org.us.gmlug, lugnet.org.us.lugola, lugnet.org.us.nclug, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.org.us.wafol, lugnet.org.us.wamalug) !
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An amazing time was had by all at the recent Vancouver Lego Club meeting. More details later, but for now, enjoy the pictures... (URL) Gallery, then May 5, 2000 gallery. Xandria please follow-up to lugnet.org.ca.vlc (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc, lugnet.castle)
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(...) I haven't seen your name in the areas I read (Trains and robotics) I don't venture into the other areas. If you did then you'd notice that my wife and I STARTED the first Canadian Lego CLUB (See my sig at the bottom. That DOES mention lego. My (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) And what would you call your message? Ironic, isn't it? If you were offering free space for LEGO-related web sites, I would let this slide, but you're charging, and haven't mentioned LEGO at all... --Bram Bram Lambrecht.........Br...L@JUNO.com (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc, lugnet.admin.general)
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Hello. I'd like to announce that my web server has some web space available and that I'd like to offer it to a few lugnet users. It would be hosted on my new business server at (URL) www.speakeasysolutio...<YOURNAME> Each account would get 5 megs of (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Re: This Friday, May 5th...
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Very exciting stuff. Unfortunately, my arms have been giving me terrible grief lately and I haven't built as much as I'd like. But I do have a few torture devices... smirk. I've a couple days yet... ;-) Building during the meet sounds great! This (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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(...) Ahhh, I did say that, didn't I! Well, you might get lucky. It's been awhile since I've done any serious building, and I'm remembering how much time it takes!!! I may not get around to creating any seige engines. I should, however, have my (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | This Friday, May 5th...
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Hi all, So who's bringing what this Friday? Just wanna know so that I can start getting excited, that's all... :) I'm bringing my castle (I know Robin wants to lay siege to it), although it's a small potato compared to the other ones that others (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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(...) I've been playing with that as well. I have about 4' by 10' for my entire layout. (Plus a little L shape on the end 2.5') I've been trying to build a yard that is small but useful. It's been tough. I've got an idea in the track designer have (...) (24 years ago, 27-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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(...) Ya, I've been thinking of items I'd want. Tiles are high on the list as are good windows (For modern buildings). I also want Tecnic air tanks and girders. Train trucks in different colours!!! etc... (...) With horrific penalties if you backed (...) (24 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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(...) I'd be interested in bulk buys (surprise!) for Bricksmiths and eBay sales purposes as well as my own personal wants. There is some work involved in being the one to put the order in , split up the resulting piles into individual people's (...) (24 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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(...) I would spend tons of money on tiles... Anybody else with me? :) Bryan (24 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Re: My Inverted Hopper Design
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(...) Well, sorting our lego has turned into a larger task then we thought. I've semi sorted the gray. But the rest are still unsorted. (Just colour sorted) Our damn hands keep acting up and that's slowing us down. Xan has created a few torture (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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(...) You've seen my place, it was hard enough to spare the room just for the hopper! Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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That's very clever Dean! How are you going to fit it into the Castle theme next meeting? :-) Next time a plain background for the pics would make it a lot easier to work out what's going on though. Kevin (24 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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(...) It looks quite good. I have a blue hopper now :) and don't find it all that great of a design (don't get me wrong, I'd buy another 12 if I could, but, not at $60/each). I think that you can make some amazing lego train creations, if you look (...) (24 years ago, 23-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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(...) Bravo! Very clever inversions at just the right time. It's non operational, of course, since you didn't have the very custom baseplate... (24 years ago, 23-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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I've been trying to create a fleet of Hoppers without having to use rare parts that I do not posses. Below is my first attempt and I think it worked out pretty good. (URL) love to hear your comments. Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (...) (24 years ago, 23-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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(...) True; I noticed that too. Maybe the numbers mean that the minimum order on 1x1's will be X, and the minimum order on 2x4's will be Y, with X being more than Y. I'm thinking they'll do this for cost reasons; pay a larger sum for a large lot of (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Re: VLC Bulk Ordering
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In lugnet.org.ca.vlc, Dean Husby writes: Sorry, don't mean to intrude, but I saw this on the 'all messages' overview and had to comment: (...) The '1000' was never stated to be a minimum - it was just an example, to contrast with 1 each of 1,000 (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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Well, Brad has sent a message... I did notice one odd thing... HE stated that a min of 1000 of one element would be needed then in the next paragraph he said 50 or 100 depending on the element size... Very odd. However, we as a group should discuss (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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oh yeah!!!!! going to check it out now!!! Xan (...) -- Xandria Editrix, Akasa Publishing xandria@akasa.bc.ca As a result of my chronic tendonitis, I am unable to utilize a computer conventionally. In order to use a computer, including writing this (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.ca.bc, lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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Hi, I was just wondering if any of you people would be interested in volunteering at the Vancouver International Children's Festival. It lasts from Monday May 29th until Sunday June 4th. So how is this Lego related? Well, there are various (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.ca.bc, lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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(...) I have lots of castle minifigs, but most of them are hiding in Rubbermaid boxes. Therefore, this current castle is sparsely populated. :) Hmm, I've never focused on any one item in particular (structure vs characters), but personally I like (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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(...) viewed it with a fixed pitch font ;-). Thanks for the new schematic. Do you have a lot of minifigs in and around the castle. When I build, I typically focus on the structure and the architecture, but I'm (re)learning that most people (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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(...) Excellent! Can't wait to see them. (...) Nice find. Hope the motor still works ;-) Robin (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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(...) (URL) 8318) Bryan (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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(...) May 5th?! That's too far away! :) Anyways, seems like my li'l picture didn't come out very well so I've created a *simple* drawing showing the layout of my castle. You can find it at: (URL) I don't know what will compliment it... After seeing (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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(...) Lucky find! Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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I'll probably be bringing a friend from my daughter's school with me, he has a great mountain fortress-type castle and has been building working siege engines lately. he also traded me most of a Metroliner for stuff he needed... it's now been washed (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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(...) Since I don't have access to most of my Lego, I've got to go a little smaller scale. Tonight, I finished sorting what I do have, so I've got a sense of my "resources". I'm going to build what is sometimes referred to as a "Knight's Castle". (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc, lugnet.castle)
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(...) Hey, you'd better xpost this to .castle! Now, I'd be interested in this torture building (if you're going to create it, that is. Are you?)... :-) Anyway, whatever you do, post pictures! And xpost to .castle, because I filter the .loc groups... (...) (25 years ago, 4-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc, lugnet.castle)
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(...) Hmm... well I have a 240lb candidate for it...oh no, right, this is a *minifig* rack <g,d & r> Kevin (25 years ago, 4-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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(...) WOW. May 5 can't come soon enough! We'll have to bring in extra photography lights so the pictures taken will be better! We have a huge table space (the two centre tables used for Dean's trains at the last 2 meets) for the castle stuff. This (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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(...) I don't know what will compliment it... After seeing all of the recent postings of new castle pictures, I really want to take it down and build something new (and I've also acquired additional pieces over time). Hehe, you REALLY wanna see it, (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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