 | | NELUG BrikWars: !Zombies!
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On Saturday, January 29th, in Lawrence, MA, NELUG will hold the first BrikWar game in our "2005: The Year of BrikWars" series. A ridiculously ambitious plan to secure more BrikWar carnage for next 12 months by putting some damned forethought into (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.gaming.brikwars)
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| | NELUG at Greenberg Train and Toy show December 18 and 19
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The gallery on the NELUG web site has been updated with pictures from our appearance at the December Greenberg Train and Toy show in Wilmington MA. We had a couple new Skyscrapers in this layout in our growning Downtown area. We seem to be growing (...) (20 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.general) !
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| | Lego Performance Art - Stealing the "T" at NELUG Greenburg show
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Hello everyone! As many people know, I have a model of Tech Tower from Georgia Tech. One of the cool traditions about Tech Tower is the act of Stealing the "T" from the group of letters on the top of the tower. Many attempts have been made over the (...) (20 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.publish, lugnet.loc.us.ga.atl, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.events, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Three new microMOCS - Houses and a Container Ship
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Hello all. I have created three new micro MOCS for the Lego factory contest, and I thought I would share them with you. The first is a Micro Container Ship. I built this mostly to do a test submission on the LegoFactory, but I ended up liking how (...) (20 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.org.us.michlug, FTX) !
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| | New England Church - MOC for Lego Factory week 4
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Hello everyone, This is both my first micro-scale MOC and my first Lego Factory entry. Here is my little description: This is an old New England Church. Several trees and a gazeebo make this a picturesque place to have a wedding. Several parishoners (...) (20 years ago, 7-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.org.us.michlug, FTX) !
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| | NELUG display at RI Cooks Convention
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This past weekend, the New England Lego User's Group displayed a 10'x30' train display at the RI Cooks convention in Providence. We were also accompnaied by a pair of RI First Lego League teams who are preparing for competition this coming January. (...) (20 years ago, 23-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.loc.us.ri, FTX) !
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| | NELUG to display at the RI Cooks Convention - Nov 19-21 RI Convention Center
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The New England Lego Users Group will be displaying at the (URL) Rhode Island Cooks Convention> at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence, RI on November 19-21. The display will include several creations from NELUG members, as well as two (...) (20 years ago, 16-Nov-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.loc.us.ri, lugnet.loc.us.ma, FTX) !
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| | Re: ISD Build record has been broken.
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(...) Actually, some of your suggestions were spot-on-- We had to change strategies quite a few times after seeing what worked and what didn't! The preceeding Sunday we had a dry-run practice which took us about 1 hour, 20 minutes, plus we sorta... (...) (20 years ago, 2-Nov-04, to lugnet.events, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: ISD Build record has been broken.
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(...) Congrats, gang! I only regret I wasn't able to be there to see it in person (or participate!) I couldn't get there--I had to do my local (i.e. Outlet store) part to keep our favorite toy company to come out of the red. For once, I'm glad I (...) (20 years ago, 2-Nov-04, to lugnet.events, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: ISD Build record has been broken.
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(...) Congratulations to all involved. First the Red Sox and now this!! What next? :-) Christina Hitchcock (20 years ago, 1-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: ISD Build record has been broken.
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That is awesome, I have such admiration for your LUG's fellowship. congrats e (20 years ago, 1-Nov-04, to lugnet.events, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | ISD Build record has been broken.
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Hey Everyone, I just wanted to announce that NELUG now holds the offical record for fastest time building the Imperial Star Destroyer. 10 NELUG members got together on October 30th to break the German's record of 1hr and 2mins. Kurt Rachdorf, the (...) (20 years ago, 1-Nov-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.events) !!
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| | Re: LEGO Millyard model to cover 2,000 square feet, Sponsored by NELUG
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(...) Thank you VERY much, Larry! And, my little piggy thanks you, too! I actually made him the day before at home with my own parts and just brought him along for the ride with me to New Hampshire on Saturday. He's part of a little vignette I made (...) (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Millyard model to cover 2,000 square feet, Sponsored by NELUG
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(...) That's a VERY clever pig you have there. I especially like the use of the 1x1 panel corners for ears. It's a bit overscale unless it's a boar, though, right? Did you bring it with you or make it from leavings in the play area? (Snipped unPC (...) (20 years ago, 19-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Millyard model to cover 2,000 square feet, Sponsored by NELUG
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(...) Fair? Pssh! We should be proud of ourselves, Wayne -- I think we had it much harder then the other two tables on Saturday, for sure! I mean, anyone can build fast when they're not being attacked by marauding barnyard animals. But, we had to (...) (20 years ago, 19-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Millyard model to cover 2,000 square feet, Sponsored by NELUG
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(...) My favorite quote from Saturday, from Erik V.: "Don't bother sorting, just take all the loose brick and put it in the play area." Oh, and my pictures are here: (URL) -Alfred Allug dictator-in-chief (20 years ago, 19-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: LEGO Millyard model to cover 2,000 square feet, Sponsored by NELUG
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(...) I think I liked the part that I didn't have to pick through masses of bricks to get what I needed. Having lots of brick is cool. Having lots of SORTE bricks is even better :) Dan (20 years ago, 18-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: LEGO Millyard model to cover 2,000 square feet, Sponsored by NELUG
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(...) Great stuff, great pictures - looks like a really awesome project. I hope to see it in person someday! I just wanted to make a quick comment on the part I quoted -- People just don't realize how amazingly cool it is to have enough bricks for a (...) (20 years ago, 18-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: LEGO Millyard model to cover 2,000 square feet, Sponsored by NELUG
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(...) Sunday was also lots of fun-- we had fewer people there, and finished up somewhere around 9pm instead of the projected 7pm -- building was just way too fun I suppose. At the end of the weekend, we pretty much completed about 4 buildings (I (...) (20 years ago, 18-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: LEGO Millyard model to cover 2,000 square feet, Sponsored by NELUG
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Whoops, meant to post this to NELUG, et al... In lugnet.build.ancient, Wayne McCaul wrote: I just wanted to say that I had an absolute blast on Saturday - one of the best outings I've had as a member of NELUG. Despite having to rebuild my one (...) (20 years ago, 18-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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