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(...) Golly gee willikers! Such curves! I wish I could have been at BrickFest... Looks from the exterior pics there is another floor above the lounge? Is that just to house the motor for the sign? -Bill. (22 years ago, 13-Oct-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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Yes. I would love to see those. And to meet you ofcourse. Like I said: I'll be there 5 days! Jaco "Jake McKee" <jacob.mckee@america.lego.com> schreef in bericht news:HMpppL.3D8@lugnet.com... (...) (22 years ago, 13-Oct-03, to lugnet.space)
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Great! CU there! (I'll be there the whole event with LDraw stuff) Jaco "diddesen" <diddesen@yahoo.com> schreef in bericht news:HMpnKC.1x0q@lugnet.com... (...) (22 years ago, 13-Oct-03, to lugnet.space)
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(...) I'll be there! Looking forward to seeing those ships! Jake --- Jake McKee Community Liason LEGO Community Development (LCD) (22 years ago, 13-Oct-03, to lugnet.space)
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This message is just to let you pple know I'll be at LegoWorld in Zwolle Saturday and Sunday with a new nanofig capital ship! (pics will follow) I hope to meet some of you there. Greetings from .space, Didier (22 years ago, 13-Oct-03, to lugnet.space)
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Okay, I think I've procrastinated long enough. Publicly unveiled at Brickfest 2003 and winning first place in the Moonbase category is this, the (URL) Rigel 7 Pleasure Planet>. (URL) It's a 3 baseplate Moonbase megamodule in an L shape, designed to (...) (22 years ago, 13-Oct-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.space, FTX) !!
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In lugnet.space, Philip Painter wrote: (snip)> (...) Nice ship you got there, and it does look like a next-generation of the Bat! Nice color scheme (finally a use for the red canopies for non-evil ships), general studless look (which really shines (...) (22 years ago, 13-Oct-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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As a result of the leak of information to the "reprehensible, war-monger communist organization" Eastern Block, the eccentric corporation CerebrumInc acted quickly in drastically reducing its workforce "in the interest of security" and uprooting its (...) (22 years ago, 13-Oct-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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(...) quote: "Imagine a sheet of paper with the left and right edges rolled toward one another to make a cylinder, Weeks suggests. Suppose you could shrink and stand on the paper. Start at the seam and walk west in a straight line. 'Nothing funny (...) (22 years ago, 13-Oct-03, to lugnet.space)
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When I was younger I did the colors based on rank or occupational skill too like in Star Trek. Then I thought it foolish as then I would be limited as to how many of certain types of guys I could have. Besides it wouldn’t be smart to advertise to (...) (22 years ago, 13-Oct-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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As alluded to at NWBC... (2 URLs) I mentioned this to the fellas while we were at Jon Palmer's place--time and lack of space on the motorcycle prevented me from bringing the Blacksmith's Wife to Seattle. A completed version (with the micromotor seen (...) (22 years ago, 12-Oct-03, to lugnet.space) !
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(...) I wasen't around back then to get classic space guys. The most I have is 1 blue spaceman with a broken headpiece I got in the jambalya box. I wonder how you organize Futuron guys in... I have 5 Futuron guys- 2 yellow, 2 red, and 1 black. -JHK (22 years ago, 12-Oct-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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Hey all I saw an article on the msn homepage today on the shape of the universe. It looked pretty cool, so I thought I'd post it. I linked to the original material on space.com so the link wouldn't dry up on me. (URL) (22 years ago, 12-Oct-03, to lugnet.space)
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Nicely done, Phil! Now on to the critique: Things I love: The colorscheme-it just works. As much as I'm not a fan of blue, it just works. Tried and true and you can't go wrong. The sleek design-best example I've seen of de-armaturing the armature if (...) (22 years ago, 12-Oct-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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lol! Even better, I just recognized one of those women as the person responsible for yanking me out of my Dark Ages all those many years ago...funny how small our AFOL world really is. -Dave (22 years ago, 12-Oct-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha)
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A week after the fact, but here is my side of NWBrickCon. First off it was great to see everyone again and those I met for the first time. Eric, Chris, Soren, and others, it was great meeting you, I look forward to seeing you at future Cons. A (...) (22 years ago, 12-Oct-03, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.castle, lugnet.space)
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fut: lugnet.db.scans Hi, I found this while looking at this years FLL challenge, it's the building instructions for the mini-rover. 3.5MB PDF: (URL) regards, /Tobbe (URL) SPAM when e-mailing) (22 years ago, 11-Oct-03, to lugnet.db.scans, lugnet.space, lugnet.year.2003)
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(...) ALL HAIL THE SULTAN OF STACK!!!!! his models always get the most action.... (22 years ago, 9-Oct-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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Spooky. I had one blue spaceman as a kid, and that minifig represented me when my spacemen went off to have adventures in the back garden (or the swimming pool...). When he was inside buildings, he'd take off his helmet and wear a cowboy hat! Steve (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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Hey all, I finally had some alone quiet time to do the picture thing. My images of all of NWBC, as well as a bit of our (Eric Sophie and me) roadtrip, are now online. (URL) I had so much fun out there. It was great to meet new people (Marks 1,2,3, (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.people, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) RE: PowerPoint size Apologies for not warning earlier... yes - it contains a lot of pictures - almost 100 I believe. RE: Timings. Yes, I uploaded the same presentation used during the convention, which had 2-3 second timings to keep audience (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Most of the time I used this same system. But occasionally, on special missions, suit color represented envirnmental specialties: Red- for Geologically active planets, or very hot environments Blue- for aquatic exploration Black- prolonged EVA (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Hmmm, my figs never really had a chain of command - but there was a seniority thing happening, based loosley on when they first made their way into my childhood collection: White/Red - the originals, the guys who got it done. Meat & Potatoes. (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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Azar, Grand Admiral! I'm a big lurker as most of my collection is currently in an unusuable format (i.e., it's mostly packed up). But I see most of what goes on here. :) ... ...And seethe in jealously... :P Groove on GA. -Evil Wayne (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.space)
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This is the system I used for my classic space moonbase, except the white guys were the commanders. :) -Anne (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Egad! It's Evil Wayne! Long time no see. -Grand Admiral (URL) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Hey, I used the same ranking system as you! I never had a blue spaceman as a kid tho. Didn't get one until just recently. :\ -Grand Admiral (URL) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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Black - Special Ops/Secret Police (I have exactly one of these guys) Blue - Pilots (probably an Air Force influence) Yellow - Scientists/Explorers White - Workers Red - Commanders Although, initially, when it was only Red and White: Red = Soviets (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Well originally I only intended to make a couple spacemen cards, I am not sure if I could add ships and still keep it a fairly simple game to play. (I kind of wanted to avoid making cards of actual sets, I don't really know why, I just did) (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.org.glug, lugnet.gaming, FTX)
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I always thought: Black - Commander (Because there's so few of them) Blue - Lieutenant Yellow - Scientist (They always get the scanning gear/diggers) White - Mechanic/Worker Red - Pilot (You always get Red chaps with space ships) How did everyone (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Very nice idea. Will there be ship cards as well? Or just spacemen? I like the layout/look of your cards, and instantly wondered if we'd see ones with classic space vehicles on them. Or are the ships part of the next expansion set? ;) Great (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.org.glug, lugnet.gaming, FTX)
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(...) Good fun! Like Tim said, the timing is a little off 'cause it changes frames just after all the text visualize on some of them. A word of warning for non-broadband users; The file is ~25.2MB! (zipping it it became 24.8MB). (22 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Well played. Very funny! :-) A small bit of feedback on the slide show - it went a little too fast to read the captions and see all that was going on in the image. Perhaps slow it down a couple seconds? -Tim (22 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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For those of you classic theme fans, the Classic Wars continued at Northwest BrickCon with Episode 3: The Battle Between Good and Shpleem. What is the Classic Wars? Why it's a good natured and prankster-style competition between the castle and space (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Hmmm... I guess that would have made sense for me to post there also in the first place. There is the link (URL) again> (...) Well for anyone interested: The basic versus aspect will be a simple roll of a die. So 2 dice, one for each person (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.org.glug, lugnet.gaming, FTX)
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(...) /sigfig.gif>> (...) Just as a note to tie up a couple of loose ends here... 1) I'm an old guy, so "trading cards" to me mean like baseball cards, I completely missed the "collectable card game" (ala Magic the Gathering like) meaning. So my (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.org.glug, lugnet.gaming, FTX)
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(...) Well technically I couldn't sell them if I wanted to becuase of the LEGO classic space logo. Once I get everything finished I will post printable quality pics. No ideas as to when that will happen though. The game mechanics will be very (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Thats pretty cool. Thanks for sharing. -Mike Petrucelli (URL) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) What a super idea, are you going to be selling these, are just make them available to us? Don .Space, a sub-theme to .Castle just kidding :) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Yep, there were Sea Monkey trading cards. I made'em:)! I made a few sets for Brickfest to 'spread the word' about the SMs, and they were pretty well-recieved. No trading card game was created (thankfully), though I wonder how the Sea Monkeys (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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