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Have you ever seen a scale 1:15 Liebherr LTM1400 LEGO-crane? I not, check this out! A few years ago a good friend of mine, Ron Jansen, built this briljant telescopic crane of Van Seumeren. It total height is 3.3 metres and it’s weight is 17 kg!! (...) (23 years ago, 27-Oct-01, to lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.technic, lugnet.events) !!
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| | Briqs - new site
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Hi all, just a little note to tell y'all my new site's up and running. Kinda bare still, lots of pictures to be scanned and added, but the first bits are there... Duq www.briqs.tmfweb.nl (23 years ago, 27-Oct-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Update on Maori/Bionicle dispute (OT)
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(...) Actually she wants to go to Jamaica next. That's a whole nuther kettle. (23 years ago, 27-Oct-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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| | Re: Update on Maori/Bionicle dispute (OT)
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(...) <snip> (...) Sorry to tease, Erik...I think it's really cool that you were so bitten with the tropical bug <g> that you wanted to learn more about the cultures you were visiting. I guess the wife knows the general area of your family vacations (...) (23 years ago, 27-Oct-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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Oh wow, this book I had picked up first is online. (URL) the first page you will get the idea to consider all Pacific cultures as inextricably mixed, although the book is about Ancient Hawai'i. Another book is Teuira Henry, Voyaging Chiefs of (...) (23 years ago, 27-Oct-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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| | Re: Update on Maori/Bionicle dispute (OT)
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(...) Well, it is one big tourist trap (West Maui.) After a while (2 days in my case) you can freak out because you're surrounded by artificial entertainments. I thought it would help to look under the surface. The most *disorienting* moment was (...) (23 years ago, 27-Oct-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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(...) <snip> (...) Right, but doesn't that show that LEGO specifically weren't lifting Maori culture and words? It took forethought to decide to give Bionicle a Pacific Island flavor, yet not impeed on any one specific peoples culture or beliefs. By (...) (23 years ago, 27-Oct-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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| | Re: Update on Maori/Bionicle dispute
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(...) I'm not sure what your point is here Matt -- quoting from the recent article: ' Mr Solomon and the groups he represents objected to the inappropriate use of Maori words, and the way the game mixed together strands of many cultures... "We would (...) (23 years ago, 27-Oct-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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(...) <snip> (...) But the Maori are the only ones to make a stink, so they are the ones LEGO is kowtowing to...squeeky wheel syndrome, ya' know? You'd think the Maori might notice this, but of course, there's money and press to be had. I still (...) (23 years ago, 27-Oct-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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(...) Lego has nothing to gain by poking fun of the Maori, but, someone has to tell them that they are not the only people in the Pacific! The original challenge was silly, because they are not exclusively Maori words. "If an agreement can be made (...) (23 years ago, 27-Oct-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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| | Re: Update on Maori/Bionicle dispute
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(...) It's great to see a positive result from this dispute!! ROSCO (23 years ago, 27-Oct-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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| | Modelshow Europe in Ochten, April 2002
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Write down in your calender: Modelshow Europe in Ochten, Netherlands: mid April 2002. Don’t mis it! During this show more than 200 exposants (!) shows their models. You can see models in the field of cranes, heavy haulage and construction equipment (...) (23 years ago, 26-Oct-01, to lugnet.events, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.technic)
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| | Super Saturday Project
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Well, tomorrow is Super Saturday and I spent the other day taking pictures and making some instructions for the kids to use. I posted them on Brickshelf here: (URL) check them out and give me some feedback. I put them up Wed. but we had a tornado go (...) (23 years ago, 26-Oct-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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| | Re: Large Crane MOC
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Hi guys, The red beams is the main problem: he hasn’t got enough of them. So he placed an other at S@H but they are (temporary) out of the assortment. I’ve already seen the undercarriage: gigantic! Tomorrow I will make some pictures of it. He also (...) (23 years ago, 26-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Large Crane MOC
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(...) Close enough! I think the maximum boom height (combined with jib) is around 198 meters. This scales to 8.3m, or 27.1 ft, in 1:24. However, there are many different boom configurations and they don't necessarily have to be as tall. But if he (...) (23 years ago, 26-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Large Crane MOC
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That's lucky - it scales to about 1000 studs, so just use some of the new 512 stud Technic beams ;) JB ... now were'd I put that ABS glue ... (...) (23 years ago, 26-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.technic)
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(...) Which, from memory, in its maximum boom configuration would give a scaled height of over eight metres! Could be *very* interesting indeed! Jennifer (23 years ago, 26-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Detailed pictures on my website
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They work in IE5.0, but Opera has the same problem as Netscape. I'll have a look at the code later... Duq Johannes Keukelaar <johannes@nada.kth.se> wrote in message news:j0oitd2ixwy.fsf....kth.se... (...) (23 years ago, 26-Oct-01, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.modelteam)
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| | Re: Detailed pictures on my website
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"DB" == Dennis Bosman <dennis.bosman@siemens.nl> writes: DB> I don't see any errors. They open on my PC .... Hmm. Funky. Pressing reload in the popup window a number of times does not help. What does help is looking at the source, picking out the (...) (23 years ago, 26-Oct-01, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.modelteam)
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| | Re: Detailed pictures on my website
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I don't see any errors. They open on my PC .... (...) (23 years ago, 26-Oct-01, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.modelteam)
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