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(...) I’m working on some multi level displays with members of COLTC. Here is some ideas that I have come up with. The main thing was cost then sturdiness. I use 8x16 soccer bricks that were real cheap. Then place our Base plates on them. I have (...) (20 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) I would love to see a General Lee! There could also be some easy revenue for Lego if they get the set designed by August for the release of the new "The Dukes of Hazzard" film. Do you think the Confederate flag on top the car would pose a (...) (20 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.town)
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(...) If you have lots of spare 2x4 bricks, then you can use the same technique we used at the 2002 GETS show: (URL) does use *lots* of 2x4 brick, and a few others, and you have to be quite careful to not leave large fractures in the structure, but (...) (20 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
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(...) Joe- At SCLTC, we build tunnels and subterranean structures by stacking tables on top of each other using short legs and knobs bolted to the tops of the underlying tables. We haved stacked as tables as high as 5 levels in one place when (...) (20 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
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(...) Consider GMLTC lattice. Strong, light, made of common elements and modular in that it conforms to various heights well. XFUT lugnet.trains... a search with this string "GMLTC lattice" should find you a pic of it... (20 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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For my town I took the arches from the SAH site. Imagine looking at the baseplate. I placed two going north, one going east and west on the front and then depending on where they are in the tunnel I may have a total of 8 arches two in each (...) (20 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
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We're thinking about raising up half of our town, so that we can have the train run into a tunnel and be a subway train on the elevated half and a surface train on the other half (with the two halves joined by a hill). This will also allow us to (...) (20 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
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(...) For the next batch of possible fake LEGO sets featuring cars from popular entertainment, I nominate the following: -- Orange Dodge Charger "General Lee" -- 1959 Cadillac Ambulance "Ghostbusters" car -- 1958 Red Plymouth Fury from movie (...) (20 years ago, 11-May-05, to lugnet.town)
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Thomas has posted the first 127 photos of the May 7-8 SCLTC show at Fullerton Railroad Days at (URL). Here's some samples. (4 URLs) If you missed the chance to see the show in person, good news! The entire show, plus more, will also be at the 2005 (...) (20 years ago, 11-May-05, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org.scltc, lugnet.town, FTX) !!
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"Larry Pieniazek" <larry.(mylastname)@...e.DOT.com> wrote in message news:IGAMnG.21G6@lugnet.com... (...) worse (...) I agree wholeheartedly. While the color changes annoys me, I have moved on. The proliferation of click hinges bugs me though (...) (20 years ago, 11-May-05, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Me either. I am guessing this won't get ME any new fans, but I think this change is worse than the gray/bley color change, actually. (20 years ago, 10-May-05, to lugnet.town)
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"Rob Hendrix" <rob.removebeforesen...msltc.org> wrote in message news:IGA987.wDr@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) LEGO's (...) Has to be fake. The Delorean uses the fingered type windshield instead of the newer click hinge (yuch, yuch, (...) (20 years ago, 10-May-05, to lugnet.town)
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"Scott E. Thomas" <bozeman1941@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:IG9p6v.101I@lugnet.com... (...) I vote fake based on the white clouded area around the main models. LEGO's racers in this series don't have that clouded area. We had a lengthy (...) (20 years ago, 10-May-05, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Wow. If they're fakes, they're GOOD fakes. Given the fact that the 'canister' orientation varies between shots, and there's little bits of the side art we can't even see (like the blue/white whisp in the upper right of the 1st pictured (...) (20 years ago, 10-May-05, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Oh, come on--you're never wrong. Well, just that one time. RE: Licensing; I believe you are correct. To my knowledge, Art Asylum currently holds the only brick-based construction toy (URL) license for Batman,> and this covers the comic book (...) (20 years ago, 10-May-05, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) If I were guessing, I'd guess fake. LEGO previewed 4 new Racers tyre can sets at Toy Fair in NYC in Feb, and these weren't them. These have a lot of licensing prerequesites that just shout "not likely to have happened without fanfare" to me. (...) (20 years ago, 10-May-05, to lugnet.town)
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Hello all, I was checking out all the new files on Brickshelf and came across this folder: (URL) these sets fake or real? I checked the Lego S@H website with no matches found. Any help would be appreciated. Scott Member 718 (20 years ago, 10-May-05, to lugnet.town)
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I recently received a copy of 9293 Community Workers from Shop@Home, and the box has me curious about something. There is a sticker on the upper-right side of the box with the item number, piece count and bar code. The sticker also says Version: 29. (...) (20 years ago, 10-May-05, to lugnet.town, lugnet.inv)
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(...) Yes, those are mine as well. I used to primarily build aircraft, but a few years ago I started building more and more cars and trucks and currently most of my LEGO goes into such things. I bought a digital camera two weeks ago and have started (...) (20 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.town)
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(...) I'm assuming those large scale vehicles are yours too? (crown vic, old impala, car transporter, heavy wrecker etc) (URL) (cars) (URL) (trucks) (URL) (buses) (URL) (civic) Nice work. VERY nice work indeed. Xposted to lugnet.town and (...) (20 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
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