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Here is a mini fig scale Gottwald AMK 1000t mobile crane. There was only one of these ever built. This Lego crane uses 2 micro motors, one running the main hook, and the second running the hold back line for the jib. The counter weight is made up of (...) (19 years ago, 26-Oct-05, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Fire Station
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(...) > and it's cheap, easy to build and ready for 6/8-studders. I've uploaded detailed photos of the doors to my Brickshelf folder. (URL) free to ask for details. (19 years ago, 24-Oct-05, to lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc)
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| | Excellent furniture models on Brickshelf
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Check out these very cute furniture designs! Not mine, probably someone German from the names... (URL) (19 years ago, 15-Oct-05, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: 2006 New Town Sets Sneak Peek
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(...) Things I noticed ... Ambulance This might be the best Lego ambulance ever. I want one! Lots of detail. And we get 1x3x4 doors in white! Hospital At first I was a little disappointed, but it's probably a good starter set for kids. Why the (...) (19 years ago, 8-Oct-05, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: 2006 sets
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(...) I agree. When I saw these new planes I felt thoroughly disappointed and uninspired. My hunch is that they're looking to put a 5+ age rating on the box. And if that's the case, I can't blame them for thinking they have to juniorize something. (...) (19 years ago, 7-Oct-05, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | Re: 2006 sets
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(...) Agreed. But is there a point where the pieces are so large and so specialized that it loses the creativity? That plane nose reminds me more of Playmobil than an open-ended building toy. (URL) -Steven (19 years ago, 7-Oct-05, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | Re: 2006 sets
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(...) Wouldn't this be where the "creativity" comes in? If I'ma kid, and I see how I can build a 4-wide plane, wouldn't I recognize that a wider plane would be better, so I'll look at all my parts and figure out how to make a wider plane? (plates & (...) (19 years ago, 7-Oct-05, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | Re: 2006 sets
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(...) They seem to be moving toward a more realistic scale for their vehicles. (A good move in my opinion.) The problem is that in doing so, Lego added a lot of "juniorization" in the process. Lego, why do we have to choose between having to choose (...) (19 years ago, 7-Oct-05, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | 2006 New Town Sets Sneak Peek
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Hey everyone. While perusing Brickshelf, I came across this gallery: (URL) The buildings are pretty ho-hum, but the vehicles look great. I really like that Lego concentrated on the little details, like an IV of sorts on the ambulance stretcher. The (...) (19 years ago, 6-Oct-05, to lugnet.town)
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| | Model Team Fomula 1 Racer.
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(2 URLs) MOCpage> (URL) Brickshelf Folder> Well, most of the info is already on the MOCpage so repeating it here would be kind of redundant. In a nutshell: 1:17 scale (give or take) -motorized intelligent (yeah, right) steering and propulsion (...) (19 years ago, 4-Oct-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.town, FTX) !
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| | Micro Tractor
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(2 URLs) Micro Tractor> This was a fun little last minute MOC I built for the micro farm I brought to Brickfest. It took about an hour to build, which included a lot of failed attempts using other building techniques. I was starting to think it (...) (19 years ago, 28-Sep-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, lugnet.build.microscale, FTX) !!
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| | Re: "Square Ghost Cafe"
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(...) I think I've finally found out what was wrong (see RTL for a detailed description, if you're curious). Now even MSIE should have access to the web-pages. Play well, Jacob (19 years ago, 25-Sep-05, to lugnet.town, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Town & Train at NWBrickCon 2005
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This is your friendly neighborhood NWBC Town/Train Coordinator. I need to know about Town and Train MOCs you are bringing to NWBrickCon 2005. (Haven't signed up yet? (URL) ) Large stuff (i.e., whole modules) I need to know about this week; smaller (...) (19 years ago, 25-Sep-05, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.events.nwbrickcon) !
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| | Re: Major update to my vehicle folder.
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Indeed! I will consider it an immense blunder on the part of the TLG hiring department if Pierre is not being interviewed (merely as a formality!) by the end of the coming week. Surely these are some of the best Town vehicles I've ever seen. A (...) (19 years ago, 24-Sep-05, to lugnet.town, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Q: What time do you go to the Dentist? A: 2:30 (ah ha ha ha ha!)
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(URL) The gallery: (URL) Steve (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.vignette, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Major update to my vehicle folder.
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(...) Pierre- I remember seeing some of your stuff at BrickFest PDX. It still totally rocks. As I think I told you there - the best town vehicle MOC's I have ever seen. You are awesome! -Matt :) (19 years ago, 20-Sep-05, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Major update to my vehicle folder.
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(...) (snip) (...) Thank you Steve! :-) With the price of gas these days, I'm not sure I'll attend each and every ParLUGment meeting. But I'll try to go to Railfair, and if I do I'll bring some MOCs for sure. Pierre (19 years ago, 19-Sep-05, to lugnet.town, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, FTX)
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| | Re: Major update to my vehicle folder.
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(...) (snip) (...) Thanks! Sorry, no instructions available at the moment. Pierre (19 years ago, 19-Sep-05, to lugnet.town, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Major update to my vehicle folder.
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(...) (snip) (...) (snip) (...) Thank you Jonathan! As you can see on my cement mixer folder, the shape of the "mixing section" is an idea from (URL) Doug Eaton>. I just made it longer and motorized it. It is powered with a train speed regulator at (...) (19 years ago, 19-Sep-05, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Major update to my vehicle folder.
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(...) Thank you Brian. :-) I always try to build at minifig scale and realistically as much as possible. Pierre (19 years ago, 19-Sep-05, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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