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17 entries already - keep 'em coming! (URL) House: Limited edition kit (URL) Kits & Custom Lego models: (URL) store: (URL) auctions: (URL) Lego Web page: (URL) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Here's one for you: Small Building (URL) common North American Bungalow, made for NALGUG's display at GETS train show in Sept '00. More entries will come, as things get built for SuperTrain 2001 in Calgary. James (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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(...) A few suggestions: First, Javascript isn't necessary to load images, operate buttons or pretty much anything else. Some people surf with it turned off to avoid pop-up advertisements. Javascript is a tool for advertisers and little else. (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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Kevin: Structures (URL) Girder bridge Jacob Sparre Andersen One meter long girder bridge built from 1*8 plates. Play well, Jacob -- Growing older is compulsory. Growing up isn't. (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Here is what I have so far: Diorama (URL) Street multi-building scene. Small Building (URL) origionally built for my Medieval town this church has become a fixture in my modern town. I hope to be able to do more but time is tight so we'll see. (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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Dave: (...) I can't say I have a LEGO city as such. It is more like a few buildings placed here and there, but I will answer anyway. (...) Hmmm??? Living space (counting sleeping places): 4 - (URL) 2 - (URL) 6 - Another one of Katrine's houses 2 - (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Oops, forgot one. Pickup with Truck Camper (URL) camper is removable from the 5-wide pickup bed, has an openning rear door, two bunks, and a kitchenette. I can take pictures of this too, if someone wants to see them. --Bram Bram Lambrecht (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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OK, I guess I'll start entering: Medium? Building: ---...--- Fallingwater (URL) selectively compressed rendition of FLW's famous design, built from the floor plans. Small Vehicles: ---...--- Rolls Royce Phantom I (URL) simple 4-wide minifig scale (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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Announcing the first annual Town building contest! Go here for details: (URL) must be in by Feb 15th. Kevin ---...--- Victorian House: Limited edition kit (URL) Kits & Custom Lego models: (URL) store: (URL) auctions: (URL) Lego Web page: (URL) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.town, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.boats, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general) !!
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<snip> (...) I agree with Suz with an additional comment. The "wow" factor of seeing a picture using real bricks is different (not saying better, not saying worse - just "different") than the "wow" factor of seeing a DAT/CAD rendition. Both are (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Yes. All of my people live at the mall. Those that aren't in jail, at least. (Probably for shoplifting.) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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Dave & All, (...) the (...) call (...) number (...) Well, I know I am guilty of it. I have only one or two houses in my now defunct town, and I have a large number of police, but I can let that drift simply becuase of the way TLC markets products. I (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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(...) I tend to look for variety in my Town. With too many houses, there is no room left over for other types of structures, and as Larry said, houses tend to be boring (Just paraphrasing ;-) ) Personally, I have about 10 houses of different styles (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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I don't bother with trying to realistically zone my cities. It turns out that because of their larger size, commercial buildings offer much more architectural freedom, so I usually end up with about 90% commercial! Dave Amos <davea21@rocketmail.com> (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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(...) I agree. However, you can sometimes get around the skew by building an interesting apartment complex in your city layout, or have taller buildings with living space on top of street level stores. -Dave www.bricktannia.com (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Well, most industries are far larger than houses and employ more people than live in a typical house. So you can argue that there ought to be a lot more houses (even factoring out apartments). But houses by the millions are boring, so if you (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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I made a futuristic police station. You can see it here: (URL) Wilson <jonwil@tpgi.com.au> wrote in message news:3A52D3B8.98AA4C....com.au... (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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Geocities changed their naming conventions. Any links to my website will need to be reset. Simply delete the tilda, "~", before edboxer ("www.geocities.com/...lego.html" to "www.geocities.com/e...go.html"). (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.town, lugnet.castle, lugnet.announce)
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(...) When I get around to making town things I go by the proprtion 3 to 5 for every 3 houses, I have 5 commercial/Industriel. That is assuming people have to drive to work from other cities in normal cases. Rick (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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In lugnet.town, Kevin Wilson writes: [snip] (...) [snip] (...) [snip] It looks like you came to a very good solution. I'm ready! -Suz (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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