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(...) As I kid I loved construction toys. The original Expert Builder line included a crane, a forklift, a bulldozer and a tractor. While the first three were interesting to me, I thought the tractor was boring. Do kids really like farming toys? I'm (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: MOC: Dutch Otherdam downtown and Suburbian home 'Wybert'
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(...) I'm glad you noticed the details and inside jokes. Thanks for your remarks. Eric (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: The "return" of Town in 2003
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(...) Yea, that's what I was getting at. And even the Blacksmith shop would normally be a $60 set (I'm real curious as to why it is such a bargain). At $60 I think the Blacksmith shop would be a hard sell for kids. Now take some of these larger AFOL (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: The "return" of Town in 2003
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(...) I suspect that such things appeal more to adults than to kids. Games like cops-and-robbers or playing with model cars, planes and fire engines all pre-date Lego or are successful as non-Lego toys, so it is hardly surprising that a Lego police (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: The "return" of Town in 2003
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"Allan Bedford" <ExpertBuilder-DELET...otome.com> wrote in message news:H6B7uD.5st@lugnet.com... (...) sets. (...) think (...) was a (...) this? Not trying to answer for Frank, but I understood him to mean that while the Blacksmith Shop is a great (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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(...) So, if I understand you, you're sort of saying that the Blacksmith's Shop was a good idea, but one that was overpriced? Or am I misreading your stance on this? I wonder if 'compete' is the wrong word in this case. Perhaps I should have said, (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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What you'd need are churches and pubs. The average village in Ireland does not consist of 4 fire stations, 3 police stations, 1 shop and one house, more likely that would be 4 pubs, three churches, a shop and a house.... I'm not much of an expert on (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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(...) While it would be lovely to see more LEGO sets like the Blacksmith's Shop, I don't expect TLC to ever compete with the buildings that AFOLs (and kids) build. Why? At the nominal price of 10 cents a brick, the types of buildings that AFOLs (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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| | RE: The "return" of Town in 2003
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(...) As in real life, there are old police/fire stations that are "sold", redone, becoming other types of buildings... :) (...) And everyone wants to be a racer. Well... I'd rather keep on having Police/Fire/Hospital than nothing... maybe that's (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: The "return" of Town in 2003
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(...) Then perhaps the question becomes: Does 'Town' always have to equate to police and fire stations? I think the simple answer is, 'no'. What about schools, a library, low-rise office buildings, churches, and the list goes on. Maybe it isn't (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: The "return" of Town in 2003
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"Jan-Albert van Ree" <javanree@vanree.net> wrote in message news:3DE5FF78.405080...ree.net... (...) But how many police and fire stations do people need ?? :) I understand they give a good deal of scope for 'exciting' creative play, but the average (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: The "return" of Town in 2003
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(...) At LEGOWorld 2002 Brad Justus hinted that Town wasn't dead... maybe this is what he meant? Can't wait, would love to see some decent buildings (re)appear! (22 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.town, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Legends 10036 & 10037 at TRU
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I was at my local TRU (Charlotte, NC) today and found 10036 Pizza to Go and 10037 Breezeway Cafe on the shelves. Both were $19.99. That's $3.00 off the 10037 S&H price. Ken (22 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: The "return" of Town in 2003
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(...) Must not burst bubble Must not burst bubble Must not burst bubble Must not burst bubble Must not burst bubble Arrgh! I have a sneeking suspicion that this info may be connected to a Rep saying they were going to re-name JACK STONE, because (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.town, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: MOC: Dutch Otherdam downtown and Suburbian home 'Wybert'
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So nice, Eric. You realy caught the Dutch atmosphere (for instance, Sally does not signal direction when she turns a corner on her bike :-) very good are the funny "fallen into the water" incident, and the sheer variation in buiding styles and (...) (22 years ago, 27-Nov-02, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: MOC: Dutch Otherdam downtown and Suburbian home 'Wybert'
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Hey, I saw the entry for the ISCC yesterday. One word - amazing. There are so many cool details. Each of the buildings is a cool MOC just by itself, so the overall picture is overwhelming. I especially like the one that is supposed to be more (...) (22 years ago, 27-Nov-02, to lugnet.town)
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| | Additions to my Town Planning site
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I've added two new articles to my Town Planning site, one on Layout Design: (URL) one on Ideas for Buildings: (URL) you have comments, corrections, additions, or ideas for more articles (especially if you'd like to write one!) please let me know. (...) (22 years ago, 27-Nov-02, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce) !
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| | Re: The "return" of Town in 2003
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Benjamin, Thank you for sharing this with us. I find it interesting that this news came up. The fact that Lego has produced a new set of road plates ((URL) may indeed point to a new town theme offering. A recent Lego Shop at Home catalog showed the (...) (22 years ago, 27-Nov-02, to lugnet.town, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | New member say hello
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Hello everybody My name is Jean, im 39 years old, I am a new member on Lugnet, and I would have liked to have some explanation on this site (in French as possible, English is not very easy for me). I am vicinities of Liége in Belgium (from Herstal (...) (22 years ago, 27-Nov-02, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: MOC: Dutch Otherdam downtown and Suburbian home 'Wybert'
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(...) Please use javascript sparingly. As far as I can tell it's used on these pages to assemble frames, which is unnecessary. Some people surf with JS turned off, because it's the medium through which much advertising, including pop-ups, is (...) (22 years ago, 27-Nov-02, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: MOC: Dutch Otherdam downtown and Suburbian home 'Wybert'
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(...) Eric, That is a spectacular city, if the other entries int he ISCC approach that level of detail, it's going to be a great contest! Thanks, George (22 years ago, 27-Nov-02, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: MOC: Dutch Otherdam downtown and Suburbian home 'Wybert'
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(...) Wow - that is really a great entry for the ISCC II, Eric! You have raised the bar regarding the detailing and building technic once again and the way you set the pictures in sceene is simply brilliant. You have now banned so many of the small (...) (22 years ago, 27-Nov-02, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: MOC: Dutch Otherdam downtown and Suburbian home 'Wybert'
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(...) I didn't see it on ISCC II yet. But Wow! What a great presentation, I've just spent 10 minutes following all the zoom in and pan links and it's really splendid the way you have everything linked together, it adds a lot. And of course the (...) (22 years ago, 27-Nov-02, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: The "return" of Town in 2003
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(...) Well thanks for sharing the info just the same. We'll all have to wait and keep our fingers crossed, ne? Trimmed FUT to just .town ++Lar (hoping for a return of town sets I would want to buy) (22 years ago, 27-Nov-02, to lugnet.town, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: MOC: Dutch Otherdam downtown and Suburbian home 'Wybert'
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(...) Nicely done. I really like how most of the buildings have different colors for the walls, getting that chiped block look. Good work! (...) Neat. Have you submitted the instructions to the BI Portal? (URL) Spears MichLUG - (URL) Page - (URL) (22 years ago, 27-Nov-02, to lugnet.town)
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| | The "return" of Town in 2003
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G'day all, I'm just back after visiting a LEGO "show" in Melbourne, where I found out that LEGO WILL be releasing a town style range next year...I don't know if it will be town Jr. [though I think it may as it was mentioned as "City" was returning] (...) (22 years ago, 27-Nov-02, to lugnet.town, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.au) !
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| | MOC: Dutch Otherdam downtown and Suburbian home 'Wybert'
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New on LEGO on my mind: *Otherdam downtown* Otherdam downtown is a LEGO version of an imaginary Dutch city block. Have a look at a mix of old and new, along a typical canal. Take a visual tour through town. Building tips will be added soon. Also, (...) (22 years ago, 27-Nov-02, to lugnet.town, lugnet.announce, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.general) !!
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| | Re: fire pages updated...
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I've been at it again... :) I decided to build an antique fire truck (for an upcoming project Brunswick Fire Station and Museum). Here is the folder (pending approval): (URL) is the lugnet page it is on (with some pics of the antique hose truck): (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.town)
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| | MichLTC train/town display at local NMRC show, Livonia MI
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The Michigan Lego Train Club displayed in Livonia this past Sunday. While this was an extremely small layout for us because of limited setup time, I think we had a very strong display with a lot of great detail. Many of the buildings have already (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Re: SCLTC up and running at SDMRRM now through New Years!
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(...) Definitely a good idea. Problems are: 1. The museum has no more permanent layout space available (the last space went to some Lionel types last year). 2. This museum works with some heavy sponsorship relationships. People are always amazed (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org.scltc, lugnet.org.us.lugola, lugnet.town)
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| | fire pages updated...
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Hi, There isn't anything that new that I've built with respect to town. I did take some new pics of my two fire stations and its apparatus. On the main fire page, I linked a picture to it. Here is the main fire page, (URL) the nine proposed (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-02, to lugnet.town)
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| | Santa's Building Creation Station
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You may remember that a few Christmases back, Department 56 issued several Lego-licensed collectibles, including the Building Creation Station: (URL) MichLTC's train show today in Livonia, MI, I thought I'd translate it into real Lego: General views (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-02, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.fun.holiday) !!
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| | Re: SCLTC up and running at SDMRRM now through New Years!
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A suggestion should be made to the SDMRRM that the LEGO® layout be a permanent feature of the museum, just like the O, N and HO scale layouts already are. Think of the publicity and recognition! -Harvey (22 years ago, 24-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org.scltc, lugnet.org.us.lugola, lugnet.town)
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| | Making your own Stickers?
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Hi, My Fiance and I have just finished working through our sets and have noticed a number of sets aer missing stickers. Can anyone recommend any particular printer paper for both clear and white stickers? What sort of printer do you find is best? I (...) (22 years ago, 24-Nov-02, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Painted Windows at LLC?(was: Re: Ross Neal's ISCC Contest entry: BN EMD GP-50)
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(...) LLC put's several layers of UV protective coating on the models to protect them from the SoCal sun and sometimes it appears that they have been painted. Acording to a LLC Model Builder, they do not paint parts. Robert Powell (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.town)
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| | RIDING ON THE HORSE !!(A new idea about Minifig Motorcycles.)
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Hello, town-mates! Here is my New, Simple, Nasty, suggestion. (URL) original idea part is only "Minifig riding by sliding & widen leg parts". Other body parts (a front tyre, arms, radiator....) are prototype & test verison, inspired by glagla. Check (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: NovaLUG 2nd Show (Dartmouth)
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Hello again, I forgot to mention that I motorized all the switches for the train yard. Nothing fancy, like no mindstorms involved, but I built 5 different version to test and they worked well for the display, because they would have been hard to (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.events, lugnet.announce, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.ca.ns, lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: Ross Neal's ISCC Contest entry: BN EMD GP-50
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(...) It's time you got off the pot and ate (8;-) (...) Interesting question. The end profile of a log brick is slightly tapered (I exploit this fact in a lot of my buildings: (URL) chose this shot especially for you, Jonathan, because I know how (...) (22 years ago, 20-Nov-02, to lugnet.town)
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| | NovaLUG 2nd Show (Dartmouth)
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Hey folks, Our fledgling NovaLUG is proud to announce the successful completion of our second public event. We were invited to participate in the Dartmouth Model Train & Hobby Show on November 16th in the Dartmouth Sportsplex. We couldn't have asked (...) (22 years ago, 20-Nov-02, to lugnet.events, lugnet.announce, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.ca.ns, lugnet.loc.ca) !
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| | Privet Drive car redux
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I built this car from "the pile" and 2 4728s ((URL) day: (URL) (22 years ago, 20-Nov-02, to lugnet.town)
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| | Furniture and more
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Hi all, As I am continuing with my large fire station (URL) have begun work on some interior details, including furniture. I think some of it turned out pretty well: A couch with armrests (URL) rolling office chair (URL) are more photos of both in (...) (22 years ago, 19-Nov-02, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Honey, I shrunk the Chateau!
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(...) You've had to *work*??? I hate it when "work" gets in the way of build and talking about LEGO! Priorities, man;-) As far as building around it, no. This building and all of my other so-called "backdrop" buildings are exactly that-- stuff that (...) (22 years ago, 19-Nov-02, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Honey, I shrunk the Chateau!
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(...) lol I didn't think of it that way-- another way to console myself for tearing her apart-- thanks:-) (...) Thanks. I was hoping it would inspire folks to build one or something like it and send it to either the NGLTC or the NELUG or both for (...) (22 years ago, 19-Nov-02, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Honey, I shrunk the Chateau!
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Hey John, This looks really nice. It preserves all of the key features of the original, but in addition to freeing up space it will also free up a lot of elements (all those windows, railings, blue slopes, etc) for future projects. Oh, btw, I really (...) (22 years ago, 19-Nov-02, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Honey, I shrunk the Chateau!
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(...) Hi John, My apologies for the deliquency in noticing this. (I've actually had to do 'work' at work the past few days). Very nice. Looks to me like a Mayoral Mansion for a city. Any plans to put a cityesque landsacape around it? What parts are (...) (22 years ago, 19-Nov-02, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Honey, I shrunk the Chateau!
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(...) Thanks John .like tim said I have seen your Brickshelf folder many atime and I'm allways inspired!.As for my latest it's by far my most detailed building I done and the colors are great to work with (as is the dk red/lt grey blg .I'm in the (...) (22 years ago, 18-Nov-02, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: 6-wide cars
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(...) V8[1] into a 6-wide ;-). (...) I have two on my web site: (2 URLs) well, Jacob (22 years ago, 18-Nov-02, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Honey, I shrunk the Chateau!
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(...) Thanks for the kind words, Tim! I hope to post up a few more buildings this week. -John (22 years ago, 18-Nov-02, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Honey, I shrunk the Chateau!
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(...) Oooh, sharp building, Chris! Nicely detailed; plenty of good architectual angling, and good coloration, too. You will have to join the Ashcan school of LEGO town builders I am forming with Jonathan:-) -John (22 years ago, 18-Nov-02, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Honey, I shrunk the Chateau!
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"John" <John@TCLTC.org> wrote in message news:H5qJzp.GwD@lugnet.com... (...) trees (...) I (...) pics. John: I also like how you have modified the front stairs. Overall, the Chateau now looks like an elegant in town home rather than a country (...) (22 years ago, 18-Nov-02, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.town)
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| | Pictures and Movies from NELUG Greenberg show 11/17/02
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I will let the pictures do the talking, although I will say if you have the bandwidth to open the second movie on the top of the first page of pictures it is well worth it. It shows our amusement park in action which is the only way to do it (...) (22 years ago, 18-Nov-02, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.town) !!
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| | Re: Honey, I shrunk the Chateau!
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In lugnet.build.arch, John Neal writes: Very nice work John. In future please consider setting FUT just one group though... .trains.org for example ought to be confined to the mechanics and logistics and theory of organizations. Your post would be (...) (22 years ago, 17-Nov-02, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Honey, I shrunk the Chateau!
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(...) John it came out great!I still love the way the pillers came out in your building.I liked it so much I incorporated pillers into one of my latest blocks (URL) using my fav. color to build with right now(tan and dark gray).Chris MichLTC (22 years ago, 17-Nov-02, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Honey, I shrunk the Chateau!
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(...) Thank you, Richard. Actually, I could have, but I have forsaken cyprus trees because I prefer to build my own trees instead. I do have four trees that I plan to "plant" in front of the chateau; I just didn't include them in the pics. Pics of (...) (22 years ago, 17-Nov-02, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Honey, I shrunk the Chateau!
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(...) Very impressive John. I especially liked the use on the tree's on the origional version, they seemed to add a sense of grand scale. Its a shame that you could not fit those at the front of the new version. Richard (22 years ago, 17-Nov-02, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.town)
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| | Honey, I shrunk the Chateau!
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When I built my chateau a few years back, it was simply an exercise of love-- bulk bricks had just become available, and the doors to creating larger and more complicated and detailed MOCs were opened. It, however, became this large labor of love (...) (22 years ago, 17-Nov-02, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.town)
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| | 6-wide cars
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I'm new to Town stuff, but after seeing the car in the new Escape From Privet Drive set, I thought it would be fun to make some 6-wide cars. They're not based on any specific real cars. There's a truck: (URL) a car: (URL) based these off of 8-wide (...) (22 years ago, 14-Nov-02, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: multi-set 'town' images on 1978-79 town instructions
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"Jeff Stembel" <aulddragon@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:H5F04K.Drt@lugnet.com... (...) and (...) but (...) that I (...) use (...) as (...) picture? (...) building is the ONLY "set" in that diorama that is NOT shown in the catalog. That is (...) (22 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: multi-set 'town' images on 1978-79 town instructions
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Don't forget 770 (US) / 386 (Europe) (URL) Wilson Lugnet #1783 (22 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: multi-set 'town' images on 1978-79 town instructions
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(...) Hmmm. I could have sworn I once saw a hospital-type set that was available briefly around the time of 6666, and with similar colors. I recall seeing it in a shelf-mounted catalog at a Service Merchandise in New Hampshire back in the early (...) (22 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: multi-set 'town' images on 1978-79 town instructions
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(...) too.) (...) Funny you mention this. A few of us discussed this item during BrickFest 2002, during my 'old Lego paperwork' session. My understanding is that indeed, these catalog pictures are supposed to show real sets, and that hospital was (...) (22 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: multi-set 'town' images on 1978-79 town instructions
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(...) G'day, I think you'll find that the jeep came with the fire station set [at least the international version did, and I assume the US version would have as well] Incidentally, the image here is different to the one that I was originally (...) (22 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: multi-set 'town' images on 1978-79 town instructions
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(...) Ditto. Ah, the classic era from the late 70s to the late 80s. I must stop now, otherwise I will go on. (sighs contentedly). (...) From 1987: Med-Star Rescue Plane (URL) 1978: Medic's Car (URL) 1989: Rescue Helicopter (URL) 1987: Red Cross (...) (22 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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| | AdeLUG's #5 - Write up
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Here is the write up for the Adelaide LEGO Users Group meeting #5 It can also be found at the AdeLUG's website: (URL) - AdeLUG's #5, Sunday 10 November 2002 THEME - Moonbase Project VENUE - Holdfast Bay Community Centre, Hove (about 20mins (...) (22 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.au.sa.ade, lugnet.castle, lugnet.fabuland, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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| | Freight Truck?
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Hi, While searching the Lugnet database for another thread, I came across this: (URL) have these ones: (URL) the first set above is one I don't even remember seeing before. Was this not made available in the U.S.? It sure would be a nice addition to (...) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-02, to lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: multi-set 'town' images on 1978-79 town instructions
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(...) Ah, seeing this image makes me feel all warm inside. Pictures from that era were from the first catalogs I had as a child. As for the hospital, I always assumed it was a Europe-only set (like the trains pictured in other brochures of my (...) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-02, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: multi-set 'town' images on 1978-79 town instructions
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(...) No need to scan it, it was in the '79 US catalog: (URL) would guess it was a promotional set or something. I don't think they would have used a non-set for that image. (...) I'd also guess that it was released on that plate, if it is a real (...) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-02, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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| | multi-set 'town' images on 1978-79 town instructions
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G'day, I was looking through my small collection of instructions the other day, and I noticed that on almost every set of instructions for town there is a picture of a town made up from sets available at the time the set was, but with the (...) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-02, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Legoworld 2002 - a brief review (and a longer one)
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Hi Ben, When I red your story I can only say one sentence: I've missed a lot. This year I haven't visited the event after a more or less bad experience last year because of the entrance tickets. Maybe that was the reason I didn't showed up. Well, (...) (22 years ago, 10-Nov-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.be, lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: BrickTopia Spaceport
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(...) Kerry (22 years ago, 10-Nov-02, to lugnet.town)
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| | SCLTC at Cal Stewart Show in Pasadena, California!
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We've done another show! (And it's still happening!) On November 9-10, 2002, the Southern California LEGO Train Club displayed their mountain layout at the Cal Stewart show in Pasadena, California. (Wait a second... today's the 9th, so why am I (...) (22 years ago, 10-Nov-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains.org.scltc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ca.la) !
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| | Reminder: MonLUG and ParLUGment's joint Train Show this weekend
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Hello, I'm proud to announce MonLUG's third and ParLUGment's second participation in a Montreal Area train show. It will be held at Georges-Vanier High School in Laval (just north of Montreal) on Saturday, November9th from 10am to 5pm and Sunday, (...) (22 years ago, 8-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.loc.ca.qc.mon, lugnet.org.ca.monlug, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: 6472 no longer available in Europe!
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What you do is get a friend or relative to receive the set for you. You would be able to order it with your own credit card, and send it to their address in the USA, you do that by setting the "ship to" country to USA, but you would pay the exchange (...) (22 years ago, 8-Nov-02, to lugnet.town, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.eu)
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| | Re: SCLTC Closes Out 2002 With 2 Public Displays!
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SCLTC Year End Public Displays The SCLTC is proud to announce that our multi-level mountain town will be on public display at the following locations: November 10, 2002 Toy Train Operating Society Annual Cal-Stewart Meet (...) (22 years ago, 5-Nov-02, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains.org.scltc, lugnet.org.us.lugola)
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| | Re: Pirates Festival at Mission San Juan Capistrano
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Cross posting the attached announcement. Ray (...) (22 years ago, 2-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.org.us.lugola, lugnet.org.us.baylug)
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| | How to incorporate Large Church into town layout?
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(...) Thanks for all your nice comments, it looks lioke over 1000 hits in 1 day on my Brickshelf folder, could that be true? In order to proceed with the project, I have a few questions as a beginning city designer. I want to make my church a part (...) (22 years ago, 2-Nov-02, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Large Church
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In-freakin'-credible! That's some great work, Paul! I love the details; it all looks real to me, and your rendition of a church organ has lots of classic feel to it. Love it! Peace and Long Life, Tony Alexander (22 years ago, 2-Nov-02, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Large Church
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Great job Paul! Had no idea it'd turn out that big just by looking at the first pic! Its a beautiful church, the choir is cool. I'm just dying to ask a question, but I don't think I should ; ). Anyways, beautiful church. Now you just need pics of (...) (22 years ago, 1-Nov-02, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Large Church
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(...) The closest one to you is BLOC... (URL) also have a lugnet discussion group that they don't seem to use. I don't think they've done any shows. You might want to contact them to find out what they have planned. One of these days I'll stop in on (...) (22 years ago, 1-Nov-02, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Large Church
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(...) Thanks. No it would, why, I just shelled out $100's to get all the trans bricks for my stain windows, I hate to see prices drop right after I spend good $$ on 'em. I don't need them anymore....:>) (Actually, just a few more would be nice to (...) (22 years ago, 1-Nov-02, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Large Church
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(...) A very impressive work. Nice detail. I love the organ. Wouldn't it be nice if LEGO did a trans brick bulk pack? :-) Amy (22 years ago, 1-Nov-02, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Large Church
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Paul, this is a beautiful construction all around. While the overall architecture and roofwork just blows me away, I am particularly impressed with the minifig work inside -- the ingenious outfitting, furniture, and props, especially of course, that (...) (22 years ago, 1-Nov-02, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Large Church
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(...) Wow! I'm ont a fan of religious buildings, but this is HUGE! Very impressive indeed. (22 years ago, 31-Oct-02, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Large Church
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Wow! I saw the thumbnail on the "Recent" page of Brickshelf and said "Oh, cute little microfig church" Then I clicked on the folder and was floored. Very impressive! My favorite detail is the organ, which would be an amazing MOC in its own right, (...) (22 years ago, 31-Oct-02, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Large Church
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(...) On one side ("parking lot"), the big windows form a big cross, red in the middle, and a layer of light blue and yellow surrounding it. On the other side, it is a diamond, but does not yet stretch across all windows. These transparent bricks (...) (22 years ago, 31-Oct-02, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Large Church
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(...) That's quite the church! Very nice building. I like the half stud offset for the 1x3 arches behind the 1x4 arches. The stain (trans) glass appears to have a somewhat random pattern, is there something there I am not seeing? Any guess on the (...) (22 years ago, 31-Oct-02, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Large Church
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(...) Actually, from Star Wars, the cloth on the altar is from scala I beleive (from a bed or so). for the robes of the choir I took 2 cloth capes, put one on the back, and then one on the front. I used a small technic rubber belt in white to make a (...) (22 years ago, 31-Oct-02, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Large Church
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(...) It's gross contours are loosely based on the Church in my birthcity, Roermond, the Netherlands (based on 4 photos I found on the web). However, alot of it is freestyle, because large portions of the original church are round, or octagonal (...) (22 years ago, 31-Oct-02, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Large Church
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Hello! Great! Stunning! I like the details like the organ and the Communion goblets. Where are the clothes from? Scala? I couldn't complain about any aspects of your architectural work (even if I would like). Just one point: I think the candles (...) (22 years ago, 31-Oct-02, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Large Church
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(...) Wow, that's absolutely gorgeous! Is it based off any particularly church model? Adrian -- www.brickfrenzy.com (22 years ago, 31-Oct-02, to lugnet.town)
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| | Large Church
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My latest church project is almost finished. I've got to landscape around the church a bit more, but the building is more or less finished. Comments are welcome. See it at: (URL) the secret where all the white arches have gone is out.... Thanks for (...) (22 years ago, 31-Oct-02, to lugnet.town) !!
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| | Re: Translink (Vancouver) New Flyer Low Floor Bus
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(...) Yup, next time you are on the bus durring rush hour, appreciate the amount of room you have. Compare it to the 1 seat in each row on a lego version! Next year I will have to make a 60 foot articulated bus for the layout. Let's see how much of (...) (22 years ago, 31-Oct-02, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Translink (Vancouver) New Flyer Low Floor Bus
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Hey Tim that looks awesome! The detailing inside is really nice, you even have a red line! good job of cramming lots of detail into a small space. cool! Keep it up -Geordan- snip (22 years ago, 31-Oct-02, to lugnet.town)
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| | Office tower project
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xposted to announce.moc Here are some early images of my new office tower. I was hoping to have a few more floors in place but I had to cut it short due to time constraits and the lack of enough clear pieces. So this is version one: (URL) kind of (...) (22 years ago, 30-Oct-02, to lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc)
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| | Office tower project
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Here are some early images of my new office tower. I was hoping to have a few more floors in place but I had to cut it short due to time constraits and the lack of enough clear pieces. So this is version one: (URL) kind of reminds me of that toy in (...) (22 years ago, 30-Oct-02, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Curved Glass Skyscraper
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(...) spying competitors with that clear a view into all the offices? ;-) Play well, Jacob (22 years ago, 29-Oct-02, to lugnet.town)
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| | The Climb
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Hi all, I've put together my first entry for the 1000steine.de international system creativity contest: (URL) going to try to put together another entry for the "large" category, hopefully something in a Castle theme that would go with my Lord of (...) (22 years ago, 29-Oct-02, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc)
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| | Translink (Vancouver) New Flyer 40' LF
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I finally got some pics of my Translink Bus that was displayed at the VLC's latest show in Chilliwack. I built it for one of the options we considered for our layout this year. One of the plans was to build a Lego Vancouver. I created a few vehicles (...) (22 years ago, 29-Oct-02, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Curved Glass Skyscraper
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(...) Thanks. The BrickLink bills were about $200 for the clear and white panels. I already had the rest of the pieces. I don't consider this too much though because before BrickLink, I'd have to spend $500 or more buying sets to get the pieces I (...) (22 years ago, 28-Oct-02, to lugnet.town)
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| | MichLUG at Train-O-Rama in Dearborn 10-27-02
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My photos of MichLUG's train show yesterday are now public on Brickshelf. Highlights of the show included: My St. Mary's of Redford: (URL) Haunted House and Graveyard: (URL) Art Deco auto dealership: (URL) wienermobile: (URL) Leach's fire station: (...) (22 years ago, 28-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.announce) !!
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