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(...) for your very kind words! The junkyard is just junk, but your wish for more pictures of the cars is easy to fullfill - check it out here: (URL) is quite hard to get the needed parts for the car together: you need 7(!) of the bigger parts with (...) (22 years ago, 13-Mar-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build)
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(...) Dear Frank, nothing is easier than that! That car is a 5-wide model of a VW beetle, which means it is not fitting into a 30ies sceenery, but anyway - I meant the side building to be in that fashion, not the whole sceenery, which is nearly (...) (22 years ago, 13-Mar-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build)
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Hi all, I received my 10041 Main Street from Lego last week, needless to say I'm very happy and it's an awesome set. Unfortunately, the T intersection baseplate is curved on one corner, making the plate very uneven when I place it on a perfectly (...) (22 years ago, 13-Mar-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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(...) that car, and just prowl around the junkyard. I do like all the details, the air pressure guages by teh bike, the woman eating a banana, it looks great. Thanks, George (22 years ago, 13-Mar-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build)
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(...) Hi Ben, Again a great building! The whole scene looks terrific and is up to the high standards we're used seeing from you. Really great stuff! If possible could you show some pictures of the car? kind regards, Frank Buiting (who goes back into (...) (22 years ago, 13-Mar-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build)
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(...) [snip] (...) [snip] (...) Ben, Hi. I really think this is a great rendition you've created! The house is a lovely replica and the whole structure works well. I especially like the garage doors (neat use of windscreen hinge ;)), the back door (...) (22 years ago, 13-Mar-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build)
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(...) I agree with Allister. When the State Fair comes to Virginia every year there is a John Deere toy vendor. We've purchased a few farm implements from this shop. I wish John Deere would offer this LEGO MOC at dealers and venues such as this. (...) (22 years ago, 13-Mar-03, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Thanks Rosco, The balloon tires worked best for me because I wanted to keep this as close to 8-wide as possible so it would still fit on a train car. -- Bill (TooMuchDew) In lugnet.announce.moc, William Toenjes writes: (...) (22 years ago, 13-Mar-03, to lugnet.town)
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes: <snip> The roof seems kinda heavyish but I really like the overall effect. The roadster came out great, really sets the era nicely. (22 years ago, 13-Mar-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build)
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(...) From another "big green" fan, very nice... Spotlighted. (22 years ago, 13-Mar-03, to lugnet.town)
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Beautifully rendered model. Very realistic. Those ballon tyres are perfect for this application. And it has steering! Excellent. I am a little concerned about the ground clearance to the ladder though. Does anyone know why TLC has never produced a (...) (22 years ago, 13-Mar-03, to lugnet.town)
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(...) That's a nice tractor, William! What does it look like with double rear wheels? 8?) ROSCO (22 years ago, 13-Mar-03, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Wow, what a beautiful tractor! I love the advanced building techniques like the three studs wide hood, the use of corrugated bricks, opening doors and the steering mechanism. Great work! Kind Regards, Ben www.fgltc.org (22 years ago, 13-Mar-03, to lugnet.town)
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Thanks Ross, I work in the construction industry and i know all about reinforced concrete design (i did do a module on that topic for my course). Alas i wanted to do something that i could build with the resourses that i had and could easliy obtain. (...) (22 years ago, 13-Mar-03, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.town)
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Hi all, I have just finished my latest MOC a few hours ago and have now shot some pictures of it. After moderation process it can be found here: (URL) MOC is after a real workshop in "Fischerhude" - a romantic small village full with halftimbered (...) (22 years ago, 13-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, lugnet.build) !!
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Beautimous! -Rob "TooMuchDew" <wtoenjes@attbi.com> wrote in message news:HBnryJ.253I@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) build (...) pictures (...) (22 years ago, 13-Mar-03, to lugnet.town)
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Greetings, I wanted to share a modern minifig-scale John Deere Tractor that I just finished building. I've been working on some multiples of vehicles with the intention of using them as loads on 8-wide flatbed cars for the G.M.L.T.C. train layout. (...) (22 years ago, 12-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town) !!
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Some of the SCLTC club members will be bringing a slightly enlarged "Pirates attacking the Mission" layout for this year's Return of the Swallows Cellebration at Mission San Juan Capistrano (expected size is 70" x 120"). The Pirate theme was (...) (22 years ago, 12-Mar-03, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.us.ca.la, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sd, lugnet.loc.us.ca, lugnet.loc.us.ca.la.sa, lugnet.org.us.lugola, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains.org.scltc)
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(...) (URL) as a point of interest, most high rise buildings are constructed with a solid concrete core, containing the liftwells and usually service rooms like toilets etc, with the beam construction only used for the rest of the floor area. ROSCO (22 years ago, 12-Mar-03, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.town)
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Hi everyone I been around just been quiet. I have just posted to brickshelf a piccy of one of my efforts. It is a steel frame highrise construction project set in the upcoming BUGS (Brisbane Lego Users Group) & BLTG (Brisbane Lego Train Group) (...) (22 years ago, 12-Mar-03, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.town)
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Great SNOT, errr, Scott! Adorable little fella. Really dig the sides though, IMHO they make the model. Take care, Soren (22 years ago, 10-Mar-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build.military)
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Hello, Well, after realizing I had a nice surplus of tan pieces remaining from the Allercus Module project, and a few innovative parts Ideas, I attempted to build a street car design... ...and found my results to be rather pleasing. Anyway, here's (...) (22 years ago, 10-Mar-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.general, lugnet.build.military)
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(...) Thanks, George (22 years ago, 7-Mar-03, to lugnet.town)
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(...) My neighbor said he'd gotten the truck to 450 hp. I've ridden in it & I KNOW it takes off--we buckled up in the 4 or 5 point (I forget) buckles he installed! Jeff (22 years ago, 7-Mar-03, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Sorry, thought you were fluent in car-geek-ese. "Meats" is a slang term for really BIG rear tires. BTW the "CSS" I spoke about in my first post was a truck Dodge made in the '60s that had (as an option) a huge Hemi engine. That truck hauled! (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Thanks! Um....looking up acronyms...hmm...MEATS? Jeff (22 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.town)
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Cool! A friend of mine used to have an old CSS, and I have a newer Dakota. It's great to see a custom Dodge, as the Ferd and Chebbie guys dominate the shows.. I like big MEATS on your MOC too! Darrell (22 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.town)
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(...) You may find these sets now called 'Junior' instead of Jack Stone. They are exactly the same. We have had the new road plates for a while, and what we have noticed is that on the back of the pack where you have the suggestions for your town, (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.au)
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Kmart Brunswick - new WIDE roads. Picture shows "Cre8r"&"Jax" dudes living in relative harmony with "Minis". No 2003 catlogs though. Sorry didn't check price. I am happy to see new road plates, I used to love mixing up my Road, Crater and Space (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.au)
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Hey a response! I was beginning to think that this moc has the Jack Stone kiss of death and folk were avoiding is as such, or that maybe it just isn't a very good model. (...) You'll have to forgive me - I'm not familiar it, but thanks. (...) I'll (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Jack Stone is not as bad as most people think... and the scale does allow for greater detail without making vehicles ridiculously large. And then there's technic fig scale :-) Cheers Richie Dulin (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Plasticity MOCs: mountain, heaven, and more
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(...) <snip really great pics of really great MOCs!!> (...) polarity switches! Golly! I'd love to get some more details on what's going on here. Are there six separate loops, or have you used insulated connections to create six control blocks? If (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Cool! That would put it at about miniland scale, or as I like to call it-- 8 wide....gauge:-) JOHN (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.town)
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(...) John, My first version was 6-wide but I just couldn't cram all the details I wanted to into it. Next up I think I'll go even older and bigger (wider) and use the big red spoked wheels from the 390-1913 Cadillac set :) -- Bill (TooMuchDew) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Thanks George, I really wish LEGO came out with the Car Base 4 x 5 with 2 Seats (URL) red, white, black, oh heck, the whole LEGO palette. I think I'm gonna try to make a second copy paring it down to the least amount of parts and no modified (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.town)
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In lugnet.town, Michael Arrighi writes: <snip> (...) Thanks, Michael. Actually, what's been taking over my house is my young daugther's toys. We decided that she needed a playroom to roam around and dump toys when she wanted. I've still reserved a (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.town)
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(...) to see TLC release something similar. Maybe Adventurers needs a fire engine? Thanks, George (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.town)
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(...) I did! And I really like the fire engine..the detailing throughout is outstanding! Things like the fairings and pipe make the truck come alive. Great job! Joe Meno (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.town)
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(...) I absolutely love your town layout. Just out of curiousity, why are you taking it down? Are you constructing a new city or just trying to keep Lego from taking over your house? Like you, my town is comprised of official sets, but I recently (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.town)
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(...) light >at the end of my seemingly endless parts sorting I've actually been building! I'm jealous;-) (...) Marvelous MOC, Bill! Really nicely detailed. This and all of your fire apparatus are very inspirational. And this one is <be still my (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Really nice Bill! I like the fire engine. You really captured the look of those old engines. I enjoyed seeing the other mocs too. Nice work! Thanks for sharing them. Tom (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.town)
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(...) I'm not a big fan of mee toooo but I gotta say me too! We've seen a number of trucks of this era or just before it that used plate hinges for front fenders but never this use of the quarter round part I don't think. It's a bit thick but you (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.town)
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(...) The shape of the body is wonderful. The unusual angle used for the front fenders is brilliant. (...) I used the shoe string technique a while back on a larger scale engine. I ended up using Technic connectors (1/2 grey) as nozzles. (...) (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.town)
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Greetings, Now that I have my LEGO-dedicated half of the basement rec room and see a light at the end of my seemingly endless parts sorting I've actually been building! I just posted my recently completed 1920's Fire Engine inspired by the 1929 (...) (22 years ago, 2-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town) !!
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Hi, Andreas. Wow, I'm glad you made some photos of this amazing layout available before its deconstruction. The verticality of this whole layout is very appealing -- hanging stuff from the ceiling at different heights is a really great idea. Heaven, (...) (22 years ago, 2-Mar-03, to lugnet.town)
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Wow! There is so much good stuff here. The sun and the tornado are very cool, and the hanging stuff, such as the airplanes are great! 'Heaven' made me laugh- very creative idea. The train and monorail layout looks pretty good, as well. Dang, I wish (...) (22 years ago, 2-Mar-03, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Thanks, Kevin. Since my original display consisted only of official sets, the whole city seemed too 2D. I feel that hanging some planes and other structures from the ceiling really helps. This also gives all of those paramedic vehicles (...) (22 years ago, 2-Mar-03, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Cool, received Main Street Legend 10041 today!
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(...) Snip (...) Snip (...) guess... So far, I'm not using mine. (...) snip (...) This is my guess also. Funny, I always thought that the building was a garage only-no dealer with a (separate?) office above. when I read your post, I remembered that (...) (22 years ago, 2-Mar-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: 10041 Main Street Stickers
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(...) Ha Ha! That's still a 22 year old mystery for me as well! I remember when I first had the set in the early 80's & my mom & I went over & over the instructions & box & every suggestion she would make I'd say something like: "No..it's not there, (...) (22 years ago, 2-Mar-03, to lugnet.town)
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(...) <snip> (...) Andreas, Great to see some new pictures of Plasticity! The heaven area as well as the sun and clouds are very creative. One of my favorite parts of building town/train layouts involves the process of suspending things like (...) (22 years ago, 1-Mar-03, to lugnet.town)
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I've been adding some MOCs to my city over the last couple of years and decided to take a few pictures before Minizilla took down the house. BURPy mountain with road, monorail, and train access (URL) under construction (URL) and Tornado (URL) (...) (22 years ago, 1-Mar-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc) !
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(...) I see no debate here(as I said in other posts in this thread) just happened to notice it is all and like I said in other post no biggie.... Chris..aka Mr. Leach (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Indeed. (...) I honestly don't think that there is *anyone* here that wants to do that. Some of us like slagging CHRIS a bit but that's just because we like him. I thought your building was very neat and was glad to see it. (...) So should we (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.town)
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For the record....I did the black building. Although I was inspired by Mr. Leach's work (and no offense, but I sincerely doubt we can say that ANY of us are THAT GOOD), corporate logos have been around and done forever, so no idea is truly original. (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.town)
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In search of some large wheels in grey, I recently became the proud owner of set no. 4600 (URL) was looking at it and started 'filling it out' a bit. After a couple of hours, the result was this: (URL) must say, building in Jack Stone scale is (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) For the record... I think the Pepsi company had the idea first... so technically you're both copying. :) For the other record (whichever one that is) the logo stands out better on the tan building. It looks more like a painted mural than part (...) (22 years ago, 27-Feb-03, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: MOC: Wal-Mart, Bob Evans, raised tracks (preliminary layout)
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Hi Bill, Ray: Thanks for your replies! I fully agree. In fact, the set-up will be divided in two sections: urban generic sprawl and small town USA; we have only started working on the former. On our last trip back to our small mid-west undergrad (...) (22 years ago, 27-Feb-03, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Yup, we need more work done on businesses with a local flavor, like... Billy Bo Bobs Bar-B-Q and (just outside of town) Honky Tonk oh, and make sure there are plenty of pick-em-up trucks parked out front. Ray (posting from the deep south, aka (...) (22 years ago, 27-Feb-03, to lugnet.town)
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(...) What is Bob Evans? Your McD's and Wal*Mart are quite authentic-looking. But speaking as someone who does not think very highly of the way that our towns are being taken over by the franchises and chains in RL, I'd encourage you to include more (...) (22 years ago, 27-Feb-03, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Theater, Bookstore, and Park
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(...) I love the witty descriptions for the Theatre - I just wish the bookstore and park were so annotated. But they are all fabulous designs. I love your interior detailing on both buildings. The movie theatre lobby has everything a patron could (...) (22 years ago, 27-Feb-03, to lugnet.town)
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(...) I'm willing to put money on the fact that there were several if not many pepsi logos done long before mine...however I happened to notice the black/pepsi logo building and mentioned it. My building/logo first appeared back last october...the (...) (22 years ago, 27-Feb-03, to lugnet.town)
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| | Car Ferry model leaves the dock
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Ladies and gentlemen, cover your ears, the ship's whistle is about to sound.... OK, now we've got that out of the way, I am happy to say that I've at last finished the car ferry model I have been working on for months, and the pics are available on (...) (22 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc) !!
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(...) "Imitation isn't the sincerest form of flattery-- it's plagiarism." -Red Skelton JOHN (22 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.town)
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(...) How do we know? ... Um, he's that good! Chris can be imitated but never out innovated! Um, more seriously, we technically don't, except that I believe that someone in the same club as the black logo'ed building mentioned this one was more (...) (22 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.town)
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(...) You know, just out of curiosity, how do we know that the black one wasn't made first? How come Chris' is the first Lego Pepsi logo ever attempted? Brendan (22 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.town)
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| | MOC: Wal-Mart, Bob Evans, raised tracks (preliminary layout)
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Hi all, Having moved about a year ago, we now finally have a room entirely devoted to Lego. Over the last year, we have been working on several layouts, the first of which ended up taking up too much space. We are now working on a layout complete (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.town)
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(...) legofest X,march 17th,2002): (URL) could park it under the pepsi building :) Cheers, Gianluca PS:all itlug galleries here: (URL) ,then click on "events" or "eventi" if you dare browsing the italian version :) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-03, to lugnet.town)
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In lugnet.town, Larry Pieniazek writes: Thats not a Pepsi, its a Pepsi Twist.. blech, did I actually say that? (...) Ya, I agree with Larry. I would love it if I was good enough to copy from :) And as much as I despise Pepsi, its a good job on the (...) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-03, to lugnet.town)
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| | Set 6388 question
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Hi, I am wondering about the glass that fits in the train windows in the RV from this set. Is the glass flat, or protruding like train glass? I have checked peeron, but it seems to be incorrect. It shows a regular train glass being used. Thanks! (...) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-03, to lugnet.town)
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| | Gungan Bargo Landing Craft
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Check out our latest MOC from our homepage, Gungan Bargo Landing Craft; (URL) the war with the Trade Federation Army, the Bargos were recruited for the use of the Gungan Grand Army to haul the cavalry of Kaadus and the infantry. Each bargo was able (...) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-03, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.aquazone, lugnet.announce.moc) !
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(...) building and what I suspect is that the person who built it thought very highly of yours, but might not be as active on LUGNET(tm) (and thus able to give credit) as some of us are. Be proud that people like your stuff enough to copy... :-) not (...) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-03, to lugnet.town)
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Hmmmm ok did someone like the logo I did? Someones elses building (URL) and my building (URL) Chris MichLTC (22 years ago, 21-Feb-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Horseless Carriage
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(...) Sure do, that is a very good model. It captures the spitit of those days with only a minimal number of parts. With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen. (22 years ago, 20-Feb-03, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: New Engine Shed
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(...) It does look brilliant. A dark red version may be asking a lot, but if I could just drop my own hint... I hope they make an extra lot of those 1x4x5 windows in WHITE, and make them into a service pack. I'm afraid the black ones just aren't as (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Horseless Carriage
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Here's one I've been thinking about for a while and finally built the other night. It came together pretty quickly on the first attempt, which was a nice change from the fifteen iterations I usually go through with my models. Again I've CADded it (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-03, to lugnet.town)
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| | Website updated
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Hi all, I've just updated The City of St. Lego Fire & Rescue website www.geocities.com/le...egofd.html I've also added some action shots of a delusional man trying to fly his "magic" broom off a building www.geocities.com/do.../jump.html Tom D (22 years ago, 20-Feb-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: New MOCs: Brickby
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Oops - due to forgetting to specify image sizes, some of you couldn't see the pictures. This has now been fixed. (...) (22 years ago, 18-Feb-03, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town)
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| | New MOCs: Brickby
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Brickby is the name of my growing LEGO town. There are only a few buildings and vehicles on the website at the moment, but hopefully you'll enjoy them. There's a thatched cottage, a Danish farmhouse, a bank, a few vehicles including a mark I Ford (...) (22 years ago, 18-Feb-03, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc) !!
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| | Re: Annoying color changes to 2003 sets
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(...) It is a very interesting topic. My guess is that the box art is just preliminary work of a concept artist, (in pre-production) where as the models at the fair are what the company decided to go with. I hope not... I too like the old models (in (...) (22 years ago, 18-Feb-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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(...) I do agree that the old version was more appealing to me but I do have to make the argument that I think the color change was a good idea. I say this mostly because the change makes the set more appealing to kids and is more likely to catch (...) (22 years ago, 17-Feb-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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In lugnet.town, Brad Hamilton writes: [snip]>Passenger Train: (...) the box the train has a pantograph and 2 small windows while the "real thing" misses those. Jeroen (22 years ago, 17-Feb-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Wow! The red pillars really jumped out at me - I like that the fire station is red and black - not red and white which has been way overused by LEGO. I wouldn't worry too much about no interior...it'll be a while before people get over the (...) (22 years ago, 17-Feb-03, to lugnet.town)
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With the latest round of 2003 postings, I noticed that two of my favorite town/train sets have new, significantly more obnoxious, colors as compared to older shots. Train station: Old: (URL) Train: (old on the box top, new as actual model in front) (...) (22 years ago, 17-Feb-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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This is the BrickTopia Emergency Headquarters. It is a massive new office building intended to house fire and other emergency response offices. (URL) There is unfortunately no interior and the detail level on the exterior is a bit low because I had (...) (22 years ago, 17-Feb-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.build) !
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(...) Don't forget the Mini-Metro ;-/ Scott A (22 years ago, 13-Feb-03, to lugnet.year.2003, lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) Your design realy struck me as very recognizable, for the more sober and sometimes a bit gloomy ("Gotham City"-style) variant of Art Deco that develloped in the nothern regions of Europe. (...) facade was build and how the shape in 3D is. Lack (...) (22 years ago, 11-Feb-03, to lugnet.town)
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(...) What a great example of an oxymoron :-) Steve (22 years ago, 11-Feb-03, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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In lugnet.year.2003, Nathan Wells writes: . (...) There's no such thing as a non-British Mini, they've all been built here. Do you mean an Austin/Rover Mini (1959-1999/2000?) or a new Mini (2001-)? I'm just intrigued that people may not think of the (...) (22 years ago, 11-Feb-03, to lugnet.year.2003, lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.uk)
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Hello everyone, I just got back from the Lego Outlet at Discover Mills, (678)847-6078. They just received a huge shipment and I thought some of the folks here might be interested. They have received the Imperial Star Destroyer, the Black Seas (...) (22 years ago, 11-Feb-03, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yes, if they have it in stock still. It's more likely they have newer ones than older. Try contacting Consumer Affairs and see what they have to say. (22 years ago, 11-Feb-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) Jason J Railton (22 years ago, 11-Feb-03, to lugnet.year.2003, lugnet.town)
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(URL) these photos and couldn't find any discussion or news about it here. (22 years ago, 11-Feb-03, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.town)
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(URL) these photos and couldn't find any discussion or news about it here. (22 years ago, 11-Feb-03, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.town)
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(...) James/Kecia, Looking at some scans of the sticker sheet at the 1000steine.de forum ((URL) I have to look at these since I do not own a copy of 10041) and taking your guess into consideration, it seems like the sticker is representing pages (...) (22 years ago, 11-Feb-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Great suggestion - that would certainly give the entire structure a much more thoroughly art deco feel. I didn't intentionally set out to create an art deco building, but my stereotypes about theaters certainly include many of those (...) (22 years ago, 11-Feb-03, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Thanks for your enthusiasm! I took some additional pics which give a little bit more insight into the sign and searchlights. The sign took me several hours of building and rebuilding to remove gaps and such. The key pieces are 1x1 'headlight' (...) (22 years ago, 11-Feb-03, to lugnet.town)
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(...) They are definitely 4 wide. Try to check out the brickset picture too: (URL) (22 years ago, 10-Feb-03, to lugnet.year.2003, lugnet.town)
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(...) I've been wondering about this too. It's kinda weird. They are definitely not shown in the building instructions. Neither are they shown in the original 6390 it seems. If they are to be used at all, the white 1 x 2 tile is probably the best (...) (22 years ago, 10-Feb-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Nah, judging by the windshields (which looks like part 2437 (URL) the cars definitely looks 4 stud wide. My Mom thinks Uncle Ben's car looks like a British Mini! ;-D Nathan Wells (22 years ago, 10-Feb-03, to lugnet.year.2003, lugnet.town)
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(...) It's hard to say with the blurry pics, but I think they are 4-wide. The bridge that the taxi cab is on looks to be made from the track from the Racers theme. A 4-wide vehicle fits on that track just fine, but the 6-wide HP car is too wide. Ken (...) (22 years ago, 10-Feb-03, to lugnet.year.2003, lugnet.town)
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