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The thumbs look much better! Thanks! (...) This a nice, regular looking truck. (...) (URL) I'm not feeling this one as much. Prolly cuz I dont really like hum-vees, tho - as this does look like a convincing micro-scale humvee. (...) I'd put this in (...) (21 years ago, 2-May-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.town, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, FTX)
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(URL) Der Swedish Chef iz dankin youz fer der koompliments, yubetcha! Bork! Bork! Bork! Thank you very much, guys! It's great to see so many fans of the felt! I had been wanting to do something Town for a while, and since Sesame Street is one of the (...) (21 years ago, 2-May-04, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(2 URLs) (...) Perfection! Amazing! Wonderful! Now you must do that Muppet Show proper! Indeed, you must! with Fozzy, Ms.Piggy, Ralf, Sam Eagle, Dr.Honeydew and Beaker, and the Swedish Chef! You Must! Once again, this is just so wonderful! -Lenny (21 years ago, 2-May-04, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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Ingenious...a real delight! Thanks for sharing it! Tom (21 years ago, 2-May-04, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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In lugnet.town, Mike Crowley wrote: snip (...) Amazing!!! (21 years ago, 2-May-04, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(9 URLs) Pictures of SCLTC's latest show are now available! Our club is displaying at the Fullerton Railroad Days event from May 1-2, 2004, held at the Amtrak Train Station in Fullerton, CA. Follow this link for the photo gallery: (URL). Our show is (...) (21 years ago, 2-May-04, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.org.us.lugola, lugnet.general, FTX) !!
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In lugnet.town, Mike Crowley wrote: SNIP (...) SNIP (...) an absolutely Masterful Minifig scale Menagerie of Muppets in Lego! 4, 4 'M's, AH! AH! AH! (*thunder*) all your work is fantastic. you seem to have pioneered the minifig leg usage, at least i (...) (21 years ago, 2-May-04, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Cool. (21 years ago, 2-May-04, to lugnet.town)
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Best MOC this year, even the (non-AFOL) wife loved it! (21 years ago, 1-May-04, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) That is beyond cool ! Major kudos !! Ray (21 years ago, 1-May-04, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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That's so cool, something that would do great as sets too! Love the Oscar in the carbage bin; you can almost here hear him crumpling :) Thanks for showing this. Casper (21 years ago, 1-May-04, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(from imdb -- the Internet Muppet Database) Tagline: "If a monster answers...hang on for dear life!" Plot Outline: An ex- shag carpet carries out a plot to count to ten in Spanish. When things go wrong, he improvises a brilliant plan B. (He decides (...) (21 years ago, 1-May-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, FTX) !!
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I've spent the last several weeks working on the BFD site and I'm pleased to announce that it is finally ready! Changes include: - site optimized for viewing at 800 x 600 - updated page design - a new station - all new apparatus renderings I have (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.ray)
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IndyLUG is exibiting a layout at the 500 Kids Festival on Saturday May 1 on Monument Circle in Indianapolis. The show is from 11 am - 3 pm. Admittance is free. We will be having a Town/Train layout with a replica of the Speedway, and a Moonbase (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-04, to lugnet.loc.us.in, lugnet.general, lugnet.org.us.indylug, lugnet.space, lugnet.town)
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The (URL) Southern California LEGO Train Club> (SCLTC) returns to Fullerton Railroad Days this coming weekend with its first new layout of 2004. Items appearing for the first time: An automated light rail system A brand new town area Area 51 A new (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org.scltc, lugnet.town, lugnet.org.us.lugola, FTX) !
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3 new Mocs: first, a red pickup from the Maximum Wheels designer set: (URL) & (5 URLs) another humvee from Micro Wheels creator set 4096(my first can be found 'up' in the folder): (URL) & (5 URLs) a little mech from the yellow Xpod: (2 URLs) & (...) (21 years ago, 29-Apr-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.town, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Doc Ock's Hideout reviewed at Millionaire Playboy site
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I ran across this trolling around, not sure how long it's been out. They have reviewed other LEGO and MB sets in the past. (URL) site is collectible toy focused rather than LEGO focused... so their emphasis is on play value and the number of figures (...) (21 years ago, 28-Apr-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.reviews, lugnet.town)
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Wow, nice MOC. And that is a HUGE barn!! Great design on it though, I really like it! And also, great design with the cellar/basement do.r! If only you'd made the entire thing on a hill so you could include the basement. Great work!!! -Mark Visit (...) (21 years ago, 28-Apr-04, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Perfect! That's exactly the kind of detail I was looking for. (...) Heh- I was looking at it yesterday when it went down for exceeding the hourly bandwidth. Beautiful! (2 URLs) AndroDan>> Tony Hafner (URL) www.hafhead.com> (21 years ago, 27-Apr-04, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Thats great. I love the little details like taking the bark off the logs and the carrot patch. Truly, an inspiration to anyone building a farm. -Mike Petrucelli (21 years ago, 27-Apr-04, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) David, I've spent bits and pieces of the last couple days looking over these pics, loving everything I see. I'm pretty impressed with the perfect simplicity of the cellar door, the lawnmower that others have mentioned, the cornfield, and most (...) (21 years ago, 27-Apr-04, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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Back in 2001 the LEGO Shop-at-Home catalog showed "instructions" for building a schoolhouse with bulk packs. I can't find my 2001 catalogs. Can someone who has one please scan that page for me? Russell (21 years ago, 27-Apr-04, to lugnet.db.scans, lugnet.inst, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.town)
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(...) I am sure that there is a nice wood-fired pizza oven somewhere for the amish to use :) (21 years ago, 27-Apr-04, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Well, I'm a little ashamed to admit it, but I did have a couple of Amish minifigs go renegade on a power pole at the GATS: (URL) If you want to see an Amish guy attacking power regulators and such, you'll have to check out my Amish Renegade (...) (21 years ago, 27-Apr-04, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Yes, that is a hand-pushed lawnmower leaning against the house. At the Indianapolis GATS I had a guy actually mowing the lawn; the unmowed grass was green plates on top of the baseplate, and the mowed grass was green tiles beside that. I'll (...) (21 years ago, 27-Apr-04, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Thanks - That "real" building looks cool. Do you have any larger pics? Perhaps you could forward the link, if applicable? (21 years ago, 26-Apr-04, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Thanks for the feedback. I agree that the white ramps are quite obnoxious looking and interrupt the vertical thrust of the building. They are there explicitly to add rather blatant dissonance. Not only does the shape not match, but the "white" (...) (21 years ago, 26-Apr-04, to lugnet.town)
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(...) But where art the rest of the detail shots? Anyone "churning the butter" in the house? And when this was at the train show, was there anyone in a straw hat attacking the power regulators? (2 URLs) AndroDan>> Tony Hafner (URL) www.hafhead.com> (21 years ago, 26-Apr-04, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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Cooleth! In addition to the barn construction itself, my favorite details are the guy stripping bark off of logs, the buggies, and what looks to be a hand-pushed lawnmower leaning against the house (could you put up a clearer picture of this?). I'm (...) (21 years ago, 26-Apr-04, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) white ramps look tacked on and really don't flow well with the rest of the building. Adrian (21 years ago, 26-Apr-04, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Nice. A train passing beneath and through a tall building reminded me of a building in downtown San Diego, America Plaza, and its trolley station. (URL) (I couldn't find any really good pics.) Although the trolley's tracks don't go through the (...) (21 years ago, 26-Apr-04, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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Here is the latest BrickTopia skyscraper - A road & rail cargo terminal: (URL) BrickTopia Page: (URL) are appreciated. (21 years ago, 26-Apr-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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| | [Press Release] BayLTC Showing in Pleasanton for 32 Days
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For Immediate Release Contact: Russell Clark rclark@telis.org 408.605.5412 (cell) SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CA - The Bay Area LEGO Train Club (BayLTC) is pleased to announce that we will be displaying at the Amador-Livermore Valley Historical Society (...) (21 years ago, 26-Apr-04, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sac, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.org.us.baylug, lugnet.org.us.sacbb, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.western)
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(...) glad you liked them. that was an idea that came together as i playing with the bamboo pieces. i really liked the shape they made when it came together. (...) i built them randomly but tried to make the trees all look a bit uniform for the (...) (21 years ago, 25-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) I like your garden models, particularly the two above. The bush was nice and simple to make from 20 of the 3-leaf parts from Ninja castles. The apple tree was a bit more difficult. I'm guessing you used about 6 6x5 and 2 4x3 plant leaves. The (...) (21 years ago, 25-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town, FTX)
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Greetings brethren, I have constructedeth an Amish farm. This MOC madeth its first public appearance at an IndyLUG layout GATS in Indianapolis in October 2003, where it found favor in the eyes of many. The entire farm covereth several baseplates. (...) (21 years ago, 25-Apr-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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Deborah, Can I just say how cool you are? You are cool, like arctic breeze cool, like outer space cool! Fantastic work! I love your attention to the small details - which in .space are called greeblies. You seem to have a mastery of the .town greeb. (...) (21 years ago, 24-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town)
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obviously still new at this! didn't get previous posting quite right. this hopefully is more successful. formal garden: (URL) gazebo: (URL) birdhouse: (URL) apple orchard: (URL) large low bush: (URL) enjoy. -§ deborah higdon-leblond §- (21 years ago, 24-Apr-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town, FTX)
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a new moc is almost finished so i thought i'd post some of the foliage and structures while i'm waiting for pieces needed to complete details. a formal garden with reflecting pool, raised flowerbeds and stone pathways. (...) (21 years ago, 24-Apr-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Ahboo Roo design ideas
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Greetings, Earth-Mortals! I was just doodling a bit tonight in MLCAD, and found myself more focused on entry detailing than structure (which is where I started). These pics are really only quick design ideas for a country cottage trying to get out (...) (21 years ago, 24-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.cad.dat.ideas, lugnet.castle, lugnet.town)
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| | Curious Kids' Museum Show - Caslte, Town/Train, Space & Aquazone
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MichLUG was pleased to display at the Curious Kids' Museum for a second year running during their annual LEGO creation contest. This year we assembled displays for four seperate themes. The Space and Aquazone were a little on the small side and we (...) (21 years ago, 23-Apr-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.space, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.castle, lugnet.aquazone, FTX) !!
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I am just going from my price list/catalog release dates. Sometimes the 'big guys' can get things around the same time as shop@home, but the smaller dealers for sure won't see it till July, same as the Falcon, and quite a few other sets as well. HP (...) (21 years ago, 23-Apr-04, to lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.town)
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(...) Why would TLC put it out in the Magazine and Catalogue with the other "Rescue" Sets (back in Nov.) if it gunning for a July '04 Release? I heard from a freind he saw the set two weeks ago at one particular TRU, but when I went there last week (...) (21 years ago, 22-Apr-04, to lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.town)
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(...) I had read your solution but I have to admit it didn't make sense to me at the time as I don't generally use the technic part you listed. Seeing the pics makes perfect sense. Very slick solution. It also has the advantage of being 6 wide. I (...) (21 years ago, 21-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) You're right. I had seen the catalog entry on Bricklink but never actually checked it out. None for sale..No ever sold.... Lotsa people have 'em on their wish list though. :) Mike (21 years ago, 21-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.space, lugnet.town)
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(...) I thought I'd figured this one out at the time: (URL) Though admittedly, yours is a plate lower than mine. Do current postboxes have hollow studs or not? Mind you, current technic 1x5 plates don't have holes in the end... Jason Railton (21 years ago, 21-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) I believe that the 1 x 4 tile was never made without a groove. (Grooves were introduced almost a decade before the 1x4 tile first appeared.) (21 years ago, 21-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.space, lugnet.town)
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(...) I'm out of my league here - SNOT is very not me and neither are trains :), but I figured this was too good to pass up. I don't know if Mike can do it, but I just did it in 2 2/3 bricks and 4 studs wide, opening sideways :) Here's the pics to (...) (21 years ago, 21-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, FTX)
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Dealers are not getting the 7046 till July, so it's a semi shop@home exclusive for a few months of preview. A very common thing these days. Same with Falcon, new falcon probably won't hit shelves till July retail wise, but shop@home has it already (21 years ago, 21-Apr-04, to lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.town)
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(...) Indeed you did. But (and you're probably going to hate me for hurting your brain like this), can you make it open...sideways? (21 years ago, 21-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.space, lugnet.town)
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Aha! I had an epiphany. When I posted this hack: (URL) question was raised if it could be done so the door opens up. The height is identical to the original. 3 bricks high. The first picture is a little fuzzy but the second has the guts of it any (...) (21 years ago, 21-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.space, lugnet.town)
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| | XIX Century Portuguese Northern House (was: Casa Minhota no final do século XIX)
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(...) Thanks Bruce! So you're right, i'm posting in english and at .castle and .town. (URL) the folder: (URL) This is a characteristic house of the northern portugal at the end of the XIX century. In those times the industry and commerce were almost (...) (21 years ago, 20-Apr-04, to lugnet.loc.pt, lugnet.castle, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Working Fountain on TCLTC layout (Pics)
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(...) I'm glad it uses only the pump cylinders, which means that if the water causes the seals to fail over time it doesn't impact any other components. I tried to make a fire engine once, using the old pneumatic system with a non-return valve and (...) (21 years ago, 19-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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(...) I moved to NYC in 1990 (after a brief time in LA) to join a hair metal band. Had a lot of fun, but tired of the gypsy living....I still play (keys) and write from time to time, but much less often these days. (...) That would be cool. Before I (...) (21 years ago, 19-Apr-04, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) It actually pumps the water. A large part of the design problem was getting the system to pump an amount of water that wasn't too much and wasn't too little. I'd have to say that the final result was a triumph of trial and error:-) JOHN (21 years ago, 19-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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(...) Hey, me too:-) "I got those schleimy, (crimy!), studs on the side (see?), downright, uptight...Snotty Blues!" ('course, I'm more of a player than composer;-) (...) Oh, yeah. Now you need some wizard, 50's 8 wide cars parked out front and a (...) (21 years ago, 19-Apr-04, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Thanks John. The Snot Blues...hmm. I am a musician too! Here is a link with a picture of the actual diner. (URL) Thanks again, Jonathan (21 years ago, 19-Apr-04, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) What a great story and what a great diner, Jonathan! The dual, SNOT blues really give a nice, retro look. What would be nice would be an actual pic of the diner to compare to yours. Great work! JOHN (21 years ago, 19-Apr-04, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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Hello, Please bear with me.....I think this is a neat story.... A while ago I decided to build a 1950's style diner. I work for an art book publisher and looked at a book of diners and picked one to replicate. The diner I chose was Al Macs. I had a (...) (21 years ago, 19-Apr-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town) !
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(...) Is his system actually pumping water through the pistons, or is he using air pressure from them to push water through tubes? (21 years ago, 19-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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(...) That's pretty neat! It will be interesting to see if there's any deterioration of the pneumatic pumps over time, especially the seals. ROSCO (added .technic) (21 years ago, 18-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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it's been about a year since i've been able to buy lego, but today i splurged, and picked up set 4855 (the spiderman subway car). i feel dirty. ignoring the awful new light grey (the dark grey was so-so), they just felt cheap. the whole time i was (...) (21 years ago, 18-Apr-04, to lugnet.town)
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Check this one out! About 6 years ago, John Gerlach of the GMLTC had built a fountain that actually pumped water using the technic pneumatic system. Well, this captured the imagination of my then 8 year old son Ross, and he set his mind to building (...) (21 years ago, 17-Apr-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX) !
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(...) SNIP (...) First: welcome at Lowlug! THE discussion forum in the Netherlands. Now for the pics: lots of these are mine. So I think I should shed some light on them. A few weeks ago Legoland Billund had it's season-opening, and a group of Dutch (...) (21 years ago, 16-Apr-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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"Bryan Kinkel" <helpdesk@loseyourmind.com> wrote in message news:Hw9K6J.4G6@lugnet.com... (...) The pictures of the shelves and shelves of LEGO boxes are definitely their vault. Steve Barile showed similar pictures after a visit to LEGO HQ. Frank (21 years ago, 16-Apr-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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Is that lots of Maersk trucks in the far right of this pic! (...) (21 years ago, 16-Apr-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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I found this link on the "Lego User Group of the Lowlands" site at (URL) appears that these are some shots from inside some sort of "Vault" or museum at Billund. Photo Albums: (URL) about some Pirates? (URL) like Trains? (URL) forget Town. (URL) (...) (21 years ago, 16-Apr-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Wow. What a prolific blast of MOCs, Mark! Very inspirational! I also appreciate the proto photos as well. You should consider organizing the FDLT on an MOCpages site instead of merely in Brickshelf folders. It would add a lot to the FDLT (...) (21 years ago, 16-Apr-04, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Those would be cool....then I wouldn't have to make my own anymore (URL) Tom D www.geocities.com/le...egofd.html (21 years ago, 16-Apr-04, to lugnet.town)
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The Fire Department of Lego Township has completed uploading all its current apparatus to brickshelf. Apparatus include: Ambulance, Engine, Grass Rig, tanker, Ladder, and chiefs vehicles. as well as actual photos of the apparatus modeled. Please (...) (21 years ago, 15-Apr-04, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: New MOC: Lifeline EMS vehicle (mit schleim:-)
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(...) Acually having FD in the begining of the abbreviation is rather rare. John you are correct, usually it is LAFD. I volunteer at an exception, FDLT--Fire Department of Liberty Township. And am working on getting my Fire Department of Lego (...) (21 years ago, 15-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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In lugnet.town, Jonathan Wilson wrote: Trucks with flat, 6 wide windscreens. (...) Yes, exactly: 2 x 6 x 2. I'd be thrilled. I currently use (4) 2 x 2 x 1 clear thin walls to acheive the same effect. Best, Jonathan (21 years ago, 15-Apr-04, to lugnet.town)
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I've finally finished the write-up of my carousel at (URL) to .spybotics because it's Spybot powered. (21 years ago, 15-Apr-04, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: lotsa new (microscale) MOCs
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Leonard Hoffman wrote: SNIP (...) thanks, I've also been thinking about the thumbnail idea lately after viewing the 'preview' screens b4 final posting on my last couple 'MOC en masse' posts, but havn't tried it yet. i'll try (...) (21 years ago, 15-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) So something like this: (URL) in, say, a 2 x 6 x 2 or a 2 x 6 x 3, is what you want? (21 years ago, 15-Apr-04, to lugnet.town)
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(...) (5 URLs) Jeff, these all are very creative. The tanker truck and the dump truck look very realistic - very faithful microscale reproductions. The Coupe is also very nice. The Star Trek ship and the Frieghter are my favorites tho. The Frieghter (...) (21 years ago, 14-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) This set had a manufacturing issue. Some sets were fine while others were missing one polybag (the one with all the legs) and had another bag that was duplicated. The LEGO store is selling this set with the potentially missing polybag afixed (...) (21 years ago, 14-Apr-04, to lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.town)
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Neat Ideas... I thought the (URL) was a bit weak on its own. It was a nice set, but didn't have any companions sets, really to increase the fun. I thought the (URL) station itself had some good concepts, but still had some negative attributes (like (...) (21 years ago, 14-Apr-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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(...) Welcome to the new nature of retailing in Canada. I can't find the boat either in Southern Ontario (Niagara Falls). I haven't checked out the stock in New York State, but I assume that Walmart and Toys R Us carried it for the christmas season (...) (21 years ago, 14-Apr-04, to lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.town)
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(...) A non-AFOL friend of mine gave me that set for my birthday in January. This is the Ottawa area, and I don't know which store he got it from, but my guess would be that if you can't find it, it's probably because it's such a small cheap set, (...) (21 years ago, 14-Apr-04, to lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.town)
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I'm trying to find 7046 in the Vancouver Area. I've looked at TRU, Wal-Mart, Zellers, and none of them have the Fire Boat. I assume they came out to the US when the Rescue Base and Hovercraft came out. None of the Catalogues say its S@H only so why (...) (21 years ago, 14-Apr-04, to lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.town)
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<cough>PROPER rolling garage doors<cough> (...) -- Tom Stangl *(URL) Visual FAQ home *(URL) Visual FAQ Home (21 years ago, 14-Apr-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) I think this is a great idea! The airport-style trucks are well worth exploring as inspiration for sets. (...) Interesting idea. Might make for a nice play set, but with the possibility of some realism too. All the best, Allan B. (...) (21 years ago, 14-Apr-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.dear-lego)
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How about an Airport Firestation? You could have the airport firetrucks, training area (old aircraft the set fire to) etc. This could nicely tie the theme in to a future new airport range. Richard. "Jonathan Wilson" <jonwil@tpgi.com.au> wrote in (...) (21 years ago, 14-Apr-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) I like the way the Police sets were done. You got a SUV (and a nifty "armored car") with the building. I thought the building itself was a bit simplistic, but had great parts. I really enjoyed seeing Classic 1920's era version of Fire Halls (...) (21 years ago, 14-Apr-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) I'd imagine they'd try to keep in line with the current look of the World City sets (Police, Train Etc.) I'd like to see the return of dark gray ladders (new dark grey is fine with me) and red or silver wheel hubs. The return of the black fire (...) (21 years ago, 14-Apr-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.dear-lego)
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If LEGO was to produce a World City Fire line, what would you like to see? Keeping in mind the constraints LEGO would be enforcing on the sets... (21 years ago, 14-Apr-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: New MOC: Lifeline EMS vehicle (mit schleim:-)
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(...) Ah, yes. My error. (I wish I could say I was trying to be funny). I understand now. All makes sense. (...) Poor would be the operative word... (...) I'd love to see your version of a ladder truck at some point. I am hoping that TLG follows up (...) (21 years ago, 14-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Thanks, Dan. Actually, its integrated with the car. Later, Todd (...) (21 years ago, 14-Apr-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Yes that it is John, you are correct! (...) TDA, Tractor Drawn Apparatus, Tiller, lol Josh (21 years ago, 14-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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Here's a look at a mountain created by Jeramy Spurgeon and me last September. mostly made of burps, plus it has a waterfall. Hope you like it. (URL) has a lot of the features that everyone has been talking about in these post. Brian D (21 years ago, 14-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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Here's a couple of pics of the IMS Hall of Fame Museum for the upcoming show. And the Kite Developement Indy Car. Hope you like them. (URL) D (21 years ago, 14-Apr-04, to lugnet.org.us.indylug, lugnet.town, lugnet.modelteam)
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I did these over the past few days: I made 5 MOCs simultaneously using all the pieces in set 4096 Micro Wheels: 1st, a tanker truck: (6 URLs) I was going to stop there, but wanted to make another MOC & this sport coupe is the result: (5 URLs) after (...) (21 years ago, 14-Apr-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, FTX)
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Jeff Szklennik wrote: SNIP (...) (URL) should've been under space land vehicles to begin with Jeff (21 years ago, 13-Apr-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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(...) lol To even have been confused with them is a high compliment indeed. Thanks! (...) You are either a card (who needs to be dealt with;-) or I was hopelessly inarticulate. What I meant is that the LEGO sticker uses the same acro form as the New (...) (21 years ago, 13-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) I was checking this out on Brickshelf. At first, I thought it was from one of the exceptional builders you mention, but then looked and thought "It's bigger than usual" :o) Very nice. You have some great detail there. Nice SNOT John. Stickers (...) (21 years ago, 13-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) I'd also suggest more trans-clear/blue brick as well. And just so you all know, it took me about 5+ times to get both of the pond fed watter falls the way that I liked them on both of mountains that I have done. It's not an easy thing to do, (...) (21 years ago, 13-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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(...) of (...) I have (...) That was one thing I liked about my coastal cliff scene. The tunnels really do travel through something impassible. (...) mountain. (...) cleft (...) makes (...) of (...) Definitely. I like the use of trans light blue, (...) (21 years ago, 13-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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(...) I agree with other posters about the nice things about your mountain, as well as the not so nice things. Here's the biggie... shape and size Railroads avoid mountains like the plague as they are expensive to get over around or through. (for (...) (21 years ago, 13-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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(...) Thanks! And no bricks were harmed in the making :P Good to see you on the boards again! -- Thomas Main thomasmain@myrealbox.com (21 years ago, 13-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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