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| (...) Well, this is the hard place! (URL) This container is 40ft x 8ft x 9ft6in high, the size I see on lorries in the UK, built to 8mm:1ft scale. You could drive a model of a 5ft wide fork lift truck into it or two minifigures could walk in side by (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jun-04, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Announcing new comprehensive book on Lego on CD.
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| (...) Hey, this sounds very interesting. As a Mac (not MAC) user, I am a bit curious about the format. Will it be a PDF? That would make the book available to people using any operating system. Also, what sort of price are you estimating? If the CD (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.lego.direct)
| | | | | Re: Announcing new comprehensive book on Lego on CD.
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| (...) First of all, great idea. I hope this works out for you! You are doing the hobby a whole lot of good here! I do want to suggest though that you reconsider your above statement. There are some lines that came out after 1994 that are very (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.lego.direct)
| | | | | Re: Announcing new comprehensive book on Lego on CD.
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| In lugnet.announce, Gerhard R. Istok wrote: --snip-- (...) -snip- (...) Wow Gary, sounds very interesting. Almost like a "must have" for AFOL's :-) Great work! I'll be looking for the announcement of where to order the CD. Mark "must have!" de Kock (20 years ago, 19-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.lego.direct)
| | | | | Re: Announcing new comprehensive book on Lego on CD.
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| Your project sound very interesting, but I would much rather have a printed version! (20 years ago, 19-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.lego.direct)
| | | | | Re: Announcing new comprehensive book on Lego on CD.
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| (...) (snip) Wow, Gary. Just wow wowowowowow. I've been wondering "Where's Gary been?" and now I know. What a wonderful piece of news! I'm very, very interested. Are you going to .pdf the text, so that the interminable bibliophiles among us can (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.lego.direct)
| | | | | Re: Announcing new comprehensive book on Lego on CD.
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| (...) (snip) (...) Good luck, Gary! I can't wait to get one (And I'm sure you meant "Bricklink";-) JOHN (20 years ago, 19-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.lego.direct, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Announcing new comprehensive book on Lego on CD.
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| (...) Now this I could use. Anything that can help me get a more accurate number to give to the insurance company is good :) Only problem is going to be converting from USD to AUD :) (20 years ago, 19-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.lego.direct)
| | | | | Re: Mini-fig Scale Maersk Ship...
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| (...) Not really if you model a European railway... Before the standard 20/30/40' containers the Dutch, German and most likely some other railways experimented with door-to-door transport using special freight boxes, which were around 1.5*2*1.5m A (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jun-04, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: Mini-fig Scale Maersk Ship...
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| (...) Agreed. This is a known issue with the standard (as designed by LEGO) minifig scale container, it's too small. We're stuck between a rock and a hard place though, either we abandon the design (and lose compatability and not have a use for all (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jun-04, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | | | Wild West links page
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| Hi all, Aargh! I can't help myself. In poring through Brickshelf for the animals list I made recently, I keep finding great creations to catalog. So, in my ongoing obsession to organize things, I present this links page of Wild West themed MOCs: (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jun-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.western, lugnet.trains, lugnet.space)
| | | | | Re: What's Your Favorite German Word?!
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| (...) My favourite German is Christian K ;)... oh word... well, just like Adrian, Kartoffel, that amuses me... As I'm currently learning German, I find a few words amusing or interesting, (even while recently being over there) 'Frühstück', which (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.events.1000steine-land)
| | | | | Re: Traction Engine
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| (...) Oh how disappointing! Janey "Red Brick" (20 years ago, 16-Jun-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
| | | | | Re: Traction Engine
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| (...) LOL. Actually Janey, I think she's showing him her camera. But I could be wrong.... ROSCO (20 years ago, 16-Jun-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Traction Engine
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| (...) Nicely done Rosco, great steamer! I like the grooved bricks as hay bales, but I have one question, what is that female fig and male fig on the back doing??? They arent kissing are they? Janey "Red Brick" (20 years ago, 16-Jun-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
| | | | | Traction Engine
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| ...or steam tractor, whichever you prefer. (URL) I built this some time ago but never posted the final pics. The tyres on the rear wheels are made from slices of bicycle inner tube. All pics (URL) here> after moderation. Enjoy! ROSCO (20 years ago, 16-Jun-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
| | | | | Re: BrickFest 2004 Sessions Notes...
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| (...) Yes, I'm with JT here... We really need some train sessions folks! Robin Werner (20 years ago, 16-Jun-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Brick Built Beasts volume 1
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| Hi all, I've updated my catalog of brick-built-beasts with more creations. Again, please e-mail me (bnh at chem dot ucla dot edu) with any additions or corrections. Bruce (20 years ago, 15-Jun-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
| | | | | BayLTC Opens Museum Exhibit
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| The Bay Area LEGO® Train Club (BayLTC) has opened its latest exhibit, at the Amador-Livermore Valley Historical Society and Museum in Pleasanton, California, now through July 11, 2004. This layout represents several "firsts" for the club: first (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jun-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.baylug, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, FTX)
| | | | | Re: BrickFest 2004 Sessions Notes...
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| (...) I think that would be a great idea. Those clubs that can't physically bring a table could put together some documentation explaining their designs. Anyone want to take on this and organize a session on Train Club tables? jt (20 years ago, 15-Jun-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: BrickFest 2004 Sessions Notes...
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| On 22:46 06/14/2004, James J. Trobaugh wrote (...) We were talking about how many tables to bring and a topic idea came up (I do not want to actually present it :-) How about a short session on display tables. Building tips from size to height. (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jun-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Mini-fig Scale Maersk Ship...
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| Maersk ship fans, Here is my mini-fig version of the new Maersk ship! This ship uses parts from two 10152 sets and some brick from my oun collection. See this ship at future GFLTC Train shows and events in the state of Florida. (URL) Link: (URL) (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jun-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.boats, lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
| | | | | Re: Brickshelf watching
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| (...) I forgot to mention, that these models, strangely, are not designed for corners! tim (20 years ago, 13-Jun-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | | | Brickshelf watching
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| Just to mention a couple of people who's galleries have been growing recently with impressive models Firstly (URL) Scaneli> with a variety of models, mainly German prtotypes. Secondly (URL) Puntcom> also with German prototypes of both his own and (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jun-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | | | Re: What's Your Favorite German Word?!
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| (...) Bauklötze! With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen. (20 years ago, 13-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.events.1000steine-land)
| | | | | Re: What's Your Favorite German Word?!
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| Hi Keith, but it is DIE Klapperschlange, because snake is a female word in German and so it needs the female preposition DIE versus the male DER (neutral would be DAS). Greetings Henk (20 years ago, 13-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.events.1000steine-land)
| | | | | Re: Please Post Your Favorite German Words To off-topic.fun
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| (...) I agree. The original poster should have at LEAST set the FUT correctly, in my view. I'm surprised(1) that so many old hands just followed along and didn't change the FUT either. It's kinda late now but maybe any additional followups might go (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.events.1000steine-land, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | | | Please Post Your Favorite German Words To off-topic.fun
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| ... or some other, more appropriate group. :) /Tore (20 years ago, 13-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.events.1000steine-land)
| | | | | Re: What's Your Favorite German Word?!
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| "Todd Thuma" <thumat@gactr.uga.edu> wrote in message news:Hz5oq3.1p0n@lugnet.com... (...) segment (...) Language Most (...) The word "Getreidepreisdiffer...ngsantrag" is pretty amazing.... (20 years ago, 13-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.events.1000steine-land)
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| "Todd Thuma" <thumat@gactr.uga.edu> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:Hz5oq3.1p0n@lugnet.com... (...) segment (...) Language Most (...) Mine is "Donaudampfschifffah...ellschaft" ;-) Because it's one of the german words, many german speaking people cannot (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.events.1000steine-land)
| | | | | Re: What's Your Favorite German Word?!
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| (...) Todd, mein lieblingswort ist... Kämpfer Warum? ... a) It's neat-o to say and means FIGHTAH! b) It's used to name a (URL). :-) c) Tons of online players use it in games such as Battlefield 1942 and Call of Duty. IMO though, the whole German (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.events.1000steine-land, FTX)
| | | | | Re: lime green
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| (...) I knew there was a completed one around but I was at work and didn't have time to look it up, sorry Chris! Tim (20 years ago, 13-Jun-04, to lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: What's Your Favorite German Word?!
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| My favorite German word is "klapperschlange". No, its has nothing to do with an STD. I was watching a German video tape of Escape From New York, and the title was changed to Der Klapperschlange, which means The Rattlesnake. -Keith (20 years ago, 12-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.events.1000steine-land)
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| (...) Like this 6-wide attempt ? (URL) (20 years ago, 12-Jun-04, to lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: What's Your Favorite German Word?!
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| (...) My favorite words when I took German in high school were, strangely enough, Kartoffel, which means potato, and zufrieden, which means content. I think Zufrieden would make a fine name for a pleasure ship, don't you think? Adrian (20 years ago, 12-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.events.1000steine-land)
| | | | | Re: What's Your Favorite German Word?!
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| (...) Welcome back Gary! (Willkommen zurück? Willkom wieder?) (20 years ago, 12-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.events.1000steine-land, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | | | Re: What's Your Favorite German Word?!
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| (...) My favorite German word is "SCHADENFREUDE", which translates to "showing happiness over other peoples misfortunes". A good example of schadenfreude is the feeling you get when you find out that greedy corporate executives go to jail for their (...) (20 years ago, 11-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.events.1000steine-land, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | | | Re: What's Your Favorite German Word?!
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| (...) When living there for a few years, "Biergarten", especially when used in a one word sentence ending in a questionmark was always music to my ears. (I was in my dark ages then). "Spielzeugausverkauf" would now be a close second. Paul (20 years ago, 11-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.events.1000steine-land)
| | | | | Re: What's Your Favorite German Word?!
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| (...) hehe Good point, Tim! My other favorite German word: Ausgezeichnet! (It can only be fully appreciated heard out loud as spoken by a German, though) JOHN (20 years ago, 11-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.events.1000steine-land, FTX)
| | | | | Re: What's Your Favorite German Word?!
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| (...) Mine was always Augenblick because it was easy to figure out what it meant in high school German class. :-) Maggie C (20 years ago, 11-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.events.1000steine-land, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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