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Re: Parts for building from MOC instructions
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 18 Aug 2005 00:11:49 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, patrick flaherty wrote:
> Hi,
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> My son (5) and myself and fairly new to the Lego world.
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> We've built from bunch of Lego kits, including some relatively complicated
> e.g. the Santa Fe locomotive. And are looking to expand our horizons.
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> I've discovered the following link:
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> http://www.bricksonthebrain.com/instructions/offsite.cfm?linkID=851
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> It's got an MPD file; I'm familiar with MLCad (I'm a programmer); and I can (I
> believe) extract a parts list from this.
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> The parts list is of course quite long. I've bought handfuls of parts in the
> past from various vendors on www.bricklink.com and my experience is that very
> few of these independent vendors will have all parts.
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> So how best to collect (order) all the parts associated with the URL above?
> Best of all of course would be, for a fee, I send the parts list to some single
> party and they collect everything in the list and send me in effect a kit (I
> don't know if this is available and if it is it's doubtless not cheap).
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> Or are there any good tricks (comprehensive lego parts vendor search engines
> or software or some other kind) that will allow me to put together (in some
> optimized fashion so that I'm not contacting 50 differnet vendors) all the parts
> that I need to build the locomotive above?
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> Help appreciated.
Hi Pat,
You could try the latest version of BrikTrak http://www.briktrak.com/
It's still officially beta, but generally works pretty well. It allows you to
import an MPD file, and produce an XML file of the parts list suitable for
uploading to your bricklink wanted list http://www.bricklink.com/wantedXML.asp
You can then view the parts availability by shop, and choose the best
combination of shops to buy parts from. I have used this a couple of times with
good results.
ROSCO
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