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 Spotlight / 2000-06-08

Thursday, June 8, 2000

Today’s new members... Fraser Lovatt, G. Lewis Valentine III.

  New world record for highest Lego tower planned
 
In Hannover (northern Germany) some Lego guys are trying to build the highest Lego tower with help of anyone who comes along: old record is 25.20 meters. These guys plan to build it 50 cm higher (more is not allowed, since Lego wants to do a lot of (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jun-00, to lugnet.general)  

  A _real_ currency converter!
 
For those of us who ship LEGO abroad, if we want to look up exchange rates for payment, we can go to eBay or Yahoo, and probably plenty of other places too. However, those figures don't give you the true amounts that you would actually buy and / or (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)  

  Announcement: Member pages
 
Members: You can now make your own web pages on LUGNET -- right from your web browser. Here are some examples... (URL) more details, check out the User Guide and the FAQ: (2 URLs) fun! --Todd & Suz p.s. We're also putting together a "community (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jun-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish, lugnet.admin.general) !! 

  Re: LUGNET Spotted in LEGO Mania Magazine - Thread?
 
(...) We met with two LSI[1] corporate attorneys in May. The next issue of LEGO Mania Magazine will contain a disclaimer on the back page noting (1) the nature of the LUGNET logo and trademark, (2) that a proper trademark line was omitted in error (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jun-00, to lugnet.general)  

  Fire Elemental
 
Some time ago, I made a fire elemental using several trans-orange dragon wings. Now that someone made a DAT file for the dragon wing, I've been able to encode my fire elemental into L-CAD. I've created an image, using my DAT file and MLCAD. (URL) I (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jun-00, to lugnet.castle.org.cw, lugnet.castle, lugnet.org.us.dixielug) ! 

  Jambalaya Box Status
 
Thanks to all who've helped me track down the boxes and learn a bit about their checkered pasts... Special thanks to Mookie! Here's the short and sweet version as of this morning: <PRE> Jambalaya Box Status: Jambalaya Box Updated Last Seen By (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)  

  Re: First true Train MOC (NELUG Boxcar).
 
(...) First thanks to everyone that posted or E-mailed me comments and suggestions. I have made a couple of small changes to the NELUG boxcar according to some of your suggestions. 1. I moved the trucks out toward the ends more. 2. I lost the (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jun-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.nelug)  

  June 7th Meeting report:
 
--. .- ..--. ..-. .---. .- ^^^^^^ Lame attempt at Morse Code news thingy. I have put up a short meeting report on the NELUG home page (URL) . Basically this was much like most of our general meetings where we sit and talk about LEGO and non-LEGO (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)  

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