Issue 4

**Sim533** · by **Sim533** on Fri May 14, 2010 1:16 am

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Newsletter Articles - Sim533, FDH, Lollielmas, Tennisdude, TheRoddy15, Darknight1101,

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ISSUE 4 - Happy Mother Day! - MLNTEAM NEWSLETTER

What's new at MLNTEAM

Here is the news for MLN Team,

Groups: There are some new groups, those of which are: Lego Universe, Phoenix Command Group and some more.

Graphics Shops: There is a new graphics shop run by Darknight1101. Though now most graphics shops are losing business due to less demand for signatures and avatars, so can these new and old shops survive?

Banners: As you all know from the last issue people have sent in their banners for MLN Team. Well as most of you know they are now been shown. Every entry will have 1-2 weeks on display and then the next banner gets the same amount of time.

Statistics: At moment we are very close to being over 800 members. Also we have over 7,000 topics and nearly at 125,000 posts.

That concludes the news for this issue,

Enjoy the rest of the newsletter!

By TheRoddy15

Get access to all the hidden bricks in LDD, Lego Universe Mode now available

(Source: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=40794)

It seems to be there is a HIDDEN Lego Universe Mode. But activation is required. After activation you get access to all 1400+ bricks in LDD. A new interface with new options.

- Decoration tool, allows you to “paint” decoration on those bricks that will allow it.
- Color picker tool, allows you to pick a color from any other brick in the scene (“scene” is LDD-lingo for the area on screen where you place the bricks and build your models)
- Color palette tool – allows you to select any color. By holding the mouse pointer over a color, a sub-menu will also expand showing all the sub-colors.

Important note: Please be aware that Lego takes NO responsibility whatsoever for LU-mode. Since LU-mode is NOT intended for the general public there may be flaws in the functionality and problems with incorrect brick geometry.

Lego is making LU-mode available to us LDD fans as-is. There is no support at all and you use it fully at your own risk. And naturally, bricks used in LU-mode are not possible to buy through DesignByMe or Pick-A-Brick.

More info: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=40794

Activation: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?s=1b3ad8e153f7962fa92c1aa5e04aed4b&act=attach&type=post&id=4952

By Sim533

Phoenix Command Group

The Phoenix Command Group is a Space-themed usergroup. The members create Star Trek styled spaceships, and upload them to the LEGO Universe Gallery.

There are three divisions of the group:
Phoenix Command Group: Starships and command ships.
Starquest Ground Forces: Ground vehicles and troops.
Star Lancer Aircorps: Attack ships and starfighters.

U.S.S. VENTURE REFIT by Legotrain587

It's become very popular on the Creation Lab, and now it's being continued on MLNTeam!

Current MLNTeam-based PCG members are:
Johnnyred
Alien_Ant2
Beeky31
Crackers5
Flipz
ndb
Roxtus
Sloopofwar
steelersrule12

If you want to join, here's the usergroup join page.

By Crackers5

Shop News

All the shops are:
Items R US, clearance store, Tennisdude’s market, Yannip1234’super Giant Store, Micah477’s sparse items store, Racer’s supplies, Sam’s MLN shop, The ultimate MLN shop, Mr. Andrew’s shop, Zipster16’s massive MLN store, MLN merchandise, Crackers item, trade, and click shop, MLN market, Jeweled Supply, Snoopy2053’s shop, Shadow shop, MLN emporium, The flying items, Legomart, Medic’s shop, Elliwhi’s neon storm shop, Thornax and goods, Cody’s thornax shop, Short’s super shop, Fatemaster72’s the fate store, tvguy519’s shop, Commander’s market mania, The techno store, V~shop, Ted’s shop.

Item’s R us was re- opened last month after a confusion involving who clicked and who didn’t. My shop Tennisdude’s market launched totems for 10 clicks which was a big hit. The ultimate MLN shop, which is brickerson and Pi’s store, is closed for a short time. Shops are being requested, but we are running out of room. A few of the shops listed above may be closed soon due to the owner leaving, no orders, or inactivity.

By Tennisdude

Lego Message Boards

I recently checked the LMB’s to find the users have almost posted a total of 1,000,000 posts!
At the moment it is 928,473 posts and rising rapidly with most people posting in the “LEGO news” topic.
Figures also show that there are 1,652,926 users active on the messageboards making it possible to reach 1 million posts by July when schools breakup and users log on much more.

By Darknight1101

Video Games

There‘s an (old) new product site which is called „Video Games“. At the moment it’s about the game “Lego Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues”. Therefore there’s a big Lego Indiana Jones graphic with a short test on the home page. On the product site there is a page where the futures of the game are like the 2 player split screen. (c) academicworld

There’s also a photo gallery about the game which shows the futures of the game. The photos are taken at exciting and famous moments like the nuclear bomb test. (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull). On the next page you find wallpapers about the game which you can download. On the last site you find a walkthrough how to make you own Lego Indiana Jones. There are tips about cliffs, traps, switches and much more. This page isn’t like the other Lego pages it looks other, but it also looks great. (For example there isn’t a product pages and in the Fun zone there is a walkthrough instant a game or a movie.)
Soon the page would about the new Harry potter video game which comes out soon. Then the page would be remodeled.
My rating:
The page looks great and is really interesting when you have the game, because of the level walkthrough or when you like LEGO video games.
6/10- When you see the page the first time it’s interesting. But on the second view you see that the page is boring.

By FDH

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

In this months issue, I will be writing about birthday. I hope you are having a good break, but let’s say ‘Happy Birthday’ this month too…

3^rd May: bogdanthehockeyfreak
11^th May: Revenge Racer
21^st May: Frogrobot and GameCraze99
24^th May: {502}venom312
31^st May: RacerXtreme5000

By Lollielmas

Until next time...
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