My LEGO Nexus Organization

Creation Lab Retiring (And How to Save Your Creations!)

Hi all,
Thursday, on the LEGO Message Boards, the moderator WhiteAlligator broke the tragic news to us that the LEGO Universe Creation Lab is officially retiring. After almost 3 years since LEGO Universe opened, the long lived and loved creation lab will officially close too, on October 25, 2013. One day before the 3 year birthday of LEGO Universe. We are told that the creation lab is going to be set to read-only mode for a little while, but we do not know how long before it officially closes. When LEGO discontinues their other set lines, it is usually a couple of years before they finally delete the site to make room for another theme. Well, the closure of the Creation Lab may just mean the closure of the LEGO Universe website also.
To read the entire LEGO Message Boards article, click below:
https://community.lego.com/t5/LEGO-UNIVERSE/Creation-Lab-Retiring/m-p/7637814 (https://community.lego.com/t5/LEGO-UNIVERSE/Creation-Lab-Retiring/m-p/7637814)
Goodbye Professor Brickkeeper! We will always remember you in our hearts…
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Fortunately, if you want to save your creations on the creation lab, Hobino (http://'http://systemonbrick.wordpress.com') and Le717 (http://'http://triangle717.wordpress.com/') have written a little tool to help you! The LUCA (LEGO Universe Creation Lab Archiver) is a simple tool, that you download your your Windows or Linux computer (for Mac Users, you can try to run the program with WineBottler (http://'http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/') or another Windows program emulator) and run the program. All you have to do is enter your LEGO ID Username (the one you sign in with on LEGO.com) and press Enter.
LUCA will automatically save your creations to a folder with your username in the same place as the LUCA program. When you open the folder, there will be a sub-folder for each of your creations. Once you open one, you will immediately notice the pictures, videos, and LEGO Digital Designer files from your creations, with the addition of a few .HTML files. The .HTML files contain the description, images, tags, and link to your original creation.
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• This program will not save comments on creations. You will have to do that manually if you want them.
  
• AVI and MOV file extensions may be mixed up occasionally because of different movie codecs. If you cannot play a file, try renaming it’s extension or playing the file in a software like VLC Media Player (http://'http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html') which does not rely on the file extension.
  
• If you have periods in your username, unfortunately, you will be unable to download your files. Due the the Creation Lab’s own search function limitations, LUCA cannot search the username. We are very sorry about this.

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Here is the release page link. This link goes to GitHub.com (http://'https://github.com/le717/LUCA').
    Release Page (http://'https://github.com/le717/LUCA/releases/tag/v1.0')

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Enjoy it while it lasts!

Oh boy, this sure brings back memories... I wonder what I'd be capable of doing now with stop motion if I tried.

I've got a mac and I'm having a bit of trouble using wineskin... and VMWare's having some kind of issue so I can't just use the PC mode at the moment. Just in case I can't get something working in the next day, would anyone mind archiving all my stuff and then putting a zip of it on mediafire or something?

I have not done mine yet.. thanks for the reminder.
I MAY be able to, depending on how getting my stuff works out.. but if there is a back up, you should use them
Actually I'd suggest you PM a few people and ask, as not a lot of folks seem to have read this thread.
If I can I will let you know.

It's alright, I got it working for myself. Thanks though.