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Dear Lego Enthusiasts!
Today the biggest (and greatest!) Lego Fest ever will find its end. I myself
had the chance to attend Legoword 2002 in Zwolle/Netherlands for 3 of the 5
days. So here comes my brief report about it:
"LEGOWORLD 2002 HAS BEEN TRUELY PHANTASTIC"
.
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.
Ok, I think I will give a midsized review too:
After getting out of bed in the middle of the night I was driving the 390 km
westwards to the Ijsselhallen in Zwolle. I had packed my car the evening
before and placed it in a guarded garage that night.....
When I arrived at 7:45 in the morning it took only a few minutes till members
of the local Lego club 'de Bouwsteen' let me in. BTW, that is the biggest
Lego-Fan Club wordwide with over 500 members - and I can assure you, I only
met very kind persons and had a very warm welcome. THANKS to all from 'de
Bouwsteen' and especially to its president Paul Wolters!
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Ben/Shows/Legoworld2002/002positive_mood.jpg
Since the public gets into the Ijsselhalls at 10:00 I had to bring all my
stuff into the hall till 9:00 when the doors got locked up, which is not so
easy if you permanently meet lots of nice folks.
The time till 10:00 was devoted to put the Lego into the infield of the train
layout. Erwin van Grinsvin as the responsible person for that area had left me
a quite big area free, which I then occupated. I started with the track
layout, arranged my buildings along that and had a running train on it when
the public came in. Then it took 2 more hours to arrange baseplates with
minifigs, trees, cars and the other small details.
Then I had to check out the rest of the legoworld and found out about:
- roundabout 10.000 visitors per day (most days sold out)
- hundreds of fans from nearly all European countries and even Tim from the
US.
- a huge train layout with lots of very nice detailed houses for e.g. made by
Eric Brok and lots of others.
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Ben/Shows/Legoworld2002/009overview.jpg
- the pirate world of KLaas: all sets of Lego arranged in a mocced and
beautiful detailed table layout
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Ben/Shows/Legoworld2002/50_pirate_world.jpg
- an extra table layout of 6 ITLUG members: that has been the probably most
beautiful arranged piece of Lego in Zwolle. So it was no wonder a big crowd
was always trying to get nearer to the fence along that. A mindstorms control
of the trains added extra attention.
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Ben/Shows/Legoworld2002/48_itlug_station.jpg
- a teaching area for CAD and developped building techniques
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Ben/Shows/Legoworld2002/81_snot_school.jpg
- tables full with big sized trucks and cranes
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Ben/Shows/Legoworld2002/33man.jpg
- tables full with mindstorms and technic creations
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Ben/Shows/Legoworld2002/26_technik.jpg
- moc space buildings
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Ben/Shows/Legoworld2002/27_space-nuts.jpg
- single XXL sized buildings, partly with nice surroundings
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Ben/Shows/Legoworld2002/30_haus.jpg
- a huge 10 meters bridge with a camera-car running over it and driving in
spirals down to ground floor 2 meters below (radio transmission of the signal
onto a TV screen) phaszinated lots of people.
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Ben/Shows/Legoworld2002/22_10meter_bruecke.j
pg
- the neighbour halls were occupied with a national TV show sending live from
the Legoworld
- another was full with Lego displays and the kids playing area (tables with
tons of nicest parts)
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Ben/Shows/Legoworld2002/006_building.jpg
- last hall was attractive because of bulk sale of special elements like
corner roof pieces etc. Additionally there were the big Lego truck show and a
action based area where the kids could drive the new RC cars (really fast
those cars - lots of fun to drive them!)
- even the military supported the event with action camp: cids were allowed to
get up a ladder of steel cable. When reaching to the roof they could slide
down to the ground via another steal cable that lead down in a ca. 30° angle.
(Of course the were all time secured by a slim cord, but it looked really
dangerous and offered for sure a big thrill when they came down with a
unbelievable speed).
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Ben/Shows/Legoworld2002/005_armee_fun.jpg
-LC sent lots of employes as well and for e.g. Brad Justus gave us a nearly 90
minutes chance for question and answers. Thanks for the always very open
minded communication with us.
********************
So to come to an end:
I am convinced Legoworld was a full success for all sides: 'de Bouwsteen' and
its members, the guests who were 'working' on the show, the TV, The Lego
Company and all kids with parents and AFOLs that came along.
I will give anything to join next year again! Thanks again at all the people
that have made it so great days to me! I talked till my throat hurted and I
was pleased with the accommodation in bungalows and the food and drink support
and I needed lots of coffee with no minute too much spending on sleep....
Leg Godt!
Ben
(www.FGLTC.org)
full picture gallery:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=27260
de bouwsteen in the www:
http://www.debouwsteen.com
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Ben himself, after a LONG day of serious train-business :-)
http://www.vanree.net/~kmeijaard/fotoalbum/legoworld_2002/tn/image32.jpg.html
See you soon, Ben!
Klaas
Reinhard \"Ben\" Beneke wrote:
> Dear Lego Enthusiasts!
>
> Today the biggest (and greatest!) Lego Fest ever will find its end. I myself
> had the chance to attend Legoword 2002 in Zwolle/Netherlands for 3 of the 5
> days. So here comes my brief report about it:
>
> "LEGOWORLD 2002 HAS BEEN TRUELY PHANTASTIC"
>
> .
>
> .
>
> .
>
> Ok, I think I will give a midsized review too:
> After getting out of bed in the middle of the night I was driving the 390 km
> westwards to the Ijsselhallen in Zwolle. I had packed my car the evening
> before and placed it in a guarded garage that night.....
>
> When I arrived at 7:45 in the morning it took only a few minutes till members
> of the local Lego club 'de Bouwsteen' let me in. BTW, that is the biggest
> Lego-Fan Club wordwide with over 500 members - and I can assure you, I only
> met very kind persons and had a very warm welcome. THANKS to all from 'de
> Bouwsteen' and especially to its president Paul Wolters!
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Ben/Shows/Legoworld2002/002positive_mood.jpg
>
> Since the public gets into the Ijsselhalls at 10:00 I had to bring all my
> stuff into the hall till 9:00 when the doors got locked up, which is not so
> easy if you permanently meet lots of nice folks.
> The time till 10:00 was devoted to put the Lego into the infield of the train
> layout. Erwin van Grinsvin as the responsible person for that area had left me
> a quite big area free, which I then occupated. I started with the track
> layout, arranged my buildings along that and had a running train on it when
> the public came in. Then it took 2 more hours to arrange baseplates with
> minifigs, trees, cars and the other small details.
>
> Then I had to check out the rest of the legoworld and found out about:
>
> - roundabout 10.000 visitors per day (most days sold out)
>
> - hundreds of fans from nearly all European countries and even Tim from the
> US.
>
> - a huge train layout with lots of very nice detailed houses for e.g. made by
> Eric Brok and lots of others.
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Ben/Shows/Legoworld2002/009overview.jpg
>
> - the pirate world of KLaas: all sets of Lego arranged in a mocced and
> beautiful detailed table layout
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Ben/Shows/Legoworld2002/50_pirate_world.jpg
>
> - an extra table layout of 6 ITLUG members: that has been the probably most
> beautiful arranged piece of Lego in Zwolle. So it was no wonder a big crowd
> was always trying to get nearer to the fence along that. A mindstorms control
> of the trains added extra attention.
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Ben/Shows/Legoworld2002/48_itlug_station.jpg
>
> - a teaching area for CAD and developped building techniques
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Ben/Shows/Legoworld2002/81_snot_school.jpg
>
> - tables full with big sized trucks and cranes
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Ben/Shows/Legoworld2002/33man.jpg
>
> - tables full with mindstorms and technic creations
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Ben/Shows/Legoworld2002/26_technik.jpg
>
> - moc space buildings
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Ben/Shows/Legoworld2002/27_space-nuts.jpg
>
> - single XXL sized buildings, partly with nice surroundings
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Ben/Shows/Legoworld2002/30_haus.jpg
>
> - a huge 10 meters bridge with a camera-car running over it and driving in
> spirals down to ground floor 2 meters below (radio transmission of the signal
> onto a TV screen) phaszinated lots of people.
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Ben/Shows/Legoworld2002/22_10meter_bruecke.j
> pg
>
> - the neighbour halls were occupied with a national TV show sending live from
> the Legoworld
>
> - another was full with Lego displays and the kids playing area (tables with
> tons of nicest parts)
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Ben/Shows/Legoworld2002/006_building.jpg
>
> - last hall was attractive because of bulk sale of special elements like
> corner roof pieces etc. Additionally there were the big Lego truck show and a
> action based area where the kids could drive the new RC cars (really fast
> those cars - lots of fun to drive them!)
>
> - even the military supported the event with action camp: cids were allowed to
> get up a ladder of steel cable. When reaching to the roof they could slide
> down to the ground via another steal cable that lead down in a ca. 30° angle.
> (Of course the were all time secured by a slim cord, but it looked really
> dangerous and offered for sure a big thrill when they came down with a
> unbelievable speed).
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Ben/Shows/Legoworld2002/005_armee_fun.jpg
>
> -LC sent lots of employes as well and for e.g. Brad Justus gave us a nearly 90
> minutes chance for question and answers. Thanks for the always very open
> minded communication with us.
>
> ********************
>
> So to come to an end:
>
> I am convinced Legoworld was a full success for all sides: 'de Bouwsteen' and
> its members, the guests who were 'working' on the show, the TV, The Lego
> Company and all kids with parents and AFOLs that came along.
>
> I will give anything to join next year again! Thanks again at all the people
> that have made it so great days to me! I talked till my throat hurted and I
> was pleased with the accommodation in bungalows and the food and drink support
> and I needed lots of coffee with no minute too much spending on sleep....
>
> Leg Godt!
>
> Ben
> (www.FGLTC.org)
>
> full picture gallery:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=27260
> de bouwsteen in the www:
> http://www.debouwsteen.com
>
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In lugnet.general, Klaas H. Meijaard writes:
> Ben himself, after a LONG day of serious train-business :-)
http://www.vanree.net/~kmeijaard/fotoalbum/legoworld_2002/image32.jpg
Thanks Klaas,
for posting your pictures. But are you sure, that this picture is taken at the
end of the day? I would guess it has been taken in the early morning of Sunday
before the public came in (which means I had the longest sleep of the weekend
and looked still very fresh - 4 hours till a snoring Italian guy made me leave
my bed that morning ;-)) .
On day one I had my my BR50 engine on the turntable, because I was in fear it
might had a none sufficiant operational reliability. But in fact it has been
the turntable that caused trouble after some times of spinning around, so I
have to redo it partly once again. :-(
In the morning of Sunday I put the BR50 engine on track, because someone would
like to see it run. I feared it would not make a single round (had some
trouble in a test run at home).
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=262909
To my surprise it started to run and then it did round after round till the
end of the day. Same at day two: the engine ran without any break (except for
a short time while Tim took pictures of it) and had not one time a derailment.
Hope to see you in Muelheim in April 2003 - take care!
Ben
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Reinhard \"Ben\" Beneke wrote:
> for posting your pictures. But are you sure, that this picture is taken at the
> end of the day? I would guess it has been taken in the early morning of Sunday
> before the public came in (which means I had the longest sleep of the weekend
> and looked still very fresh - 4 hours till a snoring Italian guy made me leave
> my bed that morning ;-)) .
Hope you got your shot of that Italian :D
My pictures can be found at
http://www.vanree.net/~javanree/fotoalbum/lego/legoworld_2002/ , sorted
by day.
> Hope to see you in Muelheim in April 2003 - take care!
I'll be there!
--
Jan-Albert "Anvil" van Ree | http://www.vanree.net/~javanree/
VanReeDotNet IT Solutions | http://www.vanree.net
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> > "LEGOWORLD 2002 HAS BEEN TRUELY PHANTASTIC"
Thanks for your enthusiasm, it was great and you had also your contribute to
this succes.
But I will correct some.
The president of the club is not Paul Wolters but Paul Koelewijn.
Paul Wolters was responsible for the relation (and daily at LEGOworld) with
LEGO and the IJsselhallen and for the voluntiers.
The credits is also going to the Projectgroup LEGOworld 2002 with:
Secretaryship: Sybrand Bonsma
Relations and voluntiers: Paul Wolters
Steendam (houses): Eric Brok
Trains: Erwin van Grinsvin
Ldraw: Jaco van der Molen
Sponsering: Mark van der Horst
Lodging and History: Hans Beuze
Mindstorms: Martijn Boogaarts
Security: Peter van Es
And, ofcouse all our members which contribute these days, our forgeign guest
(group Ferrari, Tim Courtney, Daniel Crichton, Ben Beneke, Ludo Soete,
Vincent Meeuws, Craig Stevens without theme ... No LEGOWORLD! And if I am
forget one, him/her too.
Paul Koelewijn, president of the De Bouwsteen.
paullego@wanadoo.nl
http://www.debouwsteen.com
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In lugnet.general, Paul Koelewijn writes:
> > > "LEGOWORLD 2002 HAS BEEN TRUELY PHANTASTIC"
> The president of the club is not Paul Wolters but Paul Koelewijn.
Oops... Sorry for causing this mess. Too many new names + too many faces to
get to know all of them in these few days.
Thanks for completing the list of involved people.
Kind Regards,
Ben
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Ben,
Thank you for the report on your adventure to Legoworld 2002.
Nice pictures and commentary on your experience.
What a wonderful venue and enormous attendence.
Glad your locomotive hauled the tracks well. :-)
later,
James Mathis
In lugnet.general, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
> Dear Lego Enthusiasts!
>
> Today the biggest (and greatest!) Lego Fest ever will find its end. I myself
> had the chance to attend Legoword 2002 in Zwolle/Netherlands for 3 of the 5
> days. So here comes my brief report about it:
> full picture gallery:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=27260
> de bouwsteen in the www:
> http://www.debouwsteen.com
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In lugnet.general, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
> Dear Lego Enthusiasts!
>
> Today the biggest (and greatest!) Lego Fest ever will find its end. I myself
> had the chance to attend Legoword 2002 in Zwolle/Netherlands for 3 of the 5
> days. So here comes my brief report about it:
>
> "LEGOWORLD 2002 HAS BEEN TRUELY PHANTASTIC"
Hey Ben -
Great post!! I had an amazing time at the event myself. It was so much
fun, everyone was very warm, and I made a lot of new friends. Thanks to
everyone for making the first week of my first trip to Europe a memorable
one. I wish I had the time to thank everyone publicly, but now its 1:00 am
and I need to get myself to bed. My train arrived in Denmark this evening
(that was a long trip!), and I am at Lars Hassing's house. Gotta get up
early to go to LEGOLAND tomorrow!! :-)
I'm very busy here on this leg of my trip too, more than just the park to
visit, and then I travel to Germany. Maybe you can expect something from me
in the order of an update to LDraw.org next week - I know Jaco is already
working on an article for it and I think we will work together at posting
information. The LDraw sessions went great!! Can't wait for next year!
-Tim
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> I'm very busy here on this leg of my trip too, more than just the park to
> visit, and then I travel to Germany.
<snip>
hi!
So you are travelling by train. Passing Hamburg again when going south? On
the south western end of the railway station there is the big department
store Karstadt across the street. ("Südsteg", thru the tunnel, first shop on
the right.) They have a LEGO section in the basement. It used to be fairly
large and for a long time was some sort of factory outlet for LEGO
Hohenwestedt. Well that's more of historic interest now. They still have
more Kabooki stuff than you normally find outside of Billund though. Across
the street is Galleria-Kaufhof. They also have LEGO (top floor) but except
for special offers not the cheapest - but they often have the christmas
stuff rather early. You can cross under the street from Karstadt and you
enter at the basement level right into the sweet section. In the last years
the christmas sets were sold with Milka Chocolade (light purple boxes). Btw
just saw the first LEGO Advent Kalenders (SpieleMax). If you do travel by
car checking out the Furniture Store "Möbel Kraft" in Segeberg to the north
west of Hamburg is often quite rewarding as they do sell LEGO in the toy
section with good prices. Oh and there was some LEGO show going on in er
"Elbe Einkaufszentrum"? this weekend or the last? sorry can't remember.
Anyway what other parts of Germany are you heading for?
have a good hunt
tschuess/bye
thomas
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Hi Thomas -
Thanks for the advice. I'm going through Hamburg on the train, but looking
at the schedule it looks as if I have only 7 minutes to change. I'm headed
to Frankfurt and then maybe to Ider Overstein - to wind up on the US Army
base at Baumholder. I heard about the German LUG meeting near Köln on
Sunday, but unfortunately I now found out I only have two days instead of
four to spend with my best friend on the base, so I think I'll be skipping
the meeting. I do have a free day though before I return to the States (the
30th - I return the 31st), so I may see if it is possible to take the train
to LEGOLAND Germany or see if I can meet up with German AFOLs in the area.
-Tim
In lugnet.general, Thomas Wölk writes:
>
> <snip>
> > I'm very busy here on this leg of my trip too, more than just the park to
> > visit, and then I travel to Germany.
> <snip>
>
> hi!
> So you are travelling by train. Passing Hamburg again when going south? On
> the south western end of the railway station there is the big department
> store Karstadt across the street. ("Südsteg", thru the tunnel, first shop on
> the right.) They have a LEGO section in the basement. It used to be fairly
> large and for a long time was some sort of factory outlet for LEGO
> Hohenwestedt. Well that's more of historic interest now. They still have
> more Kabooki stuff than you normally find outside of Billund though. Across
> the street is Galleria-Kaufhof. They also have LEGO (top floor) but except
> for special offers not the cheapest - but they often have the christmas
> stuff rather early. You can cross under the street from Karstadt and you
> enter at the basement level right into the sweet section. In the last years
> the christmas sets were sold with Milka Chocolade (light purple boxes). Btw
> just saw the first LEGO Advent Kalenders (SpieleMax). If you do travel by
> car checking out the Furniture Store "Möbel Kraft" in Segeberg to the north
> west of Hamburg is often quite rewarding as they do sell LEGO in the toy
> section with good prices. Oh and there was some LEGO show going on in er
> "Elbe Einkaufszentrum"? this weekend or the last? sorry can't remember.
> Anyway what other parts of Germany are you heading for?
>
> have a good hunt
>
> tschuess/bye
> thomas
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"Reinhard \"Ben\" Beneke" <r.beneke@tu-bs.de> wrote:
> Dear Lego Enthusiasts!
>
> Today the biggest (and greatest!) Lego Fest ever will find its end. I
> myself had the chance to attend Legoword 2002 in Zwolle/Netherlands
> for 3 of the 5 days. So here comes my brief report about it:
>
> "LEGOWORLD 2002 HAS BEEN TRUELY PHANTASTIC"
I agree with Reinhard, it's been an incredible event and we all have had
a grand time.
A warm "thank you" from the Italian group to De Bouwsteen for having
organized Legoworld 2002 and for having invited us, even providing free
accommodation. Many thanks also to all the AFOLs who attended the event;
meeting you in person just confirmed what I already knew: Lego fans are
great people.
If there will be a LEGOWORLD 2003, be sure we will be there. We are still
so excited we're already designing the new train&town layout to show the
next year :-)
Ciao
Mario
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Hi Ben,
When I red your story I can only say one sentence: I've missed a lot. This
year I haven't visited the event after a more or less bad experience last
year because of the entrance tickets. Maybe that was the reason I didn't
showed up.
Well, I've seen a lot of pictures and I must admit that this year's edition
was more and more interesting for the LEGO modellers. In 2001 there were not
many MOCs. Maybe next year I will take a visit (I haven't been to Muelheim
neither).
I don't think I will go there as a participant. When I don't want to stand
there all days I don't think it's possible to show your stuff just for one
day. The reason is that I can't stand being two days or more on such a
crowdy event: I've done it once, but I was sich and tired. And I heave to
take some free days from my work and that's not always possible. Even when
my favorite modelshow (the Modelshow Europe in the Netherlands) will be two
days, I only will be there on one day. The show is on April 12th 2003. When
is the next meeting in Muelheim??
I've enjoyed the Legoworld pictures (trains, the big city bus, the trucks,
the bridge etc etc.).
Kind regards,
Dennis Bosman
In lugnet.general, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
> Dear Lego Enthusiasts!
>
> Today the biggest (and greatest!) Lego Fest ever will find its end. I myself
> had the chance to attend Legoword 2002 in Zwolle/Netherlands for 3 of the 5
> days. So here comes my brief report about it:
>
> "LEGOWORLD 2002 HAS BEEN TRUELY PHANTASTIC"
> ........]
> Leg Godt!
>
> Ben
> (www.FGLTC.org)
>
> full picture gallery:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=27260
> de bouwsteen in the www:
> http://www.debouwsteen.com
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