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Jake, When doing public events be prepard to answer these three questions over and over and over...... 1. Yes lego does make trains. 2. No they are not glued together. 3. I have no idea how many pieces are in the display. Paul Thomas SPLTC (20 years ago, 22-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events)
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(...) Agreed on that one! We get those questions too. I find it's easier to make up a very rough guess on 3. Calum (20 years ago, 22-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events)
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(...) I agree with Calum - besides, estimating the pieces is a good way to drive home what sort of achievement such a layout is. I also find it is a good way to talk about the designing elements of building with lego (ie "That spaceship containes a (...) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events)
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(...) You missed one important one that always gets me: 4. I didn't keep track of how many hours I spent building it. (20 years ago, 23-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events)
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Bill Ward wrote in message ... (...) The question we get is "how long did it take to build it?", the answer being something like, "it took 12 people 2 months of spare time". Answering "hours" is like answering "how many bricks"... impossible :-) (...) (20 years ago, 23-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events)
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(...) The correct answer to (4) is (with an absolutely deadpan expression) "about 15 minutes".. no matter what it is they're asking about! :-) (20 years ago, 25-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events)
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(...) And: 4. No, we didn't get the bricks from Lego for free. Yours, Christian Treczoks (20 years ago, 25-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events)
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In lugnet.lego, Larry Pieniazek wrote: [snip] (...) Ha! I do this with the kids whenever we go anywhere in the car. Kids:"How much longer until we're there?" Me: "Five, six minutes, tops." Hour after hour... -Evil Wayne (20 years ago, 25-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events)
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