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In lugnet.loc.au, Melody Brown wrote:
> Dear AFOL's...
>
> We have this land... rather large, but little with population... still have to
> wait ages in some lines, like in banks and at the post office, not to mention
> supermarkets and at the beach on 40+ days and and and...
>
> We have AFOL's and loads of Closet AFOL's, wanna-be AFOL's and children... come
> on... I've seen you in the LEGO aisles in certain LEGO-carrying stores... I've
> seen you in the streets and probably didn't even know, that deep down... you
> were an AFOL at heart, under your bed is a wide range of LEGO, once used and
> once loved... but the truth is, you'd really like to pull it out someday and
> build, build, build... but what would your friends think? what would Mum and Dad
> think??? what if you became addicted??? what would the dog think??? build him a
> bone out those yukky old and gone funny coloured white bricks and he'll be ya
> friend for life ;)...
>
> But you get the picture, right? yeah? yeah?
>
> But what am I really waffling on about, right? yeah? yeah?...
>
> Look around... extend your eyeballs towards overseas events of the past, present
> and the future... it's all happening, except here... of course with a few
> exceptions such as these events done by LEGO etc... but what about something
> bigger... with LEGO and the actual fans that keep LEGO AU in their jobs ;) We
> have LEGO in stores... the wonderful and glorious World Club mag to look forward
> to 4 times a year... LEGO sales (the only thing to really keep us alive)... and
> LEGO on the shelves... well kinda... and the odd show here or there... so what
> are we to complain for??? We are soooo lucky ;) - close your eyes and we have it
> all! us lucky buggers!!! (no, I'm not drunk)... Anyway, before I have to go out
> and find a publisher (almost a novel), I'm going to dream here...
>
> I'm going to dream of a large, exciting... all AFOL fans (and more), getting
> in... arranging and helping out... sometime next year, since planning takes
> yonks as well as waiting for people to reply ;) - somewhere central to most for
> easy access... I want to see LEGO getting in and helping and any affiliated
> companies... I want it to be so cool that international LEGO fans would want to
> come along and enjoy the Aussie LEGO-expo type thingy... We'd have a huge famous
> Aussie-style barbeque (Barbie, Mate :)) and loads of glorious MOCS and wonderful
> models to look at (LEGO models, not women, sorry ;))... and and and... ok... I
> woke up...
>
> But, if all effort was put in... this could be more than just a dream... but an
> actual event... I live to see the dream... now let's smell it!!!
>
> Back to sleep...
>
> Love,
>
> Mel
>
>
> P.S sorry, no clones (or clowns) allowed ;)
Hello All ,
Just A week ago I arrived back in Melbourne ,Australia. After Beening In the USA
for Brickfest PDX (Ross Crawford went too)
And The American & German AFOL said They would LOVE a BrickFest (TM) In
Australia. Talks, was to have it mid 2005 (? winter it may be cold ?)
We may Be SMALL , But we are only going to Get BIGGER ! And BIGGER ! As time
goes on .
At BrickFest PDX , In the main Talk Room , They asked everyone to stand up .
And Then asked them to sit down, as per what meetings they had been to ,and the
time that they had been building with Lego
(I call it building, not playing).
And nearly 3/4 of the people sat down in the first turn !
This goes to show, how big the AFOL populatin ,has gotten much bigger in the
last year or so.
I also had a bit of a talk to JAKE from LEGO. And he wants to HEAR more from us
AUSSIES !
I don't Know what it's like in QLD . But I think the way that we are going to
get more AUSTRALIAN AFOL . Is to have more LEGO SHOWS , LEGO TRAIN SHOWS.
And A LOT MORE MEDIA COVERAGE.
At least Once every two months .In The MX newspaper, I see a lego artical . But
these are always from some were else in the world NOT AUSTRALIA . I hope to
change this . By hopefully putting in a artical about M>ltc , and some of there
Melbourne trains and trams.
Another Idea I had was for ALL AUSSIE AFOL to get all of the spare bricks
together (old, etc) and donate them to the Australian Army to give to the kids
in East Temor . Bring some smiles to Kids faces !!
And Hopefully have another small artical in the newspaper to tell Aussies about
this.
Germany AFOL has sent LEGO to Afghanistan, for the kids.
American AFOL has sent Lego to Iraq (?) , for the kids.
Many Thanks, Teunis . M>ltc / MUGS
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| (...) <blah blah blah from me> (...) Hello Mr.T. (...) Sounds good to me, I have friends from both countries (and others) who also say that it woudl be cool to see us have such a show.. (...) Yes, but that is also us 'known' fans... have you seen (...) (20 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.events)
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| Dear AFOL's... We have this land... rather large, but little with population... still have to wait ages in some lines, like in banks and at the post office, not to mention supermarkets and at the beach on 40+ days and and and... We have AFOL's and (...) (20 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.events)
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