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Check out what you can make with 750,000 LEGOs
From Kare11.com website March 20, 2011
MINNEAPOLIS -- Local LEGO-builders have a new way to let visitors get a look at
their one-of-a-kind creations.
“It’s extravagant. You come in and it’s a huge playland,” visitor Trever
Sullivan said about the warehouse in north Minneapolis that is filled with
original LEGO scenes.
It is a playland where trains chug across bridges and through tunnels, passing
all kinds of action. There is a mountain, a main street and hundreds of
characters in countless scenes.
“The thing that surprises visitors the most is these are not sets that LEGO has
made,” club member Stein Settergren explained.
“Everything is custom made,” club member Steve Demlow added.
What looks like it could have come from a giant LEGO kit is actually the
brainchild of a dozen local guys who’ve never given up their childhood hobbies.
“It is a whole mix of people. We’ve got a couple computer programmers, a guy
who does real estate, a 911 dispatcher,” club member John Kelly said. “There’s
a LEGO geek and a train geek and a couple of guys are both.”
Some of the men have been building together since the early 80s. More LEGO
fanatics came on board after the LEGO store opened at the Mall of America in the
early 90s.
“We met in a basement of a guy’s house in Minneapolis,” Demlow explained. “We
had room for about a fifth of the layout to be set up at any one time.”
The Greater Midwest LEGO Train Club (GMLTC) now operates out of the
Brickmania Toyworks warehouse in Suite 177 at 1620 Central Avenue NE in
Minneapolis. The Twin Cities LEGO Train Club also has a layout in the space.
The clubs hold a free open house from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the second Saturday
of every month.
Besides the train layouts, there is a building area for the kids. There is also
a small retail store within the space featuring a variety of hard to find LEGO
products.
“It is incredible,” one father said as he looked through the display with his
kids. “We’re wondering on how many pieces?”
Settergren figures the guys in the GMLTC have at least 750,000 bricks into what
the group considers a huge art project.
“It is an artistic medium,” Settergren explained. “This is our medium, the LEGO
brick.”
The LEGO brick-- that built the playland-- that is turning out to be a hit with
all ages in Minneapolis.
Source:
Kare11.com
Brickmania Brickmania.com
Greater Midwest LEGO Train Club GMLTC.ORG
Twin Cities LEGO Train Club TCLTC
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The Greater
Midwest LEGO Train Club will be showing this weekend at the La Crosse & Three
Rivers Railroad Club 29th Annual Model Railroad Show.
Come see the GMLTC’s
18’x30’ ever-expanding modular all-LEGO town & 9V train layout.
Judy & Bill
Payne will also have their town layout featuring LEGO battery trains.
Trempealeau’s Dave & Stacy Sterling will be displaying their ToT-LUG LEGO Town &
Train layout.
As always, guests are invited to bring along their own LEGO
rolling stock to run on our layout.
There will be many other (non-Lego)
operating train layouts from all over WI, MN & IA, exhibits and displays,
railroadiana, railroad art, door prizes and hobby dealers.
Dates/Times:
Saturday, March 20th, 2010
10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Sunday, March 21st, 2010
10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Admission:
$5 for adults. $4.50 for adults when a non-perishable food item is donated.
Children under 11 are FREE when accompanied by an adult.
Location:
La Crosse Center
300 Harborview Plaza
Second and Pearl Streets
La Crosse, Wisconsin
Free parking, Wheelchair Accessible.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=lacrosse+center,+lacrosse,+wi&layer=&ie=UTF8&z=12&ll=43.888615,-91.240768&spn=0.174931,0.32135&om=1&iwloc=A
More info:
http://lax3riversmodelrrclub.com/Show%20Dates.htm
Hope to see you there!
--
Bill Toenjes
(TooMuchDew)
http://www.gmltc.org/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/gmltc/
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=183883107508
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The Greater Midwest LEGO Train Club will be showing this weekend at the
La Crosse & Three Rivers Railroad Club 27th Annual Model Railroad Show.
Come see the GMLTC’s 18’x30’ ever-expanding modular all-LEGO town & train
layout.
Club member Judy Payne will also have a layout featuring LEGO battery
trains and Duplo trains.
Also see John and Ross Neal’s Twin Cities LEGO Train Club (TCLTC) layout.
http://news.lugnet.com/trains/org/tcltc/
As always, guests are invited to bring along their own LEGO rolling stock to run
on our layout.
There will be many other (non-Lego) operating train layouts from
all over WI, MN & IA,
exhibits and displays, railroadiana, railroad art, door
prizes and hobby dealers.
Dates/Times:
Saturday, March 8th, 2008
10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Sunday, March 9th, 2008
10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Admission:
$5 for adults. $4.50 for adults when a non-perishable food item is donated.
Children under 11 are FREE when accompanied by an adult.
Location:
La Crosse Center
300 Harborview Plaza
Second and Pearl Streets
La Crosse, Wisconsin
Free parking, Wheelchair Accessible.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=lacrosse+center,+lacrosse,+wi&layer=&ie=UTF8&z=12&ll=43.888615,-91.240768&spn=0.174931,0.32135&om=1&iwloc=A
More info:
http://www.trains.com/trc/community/events/event-info.asp?eventid=11335
Hope to see you there!
--
Bill Toenjes
(TooMuchDew)
G.M.L.T.C.
http://www.gmltc.org/
(not to be confused with the Great Missenden Lawn Tennis Club)
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The Greater Midwest LEGO Train Club will be showing this weekend at the
La Crosse & Three Rivers Railroad Club 26th Annual Model Railroad Show.
Come see the GMLTC’s 18’x30’ ever-expanding modular all-LEGO town & train
layout.
Club member Judy Payne will also have x 15’x15 ’ layout featuring LEGO
battery trains and Duplo trains.
Also see John and Ross Neal’s Twin Cities LEGO Train Club (TCLTC) layout.
http://news.lugnet.com/trains/org/tcltc/
As always, guests are invited to bring along their own LEGO rolling stock to run
on our layout.
There will be many other (non-Lego) operating train layouts,
exhibits and displays,
railroadiana, railroad art, door prizes and hobby
dealers.
Dates/Times:
Saturday, March 17th, 2007
10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Sunday, March 18th, 2007
10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Admission:
$5 for adults. $4.50 for adults when a non-perishable food item is donated.
Children under 12 are free when accompanied by an adult.
Location:
La Crosse Center
300 Harborview Plaza
Second and Pearl Streets
La Crosse, Wisconsin
Free parking, Wheelchair Accessible.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=lacrosse+center,+lacrosse,+wi&layer=&ie=UTF8&z=12&ll=43.888615,-91.240768&spn=0.174931,0.32135&om=1&iwloc=A
More info:
http://l3rclub.rrdepot.com/show.php
http://www.trains.com/trc/community/events/event-info.asp?eventid=10331
Hope to see you there!
--
Bill Toenjes
(TooMuchDew)
G.M.L.T.C.
http://www.gmltc.org/
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