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I will be hosting the next DixieLUG meeting at my home in Marietta, GA on July
14, 2007. Come and join us, talk some LEGO, show off some MOCs.
Date and Time:
Saturday July 14, 2007
1:00pm to 4:00pm EDT
Get Directions:
http://tinyurl.com/2wqaw4
for more information on Dixielug, feel free to join our Yahoo Group at:
https://groups.yahoo.com/group/dixielug
-Jason
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I'm selling my whole collection!! Over 500 lbs of Lego boxed up in 30 boxes. 20
years worth of collecting.
Please bid if you are interested. A Whole LOT-O-LEGO up for sale.
Auction ends: Friday night, May-12-06 18:40:33 PDT
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6055779366
I'm in South Carolina (Charleston area) for pickup if you win. Shipping will be
expensive (approx 500 lbs - lots of boxes - very heavy). Maybe a group or train
club can go in on this together.
Thanks for looking.
BEN (member 339)
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Looks like I will be hosting the next DixieLUG meeting at my home in
Marietta, GA on Saturday March 4, 2006.
DATE: Saturday, 4 March 2006
TIME: 1:00pm - 5:00pm (Eastern Standard Time, for those of you in AL)
PLACE: Jason’s House
(2421 Prince Howard Trail, Marietta, GA 30062)
Current plans for the gathering include:
- Bring any MOCs you want to show off (moonbases, etc).
- Planning for the upcomming BrickSouth & FFL Event
- Maybe another ‘part out’ of a set?
- Miscellaneous brick sorting/trading/etc.
- Dinner out afterwards, TBD
Others are welcome to follow up on this thread withanything else
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My wife and I will be visiting Charleston and Hilton Head next month and I'd
like to meet up with any LEGO fans out there. Send me email if you're
interested!
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For those in the Charlotte, NC area, I found this in yesterdays Charlotte
Observer:
Charlotte's first giant Lego Menorah will be constructed Tuesday (Dec.7),
the first night of Hanukkah, in SouthPark mall near the fountain. The building
begins at 4 p.m., with a menorah lighting at 6 p.m. Donuts and drinks will be
served.
For details, contact Lubavitch of North Carolina at (704)366-3984 or go to
www.ohrhatorahnc.org.
Ken
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There seems to be enough positive response even after Brickfest, so lets do
this! :-) We'll have a DixieLUG meeting this month!
Where: Jason Whittenburg's house (Smyrna, GA)
When: Saturday September 18, 2004 - 1:00pm EDT
Directions: http://jasonwhittenburg.com/directions
Agenda: Get feedback on creations, check out creations by others,
meet new people, swap parts, part of a set, talk about doing another
show, hang out, and talk about LEGO.
Visit the DixieLUG website at http://www.dixielug.org and mailing list for more
information.
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In lugnet.events, Ken Dowd wrote:
> I read this in todays Charlotte Observer:
>
> --Kids can have a hand in shaping Charlotte's skyline today at Lego's "What Will
> You Make, Charlotte?" Challenge. Erik Varszegi, one of 40 "Masterbuilders" in
> the world, will build a small rendering of the city's tallest buildings at the
> 2-6 p.m. event at the Arboretum Wal-Mart, 3209 Pineville-Matthews Road. Children
> can help. Families can participate in a 3- minute building contest and bring
> their own Lego creations for Varszegi to evalutate.--
>
> Rather short notice, seeing as it starts in 2 hours, but hopefully this will be
> in time to serve as a 'heads up' for some folks in the Charlotte NC/SC area.
>
> Ken
Yep, NCLUG was caught a little out of range, as the primary core of members (at
this time anyways) are in the Raleigh/Durham Area, 3 hours away. But we plan to
have a presense (4 R/D and 2 to 3 from the Charlotte are) there tomorrow with
some great models to show off!
And Erik was at Brickfest 2 years ago and showed off his work with Star Wars and
comic-related models - some really cool stuff! I'm looking forward to seeing him
again.
Joe Meno
NCLUG..um..Coordinator!
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I read this in todays Charlotte Observer:
--Kids can have a hand in shaping Charlotte's skyline today at Lego's "What Will
You Make, Charlotte?" Challenge. Erik Varszegi, one of 40 "Masterbuilders" in
the world, will build a small rendering of the city's tallest buildings at the
2-6 p.m. event at the Arboretum Wal-Mart, 3209 Pineville-Matthews Road. Children
can help. Families can participate in a 3- minute building contest and bring
their own Lego creations for Varszegi to evalutate.--
Rather short notice, seeing as it starts in 2 hours, but hopefully this will be
in time to serve as a 'heads up' for some folks in the Charlotte NC/SC area.
Ken
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Just to let all you know, in case you didn't already know. Lego just opened a
new mall kiosk at the Northwoods Mall in North Charleston. Nothing new that I
saw though.
-Orion
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Hello fellow SC-Luggers. I've decided to get out of the Lego selling business.
I'm looking for some one person to buy up my inventory. I thought I'd ask here
first as I can deliver it in person and save us shipping hassels. Contact me for
details and a set list, OK.
As for the reason I just don't have time any more to keep up, slow economy,
proliferation of online sellers, etc...
Ben Gatrelle (in the Charleston area)
(remove the spam dot from the yellowcastle to reply)
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Suz,
First I heard of it......
Just saw your post last night at 11pm .....and
My kids were trying out for All County Band today.
If I had known, I would have gone.
If you hear of anything else in SC, lmk and we can make plans.
BTW, the family loved the LUGnet T-shirts I got from you at BF-2002 :-)
LMK if you are ever going to be in Charleston!
Thanx,
Mark Millere
Visit Milissa's Lego Store, Millere's Spares™
www.BrickLink.com/store.asp?p=MMillere
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Anyone else going?
FIRST LEGO League
SC State Tournament
White Knoll High School
5643 Platt Springs Road
Lexington, SC
Saturday
December 7, 2002
9am - 3pm
-Suz
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LEGO Fans,
The GFLTC(www.gfltc.org) and NGLTC(www.ngltc.org) will have a joint display
at the Great American Train Show, February 2 and 3, 2002 in Jacksonville,
Florida. The display will feature a 30 x 20 floor display with two cities,
seaport, airport, mall, large railroad yard, mountain, coal tipple and more.
Also test your skills on the Rail Racers(www.railracers.com) track and build
in the Kids Brick Yard. Plus sit in on one(or more) of the six free work
shop on LEGO Trains presented by KK Quah of the GFLTC!
Introduction to LEGO Trains workshop times:
Saturday and Sunday at 12:15 and 2:15
LEGO Scenery and Buildings workshop times:
Saturday and Sunday at 1:15
See www.gats.com for more information, direction and a $1 off coupon!
Build on...
Robin Werner
Member of the Greater Florida LEGO Train Club
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Everyone,
I am proud to announce the first ever All Southeast LEGO Display! The All
Southeast LEGO Display is a public AFOL event with MOCs of all kinds with a
primary focus on LEGO Trains. The display will feature the best MOCs built
by the members of the NGLTC, GFLTC, GFLUG and others. The event will take
places at the Great American Train Show in Jacksonville, Florida, February 2
and 3, 2002. Anyone in the area is invited to join in and add to the
display. Anyone who help out will get into the event for free and/or be
compensated in some way, it all depends on how many people join in. Display
space is limited, so respond as soon as possible, I will need to set aside
spaces for you. More information on this event to come...
Build on...
Robin Werner
Greater Florida LEGO Train Club
www.gfltc.org
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Well, I'm slowly settling back into my apartment after a two week
holiday adventure. This year I went to my mom's in St. Petersburg FL
(actually Treasure Island) for Christmas and then to a church camp south
of Miami from 12/26 to New Years Day. With the itinerary and other
travel considerations, I chose to drive. Plans included after Christmas
shopping squeezed in and a visit with Mark Millère and family in
Charleston SC on the way home.
I didn't get any LEGO for Christmas (didn't ask, actually, I haven't
really talked with my mom about my hobby), but that was ok since I'd
actually rather dispense with the present thing at Christmas. I helped
my mom by a new old car. She was just about settled on a new Toyota
Corolla when the dealer spotted a 1989 Corolla while showing her what
was available in the used cars. After the test drive, and a visit to my
mom's mechanic, the deal was closed. It's a rather nice car, in very
good shape (only 49k miles and the mechanic saw nothing to suggest that
was anything other than the truth), sporty, CD changer (to hold my mom's
TWO CDs!), power sun roof, and more.
I didn't get to do any shopping 12/26 because by the time I got on the
road and then actually bothered to open the information for the camp and
find out when check in was, I realized I was going to have to trust to
schedules never being met exactly since check in was scheduled to end
and 4:00 and my estimate for arrival was somewhere between 4:00 and 5:00
(I actually arrived before 4:30 in plenty of time, except that there was
limited choice for my volunteer slots so I ended up with everything on
New Year's eve including breakfast and dinner clean up and helping with
the party from 11:00 to 2:00 - but that all worked out ok).
The camp was a lot of fun. One activity I did was a service project at a
wildlife rehab center which specializes in big cats. The center had
about 30 lions, tigers (sorry, no bears, oh dear!), panthers, pumas,
bobcats and whatnot, a few monkeys, some parrots (etc.), peacocks, emus,
geese, children, and other miscellaneous wildlife. The afternoon started
with a tour of the facility and the opportunity to pet some of the
animals (I only got up the courage to pet one of the panthers, who
enjoyed back an ear scratches [the guide even scratched it's chin]).
Some folks helped feed the cats (I ended up only dumping some produce in
to feed the emus, one woman got to feed the lion who was extremely
defensive while eating). I think most of the animals at the center were
ex pets, but they also had some animals the circus had dumped, and a few
injured wildlife (none that were there at the time were candidates for
release that I could see, though the center does do that).
During the camp, I found a couple handy Targets and scored a little bit
of 30% off. On the way out New Years day, I checked again. Still plenty
of stuff (both along US 1, one near Homestead south of Miami and one in
a vertical mall somewhat north of Kendall in case anyone wants to see
what I left - the mall one had the most, lots of Women's Soccer Teams
and Slave I value packs [like 10-20 of those]).
Between a late start New Years and my shopping, I only got as far as
Daytona Beach that night, and got to bed around 1:00, and figured I
needed to get up at 5:00 to get to the Millère's by noon. I pulled up in
front of the Millère's at about 11:30. Mark gave me a tour of the ware
house (you need to listen to a song on a CD I have...). I estimated that
he might have a million bricks based on the quantities of sets and my
approaching 500k. We went out to lunch with the family (and was that
David?) and then did some shopping.
Mark's daughter walked over to a store and found a 30% off sale during
lunch so we drove over and cleaned them out of Tie Fighters. We then
stopped at a K-Mart and looked at a huge display of Hagrid's Huts and
Forbidden Corridors. Mark and Melissa then applied their retail dealing
skill and got us the 50% sale so they took 40 sets total I think, I took
20. Back at the Millère's, Mark shared some of their earlier Harry
Potter sale loot (Mark - remember to send me the Paypal invoice!). I
also brought in my water tower and some 70s trains for show and tell.
Mark showed off his stock car and we talked about possible changes if
TLC were to make a set from it.
I then decided at about 5:00 that it really was time to be going
considering the weather (in reality, I should have skipped Charleston).
I headed off in freezing rain and drove through the storm all the way
home. I got home about midnight. Driving was reasonable as long as one
considered the situation properly. Once I got almost to NC, the driving
got somewhat better as the weather changed to snow. Fortunately NC got
almost exclusively snow and by the time I got within 30 miles of home,
the roads were actually practically clear.
I went out this morning to fetch my mail, bread (thank heavens for in
store bakeries), milk (they were just putting today's delivery on the
shelf), and other groceries. It took me two trips to get the mail in
(too many eBay winnings). I also popped in to a Target (which Mike has
already reported on). I did try and get a deal on some crushed Women's
Soccer Teams but didn't feel up to finding a manager to try and get
better than 10% off. Maybe after the storm dies out they'll get around
to doing the 50% markdowns (it wouldn't surprise me if they just decided
not to try and do markdowns with reduced staff).
Frank
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In lugnet.loc.us.sc.cha, Frank Filz writes:
> David Wertz wrote:
> >
> > Yes, sounds good to me. I won't be able to make it there until after work,
> > which would probably make it about 6 o'clock. I hope that is not too late.
> > Let me know,
>
> I will most likely have hit the road by then. I have a five hour or so
> drive on to Raleigh NC after playing. Can you sneak out for a long lunch
> hour?
>
> Frank
Hmmm. Not sure. I will have to see as the time gets closer. I may not
know for sure until that day.
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David Wertz wrote:
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> Yes, sounds good to me. I won't be able to make it there until after work,
> which would probably make it about 6 o'clock. I hope that is not too late.
> Let me know,
I will most likely have hit the road by then. I have a five hour or so
drive on to Raleigh NC after playing. Can you sneak out for a long lunch
hour?
Frank
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Yes, sounds good to me. I won't be able to make it there until after work,
which would probably make it about 6 o'clock. I hope that is not too late.
Let me know,
David
P.S. How did the HP pillaging go this past weekend?
In lugnet.loc.us.sc.cha, Mark & Milissa Millère writes:
> Hey everybody,
>
> Subject says it all.
>
> Frank is coming to our house on January 2nd, 2002 :-)
>
> If anybody else would like to come, just LMK and I will forward the
> directions to you. Yes David, I plan on seeing you here. Maybe Suz can come
> down from Columbia!
>
> Planned......
>
> Starting Noonish on the 2nd going till?
>
> Lunch at our house or at one of the multitude of restaurants nearby.
> Depending on how many show and what everybody wants to do.
>
> Frank is bringing some of his 12v stuff for show & tell. I will have my Lego
> Stock car entry and whatever Santa brings. Bring whatever you want to show.
>
> Trading, swapping & bartering, parts or sets.
>
> Building session.
>
> Merry Christmas, Hope Santa is good to everybody. :-)
>
> Thanx,
>
> Mark & Milissa
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Hey everybody,
Subject says it all.
Frank is coming to our house on January 2nd, 2002 :-)
If anybody else would like to come, just LMK and I will forward the
directions to you. Yes David, I plan on seeing you here. Maybe Suz can come
down from Columbia!
Planned......
Starting Noonish on the 2nd going till?
Lunch at our house or at one of the multitude of restaurants nearby.
Depending on how many show and what everybody wants to do.
Frank is bringing some of his 12v stuff for show & tell. I will have my Lego
Stock car entry and whatever Santa brings. Bring whatever you want to show.
Trading, swapping & bartering, parts or sets.
Building session.
Merry Christmas, Hope Santa is good to everybody. :-)
Thanx,
Mark & Milissa
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