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Images from the Southern California LEGO Train Club’s contribution to the
8-club ILTCO layout at the 2008 NMRA National Train Show in Anaheim,
California on July 18-20, 2008 are now posted on the club’s
website.
-Ted Michon
SCLTC
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The June SANDLUG meeting will be on Saturday June 28 from 1:00-5:00 PM at Bruno
& Beth Todd's home in Pauma Valley (north of Escondido). Since this is in the
northern part of San Diego, it will be closer for any LUGOLA members that might
want to drive south.
We will be showing off MOCs, buy/sell/trade, parts draft of 4837 Creator Mini
Trains and 4838 Creator Mini Vehicles. If you're interested in attending, send
an email for the address.
Keep Building!
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SCLTC makes its sixth consecutive appearance at the tenth
annual Fullerton Railroad Days celebration this
weekend. SCLTC will bring a full club layout featuring town and city scapes
linked by operating LEGO trains.
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Location
FRRD is held at the Fullerton Railroad Station at 120 East Santa Fe Street in
Fullerton California. For a total railroad experience, visitors can travel
directly to and from the event via AMTRAK from cities across Southern California
including San Diego, Oceanside, Irvine, Santa Ana, Anaheim, Los Angeles and many
more!
Dates and Hours
Saturday May 3 from 09:00 to 17:00
Sunday May 4 from 09:00 to 17:00
Admission
Free.
About the Event
Fullerton Railroad Days is sponsored by the Fullerton Railroad Plaza Association
as fund raiser for a railroad museum planned near the site. Fullerton Railroad
Days offers fun for the whole family with over a dozen operating model
railroads, real trains and engines including a steam engine from Disneyland,
rides, food, and much more.
-Ted Michon
SCLTC
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The Lego user group of Los Angeles (LugoLA) will meet on 07/28/2007 at 2:00 PM
in Santa Ana.
For more details please visit our Yahoo group at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LUGOLA/
Thomas
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Hi
Does anyone have any dark grey bricks for sale? (Old dark grey--NOT new dark
grey). I need about 500 to 1000 2 x 4 bricks. I've got a deadline on a project
so I'm willing to pick em up if you've got em. And I'm willing to pay whatever
you ask. I need them by the end of this week so email me (henry@henrylim.org)
ASAP.
Thanks
-Henry
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> In lugnet.org.us.lugola, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> I just wanted to remind everybody that John is hosting the next LugoLA meeting
> on 01/20/07 at his house in Fontana, CA.
Thanks Thomas. Just thought I would drop a line here about the last meeting.
This is directed to the LUGOLA veterans like myself...
Dude! Where is the LUGOLA old skool? I was the only one there and you know what
a lazy bastard I am. What's up with that? Since this is our first meeting of the
new year let's start it off right. I may/may not have something new to show but
I'll bust something out. So see ya Saturday.
Word.
--Dan
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I just wanted to remind everybody that John is hosting the next LugoLA meeting
on 01/20/07 at his house in Fontana, CA. For more information please check out
the LugoLA Yahoo group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LUGOLA/), since we are
trying to make it the main communications
platform.
Hope to see you all there
Thomas
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In lugnet.org.us.lugola, Ryan Wood wrote:
> I'm sure this is the case for almost everyone else: I am completely dedicated to
> our group and would love to attend any and all gatherings, but there just always
> seems to be a major stumbling block to my attendance. Sundays are a no go. Work
> is the biggest problem on Saturdays (from 10 am to 4pm.) Distance also plays a
> role. By the time I could get out to somewhere like Santa Ana, the meeting would
> have been over.
You would have caught me :)
> And just a general commentary on the state of our group, I think everyone is
> just too busy here in Los Angeles. We've packed our lives so full that it seems
> like there's no time for Lego. That might just be me though.
Real problem isn't how busy we are, but how spread out we are. Our members come
from all places between San Diego and Bakersfield, that is why we are constantly
trying to find some sort of middle ground.
> I think my place (in Torrance) has been offered up before, but I've been kind of
> quiet about it because of the working on Saturday thing. I'll try to schedule
> time off in the next couplethree months to either play host or attend elsewhere.
Your place would also be great, just let me know when possible and we will
arrange it.
Scott
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Heya Thomas,
Many thanx for hosting this meeting, your work site iw a very nice spot. Sorry I
missed most of you, I showed up about 30 minutes after you all left, darn work
issues.
Anyway, Every two months would be wonderful, in the past our biggest hurdle has
always been location. Sundays are traditionally bad, and too close to the
holliday is a bit rough as well. Bryce had mentioned wanting to host a meeting
soon, perhaps he will hold the next one. Either way it is great to know that
Thomas's work is an option.
For the record, my vote would be for 11/11 or 11/18.
Scott
In lugnet.org.us.lugola, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> In my opinion it would be great if we could have a meeting every 2 – 3 months.
> In order to get as many people as possible to attend, we are having a poll in
> order to get your input. Please post your ideas regarding meeting dates, times
> and places. All input, either general or specific, is welcome.
>
>
> Since somebody has to be the first one, here are my preferences:
> - Saturday or Sunday afternoon/early evening
> - good days include 11/04/2006, 11/05/2006, 11/18/2006, 11/19/2006, 12/02/2006,
> 12/03/2006, 12/16/2006, 12/17/2006
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I'm sure this is the case for almost everyone else: I am completely dedicated to
our group and would love to attend any and all gatherings, but there just always
seems to be a major stumbling block to my attendance. Sundays are a no go. Work
is the biggest problem on Saturdays (from 10 am to 4pm.) Distance also plays a
role. By the time I could get out to somewhere like Santa Ana, the meeting would
have been over.
And just a general commentary on the state of our group, I think everyone is
just too busy here in Los Angeles. We've packed our lives so full that it seems
like there's no time for Lego. That might just be me though.
I think my place (in Torrance) has been offered up before, but I've been kind of
quiet about it because of the working on Saturday thing. I'll try to schedule
time off in the next couplethree months to either play host or attend elsewhere.
Speaking of Santa Ana, how did the meeting on Saturday go? What was the
attendance like?
--ry
In lugnet.org.us.lugola, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> In my opinion it would be great if we could have a meeting every 2 – 3 months.
> In order to get as many people as possible to attend, we are having a poll in
> order to get your input. Please post your ideas regarding meeting dates, times
> and places. All input, either general or specific, is welcome.
>
>
> Since somebody has to be the first one, here are my preferences:
> - Saturday or Sunday afternoon/early evening
> - good days include 11/04/2006, 11/05/2006, 11/18/2006, 11/19/2006, 12/02/2006,
> 12/03/2006, 12/16/2006, 12/17/2006
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In my opinion it would be great if we could have a meeting every 2 – 3 months.
In order to get as many people as possible to attend, we are having a poll in
order to get your input. Please post your ideas regarding meeting dates, times
and places. All input, either general or specific, is welcome.
Since somebody has to be the first one, here are my preferences:
- Saturday or Sunday afternoon/early evening
- good days include 11/04/2006, 11/05/2006, 11/18/2006, 11/19/2006, 12/02/2006,
12/03/2006, 12/16/2006, 12/17/2006
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Final Reminder, we hope to see you all there, and with plenty of stuff to show
off, as the last meeting was nearly a year ago.
Scott
In lugnet.org.us.lugola, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> We will have lots of counter space and tables for your mockups. We will also
> have drinks and some snack. Since there hasn't been a meeting in almost a year,
> I am hoping that we have lots of people showing up.
>
> Hope to see you all there.
>
>
> Thomas
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We will have lots of counter space and tables for your mockups. We will also
have drinks and some snack. Since there hasn't been a meeting in almost a year,
I am hoping that we have lots of people showing up.
Hope to see you all there.
Thomas
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It has been a long time in the coming, but Thomas Mueller has graciously offered
to host our next meeting at his office in Santa Ana. Please email me for address
information. More details to follow.
Scott
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> >
> > 5) I'm not really big into the "Technic look" of Lego building although
> > I really appreciate learning from the visible enginuity that that
> > building technique shows off. Can anyone recommend some particularly
> > good sites that show off more "beauty models" that also incorporate
> > pneumatics in them?
Don't know about 'beauty', but my dancing Easter chickens were popular at work:
http://www.maj.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=109611
I ran them off the compressed air coming out of the wall (in a hospital), and I
had to turn the pressure way down to keep them from boucing apart...
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Our family was out on a road trip yesterday, and stopped by the event. It
appeared to be very successful with lots of public participation. The model was
an alligator standing on his hind legs, probably about 8 feet tall when
finished.
There were many tables with bricks and laminated instructions for the public to
build 400% scale 2 X 4 bricks (without studs on top). The bricks were being
assembled by the LEGO staff into the actual alligator model. I did not speak
with them, but there seemed to be two Master Model Builders, as well as many
people from the LEGO store. We were there late in the afternoon, and they seemed
to be pacing themselves to stretch the build over the three days. It appeared
that big containers of finished bricks were being taken back to the store and
being disassembled behind the scenes. Either they were disassembling bricks that
weren't built properly, or just disassembling many bricks to allow other people
to participate.
People that built a brick were given a piece of paper they could take to the
LEGO store and exchange for a certificate of participation. That way they got
the traffic into the store, which I suppose is what the main idea was all about.
They had a small (6 inch) model kit of the alligator that could be purchased.
The parts were bagged with color instructions for $12.95.
So the event was fun to see, and was a good LEGO outreach to the general public.
In lugnet.org.us.lugola, Scott Costello wrote:
> New details for the building event here in Ontario over the memorial day
> weekend. Dan Brown will be in from Entfield, and will supervise the
> building of a very large scale aligator model. The public is invited to
> assist in the build which will take place over the three day weekend, in
> the food court.
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In lugnet.org.us.lugola, Scott Costello wrote:
> New details for the building event here in Ontario over the memorial day
> weekend. Dan Brown will be in from Entfield, and will supervise the building of
> a very large scale aligator model. The public is invited to assist in the build
> which will take place over the three day weekend, in the food court. Here are
> the dates and times.
So does the master builder (Dan Brown I'm assuming) write books during his spare
time? :)
-Bryan
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