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TexLUG was invited to participate at Maker Faire 2008 in Austin, Texas this past
weekend. We’re not the first LUG to display at Maker Faire, but this was our
first time, and we walked away with not one but two “Editor’s Choice” awards for
our display/booth.
We were given a huge area to work with, which we filled with two displays - a
Space/Moonbase and a Town/Train (with tall ships). We also had two areas for
kids to come and build, one filled with Duplo, the other with regular System.
My pictures can be found here:
Gallery
We had a lot of fun and we hope that we’ll be invited back next year.
--Tony
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What are these spare parts you speak of? Aren’t all parts of equal value?
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Flickr
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For a third year, TexLUG was invited to display at the Healthy Baby and Child
Expo in San Antonio on March 8th and 9th, 2008. While only two TexLUG members
were able to attend, the layout was nevertheless a success. The theme this year
was “Around the World in 80 days”, featuring well known landmarks and monuments
from around the globe, along with a few LEGO sets and MOCs.
--Tony
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Anthony Sava wrote:
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These were built for the upcoming March 2008 “Around the World in 80 Days”
themed TexLUG display. I think I did a pretty decent job, considering I’m
working with inventory scraps and leftovers.
Stonehenge
Flickr
Brickshelf
I was
originally going to build it “as it was,” complete and whole, but my wife
convinced me to build it “as it is,” something I have not yet seen in LEGO
bricks.
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I think your wife gave you some great advice, the “as is” version is nicely
done. I really enjoyed it. Great work Tony.
Janey “Red Brick”
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These were built for the upcoming March 2008 “Around the World in 80 Days”
themed TexLUG display. I think I did a pretty decent job, considering I’m
working with inventory scraps and leftovers.
Stonehenge
Flickr
Brickshelf
I was
originally going to build it “as it was,” complete and whole, but my wife
convinced me to build it “as it is,” something I have not yet seen in LEGO
bricks.
The Temple of Kukulkan at Chichen Itza or “El Castillo”
Flickr
Brickshelf
I purposely
built it wrong so that it ‘looked right’ (the real pyramid has 9 steps, not 6).
The pyramid’s steps are also a bit too steep, but this was built from spare
parts, so I didn’t have a lot of plates to donate to this project. Like the
real pyramid, one can create the feathered serpent climbing the steps at the two
equinoxes:
--Tony
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It was really nice having Tony visit our show and share his steam MOCs with
us and the public at the show. I will be posting a review of the show within
a day or two...
Kirk H
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Here is the promised review.
The show was sponsored by the Texas & Pacific Historical Society in Marshall to
raise money for the T&P museum and the old historic depot. The Marshall Civic
Center housed the show. In addition to the NETLTC, there were 2 HO layouts, 1 N
scale, and 1 Lionel layout. We were debuting our modular tables and we only had
6 full sized and 2 skinny tables finished - so we displayed a much smaller
layout than at previous shows (10 x 15ish). Our smallness was a benefit because
the show organizers miscalculated the meeting space and didn’t have room for us
if we had been full sized.
The show was lightly attended with the strongest crowd numbers showing up Sunday
afternoon. There had been some media coverage on Saturday. I was interviewed
for a local radio station. As usual, the Lego trains are a real crowd pleaser
and we get the usual - ‘didn’t know Lego made trains’, etc...
We have done shows in Tyler, Tx and now in Marshall, TX - all of these shows
have been for rail historical societies. One of my personal Lego train goals is
to model the fallen flags from East Texas. So the Cotton Belt folks in Tyler
(birthplace of the St Louis and Southwestern - aka Cotton Belt) really like my
Cotton Belt engines and the T&P folks (birthplace in Marshall) really like my
T&P engines in ‘Swamp Holly Orange’. Well - Lego orange is close enough! So we
have won some friends.
Our future plans are to build more tables and improve the layout and add more
engines and rolling stock in road colors from East Texas...
for pictures visit the NETLTC website:
NETLTC
also see tony’s pictures - links below...
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I took some pictures of my time there, plus some video. I’ll link to the
video once I can figure out how to get it out of the camcorder and online.
Full
Gallery
-Tony
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In lugnet.events, Anthony Sava wrote:
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I just recently found out about the existence of the North Eastern Texas LEGO
Train Club (NETLTC), and even more recently discovered that they were going
to be attending the train show in Marshall, Texas. I was only able to attend
one day but the members of NETLTC were kind enough to let me run my trains on
their layout, plus they made me an official member :)
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It was really nice having Tony visit our show and share his steam MOCs with us
and the public at the show. I will be posting a review of the show within a day
or two...
Kirk H
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I took some pictures of my time there, plus some video. I’ll link to the
video once I can figure out how to get it out of the camcorder and online.
Full
Gallery
-Tony
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I just recently found out about the existence of the North Eastern Texas LEGO
Train Club (NETLTC), and even more recently discovered that they were going to
be attending the train show in Marshall, Texas. I was only able to attend one
day but the members of NETLTC were kind enough to let me run my trains on their
layout, plus they made me an official member :)
I took some pictures of my time there, plus some video. I’ll link to the video
once I can figure out how to get it out of the camcorder and online.
Full Gallery
-Tony
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In lugnet.org.us.texlug, Anthony Sava wrote:
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TexLUG was invited to attend the Institute of Texan Cultures’ Halloween
Howl’r event in San Antonio, which corresponded with their “Here Be Dragons!”
exhibit. We were asked to put together a medieval/dragon themed display, and
while only Chris MacDougald and I were able to attend, between the two of us
I think we did pretty good (well, the young master MacDougald helped, too).
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Looks like it was a lot of fun! I esp. like the use of upside-down 1x1 orange
bricks for the kiddies trick-or-treat bags!! Very nice detail for sure.
Imagine my surprise when I saw that you managed to take a photo of BrickLink’s
main Admin/owner as seen below! ;-)
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TexLUG was invited to attend the Institute of Texan Cultures’ Halloween Howl’r
event in San Antonio, which corresponded with their “Here Be Dragons!” exhibit.
We were asked to put together a medieval/dragon themed display, and while only
Chris MacDougald and I were able to attend, between the two of us I think we did
pretty good (well, the young master MacDougald helped, too).
We also added a ‘Trick or Seek’ to our layout - a laundry list of hidden
findables in the layout, with a little prize going to whomever could find
everything on the list. On the list was everything from 10 Harry Potters to
Spongebob and David Hasselhoff. It went so well I have suggested a seek and
find be a permanent part of all of our future public displays (though our mail
server seems to be down at present).
The lighting was horrible for photography in the museum, so I apologize in
advance.
Full Gallery
--Tony
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What: TexLUG-SA Meeting
When: May 19, 2007 - 1PM
Where: Goerke’s Country Tavern
Who: TexLUG Austin, San Antonio, and the surrounding areas. Or anyone else
interested in LEGO.
Why: Because we want too.
See: http://www.texlugsa.org/2007/05/09/may-meeting/ for more details.
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In lugnet.org.us.texlug, Eric Strand wrote:
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In lugnet.org.us.texlug, Anthony Sava wrote:
Tony,
I had been following the planning of this event and it looks like it really
turned out well. I really like all of the trees, and the snow trees in the
winter waterfall module look very striking.
I noticed a 341 tucked in there. http://guide.lugnet.com/set/341_1
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=2360692
For someone like me who enjoys OLD items, this was a nice touch.
How long did the moonbase and town last before the dragons took over? Great
little details!
Eric Strand
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Hehe... Lee, the guy who spent a very long time to get all the parts for that
#341, was also the one responsible for infesting the layout with dragons. The
ifestation happened on Sunday, but didn’t last long. Thanks to Tim, though,
Batman took over dragon duties in the viking diorama in the dragon’s absence.
Lee also infested the town, as well, including a great pose of his dragon
wrapping itself around that tall mountain, but I was a fool and didn’t take a
picture of it.
Wish I could take credit for any of it, but fortunately we have a lot of
talented, crazy people in TexLUG.
--Tony
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In lugnet.org.us.texlug, Anthony Sava wrote:
Tony,
I had been following the planning of this event and it looks like it really
turned out well. I really like all of the trees, and the snow trees in the
winter waterfall module look very striking.
I noticed a 341 tucked in there. http://guide.lugnet.com/set/341_1
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=2360692
For someone like me who enjoys OLD items, this was a nice touch.
How long did the moonbase and town last before the dragons took over? Great
little details!
Eric Strand
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Mod Gallery
TexLUG was invited back to the Healthy Baby and Child Expo in San Antonio,
Texas, this year, and I think it was a pretty successful event.
Our display featured a single main-line train loop traversing four different
distinct areas - moonbase, winter/vikings, Harry Potter, and town. We also had
a wireless camera set up on whatever train was on the main line sending a
signal to a TV on the display, giving visitors a train’s-eye view of the layout.
On a personal level, this was a great event for me because I was able to see all
four of my steam train MOCs running on a huge layout. The Polar Express was by
far the crowd favorite, with my little 4-4-0 being more popular with the older
‘kids’. Plus- no train motors died this time! Woo!
--Tony
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This past weekend TexLUG Houston held a private event for the children of the
Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital. It was a pretty mixed bag of themes, but
everyone had fun. The LEGO Company donated 200 X-Pods to be given away to the
children who attended.
Pics 01 - 38
Post-Mod Gallery
We’d like to thank Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital for having us, and the
LEGO group for the donated sets. I think we really brightened some days.
--Tony
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Calling all TexLUGers (and surrounding areas),
TexLUG Houston is sponsoring an event at Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital in
the Texas Medical Center (Houston) on December 15-17.
We invite anyone interested in participating to contact us as soon as possible
so we can finalize our displays and event plans.
Please either follow up on the newsgroup, the TexLUG mailing list (see
www.texlug.org for information on the mailing list) or with me directly at
theinformaticist at informaticst-dot-com
Play well.
Matt Sailors
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Howdy!
All the AFOLs from Texas and neighboring states are invited to come see and/or
join the Fall 2006 State-Wide meeting and public display in Houston!
The details:
When: October 7-8th 2006
Saturday 7th 10am-5pm Public Hours 1pm-5pm
Sunday 8th 1pm-5pm Public Hours 1pm-3pm
Where: Clear Lake City - Country Freeman Branch, aka The Freeman Library
16616 Diana Lane
Houston, TX 77062
http://www.hcpl.net/branchinfo/fm/fminfo.htm
Theme: This season's theme is a combination of Castle and Space, so bring your
CCC buildings and your Moonbase Modules. As always, MOCs of any theme are
welcome to be displayed.
See y'all there!
--Anthony
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All,
This Sunday's TexLUG Austin meeting is
cancelled.
The robotic line follower contest
scheduled for 6/11 has been postponed.
Look for an announcement here for a
future date.
Future TexLUG Austin gatherings will be
announced as they are arranged.
-Tim
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