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Subject:	From the first LEGO(r) Train Summit: LEGO(r) Trains are alive and well
Newsgroups:	lugnet.trains
Date:	Sat, 3 Feb 2001 22:28:17 GMT
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I am under NDA so cannot go into a lot of detail, but I did want to post to say that and several other Lego Trains stalwarts have just completed the first ever LEGO(r) Train Summit. We have just spent Friday evening and all day Saturday meeting with folks from Lego Direct including Brad Justus, Peter Andersen, an LD product manager, Jorn Kristian Thomsen the lead Lego trains designer from Billund, Jake McKee, producer, and Steven Hawco, in charge of the Shop at Home operation. The conversation was wide ranging and very productive. We discussed things that LD is going to be doing, the future of the product line and ways to leverage the productive relationship between LTCs and LD. I am terrifically pumped up about this and very happy to have been among those selected to attend. While it was impossible to have every single train fan attend, we worked hard to make sure it was a representative cross section of US train fans and that many viewpoints were represented. The attendees included John Neal – GMLTC Steve Barile – PNLTC Conan Collopy - GMLTC John Gerlach – GMLTC James Mathis - PNLTC Dan Parker – PNLTC Larry Pieniazek – poly-LTC Mike Poindexter - BAYLTC James Trobaugh - NGLTC More will be forthcoming from us in days to come but I was so excited I had to use LEGO connectivity (We're in NYC) to get this out in front of folks. ++Lar

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		Re: From the first LEGO(r) Train Summit: LEGO(r) Trains are alive and well
In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes: <snip> Forgot to crosspost to .direct ++Lar (24 years ago, 3-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)

		Re: From the first LEGO(r) Train Summit: LEGO(r) Trains are alive and well
(...) Awesome! (...) Ohohoo, when you say "the future of the product line," I assume you are referring to trains? If so, that sounds very encouraging! Can you say whether rumors of the train product line's demise are greatly exaggerated? Will be any (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)

		Re: From the first LEGO(r) Train Summit: LEGO(r) Trains are alive and well
Wow ! I (we, I should say) are soooo jealous...sounds like a rush. Did ya ask if they are ever gona make proper steam engine wheels, sorta like Ben's April Fools catalogue ? ( but then I suppose ya can't talk about that, eh?) Anyway Good goin' ! (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)

		Re: From the first LEGO(r) Train Summit: LEGO(r) Trains are alive and well
(...) Awesome! I hope all of those who have been whining will think about what happened here, and think about Larry's comments over the past few months about how whining is not the best way to go about things, and consider that this meeting probably (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)

		Re: From the first LEGO(r) Train Summit: LEGO(r) Trains are alive and well
"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:G87D35.EpA@lugnet.com... (...) to (...) train (...) 1st good news in a long while. Though it had better not be anything like the 4561. I wonder if they plan to have any meetings like (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)

		Re: From the first LEGO(r) Train Summit: LEGO(r) Trains are alive and well
(...) Great stuff! Are there plans to have such meeting again someday? It's great to hear that Lego is _really_ in touch with their community! I guess the NDA covers future products, or does it also cover other things? Please tell us for a rough (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)

		Re: From the first LEGO(r) Train Summit: LEGO(r) Trains are alive and well
(...) That's in fact the best news concerning TLC and the Lego train line I've heared during the last weeks or even months.... After the very dissapointing news from the toys fair in Nuremberg this makes me hope I will be able to spend money into (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)

		Re: From the first LEGO(r) Train Summit: LEGO(r) Trains are alive and well
(...) [snip] Larry, This is great news, I can't wait to see the new sets and I hope it's soon! Long live LEGO Trains! Robin Werner Greater Florida LEGO Train Club (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)

		Re: From the first LEGO(r) Train Summit: LEGO(r) Trains are alive and well
lol The rest of the attendees have barely arrived home and the thread has already burned out;-) We did have a great time with the LD personnel and amongst attendees ourselves. I really enjoyed renewing old acquaintances and meeting others F2F for (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)

		Re: From the first LEGO(r) Train Summit: LEGO(r) Trains are alive and well
Larry, Thanks to you and other representatives of the train clubs for your work on this. And thank you Lego for keeping the communication channels open. I'm absolutely thrilled with the news. Keep up the good work. Bryan Kinkel "Larry Pieniazek" (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)

		Re: From the first LEGO(r) Train Summit: LEGO(r) Trains are alive and well
Hey Larry, nice post, I wish that the same would happen with the Town Theme...finding out what kind of direction that Theme is headed in 2001/2002... Isn't it great to have a nice big organization of AFOL's (in the train clubs) to organize a big (...) (24 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)

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