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Over the weekend ULUG (Utah LUG) participated in “The Ophir, Tintic and Western”
Train Show at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi, Utah.
We are a newer LUG (under 6 months) with 9 active members and this is our first
Train show as a LUG. We were pleased to be able to participate.
The
excitment from the crowd was palpable. People are always amazed when LEGO is
present in any amount of size.
Reed, the President of GBLT&C (Great Basin
LEGO Train Club (Ask him about the “&”, it has meaning)) has amassed quite a
collection of LEGO train that looks impression on the layout. We even had some
vintage 1990s train arrive thanks to Luke and Isaac.
We printed an “I spy ...” game on Legal-sized paper (8 in total) and taped them
to the ropes that held the crowd back.
People loved to play, they would stay
until they found everything on game.
Here is a link to the show:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=230434
As a LUG we would appreciate feedback on what you like and where we can improve.
A few obvious places to improve are (All in due time):
1- Lack of a city
2- Too much exposed table
3- The NXT brick exposed
On a personal note, the show was held at a location called “Thanksgiving Point”
which has a Dinosaur Museum that is visible for I-15 (The major interstate in
Utah). As part of my portion, I recreated the museum (and yes, that,
unfortunately, is Joe Vig) that can be found here:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=230436
I have included pictures of the building and my MOC. Feed back is appreciated.
One added bonus, I created a sound file that played the “Jurassic Park” T-Rex
roar every minute. It was great to watch children’s faces as they leaned in for
a closer look and then the sound effect would go off and startle them.
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| (...) Brian- Congrats on your first show.It's a lot of fun to put your stuff out in front of a crowd for the first time. I especially liked the decorative archway, dino museum, bridge, fishing hole, and mech. Good stuff in any layout! Small idea: Be (...) (18 years ago, 29-Jan-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.ulug, FTX)
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| Brian & All, (...) It is always nice to that interaction with the crowd, even if it is the 50th time you heard it. : ) (...) It is great to have some interactivity like that in a layout - I need to do more of that in ours. (...) The most important (...) (18 years ago, 29-Jan-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.ulug)
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| Alright Brian, You got me (sorry guys but it was a side conversation). Anyways, thanks everyone for the feedback, it was really helpful. I myself was unfortunately unable to attend the show. Oh and if anyone was wondering who the builder of the (...) (18 years ago, 3-Feb-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.ulug, FTX)
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