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| Speaking of Events, the current Top 10 List theme is : "Top 10 things overheard at a LEGO event." www.minifigville.com/top10 Since I myself never had the chance to go to one of these events, I'd be very interested in knowing what can be heard in (...) (23 years ago, 23-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events)
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| COMMUNITY CONTEST # 2: Discus Discus (d?sk?s) n. pl. dis·cus·es A track-and-field event in which a discus is thrown. *This Community Contest shall run from Sunday, March 21st through Sunday, April 21st. You may enter a robot in this Contest up until (...) (23 years ago, 22-Mar-04, to lugnet.events, lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| (...) You missed one important one that always gets me: 4. I didn't keep track of how many hours I spent building it. (23 years ago, 23-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events)
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| (...) I agree with Calum - besides, estimating the pieces is a good way to drive home what sort of achievement such a layout is. I also find it is a good way to talk about the designing elements of building with lego (ie "That spaceship containes a (...) (23 years ago, 22-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events)
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| I am writing things up for our club, and will get you a copy once finished. In brief, the number one thing is getting a club started, is, as stated by others, leadership. I started COLTC just over 1 year ago by emailing 5 people that had posted to (...) (23 years ago, 22-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events)
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| (...) Agreed on that one! We get those questions too. I find it's easier to make up a very rough guess on 3. Calum (23 years ago, 22-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events)
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| (...) Here's a few more that popped into my head: Communications. -Learn your marketing message, not for Lego, but for your own group. What is your goal? Who are you? Learn to deliver in a simplified, TV ready message. What in one or two sentences (...) (23 years ago, 22-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events)
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| Jake, When doing public events be prepard to answer these three questions over and over and over...... 1. Yes lego does make trains. 2. No they are not glued together. 3. I have no idea how many pieces are in the display. Paul Thomas SPLTC (23 years ago, 22-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events)
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| (...) I'd like to extend this to advice for people who are acting mostly alone. So far I've done "static" displays (glass case in a Library, leave up for a month), but am interested in doing more dynamic things, but doing a castle game, etc is kinda (...) (23 years ago, 21-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events)
| | | | | A Real-life BrickFest PDX Comic Tragedy
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| This is Xandria using her husband, TFM,'s account to post since Lugnet still won't allow me to post -- long, tired, broken story Losing Xandria: a real-life LEGO® webcomic (URL) When a husband loses his wife's sig fig at a Lego event... And that (...) (23 years ago, 21-Mar-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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