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| In lugnet.lego, Larry Pieniazek wrote: [snip] (...) Ha! I do this with the kids whenever we go anywhere in the car. Kids:"How much longer until we're there?" Me: "Five, six minutes, tops." Hour after hour... -Evil Wayne (23 years ago, 25-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events)
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| (...) And: 4. No, we didn't get the bricks from Lego for free. Yours, Christian Treczoks (23 years ago, 25-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events)
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| (...) The correct answer to (4) is (with an absolutely deadpan expression) "about 15 minutes".. no matter what it is they're asking about! :-) (23 years ago, 25-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events)
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| Better late than never, here are some selected pics from the epic event that was PDX. pics only: NOTE: these pics are not anything too unusual, and many have been posted already. (URL) Pics w/commentary: WARNING: if you are easily offended, or if (...) (23 years ago, 25-Mar-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest) !
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| (...) As with most things, diversity is good. I, personally, talk with the parents / adults. *I* view the adults as the "target audience" for what I do. I am not sure about the rest of the club... cause we haven't really discussed it. I have to (...) (23 years ago, 24-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events)
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| (...) Great idea! Now, if we can only figure out how to put one into our layout... JohnG, GMLTC fut .trains (23 years ago, 24-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events)
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| (...) Yes, and we go a bit further. When a parent(s) has small kids with them or mention the younger kids (includinf grandparents), we also put in a plug for the Dupo trains, both 'push' and the battery-powered sets as starter sets til the child (...) (23 years ago, 24-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events)
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| (...) One thing the GMLTC seems to do well is talk to kids. If a kid is scoping out the layout with a parent, we'll start talking to the kid before we'll talk to the parent. We know that kids are our "target audience", if the kids are happy the (...) (23 years ago, 24-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events)
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| A thought I'd like to share at this moment, somthing I "live by" since I have shown regularly for many years now; When you do a show, exhibit, or display, and only a few people or a small crowd shows up, that's ok. See because the people who did (...) (23 years ago, 23-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events)
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| Bill Ward wrote in message ... (...) The question we get is "how long did it take to build it?", the answer being something like, "it took 12 people 2 months of spare time". Answering "hours" is like answering "how many bricks"... impossible :-) (...) (23 years ago, 23-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events)
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