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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. (22 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 (...) (22 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 (...) (22 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 (22 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 (...) (22 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 (22 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 (...) (22 years ago, 21-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events)
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(...) How about these examples: BF02 BF2004 BFPDX04 BF4-1 BF04.2 NWBC03 BFDE04 ;) MSL - M = 1000 (Roman) KSL - K = 1000 (Metric) -brickmodder (...) (22 years ago, 20-Mar-04, to lugnet.events)
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(...) Only problem with that is if there are 2 BFs in one year.... ROSCO (22 years ago, 20-Mar-04, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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(...) All sounds logical to me...except that numbering scheme. I would start at 0 for 2000, just to keep it simple (see next line) (...) Technically yes, but I hate when people think like that, 'cuz it makes my brain hurt (my brain is slow and can't (...) (22 years ago, 20-Mar-04, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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