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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 (...) (22 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 (...) (22 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 :-) (...) (22 years ago, 23-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events)
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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 (...) (22 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 (...) (22 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. (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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In organizing my photos, I've been using descriptive identifiers such as "BricksWest-2003", "NWBrickCon-2002", and "BrickFestPDX-2004" in directory names and filenames. These get the job done, but they're becoming unweildy to deal with in long names (...) (22 years ago, 20-Mar-04, to lugnet.events, lugnet.general)
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(...) Basically what Chris and Dave said. But here's some other things I think are core to any group, be it Lego, needlepoint or whatever.... 1. Leadership. Summary: "Just Do It!". Like a bunch of Linux nerds chatting about how they're going to (...) (22 years ago, 20-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events)
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(...) I think this is important. Lego may be a common ground, but not everyone will fit into a group. And it isn't your goal to catch everyone. We know there are at least ten or more Lego fans in Toronto who don't come to our events--because they (...) (22 years ago, 20-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events)
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(...) Hi Jake, as you know from LW 2003 the dutch club 'De Bouwsteen' toke the initiative to build up a european platform under the name Eurobrick. I think this will be, for the european part of the community, the ideal platform for interaction of (...) (22 years ago, 20-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events)
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hey Jake, Dave had some good ideas. to throw in my 2 cents..... the # 1 thing you need is leadership. PERIOD!!! you can have a great bunch of guys, but if you don't have that one (or two) person(s) to actually say, HEY the meeting is this friday, or (...) (22 years ago, 19-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events)
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