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And it was great meeting you Todd. I didn't really keep track of who all I met, and made re-acquaintance with. Frank (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.people)
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(...) It would have been quite a trick to meet JT, he was a last minute no show... I believe he and his wife have been trying to adopt for some time and just got the green light, and when they say you go, you go... (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.people)
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(...) But we did meet! But only briefly- it was Sunday afternoon in the Technic/Mindstorms room ;-) I know, there were so many people to see at the fest. It was great. I'm sure I missed a lot people too that I'd liked to have met. Hey, there's (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.people)
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(...) Just wanted to mention that i greatly appreciate your transcribing the remarks, as some other have mentioned. It kept people like me who had no means of getting to the brickfest in the loop. I really just needed to comment on the whole lego (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) Ah-Ha! My crane has been spotted. Yes, that's me and my beast. I'll try and get up a few pics of it tomorrow. I'll let ya know. I had a good time letting people "drive" it (like Larry, as he said). It was good fun. I had an even better time (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town)
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(...) It was Brad. All otherwise unattributed comments (1) were his. However Jeff is right, the rest of the room shouted it out at pretty much the same time. It was pretty funny. 1 - if it just said "A:" rather than say "Jake:" before the remark... (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) People do talk faster than I can type. (1) But in some cases I got what was said word for word. This is one of those cases (2). You could sort of tell that Brad was semi expecting the question and had a snap answer ready to go. (the "maybe" in (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) I don't know who asked the question, but LD din't need to answer, the entire audience did it for them. Jeff (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) You're right, thats probably what was meant, and i had forgotten about the sopwith camel. Although one thing i would like to know, that was missing from transcript, was exactly who said the comment? Was it actually someone from LD? (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) It's him and it's his crane. That thing is pretty amazing. It uses some non LEGO(r) (notably the remote control and a few other bits) but not much. I got to drive it! Way cool. (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town)
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(...) No, Lego doesn't do *modern* military. You won't be seeing tanks and F-16s until they are totally obsolete, like the Sopwith Camel is, if even then. Jeff (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) Yeah, I always take that with a grain of salt too. I figure what they really mean is, "LEGO doesn't do military themes that your son [or daughter] could actually go die in." --Todd (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) Aw darn, I missed this one -- didn't even see it. What room was it in? Who built it? I heard it was _quite amazing_. --Todd (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) I'm also wondering who did this (URL) is that you there TJ? More important, is that your crane? ROSCO (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town)
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<snip> (...) <snip> Lego doesnt do military. Really. So a set like 6762 Fort Legoredo, 6271 Imperial Flagship, or 6280 Aramada Flagship are not military based sets? While Lego may insist these are based in other themes like pirates or western, all (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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To all the new faces I met this weekend at BrickFest -- John Barnes, Lindsay Braun, Doug Carlson, Ken & Troy Cefaratti, Tom Cook, Adrian Drake, Frank Filz, Thomas Foote, Roy Gal, Chris Giddens, Felix Greco, Constantine Hannaher, Bob Hayes, Rob (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.people) !
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(...) Ok guys, take this to another group -- like .off-topic.debate or something. This part of the thread isn't about BrickFest anymore... --Todd (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) No, you began with a statement that I think was intended to imply quite specifically that I am a whining child. It was also in direct reply to my own post. As it turns out, I don't take offense because I don't even know you nor do I care what (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.admin.general)
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"Erik Olson" <erik@olson.pair.com> wrote in message news:Gzq9tA.E90@lugnet.com... (...) a (...) things we (...) those (...) the (...) they (...) of (...) I think it was in Larry's transcription of the Q&A/Brad's talk that there was mention of (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) Brad Justus referred to the book, _The Tipping Point_. What if LD's point of view is that the AFOL market is not ready... yet? It was connected to Time's article, and some other book I haven't read. -Erik (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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