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Re: Brief Event Report
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Thu, 12 Oct 2006 22:23:48 GMT
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As always there are fresh and exciting MOCs in both new and existing catagories.
The public were overly impressed (as usual). But what keeps me coming back to
LEGO AFOL events are the people; the reunion-like atmosphere of the AFOLs and
the amazed and excited public faces.
Making the in-person acquaintances of people that I have had chatted with online
is always a delight. It's like we know each other but never really met; that's a
cool feeling! Or having lunch with someone that I haven't seen for several
years, it's great to catch up! "I haven't laughed like this in months!" was my
favorite quote from Dan Parker.
I had a great time hanging out, sharing meals (& a couple beers), and goofing on
each other. And especially making Steve Wit nervous in front of everybody
without even trying! :)
Thanks to Wayne, the NWBrickCon Staff, all the volunteers and fellow AFOLs for a
great weekend!!!
SteveB
In lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, Ashley Glennon wrote:
> NWBrickCon ended this evening and it was a great event. Watch for more details
> from others, but here are some highlights from the main room:
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> 1. A giant, 30 foot long castle display. This is the largest castle display I
> have seen at any con, period. It had it all. Watch for more on this topic.
> 2. Another enormous moonbase-- at least 30 foot long as well-- with all the
> usual shenanigans and the popular canyon area.
> 3. A great ball contraption and MINDSTORMS area.
> 4. The debut of a mecha-city with lots of sweet MOCS. Looked to be the start
> of a new modular standard.
> 5. Steampunk had a nice turnout with one humongous ship.
> 6. Wayne Hussey revealed a life-sized totem pole.
> 7. Trains were once again strong with lots of rare and new color schemes
> appearing in the layout. Among the city-scape highlights was Bill Volbrecht's
> Maersk building.
> 8. Justin Major put on a great micro show with lots of the usual favorites and
> a few moonbase modules.
> 9. An outstanding pyramid model built to Minifig scale.
> 10. I believe it was Seattle local Lino and Paul of Canada who displayed a dozen
> or so Miniland scale hot rods that were incredible.
> 11. Bill Volbrecht seemed to own the sculputure area with great sculptures of
> Mickey, Mario, The Tasmanian devil and a penguin.
>
> It was great to see everyone once again and thanks to the NWBrickCon Scope
> committee and Wayne Hussey for putting on a nice show.
>
> Ashley
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| NWBrickCon ended this evening and it was a great event. Watch for more details from others, but here are some highlights from the main room: 1. A giant, 30 foot long castle display. This is the largest castle display I have seen at any con, period. (...) (18 years ago, 9-Oct-06, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon)
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