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Re: New cars at lego shop at home
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.trains, lugnet.general
Date: 
Thu, 5 Jul 2001 22:08:37 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
In lugnet.trains, Michael Reynolds writes:
I'm not a big train fan, but I stopped by lego.com and saw they have a new
passenger wagon, a tanker, and another car, but I forgot the name of it...
Check them out at lego.com

His domain is rr.com and he's not a train fan??? :-)

Thanks for the pointer. We appreciate it. Seriously.

Hopefully, though, it won't be a big surprise that we knew about it within
minutes of when the images first hit the site, right???

Train fans are the most rabid brickfans there are. Who else makes the
massive displays we do? :-)

<Blatant challenge. Must respond...>

Star Wars fans:
  http://www.nelug.org/mindfest99/

Castle fans:
  http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=0iannai0
  http://www.suave.net/~dave/newtown.cgi

Brikwars fans:
  http://www.nelug.org/bw063001/

Space fans:
  http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=5191

... and many other examples, but these were what sprung to mind, and
responded to quick & easy searches.

Keep in mind that one of the big reasons that trainheads get more visability
than other LEGO fans is because they're tapping into an existing support
structure (Model RR community).  Hopefully, other Lego fans will tap into
similar structures more often in the future, which will increase the
visibility of other things, too.  Michlug doing a space display at a con is
a *great* example of that.  So are some of the static displays that have
been put in Libraries.

So there. ;)

(Keep raising the bar, though; don't wait for us to catch up.)

James



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  Re: New cars at lego shop at home
 
(...) Just as long as you're clear on who is raising it (LTDs) and who is playing catch up (everyone else)... <GD&R> FUT ot.f ++Lar (23 years ago, 5-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
  Re: New cars at lego shop at home
 
(...) (URL) a couple... (23 years ago, 5-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
  Displays (was: New cars at lego shop at home)
 
(...) visability (...) support (...) into (...) con is (...) have (...) Speaking of static displays in Libraries :) I have just uploaded some pictures of a display for Tuckahoe Library in Richmond, VA that RichLUG set up this past Sat. The link is: (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
  Re: trainheads
 
(...) We're not "tapping into" the Model RR community, we're trying to take it over! <menacing laugh & evil grin> The GMLTC hears stories about annual shows where we've displayed one year, and for whatever reason we couldn't display the following (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)

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  Re: New cars at lego shop at home
 
(...) His domain is rr.com and he's not a train fan??? :-) Thanks for the pointer. We appreciate it. Seriously. Hopefully, though, it won't be a big surprise that we knew about it within minutes of when the images first hit the site, right??? Train (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains)

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