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A fantastic time was had by all, especially me. I was particularly impressed
with the layout's ease of set-up and break-down-- each in about an hour!
'Course, if I hear "How many Legos (sic) did it take to build this?" or "How much
did all of these Legos cost?", I might go mad...;-) All seriousness aside, it
was fantastic to watch the kids encounter the layout and their reactions--
priceless.
As John and I drove home last night, one of the topics that came up in
conversation was how awesome it would be to show _with_ the PNLTC at a halfway
site, such as Denver--OOH WEE!
-John Neal
John Gerlach wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > As promised, here is a teaser pic:
> >
> > http://my.voyager.net/lar/UMLTC_layout.jpg
>
> Larry - Thanks for putting this out for the world to see!
> > Conan Collopy (much of the bricks are his and his uncle's) is in the
> > center area and John Gerlach (master builder of rolling stock) is in the
> > black shirt behind the layout.
> Master builder? <blush>
>
> > These guys are a little less purist than me, note the billboards. John
> > often uses decals or labelmaker labels to decorate his engines and
> > rolling stock. But I can deal.
> The billboards on the outfield fence of the baseball stadium on the far right
> are built with bricks. The only non-brick billboard is the one on top of the
> nightclub - the building just to the right of the train station, and that one
> was picked up at a Lego sponsored special event.
>
> The bridges on back right both are 'electrified' - the bascule bridge is
> operated by a micromotor, the vertical lift bridge is powered by the new
> technic motor. But, we're having difficulties with the VLbridge, it might get
> scrapped and redesigned. Not everything works perfectly, my attempt at a
> working water fountain (100% Lego) ended up leaking on the floor, and the
> merry-go-round needs to be rebuilt with a more powerful drive system. Oh well
> - "we like to build!"
>
> Some minor bragging about the show in La Crosse: The show gives out two
> awards. The first, the "People's Choice" award (voted on by the general
> public), went to a very deserving WWII themed layout. They referred to their
> layout as an homage to WWII movies, it had dozens of scenes from movies worked
> into it. It was fantastic!
>
> The second award, the "Club's Choice" award (voted on by all the exibitors)
> went to the GMLTC layout. Yea for us! I guess when we get the website up and
> running we're going to need an 'awards' page... <grin>
>
> Special kudos to John Neal for surviving his first show with us, and for
> supplying the club with awesome tshirts...
>
> John Gerlach
> (of course, drop the ".nospam" to reply...)
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