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The first MOC (not my own) that I see in person, Eric Harshbarger's Crayons
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Mon, 17 Nov 2003 16:40:04 GMT
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Hello,
By the time everything else in my life is taken care, I have precious little
time left for lucny meetings, or brickfests, or meeting any other AFOLs. But,
this weekend it worked out.
Saturday, Mary (my wife) wanted time to clean up the house, and I wanted to see
Eric Harshbarger’s Crayola box at Strong Museum,
which was displaying it because Lego (and Etch a Sketch, and Raggedy Ann) were
all being inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame, which was two corridors
of displays cases upstairs from the museum. So, I took Allison, and two of her
friends for a few hours to the museum.
Strong Museum was started because Margeret Strong had collected an amazing doll
and toy museum. The first floor is a children’s museum, probably much like other
children’s museums across the country. The second shows the highlights of her
doll collection, along with other toys, and even cultural artifacts and
exhibits.
When we first got there, Eric was busy talking to other people, so we went to
the crayon box, and I took a pic with Allison’s cheap jam cam. It’s big (250k),
and of poor quality,
sorry. Allison is on the right.
The Crayon box was great, with lots of subtle snot technique to do the green
words. You wouldn’t notice until you got close, and started looking at brick
widths. The first MOC that I’ve seen that wasn’t my own (aside from TLC displays
in stores).
Then, we went upstairs. The National Toy Hall Of Fame is a few corridors with
lots of display cases, nothing spectacular. I saw 4 small Samsonite sets, a
soccer stadium, a 1688 pink set, and a few Life On Mars sets. They do have a
coast guard station somewhere. Oh yeah, and Barbie, Etch a Sketch, slinky, GI
Joe, etc. We were interviewed by a local newspaper reporter (Kevin: “What was
your favorite toy growing up” Me: “Lego”.) but we didn’t get in the paper, the
article is here,
here.
Later, after the kids had worn themselves out playing, and we had snacks, we had
a chance to talk with Eric, who was pretty tired from talking to people all day
long. I wanted to take pics of the parakeets he has displayed, but the camera
battery had died by that time.
It was fun, and neat, and definitely worth a visit if you’re in the Rochester
area, even if they have other toys displayed.
Thanks,
George
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