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Re: The first MOC (not my own) that I see in person, Eric Harshbarger's Crayons
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Mon, 17 Nov 2003 17:38:21 GMT
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Hi all, I'll follow up George's post by pointing to my webpage I just
typed up about the weekend:
http://www.ericharshbarger.org/lego/nthof.html
One correction: Alphabet Blocks and Checkers were this year's inductees
to the Hall of Fame (the toys George mentions were already in from
previous years).
The Crayola Crayon Box will be one display for "quite some time" at the
museum.
Anyway, it was good to meet you, George; thanks for the compliments to
my work.
eric
George Haberberger wrote:
> 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 <http://www.strongmuseum.org 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 <http://www.frontiernet.net/~ghaberbe/lego/legocrayon2.jpg 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,
> <http://www.democratandchronicle.com/news/1116PR2CC9N_toys_news.shtml 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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