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In lugnet.general, Klaas H. Meijaard wrote:
> In lugnet.general, Bryan Kinkel wrote:
> > I found this link on the "Lego User Group of the Lowlands" site at
> > http://www.lowlug.nl/.
> >
> > It appears that these are some shots from inside some sort of "Vault" or
> > museum at Billund. SNIP
> >
> > If anyone can shed more light on these photos, I would appreciate it.
>
> First: welcome at Lowlug! THE discussion forum in the Netherlands.
>
> Now for the pics: lots of these are mine. So I think I should shed some light on
> them.
> A few weeks ago Legoland Billund had it's season-opening, and a group of Dutch
> and German AFOL-friends (+2 wifes&kids) planned a visit. With former purchases
> in the German LEGO Brand-stores we all earned Season passes, so costs were
> nicely low.
> The rides were waiting for us, the new miniland-buildings needed to be studied, and, not unimportant: we all needed HUGE amounts of normal grey pick-a-brick parts. Well, the parkstore had a good day..... :-)
>
> The Friday afternoon before the opening day I had organized a visit in the LEGO
> Imagination Centre, combined with a meeting/Q&A about upcoming Events, with
> Tormod Askildsen ('our' Jake's boss).
> In the cellar of this Centre LEGO is redecorating it's museum/historical exhibition. Next to the 'museum-room' is the immens Archive of the firm (both print, marketing-stuff and SETS!). This sets-archive is known as The Vault. And it actually IS a vault.. a huge one! :-)
>
> We've had an unbelievable terrific tour over there! All these PILES of sets,
> some extremely RARE. And, we've spotted sets that are NOT known in any public
> database!! Talking about rare! MISB of course...$$$$ :-)
> And, one of the other nice parts of this tour: for the first time ever
> 'outsiders' were allowed to make as many pictures as we wanted, WITH permission
> to publish them!! So we did.
>
> The Pirates-pics you mention are mine of course, I'm Pirates-complete, but I
> don't own every set MISB. At least I've had some in my hands by now!
> The tour lasted only 1,5 hrs., but actually we wanted to stay 'underground' for
> at least 1,5 DAYS!
>
> Some last info: the Museum (NOT the archives) and the Imagination Centre can be
> visited by every interested AFOL-group of at least 6 persons. The Historical
> Overview will be ready in about 3 months from now. Hopefully.... there is SO
> MUCH interesting history to be shown!
> Just call LEGO HQ-Billund (+45 79 50 60 70) and (try to) make an arrangement
> with someone from Corporate Communications. Responsible person in the
> Imagination Centre + 'underground' is Mrs. Ingrid Nielsen.
> Opening hours: during business days, 8.00-16.30
>
> Kind regards
> Klaas H. Meijaard
> (greenman, Member 291)
Oh. My. God.
You are the luckiest, luckiest person. I salute you and despise you all at
once. Thanks so much for the pics.
There's a picture in there somewhere of a STACK of 1593s. I'd copy and paste
the link but frankly my fingers are too numb. Aack. Urk. Mind hurts
--Dave
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