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Re: From the first LEGO(r) Train Summit: LEGO(r) Trains are alive and well
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct
Date: 
Mon, 5 Feb 2001 06:00:41 GMT
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JOHNNEAL@antispamUSWEST.NET
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:

> In lugnet.trains, Todd Lehman writes:
> 
> > > > Will be any new train sets coming out in 2001 or 2002?  Will there be a
> > > > Harry Potter Hogwarts Express train?  Any new bulk paks coming soon?
> > > 
> > > That kind of information would be covered under the NDA so I can't
> > > specifically comment.
> > 
> > So you know then?
> 
> That kind of information would be covered under the NDA so I can't
> specifically comment.
> 
> > > I'll try to upload a few pics later tonite or tomorrow, suffice it to say
> > > I've never seen so many top top top shelf train MOCs in one place at one
> > > time ever before.
> > 
> > MOCs at din?
> 
> After, last nite back at the hotel, and most all day during the meeting.
> Train MOCs have a way of taking up the entire table, which is not prudent. I
> prefer a clean machine.
> 
> I have uploaded some pics to the following brickshelf folder:
> 
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=3084
> 
> The POVray is my LDraw capture of the gift each of us was given, just
> something Jorn doodled up for us. It, since it is an image of a design
> originated from within TLC, is of course a realisation of a design
> copyrighted by LEGO and the image should be treated as such.
> 
> The pics are festish, don't expect to see anything not yet publicly released.
> 
> But you will see pics of a rather fun and boisterous dinner Friday,
> including one in which J2 is bending Brad's ear about something, oh, I
> dunno, maybe 8 wides???

lol BION, I'm pretty sure I never uttered the sacred phrase "8 wide" to Brad at
all.  In the pic where he and I are laughing, I think we were talking about one
of your MOCs, Lar >;-D

> (and if Brad could take *that* intensity level he
> can take anything...) We never actually had to tape J2 down but we did have
> duct tape at the ready. (J2 will insist it was actually for me.)

We *almost* needed it for SteveB, though;-) (inside joke)

> Then there are pics from the afterdinner run/bull session, featuring a 7
> loco (9 motor) lashup (work from James T, Steve B, Lar, and Mike P) pulling
> a rather long freight train, just before the speed controller popped a
> thermistor for a few minutes.
> 
> The "plastic land" pic was in the chinatown fleamarket section on the way
> over in the morning, and it just somehow seemed fitting as a backdrop. We
> ALL want something "for all your plastic needs".  LOL
> 
> Finally there's a group shot inside LD that I took late today just before we
> all broke up.
> 
> Enjoy.

Thanks for the expeditious posting of the pics, Lar! (and for the invite to hang
out in the WorldPerks lounge)

-John

> 
> 
> ++Lar



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(...) That kind of information would be covered under the NDA so I can't specifically comment. (...) After, last nite back at the hotel, and most all day during the meeting. Train MOCs have a way of taking up the entire table, which is not prudent. (...) (26 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)

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