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Re: "Recon" to Toowoomba for next show BLTG
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lugnet.loc.au
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Sun, 28 May 2006 12:31:46 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Peter Parsons wrote:
> Pete
> Remember that membership is not the "be all to end all" the quality of your
> layout is exential for attracting good crowds to your table. Forget about trying
> to "Churn" as you say the tradionalists into Lego just try and look good so they
> will eventually accept you as "modellers". I think I can speak here from
> experience as at our first show in 2000 we were treated as "leppers" and that is
> a sad fact they do not see Lego as moddeling they see it as a toy. So please
> don't get carried away with trying to convert them but nurture them to beleiving
> that you are a worthy display and that you attract the crowds. In Brisbane it
> has taken us 6 years but we are now their draw card for the public and they have
> told us this allthough we can see it with the crowd that gathers at our table
> over the 3 days. Please don't take these comments too harshly I just don't want
> to see you guys shattered after your first show because the normal "Train Heads"
> don't really want to accept you.
Don't worry the 'churn' comment was a 'tongue in cheek' comment.
I won't be setting up a LEGO baptismal font in preparation for the hordes :^)
> I am sorry I don't get your meaning hear perhaps I am just a bit thick??
I may be contacting ebay users who continually bid on LEGO train items.
I don't know most members of the BLTG or M>ltc, let alone their ebay user ids.
So just be prepared if any lugnet readers are inadvertingly contacted.
> Set up is something that takes practice and you get better as you go along. It
> still takes about 6 to 8 hrs to set up the 5 modules (not counting the loading
> time) but Toowoomba is our 3rd time with the current layout and the time line I
> would like to see is. We will arrive at the venue about 6PM on Friday night
> (accomodation has allready been booked one less task) we should have all the
> basic tables up within the first hour and then it is individual structures on.
> during this stage Gary will connect up all the power underneath (not as big a
> task this time as it is all colour coded) lights will be strung and we would
> hope for a test run by 10pm. Final tweeking for another hour (less to do on
> Saturday morning) and then drive back up the road a couple of K's to our motel
> rooms should be ready for the sack about 12PM.
> Ambitious I know but it is workable.
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> As for the Duplo my son Ben had a table at the Brisbane show at the end of ours
> (when some pics are available you will see it) it was his own idea and he asked
> the group if he could and it was a roaring success but we keep it low on
> tressles for all the little ones. So he is aiming for a good show with this one
> as well.
> Good luck to you guys as well
> Please feel free to send me an Email and we can swap ideas no need to feel alone
> out ther whaen there are other groups who have made the hard yards and can share
> good ideas with you.
The M>ltc have a yahoo group, Rosco gave me the idea for our yahoo group.
Maybe we need a forum for the 3 clubs to share ideas ?
pete.w
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