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    Not Kirk, Cook, Cagney or either of the Saints... —James Howse
   Just James. But I am back online (obvious really) and trying to catch up with all I missed. I still haven't heard from NSW-AMRA, I think they may have thought I was having them on, or they don't want lego because it's not serious or whatever. Does (...) (24 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
   
        Re: Not Kirk, Cook, Cagney or either of the Saints... —Peter White
     (...) Not St.James Station ? (...) If you mentioned you were a stud, they might be guarding their womenfolk. Maybe we need to turn up and picket the show Maybe a smaller show is an easier way to insert toe in their H2O. (24 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
   
        Re: Not Kirk, Cook, Cagney or either of the Saints... —Richard Parsons
   (...) Welcome back dude. Maybe sending them some pictures is in order.... Richard Still baldly going... (24 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
   
        Re: Not Kirk, Cook, Cagney or either of the Saints... —Santosh Bhat
   Perhaps we can label our display as a "Entierly New Concept in Model Railroading, never before seen in Australian model train exhibitions"...but not actually say its Lego. If they ask we just say "its a secret". If they get pushy, we'll tell them (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
   
        Re: Not Kirk, Cook, Cagney or either of the Saints... —John Porter
   <snip> (...) <snip> Hmmm.. You had better not say TOY trains, it is a "Model Railway", not a toy (According to them, anyway, we don't want to get them off-side) Same rule goes for describing the model as a "train set" John (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
   
        Re: Not Kirk, Cook, Cagney or either of the Saints... —Santosh Bhat
   (...) Yeah I've known that they get uptight about such things. But to me a toy is something you have fun with and enjoy. I hope they do have fun with their Model Trains, or why else would they do it? There's real railways out there that need fixing (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
   
        Re: Not Kirk, Cook, Cagney or either of the Saints... —Peter White
   (...) Sadly for them, that is how toy trains came into being, as...TOYS. At least AFOLs don't seem to have that problem. Even in the Lego catalogue, the age range on the top of the page for Mindstorms is 12-99 (a bit sad for all those century (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
 

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