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Re: Show Lego at the Museum of Fire ?
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lugnet.loc.au
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Fri, 20 Jul 2001 03:56:51 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Richie Dulin writes:
> In lugnet.loc.au, Pete White writes:
> > One of my ebay purchasers works for a local fire brigade.
> > The Museum of Fire is a local tourist attraction at Penrith,
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> The Museum of Fire is well worth a couple of hours visit for anyone with
> even a vague interest in firefighting or old machinery. And, as my daughter
> remembers regularly, they have a large collection of 1960's park play
> equipment outside (Monkey bars in the shape of a shoe, a stagecoach, a
> firetruck (naturally), a car etc). I heartily endorse it!
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> > it has an area that could be used for displaying purposes and/or
> > having a normal meeting or a combo of the two over a weekend.
> A "normal" meeting there would be good - we could have a look at the
> machines as well as the normal brick-based stuff. And Penrith TRU isn't too
> far away!
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> > The Museum of Fire charges admission
> Not sure what this means - that they'd pay us? we'd pay them?
It should be no charge to us (IIRC), I think we would be drawcard value for
them, thus offsetting our occupation of their space.
> > and can also help in publicity,
> > if we were to mount an exhibition over a weekend day or days.
> > Any interest ?
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> It might be worth trying for a day to start with, just to gauge interest and
> attendence. It would have the advantage over a "normal" train exhibition, in
> that we could display lots of stuff which wouldn't fit on a train layout (eg
> Technic stuff, really big castles, really big ships) as well.
What I was thinking, was maybe our meeting one day and public display the
other day, but it could be just a public expo and get-together on the same day,
but it could be a long day :^0
> One day might be easier to organise, a whole weekend displaying to the
> public can be hard on the nerves, feet and ears (having done it a few times
> for (non-LEGO) trains).
Yes indeedy, one day may send us packing !
pete.w
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