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Re: Model train show
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Fri, 22 Feb 2002 02:14:19 GMT
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Thanks for John and Adam for your comments. Again, we sincerely hope that
lego play area will be available next year in Calgary. If NALUG can be
there also, displaying those wonderful trains and bridges and buildings
again , that would be a great bonus to all of us in Calgary. One idea we
have is to have a lego retailer there selling trains which will definitely
heighten the lego train awareness among the community.
In lugnet.loc.ca.ab, John Koob writes:
> In lugnet.loc.ca.ab, Adam Murtha writes:
> > In lugnet.loc.ca.ab, Johan Piera writes:
> > > First of all, the question is where do those lego available in the play area
> > > last year come from ? Do NALUG pay for it? Our assumption is that Lego
> > > canada sends them to NALUG. If this is a wrong assumption and NALUG member
> > > actully pays for them, then please disregard the rest of our comments.
> >
> > The Lego was donated to NALUG from Lego for the purpose of the play area of
> > train displays, as far as I know.
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> Correct. The play area Lego donated to NALUG first appeared at
> Supertrain 2001, and then at GETS 2001. It is still available for
> play areas at future train shows.
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> > > How many train show can NALUG member attend in a year?
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> As many as we can. Most NALUG members had other commitments
> and the distance required for transportation of the layout was
> a factor. The decision was made that we could not attend
> Supertrain 2002.
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> > > What
> > > about the two families proudly displayed their lego in the train show while
> > > we were told before the show that no lego train would be there.
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> NALUG informed Supertrain organizers that no NALUG layout would
> be there. This was not meant to imply that no other individual or
> group would not be setting up a Lego display.
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> > > We are here to promote lego, not to make it diffcult. Prehaps the newly
> > > formed SALUG can do something about it ?
> >
> > SALUG is still in it's infancy, but I hope we will be ready to contribute to
> > the next year's Supertrain, as well as NALUG.
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> I hope, but can't promise, that NALUG will be able to attend Supertrain
> next year and help SALUG so that a play area will be possible. NALUG
> members (including myself) were at Supertrain 2001 and we are grateful
> for the help and hospitality offered by show organizers.
>
> John
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| (...) Correct. The play area Lego donated to NALUG first appeared at Supertrain 2001, and then at GETS 2001. It is still available for play areas at future train shows. (...) As many as we can. Most NALUG members had other commitments and the (...) (23 years ago, 21-Feb-02, to lugnet.loc.ca.ab)
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