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LEGO®WORLD 2003,
Maybe you have already heard something about this, but here is the official
announcement. From October 17 until October 21, The IJsselhallen in Zwolle, The
Netherlands will be once again be devoted to LEGO, as Europe’s
biggest LEGO-event, LEGO®WORLD 2003 will be held.
Last year, LEGO®WORLD 2002 was again a big succes with over 35.000 visitors.
The event took 5 days instead of 4 in 2001. And this year it will be again 5
days of LEGO-fest!
LEGO will show a lot of very nice things this year again and also the Dutch
LEGO users group 'De Bouwsteen' (The Buildingbrick) will be present again. Last
year very many people were interested in our own creations. There were so many
people present in our area that it was even hard to walk around there.
Therefore we will have this year (again) a much larger area to show all
creations and
it seems to be very interesting what we will display.
What will be there to see:
Of course LEGO is present with a huge amount of nice things to see and of
course there are LEGO building contests. I don't know all the details of what
they will show but last year they had very nice things.
I can tell you more about what 'De Bouwsteen' will show, because I'm one of the
people organising the part of the event which will be filled in by De
Bouwsteen.
Trains.
This year there will be again a huge train layout with many trains and scenery.
The trains will go through mountains and over a lot large bridges, each
masterpieces of building
technique.
Miniland.
Connected to the train layout is Steendam. The Miniland city of the members of
De Bouwsteen. We asked all our members to build a city building on a 32x32
baseplate. With about 600 members, this will become one of the biggest LEGO
cities you have ever seen.
Trade and sale
Of course you have the possibility to buy new LEGO sets at the event, but there
will also be a possibility to buy second hand LEGO or try to trade your LEGO
with that of others.
Historical overview:
Whereas in the section of LEGO many of the newest sets will be displayed, De
Bouwsteen has an area where a lot of older LEGO sets will be displayed. Bring
back the memories of your childhood and look at the sets you always wanted to
see in reality
Own creations.
What is a LEGO users group without any own creations? Many of our members have
made beautiful models which they will show during LEGO WORLD. Enormous,
detailed buildings and cranes are only a few of the creations that will be
shown.
Demonstrations:
This is the time to find out what you can do with LEGO. Of course we will show
you how to work with Mindstorms. Also you can learn everything about LDraw to
build fantastic models in on the computer. Rather want to work with the real
bricks? Then look at the special techniques demonstrations where you can learn
a lot of tricks to make your models to look nicer. Tim Courtney and his crew
will again present.
And more and more………
Diner
On one or more evenings we will organize a diner for LEGO fans in a restaurant
nearby LEGO®WORLD 2002. Here we have the opportunity to relax from the event
and talk to each other about everything connected to LEGO.
Tickets
Tickets will be available at the Intertoys toy stores in the Netherlands
starting end of August . For foreign people we'll try to find a solution so that
they can also buy there tickets in advance. We didn't find the perfect solution
yet, but we are working on it. For the time being, people interested in tickets
are advised to contact me via e-mail.
Lodging
A large number of volunteers and exhibitors will stay in vacation-park close to
Zwolle. The lodging are free for the volunteers and exhibitors!
A day (16 October) before the event is also possible to overnight and/or
build up your own creation e.d.
If you want to exhibit on LEGO®WORLD 2003, feel free to contact me:
paullego@wanadoo.nl
Pictures and information:
Information (in Dutch) can be found on:
http://www.debouwsteen.com
and
http://www.legoworld.nl
Pictures of last years event:
2002:
http://www.intuh.net/lego/index.htm
http://home.planet.nl/~priem046/legofoto.html
http://home.planet.nl/~priem046/legoworld1.html
http://www.vanree.net/~javanree/fotoalbum/lego/legoworld_2002/ ;and other files
http://www.vanree.net/~kmeijaard/fotoalbum/legoworld_2002 ;Klaas Meijaard
http://www.vanree.net/~kmeijaard/fotoalbum/piraten_diorama/ ;Klaas Meijaard
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=27199 ;Jeroen de Haan
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=27200 ;Jeroen de Haan
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=27152 ;Stefan Wanderer
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=27226 ;Frank Builting
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=27260 ;Reinhard Ben Beneke
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=27068 ;Wendel Bogaard ;
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=27357 ;Martijn Boogaarts
http://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuwslink/teksten/nws.evenement.mensen.ijsselhallen.html
http://www.bndestem.nl/regioportal/BNS/0,2622,5466-Reizen-Reizen!!__1280156_,00.html
http://www.planet.nl/news/0,2031,80_467_1226037,00.html
2001:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=12149
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=7664
Hasta LuEGO
Paul Koelewijn, President De Bouwsteen, The Netherlands.
paullego@wanadoo.nl
+31(0)251232002
+31(0)644038897
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