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More LLW/RLD feedback
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Sat, 17 Aug 2002 17:03:45 GMT
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Firstly, I'm going to do a "me too" and say what a fantastic time the
RLD/LLW experience was - this was my first time, and if you haven't done
it already, you will not be disappointed. I can't really justify going
back in October :-( but I will probably be tempted into a return next year
(Helen doesn't know that yet, but...!).
I also want to echo the thanks to the people at RLD & LLW who were
helpful, obliging and very generous with those "1kg" bags. I was chatting
to the bloke from LLW who was getting a bit upset with people nicking all
the bits from Lego Heaven (we'd been asked to take only a few bits from
there, and the rest from the huge boxes back at HQ) and he was saying he
understood our enthusiasm, but didn't want all the stock nicked! I guess
it's like touring a distillery where at the end you get all the whisky
you can drink - you might expect to taste things on the way round, but not
to go to the vault, open up their finest malt and fill a keg you brought
with you. Maybe we need to be a bit more well-behaved if we're to
continue being given access to this fantastic resource for all those
impossible to find bits. I say this as someone who was as bad as everyone
else in there! And Jason - I owe you an apology - I saw an entire tub of
those tan jets, but assumed one of the AFOLs around it who knew you better
would have taken one for you.
As for what bits we got, well, all the bits on my list (nothing too
exciting, but you'll see the models in due course). Helen got tons of the
silver stuff, including not just 2x2s but the odd other bit - 1 thin
bricks, a 2x2 L brick and two 2x2 tiles. And a few bits of Maersk blue -
probably even rarer now it's being phased out. Perhaps most surprising
was one piece of Tente, a rival building brick!
I was thinking how it could be improved - perhaps someone could pass
feedback to the organisers? I'd appreciate a more hands-on demonstration
of design - perhaps give us a piece of Lego graph paper to experiment
with? It would be good to hear how things went on - e.g. if on a return
visit next year, some indication of what was new. Perhaps increasing the
behind-the-scenes groups to 8 each time would decrease the waiting around
the last group had to do - I think two more would fit in. And I couldn't
hear the tour guide much of the time outside.
Don't let that make you think I didn't thoroughly enjoy it! Now all I
need is more time to build...
Alastair
PS - so who won the Santa Fe set?
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| There are some very good points here, Alastair. I hope we can bring some of them up next time we have a meeting with Paul (the man who was getting upset). It really is a fantastic opportunity, which we must thank the people at Legoland for, and we (...) (22 years ago, 18-Aug-02, to lugnet.loc.uk)
| | | Re: More LLW/RLD feedback
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| (...) This was understandable, but I think the problem was that there was no clear indication of what was allowed. Part of the tour as advertised was to have a few elements from the stockroom, yet the moment I entered I (and a few others) was told (...) (22 years ago, 19-Aug-02, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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