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Looks like I will be hosting the next DixieLUG meeting at my home in
Marietta, GA on Saturday March 4, 2006.
DATE: Saturday, 4 March 2006
TIME: 1:00pm - 5:00pm (Eastern Standard Time, for those of you in AL)
PLACE: Jason’s House
(2421 Prince Howard Trail, Marietta, GA 30062)
Current plans for the gathering include:
- Bring any MOCs you want to show off (moonbases, etc).
- Planning for the upcomming BrickSouth & FFL Event
- Maybe another ‘part out’ of a set?
- Miscellaneous brick sorting/trading/etc.
- Dinner out afterwards, TBD
Others are welcome to follow up on this thread withanything else
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For the past 4 years the North Georgia LEGO Train Club (NGLTC) has sponsored a
display at the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s Festival of Trees. This is an
event that consists of hundreds of decorated Christmas trees, wreaths, events,
rides and various other displays. To help make our tree special each year we
have incorporated the help of the patients of CHOA to actually build the LEGO
ornaments that are displayed on our tree.
This year is our 5th year of being a part of the Festival of Trees and I wanted
to make it stand out from all of our previous displays. So in order to “step it
up a notch” not only are the ornaments made out of LEGO but the entire tree is
made from LEGO elements. The tree stands just under 9’ tall with a base of 6’
wide, there are approximately 23,000 green bricks and plates that make up the
actual tree. The tree is built around a steel frame so that it can stand strong
and hold the weight of the heavy branches. The branches can be removed for
transporting the tree. Very little glue is involved, only on the trunk of the
branches themselves, all the needles are unglued.
Along with the LEGO tree we have four table top trees, these are 4’ tall
artificial trees each decorated with ornaments made by different children’s
groups. CHOA patients, 3rd grade elementary school class, Girl Scout / Browne
troop & 1st – 5th grade Sunday school class each helped contribute to the table
top trees as well as the main tree.
You can see some
pictures of our display from yesterday’s setup.
jt
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The North Georgia LEGO Train Club (NGLTC) visited the Children’s Healthcare of
Atlanta at Egleston. For the fifth year in a row the NGLTC held our annual
Christmas ornament building session with patients of CHOA. The children are
helping make ornaments for the display being put on by the NGLTC at the CHOA’s
Festival of Trees. The tree display will include trees decorated with ornaments
made by the patients as well as many other local children. These trees are then
auctioned off to help raise money for the CHOA system.
The building session was a big success this year we had over 25 patients come
and help put together ornaments of all shapes and sizes. Not only do the
patients enjoy building with the LEGO but the entire family is encouraged to
contribute. This is a nice way to break up the day for children who have to
spend time at Egleston children’s hospital. It gives them a time to be kids and
not have to think about all the treatments and test they are undergoing.
The kids are a great help every year in contributing ornaments to the NGLTC
tree. We do make sure that no one goes home empty handed so each patient that
helped was given their choice of LEGO sets to take back to their room and
continue the LEGO building.
You can see pictures of all the fun
here
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=153941
jt
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Announcing Buzz, the wily mascot from Georgia Tech:
I made this for my wife’s 30th birthday last February. I guess I hadn’t gotten
around to uploading the pictures. Anyway, this creation was made with the help
of Bricksaic.
Many thanks to Bob Kojima for that program!
-Alfred
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That’s right, Buzz in minifig form!
The only thing I wanted to add was his Converse high-tops...
John Riley
MS in Materials Science, May 2005
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This past weekend (April 9,10) the North Georgia LEGO Train Club (NGLTC)
presented a layout at the Atlanta Greenberg Toy & Train show.
Our layout was a 20’x25’ layout including a kids play area and
Rail Racers set up.
This was one our most animated layouts to date, not only did we have the running
trains and monorail there were lots of little goodies on the layout. We had all
of Mark Staffa’s great fair ground items that amazed the crowds as always,
plus a copy of Jason Allemann motorized cows (that were a variation of Erik
Amzallag’s cows)
and our ever hard working landscaper, but he never got more grass cut than the
single circle
There were also all the great MOC buildings and other structures:
We did have a couple of vandals “mark” one of our buildings but the local police
will had to take care of them (must be some kind of code word or something)
For all the pictures from the show you can see them in my
Brickshelf gallery
jt
James J. Trobaugh
North Georgia LEGO Train Club
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For those of you who didn't know the Dawsonville Georgia LEGO Outlet store is
being closed (this is the first US LEGO Outlet opened in Oct. 1999). I guess
this is another sign of the tough times for LEGO retail. I know many folks have
never understood why Atlanta had two LEGO Outlet stores to begin with.
Everything that is left in the store is 50% off. There isn't a ton of stuff left
but there are a few good deals to be had. Next week whatever is left will be
marked down to 75% off. January 22nd is their last day;I'm not sure how we are
going to survive in the Atlanta area with only one LEGO Outlet store...much less
one so far from my house.
Needless to say there will not be a NGLTC show on Memorial day at the
Dawsonville LEGO outlet, bummer :( The store and the employees will be missed. I
have heard that a few of the employees (Kenny) will be moving to the Discover
Mills store.
jt
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As of earlier this week, there were about 70 to 80 of this set (MSRP US$7) at
the Kennesaw TRU (just off Barrett Parkway, between I-75 and I-575), marked
(Green tag) at 3.98, underneath the "Green Tag Clearance -- Extra 70% Off"
sign...
Franklin
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Hello everyone!
As many people know, I have a model of Tech Tower from Georgia Tech. One of the
cool traditions about Tech Tower is the act of Stealing the “T” from the group
of letters on the top of the tower. Many attempts have been made over the
years, and for some fairly obvious reasons the school administration has been
increasingly vigilant in protecting the “T” and stopping these attempts.
Anyway, the neat thing about a model is you can recreate an event without
getting arrested. Since my wife (who was the one who went to Tech in our
family) never got to steal the “T”, I thought I would make a little story about
a (ficticious) “T” stealing attempt out of Lego.
Ok, I actually didn’t think that hard about it. The Tower was being displayed
on a NELUG layout at the recent Greenburg Show in
Wilmington, MA. In order to make the time a bit more entertaining, and to
practice my camera skills, I decided to shoot this lego caper.
Anyway, the full story is up on MOCpages http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/6690
and the photos themselves are in the usual place:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=108917
Also, in case you are interested, the Greenburg Show was a hit for other reasons
besides my little vignette. (Actually, I think only a few people noticed it at
the show!) We had automation in all corners of the layout, a helicopter, a
crane, out usual stunning fairgrounds, and a point-to-point trolley, not to
mention the automated train-gates.
While I am sure there will be a write-up on the NELUG
website soon, you can look through my pictures of the event here:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=106943 and Chris Meeks posted
some here: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=109239, and he has
some of his movies posted there as well.
-Alfred
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In lugnet.general, Timothy Wade wrote:
> First, let me apologize if I post this in anyplace that it shouldn't be...but I
> wanted to get the word out as much as possible!
>
> My place of business currently has around 10 wooden crates of varying sizes,
> some as small as 4x4x4 and some as large as 10x6x4. These crates are being
> tossed away.
>
> I've seen some photos of AFOL's that travel with exhibit peices and they use
> large wooden crates for transport...so it seems to me that if someone wanted
> these to use, might be a good deal! Contact me off post if you're interested!
>
> The crates are currently located in Tallahassee Florida. I can't move them at
> all, if you are interested you'd have to come get them yourself.
>
> Thanks and hope someone can make use of them!
>
> Tim
I might have to give you a ring about this. Hmmm..
-Lenneh
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First, let me apologize if I post this in anyplace that it shouldn't be...but I
wanted to get the word out as much as possible!
My place of business currently has around 10 wooden crates of varying sizes,
some as small as 4x4x4 and some as large as 10x6x4. These crates are being
tossed away.
I've seen some photos of AFOL's that travel with exhibit peices and they use
large wooden crates for transport...so it seems to me that if someone wanted
these to use, might be a good deal! Contact me off post if you're interested!
The crates are currently located in Tallahassee Florida. I can't move them at
all, if you are interested you'd have to come get them yourself.
Thanks and hope someone can make use of them!
Tim
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There seems to be enough positive response even after Brickfest, so lets do
this! :-) We'll have a DixieLUG meeting this month!
Where: Jason Whittenburg's house (Smyrna, GA)
When: Saturday September 18, 2004 - 1:00pm EDT
Directions: http://jasonwhittenburg.com/directions
Agenda: Get feedback on creations, check out creations by others,
meet new people, swap parts, part of a set, talk about doing another
show, hang out, and talk about LEGO.
Visit the DixieLUG website at http://www.dixielug.org and mailing list for more
information.
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Hello,
After way to much ranting, I decided to take some of Spencer R’s advice and work
on some building. While I do have a new building that I am working on (and
several bricklink sellers know that it is full of tan and technic gears) this
note isn’t about that.
I have been neglecting the writeup of my previous building for far too long. I
built Tech Tower for my wife, Valerie, a GT alum. (Ok, I built it so I could
have a Lego model that she could appreciate rather than complain about. The
Lego Star Destroyer hanging from the ceiling in our living room just wasn’t her
style.)
Anyway, without further ado, I would like to present Tech Tower from the Georgia
Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA. It has appeared now in MichLUG and
NELUG shows, and will soon be travelling to Brickfest2004.
Full write up is here: http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/4385
Brickshelf Gallery: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=87999
Also of note, this building (as all my buildings so far) has been designed using
Ldraw (MLCAD to be precise), and built from the design. The reasoning was
twofold: - no real place to keep a model and its associated pile of building
materials in my house (especially with a then two year old running around) -
I just didn’t have the parts, and I didn’t want to spend money on the parts, if
I didn’t need them. So, I used MLCAD to generate a parts list and bought the
list off of bricklink!
Let me know what you think! Go Jackets! :)
-Alfred
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Hey,
I won't be able to make it that weekend :( I have plans. I guess I will have
to see the pictures.
How big will the layout be?
Erik Bush
Build Well
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The North Georgia LEGO Train Club (NGLTC) will be presenting their annual train
display on Saturday May 29th at the Dawsonville Georgia LEGO Outlet store at the
North Georgia Premium Outlet Mall. The layout will be setup in front of the
store from 10am til 7pm.
So come by check out the layout, talk LEGO and do a little shopping.
jt
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James Trobaugh
North Georgia LEGO Train Club
http://www.ngltc.org
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DixieLUG had a show this past weekend in Rome, GA with a large display of MOCs
and two kids building areas. Maybe Chris can give more details. Here are some
of the photos I took of the show:
http://photos.jasonwhittenburg.com/?album=80
-Jason
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