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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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