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This is a major coup, as this will be a well attended convention. WTG to the GMLTC for setting this up. Lots of planning to do to pull this off. We need to make up a good flyer to hand out to build on interest expressed (I have a start that I handed (...) (25 years ago, 22-Apr-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp, lugnet.trains)
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| | Lego Fest Picture
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Anybody from the Lego Fest we had have a copy of the group picture online yet? Or if someone has one but no place to put it, I could put it up on my page. (25 years ago, 8-Apr-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | Re: Discounted Star Wars Sets!!
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Drats! Foiled again! I went out to Kohl's at Penn and 494 and found *no* SW sets:-( I did find 3 completely bare shelves! Thomas, did you forget to mention that you *bought* them all;-) I had to settle for some Adventurers sets 20% off, so ALL was (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | Next GMLTC meeting
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is on Wednesday of this week... Due to some game where you chase a little ball around the countryside that Gerlach plays on Thursdays, we changed the meeting day. Silly, but there it is. See you then, I hope. (yes, here for another week, at (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | Re: Twin Cities LEGO minifest 033099
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CI$?? ptui... Back when CI$ was popular I was running my own games BBS with 30+ online games (Including Trade Wars 2002, Sproat... and Planet Busters, which I wrote myself) (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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(...) Sounds like a great time was had by all. (...) I thought you had time on CI$ (CompuServe). Pardon Me For Jumping In. Used when butting into the middle of a thread in which you hadn't been a participant. It's not usually applicable to (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | Re: Twin Cities LEGO minifest 033099
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Thanks to all who mailed or posted directions, I found the place. We all had a blast. Paul Foster had a very very impressive line up of fire apparatus, Ricky brought his supercustomized 5571 and trailer (and I made his day by sliding him an extra 8 (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | Re: Twin Cities LEGO minifest 033099
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PMFJI, Look at (URL) (erk, that's a long URL) Dinkytown is the area north of the university. I lived in an apartment at 4th St. and 35W one summer. Long ago, in a lifetime far, far away. Steve (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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Can someone post some more specific directions than these? I'm not from around here and I can't make sense of these, or of the map, they assume too much shared context (like which direction is north, where downtown is, etc.). Assume I'm starting out (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | Re: Twin Cities LEGO minifest 033099
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(...) Hi! You probably don't know me, because I'm new to Lugnet, but I'll be to the Lego Minifest! :D I'll be there, --Mark Nelson (25 years ago, 27-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | Re: SW shut out of SW
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(...) I feel your pain. I took my nephew on a tour of retail establishments searching for SW sets. Eventually, we did find a few snowspeeders and speederbikes in one store. Pretty frustrating. :-/ -- Terry K -- BTW, If that LIC _does_ get some more (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp, lugnet.starwars)
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As promised, my report: As I was running errands this morning, I personally checked out three Targets and TRU Bloomington. Targets Richfield, Edina, and St. Louis had *no* SW sets, as did not TRU. After "strike four", I was feeling like I really (...) (25 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Star Wars LEGO sighting at Target
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Zoinks! I will check out Target St. Louis Park, Richfield, and Edina tomorrow and report...whether I left any for the rest of you guys;-) [1] [1] Actually, I already got mine from the LIC -John (...) (25 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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Greetings, I dunno if this is old news but looks like the Star Wars LEGO sets are finally going to be available everywhere-I bought mine this morning at the Target Greatland store in Maplewood (they put the sets out after closing last night) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | Re: Twin Cities LEGO minifest 033099
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Sadly (or maybe not so sadly) I will be in Florida during our first mini Legofest.[1] I propose, however, a monthly or bi-monthly meeting to get together. A mid-May affair sounds good; I'm toast for June, but July is good. We still are up in the air (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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(...) So who else is going? What faces will I finally get to put to names? So what is the traffic like from 5 to 6 pm on 35W? Everybody is bringing stuff to show off I hope. I'll bring a box of six wide fire trucks. And John Neal, if you show up, I (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | Twin Cities LEGO minifest 033099
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Greetings, A group of us are getting together for a Twin Cities LEGO minifest on Tuesday March 30th starting at 6:00 pm. at the University Lutheran Chapel, located at 1101 University Avenue S.E., Minneapolis MN in Dinkytown. It is 2 blocks east of (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | Re: Greater Midwest LEGO Train Club (GMLTC)
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Hi All, A couple shows ago we had a 60+ car train with two front puller engines and a pusher engine at the tail. We had to be a bit careful not to "pop a knuckle" (that makes me smile to say that) but with that kind of load the engines had a real (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | Re: Greater Midwest LEGO Train Club (GMLTC)
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John is more modest than he needs to be. The lift bridge is operational, just not for extended periods. :) It is a very graceful lift with LEGO motors basically crawling up the towers. We took pictures with it in the up and down positions at the (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | Re: Two train layouts (wasRe: Greater Midwest LEGO Train Club (GMLTC)
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A minor correction... (...) It was John Neal who thought of it first. I just jumped on the bandwagon. :-) I bet that kid is pretty enthused now. Way to go. As to shows, John Neal told me that they won an award voted on by the public for favorite (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | Two train layouts (wasRe: Greater Midwest LEGO Train Club (GMLTC)
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In response to Larry's desire with Ben's second to see **2** LEGO train layouts at the same show, PNLTC did a small (last minute) show -- with a hasty display -- on March 7th at which there was indeed two separate groups each with its own display. (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | Re: Greater Midwest LEGO Train Club (GMLTC)
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(...) I'd rather see them combined! Both layouts are modular. GMLTC has more modules under construction. What's needed are two relatively simple transition modules since GMLTC and PNLTC modules are built to different standards. Then, connect the (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | Re: Greater Midwest LEGO Train Club (GMLTC)
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Now that's an idea! The GMLTC layout would fit very nicely in the middle of a PNLTC display. Actually, probably best not a good idea since the crowd may run our layout over trying to get a good look at the masterful creation GMLTC has created. I (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | Re: Greater Midwest LEGO Train Club (GMLTC)
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A fantastic time was had by all, especially me. I was particularly impressed with the layout's ease of set-up and break-down-- each in about an hour! 'Course, if I hear "How many Legos (sic) did it take to build this?" or "How much did all of these (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | Re: March Twin Cities minifest anyone?
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(...) Hockey is over for me, I would take a Thursday night off and come over to the cities, I'd like to meet everyone. (25 years ago, 15-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | Re: Greater Midwest LEGO Train Club (GMLTC)
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(...) Larry - Thanks for putting this out for the world to see! (...) Master builder? <blush> (...) The billboards on the outfield fence of the baseball stadium on the far right are built with bricks. The only non-brick billboard is the one on top (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | Re: March Twin Cities minifest anyone?
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Well... I am off to CA from the 18th through the 28th so I can't be there on the 25th, I will be at Disneyland. We will be at LL on opening day. However things are looking good for my project to extend at least into April. People should feel free to (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | March Twin Cities minifest anyone?
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Greetings, I know a trip to Carlsbad won't be happening anytime soon for me but would still love to meet with other AFOL. Anyone interested in a Twin Cities minifest while Larry P is still in town? I was thinking of maybe the evening of Thursday (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | Re: Greater Midwest LEGO Train Club (GMLTC)
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(...) Get after John Gerlach, not me.. :-) ... , he registered the domain (gmltc.org) and is setting up the website... he has all the pics and is busily scanning, I understand. I was just asked to put this one on my website so everyone will know (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp, lugnet.loc.us.wi.eau)
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| | Re: Greater Midwest LEGO Train Club (GMLTC)
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(...) coming?!? :)P (...) Dang, that is in-freaking-credible! (...) Did they have to pull special strings to get space there at the GC or does the GC welcome mega-serious builders? In any event (ha, pun), what a great display for the GC!!! (...) (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp, lugnet.loc.us.wi.eau)
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| | Re: Greater Midwest LEGO Train Club (GMLTC)
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In lugnet.trains, Tamyra Teed writes: [snip] (...) If you're talking about the Deluxe Track Kit and ilk, I just ordered one of those Wednesday, and they said it would be here on Monday. :) I can't wait to not have my train going around in a very (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | Re: Greater Midwest LEGO Train Club (GMLTC)
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COOL!! When do we get to see some close ups of some of those buildings?? I really want to see what I think is the grey "train station?" and my color might be a little off though it looks a little purple? (might be pink, looks kinda like the slides (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | Re: Greater Midwest LEGO Train Club (GMLTC)
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That is very impressive! Is the white bridge is curved to match the track? Is that a gray truss bridge to the right? And what is the red truss work supporting? The 6 slides really make a cool carnival ride! SteveB (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | Re: Greater Midwest LEGO Train Club (GMLTC)
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As promised, here is a teaser pic: (URL) entire layout is built from Lego. All those red sides with black streaks are Lego! Only the supporting tables (the boards and draping) are not. Conan Callopy (much of the bricks are his and his uncle's) is in (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | Re: Formation of local train club
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Excellent news. Needs wider circulation. Hence my post to a few more groups. (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp, lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.mi.det, lugnet.loc.us.il.chi)
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| | Formation of local train club
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Well, I met with the local guys who have been showing Lego trains at the GATS (on and off since '85 I learned!) and let me tell you! But first off, I should say that, originally, I wanted to be in a group such as the PNLTC and so I started (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | Re: UMLTC
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It's strange how hard it is to get a bunch of 'local' LEGO train enthusiasts together (where 'local' means within 25-50 miles of where you live). I've been trying to get some interest in the SF Bay Area, with little success. I've even used a (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | Clubs, structure, long distance orgs (Was Re: UMLTC
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John and I had a great conversation on Friday and one of the topics that came up is what exactly we would want out of a club. We agreed that too much structure can be detrimental as people get sucked up into the structure aspects instead of the (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: UMLTC
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Gee, it's lonely in this chat room:) To follow up on John Gerlach- I (and any other interested parties) am/are invited to check out this group's set-up and meet the guys this Tues night. If you would like to attend, let me know so I can give you (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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