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First New Mexico AFOL meet
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lugnet.loc.us.nm
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Fri, 26 Apr 2002 22:21:18 GMT
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Don, Scott, please let me know if I've forgotten something. Thanx!
Sunday, April 21, 2002
The Village Inn on Menaul Blvd. near University Blvd. in Albuquerque, New
Mexico, USA
Attended: Don Bruce, Robert Graff, Scott Runyan
Robert greeted Scott and Don in the parking lot and then walked in and found a
table. Don started things off by giving each of us a printout of our brickshelf
index page so that we could point out different models to talk about. Don began
by showing off one set of his French castles see this link:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=15775
The first was in a 1x1 scale, then 2x, then 4x each model growing in detail and
complexity. The plan is to create an entire French village. Robert mentioned
that he has done something similiar with representations of some Las Vegas
casino landmarks, but regretted that minifig scale casinos would literally be
10x the size of his own house. Scott's latest creation is a trashcan that is
designed to use plastic shopping bags as liners with a special place to hold
the handles secure. Robert talked briefly about his in-progress brick
stop-motion movie based on a Star Trek episode. Some of Don's stuff goes back
to the early 80's.
Scott mentioned that he knew one other AFOL in Santa Fe whom he will try again
to contact and have him join us at the next meeting. Robert discussed a few of
his models, particulary the minifig scale version of his workplace. The idea
came to him when he was at home bored on night. We talked about how curious it
is that certain brickshelf folders are more popular than others even within the
files of the same user. Looking at the counts really helps to determine what is
the most popular and what perhaps to stick with.
Scott estimated that his collection totalled over 1/2 million bricks, Don and
Robert both believe they have somewhere in the tens of thousands. We shared our
worst bricklink horror stories. Scott also has a shop, currently closed
however. Robert mentioned that according to the bricklink site, that there are
at least some 30 other people in New Mexico. So he decided to post a message to
the rec.toys.lego usenet newsgroup about NM LEGO meetings in a hope to increase
membership.
Robert talked about the minifig sculpture that he has, he built a small dog to
go with it. Scott owns the Statue of Liberty sculpture. Robert is also working
on a large-scale mosaic of a catholic saint, The Santo Nino de Atocha; it
should be finished soon and he is considering entering it into the annual state
fair.
A name for our newly started group was discussed. A few of the candidates:
Lobo LEGO Club
NMLUG
ZIALUG
Los ladrillitos (the little bricks in Spanish)
Albuquerque Brick Club
This will be discussed again next time.
It was decided that at the next meeting each person should bring a list of the
sets that they own, either intact or cannabalized for parts. Scott offered his
home for next time and gave directions. This meeting was scheduled for the
following Sunday afternoon.
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