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Second New Mexico AFOL meet
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lugnet.loc.us.nm
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Tue, 7 May 2002 22:15:05 GMT
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Sunday, April 28, 2002
The home of Scott Runyan. in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Attended: Don Bruce, Robert Graff, Scott Runyan
Robert arrived first and was treated to a tour of Scott's vast LEGO collection.
Words really can't do it any justice except to say that Scott was not kidding
when he guessed at having over half a million pieces at the last meeting.
Don arrived soon after and although he had been there before, he got the tour
as well. Scott has many hundreds of sets and his home is decorated with many of
them as well as many MOC's including a 7-foot tall skyscraper. See this
brickshelf folder for more details:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=swrunyan
Don arrived shortly and although this wasn't his first visit, he was given the
"tour" also.
Robert brought out his "Blue 2x2" collection. It's a series of blue 2x2 bricks
stacked on top of each other in each of the available sizes: Soft, Primo,
Duplo, and System. Scott brought out a 2x2 Modulex brick which was even
smaller, unfortunately they are not compatible with standard LEGO.
Don had brought his trains and since Robert had never seen a LEGO rail layout
in person before, so Scott brought out his tracks and he and Don set up a large
layout on the kitchen floor. Robert wished he had brought his Santa Fe Super
Chief along so that he could se it come to life.
After the tracks were cleared away, Robert showed off the mosaic that he has
been working on. It is approximately 90% done and he is just waiting on more
1x1 bricks to arrive in the mail since the project had completely depleted his
entire collection of green and blue LEGO.
Don showed us his museum model consisting of an Egyptian and Aztec motif. Scott
brought out a Duplo playwall that had alphabet bricks on it spelling out a
welcome to Albuquerque and LEGO!
Scott and Don shared the story of how they met. They both happened to be making
purchases from the same Bricklink (then BrickBay) seller and she made them both
aware of each other.
On Scott's laptop computer, Robert pulled up some preview clips of the
stop-motion LEGO movie that he is working on. Robert also had a few LDraw pics
to show off from the movie. Most of the exterior shots will be done in CGI to
save on bricks. Robert also built of his sets in LDraw format so that he can
rebuild them if necessary at a later time.
Don had to leave to return home and Robert stayed for a few hours afterward
playing with a Technic set and idly grueschtling through a 3033 Blue Tub.
Next meeting was scheduled for the following Sunday at Bruce's house.
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) Hey, it was eBay, and the seller was me! I remember because I probably sold a dozen LEGO lots EVER on eBay, and by coincidence, out of the three I had up then, two were won by people in Albuquerque. Glad to know the rest is history.... Maggie (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-02, to lugnet.loc.us.nm)
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