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Hi all, I agree on the tough parking downtown. Where is everybody now? Tom R. - Burien Ectal G. - Downtown Mark R. - Eastside Scott S. - Federal Way? Anybody else? Not sure if I'll be there but I'd like to try. I'm still trying to get ready for the (...) (27 years ago, 24-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wa.sea)
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I was actually thinking of a meeting room in a public library. I would vote for the U-district or Greenlake. I would say downtown, but parking would be tough (for others... I live downtown). Anyone have any other ideas? (...) (27 years ago, 24-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wa.sea)
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(...) That would be great! Saturdays do work well here. (...) Central for me is on the Eastside ;) but UW Library would work also (I'm assuming UW when you mention library) -mark (27 years ago, 24-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wa.sea)
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The main library downtown on a Saturday afternoon would be pretty central. I'm used to gatherings in restaurants, but, on a lot of levels, the library makes great sense. Besides, one of my big motivations to pick a restaurant would be ability to (...) (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wa.sea)
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Well, I have recently began keeping up with LUGNET and had read with interest the thred regarding a Seattle area get-together. Let's not give up on that idea! I know many will stop by the train exhibit at the Puyallup fair but it would be great to (...) (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wa.sea)
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Hi, Actually it's Pacific Northwest Lego Train Club. Check out the link in my sig below. We build a lot more than just trains. Have you guy picked a meeting spot? How about a library, I think they've got meeting rooms. Tom (...) -- Thomas's & (...) (27 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wa.sea)
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I assume Pacific Northwest Lego Technic Consortium? Or something like that. Lego Train Crowd? Anyway, when should we have a little get together? (...) (27 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wa.sea)
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(...) I must admit, I have *no* idea what PNLTC stands for... could you give a clue? My time right now is tight but (...) then (...) (27 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wa.sea)
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Greetings Ectal, Alex, and Mark, I'm one of Tom Rafert's cohorts in PNLTC. My time right now is tight but might be better in the Fall. Please feel free to get ahold of me then. Any of you are certainly welcome at the shows we're doing, too. Get in (...) (27 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wa.sea)
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Yes. RT=Round Table. I'm open to suggestions though. I also have a couple friends I can drag along. We should at least get a good dozen or so people together, yes? (...) (27 years ago, 13-Jul-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wa.sea)
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What is RT? Round Table Pizza? Hopefully we can find something better then that to eat. I'd probably be up for such an event as well. alex MadMax <MadMax_hm@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:FEo8MF.8KA@lugnet.com... (...) One (...) people (...) (27 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wa.sea)
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(...) Hey Ectal! Great idea! I'm a fellow Lego maniac and would enjoy getting together. We should even try and bring Legos and have a build fest (no mixing though). One of the things that gets my creative juices flowing is to watch other people (...) (27 years ago, 10-Jul-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wa.sea)
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I'd like to meet fellow Lego nuts in the Seattle area... Maybe we can have a big pizza get-together? University Village RT has a nice back room that one can just sign up for... or if someone has a better idea... Anyone? (27 years ago, 10-Jul-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wa.sea)
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(...) Not really. Zany Brainy is suppose to have the large UFO set available on sale, and if you have coupon, you can get an additional 25% of the sale price through July 11th. I don't know if it is in stock in Redmond or Tacoma, nor do I know if ZB (...) (27 years ago, 30-Jun-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wa.sea)
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Anyone know of any good current sales in Seattle? Anyone know of any good thrift stores that have Lego sets lying around? And has anyone seen the Rock Raiders Hover Scout in any stores in the past few days? The only place I've seen it is at the (...) (27 years ago, 30-Jun-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wa.sea)
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There are several members that don't own any of the train sets, and that's fine because everyone builds what they like to build. We usually post here when the train shows are, and they are also listed on our web site. We'll be sure to post when the (...) (27 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wa.sea)
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(...) have (...) I'm also glad to see other Lego enthusiastic people in the NW! I do have to disclose that I do not have any Lego train sets nor have I ever built a train out of Lego, though I enjoy thoroughly looking at model train sets. Myself and (...) (27 years ago, 21-Jun-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wa.sea)
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Hi Mark, Glad to see another Lego Maniac in the Northwest. There is quite a few of us here in the Seattle area, and more in the Portland area and B.C. I belong to the Pacific Northwest Lego Train Club, we set up displays/layouts at trains shows, (...) (27 years ago, 21-Jun-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wa.sea)
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(...) It's not a bad place, but the best place is probably the Seattle loc group. (I'm crossposting this message to lugnet.loc.us.wa.sea in addition to the other two groups you listed.) Since it's a mainly local message, I also set the followups to (...) (27 years ago, 21-Jun-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.loc.us.wa.sea)
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Hello, I would like to invite anybody in the area to a carnival at the school my kids attend. A couple of members of PNLTC (myself included) will have train display\activity area setup at the carnival. The carnival is to raise funds for the PTA, (...) (27 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wa.sea)
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