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Re: New cars at lego shop at home
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Thu, 5 Jul 2001 22:43:35 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, James Brown writes:
> In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > In lugnet.trains, Michael Reynolds writes:
> > > I'm not a big train fan, but I stopped by lego.com and saw they have a new
> > > passenger wagon, a tanker, and another car, but I forgot the name of it...
> > > Check them out at lego.com
> > 
> > His domain is rr.com and he's not a train fan??? :-)
> > 
> > Thanks for the pointer. We appreciate it. Seriously.
> > 
> > Hopefully, though, it won't be a big surprise that we knew about it within
> > minutes of when the images first hit the site, right???
> > 
> > Train fans are the most rabid brickfans there are. Who else makes the
> > massive displays we do? :-)
> 
> <Blatant challenge. Must respond...>
> 
> Star Wars fans:
>  http://www.nelug.org/mindfest99/
> 
> Castle fans:
>  http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=0iannai0
>  http://www.suave.net/~dave/newtown.cgi
> 
> Brikwars fans:
>  http://www.nelug.org/bw063001/
> 
> Space fans:
>  http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=5191
> 
> ... and many other examples, but these were what sprung to mind, and
> responded to quick & easy searches.
> 
> Keep in mind that one of the big reasons that trainheads get more visability
> than other LEGO fans is because they're tapping into an existing support
> structure (Model RR community).  Hopefully, other Lego fans will tap into
> similar structures more often in the future, which will increase the
> visibility of other things, too.  Michlug doing a space display at a con is
> a *great* example of that.  So are some of the static displays that have
> been put in Libraries.
MichLUG Rules! Yea Baby! MichLu..........wait was that out loud?<grin>


> (Keep raising the bar, though; don't wait for us to catch up.)
> 
> James



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(...) rr stands for road runner, my internet provider, hehe. (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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