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In lugnet.org.ca.vlc, Kevin Wilson writes: About 25 pictures are on brickshelf now. You can find them at: (URL) of these pictures are of individual scenes, with the later ones showing more of the general layout. Some of Kevin's highlights have been (...) (24 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Re: Trains 2000 (Burnaby, BC Canada): Award Won
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(...) Oh yeah I had LOTS of fun - and winning that award made it even more special! (...) I had been collecting a pile of catalogs, but I *forgot* to bring them, so I'm kicking myself for that! (...) No, Mark's SO is Michelle, my SO is Cathy... She (...) (24 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Re: Trains 2000 (Burnaby, BC Canada): Award Won
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(...) Gods that layout was fun! Though I almost fainted when we were awarded the "Best of the Show" award. I'll bet there will be grumblings about that for months from the "Real" Train guys. I guess we showed some of them with our "Not real trains (...) (24 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Re: Trains 2000 (Burnaby, BC Canada): Award Won
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Kevin Wilson wrote in message ... (...) How could I forget! Robin's lighthouse with the working, rotating light! And the whales.... with the whale watching boat about to tip over.... and the fishermen, one with an enormous catch and the other with (...) (24 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Re: Trains 2000 (Burnaby, BC Canada): Award Won
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Dean Husby wrote in message <3A0F4EE8.D4CE1750@a....bc.ca>... (...) <snip> (...) Well, we had a great time and lots of people LOVED the layout. Most of the time there were adults and kids packed 2 and 3 deep all the way round our three sides which (...) (24 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Re: Trains 2000 (Burnaby, BC Canada): Award Won
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(...) Congratulations to all of you! I'm very glad your hard work paid off. So, when do we see pictures? ;-) Kevin Z #142 (24 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Re: Trains 2000 (Burnaby, BC Canada): Award Won
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(...) Well! Congratulations! ... make with the pictures! :) Cheers, KevinM (24 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Trains 2000 (Burnaby, BC Canada): Award Won
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Greetings! Today, November 12, 2000, a milestone was reached in the short history (so far) of the Vancouver Lego Club. Today, after a couple months of painstaking planning (as can be attested by the number of posts recently), we debuted at the (...) (24 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.ca.bc.van, lugnet.loc.ca.bc.vic, lugnet.loc.us.wa.sea, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org) !
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| | Last minute prep and thoughts
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Just finished up Santa's worskhop inside the big warehouse (the reindeer are cute!) and decided not to do the footbridge from the 9v station to the airport monorail. It was getting ridiculously fragile and complicated. Did 3 large trees (and I'll (...) (24 years ago, 12-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Re: Sign, Flyers, & T-Shirts
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I just picked up the sign. It looks fantastic!! It also worked out to be less expensive than I had originally mentioned. WITH tax, it comes to $116. See you tonight, Robin (24 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Re: More buildings
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Bryan Wong wrote in message ... (...) Hmmm. The airport hotel is 50 bricks high. We'll just have to see how things look! Kevin (24 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Re: More buildings
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(...) Oh-oh, my mountain is gonna look REAL funny now... :) It's only about 40 bricks high! Bryan (24 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Re: More buildings
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"Kevin Wilson" <kwilson_tccs@compuserve.com> wrote in message news:G3tGCI.Jy3@lugnet.com... (...) FOR SHAME! heh chuckle... Can't wait to see what you've built. Xan (...) (24 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Re: Sign, Flyers, & T-Shirts
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(...) What the hell... true enough... maybe have a few black and white's just in case (you never know) Xan (...) (24 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Re: More buildings
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Alexandria Husby wrote in message ... (...) These are BIG buildings :-) I've been raiding my "for sale" stash.... Kevin (24 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Re: Sign, Flyers, & T-Shirts
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(...) So do I! (...) When I create a flyer, my philosophy usually comes out as "Less is more". You'll note (Alex) that I omitted much of what you had in your original flyer. The information I left out can easily be found out by a glance at the web (...) (24 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Re: Sign, Flyers, & T-Shirts
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(...) Thank you!!! I hated that line, and kept blanking on how it should read. (...) If we only need 100 or so, I may just print off (in colour) 30 sheets. What do you think? Robin (24 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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Robin Sather wrote in message <3a0b815c.6927594@lu...et.com>... (...) Looks EXCELLENT! I like the shadow brick in the background! A few points: Membership open to *anyone*. Didn't we have a lower age limit of 15? Inside my little sponsorship box I (...) (24 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Re: Fabric
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And green is a bitch to match with blue even worse. We found a half decent green match. Me, self conscious matching lego bricks to fabric bolts???...??? Nawwww. "Excuse me, do you have this in Lego blue?" Xan "Robin Sather" <robinsather@hotmail.com> (...) (24 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Re: More buildings
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What!!!...!!! Kevin Wilson is running out of basic bricks???...??? Say it ain't so.... Xan "Kevin Wilson" <kwilson_tccs@compuserve.com> wrote in message news:G3sK4p.4s3@lugnet.com... (...) (24 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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Here goes my anal retentive language critique. "... lower mainland that share a love of..." should read: "... lower mainland sharing a love of""... While colour would be cool, I think black and white would suffice. Otherwise... those kick ass, dude. (...) (24 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Re: Fabric
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(...) No, I brought Bricks... Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (24 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Re: Fabric
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(...) Did you actually bring a baseplate to the fabric store? That must have turned a few heads! ;-) "Quick Dean, nobody's looking. Hold it up against this bolt ..." Robin (24 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Re: More buildings
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(...) What do you need? Perhaps I can help. I'm doing a couple more things for the water area, but I'm about done building. I will bring a heaping pile of black 2x2's for the monorail supports. I located a small baggie of the short supports as well. (...) (24 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Sign, Flyers, & T-Shirts
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Evening all, Just an update. The sign should be done by tomorrow sometime. T-Shirts are done and look great! I've also put together a flyer. A draft version called "Train 2000 Flyer.jpg" is sitting in the top level of our X-Drive. Please have a look (...) (24 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | More buildings
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I just talked to David, and he's doing a police station as well as the monorail station. Airport terminal building is mostly done. It's a bit multi-colored, but I'm running out of basic bricks! Kevin (24 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Fabric
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We picked up the fabric today. A close match on the gray I think. Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (24 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Re: Lego Studio Steven Spielberg Moviemaker set Review
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"Dean Husby" <nntp@akasa.bc.ca> wrote in message news:39FCF669.7E57BF...a.bc.ca... (...) I generally agree with Dean's experience. I'll add my list of +s and -s good points: fairly complete package for making short cartoons not movies very (...) (24 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.org.ca.vlc, lugnet.robotics.vc)
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| | Re: Blue Tubs
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I finally found a source for the blue tubs! (I won't be going to get any soon since I crashed my pickup) I bought my first last week at the Coquitliam TRU (On King Edward) I took the wrong exit off the Trans Canada and ended up lost in Port (...) (24 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc, lugnet.loc.ca.bc.van)
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| | Re: train show for january 13-14
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(...) I'm sure we will. Next time we will know what to expect too. And we can hammer out some layout rules for future... Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Re: Vehicles?
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(...) I completed a very nice looking blue and gray rig last night. I used a turn table instead of the pin. So it can't really disconnect... Matching trailer too. Heh. Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Re: So will we have an airport?
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Kevin Wilson wrote in message ... (...) (fences (...) Well I got sucked in and started building an airport terminal, so don't anyone else go and do it too! Kvin (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Re: train show for january 13-14
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Dan Parker wrote in message ... (...) Sounds interesting! Depending on whether we have fun this weekend or not, I guess :-) Kevin (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Re: Monorail(s)
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(...) Beautiful! Can't wait. Robin (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Re: Parts needed for show
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Robin Sather wrote in message <3a08b521.116442673@...et.com>... (...) Don't think so. It doesn't look even slightly like an airport terminal... it would take as much time to turn it into one as it would to just build a terminal. Lets see what we (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Re: Monorail(s)
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Robin Sather wrote in message <3a08b572.116523640@...et.com>... (...) I will bring mine (custom black one), and I believe David will bring one as well. Kevin (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Re: Vehicles?
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(...) Robin (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Monorail(s)
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I've located both monorails (6399 and 6990). Is anyone else planning on bringing a monorail? Kevin? Bryan? I suspect that I'll only bring the Airport Shuttle. I don't know. I also located several more control tracks, so Kevin, I won't need your two. (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Re: Parts needed for show
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(...) Maybe with some slight modification, your hotel could be extended to become an airport terminal? And station? Robin (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Re: So will we have an airport?
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(...) Today, I picked up my 6399 Airport Shuttle (and my 6990 Futuron Monorail). I could put the airport shuttle in as a station at the very least. I also picked up a helicopter set to use on the tarmac. Someone else was building and/or providing (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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