 | | Trains 2000 (Burnaby, BC Canada): Award Won —Dean Husby
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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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| | | | | Re: Trains 2000 (Burnaby, BC Canada): Award Won —Kevin Maynes
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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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| | | | | Re: Trains 2000 (Burnaby, BC Canada): Award Won —Kevin Zwicker
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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 —Kevin Wilson
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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 —Kevin Wilson
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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 —Dean Husby
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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 —Adam Murtha
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| | | | | | | | Congratulations you guys, and I think I saw a glimpse of one of your VLC t-shirts in the background of one of the pics? -Adam (...) (24 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Trains 2000 (Burnaby, BC Canada): Award Won —Dean Husby
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| | | | | | | | (...) Yes, the one with the pentacle is my wife Xandria. I'll try to get snaps of my footage up tonight or this week at the latest. Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (24 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | | | | | | Re: Trains 2000 (Burnaby, BC Canada): Award Won —Bryan Wong
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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 —Kevin Wilson
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| | | | | | | | Bryan Wong wrote in message ... (...) she (...) Tell her to stop worrying - I will be taking it all apart this week anyway, it's really too big to keep hanging around the house :-) Kevin (24 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | | | | | | Pictures available: Trains 2000 —Bryan Wong
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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 —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | (...) Wow, what a surprise! <grin> A LEGO layout takes people's choice. Whodathunkit? Congratuations. Well done. That said, this seems to be the *usual* outcome. People LOVE our hobby. Next time, make sure they're paying you an appearance fee. You (...) (24 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | | | | | | Re: Trains 2000 (Burnaby, BC Canada): Award Won —John Gerlach
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| | | | | | (...) <snipped highlights> Bravo! Excellent! Kudos! Well done! And it sounds like you even had fun at the same time... <grin> Get used to having people 2 to 3 deep around your entire layout, because that's the way it will be at almost every show! (...) (24 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | | | | Re: Trains 2000 (Burnaby, BC Canada): Award Won —Robin Sather
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| | | | | Too much fun, don't you think? Thanks to all you guys for all the work you did, and for making yesterday a rousing success. This first show was a ton of work, but definitely ranks up there as one of my favourite Lego experiences ever. It was so much (...) (24 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | | | | Re: Trains 2000 (Burnaby, BC Canada): Award Won —Dan Parker
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| | | | | Well done. I recall I was giddy for days. dan parker PNLTC (...) (24 years ago, 15-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | | | | Re: Trains 2000 (Burnaby, BC Canada): Award Won —Michel Magnan
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| | | | | Congratulations! Keep an eye on the Christmas stock of Lego trains in the local TRUs, I noticed tht the ones in Edmonton, seem to have twice as many as last year in stock. Maybe a coincidence, or do our shows increase demand in the product? Michel (...) (24 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | | | | Re: Trains 2000 (Burnaby, BC Canada): Award Won —Tony Hafner
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| | | | (...) This is really cool- I have family in the Vancouver area and perhaps I'll use that as an excuse to skip up and see a future VLC show! (...) www.hafhead.com www.pnltc.org (24 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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