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In lugnet.org.us.lrgoaa, Jona Jeffords wrote:
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In lugnet.org.us.lrgoaa, David Laswell wrote:
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Eh, sort of. MichLTC, which is part of MichLUG (even though MichLTC is
older), focuses specifically on Train, Town, and other related modern
minifig-scale themes (I know at least one member builds a lot of military
stuff). MichLUG has a more general focus on, well, everything else. Mostly
Space, Castle, and Pirate, but I’ve been introducing some BIONICLE stuff
into the mix.
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This is confusing to me, but I am not close to the group. If I remember
correctly, when I searched for LEGO robotics groups in Michigan 3 years ago
and I found MichLUG as a LEGo group, I was excited and disapointed all at
once. The lack of MindStorms as a theme for your group was a contributing
factor to my decision to start my own group.
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MichLUG was formed in October of 2000. A bunch of us got together in DeWitt
Michigan, showed off some creations, talked about S@H, buying parts online,
searching for various deals at stores, etc. Creations were pretty varied in
theme, there were space stuff, town buildings, a pirate ship and even a technic
car. (1)
We had two more meetings that year and then in January of 2001 there was an
opportunity to do a town/train layout at the Great American Train Show in Novi.
I’m not sure if we called ourselves a LTC at this show or whether that came
later, but (IIRC) the LTC moniker just sort of happened. John Neal made us a
super neat Logo, which got up on the website and not too long after that we got
some shirts made because we thought we would look sharp at shows with club
shirts.
Meetings have always had a strong non-train presence and in the begin our shows
were pretty split between train / non-train events. It wasn’t until the end of
2002 that we had a real long run on train events in a row.
While I’m bummed that you never came to a MichLUG meeting to show us how cool
Mindstorms could be, the fact you went and created a new group is awesome. I
know that it can be a lot of work and effort.
Jason Spears | BrickCentral | MichLUG
(1) Seems like a page talking about MichLUG & MichLTC history on michlug.org
would be a good idea. Guess I’ll have to gather my facts and get some more
complete verbage together.
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