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Re: Just got back from GATS...
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lugnet.org.us.michlug
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Mon, 23 Jul 2001 14:29:30 GMT
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In lugnet.org.us.michlug, Peter Guenther writes:
> I've already got a "short list" of what I want to build for the next show,
> including:
> -Play Place for the McDonald's (I was going to anyhow and a kid Saturday
> morning said, as I was showing him the interior, "but there's no slide!!!")
Isn't it great the way kids notice stuff like that?
When the GMLTC does shows (which isn't very often, we know) we usually talk
to the kids before we talk to their parents. Kids are so much more fun to
talk to!
The 'standard' reply when they first see a LEGO train layout:
Parents: "I could never build that..."
Kids: "I *could* build that, if I had enough bricks!" <grin>
JohnG, GMLTC
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| (...) The thing that really trips me out is how kids run in and want to see the whole display forever--and their father is standing there going, "c'mon, we can look at this later... let's go look at Daddy's trains now." Peter (23 years ago, 23-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
| | | Re: Just got back from GATS...
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| (...) hehe. Ya, I used a variant on that in my sales pitch: "just buy one of these (points to 4561s) to get started and add a *few* more bricks and you'll have that (points back to layout)" It was usually good for a chuckle. (23 years ago, 23-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| (...) This was much the same as in Novi--there too we were the first thing people saw, and kids would run up to the 4561 and go "Cool!!!" and then ask, "Are you going to run it?" I'd have to tell them, "Sorry, we don't have power over here--but (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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