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Re: SEALUG Meeting Minutes Oct. 7th, 2000
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Mon, 9 Oct 2000 22:11:50 GMT
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Hey,

Wow, really sorry I missed the meeting (again) as I was doing absolutely
nothing on Sat.

The Boeing Museum event sounds like a great idea.  I've been playing around
with some bi-wings and pumping my dad for info.  Also, I just downloaded the
Crimson Skies demo and was thinking of making some MOC's inspired by the funky
redesigns there.  (Gotta remember to borrow the RPG books)

The bulk buying sounds interesting as well, if it's feasable for the stores.
KB seems to be the biggest culprit around here.  I was in the Alderwood Mall
store and they have some Wild West, Hydro sets and even a bunch of copies of
the Twisted Time Train sitting on high shelves.  The stand-alone store in
Alderwood only had new stuff.  Target and TRU were both busts.

The 11th looks good for me for my first meeting.  Once it gets settled I'll
tell my wife and she'll remind me.  It's the only sure way for me to make it.
:P

As for other intrests than Space, I got into this for Pirates, Evil Stevie's
Pirate game to be exact.  I have a few ships and a base under construction.
Maybe if and when I make it to a meeting, we can talk about having an all day
pirate game.  One warning right now, numbers of people shouldn't be a problem,
but even a small game needs more room than you might think.  I have an
unfinished basement that might work, but being unfinished means sitting on
concrete.

I'm also getting more into the Adventurers themes as it ties into my dream of
portraying my Wednesday night TORG game in Lego.  The first Team's minifigs are
almost done.

However, I also like Space as it's the easiest for me to go freeform in.  As
shown in my Naboo fighter alternate model.

http://www.geocities.com/catjuggling95/naboo.html

Catch y'all later,
The Mad Pirate Sean


In lugnet.announce, Mark Sandlin writes:
Hi everyone,

We had our second SEALUG meeting at Gary Gerdes' home yesterday.

Members present:

Gary & Ian Gerdes
Wayne Hussey & Terri Walter
Jonathan McKay
Joel Parker
Mark Rideout
Mark Sandlin

Especially notable is that Jonathan's mom drove him all the way from
Spokane for the meeting. Bravo!

--Topics of Discussion--

-Events-
Members present felt that it would be a lot of fun, as well as good
publicity for SEALUG, to hold an event where we could share our
creations with the public, and even hold a building contest.

After discussing malls, schools, and museums, we decided we would
shoot for the Boeing Museum of Flight, and have a flight-themed event. A
building contest would be held, celebrating the past, present, and future
of flight. I also propose a "Fantasy of Flight" category, for people to create
fantastic flying machines from their imagination.

Since I work at Boeing, I can call the museum to see if this is even
possible. If the museum finds this interesting, I can then approach the
Boeing News, which distributes their newspaper throughout the entire
company. That's a lot of publicity!

We're shooting for a March/Spring Break timeframe. We'll narrow down
the date as we get things ironed out.

-Fairs-
We discussed approaching local Fairs and offering to judge when they
hold LEGO building contests. How many of you have been to these
contests, where first prize goes to a set built right from the LEGO
instructions? We feel this is unfair to those who use skill, creativity, and
originality in their constructions. We feel that we can help them  judge,
since we as FOLs are more aware of the difficulties of building, as well
as the creative use of parts.

-Group Buying-
Mark Rideout mentioned that he had been at a KayBee at Redmond
Town Center. He said they had about 10 of the 6199 Hydro Crystallation
Station, and he suggested that in the future, if enough of us were
interested, he could approach the store manager and offer to take all the
discontinued sets off their hands if they could offer us the sets at a
discount

This sounded like an interesting idea to those of us present, and we
want to get some discussion going about this. I propose the following
steps:

1: If you find several discontinued sets, post to SEALUG@egroups.com
and see if folks are interested.

2. If enough people are interested, return to the store and speak with the
manager about buying the discontinued sets at a discount.

Many store managers would be interested in clearing up the store space,
and offering a further discount to get rid of some old sets would be
appealing to them. In any case, it might be a good way for us to get some
older sets at a great price.

-Trading/Selling-
We feel that SEALUG can be an excellent way for those of us in the area
to trade parts, or even buy parts from each other, without all the hassle of
mailing and paying for shipping.

-Next Meeting-
I proposed November 4th as the date for our next meeting (just because I
was sticking to the first weekend of the month), but upon checking the
calendar, I realized that the Lego RCX challenge is that day. I think we
should all go check it out and show our support for LEGO events in the
area.

Since the 4th is full, how about the 11th? Mark Rideout offered to have the
meeting at his place in Snoqualmie, which is about a half hour east of
Seattle on I-90. Please let us know if this will not work for you. Our goal is
to hold the meeting where we can maximize attendance.

We also need more folks to show up who are interested in Themes other
than Space. Sure, I like Space, and if you look at the photos I posted to
brickshelf, everyone else present likes Space too! We need to see some
creations from folks who aren't Space-heads! Our goal is not to make
SEALUG a Space-only club, we want to make this fun for everyone!

-T-Shirts-
We got T-shirts! We got Sweatshirts! We got Mugs! We got Mousepads!

Get yours here!

http://www.cafepress.com/sealug/

I have not marked up the prices from their base amounts, as this is a
non-profit item.

(Thanks to Todd Lehman for bringing my attention to this website. You
got a referral, Todd!)

And finally, here are some pictures from the meeting:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=1540

See you in November,

~Mark
--
Mark's Lego Creations
http://www.nwlink.com/~sandlin/lego



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