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Re: Quantifying and Classifying the LEGO Community
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Wed, 7 May 2003 23:04:54 GMT
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"Hendo (John P. Henderson)" <hendo@valyance.com> writes:
> In lugnet.general, Stephen Wroble writes:
> > And then there are the themes. Some of the themes seem to have bigger
> > followings than others (or is it simply that they have more active followers
> > than others?) There seem to be a lot of LTCs (LEGO Train Clubs) but I have
> > never seen a LEGO Castle Club or a LEGO Space Club.
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> FUT .space.
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> What do you say fellas? Imagine a new LSC (Lego Space Club) showing up at a
> Sci Fi convention and dominating a whole corner with Moonbases and SHIPs...
> I bet a number of visitors would be converted over from collecting
> comic-book action figures and would start buying Lego. Muwhahahaaha!
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> Of course, we'd have to watch out for those Klingons and their K'Nex...
My club (BayLUG) looked into doing a display at a SF con recently but
their "art show" policies were more oriented towards items for sale,
and had fees that we didn't want to pay, etc. So we decided against
it. I've been trying to advance the idea of getting SIG's (special
interest groups) started for space, sculptures, mindstorms, & castle,
besides just the train club, but so far it hasn't gone far.
--Bill.
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William R Ward bill@wards.net http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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| (...) I really like the idea of SIGs. There is more then trains to display. :) Although you get the basic 'where to display' problem, 'cause there are about a million train shows around but much fewer sci-fi displays and practically no Castle (...) (21 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.space)
| | | Re: Quantifying and Classifying the LEGO Community
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| (...) MichLUG is actually doing a show at a Comic Con the weekend after next. They approached us even. We will be setting up both a space/moonbase display as well as a castle display. The idea of creating a SIG (within MichLUG) for space or castle (...) (21 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.space)
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