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Re: Crowd Control (was: Train Layout Tables)
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Tue, 22 Apr 2003 15:44:17 GMT
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I think it depends alot on what slant your train club takes. The train
clubs that are all about the prototypical designs I think have more
emotionally invested in their designs and display mainly for other train
modelers.
Since I can't even begin to tell you what is prototypical and what isn't.
(and don't care to learn either) I don't really care as much if kids touch.
I kind of like that they do. I like that when their parents tell them it's
time to go, they throw fits. I like that they race from one end of the
layout to another to follow the subways. I like that they are constantly
trying to pull their parents down to their level to show them the things we
have buried in the layout. I like that they insist that their parents pick
them up when I pull the roof off of the train station. Hell, I like their
reaction when I don't flip out when they cause those five car wrecks.
In general I don't really think there is that much to worry about. We
haven't lost more than a small handfull of pieces in a very long time of
displaying models. We lose more to the sun's effects than because of the
kids. I am inclined to think that is because we have a modular layout and
it is harder to destory it, no baseplates to move.
If you have a smaller show that you can watch the layout to the extend that
you feel comfortable, try taking down the barriers. I find it much more
rewarding.
On the table subject. Ours are now a metal frame with plywood. Expensive,
heavy and generally probably not of interest to anyone else except that guy
who's got the 250lb section.
Thanks
-j3
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 | | Re: Crowd Control (was: Train Layout Tables)
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| Since our first show at GATS we have had a kids RR (KRR) play area attached to the main layout so they feel a part of it. We hated that when you'd go to a GATS you couldn't touch anything, even if your an adult in some cases! At the KRR there is (...) (22 years ago, 22-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Crowd Control (was: Train Layout Tables)
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| (...) I don't know if it is fair to make generalizations about the relative levels of emotional investment between clubs, but I doubt that anyone who brings a MOC out into public for display has less than an exceptionally high emotional attachment (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: Crowd Control (was: Train Layout Tables)
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| In lugnet.trains, Thomas Stangl writes: <snip1> (...) <snip2> Shudder? Why do you say that? The GMLTC has been doing that for years, and we've only had a couple of problems in all those shows. We don't use ropes, we don't have plexi -- if kids want (...) (22 years ago, 22-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)
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