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1000steine-Land in Berlin - a review with pictures
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Thu, 10 Jul 2003 19:06:56 GMT
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Hello to all LEGO Fans!
As some might have seen in a few highlighted Lugnet-postings, there has been
“our” 1000steine-Land in Berlin/Germany last weekend.
I just wanted to give a short show report here and share some insight views from
a co-organizer of that greatest and hugest show which took place in Germany so
far.
René from www.1000steine.de - the most popular German
LEGO®-fan portal - was the responsible person behind the sceenes and his friend
Axel was able to manage a very nice place for our show that has been planned
with a high effort of time and hundreds of mails since the beginning of 2003.
When our plans seemed promising enough, we shared these with the LEGO company.
In result we were invited with 4 involved persons (René, Axel, Pudie and me) to
the European LEGO head quarter in March 203. At that time LEGO had changed their
policy in community work and suddenly we ran into wide opend doors! We had very
frank communication with Kate Sutch and three further Lego managers who promised
to support our show in many ways: with paper ware, some publicity, lots of
display models and a kids building contest.
To give you an quick overview over this really cool event (with nearly 2000
visitor tickets sold)let me present the highlights of the 3 days event:
From the moment on, we met the LEGO representives, we went into public and won
some further AFOLs of the 1000steine community and from “de Bouwsteen” (our
neighbour countries LEGO fan club. Our plans aimed at a show that was meant as a
real highlight: we wanted to fill huge amounts of table space (nearly 800
groundplates of 32x32 studs for the main layout!) and we wanted to fill that
main attraction completely and in highest (building-)quality. I think this ended
in a 100% success!
On a “side-table” (worth to be the center of an own train show) there have been
lots of models of 1000steine members that were not able to join the main table
with sqaremeters of stuff. But that table offered lots of great MOCs as well.
For e.g. houses of Marmaris, a tower of each Friccius and Ronald, a huge inn by
Christian etc...
Another side table had been devoted to MODEL TEAM (basically filled by El
Caracho.
Lajos Mueller from Hungary came along with three mega-big mosaics built by him
and friends.
There have been two space fanatics as well - JuergenL and Herrminator: Their
huge spacecrafts have been displayed at Hattersheim in December, but now the
form of display was simply perfect. Nobody of our guests could imagine in the
first impression of these megamodels that this has been a fan project.
Then there has been a building school for kids. Gerhard Windhoevel and his wife
teached them how to build and they worked hard on a full town to be built out of
Gerhard huge collection of bricks. THANKS TO GERHARD! I really admire the way
you can manage to have dozens of kids of each age under “control”. You made the
show a even bigger success for families!
*****
In further rooms there were sales and trade possibilities and Lego direct showed
their models, which you could order right there without shipping costs - great!
And all Germans (and lots of foreign Bricklinkers) seem to know about
“toastercat”, “dewertz” and the other sellers - their has been always lots of
traffic in their sales rooms.
*****
The main table - an oval of over 50 squaremeters surface area - contained among
others these cool creations: But please check the galleries for all the smaller
details as well!
The possible biggest train station built out of LEGO bricks. nevertheless it is
highly detailed even partly inside the building. Check out the near shots.
Klaas and Jan-Albert brought a huge pirates land with them from the netherlands.
That area included even noise effects: all days long apes where screeming and
lions being after them on the hunt.... mindstorms opennd secrettrap doors and
traisury.
Then there was Heiner with an area full of motion: working cranes blinking
lights etc...
Next to Heiner in the oval came the Bramigk brothers: I have never seen a castle
area like that! WOW - huge and cool coulours AND full of nifty details on
3D-lanscape!
Neighbour to them were Jojo and René with a highly detailed castle and harbour
world. Can’t stop dreaming of carrots, dwarves and orks...
A football stadium and a suburb area with houses, in the kind like Eric Brok
invented them, came next.
On the following corner of the table layout has been placed Frank ‘Pudie’ Abel’s
great town buildings and cool trucks. Those get more and more as it seems....
Next to the town came the industry with a refinery of the finest building art
provided by JuergenL.
To get to a prelimenary end in the table walkaround lets talk about my humble
part of the show... The renewed roundhouse and the surrounding village with
lots of half timbered buildings have been my part on the table.
Further highlights of the show were these:
A camera engine that sent moving pictures to a beamer.
no picture at hand
The airport fire station of Berlin Tegel sent two engines and they allowed to
drive up in the big ladder engine into the sky.
Some guest brought cool sculptures with them like these above. Oli built the
popular Jim Button figure.
Last but not least we got the building time record for the STAR WARS SD to
Germany (Time of 1h : 17 min with 10 untrained builders)!
All in all we had three phantastic days! Six persons of the Lego Company have
been present at the show and answered all kind of question as far as possible.
Additionally the new eagle moon lander has been presented exclusively at our
show! And they have done a powerful job on a bulding contest for kids. I fear
their ears were hurting each evening... THANKS a lot to Kate, Christina,
Veronika, Alex, Claudia and Tormod!
Aother big ‘THANK YOU!’ is addressed at Axel Al Rubaie and all the guys from the
‘Novotel Hotel’. Axel did all the organization work concerning hotel room,
tables, table clothing, radio and newspaper commercials, catering, coffee supply
etc. The Hotel manager and his crew did a great job to fullfill any wishes we
had. THANKS!
Thanks to all our guests! We nearly never had to beg them for more distance to
our models. All behaved in great respect and till now I have not even heard of a
single brick that might have vanished... And there were dozens of nicest
minifigs very near the table edges.
Thanks to all other persons, that are not mentioned here although they would
have deserved it: Axels father in law for building stairs for maybe 50 meters of
8-wide train stuff (and we needed every millimeter of that!).
Thanks to my girl-friend Jessica for joining the show and working so hard in the
setting up and breaking down of the layout!
Last big thank at René! Without your 1000steine platform our lives would be much
poorer! You did a great job through all the past years!
For a collection of all
LINKS TO
DIFFERENT GALLERIES follow thist link.
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Message has 4 Replies:
 | | Re: 1000steine-Land in Berlin - a review with pictures
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| Hi Ben! many many thanks for summarizing all the great aspects from our 1000steine-Land in Berlin. The whole event wasn't only a big get-together of some of the finest European MOCs, it also was a big step into more personal contacts among fans and (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jul-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | Re: 1000steine-Land in Berlin - a review with pictures
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| Looking through all the pictures of this event has left me rather depressed! Sometimes seeing others amazing models is inspirational and at other time you just think, I could never do that, might as well give up! Oh well, try to be positive (not (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jul-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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