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Re: Shirley day Lego Setup
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.boats
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Tue, 19 Aug 2003 09:42:33 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, John Gerlach wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, James Powell wrote:
> > Seeing John G's comments about "fun", it does come down to the people who are
> > going to be there- this was a LOT of work for an individual collection, but it
> > was a lot of fun to see the look on a few of the local kids when they realized
> > that the boats were floating, and moving in real water, and that yes, if they
> > had as many bricks as I did, they too could build it.
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> That was always one of my favorite things about working at the LEGO Imagination
> Center. Families would look at the big displays, Mom & Dad would say something
> like "that's impossible", kids would look at the same displays and say "If *I*
> had enough bricks, I could build that..." *grin*
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> JohnG, GMLTC
Keep doing what you love James.
I too have done a solo gig where I had put on display a 32' long cable-stayed
bridge in a window at a toy store. Yes, a lot of work!!! When I was done and
standing outside admiring it, a couple walked by and while viewing the bridge in
the window one said to the other "must be nice to have no budget" while flicking
down a cigarette butt and stepping on it. A few minutes had passed until it had
dawned on me that my hobby is about a pack a day hobby. I wish I had thought
quick enough to inform that couple of my revelation "That this bridge you see
here with its 32,000 pieces cost no more than a pack a day for a year". Like
Johns observation; It's the adults that are limiting while the kids still dream.
Patrick
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| (...) That was always one of my favorite things about working at the LEGO Imagination Center. Families would look at the big displays, Mom & Dad would say something like "that's impossible", kids would look at the same displays and say "If *I* had (...) (21 years ago, 18-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.boats)
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