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Re: PNLTC festival of trees - LEGO in space
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.space
Date: 
Fri, 5 Dec 2003 20:30:12 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Ben Fleskes wrote:
Lots of christmas trees this year.  Here is one with a twist - it has a LEGO
space theme featuring sets from the LEGO Space/Discovery lineup.

PNLTC also had a 25' x 13' layout at the festival.


The tree features:
a large LEGO globe as a tree topper
a space shuttle train with santa on top
A 4' tall Saturn 5 rocket
A memorial to the columbia astronauts

Pictures can be found at:

http://home.teleport.com/~bfleskes/festivaloftrees2003/page_01.htm


The tree was auctioned off for $5000 with the proceeds going to the local
children's hospital.


Nice job Ben. It's cool to see the LEGO clubs around the country taking part in
the various FoTs.

I'm guessing it was quite a task to get that globe to sit steady on top of the
tree.

jt

----------------------
James J. Trobaugh
North Georgia LEGO Train Club
http://www.ngltc.org



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<snip> (...) <snip autosig> Lots of wire. Everything on the tree had to be wired to the tree for transportation to the winning bidders house (or wherever else they want it) The FoT is a really nice form factor for LEGO. Plus it gives a lot of LEGO (...) (21 years ago, 5-Dec-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.space)

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Lots of christmas trees this year. Here is one with a twist - it has a LEGO space theme featuring sets from the LEGO Space/Discovery lineup. PNLTC also had a 25' x 13' layout at the festival. The tree features: a large LEGO globe as a tree topper a (...) (21 years ago, 5-Dec-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.space)

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