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First Train Show?
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Date: 
Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:12:10 GMT
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I'm not sure if anyone who's still around is going to know the answer to this
(or if there even WILL be a good answer to this), but when was the first
hobbyist-run LEGO layout displayed at a train show?

So far, I was able to spot this thread on RTL:
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.toys.lego/browse_thread/thread/8c9c430a4d5a583c/9a1607a73d367fe4?hl=en&lnk=st&q=#9a1607a73d367fe4

It suggests that there was a site in 1996 that featured pictures of 3 successive
years of LEGO layouts at train shows! Also, I found this post:

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.toys.lego/browse_thread/thread/8c9c430a4d5a583c/9a1607a73d367fe4?hl=en&lnk=st&q=#9a1607a73d367fe4

Which references a 16' x 8' display back in November of 1995.

Does anyone know of anything even earlier? Is there any more information out
there about these back-in-the-day train shows?

DaveE



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: First Train Show?
 
(...) I'm pretty sure I can remember seeing ads and newspaper articles for ones here in the 80s. And I suspect some of our European friends would have been displaying even earlier. Pre-internet craziness. Tim (16 years ago, 17-Oct-08, to lugnet.trains)
  Re: First Train Show?
 
(...) Conan Collopy and his uncle Chuck first displayed at the GATS show in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1985. According to Conan, their 'inspiration' was a Playmobile layout at GATS in 1983, and they said to each other "we could do that out of Lego!". (...) (16 years ago, 19-Oct-08, to lugnet.trains)

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