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Re: First Train Show?
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lugnet.trains
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Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:55:01 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, David Eaton wrote:
> 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?
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> 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
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> 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:
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> http://groups.google.com/group/rec.toys.lego/browse_thread/thread/8c9c430a4d5a583c/9a1607a73d367fe4?hl=en&lnk=st&q=#9a1607a73d367fe4
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> Which references a 16' x 8' display back in November of 1995.
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> Does anyone know of anything even earlier? Is there any more information out
> there about these back-in-the-day train shows?
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> DaveE
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!".
Conan and Chuck's layout became the GMLTC in 1992 or 1993.
Some day we'll have to scan some of their old pictures and post 'em online.
JohnG, GMLTC
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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: (...) (16 years ago, 17-Oct-08, to lugnet.trains)
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