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Just a short note to let everyone know that our first show was a success. A
few minor glitches but overall everything went pretty well, or at least it
was going well when I had to leave for the airport.
We went through most of 600 handouts, each of which had www.lugnet.com and
the S@H number on them as well as a bunch of other stuff including the PNLTC
train parts diagram... (full sheet doublesided, thanks to several folks for
sharing, Scott S and I put together a "best of the best" available on request).
We got second place in the popularity contest, which coupled with the
appearance money should have covered all the expenses Chris (and a few
others) incurred. We were on the 6 and 11 o'clock news on one of the local
Detroit stations.
Our 10 gate "new Metro Terminal" was completed AT THE SHOW by Chris in a
demonstration of his building expertise. It's massive, and it drew a LOT of
favorable comment. It got done a lot faster than the real terminal at DTW
will! AND, we had an Airport Shuttle that was actually being used as an
Airport Shuttle, it went THROUGH the terminal building on its route. This
area featured the ONLY non LEGO of the whole show, Chris built an Air Force
1, complete with stretch limo, security team, and other aircraft waiting to
take off (but no Monica) which used Best-Lock stickers for the presidential
seal and "President of the United States" lettering along the fuselage.
We learned a few lessons, but encountered no major disasters. (I don't count
cars of my = bullet train hitting the floor, breaking into constituent parts
and being reassembled as "major" disasters... that happened twice. Note to
future shows, don't have track quite so close to the edge of the table!)
Thanks to all who helped work. I'll have some show pictures up on Brickshelf
hopefully tomorrow from a faster connection than this NYC hotel dialup...
Another plus mark in the "Lego Train clubs put on reliably crowd pleasing
shows" ledger with GATS, which helps make it easier for the next club and
the next show.
John Neal, pay attention, another 8 wider came out of the closet and showed
his stuff off on the layout... :-) Beautiful Big Boy and GP30 models! We had
to move a few things (like an entire monorail pier) to get clearance but it
was a neat sight. (yes I got pics of it and the GP30)
Kudos to Kai, Peter, Scott, Lester, Sandy, and especially Chris Leach who
was the driving force in pulling it all together. Thanks also to Steve Bliss
and the others who loaned a few items, and a big thanks to Brad J and LD for
support.
++Lar
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| Glad to hear it was a success! Wish I could have been there, perhaps at a later show. -Tim (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| Congrats, guys. I look forward to seeing a deluge of pics. Shows are always exciting but you never forget the first one. Just for the sake of asking, is the group here strictly a subset of MichLUG or an 'LTC-proper? Sounds like you learned allot, (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| Youre' description is to me what bells were to Pavlov's dogs... Pics? PLEASE?!?!!? "Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:G76q7H.Huu@lugnet.com... (...) A (...) PNLTC (...) for (...) request). (...) of (...) Force (...) to (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| In lugnet.org.us.michlug, Larry Pieniazek writes: Hi Larry, thanks for giving these first infos. Now it's like christmas: waiting for the pictures.... I was amazed that everybody has to do some of the experiences for his own again. At our last event (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| (...) Congratulations, MTLC!! Lar, have you forsaken your wandering ways and found an LTC to call home? BTW, Whose on the club logo committee? (...) This airport is very massive and very impressive! I love the huge scale of it and of the other (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| (...) The airport was awesome! Now only if they offered gray 2x2 tiles in 100 packs... :) Actually the whole layout was very well done. I have to say, I prefer the look of the "baseplate" landscape to the "brick" landscape. There is something about (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| In lugnet.org.us.michlug, Larry Pieniazek writes: OK, I FINALLY got all the pics from my camera uploaded. 8 wide fans, take particular note of the pics starting here (URL) be warned they are very slow loading... Enjoy. ++Lar (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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