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Re: From the first LEGO(r) Train Summit: LEGO(r) Trains are alive and well
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lugnet.trains
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Sun, 4 Feb 2001 00:46:05 GMT
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Wow ! I (we, I should say) are soooo jealous...sounds like a rush.
Did ya ask if they are ever gona make proper steam engine wheels, sorta like
Ben's April Fools catalogue ? ( but then I suppose ya can't talk about that,
eh?)
Anyway Good goin' !
Cheers
Oliver
Play Well
"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message
news:G87D35.EpA@lugnet.com...
> I am under NDA so cannot go into a lot of detail, but I did want to post • to
> say that and several other Lego Trains stalwarts have just completed the
> first ever LEGO(r) Train Summit. We have just spent Friday evening and all
> day Saturday meeting with folks from Lego Direct including Brad Justus,
> Peter Andersen, an LD product manager, Jorn Kristian Thomsen the lead Lego
> trains designer from Billund, Jake McKee, producer, and Steven Hawco, in
> charge of the Shop at Home operation.
>
> The conversation was wide ranging and very productive. We discussed things
> that LD is going to be doing, the future of the product line and ways to
> leverage the productive relationship between LTCs and LD.
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> I am terrifically pumped up about this and very happy to have been among
> those selected to attend. While it was impossible to have every single • train
> fan attend, we worked hard to make sure it was a representative cross
> section of US train fans and that many viewpoints were represented.
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> The attendees included
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> John Neal - GMLTC
> Steve Barile - PNLTC
> Conan Collopy - GMLTC
> John Gerlach - GMLTC
> James Mathis - PNLTC
> Dan Parker - PNLTC
> Larry Pieniazek - poly-LTC
> Mike Poindexter - BAYLTC
> James Trobaugh - NGLTC
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> More will be forthcoming from us in days to come but I was so excited I • had
> to use LEGO connectivity (We're in NYC) to get this out in front of folks.
>
> ++Lar
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