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Re: Franchising Spamcake?
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Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:13:35 GMT
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Sounds like fun to me as long as the Dinner doesn't have to many rare parts to
make it prohibative. Of course I guess they don't all have to be identical as
long as they all follow a basic theme (Both color wise and architechurally). I
know all the Hard Rock's arn't identical.
The T-Shirts would be great too!
Eric Kingsley
In lugnet.trains.org, John Neal writes:
> As we at the GMLTC rebuild our layout and create a whole new town
> section, I had an idea which I thought would be pretty fun. Wouldn't it
> be fun to build a Spamcake Diner on the GMLTC layout? Then I thought:
> wouldn't it be fun if the Spamcake Diner franchised out on to every
> LTC's layout? What a fun way to (ahem) build a little LTC camaraderie!
> Then I thought that I could print up some T-shirts with the Spamcake
> Diner logo a la the Hard Rock Cafe listing the specific cities of the
> clubs...
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> I ran this idea by Tom McDonald, the owner of the original Spamcake
> Diner, and he seemed to think it was a fun idea-- ('course, he's a
> little busy now that the new KABOB has arrived;) If we could get ldraw
> the diner, we could all copy it and put one on our layouts, or maybe we
> could just get Tom to take a bunch of detail pics of it and go from
> there.
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> Anyone else think this would be a fun idea? The whole story behind
> "Spamcake" is so fun and, if I'm not mistaken, evolved in OT.fun. If
> nothing else, I'm going to have one on my home layout:-)
>
> -John
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| (...) I don't think that the parts are too rare. Here is the official Spamcake Diner web site-- see for yourself (although I know that the outside has undergone subsequent revision since those pics were taken-- I saw the completed model at the (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| As we at the GMLTC rebuild our layout and create a whole new town section, I had an idea which I thought would be pretty fun. Wouldn't it be fun to build a Spamcake Diner on the GMLTC layout? Then I thought: wouldn't it be fun if the Spamcake Diner (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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