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Re: LEGO® Train Splinter Groups
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lugnet.trains.org
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Fri, 20 Jul 2001 14:58:30 GMT
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Harvey Henkelman wrote:
> IMHO, these are indicative that quite a bit of people are discovering that
> special magic that our beloved ABS trains seem to radiate. Already, the WLTG
> (formerly the ELTC) which I had founded, has nearly thirty members. I had no
> idea this would take off and grow so fast! At this time last year, the
> future looked bleak for trains.
As far as you knew. At this time last year the GMLTC was at the Kidvention,
and the future to me couldn't have looked brighter....
> What a turnaround, and my skills with the
> brick have grown as well, in part though inspiration and sometimes just
> plain copying the other guy's MOC( with my personal touches,of course).
> After my honorable discharge from the Navy, I thought I'd be bored out of my
> head-well I was wrong. Finding you guys on LUGNET really put some joy into
> me, and now that I founded my own group,it gets even better. Because the
> people who cared to join the ELTC/WLTG are so very diverse like LUGNET in
> itself. I like to think of the WLTG as a 'blanket'-type group. But at the
> same time, it was/is meant to supplement LUGNET. Before one can flame the
> splinter groups, imagine what fans of rec.toys.lego felt when Todd and
> Suzanne revealed LUGNET to an unsuspecting World Wide Web... -Harvey
Well, you don't have to imagine what fans thought; go back and *read* what they
thought. Your analogy breaks down here because everybody *raved* about LUGNet
from the git-go. Many of us were there, raving:-)
BTW, what's the new acro "WLTG" stand for?
-John
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