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Re: Ambassador train for the PNLTC layout at LEGOLAND
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Sun, 9 Sep 2001 20:56:14 GMT
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Larry,
I did see a picture of you car and a few of the others in this shot:
http://www.pnltc.org/Gal_LLCA_0801/TheRock/Gallery.html?08030038
But I don't see the NGLTC one, it must have been before the GFLTC car.
jt
In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.trains, Dan Parker writes:
> > Thanks everyone for your patient inquiries...
> >
> > PNLTC confirms that we will be hosting an Ambassador Train on the L2K1
> > layout this August 4-5 at LEGOLAND California. I'll be heading this task
> > myself.
>
> Are there any pictures of any of the cars? After waiting a month to see the
> pics, and then waiting a few days more so I wouldn't have to wait
> interminably long for individual pics to load (Brickshelf is way faster,
> even when it's just used as a picture host and the pages are organised and
> commented elsewhere) in the likely galleries, I did not see our car or
> anyone elses either, except PNLTCs(1).
>
> We spent 20+ bucks (11 on our share of fedexing it to WA, and 10 towards
> return shipping (less than 6 of that tenner I enclosed was actually used, I
> guess the rest was treated as a donation to the club)) to get ours there so
> I am thinking it might be nice to see ONE pic of the cars running.
>
> Or maybe not. Maybe the zen of having them there is its own reward.
>
> Of course I may have looked in the wrong galleries. None of them actually
> said "This is the gallery with the ambassador cars"... I thought the idea of
> holding back a month was to make sure that the presentation would be clearly
> organised in a "professional manner".
>
> On the other hand, the pics of the subset of the ambassador cars that made
> it to Brickfest were up and visible within a day.
>
> So consider this a larger question then. Is the time and expense of doing an
> ambassador car actually worth it? Did any mundane say anything about any of
> them? Did anyone care? How much of the time were they run? Should clubs do
> this in the future?
>
> 1 - , and even then it was hard to tell whether the one pictured was their
> official car or what, some silliness along the lines of "is this the
> official car or a rip off?" was all I saw for a rollover caption.
>
> How am *I* supposed to know whether it is or not? I wasn't there. Captions
> ought to convey information, not just make cute comments. Especially a month
> later when just about everyone's just about forgotten that there was even a
> show.
>
> 2 - Although not very clearly marked as such, you had to actually look at
> the folders to figure it out.
>
>
> FUT .org
>
> ++Lar
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