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Re: Handling "Kid play areas" on layouts
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lugnet.trains.org
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Date:
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Wed, 6 Sep 2000 18:15:23 GMT
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[snipped lugnet.trains from newsgroups header, doesn't everyone who reads
one, read the other?]
In lugnet.trains.org, Laura Gjovaag wrote [about Kids areas in LTC
displays]:
> ... If
> even only one in ten of the parents I talked with bought a train, LEGO
> made a lot of money from that show.
and, just a bit later, wrote:
> ... don't put anything of
> value in there beyond the engine and the tracks. Buy a couple of buckets
> of plain bricks and a Freestyle bucket or two and expect some losses.
So, has anyone asked LEGO Direct to sponsor a Kids Railroad Area by
supplying the LEGO parts? Seems like it could be a win for both TLC and
the LTC.
Steve
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 | | Re: Handling "Kid play areas" on layouts
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| (...) Well actually - no. Our club (NALug) is all LEGO, not just trains, and we are having our first train show in a couple of weeks. Laura's feedback is very helpful and interesting, but I only read it because it was in lugnet.trains, which I read. (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains.org)
| | | Re: Handling "Kid play areas" on layouts
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| (...) A loan of a K-8 would be a great way to stock a KRR. All you'd have to add then would be track, a few train motors, some train wheels and some couplers, and possibly some large plates. I would assume one would pre-stock the KRR with some (...) (24 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: Handling "Kid play areas" on layouts
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| (...) You build it very solidly, put gutters around the table to catch bricks, and have one or two members watching it. You don't include *any* personal stock or anything you care for dearly in the Kids Rail Road. They will take it apart. Even if (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains)
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