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Re: train show
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lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.org.us.nclug, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.trains.org
Date: 
Thu, 4 Jan 2001 19:39:32 GMT
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In lugnet.org.us.michlug, Eric Kingsley writes:
As I think Sheree said, kids are not intimitated buy what they see.  I have
a 6 year old nephew who is constantly telling be "I could do that".

I can totally relate to that statement.  When I worked at the LEGO
Imagination Center, I would hear that all the time.  Parent & child would
look at one of our displays, parent would say "That's impossible", child
would look carefully and say "If *I* had the pieces, I could build that..."

I was talking to a kid at one of the train shows where the GMLTC was
displaying.  He said that he didn't have nearly enough pieces to build a
layout.  I said "do you have a shoebox?  You could turn that into a tunnel
by cutting off the ends."  He got this look like "you can do that?" - I
patiently told him that you don't HAVE to use LEGO when you create a train
layout, you can use anything you want and have.  We just happen to have a
LOT of bricks, so that's what we use - we would never expect every person
who sees our layout to have nearly as many pieces as we do.  I could see the
spark in his eye!  Who knows?  Maybe he went out and got a LEGO train set?
I can only hope!

JohnG, GMLTC



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  Re: train show
 
(...) You are correct in that the TCS display did have some stock sets but as you say that was kind of the point and it is their window after all. Train shows are not LEGO's "window" they are the clubs "window". My question is why should we try so (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.org.us.nclug, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.trains.org)

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