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John, once again it was a BLAST seeing you and Ross. I had a nice time meeting
and seeing so many new people, and sort-a new friends I met from Brickworld.
I cant speak for janey (who can really?) but I think we both had a fun time
hanging and chillin’. I know I tried my darnedest to convince many of you to
leave trains, and move over to a cool thing like robots. but hey.
As my $20 Blue, electronic name badge read, you suck.
:)
I want to thank “the locals” for pointing me in the direction of a “target”
where i got a sweet deal on my Snackmaster.
I also want to thank the members of ILTCO for taking my dirty brickster cherry.
what an interesting time that was. so “you people” just gather around to try to
steal lego from each other while janey tries to out scream John Neal?
interesting.
it was a fun time for me, and i just wanted to say thanks.
Chris
Lugnet member # 91
p.s. Dont worry Steve Witt you suck too.
pps to the other steve, (NOT Barille) i want pics of the magnet cars over the
trian layout.
In lugnet.trains, John Neal wrote:
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Wow, was the ILTCO National Convention ever a BLAST this year! It was great
to renew friendships that have been forged over the years and to make new
ones, and the camaraderie among LEGO trainheads just keeps getting better.
For you cut-to-the-chasers,
HERE is my Brickshelf
folder with all of my pics.
For our part, the TCLTC had, I believe, its best show yet. We had our
biggest layout to date, measuring 12.5’ x 17.5’. And, as previously
announced, we featured the amazing town buildings of Jonathan Lopes. What a
great collaboration we had! Jonathan, thanks for showing with us! He’s a
great builder and a great guy as well. And, as if that weren’t enough, we
also were lucky enough to be able to feature some of Pierre Normandin’s
vehicles in our town section as well! His trés cool (;-) revolving cement
mixer was a crowd favorite. Thank you, Pierre! We also gave 6 wider Steve
Barile special dispensation to run some of his trains on our layout;-) His
original design for auto carriers was admired by all.
Some highlights and memories:
- A TCLTC tree got tee-peed the first day! Watch your backs, COLTCers! :-)
- Pierre’s LEGO tattoos. We all loved’em. Me with some REAL tattooed AFOLs. BTW, nice nametags, C & J... BTW, Janey, thanks for the pink!
- Ondrew: “Have you by chance seen my keys in your layout?”
- The community build of a tree at Herc’s
- Lar’s wife helping us greeble a new module. And she’s quite a town builder, too. I won’t make the easy slam by saying that she’s a better builder than he is....oops, I guess I just did.
- The Ashcan boys: Jim, John, Jonathan.
- Steve Ringe’s amazing car loop. I didn’t get pics, but look for them. It’s an engineering marvel!
- DecoJim with a step ladder on top of his tables to place the top section of the Penobscot building. This stuff is dangerous work!
- Our new logo for the show (Jonathan is from NYC) Get it?
- Hanging around inside the layout with Lyle, Deb, Pierre, Steve, Jonathan, among others.
- Jeramy’s “phone call” at lunch-- THE AFOL nightmare. We look forward to good news on the KABOB front!
In sum, it was a great event; special thanks to Chris Leach and the host LTC
MichLTC; to Jeramy and SteveB for coordinating the event; to all of the clubs
who traveled from afar to support this event (Hi, GFLTCers!), and to Steve
Witt from TLG for the pizza party and the Dirty Brickster fodder:-)
LEGO trainheads are the best.
JOHN
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