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Hello!
I will be going to Glasgow in a few days and wondered if there by chance would
be anything nice LEGO-related to watch (or talk about) while I'm there?
Any suggestions on shops, museums, exhibitions, private collections, or geeks in
pubs that might contain any form of LEGO or LEGO related information would be
very much appreciated (well, not _any_ form of course, I will not tolerate mods
or any other form of atrocities ;p ).
I will be attending a conference on friday 22nd, but will get some amount of
free time in the afternoon-eveing span. I will also have a few spare moments on
saturday 23rd before my flight back to Sweden.
I will be staying at the Quality Hotel in Glasgow, on Gordon Street if I'm not
mistaken. I will probably not be able to go very far from there.
With high hopes of seeing another AFOL.
// Anton Ymer (aka Eric, AFOL, Sweden)
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My wife and I are visiting Edinburgh next week on holiday. Whenever we travel,
we like to check out the local toy stores, for Lego -- looking for good
selection, or good prices.
What stores in the Edinburgh area would you recommend that we visit?
(We are from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.)
Thanks for your help,
-GG.
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On Fri, 2 Jul 1999 20:22:34 GMT, peteh uttered the following profundities...
> Hello. I am going to be in the area of Kilwinning and Largs next week and
> wondered if anyone could suggest shops to visit to buy lego unavailable in
> the US. I am probably going to be visiting Glasgow one day and figured that
> would probably be my best bet. Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks
> Pete
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I have copied-in, and set follow-up to, lugnet.loc.uk, as
most of the UK lugnetters congregate and post there.
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Hello. I am going to be in the area of Kilwinning and Largs next week and
wondered if anyone could suggest shops to visit to buy lego unavailable in
the US. I am probably going to be visiting Glasgow one day and figured that
would probably be my best bet. Any suggestions?
Thanks
Pete
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message
news:FE5CtA.KxE@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.loc.uk, Richard Franks writes:
> > Ian Bishop <ian@goodlife.demon.co.uk>, is holding a Legofest on Monday
> > 28th June! He doesn't have access to Lugnet so he's asked me to post
> > this message - his original message is below.
> > [...]
>
> Any good stories?
OK - here it is for the record, from r.t.l, as posted by Ian:
"*From:* Ian Bishop <ian@goodlife.demon.co.uk>
I think those present will agree that yesterday's Legofest - the first
in the UK as far as I know - was a great success.
I had arranged it on a Monday to fit in with Kevin Wilson's travel
plans, so attendance was expected to be limited. Nevertheless, all those
who had indicated they would come managed to find the house (no mean
feat given it's isolated location) and a good time was had by all. In
the event, it would have been difficult to fit more lego in the living
room anyway; the place was awash!
Attendance was as follows; myself of course, Kevin Wilson, a UK ex-pat,
on holiday from Vancouver, BC. Tony Priestman, who drove four and a half
hours from the North-West of England! Richard Franks, and his Canadian
girlfriend Laura (from Toronto), and lego and Star Wars collecting
friend Duncan, who drove down from the Glasgow area.
Things kicked off at 1300, with a break for dinner at 1800, and wound up
around 2100. Richard and co. returned at 2300 to retrieve Richard's
jacket (containing his keys and wallet) which had dropped down behind
the sofa! I took the photos, which I will make available once they are
developed.
I had encouraged everyone to bring stuff to swap, and so much horse-
trading went on, with the following deals being executed (memory
permitting);
In a pre-arranged deal, Richard and Duncan went home with a swathe of
pirate sets I had come by (a BSB, 6285 plus 6270, 6265, 6257, 6247, 6259
and 6260), in return for 3 Model Team sets, 5550, 5580 and 5590. Thanks
for that guys.
Tony had brought along a big haul of classic used town, train and space
sets which he was looking to sell to fund further lego excess (single,
working man, I'll say no more!). Kevin went home with 6644, 6638 and two
others which escape me. I took 7722, a real classic 4.5V train set, and
Richard took a couple of pirate sets. Tony also brought a selection of
new sets, from which I took 6483, the L&S police boat. Tony took home
two 2872 witch's fireplaces, and a selection of old catalogs from my
swaps pile.
Kevin went home with a selection from my older piece collection,
including some early white windows and vehicle doors, spoked wheels,
4.5V train wheels, space parts and so on, in return for two bags of
green bricks broken down from bucket sets and another bag of assorted
parts.
The opportunity to peruse everyone's catalogs, instructions and sets,
and discuss countless lego issues was not lost. I think everyone learned
something new along the way (like the parts I almost threw away because
I thought they were not lego - they turned out to be the coupling rod
guides off the 4.5V loco!).
I think I can safely say that this will become an annual event. I will
arrange things for a weekend next time, and give plenty of warning.
Watch this space.
Finally, thanks very much to everyone for coming and making it a
success, and to Mrs Bishop for doing the catering!
Perhaps the others would like to add their comments as well...
Ian Bishop, Ayrshire, UK"
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