Meeting Pictures: LEGO Roadshow 2003
We were invited by LEGO to Sacramento as part of their LEGO
Roadshow tour, October 10-12, 2003. We had one tent. The green
balloons meant if you participated in our "Can You Find
It?" game, you would get a green brick sticker for your
builders passport. Our tent was surrounded most of the time.
The was room for one skinny person inside the tent, between
the tables, and 10-year-old Tony had that task, with Mark Benz or
David Simmons helping as needed. The rest of us circulated around the
crowd, handing out fliers, stickers, and Builders Licenses.
David Simmons' sword was a big hit! He let many folks
wield it, and take pictures with the sword (and sometimes
with the builder). Bill Ward's large sculptures were also
frequently something that brought folks over for a closer
look. We had two beautiful, large spaceship models on
the layout, but there were some folks who were looking
for a spaceship, and pointed out David's sword, or Bill Ward's
large blue bomber. Still, a good time was had by all. The
Nestle Kwik Rabbit wasn't on the layout, but it was on the
list of things to find, and many folks spent time looking
for it. (They only needed to find 4 items to get a sticker,
but nearly half of the folks tried to find everything, to
make sure they didn't miss anything.
At the end of the day on Saturday, Paul gave our visiting
Master Builder (in the bright yellow shirt) an inside tour
of his Beagle spaceship, with
a number of show visitors leaning in for a glimpse as well.
In the lower-right corner of this gallery page, you can find
an image with Paul Sinasohn and the Master Builder, late in
the day on Sunday.
There are plenty of other picture (besides our tent).
Some of the construction zone pictures show how empty the
bins would get, just before Deconstruction Time, when the
models built during the day were reduced to piles and
returned to the bins. (If you look carefully, you can see
many bricks in the dirt under the tables.) Some of the
pictures are sideways...sorry, I'll rotate them later.
All of the pictures are large (300-500 kBytes, and may
take a bit of time to load. Make sure you use the scrollbars
on your browser to see all of each image! The real trains
in the background are from the
California State Railroad
Museum. The nearby building is the
The Discovery Museum
in the Old Town part of Sacramento.
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