Brick Vegas on the Gold Coast

The Brisbane Lego Train Group will have their next display at the Miniature Train Club-Gold Coast model train show at Ashmore on the 23-24 July.

We will have a similar display to the previous two shows this year but we are all making an effort to make this the best as we should have a record crowd to view the display.

BLTG should also set a record for the most number of members attending a show. By all indications, we are hoping that 18 members will display or assist during the weekend.

Excellent! Make sure you take stacks of photos then, and chuck them on Flickr.

I am sure it will be an awesome display as usual. Depending on how my shoulder operation recovery goes I might be able to pop down. Tara

We will be down there (it was a great excuse to stay down there for the weekend).

We have the basics of our part of the display set up at home, just working on some of the details.

Tara
When do you have the operation?

Best wishes for a speedy recovery and we'll see you at a train show in the future.

When I re-read my initial post on this topic, I realized that there could be some confusion with, "BLTG should also set a record for the most number of members attending a show."

I meant a record number of BLTG members at a show; not a world record.

I'm sure that other groups in Australia get dozens of members attending shows.

The Farm wil be making another appearance at the Gold Coast show. I'm about to set it up and give it a once over, maybe a few changes...

See you all there...

changing my spot bit got get working on it this weekend but its another easy build lol.
got bit more space this time around was just going to stick with trains only but i got over a week togo and i got the building bug lol.

lets see what i come up with by sunday lol.

my depot is now a Octan Energy store and a LEGO shop 2 times the size of the last one photos soon

Still working away still got 1 more trip this week to bricks n fun to get some road and green base plates for my spot and extra bricks for my station and shops what is 1/2 done but looks sweet.

All I am short is some Lego truck stickers, flowers and trees what i can't find on the bricks n fun bricklink store.

still got work out how I'm getting down there yet as its going be 2 times the stuff then the Brisbane show.

I should post some photos today or Sunday but its looking good.

well thats the station about done

shieldzie1

looking good for your section.

I wonder if you can automate the people on the seats to move their heads as a train goes by.

I have seen this done somewhere and it is a great effect.

Here is my garage what is the middle part of my shops its about done just details to go.

The slot car track will return for the Gold Coast show and will run around the modular buildings and in front of the hospital.

The slot cars have now been modified to be the characters from 'Cars 2'.

You can watch a race @

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOmHeKECZBw

brickie wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOmHeKECZBw

so you have come over to the dark side brickie lol

My train is safe and done at Bricks n Fun and doing the rounds around BLTG old display till Friday after noon looks good pulling about 7 cars and it's running real good.

I gave my train a name the other day the Bricklander like sunlander/westlander trains we have in Queensland.

got 12 more cars to build and add a 2nd motor to the train what i hope to be done by the start of next year.

shieldzie1

Can't wait to see it in action on the weekend.

Great choice of a name; I love it: The Bricklander.

Over the years, I have travelled on most of these trains.

Have you got a dining car and a baggage car?

The 'Inlander' sticks in my memory.

After a weekend of sport in Charters Towers, I was bringing 30 children back to Townsville on the 'Inlander'.

We arrived at the station at 12:15 to catch the 12:40 train.

There was the notice that said that the train was 2 hours late; not another soul was to be seen around the station.

Now this is the days before mobile phones so I had to leave the 30 kids at the station whilst I found a working phone box in Charters Towers.

After an hour, a car drove up, a lady got out, walked over to the notice, changed it to 4 hours, and drove off.

Not a word was said.

Another trip back to the phone box and more calls.

Eventually the 'Inlander' pulled in and 30 very hungry children boarded.

In pairs, the children went down to the dining car and came back with something to eat and drink.

Eventually, this tired and hungry old bloke went down and asked for a steak and salad and a BEER; 'Sorry, we have run out of steak'.

OK, I'll have a hamburger and a BEER; 'Sorry, we have run out of patties'.

OK, I'll have a pie and a BEER; 'Sorry, you can't have a beer as a pie is not a meal and you can only have a beer with a meal.'

To make matters worse, we crawled in through South Townsville at such a slow speed that a push bike sped past us.

One of those memorable train trips.

Of course, this would NEVER happen on a LEGO train.

Those minifigs are always well fed and the trains always run on time.

just under 24hrs togo till we will start setup can't wait to get back into model train shows I hear this one mite be big now due to TGSE show we were in.

Friday was a good turn out for the BLTG members setup was done before got there so all I had to do is put my building on the table and help setup the track.

I crashed at one of our gold coast members place last night making another new lego friend.

Well soon I will start to getting ready for the first day of the show can't wait to get there and get my new train running around the track.

Till next time keep on building

Here is a clip from the weekend only got home at 11:50am this morning so have not had time just yet to edit a video but I am working on having one by the weekend.

Another video from the weekend

The Miniature Train Club-Gold Coast are over the moon with the attendance at their show; they doubled last year's numbers through the door. They also did their own catering so the treasurer is a very happy camper.

BLTG had a great time as the constant cry of ' L E G O ! " filled the hall.

It is interesting to note the number of grandparents who commented about the large variety of elements and colours available today; not just the regular bricks that they bought for their kids.

Photos can be found in the gallery @ http://www.bltg.org/index.html

A 3 minute video has been posted @

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXRJf4S11UA