WoT:
The Lego Club meets once a month or so in one of the Cameron Village Library upstairs rooms that you mentioned. I doubt that they would let you have one room for more than 2 hours because their schedule is packed with so many groups trying to get rooms. And selling anything and parking there would be a major hassle. But it does have an ideal location in the middle of Raleigh.
The Eva Duncan Library in Cary may be a better location because it has more parking and less congestion not being in a shopping center like the one at Cameron Village. But the rooms are still heavily booked. Our neighborhood association meets there one night next week, and I can check out their schedule.
The Carrboro store Ali Cat is the one you must have visited. I have not checked that one out yet, but will.
Yup, Science Safari is a great store offering science classes to thousands of kids in our area. Our sons loved them between 6-10 years old. I was in there yesterday for the first time in about 10 years, and they do carry a full line of PM. Picked up some specials I was going to buy online; happy to find them nearby.
The manager will save some of the cardboard PM display signs for us; we can use them outside a building to promote a show inside when we get to that point. She usually throws them away.
Also she said they collect offsite some of the displays (without boxes I think that PM gives them) because they do not have room for them in the store. Every couple of years they hold an auction for a charity and sell them off. Maybe we could talk her into donating some of them to our show.
Our Learning Express is down the road another mile or two, and has the typical franchise look. The only things I bought there were 5 more of the Lego collectibles...Set 4. The red kimono lady is astoundingly gorgeous.
I can check with the Town of Cary to see about any meeting rooms they may have. Can you check with the City of Raleigh?
The Courtyard in Cary offers rooms for about $60. a night in late Sept, and if the rooms are not busy, might throw in the use of their two adjacent meeting rooms about 20 by 20 feet each holding 12 five foot rectangular tables. Unfortunately there is no door between the two rooms, but at least they are adjacent. Evidently this is the floor plan in most Courtyards.
Hope this info helps. It will be tough drawing much of an audience except for the foreigners, who probably will know much more about Playmobil than most Americans. We could invite the foreign clubs like the Dutch Club and maybe a few others that have more experience with PM. Maybe Science Safara would help us promote it and give the attendees a discount during the show.
That's my two cents worth! Phew!
Cheers, Pgal
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