Between 21 and 26 October over 40,000 people attended LEGOWORLD 2004 held in Zwolle, The Netherlands. An LDraw.org booth was co-ordinated by Chris Dee with real-time presentations about the LDraw library and toolset with demonstrations of MLCad. We had ten computers available for visitors to try out MLCad and POV-Ray, and on the two days of the weekend a rolling gallery of POV-Ray images. On the Thursday visitors were able to experience some of the spectacular animation work of Anton Raves.
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Feedback was excellent with many expressing surprise that such a high quality program as MLCad was available free. Countless enthusiastic children and adults left with the intention of downloading the software themselves. Thanks to Jaco van der Molen, we were able to offer the “Virtual LEGO” book for sale and were pleased to sell 28 copies.

Special thanks are extended to Martyn Boogaarts and Jeroen de Haan who did a great job giving the presentations in Dutch. Dirk Plug, Ludo Soete, Hans Koreman, Niels Karsdorp and Maico Arts were crucial in helping on the booth, providing not only Dutch language support but genuine experience with LDraw. The computers provided by Jeroen de Haan and Dirk Plug were invaluable, and the board of De Bouwsteen are to be thanked for making our attendance possible.

Chris Dee