I ask, because all three were seen in front of my layout at Doncaster show this weekend. Different people but each within an hour of the others.
My feeling - Star Trek. I mean it's not going to work you know. No matter how many times you hit the thing, you don't get to talk to anyone and if you keep talking to a plastic thing on your lapel, people are going to start edging away from you. At least the wearer wasn't in full Starfleet uniform I suppose.
On the other hand, a collectors club for modern toy trains doesn't seem groovy to me either.
Honourable mention: Red beard with 2 inches of growth below the chin bound with a couple of elastic bands like some sort of hair-based corn dolly. Bet there's a Lord of the Rings 8-disk DVD set at home waiting for another quick viewing.
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Agree with your take on it, the only one that's not embarrassing is the Trolleybus Museum -- this is preservation of history of a society.
The other two are pointless: it's JUST a hobby, get a life :-)
I voted for Bachmann Collectors Club - suggests someone that never opens their blue boxes!
Star Trek - hmmm. Sfi-Fi is just as geeky as toy trains, but then at least our chosen interest has a basis in reality. Sometimes...
The Trolleybus Museum badge could be worn by someone who is involved in preservation - a worthwhile activity.
Paul.
Sweet Jesus, the guy was actually pressing it and speaking into it? Could it be he had a complex dicta-phone set up?
I didn't see him do so, so I might be being unfair, but it was positioned so he could and definitly as big as the "real" thing so I bet he did.
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