05/04/22

New Crowd Funding account set up with Patreon!

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05/01/22

The MWOT™ Project now has 90 Investors / Donors that have given the new venue a cash infusion as we get closer to the minimum cash funding goal of $800K.

Another Model Railroader Newsletter ad is now scheduled for May 12th.

04/30/22

The MWOT™ Project credit card processing is finally set up so all  MWOT™  donations can now be processed. Sorry for the delay. They will show up on you statements as Miniature World Of Trains.   Thanks again for your donations!

So far the MRH (Model Railroad Hobbyist), Model Railroader and Classic Toy Trains have gotten  MWOT™
a lot of great exposure but we still need a lot of help!

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04/21/22

 The big funding investment / donor / volunteer push started on 04/19/22 with a newsletter ad in MRH (Model Railroad Hobbyist and today the first of two newsletter ads with Model Railroader will be sent and next Wednesday the 27th the add for the Classic Toy Trains newsletter with the second ad running on May 11th. Plus in late June a half page display ad will appear in the NMRA Magazine!

We still seeking a minimum cash funding level of $800k to $1.5M  or more for Phase I scheduled to now open in the 3rd or 4th quarter of  2023!

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04/13/22

Samples of Audio are now available to listen to.  30 minutes of venue sounds which are part of the 4D Experience™ from the Christmas Model Train Display™ and the Main Display Area are featured!

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04/06/22

CEO Kelly Orr has approved additional advertising in the MRH (Model Railroad Hobbyist) email newsletter starting with the next available addition.

Also, new 30 minute audio sample of sounds from the main venue display area are now available on our YouTube Channel. This sample highlights background ambient sounds from station crowd noise to station public address announcements from train stations from around the world as well as scanner communications from some US railroads.

04/04/22

CEO Kelly Orr approved fundraising advertising for the Model Railroading and Classic Toy Trains for the end of April and beginning of May 2022. Also, a half page color display ad for the NMRA Magazine.

03/31/22

Funding push will be starting this April to reach some 120,000 model railroaders via advertisements in both the Model Railroader and Classic Toy Trains magazine news letters followed by display ads in the August issue of each of these magazines and a display ad in the July NMRA magazine as well.

The ads will introduce the Lilliput LLC™ and the Miniature World of Trains™ to people that are not aware of the venue as a for profit. Also that we are looking to raise at least $800k to $1.5M from investors, donors and volunteers to help secure the venue and build Phase I for a late 2023 opening.

02/28/22

At this point our main funding source for the bulk of the $800K has pushed the funding date out until the end of the  3rd quarter of 2022. This effectively pushes the Christmas Model Train Display™ back to a 2023 opening with a possible MWOT™ Phase I opening by the end of the 3rd quarter of 2023.

01/13/22

As of this update over $130,000 has been invested in Lilliput LLC™. We still need at least another $800K invested to get the Christmas Model Train Display™ and start building Phase I of the Miniature World of Trains™ display.

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22 hours of ambient audio for Central Station™ and the main display areas have been produced as well as 10 hours of  upbeat and popular Christmas music for the Christmas Model Train Display™ area has been completed.

01/06/22

EIN number is received and TD Bank will be the official bank.

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12/21/21

Finally the corporate filing with the Secretary of State has come back so Lilliput LLC™ is now officially a South Carolina Corporation.

12/01/21

The Miniature World of Trains™  just received updated leasing information for the Gold Location today. The current tenant that MWOT™ would be sub leasing from has a lease that would expire in 2026. Then under the proposal with the property owner, the lease then would revert back to the owner and MWOT™ would then be leasing directly with the property owner thus making it a seamless transition for leasing the space. This is great news as we continue working on getting the funding together and the lease for this location approved. However, there are still to other irons in the fire with the Wood and Wade locations still in play until a final decision  is made. The Gold location is far and above the favorite location.

Also, thanks to all of you that have donated and invested with MWOT over the last month as we move closer and closer to securing the minimum of $800K in initial cash funding.

11/30/21

The Miniature World of Trains™  Press Release sent to help promote our plans.

11/22/21

The Miniature World of Trains™   will start the major fund raising on November 30th for small and large investors and donors.

11/13/21

The Miniature World of Trains™  continues to move ahead!

While the MWOT™  has not yet finalized as leased location and that most likely will not happen until the first quarter of 2022.

As of this update there are three locations in play, both highly visible and on main roads with plenty of parking for cars, buses, mobile homes and semi trucks. Each location is handicapped accessible, heated and air conditioned and have excellent rest room facilities!

Coming up in the next two weeks our General Contractor, Southerland Construction, will be at each location accessing the needs for additional walls and upgrades to these spaces for the needs of MWOT™.

Lilliput LLC dba Miniature World of Trains™  corporate paperwork and Tax Identification Number (TIN) and registered with the South Carolina Secretary Of State will be finalized next and the back of record will be TD Bank. Credit Card processing via our secure website will be functional by Thanksgiving.

Design of the Christmas Model Train Display™ has started for both locations as the CMTD™ room sizes are virtually the same! We have made arrangements to build the display offsite and then move it to the permanent leased location.

We will begin sending email updates as needed.

11/01/21

It seems there may be some confusion about what the Miniature World of Trains™ is so let's clear that up.

First, MWOT™ is not a club or a group of retired people that want to run model trains on a large layout.

It is a for profit business along the lines of Miniatur Wunderland, Little Canada and Entertrainment Junction but better! So it is "Our World In Miniature™" and a "Fun And Family Friendly Entertainment Experience™" that will be open to the public a minimum of 5 days a week and the major holidays!

The plan is to combine all of the elements of these profitable open to the public displays on a grand scale and help promote model railroading at the same time in a large, clean, easily accessible venue.

So the new location we are pursing does just that!

First of all to our knowledge MWOT™  will be the first we will have to lease its new location for now.

It we be run by a team of experienced model  railroaders that have expertise in customer service and attention to detail and have run successful businesses. It will be run much like the Disney Theme Parks. We will have paid employees supplemented by volunteers. Even some of the investors will be part of the management or be part of the day to day operational staff. People from around the USA and in fact the world will be helping to create the displays inside the Miniature World of Trains™.

The displays will employ both new and old technologies along with some technologies never before applied to model railroading. Everything we can do to make a visit become an experience will be done. While we can not divulge exactly what will be done at this time, all we can say is that some of what we are planning has never been done before for large scale model train displays, at least here in the USA!

The Miniature World of Trains™ is not a free venue to visit, there will be an admission fee with a planned free area of a retail store and quick service restaurant that anyone can visit at anytime during normal operating hours.

With this new location close to downtown Greenville, SC, it will be close to I-85 (the busiest interstate in the southeast) as possible or  I-385, along with being near the Greenville County School Districts Roper Mountain Science Center and Greenville's Downtown and museum district, close to the Greenville Convention Center and   the thriving regional mall and shopping area, near other family entertainment venues, the new for profit MWOT™ should be success.

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