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In reply to: LUGbulk order distribution date
Understood, but we can start counting things out in advance, right? My point is that it does not have to all be done at one time.
We could, yes. But if you’re suggesting taking the stuff along to Maker Faire or Youngstown Library event or something, I’d just worry about logistics for carting the large LUGBulk order around… not saying it can’t happen, just that it might be a hassle.
In reply to: LUGbulk order distribution date
The likelihood of everyone being able to attend the LUG distribution on the same day seems small. I know that “the foot has spoken,”
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about how LUGbulk distribution will be executed with everyone present. Is there a way that the order sorting can be started at another event that the LUG is planning to invest several hours in October?
In reply to: Space Planning Meet-up and Trade At Walter's Place
That’s the tentative date for the lugbulk sorting, but as days go by with me not hearing anything, I grow more pessimistic -http://www.steelcitylug.com/forum/topic/lugbulk-order-distribution-date/
unless someone volunteers to come down during the week to finish it, I think we’ll have a meeting at my house that day still, to work on the track before the youngstown event the next day. We’ll want to make sure we have everthing in working order.
In reply to: LUGbulk order distribution date
Actually, it was “THOU SHALT NOT TAKE ANY LUGBULK BRICKS UNTIL ALL LUGBULK BRICKS HAVE BEEN SORTED, EACH MEMBER’S BRICKS HAVE BEEN PULLED, AND ALL TOTALS HAVE BEEN RATIFIED WITH THE ORIGINAL ORDER SPREADSHEET.”
Do we need to try to coordinate a date to divide the LUGbulk
lootorder? We don’t know when the order is going to arrive, but perhaps we can anticipate or predict when it might be. I mention this because some people might need to know well in advance of the date to clear their schedule in order to attend. I already know I cannot be there on October 9-11, unless I am allowed to send a surrogate.In reply to: Town Hall Modular
heh. yeah, parting out a townhall is cost effective. Bricks are the most expensive, which is why lugbulk comes in handy. I know I parted out a town hall in my store a few years back.
In reply to: Allegheny County Park's Lawrence mansion
The finishing touch will be the tan window frames, when our LUGbulk order arrives.
“When”, you say? I appreciate your positive outlook.
This looks rill nice. Especially that PENS in LEGO font! Can we get a full-on view of that in the proper thread?
Zach and I first built a prototype of this building. Then I decided that there were lots of things that would make it look better. In retrospect, if I do a big project like this again I should plan it first in LEGO Digital Designer. Having a virtual model would prevent all the changes I had to make and the mistakes which had to be corrected from building the roof and main building separately.
It was surprising to realize that in the last month I’ve spent 140 bucks and 80 Euros on bricklink … and I already had the vast majority of the parts that I needed for this house!
The finishing touch will be the tan window frames, when our LUGbulk order arrives.
In reply to: Lego Store Case Sale June 20, 2015
the discontinuation of purchasing LEGO elements by the case
I knew it was coming, but it still sucks. I’ve purchased many a “K-2” case of basic brick as it was more cost effective and efficient than buying by the cup. Bricklink will now re-emerge (for me at least) as the prime (practical)* means of obtaining large quantity of a single element. I always prefer to buy directly from Lego whenever possible but this will make that much less likely for large quantities.
For example, a case of 2×4 brick contains approximately 688 bricks (I counted out two cases once, just to see). At S@H which sells 2×4 for .25, that equals $172. I never counted how many 2x4s fit in a cup, but let’s assume that they fit 50 (if properly stacked). That would be about 14 cups, which is $224. Even assuming you could fit a case of 2×4 into 10 cups, that is still $160, much more than the $100 per case (and I fondly remember $70 cases).
* Unless and until LUGBULK becomes more time efficient and able to purchase in much higher dollar amounts.
In reply to: BrickFairVA 2015
Im going to this and have to send money, as to what im brining, i have no clue, hopefully, LUGBULK has come in and ill be able to make my airport. if not, im looking at my brick built monorail and a better looking train station… And maybe a few modulars i MOC’d
In reply to: PBF 2015 Debrief
For a first time, it was great! I think everything went real well! Im already registered for Brick Fair VA, just haven’t bought tickets yet, and ill be displaying something, hoping LUGBULK will be in by then and ill have a huge MOC done…
Only one complain for me would be the fact that the vendors who sell sets at very high prices and dont like to actually collect and build, won very large expensive sets (they prob are going to just sell them, i asked a lady if i could buy her town hall, she already sold it for $400)
In reply to: Baseplates!
I got a couple 48×48 light bley to expand my Project G base from four to six.
THEN I thought: “Hey, why not split the six into three for my custom United Earth Fleet faction and the other three for their rivals the Outer Colonies, and do a smaller prequel game to Project G with the two facing off?”
THEN I thought: “Hey, why not just build ONE baseplate each for each faction as rough terrain that they land on and build LEGO as I build the prequel game, bring able to evolve the build month to month for shows so it’s a constantly evolving attraction?”
I tore down the entire base yesterday.
Thank you, LUGBULK baseplates.
In reply to: Baseplates!
It looks like the ones we’re ordering for LUGBulk should be regular green, although I ended up not ordering any myself.
Topic: Q1 meeting – March 28th
So, we have the LUGBULK meeting at Tim’s on Jan 17th, and then the Bethel Park Girl scout event on Sunday, March 1st…
I am available to host a meeting:
Jan 31
March 14th
and March 28thThose are the saturdays, unless people want to push for a different day, I’ll hear it out. Let me know what you think initially before I do the doodle.
In reply to: LEGO deals
Clearly, you should’ve jumped on that deal before the seller did a Google search to see what they’re going for these days.
Looks like last March was the time to buy these (at $50 each on Amazon). Now, not so much…
However, you can still get basically the same thing (sans baseplate and LEGO logo) for $65. And thanks to the LUGBULK thread, we all know that a green 32 baseplate is not worth $60.
In reply to: LEGO deals
You’re killing me, Greg.
I guess I better not tell you about the half price Black Gate sets I saw at WalMart in Butler today. Save your pennies for LUGbulk, Matt.
In reply to: Ask Matt
Dear Ambassador Matt,
There are now 11 items on the LUGBulk suggested items list that don’t have prices filled in yet. What’s taking so long? It’s not like you have anything better to do.
Sincerely,
Ben, PAIn reply to: long term projects?
Zach and I started this mansion project back in June. He did most of the building one night and then shortly after that he left for a semester in Australia. I only modified the outside to MILS level. With the possibility of LUGbulk offering tan window frames and tan masonry profile bricks, we are probably going to have to start over but I think we will have a much better outcome!
In reply to: THE BIG PICTURE!
Greg, definitely some great thoughts here.
Let me start by restating the purpose of LUGBULK in the eyes of LEGO. It’s for members of LUGs – Not for the direct improvement/addition to/starting of any LUG owned display, inventory, or ability. To that extent though, if members decided to give back to the LUG, that’s entirely acceptable.
I can see a desire to contribute to the greater goal and improving the LUG. While I think there is room for duality, I also recognize the LUG is still new, this is our first LUGBULK, and the majority of our members do not have basements full of parts. I think the LUG and the individual abilities are BOOMING, and LUGBULK will only act as an additional catalyst to that growth.
I think this is a question certainly worth people asking themselves, yearly, as we approach and enter LUGBULK. Do members, like Dan and Rich, or you and Zack, want to use LUGBULK to facilitate your own visions? DO IT. Any member with a desire for parts – this program is for you.
I can definitely see that there will be some members that don’t have a personalized goal or inspiration to buy and build. That’s OK. I’d first like to encourage them to pursue their own talents/ideas/skills/etc. If contributing to a LUG-centric big picture gets that rolling, that’s totally acceptable. I think you’re right to mention train/minifig scale displays as what we’re getting better at. Buildings, landscapes of water, fields, trees, and mountains, sidewalks, trains, brick-built roads, cars – all of these things could give those without direction a clearer path to begin their AFOL journey, and I would present that as the LUG goal, if personal goals did not naturally exist, for now.
Know that our growth plan does involve becoming more cohesive as a group, but I think we’ll see those relationships develop over time. I do plan to touch on some of this at Q4, but I think I remember you won’t be there, Greg. No worries, I’ll summarize for sure. For now – EVERYONE HAVE FUN AND ENJOY THE LEGO HOBBY AND LUGBULK!
Now, the second part of your question is something I really like. I have never thought about having a more permanent home for our displays…That would be a killer opportunity to get in with the children’s museum or some other outlet…Anyone want to seek out those opportunities?
Topic: THE BIG PICTURE!
I think before we collectively launch into investing FOUR THOUSAND dollars more into LEGO parts, we should step back and figure out what we ultimately want to accomplish.
When I was building on my own, I had my own reasons for making things ie. so my kids could play a city display, so I could take something to Brickfair, or so I could try out some idea.
Do we a vision or a design for what we want to accomplish? (Please taze me if this is has already been spelled out somewhere.) Obviously we are trying to become more efficient and effective at putting on large temporary train displays. We can continue to let that happen piecemeal with individuals making random MOC’s, but is it possible that we could develop an overall plan? Should we incorporate certain themes or set particular goals to make displays more interesting?
Also, a big part of me wants a place to be able to set everything up somewhere and leave it. This is partly because I am running out of space to store MOC’s … like the Pittsburgh bridge and the yellow castle and the alpine village … and no one is really seeing them in a box in my garage. I know that having our own display space seems far fetched, but does anyone suppose that Dan Brown could be persuaded to move some of his museum displays to the city that had Kidsfest two years in a row? He would have so much more exposure here. Could we get a room at the Children’s museum to set up a long term display? Should we approach the Western PA train museum? Is there room for long-term residence at the Trolley museum?
Sorry, I know yinz want to talk about the LUGbulk parts list, but it might really help people to decide what people should buy if we gave some consideration to long term goals.
In reply to: Ask Matt
Dear Ambassador Matt, I was just going to buy 300 white 4×4 plates and then I thought maybe I should wait to see what is available in LUGBulk. Do we have an inkling of what might be on the list yet?
In reply to: LEGO deals
I would love that backhoe, but with LUGBulk and Christmas coming up I don’t think I could afford it.
Its about $300. Its only $727.80 on Amazon. You’d get a much better deal on a used one that is missing just a couple of parts.
In reply to: LEGO deals
I would love that backhoe, but with LUGBulk and Christmas coming up I don’t think I could afford it.
In reply to: Q3 2014 business meeting scheduling
For anyone who wants to know the topics we need to discuss on Saturday, here is a cut and paste from Josh’s agenda (uploaded elsewhere)
Business:
1. Q2minute review (5m)
a. Tim’s road inventory/instructions? Use PennLUG’s?2. Announcements (30m)
a. Newly earned badges – Rick, Micah
b. Updates to the handbook
i. On discretion with LEGO prices
ii. Flickr guidelines
iii. Pab increases / set redemption
iv. URL steelcitylug.com/handbook
c. Ambassador program review (15m)
d. Q4 build challenge – white door seed parts. (5m)
e. Lugbulk-on our own/save up/group sort/extra $ (5m)
f. Staff events=more events=more sets and parts-Club is limited by the club.3. Financial status (10m)
a. Reimbursements
b. Current funds and recent transactions – $646.39 ($200 Fair, $50 trolley, -badges,-plexi)4. Past Events (5 mins)
a. Trolley – custom tables
b. In community
c. Cranberry Days
d. Pittsburgh dad – dead?5. Upcoming Events (35 mins)
a. Philly Brickfest – (10m)
b. Summer reading tear down (5m)
c. Brickfestlive road trips (15m)– need confirmation
d. International childrens festival 2016(5m)
e. Bethel park and brentwood libraries
f. Dan Brown’s PB museum?
g. Greenberg6. Idea sharing (15 mins)
a. Monthly/quarterly builder spotlight
b. Anyone interested in writing blog posts
c. Redesigning the website/logo
d. Donation jar? –specific, do we want it, will it be used/received
e. Hospitality group? Thank you cards, etc
f. 3D modeling?7. Club needs (5m)
a. Sign holders
b. Resource for printing table signs
c. Swag (stickers, pens, shirts, hats, etc)
d. Table skirts for custom tables
e. Velcro strips
f. Plexi assembly
g. Bins (sterilite)
h. shelves8. Redemption (30m) (Will be after speed draft)
a. Clear out borrowed list
b. setup
c. Recap rules
120 MinsClosing:
1. Review follow-ups and owners
2. Open discussion
3. Parts swap / sorting
15 MinsYear in review / Web stats
Awards
Speed draft
Set give away hourly
2014 – Goal was to make it more rewarding – money, movie, perks, easier
2015 – increase member contribution/activity/ownership
