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Sorry let me say that properly for this forum: @joshhall, I sent you some pics a while ago of the Lego work I done and now it needs posted but I can’t because I’m on trail. Can you post it so yinz can admire Castle Eveningland?
Ok ok you flushed me out. I’m hiking the Colorado Trail (taking a rest day in Fairplay CO). I hope to try to finish all 485 miles before I run out of time but it’s iffy bc I only have 32 days. Got married last year. Got tenure. Working on a book about human rights discourse. (I actually wrote an anecdote about the LUG in there!!!) Been getting serious about backpacking. Did just under 800 on the AT last year (got knocked off by injury). Hoping to make another attempt in next few years. As for Lego, I’ve spent about five years working on a mega castle. Will try to upload pic…
Alas my phone can’t do it and I’m hundreds of miles from my computer. Josh, I sent you some pics by text, could you post those?
Sounds like the folks that wanted a 5′ tall elephant sculpture to put outside their building.
So I just read the elephant forum and it made me laugh and miss you all even more. When they asked me to do a commissioned build here, I didn’t know what price to offer. So I called Jessica Rigney (Imagine’s former manager and current mother) and asked what they charged for a build. She gave me numbers that, um, surprised me (and the admin who were asking me!). Imagine had done a 3×3 baseplate build for the alumni center that I used for comparison. She warned me “don’t give away your time; don’t underestimate how much the parts will cost.” Oh, gosh, am I glad I listened! They had sticker shock but came around. And the cost ended up being pretty much right (text me 4192715057 and I’ll give you the final price if you like). Point being: if they don’t get sticker shock, the number probably isn’t right. People just don’t know how f’ing much this stuff costs. AND she warned me never ever to take a commission with Kragling. I didn’t know that you need special ventilation equipment to even use it. It’s a whole other skill. It’s also a volume thing: someone who does commissions for a living has the infrastructure. Someone like me has to develop a whole new set of skills and spreadsheets and stuff. Maybe not Josh, given his spreadsheet skills.
I’d love to visit. It’s a little tough right now because I’m budgeting for a year-long sabbatical (at half pay). If I’m in Pittsburgh, and can give notice, maybe folks’d like to get together? It’d probably be December…
Great build Doug! Good to hear from you. I see you used the light flesh color, perfect choice, but not easy to come by.
It’s medium dark flesh (Lego calls it Medium Nougat). I was shocked that they have just about every basic element in that color! I had to go and look at another building in an obscure corner of campus that they said had the same color of brick. There are shockingly few color photos of the building for something that burned in 1970!
@Rich: yes, some period (late 1880s) and some contemporary!
I assume a full interior to, yeah?
Heck naw. Says no in the contract. No one would see it bc it’ll be behind plexi anyway.
I’d like to see the video still-maybe a private YouTube vid or something?
Great idea: https://youtu.be/On9m3D4ULeM
Oh, it won’t let me upload the video (too big a file). Here’s a pic of the original building for comparison.
Definitely went off the deep end by buying 16 Lego movie larry the coffee guy sets just so I could have 16 coffee cups to stage in everyone’s hands…
Are they just regular coffee cups? I find it hard to believe that you didn’t have 16 regular Lego mugs sitting around already…
Love this build though. What green is that?! It’s such a nice choice there.
How do i have 4 just from unsorted lots???
Are they from the Fire Brigade?
Just FYI, parking on Frew St. (which is right behind the building where we’re meeting) will be free tomorrow, bc it’s a Sunday.
Also, Rich, if you want to catch a ride with me, let me know ASAP. I’ll be heading over a little early to make sure everything is unlocked.
I just want to make sure that everyone is aware that although I’m bringing Instectoid parts, my supply is LIMITED. It’s going to be first come first serve. I don’t want anyone fighting over my Instectoid parts which, again, I know are seriously in demand.
Also, Greg, I’m bringing your Springtime Scene sets.
Doug, I’m coming into Oakland by bus. Where is the closest intersection on Forbes that has a stop, and how to I get to Porter Hall on foot from there?
If you take the 71B (recommended) get off at Morewood and Forbes and walk down Morewood until it terminates at 5th. Campus should be right in front of you, specifically Warner Hall (which is 31 on the map I sent out). That same map (attached to this forum) should get you to the classroom from that point.
If you take the 71A, you’re in for a slightly longer walk. You would disembark at the intersection of Forbes and Craig, take Craig to 5th ave and then turn left and walk down Forbes until you get to campus.
I could pick you up and take you to campus, but I might not be able to bring you home bc I may be going straight to volleyball after our meeting.
1x? 2x?
I’ll be looking for larger slopes, in both the 2 and 3 studs deep variety (i.e. 2x2x1 and longer, as well as 3x2x1 and longer).
May be late in the game for everyone to get a set, unless we just get a head count and one of us orders thru Amazon Prime or something.
I think you’re right; it’s too late. But let’s do the minifig draft anyway (sorry, Tim). I need minifigs for my projects right now, real bad like. I’ll bring cash to throw in for the draft, too.
What, you don’t have a stipend to fund your “dissertation research”?!
Dream on…
A few more details for this event:
I’m happy to stick around for the full time (11:30-3), but I only reserved that time slot to give us a choice of when to meet. I’ll be there at 11:30 and I encourage everyone to show up at that time so that, no matter how long we all stay, we’re all there at the same time. Also, please bring a little cash so we can order pizza or Jimmy Johns. Lego always makes me hungry!
Since we have so much time, do we want to organize a last minute set draft?!
Josh, and everyone else, I’ll be looking for some reddish brown and white slopes! Also, I now have a serious obsession with convex and concave slopes! I cannnot seem to get enough of them, because I didn’t have any as a kid.
Porter Hall A19D. This used to be my classroom so I have a map I made for some outside speakers that were coming in. See attached, but ignore the part about validated parking tickets. The East Campus Garage is actually free on weekends. But, if you want to park closer, there’s metered parking right be the building itself, on Frew St.
If you have minifigs to draft, I say we go for it! I’m going to post a rough inventory of what I’ll be bringing to trade. Safe to say, I’ll be bringing serious amounts of trans yellow-green stuff and all the Aquazone you can eat.
OK, I’ve requested a room that can accommodate 20. Non-University organizations have to request a space 30 days in advance, so I’m going to go ahead and call this “dissertation research.” This means that I’ll be asking you guys a few questions about my dissertation (40 seconds, max).
If we do Sunday, we would have to do early afternoon (I have to leave for volleyball by around 3 that day). Josh is also planning on testing some kind of Lego wheel setup on a boyscout track either that day or the day before, so there’s a chance we could combine events. I’m going to go ahead and go out on a limb and see if I can get a room reserved on campus for Sunday April 14 at 11:30.
