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If you are not yet a member of toysnbricks.com, go to the site and register. While you are there, check out my mock MOC entry for the competition:
toysnbricks winter contest entry
Unlimited revisions are allowed, so I will submit my real project closer to the due date. 🙂
I see no offense (or humor) there 🙂
… except that I used the guy’s name to say that the car would be “dusting roads”
You asked for an explanation?
I asked someone who I know is still a member of the group to try to find out why.
I wonder if I posted something and my sense of humor was not appreciated. exhibit A (from a different facebook page)
I found out that I was excommunicated from the Winter Village facebook group this past year but I did not receive an explanation of why.
I had received a prize from their building competition in January for making a chruch that was converted to a coffee shop, but after posting my Reindeer Stable idea as part of a LEGO gwp contest in April I was apparently banned. Maybe one of the Admins has a PETA membership and they don’t approve of using animals as domestic servants, even if its only once a year.
your minifig will float gently to safety
dang it, why did you write that? now I have to clean the coffee off my laptop screen!
anyway, I’d wager that the alarm bell piano is going to be much better to play than the LEGO wannabe piano … unless you need it for your side hustle on subway platforms
This looks like a case of “if we list it as free, people won’t be committed; if we list it for a ‘steal’ of a price, we’ll only get serious inquiries.”
I have experienced that phenomenon many times. But yeah, you need to hire three guys the size of Cam Heyward to move a baby grand.
The topic of tokens was revisited briefly during the Q4 meeting today. On the fly I created a token idea which was the original symbol for the steel industry (not the Steelers). The yellow, orange (yes it was originally orange) and blue hypercycloids each represent ingredients used in the steel making process. The steel symbol seems appropriate for a group that names itself after the Steel City.
Below is an image of a possible idea; this prototype could also be mounted on a white 4×4 radar dish (that have been on the PaB wall.)
They walk alike, they talk alike, sometimes they even build alike.
That’s a paraphrase of the theme song for The Patty Duke Show which you are too young to have seen / remember. 😀
Good article on scanning app comparisons. Enjoy!
article summary:
“If you have an iPhone: omgbricks performed best.
If you have an Android phone: Minifig Scan and omgbricks performed best.
If you can’t or won’t download an app: Falconbricks Figure Finder may work in your web browser.”I did not recognize the similarity between these two classic works of art until today. @tfdesigns, can you weigh inn on this?
The Cranberry event went well in the newly renovated space. We spent at least 3 hours setting up and eventually had three train loops running.
I realized on the drive home that I only got one photo. 🫢 Thankfully Bob documented our display, including a panoramic of the crowd from inside our fortress of tables.
A big thank you to everyone who stayed to help and tear down. ❤️
The 3D Christmas themed LUG logo has a lid that lifts off if you want to turn on/off the battery-powered light inside. I would suggest trying to lift it pulling upward on two diagonally opposed white cylinders (that represent suds.)
In the box I included a rotating table with an on/off switch on the side. If the turntable is turned on during shows, the batteries will need to be replaced periodically. Unfortunately, the power cable that came with it requires a USB port.
Also, are we going to have power for running 9V trains? are MILS’D winter tracks or winter track beds going to be available?
Is anyone planning to bring the 10254 Winter Holiday Train or the 10173 Holiday Train to the Cranberry Santa’s First Stop event? I have a lot to bring and I would prefer to avoid duplicating efforts.
Lastly, I am going to bring the Christmas present version of the LUG logo to Cranberry but would be grateful if someone were willing to take it to the Trolley Museum the next day. @timf are you doing both events?
Ok I can fill an 8 foot table, but there won’t be room to run a train around my winter village unless we double the depth.
I’ll need to start setting up at least two hours in advance. Does anyone know what time we can get in?
Will we have white tablecloths and white MILS’d plates for train tracks? I’m thinking that to run a train around my village, I would need 20 straight baseplates and 4 corner / 90 degree turn baseplates.
I am trying to plan a layout using a table that is 30″ x 70″, roughly 2.5 x 6 feet … @timf do you know how big the tables are at the Cranberry conference room?
a three-sided display but may end up with four-sided if there is room (with us all in the middle)
Th Cranberry event is now less than two weeks away!!! I am working on a full table display, however, other than the abominable snowman, and maybe the LEGO factory, the buildings that I have are kind of boring … my display needs more action!
I started to stage a Chima Mammoth vs. Sabertooth vs. Eagle Interceptor showdown in the middle of the North Pole but the idea was vetoed by Mrs. Claus. She said I could use them somewhere else, but not in the winter village. 🙁 Anyone have ideas for making an epic Chima battle … maybe with an Alps backdrop?
@timf how does the new conference room look? Will we be in the middle of the room? and possibly against a wall?
