@philmatt24
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If there aren’t curves in there, I don’t want it.
(Also, what’s the vibe for the trains? “ancient castle meets present day / futuristic repopulation…?)
I would totally pay $50 for life size models of Nick Wilde and Judy Hopps!
Not sure I’ll get to NC any time soon, unfortunately…
The yellow, orange (yes it was originally orange) and blue hypercycloids
HypOcycloids, Greg…
…hyper-hypo-cycloids.
Real things sometimes cost less than the LEGO version.
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.”
Moving a baby grand is no joke… LEGO versions (depending on scale) are way easier. Just don’t drop them in a snowy parking lot like Doug’s castle, circa January 2014…
https://www.facebook.com/reel/597986172660592
We’re doing this at CSC Locomotion Weekend and Home & Garden, right?!?
(yeah, this one’s probably been shared before, but come on. Steel City LUG: Tokyo Drift!)
Definitely interested in that Wolf/pack fig, possibly several if you end up with extras! Some other good ones for sure, but I’ll sleep on whether I’d want a full set. Trying to spend less money these days. 😉
Is the cockatiel with the Pirate Quartermaster a new animal, or am I just out of the loop?
Yeah, I suspected it was inadvertently made live before it was intended to be, but that The Brick Fan thought it was fair game since it was revealed on LEGO.com, intentionally or not.
The contest is: guess how many replacement parts I will be asking Lego for.
Eleventeen. Wait, no… Thirty-Twelve!
teleport to Spartanburg SC.
I might know a guy (well I do know a guy, but I don’t know how close he is to Spartanburg, other than “within the same state”…)
how dare you. i’m at work. i can’t be crying right now.
The Winter Soldier strikes again!
Also, I missed the Coco build somehow, that’s fantastic!! Such a fun / heart-string-pulling movie.
My serious response echoes the above. While I fully agree that we as a club should do what we can to avoid uncomfortable situations, unless the bugs in question are dangerous (i.e. black widows or something else poisonous), logic would say that as long as reasonable courteous efforts are made to clean the space prior to meetings, that should be sufficient.
After all, the LUG isn’t paying rent to store our inventory in Josh’s personal home – he’s donating the storage space and has done so for 10+ years at this point. If the LUG were a paying customer, perhaps a different standard would be expected – but even then, what “self-storage” locations wouldn’t have a few bugs from time to time?
Without doing any actual accounting for the volume of our inventory, I’d estimate very loosely that we’d need around a 10×10′ storage unit to house the goods. That likely wouldn’t be in a nice, easily-accessed arrangement – it might just be crammed into the storage unit and require labor any time we wanted to get at the various drawers and bins. A very quick search of the nearest self-storage place to me indicates that a 10×10 unit these days runs well over $100/month. So, we’d easily be spending $1000 or significantly more per year to store the goods if not for the donation of Josh’s basement space (or another generous space-donor / other creative ideas for cheap or free storage.)
That’s a financial perspective, in the spirit of the recent thread discussing LUG sustainability with regards to cup credits and reimbursing for expenses related to attending conventions (https://www.steelcitylug.com/forum/topic/convention-policy-for-cup-credits/) – it’s not likely we’d be a viable organization today if we were spending $1000+ / year storing our LUG inventory over the past decade.
[Quick counterpoint to my own point: if we immediately distributed all received parts, rather than storing them indefinitely until redeemed, the storage issue would be limited to “stuff we built and/or equipment use repeatedly at various shows,” such as MILS train track plates, tables, stanchions, sneeze guards, etc., and that would reduce the required storage space and the need for it to be organized in a space where people could peruse bins for parts they need on a regular basis.]
So, to me, Josh has gone above and beyond with the use of his basement over the years, and his willingness to vacuum up any cobwebs, etc. before meetings more than satisfies my personal expectations.
All of that said, if members have phobias, we should do what we can collectively to minimize their exposure to triggers. Similar to the accessibility issue, which we’ve been addressing by hosting meetings (and transporting LUG inventory for redemption) to accessible locations. If reasonable efforts are made to minimize bugs and anyone still has issues being in the basement, perhaps the solution is for those parties to participate in redemption at times when we’re meeting & redeeming at the church near Josh’s house, or at other meetings, thereby avoiding the basement?
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You have the hottest toy of 1992?!?
Welcome to the club; look forward to meeting you!
Information for the meeting Ben mentioned can be found in this thread: https://www.steelcitylug.com/forum/topic/2024-q3-business-meeting-and-birthday-party/
The first key detail is that it’s Saturday Aug 31.
Since none of you guys believed me when I said that my table fabric isn’t yellow, I took a pic when I was at Wal-Mart last Sunday, since they had all the colors in stock (which is rarely the case). On the very right is yellow. To the left of that is the one that I bought, which you’ll note is NOT YELLOW, since it has a definite orange tint compared to the one that is yellow.
I’d also bought an orange one, which I returned unopened after being happy with how the lava looked on the yellowish-orange one and how Lego’s bright light orange matched against it, even though it is definitely more yellowish than bright light orange is. I did not buy the reddish-orange or red ones.
@bengood921 – what color are egg yolks? And what color is orange juice? (Tropicana, specifically, let’s say…)Because I recently was observing that in my head, I’d say “yellow” for egg yolks, then correct it to “gold” (or, Bright Light Orange.) And, most would simply say “orange” for orange juice. However… my raw scrambled eggs and my OJ are indistinguishable, except for texture.
(Incidentally, Donald Duck orange juice is notably more orange than most brands, and notably weirder-tasting…)
Welcome Dan! “Dan” is the unofficial most common name in our LUG so you will fit right in. 😀
Welcome! Thanks for including some specificity to help distinguish between Dans. The H and the real profile pic will go a long way (wait do we have any other Dan H’s…?)
(Also… pretty sure it’d be easy to make that statement officially, simply by navigating to the site’s member list. If one were so inclined.)
winter is so cliche, now if you had said “Scala babies in pretend space” then you would have my attention
See, it’s funny because Greg has won The Winter Soldier award, and single-handedly taken an entire Christmas village to conventions… (also because @hacim’s Scala babies builds are friggin’ hilarious…) #itsonlyfunnyifyouhavetoexplainit #butsrslythenewguywontgetitcuzhedoesntknowgregyet #hashtagsarecool! #arehashtagscool?
@philmatt24, this may relate to your interests.
Saw the new thread email but it’s been a busy week… yeah, the ol’ Protector IV, eh? Wonder if I’d get in trouble if I got our new centrifuge logo for us to print on the front…
Protector X could be fun to model, especially the interior.
Excellent work, @playingwithechoes! Just, not nearly enough grease on the ties & ballast. 😉
Josh has done Catan in Lego. I presume it is still around somewhere. Many board games could be done in Lego, at least the boards and tokens (most cards would be near impossible with the amount of information needed to be included).
Wow, I know my reputation of “Matt never builds anything” but didn’t expect it to extend to the past…
LEGO Catan is still in my possession. We did not attempt to build the cards, but #hexagonsarethebestagons and other versions people have built fudged the true hexagonal shape so ours is better. 😉
I have been hoping to make a game night at some point, but it’s been challenging because baby. If I make it some time / if someone wants to borrow LEGO Catan, it’d be fun to dust it off (it’s been in a bin, shouldn’t actually be too dusty, lol) and play a round!
@greg yinz dahn Cracker Barrel?
Im in support of applying for this. Big projects are something we’re capable of doing. It does take a lot of work to get the part estimates together, but if someone can swing it, there is money in the banana stand.
I understood that reference!
