I wanted to get the discussion started on our big events for the year. To reiterate, we need to have three events each year with 10 people participating in each event to maintain our LUG status.
Is that why we do it? I haven’t read the rules in a while. #badAmbassador #impeach #GregforAmbassador
Philly Brickfest, which was recently mentioned, is a potential candidate. We seem to have fairly good participation at Greenberg’s Fall Train Show. What are other candidates for events in which we have significant participation?
I don’t think we’re allowed to use conventions like PBF that are put on by for-profit groups… but I haven’t read the rules in a while.
I think the easiest ones are International Children’s Festival, Santa Trolley, Greenberg, and maybe Maker Faire (but we didn’t do that this year, and given the 90-day advance notice thing, we need to be careful not to tell TLG we’re doing something and then not following through, or we jeopardize our Event Support brick…)
In the unending search for irony, does anyone like the idea of a FRIENDS Death Star?
Shades of that FRIENDS guillotine that got censored from the BrickLink contest, Greg… you’re a bad influence on me! But I’ll tell you after I find out whether Episode VIII is decent or makes me die a little inside.
One idea that comes to mind is sequentially lighting a long line of lights by either having a vehicle (train, monorail) travel past them and press each button in sequence, or having a wave machine that uses undulating gears to press the light buttons in sequence, like on an runway for spacecraft.
Honestly, a light up roller coaster would be the ultimate, but one could probably do that much more easily by putting the lights ON the roller coaster itself, than having the roller coaster activate them.
This could be really cool! What do you mean, “ON the roller coaster itself”…? On the train? The tracks?