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@greg yinz dahn Cracker Barrel?
For anyone using social media for the LUG, here’s the youtube format of the video tour for PG Home and Garden Show. It should embed in your web pages.
I got tagged in this today.
Anyone interested in empty lego boxes? I could bring them to Q2 if someone wants them. Otherwise they will be recycled.
I just got word that FX bricks now has R104 9v back in stock and R120 9v metal train track available. They are injection molded plastic in dark bluish grey with metal rails and fit the standard 9v system. They should fit the corner mills that currently have Bricktrack plastic 104/120 curves.
I know there’s been talk during shows of wanting to electrify the outer loops so that the LUG’s 9v trains can run there too. This would make it work. As it is, I’m doing 9v straight track on my ongoing Behemoth Bridge so if the LUG wants to go that route, it can be done.
@joshhall @amplef0rth @rcgrier3406 @knb112
PS. Every time I order the rarer DBG 9v straight on BL, sellers keep sending me RC track instead. TT_TT
Lego builds the universe!
https://nationalpost.com/news/space/european-space-agency-lego-moon
As a heads up, Brick Train Awards are starting September 1st and entries will be accepted through the 30th. This is for train mocs. Google “Brick Train Awards” and you’ll find it.
There’s a new category of “Small”. It can be anything train-related and not just a train. Must be within 16 studs cube. Here’s a preview of my entry for that new category in case anyone is curious. (It’s a trackside lubricator for train wheels.)
I know I’m not the only train guy here so I’m hoping other LUG members would like to join in.
Also, if anyone has some 9v straight track in newer dark bluish grey (not old dark grey) for sale or trade, please send me a PM. I need like 6 to finish out the Behemoth Bridge big landing module and I want it to match my ballast which is dark bluish grey. I can trade some of my old dark grey 9v straight 1:1 or I can do like five bucks per 9v DGB straight.
So I’m gonna talk about something I read years and years ago. I could have sworn that I read it in a printed book that I own, but some years ago, I went back and tried to find it, and despite extensive searching, I could not. If I read it on the internet, I have no idea where. I mention this part so that if anybody recognizes what I’m talking about and knows what book it’s in, they can tell me. I really want to find it. I’m posting it now because I just ran into it doing my BFVA build, and so I have photos.
Take something like a 1×12 plate, and start placing 1×1 bricks on top of it, starting at one end. According to what I read, the more bricks you place, the more the clutch power of those bricks will cause the 1×12 plate to curve upward at the end with the bricks.
I can’t remember if there were photos or just an illustration. I do remember being very skeptical, and so I also remember being quite surprised when I got out the Legos and tried it and discovered that they were not exaggerating.
I’m posting several photos of my lava perimeter. It’s a layer of 1×2 tiles on top of 1×2 clear bricks on top of 1×8 plates – no other parts are involved. It’s 144 x 90 studs, and the longer I made each side, the more they distorted.
I’m hoping I can weigh it down by incorporating rock spires in the perimeter. None are built yet, so we’ll see how it goes.
UPDATE: I tried replacing the 1×8 plates with 2×8 plates, to see if that would help strengthen against the bending. It did not.
>> Interesting! You could try studs out rather than up – would the centers then curve in?
I’m actually not sure what you mean by that, you might have to try it and post a pic.
UPDATE: I tried replacing the 1×8 plates with 2×8 plates, to see if that would help strengthen against the bending. It did not.
You are exposing slight variations piece to piece in the manufacturing and molding process. Across distances those variations add up to slight measurement inconsistency and bend. I watched a video on YouTube a year ago about this in a life sized scale build of a bathroom and the builder showed it in that build. Interesting inconsistencies showing consistently builder to builder! LOL
Wish I could remember the builder. Oh well, my brain is old! 😂😬😜
Out of curiosity, we have a bunch of car guys here.
I myself have a bunch of SC sized MOCs and I have the BIGGGGGGGGG Lambo, Ferrari, and Bugatti.
PVGP in July. Pgh International Autoshow in February….
hmm…..“It’s the only way to live, in cars.”
In the architorture construction engineering fields that’s one of the reasons why they use control joints. So that expansions or contractions by temperature or tolerances have a joint where parts can shift a little. So like every 32 studs or one baseplate, there can be a control joint to get things lining up.
and I have the BIGGGGGGGGG Lambo, Ferrari, and Bugatti.
I went to the store on Thursday and cashed in my VIP points on the new Mclaren P1!
Here is an interesting article a friend sent to me: https://www.esquire.com/uk/design/a61654783/everythings-still-awesome-lego-at-75/
Here is an interesting article a friend sent to me: https://www.esquire.com/uk/design/a61654783/everythings-still-awesome-lego-at-75/
Yesterday I was reading a BrickJournal interview with Kjeld which also referred to how the company almost crashed in the early 2000’s and how Jørgen was hired as CEO to save it.
In the early 2000′, AFOL’s were clamoring to be involved with product development but TLG dismissed their involvement as <1%. In 2005, both Kjeld and Jørgen came to Brickfest and said that they were going to focus on what they do best and stop trying to get into peripheral markets like bicycles. They finally got to see the adult market potential.
Kjeld also hinted at developing LEGO’s own version of bricklink … it has taken two decades to develop what is now “Bricks and Pieces”.
@pete here is a chance to scratch two bucket list items:
1) visit LEGO headquarters in Enfield, CT
2) attend AnthroConIsn’t Lego headquarters near Boston now?
@pete here is a chance to scratch two bucket list items:
1) visit LEGO headquarters in Enfield, CT
2) attend AnthroConSince 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…)
>> 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.
It wasn’t that complicated. I did keep referring to it as orange, originally because that’s what I thought I was likely to buy, and then I kept doing it because it’s way easier to say than yellow-orange or orange-yellow, although I did do that sometimes, and I sometimes just referred to it as orangeish. Everybody else said it was just yellow.
What wasn’t covered in my post, because for everybody who was at the event it had already been covered in our text group, is that when I stretched the orangeish fabric so that it was flush against the black BrickFair tablecloth, the black made the orange-yellow look way more yellow than it did otherwise. I don’t have any logical scientific explanation for why it did that. I took a photo where half the fabric was laid on the tablecloth, and half was bunched up, to show the color difference between the two sides, and people just said they looked the same. I’ve found that it matters what device I’m viewing that photo on, but in person, I could see it easily. So I did the Walmart photo.
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