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I’m curious as to what your motivation is here for gluing. I’m having trouble thinking of scenarios where it would be necessary, or even beneficial.
>> We had six people attend and played three games.
Who all ended up being there? Leading up to the day, it looked like it was just going to be you, Mitch, and Hacim.
I’m still not sure about Saturday. It looks like the 27th will be better for me, if you decide to do it again.
Todd replied this evening. Steel City LUG is now an option to select as a collab when you register your MOC.
I’ll have more to post about this event, but it will probably have to wait several days, since I’m leaving town tomorrow. In the meantime, I’m going to emphasize that we need to be as precise as possible when declaring how much space we need for each MOC. Last year, for the first time ever, there was a shortage of space (and the same thing happened at BWC, also for the first time ever), so we don’t want to be asking for more than we need. But you definitely want to ask for the minimum necessary, if you come up short at the event and ask for more, it’s unlikely to be available.
PS – the BrickFair rooms at the HI are all reserved. There’s a waiting list. But most likely, if you haven’t made a reservation at the HI already, you will have to find something else. There’s plenty of options, but none are as convenient.
>> I really appreciate it. Life has really gotten in the way of LEGO lately.
No worries, I’ll see what I can do. After my last post I thought “Crap, maybe I shouldn’t’ve posted that, what if there’s something really serious going on? I’ll look like even more of a jerk than usual.” I hope everything is going well with the Kay family.
>> I register he Hoth MOC but it did not have Steel City LUG as one of the ones we could choose to be with. How do we make it known that the LUG will be represented there?
I’ve contacted Todd. This past weekend was also busier than I’d expected (family visited from out of town), so I didn’t get the message sent off until this week. Todd is usually fast when it comes to replying, but there is a notice on Yak that his laptop is out for repair for two weeks, so that might slow certain things down. I’ll let everybody know when I hear from him.
Whaaaaaaaaat? I thought your life was going to get way easier once Zander was in school all day. Parenting sounds hard.
It had actually already occurred to me that maybe I should volunteer for this. Todd knows who I am and I’ve been to 17 (CORRECTION: 18) BrickFair events, so I have a pretty good idea of how they go. I’ll plan on sending Todd an email over the weekend or sooner.
I had hoped to attend on Saturday, after missing the last one, but I’d forgotten that my sister’s family will be in town for Easter to visit my nephew, so I will not be available. I hope it goes well, and I’ll look forward to the next one.
I’m about to head out. I might even >gasp< be early. I gotta make sure I get dibs on the good parts bin, plus I don’t wanna be late for pizza, cause I’m starving.
>> it’s real, available for preorder
Sweet! I was thrown because the .jpg file name includes “fake-space”. I think you meant Pretend Space, that’s the official term now.
I had thought that somebody had come up with it as an alternate build or something, even though to my knowledge, those wheels hadn’t yet appeared in that color.
>> A trans-purple rover with space plant
Aw man, for a second I thought this was a real set. It would be a much more practical way to get the parts I want that are in the current Friends Space set.
>> the original name for this set was “Good & Frosty”
Some of you may have heard this one before: when I met Will Smart at BFNJ, I told him that we should open a law firm together, and that he’d get top billing. He didn’t go for it.
I’m guessing that they’re saving Good & Frosty for the Ice Planet reboot.
>> (@bengood921 could the White Castle be ready for this?) [copied from the #DisplayAtAllTheLibraries! thread]
Sorry, I somehow missed this one. Also, I’m not sure how serious you are here. I did see that Greg’s yellow castle is still available. But I took mine apart in the fall of 2014. I foresaw no opportunities for reusing it as it was at the time. I don’t want to threadjack by going into detail about all the issues that castle had, but they were numerous.
I do still have a bunch of the flying vehicles assembled, should you decide you want to use them. That I can go into more detail about, if there is interest.
I don’t expect to be able to build anything for this. All my Lego time is going towards being prepared for Chantilly and Erie, and I am already behind.
>> Maybe it needs a moat made out of lava.
Maybe. We did water last time. I’d probably put down some sort of paper or fabric liner between the lava and the floor, both to make the color look better, and because the floor of that display case is gross. I’m pretty sure I brought a vacuum one time and did the best I could, and it was still gross.
But it also depends on how much lava you need. I plan to use it at the aforementioned Chantilly and Erie, and I will probably need about half of it, so we can’t put so much in the library display case that I risk coming up short in August.
The 17th is out for me. I will probably be out of town the 30th. The 16th might work. But I also didn’t make it to the last one, so don’t schedule for my benefit.
>> But more importantly: are you going to Bricks Cascade this year?
>> I need one more person for my Speed Build teamI won’t be there, sorry. Speed Build team sounds fun.
I was suitably impressed also. Every time I thought the video was about to end, he’d do another one and I’d think “Oh right, that’s an option too.”
I’m curious as to whether or not anybody here still has their physical Lego VIP card from back in the day. I still have mine, and I still use it because 1) it’s easier than having them look me up by phone number every time, and 2) I want everybody at the Lego Store to be suitably impressed with how awesome I am. And to their credit, they always are.
I thought of it because I was that store last night, and my card is in bad, bad shape. The card is cardboard laminated in plastic. The plastic on the back of my card has been peeling for years, and large sections at two corners have bent back and broken off. Yesterday I discovered that the back plastic has completely sheared off from the card, which now is literally in two pieces. But I can’t throw away the plastic, because I also discovered yesterday that the bar code that they scan to bring up my account is only printed in the plastic (I didn’t know that that’s a thing); the cardboard behind it is just plain white. I wasn’t sure if it would scan properly without a solid background behind it, so I had to hold the two parts together while the guy who checked me out scanned it.
We’ll see how long this lasts. One of the missing corners means that part of the bar code is already right at the edge of the plastic. Additional damage could render it unusable.
Btw, my registration payment went through, and I was able to reserve a hotel room. The website is not giving any time frame on when I should get an email from the HI about contacting them with a credit card (I’m pretty sure in the past it has actually said “within two weeks”). It’s definitely telling me I have a reservation, and that I don’t need to contact them, so I’m not going to worry about it.
If we still haven’t heard anything by the beginning of July, people might start to bring it up on Yak. So we’ll see how it goes. There’s no reason to bring it up now, when it’s half a year out and Todd’s attention is on Fredericksburg.
After I thought about it more, I remembered that a year or two ago was when I got instructions to call them from BrickFair, and then when I called they didn’t know what I was talking about and what they told me was the exact opposite of the BF instructions. It sounded to me like somebody at the HI had dropped the ball on that one, I had to contact Todd directly, and he got it all sorted out. So I’m hoping nothing like that will happen again.
I have four 2x4s (visible in my Space Computer Station, link below, if Word Press allows it). I can no longer remember what years I got them, or if I got them all at Chantilly events, or if I also picked some up at New England or New Jersey (which I only attended in 2016 and 2017), and there’s no way for me to check that. I’m also pretty sure there were years where I didn’t upload anything.
The computer panel design is by Chris Giddens, I got it off of his Flickr stream. Once they shrunk it to 2×3, I put a comment on Flickr asking him to come up with a new design, but I didn’t get a response, so I ended up with the default image, which was the BrickFair logo. When they shrunk it again to 2×2, I decided to take matters into my own hands and come up with my own designs.
At 2×2, I had an easy time coming up with a design I thought worked. At 1×2, I did not. A lot of people put photos on their tiles, I’m having a hard time imagining a photo that would be recognizable on a 1×2 tile.
I actually don’t know what they’re doing for FXBG this year. I thought I recently was on the My Account tab for FXBG and it was asking me to upload a 2×2 image, but I can’t get that to come up now, as I am not registered for FXBG and I’m not going to be. I’ll have to remember to ask somebody when I get a chance.
>> I have also put in a place holder for a hotel room at the Holiday inn, but have not received a call from their staff like the website said.
Let me get back to you on that one. In the past, they were good about calling within a week or two. But I remember last year they waited until the last week, and I was getting nervous and was just a day away from contacting them or Todd. I can’t remember if that was Fredericksburg or Chantilly or both. I have been less than impressed with how the Chantilly HI has been run for years. I haven’t registered for this year yet, so I’ll have to see what they’re saying on this website this time around, I seem to remember there was some sort of issue last year, although I did get my room just fine.
>> do they not engrave the 3rd brick on the brick badges at this show?
As I recall, they ditched the 3rd brick last year to do the album tiles instead. (For those not familiar, each goodie bag had eight (I think, I already forget) printed 2×2 tiles, and if you put four of them together, they formed the cover a famous rock/pop/rap album. But the tiles are randomly distributed, so you have to go around asking people to trade. At Fredericksburg it was insanely popular. At Chantilly it was less so, which makes me think the novelty is already wearing off, so I don’t know how many years Todd is going to run it before abandoning it, and I don’t know if it’s happening this year.)
I found the 3rd bricks to be not useful, and I have all kinds of unused ones laying around my house. Like the other BrickFair bricks, at some point they shrunk to 1×6 (BrickFair remains the only convention I’ve seen do this). But most importantly, you never know what colors you’re going to get, and Todd’s picked some awful combinations. Also, the colors are guaranteed to change every year, for security reasons, so it doesn’t work to do long-term planning to combine them into a single sign or something later on.
You should still be able to upload an image for an avatar tile. I saw that Fredericksburg increased from 1×2 to 2×2 this year (it’s hard to do much with a 1×2), but I doubt Chantilly will increase also, so I’m expecting 2×2.
>> I have a hunch I know who’d be in the top three threadkillers…
I’m curious as to who is on this list. But also, besides time frame, what’s the methodology for determining a thread was killed? A lot of them are for specific events, so once the event is over (and people have commented on how it went, posted pics, and gotten their cup credits), the thread just stops. I wouldn’t give anybody threadkiller points in those situations, just cause they happened to be the final poster in a thread that was expected to end then anyway.
1pm on the 18th works for me.
I was too slow on posting about the games we played at the last one, but I’m going to continue my tradition of making up names that better describe them. I didn’t make it in time for Tin Spin. Quacks of Quedlinburg I would call the Don’t Let Your Potion Explode game, and Skull I would describe as the Micah Shamelessly Tries To Manipulate Everyone But Still Loses game.
They also brought up the Midnight Tequila Shots game, which I’d forgotten even exists, and it has occurred to me since that Midnight Tequila Shots would combine quite well with Skull. Every time you hit a skull, you do a shot, but if your bid is successful, everybody else has to do a shot.
>> One of the years at Brickfest live when you bought a goodie bag you got a Brickfest live minifig. Not sure how they got away with it.
I’m under the impression that a lot of it was that TLG wasn’t always good at paying attention to what was going on in the adult community. I’m pretty sure I have minifigs with both BrickFair and BrickWorld logos on them that I also got in goodie bags, or maybe as free handouts. I also have a LUGnet minifig that’s from like twenty years ago, and I have a SnailLUG torso from just a couple years ago. (I’m always looking for torsos that can pass as regular t-shirts for minifigs to use in my town/train display, after the stuff I took to events from 2013-2015 looked like nineties video games, cause I kept repeating the same torsos, hair, and faces.)
My understanding with the notice that Tim B posted was that it was Lego basically saying “We’re paying attention now, and you can’t do it. If you were doing it, you have to stop.” I don’t think anybody was happy about it, but I don’t see how we have any kind of argument that we should be allowed to do it.
