Jordan

Flight leaves Tuesday morning. Would I be able to pick him up sometime Sunday or Monday afternoon?

Should be able to, as long as he fits in my carry-on

Its been a very busy past few months since Brickfest. Sorry I didn’t get to this sooner. Long story short, I haven’t really had time to do much with the lighthouse since then. To answer your questions: I have no idea how I’ll do either of those. I think the lighthouse will be put on the backburner for a little while. This was a huge project, and…[Read more]

Anywhere to put that where more eyes in the LUG can see it?

Trib Article dropped yesterday: https://triblive.com/local/monroeville/lego-event-helps-families-build-memories-at-monroeville-convention-center/

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Twitter account from the Trib journalist who interviewed us on Saturday. Lots of pictures of our displays https://twitter.com/MikejDiVittorio

We had a fellow from the Tribune Review interview @Jason Middaugh and myself on the LUG. Hopefully there will be an article featuring the LUG soon

Apologies for not making it today. Will be there ~7:45 to get early door access. The lighthouse’s setup isn’t exactly trivial. The way I look at it, if setup drags past 9am for the lighthouse people will get a show on how a model like that is put together.

I’d say our best bet is to just freestyle the base. The intention way in the future is to replicate the actual base of the lighthouse today, but I think it’d be more fun to just be creative for brickfest

Lighthouse sits on a 48×48 baseplate, 58 inches tall, minifig scale. It is not raised. The only feasible way I can see to raise the lighthouse under the current time constraints is to place the entire base plate onto to something. Perhaps something that’s easier, and possibly more accurate, is to build a sand dune barrier between the sand and grass

I’ll be bringing my lighthouse model, but the base is looking a little bare. If anyone wants to bring any beach related lego items feel free to do so. I think it could be fun to have a small beach collaboration at the base of the lighthouse

I walked past the model a few days ago and slipped on the base plate, causing the entire model to suddenly jerk about 8 inches to the side. Somehow it didn’t fall over or suffer any significant damage.

Currently stands at 58 inches tall. I’d love to expand the footprint, but there’s no way it’d be done in time for brickfest.

I guess the only thing of note is to counteract any weight destribution problems the structure might have. The lighthouse is very top heavy, so I had to make the base and central support structure wide enough and strong enough for it to take the weight of the top parts instead of relying on the round walls to

Jordan Carr

I should be good to do 9/11 and 9/12. Just wanna double check that I don’t have to have tickets in order to be there.

I will be bringing my lighthouse then. Just ordered all the parts I need to finish it. Will the meeting on 8/28 cover what we need to do for setup?