Comments on: Zombie Apocafest 2009: Strategy, Tactics, & Logistics

By: fonebone933

fonebone933 — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 03:22:58 +0000

I am a new Member to Brothers-Brick, half because I am attending Brickcon… huh… I thought about making a big road with a barricade to a base at the end, and a dock behind the barricade… I refuse to use stickers or “decals” and I found myself slowly running out of darth vader heads for zombies, LOL. I found myself using those new Castle Skull heads, and the Orc heads… I am not an adult… so I won’t blow 100 bucks to make trucks like last year’s guy, I’ll use whatever I have already. I’m getting off subject. I made Half-tracks with drills and 50-cals, And I’ll take the reccomendation of security walls, I have Black Hawks getting vackees out, I have a question, do our zombies follow resident evil/NotLD standards? Doom Standards(can equip guns)? or Iamlegend/Doomed standards(can run, use simple melee weapons like hatchets and knives)?

By: tedward

tedward — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:16:28 +0000

When you say there will be boats does that mean I can stuff my ferry with fleeing survivors etc and find some “water” to drop it in?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:52:18 +0000

Regarding roads & streets, we’ll be using standard road plates that Gary McIntire will be bringing. We’d definitely like to see more variation in height and more water features, but the underlying “infrastructure” will be the same.

We considered doing a brick-built road last year, and we’ve also considered raising the buildings by a couple of plates (like the Train/Town builders do in their displays), but both options are more brick-intensive and complicated to explain to Train/Town newbies like myself. ;-) It seemed easier to just go with the “Cafe Corner standard”.

By: Creative Anarchy

Creative Anarchy — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:26:41 +0000

I’m also somewhat curious about the streets. Is it going to be a similar layout to last year’s? Or are we doing something different.

By: skippy_magoo

skippy_magoo — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:24:34 +0000

I am surprised you left “Brain Eaters” by the Misfits off this list; especially considering Glenn Danzig is in minifig scale IRL.

By: kunert

kunert — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:46:03 +0000

Re your playlist: Perhaps too obvious since it’s in the title sequence for the Dawn of the Dead remake, but with Johnny Cash, I definitely would have gone with The Man Comes Around instead of your pick.

By: Arpy

Arpy — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:01:41 +0000

How wide will the roads be? I’ll need to know to if I am to build any barricades.

By: legomason

legomason — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:32:16 +0000

Inspirational music video:

Leslie and the Ly’s – Zombie Killer

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:37:51 +0000

@Novus – That is an awesome song. Don’t know why I completely forgot about it.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 17:17:03 +0000

@ry: Good point. I’ve copied over the prize categories.

@Creative Anarchy: A movie theater would be awesome. Good question, but I’ll need to think about it. We can always use more zombies, of course, but we have a much bigger horde this year, so don’t worry too much about it.

@novus: Good suggestions. :-)

By: novus

novus — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:00:22 +0000

Oh and also “Re: Your brains” by Jonathan Coulton

By: novus

novus — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:50:10 +0000

Might I suggest adding: “When the World Ends” by the Dave Mathews Band to your song list? The Oakenfold remix is awesome too.

By: Creative Anarchy

Creative Anarchy — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 08:48:52 +0000

I’m frothing to do this man. I’ve actually been thinking about zombie stuff since last year’s Brick Con. I’d really like to make a movie theater for the display as well I’ve got an appocrafied vehicle in the works.

I noticed you guys have zombie-heads without number. Do you have a list of needs for the display?

By: ry

ry — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 06:33:45 +0000

How timely: I just cracked open World War Z again for inspiration :)

Side note: I thought it was interesting you didn’t drop a reminder about the prize categories into this post. If I hadn’t read the other Apocafest 2009 article recently (and I do see you linked it here,) I wouldn’t know. Just a thought.