Comments on: Stop, collaborate and listen

By: Herman

Herman — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:25:29 +0000

I’ve made a few small projects and already found out Lego requires a lot of logistics and financial research.

I’ve put it on my resumé as well. It’s a good conversation starter and it suggests creativity, now I can add logistics.

Still a project this big… hopefully one day I’ll contribute to it, but for now I’ll try and fill up me own attic.

By: bluemoose

bluemoose — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:09:37 +0000

It was a great collaborative build to be part of, and Ed did a great job of keeping us all focussed & productive in the final weeks :-)

By: roguefx

roguefx — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:28:47 +0000

Vanilla Ice…heh

By: Chandler Parker

Chandler Parker — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:58:20 +0000

This is the best blog title ever.

By: The Mad Physicist

The Mad Physicist — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:19:30 +0000

The quantity of parts in this display was pretty staggering. It used something like 9000 1×2 transparent blue tiles for instance. Planning and getting the parts are undoubtedly an important part of a project like this, although in terms of the time it took probably still far less so than actually putting bricks together -certainly for me.

I had the pleasure of building most of the vehicles, two largish buildings and a few smaller bits and bobs for the display. In terms of parts my contribution certainly wasn’t the largest; several hundreds of Pounds worth of stuff all in all.

There were about a dozen of us in this, each with substantial LEGO collections and with the willingness to put a fairly large part of those collections into this display. I don’t think any of us would have wanted to do something on this scale and with this level of detail on our own (although Ed’s HMS Hood probably comes pretty close).

Cheers,
Ralph

By: Doctor Sinister

Doctor Sinister — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:57:39 +0000

Just a small aside, we’re the Brickish Association, not Society. :-)

(I had nothing to do with this particular display, although you can see my sig-fig stealing a balloon in the above picture)

Dr. S.

By: Paganomation

Paganomation — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:55:08 +0000

Will it ever stop? Yo, I don’t know.

By: gambort

gambort — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:50:22 +0000

People spend quite a lot of money but they also work out how to get the best deals. And the road is built from bricks, not plates.

By: dougidle

dougidle — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:34:22 +0000

Thanks Herman – the roads actually made of 90% brick which is (slighly) cheaper than building it from plate.

By: Herman

Herman — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:16:44 +0000

Impressive work.

I keep wondering where people get all the money from to build such an awesome piece. I mean, the entire road is created from plates, that’s quite costly.