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Subject: 
Contraption 2001 - MichLUG Space Colony Display a Sucess!
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Mon, 25 Jun 2001 16:20:53 GMT
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To All,

MichLUG did a new kind of event this weekend, called Contraption, held in
Roseville Michigan at the Eastin Hotel. I am not sure if any club has ever
done this before, but I think this might be a good way of having the space
and castle people have a way to display items, much like the GATS shows do
for trains. We had a great time, and are invited back for more! : )

Here is the web site for Contraption:

http://users.iglide.net/phoenix/contraption2001/contraption.htm

Here is the Brickshelf account, I will highlight some pictures:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=5191

We decided to build a futuristic space colony, maybe somewhere nearby, or
faraway, but we felt this was a good approach. We learned a lot from this
display, and will make a better one next time!

I am including what happened to me, so feel free to add thoughts, comments,
etc. Amy will post it on the website soon.

Friday – June 22, 2001:

I spent most of the morning printing out pictures for the display, they came
out real nice, and Rick Hallman did an excellent job with his models. I also
want to thank James Davis, the Blacktron guy, his site is www.blacktron.net,
and Austin, his site is http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/glengarry/ , and
Trevor Pruden’s site, The Astro Lift Company (
http://members.home.net/tpruden3/index.html ) for all of their submissions,
thanks again gentlemen!

I took half a day off to get there around 5:00PM, hopefully. I stopped by
Marshall, Michigan, for a liquid refreshment break, and saw a Shell Station
that looked a lot like mine! I would love to have a Coffee Beanery in it,
but I might not have enough room for it. Here are the pictures of that!

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51056
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51057
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51058

I drove up to Lansing, going through a whole bunch of construction zones,
and got to Lansing around 4:00PM EST. I picked up Tony Hedglen first, and
then Rick Hallman, and started back. We stopped by Staples to get some
copies of our flyer made, and were on our way to Roseville. It took us about
3 hours to get there, with traffic and everything, and we ended up getting
there around 7:00PM EST.

We went in the main lobby, and went upstairs, we ran into Kai on the way up,
and told us where to go. Unfortunately, we were in a deserted hallway, apart
from the main floor, but we talked to the organizers, and we should have a
much larger room next time, near the main part.

Here is the hallway:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51059

Here is our room, the Green Room:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51060

When we arrived there, Chris Leach, Amy Hughes, Kai Brodersen, Trevor Pruden
and his wife, Janet, were there already! They started going into my stuff to
finish the display. As per typical Scott fashion, after accidentally putting
shaving cream in my hair instead of gel that morning (I was tired after
packing and loading the Suburban up) was walking back out to get something
in the mighty Suburban, and walked full speed right into a glass plate
window, luckily I did not break it, but everyone had a good chuckle at the
interesting prints my face, my hands, and my watch and wedding ring made.
Unfortunately, we forgot the stops in the Monorail track, so Chris had to
get some and bring it in Saturday. We also met Amy’s friend, Rain, who
seemed really nice. Rick and I made a food run to McDonalds, and had
probably the worst and slowest service I have seen in many moons.

Here are some pictures:

Here is Chris holding up a MichLUG logo he made:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51089

Trevor had his ships and various buildings there, here are pictures:

Table of Ships: - http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51077
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51085
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51087

Most of the pictures are of Trevor’s items, so I will let him comment on
some if he wants.

Kai brought his awesome TIE fighter renditions:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51072
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51075
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51076

Amy brought her massive office building:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51078

This reminds me of SW: Episode 1
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51079
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51080
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51081
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51082
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51083

Rick brought his hanger, a medical building, and other various vehicles,
including his awesome Iron Eagle! Unfortunately, I don’t think I have many
pictures of your stuff, Rick. Make sure you bug me about it! ; )
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51071
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51065
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51062

I brought about everything else: My Octan tank, my Waste Processing Plant, a
ton of vehicles and ships, pictures for the display. It appears I did not
pictures of my stuff, either.  =D’oh!
Part of Octan tank:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51065

Here is the ship Trevor, Tim Courtney, and myself worked on last weekend:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51084

Here is my water process plant, in the middle:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51069

I will add the stuff I built to my pages soon.

Tony Hedglen brought his two great buildings, his red office towers and his
black house with gardens. I did not get a good picture of that, either. I’m
fired!!!

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51073
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51069

Here are some overall pictures of the space colony:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51069
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51063
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51064
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?I=51065
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?I=51066
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?I=51067
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?I=51068
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?I=51069
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?I=51070
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?I=51071
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?I=51072
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?I=51073
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?I=51074

Anyway, we had lots of fun getting things set up, we had to get some more
tables, but with the small area, we could not have anymore. Another problem
we had was the fact that we, the displayers, were in the way of the items,
and there really wasn’t enough room to do anything about it, so it was a
little tight.

List of People on Friday:
Chris Leach
Rick Hallman
Amy Hughes
Kai Brodersen
Tony Hedglen
Trevor & Janet Pruden
Scott Sanburn

We adjourned for the night around 10:00~11:00PM, and left. Tony and I drove
up to Flint, and slept at my parent’s house. We tried to get a hotel room,
but it was 120.00 for one night!!, and only a single bed. No thanks!

Saturday, June 23rd, 2001:

Tony and I departed Flint around 8:30AM or so, and drove down. We stopped by
the TRU nearby and got some 3033’s just in case. We arrived around 10:30AM,
and started yet again. Rick, Amy, Trevor & Janet, Tony, Kai, and myself were
there. Peter Guenther came, and brought his awesome Blacktron 2 ship.

Here are some pictures of Peter’s Blacktron Ship:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51091
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?I=51092
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?I=51093
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?I=51094
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?I=51095
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?I=51096

There were various people that came through throughout the weekend, nothing
like a GATS display or anything, but I saw a gentleman with a white Star
Trek Next Generation uniform, and he told me it was the Chaplin’s core
uniform. I thought it was really cool! : ) Shortly after Peter arrived,
there was a young girl who was our GOPHER, and she stayed in the room while
we went to breakfast / lunch / whatever at IHOP (International House of
Pancakes, I never heard of that acronym before, but oh well) We had a waiter
there, it was his second day, and we were a handful. : ) The Coke machine
broke down, but it was fun.

We wondered back to the hotel, and worked on various things. Trevor started
working on his ship, I started building a Futuron set I had, the  Star
Defender 200, http://guide.lugnet.com/set/6932 , Tony was building some
various sets I received, Rick was setting up scenes in the colony. Spencer
stopped by and saw the display. Trevor and Peter went to a TRU on 8 mile, I
think Lindsay posted something about it last week, the 3552 Zsnap model for
3.90 and the Sith Infiltrator / Naboo Swamp set for 19.99. They bought some,
and told us. Kai had to leave also, so Tony, Amy, and myself drove over
there, I bought 5 of them, and Amy and Tony bought a few sets and the like
as well, they had some really old sets, and most of them were still full
price. Weird. We also went to Target, but there weren’t any good deals. We
drove back, and went to Meijer nearby, we found A-Wings for 8.00 and 6520
Arctic set for 15.00, so wee picked a few up, and went back to the hotel.

We went to dinner soon afterward, and decided to shut the door for a little
while. We went to Big Boy, and had some good discussions. : ) After a very
weird transaction with me AMEX, we headed back. Our GOPHER came back with
her friend and started building some stuff with the 3033’s, Rick and Chris
were already, and here is a picture of that:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51086

We also flipped through my catalogs a lot, talked about anything and
everything, and left around 11:00PM. Tony and I drove back to Lansing, since
he had to go home that night, and I slept over there, I was too tired to
drive to Flint.

People there:
Chris Leach
J. Spencer Rezkalla
Rick Hallman
Peter Guenther
Amy Hughes
Kai Brodersen
Tony Hedglen
Trevor & Janet Pruden
Scott Sanburn

Sunday, June 24th, 2001:

I drove from Lansing to Flint, and then onto Roseville after seeing my mom.
The last day of the event was really quiet, we talked with one of the
organizers, and packed up. There were not a lot of people, so I think we
could have skipped Sunday, but oh well! We all talked extensively, and had
fun packing up my Suburban. We departed around 3:30PM. I drove Rick Hallman
back to Lansing, after getting lost trying to find the KB-Toys outlet, which
had a minimal LEGO area, with nothing good. After dropping off Rick, I
managed to get to South Bend around 9:30PM EST. It was along weekend for me!

We had a lot of fun at this event, I think the next ones will be better! It
was great event for MichLUG, and I am looking forward to more of them! : )

Scott S.



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Contraption 2001 - MichLUG Space Colony Display a Sucess!
 
(...) *KLUNK* (...) The service there did stink. Our Counter peep was doing the best he could with the manager lady biting his head off the whole time. (...) Confederation Soldiers? (...) might want to try making the Fuel storage tank more cirular (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
  Re: Contraption 2001 - MichLUG Space Colony Display a Sucess!
 
Hey, all the creations on display look great, wow some of these buildings and giant space ships ar very cool. I'd enjoy doing a display like this. More to come in the future I hope. Some of the creations there I don't think I've seen before! I'm a (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)

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