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That is awesome, I have such admiration for your LUG's fellowship.
congrats
e
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In lugnet.announce, Jonathan Dallas wrote:
> Hey Everyone,
>
> I just wanted to announce that NELUG now holds the offical record for fastest
> time building the Imperial Star Destroyer. 10 NELUG members got together on
> October 30th to break the German's record of 1hr and 2mins. Kurt Rachdorf, the
> LEGO store manager, was there to record the time and make it official. Final
> time was 54mins and 21.47secs. We shattered the record by 8 minutes.
>
> To make things even better we did this as a public event in the middle of the
> Solomon Pond Mall in Marlboro, MA. Kurt had a mini Tie Fighter build off
> for the visitors who came by and several built Star Wars sets were on display.
>
> Here are some photos from the event.
>
> Photo of the stop watch:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/guigui/ISD-Build/imgp2478.jpg
>
> Alfred's photos:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=103415
> Doug's photos:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=103324
> My photos:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/guigui/ISD-Build
> PDF of the flyer that was passed out:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/RLegault/ISD/isd_build_flyer_3.pdf
>
>
> Jonathan Dallas
> www.nelug.org
Congrats, gang!
I only regret I wasn't able to be there to see it in person (or participate!) I
couldn't get there--I had to do my local (i.e. Outlet store) part to keep our
favorite toy company to come out of the red. For once, I'm glad I wasn't
consulted on building it...goes to show you just because one has experience,
sometimes it's better to go a different route...
Hm...what's next? 30 minutes?
Seriously, I'm happy you got the record back on this side of the pond!
Scott Lyttle
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In lugnet.events, Scott Lyttle wrote:
> I only regret I wasn't able to be there to see it in person (or participate!)
> I couldn't get there--I had to do my local (i.e. Outlet store) part to keep
> our favorite toy company to come out of the red. For once, I'm glad I wasn't
> consulted on building it...goes to show you just because one has experience,
> sometimes it's better to go a different route...
Actually, some of your suggestions were spot-on--
We had to change strategies quite a few times after seeing what worked and what
didn't! The preceeding Sunday we had a dry-run practice which took us about 1
hour, 20 minutes, plus we sorta... "worked around" a couple mistakes that day,
so if we had taken the time to correct them on the dry-run, maybe even an hour
and a half.
As I believe you had pointed out to us, our initial "piece reservoir" was indeed
too small, and got enlarged just before the event. And the amount of time spent
piece-sorting was cut down quite a bit, and made a bit more logical rather than
memorized by piece utility. (A "practice sorting drill" 20 minutes or so before
the event revealed a piece-sort time of ... uh... 6+ minutes?)
Apparently those changes plus the experience of doing one already really helped
out on the actual event day!
> Hm...what's next? 30 minutes?
I definitely think it could still be sped up-- there were some bits of idle time
floating around here and there, but not a whole lot.
> Seriously, I'm happy you got the record back on this side of the pond!
I'm looking forward to seeing the 50 minute mark get broken next!
DaveE
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