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Hello all,
I will be helping in organizing the castle room this at BF 04, and I hope to
help make it the most memorable and successful Castle Room so far. I've already
been brainstorming with some other sturdy fellows well known in the AFOL
Castlehead community about what we would like to do, and at this point we have
some very cool ideas, but little is set in stone. Um, or brick for that matter.
I don't want to spill the beans on everything we have planned, because we may
not be able to do everything we are thinking of now, and a bit of "seeing when
you get there" will surely be a good thing. I can say however that a CCC
(Classic cCastle City) display IS of course being planned, and I'm very excited
about how this will pan out. Anybody not familar with this modular castle
building system can check out the website at: www.classic-castle.com
I'm also aware that many people may be building Castle/fantasy/medieval etc
related MOCs independent of the CCC system (including me incidently) and these
will also be welcomed and encouraged. Register for Brickfest and fill out those
MOC cards as soon as you know what sort of things you will be bringing- it helps
us a whole lot with planning space considerations etc - No not THAT kind of
"space" j/k :).
Brickfest is three months away, which seems like a while, but in terms of
actually organizing everything it isn't that much time. What I'd like to know at
this stage is a couple of things:
Who is coming this year, and if so, what sort of MOCs are you hoping/planning on
bringing to the Castle Room? Themes such as ancient history and fantasy will
probably also end up in the castle room, so do let us know!
Whether you are coming this year or not, who has been to BF in the past, and
what did you like about the Castle room, and what would you have liked to see
more or less of?
Can I get a rough head count (not binding of course), as to how many souls might
be interested in taking part in some sort of medieval related wargaming -
probably not Brickwars I might add. If there is significant interest, I'm
thinking about organizing something which can be played at a pretty quick pace,
and which does not demand that players set aside whole hours at a time to
participate. No firm plans yet, but the more interest I get, the firmer my plans
may become.
And more ideas for cool things to do are always welcome of course.
Thats all for now. I'm looking forward to meeting as many of you guys as can
make it.
cheers
Magnus
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In lugnet.castle, Magnus Lauglo wrote:
> I don't want to spill the beans on everything we have planned, because we may
> not be able to do everything we are thinking of now, and a bit of "seeing when
> you get there" will surely be a good thing. I can say however that a CCC
> (Classic Castle City) display IS of course being planned, and I'm very excited
> about how this will pan out. Anybody not familar with this modular castle
> building system can check out the website at: www.classic-castle.com
>
> I'm also aware that many people may be building Castle/fantasy/medieval etc
> related MOCs independent of the CCC system (including me incidently) and these
> will also be welcomed and encouraged. Register for Brickfest and fill out those
> MOC cards as soon as you know what sort of things you will be bringing- it helps
> us a whole lot with planning space considerations etc - No not THAT kind of
> "space" j/k :).
>
> Brickfest is three months away, which seems like a while, but in terms of
> actually organizing everything it isn't that much time. What I'd like to know at
> this stage is a couple of things:
>
> Who is coming this year, and if so, what sort of MOCs are you hoping/planning on
> bringing to the Castle Room? Themes such as ancient history and fantasy will
> probably also end up in the castle room, so do let us know!
>
> Whether you are coming this year or not, who has been to BF in the past, and
> what did you like about the Castle room, and what would you have liked to see
> more or less of?
>
> Can I get a rough head count (not binding of course), as to how many souls might
> be interested in taking part in some sort of medieval related wargaming -
> probably not Brickwars I might add. If there is significant interest, I'm
> thinking about organizing something which can be played at a pretty quick pace,
> and which does not demand that players set aside whole hours at a time to
> participate. No firm plans yet, but the more interest I get, the firmer my plans
> may become.
>
> And more ideas for cool things to do are always welcome of course.
Something I'd like to see for the C.C.C. layout is a list of which wall
sections people need to bring the most of and the least of. We can't have
everyone bring straight sections or everyone bring corners. Once we get people
to commit to building certain wall sections, they can start putting dibs on what
their section will be. That way we can aviod having a situation where the
entire city's wall is gate after gate after gate...
Do you know if the Castle room is going to be the same room that it was at
last year's BrickFest? It seemed a little small last year. (Of course, that
may have been because of that one super-mega-giant-huge castle.) If we have
good participation with the C.C.C., we might need a bigger room.
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In lugnet.castle, Magnus Lauglo wrote:
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Hello all,
I will be helping in organizing the castle room this at BF 04, and I hope to
help make it the most memorable and successful Castle Room so far. I’ve
already been brainstorming with some other sturdy fellows well known in the
AFOL Castlehead community about what we would like to do, and at this point we
have some very cool ideas, but little is set in stone. Um, or brick for that
matter.
I don’t want to spill the beans on everything we have planned, because we may
not be able to do everything we are thinking of now, and a bit of “seeing when
you get there” will surely be a good thing. I can say however that a CCC
(Classic cCastle City) display IS of course being planned, and I’m very
excited about how this will pan out. Anybody not familar with this modular
castle building system can check out the website at: www.classic-castle.com
I’m also aware that many people may be building Castle/fantasy/medieval etc
related MOCs independent of the CCC system (including me incidently) and these
will also be welcomed and encouraged. Register for Brickfest and fill out
those MOC cards as soon as you know what sort of things you will be bringing-
it helps us a whole lot with planning space considerations etc - No not THAT
kind of “space” j/k :).
Brickfest is three months away, which seems like a while, but in terms of
actually organizing everything it isn’t that much time. What I’d like to know
at this stage is a couple of things:
Who is coming this year, and if so, what sort of MOCs are you hoping/planning
on bringing to the Castle Room? Themes such as ancient history and fantasy
will probably also end up in the castle room, so do let us know!
Whether you are coming this year or not, who has been to BF in the past, and
what did you like about the Castle room, and what would you have liked to see
more or less of?
Can I get a rough head count (not binding of course), as to how many souls
might be interested in taking part in some sort of medieval related wargaming
- probably not Brickwars I might add. If there is significant interest, I’m
thinking about organizing something which can be played at a pretty quick
pace, and which does not demand that players set aside whole hours at a time
to participate. No firm plans yet, but the more interest I get, the firmer my
plans may become.
And more ideas for cool things to do are always welcome of course.
Thats all for now. I’m looking forward to meeting as many of you guys as can
make it.
cheers
Magnus
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I will be bringing two large CCC structures (large for me anyway - 50 studs long
or so), and several smaller CCC structures like
these. I will contribute at least
one CCC wall module as well. I probably won’t be doing any gaming.
For the CCC display, I think it would be neat to have a way to identify who made
what. You could assign different colors and combinations of flags to
contributors to attach to their buildings - Tom’s buildings have blue over
yellow flags, Dick is green/white, Harry is black/white/red, etc.
Marc Nelson Jr.
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> Something I'd like to see for the C.C.C. layout is a list of which wall
> sections people need to bring the most of and the least of. We can't have
> everyone bring straight sections or everyone bring corners. Once we get people
> to commit to building certain wall sections, they can start putting dibs on what
> their section will be. That way we can aviod having a situation where the
> entire city's wall is gate after gate after gate...
Wow, what a sort of problem I'd like to deal with ;). At PDX the main issue was
just getting enough wall to enclose the whole city. As it is now, we will
probably have more buildings than wall (which again, is a *good* problem, not a
bad one).
It seems straight sections are more common than corners. However, many corners
will mean a more interesting shape.
I've got two towers and two straights, and I'm thinking about doing an off-style
wall that curves around and stuff. I know Jason Spears is bringing about four
or five straights of his modified standard (which meshes well with 3CS).
The real thing I need is just a list of what people are planning to bring and
what they could bring if we needed them to - so I'll try to plan out a design
that fits what people bring.
-Lenny
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For the CCC display, I think it would be neat to have a way to identify who
made what. You could assign different colors and combinations of flags to
contributors to attach to their buildings - Tom’s buildings have blue over
yellow flags, Dick is green/white, Harry is black/white/red, etc.
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Hey Marc, I’m glad to hear that you are bringing stuff for the 3CS display! I’m
very excited about how it will look!
As it looks now, a few people will be bringing quite a few 3CS houses, etc. My
idea is to have “neighbor hoods”, where all of Jason Spears’s stuff would be in
one section, My stuff in another, Lar’s in another, etc. OF course that depends
on having enough wall sections to break the town up like that, etc.
But flags are definately a good idea, especially for people who only bring a few
mocs. The main issue I see is properly defining who gets what flag. We could
be looking at something like twenty different people, figuring flab situation
could take a while and possibly be very complicated.
-Lenny
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In lugnet.castle, Leonard Hoffman wrote:
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Wow, what a sort of problem I’d like to deal with ;). At PDX the main issue
was just getting enough wall to enclose the whole city. As it is now, we
will probably have more buildings than wall (which again, is a *good*
problem, not a bad one).
It seems straight sections are more common than corners. However, many
corners will mean a more interesting shape.
I’ve got two towers and two straights, and I’m thinking about doing an
off-style wall that curves around and stuff. I know Jason Spears is bringing
about four or five straights of his modified standard (which meshes well with
3CS).
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6 sections actually, 1 of which is a gate. I’m not sure it’s a problem, but the
whole wall is intended to be a beach
front, so I suspect it will have to be on one end of the display.
Until I finish moving and setup my LEGO area, I won’t know for sure, but I
suspect I could make up another 6 sections to the real 3C standard. Or some
combination of corners and/or towers (if a transition from the
tall wall and 3CS is needed.)
Jason Spears | BrickCentral | MichLUG
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In lugnet.castle, Leonard Hoffman wrote:
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As it looks now, a few people will be bringing quite a few 3CS houses, etc.
My idea is to have “neighbor hoods”, where all of Jason Spears’s stuff would
be in one section, My stuff in another, Lar’s in another, etc. Of course
that depends on having enough wall sections to break the town up like that,
etc.
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You mentioned the
neighborhoods on CC, but I don’t think I got it before. With wall sections
cutting up the areas, I think this could look really neat. That will make it
really easy to figure out who’s minifigs, buildings, roads, etc is who’s.
Although at least for Lar’s and my mocs(1), I doubt there would be any issue as
to who’s creations are who’s. They have been in the same display before and all
mixed up without any confusion at the end of the show.
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But flags are definately a good idea, especially for people who only bring a
few mocs. The main issue I see is properly defining who gets what flag. We
could be looking at something like twenty different people, figuring flab
situation could take a while and possibly be very complicated.
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Well, someone could work up a variety of combinations, make up a chart, and
people who were planning to bring buildings could email the coordinator and then
could be assigned a color combo for the flags.
Jason Spears | BrickCentral | MichLUG
(1) Actually, I’m hoping to bring Ken Koleda’s
houses as well, so that
would be another 12. Hmm... gotta ask him about that.
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In lugnet.castle, Jason Spears wrote:
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In lugnet.castle, Leonard Hoffman wrote:
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But flags are definately a good idea, especially for people who only bring a
few mocs. The main issue I see is properly defining who gets what flag. We
could be looking at something like twenty different people, figuring flab
situation could take a while and possibly be very complicated.
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Well, someone could work up a variety of combinations, make up a chart, and
people who were planning to bring buildings could email the coordinator and
then could be assigned a color combo for the flags.
Jason Spears | BrickCentral MichLUG
(1) Actually, I’m hoping to bring Ken Koleda’s
houses as well, so
that would be another 12. Hmm... gotta ask him about that.
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To the Castle room organizers:
I am willing to take on the project of distributing and recording designation
flags if that’s what you guys decide to do.
I could put up a quick LUGNET page listing the different flag combinations and
take requests from CCC contributors, constantly updating the roster. Then during
the actual display, a big printed roster could be displayed in the Castle room
for easy attribution of MOCs.
Going by Bricklink, the 4x1
flag comes in nine colors (not counting new gray), which makes for 81 two-flag
combinations if you allow doubles (blue/blue, red/red), or 72 if you don’t. Math
isn’t my thing, so I could be wrong. Allowing three flags makes for, ummm... a
lot of combinations.
I think it would be best to limit the choice of flags to at least 2-flag
combinations, reserving single-flag designations for late-comers who hadn’t
already picked a combination (it would be easier to supply them with just one
flag).
Anyway, let me know if this is what you want to do, and I’ll put up a page and
start taking requests.
Marc Nelson Jr.
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In lugnet.castle, Leonard Hoffman wrote:
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For the CCC display, I think it would be neat to have a way to identify who
made what. You could assign different colors and combinations of flags to
contributors to attach to their buildings - Tom’s buildings have blue over
yellow flags, Dick is green/white, Harry is black/white/red, etc.
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Hey Marc, I’m glad to hear that you are bringing stuff for the 3CS display!
I’m very excited about how it will look!
As it looks now, a few people will be bringing quite a few 3CS houses, etc.
My idea is to have “neighbor hoods”, where all of Jason Spears’s stuff would
be in one section, My stuff in another, Lar’s in another, etc. OF course
that depends on having enough wall sections to break the town up like that,
etc.
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They could just be broken up by streets. See the pictures of the last 2 MichLUG
CCC displays, there are a lot of streets that divide things into blocks. That
might work.
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David,
In lugnet.castle, David Gregory wrote:
> Do you know if the Castle room is going to be the same room that it was at
> last year's BrickFest? It seemed a little small last year. (Of course, that
> may have been because of that one super-mega-giant-huge castle.) If we have
> good participation with the C.C.C., we might need a bigger room.
The room we will have for the Castle room this year will, as I understand it, be
slightly larger than last years. Every theme and special interest group at
BrickFest 2004 obviously wants as much space as possible, we'll make do with
what we have, which is NOT a small room.
There may very well be very large MOCs this year also. Filling out the MOC cards
as early as possible helps us to plan how we want to have this all laid out.
thanks
Magnus
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