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In lugnet.castle, Chris Maddison writes:
> Hee, hee. Here's another one for you to reply to.
Out of principle, I WON'T reply!
"Um, Shiri...? You just did."
"Oh. Ooops."
;-)
> One comment, and I'll quit
> buggin' you. ;) You should do a NANOfig scale city (1x1x3 skyscapers, small
> buildings as 1x1 plates, etc. Just an idea, I don't know how it'd look.
That'd be cool, but it would be really hard to convey what it is, I guess...
-Shiri
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Shiri Dori wrote:
> > One comment, and I'll quit
> > buggin' you. ;) You should do a NANOfig scale city (1x1x3 skyscapers, small
> > buildings as 1x1 plates, etc. Just an idea, I don't know how it'd look.
>
> That'd be cool, but it would be really hard to convey what it is, I guess...
In junior high, we had a classroom project which was built to such a
scale. It was a study of Seattle WA, and different color bricks
represented different types of buildings. I'd love to get the baseplate
(it had the harbor and lake printed on it). I think the baseplate may
also have had contours printed on it (it was a flat baseplate, I think
48x48).
If anyone else has any information on this educational kit, I'd love to
hear from you. I'm pretty sure it was LEGO, and I'm also pretty sure it
was a commercial product (but could have been put together by a small
company, and not be a Dacta product). The kit came with all sorts of
study materials, and the city layout was done at three different stages
in history.
Another interesting part of the study was that they didn't tell you it
was Seattle, they just told the story of how it was settled and roughly
where it was. I figured it out by studying rail lines on maps (I think I
was the first in the class to figure it out). It left enough of an
impression that when we were approaching Seattle a few years later on a
cross country vacation, I recognized that we were real close when we
started crossing the lake.
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Frank Filz
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In lugnet.castle, Frank Filz writes:
> In junior high, we had a classroom project which was built to such a
> scale. It was a study of Seattle WA, and different color bricks
> represented different types of buildings. I'd love to get the baseplate
> (it had the harbor and lake printed on it). I think the baseplate may
> also have had contours printed on it (it was a flat baseplate, I think
> 48x48).
Wow, that's cool! Sounds like a great thing... how long ago was this?
> It left enough of an
> impression that when we were approaching Seattle a few years later on a
> cross country vacation, I recognized that we were real close when we
> started crossing the lake.
<grin>
"What's that? A skyscraper, hmm... looks just like those three bricks I saw in
that school project!"
</grin>
-Shiri
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Shiri Dori wrote in message ...
> In lugnet.castle, Frank Filz writes:
> > In junior high, we had a classroom project which was built to such a
> > scale. It was a study of Seattle WA, and different color bricks
> > represented different types of buildings. I'd love to get the baseplate
> > (it had the harbor and lake printed on it). I think the baseplate may
> > also have had contours printed on it (it was a flat baseplate, I think
> > 48x48).
> Wow, that's cool! Sounds like a great thing... how long ago was this?
1976 or 1977
Frank
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Frank Filz wrote:
> Shiri Dori wrote in message ...
> > In lugnet.castle, Frank Filz writes:
> > > In junior high, we had a classroom project which was built to such a
> > > scale. It was a study of Seattle WA, and different color bricks
> > > represented different types of buildings. I'd love to get the baseplate
> > > (it had the harbor and lake printed on it). I think the baseplate may
> > > also have had contours printed on it (it was a flat baseplate, I think
> > > 48x48).
>
>
> > Wow, that's cool! Sounds like a great thing... how long ago was this?
>
> 1976 or 1977
>
> Frank
Frank, I don't remember ever having seen a 48x48 (or 50x50) baseplate in
anything other than all gray. The only exception to this (AFAIK) was a 50x50
1970 Samsonite only LEGO green plate with a curvy "T" shaped roadway on it.
Since this roadway had no markings, and was somewhat light blue (rather than
gray) in color, it could be used for water as well as roadway. Could this
one be it? It was totally flat though. Otherwise I don't remember any other
variations to the large plates.
Gary Istok
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Gary Istok wrote:
>
> Frank Filz wrote:
>
> > Shiri Dori wrote in message ...
> > > In lugnet.castle, Frank Filz writes:
> > > > In junior high, we had a classroom project which was built to such a
> > > > scale. It was a study of Seattle WA, and different color bricks
> > > > represented different types of buildings. I'd love to get the baseplate
> > > > (it had the harbor and lake printed on it). I think the baseplate may
> > > > also have had contours printed on it (it was a flat baseplate, I think
> > > > 48x48).
> >
> >
> > > Wow, that's cool! Sounds like a great thing... how long ago was this?
> >
> > 1976 or 1977
> >
> > Frank
>
> Frank, I don't remember ever having seen a 48x48 (or 50x50) baseplate in
> anything other than all gray. The only exception to this (AFAIK) was a 50x50
> 1970 Samsonite only LEGO green plate with a curvy "T" shaped roadway on it.
> Since this roadway had no markings, and was somewhat light blue (rather than
> gray) in color, it could be used for water as well as roadway. Could this
> one be it? It was totally flat though. Otherwise I don't remember any other
> variations to the large plates.
Well, there is another exception of course, but it's rather current...
The Soccer baseplate, 48x48 green...
This was a flat baseplate, with printing, I don't think it had any
unstudded area (i.e. not a custom mold). It could easily have been a
non-TLC printing on a standard LEGO grey baseplate, or it could be a
custom order (even if the kit wasn't sold by DACTA or whatever). It most
definitely was NOT the Samsonite road plate (the non-studded area on
that just would not have worked with the excercise).
Of course it could be totally non-LEGO at all...
--
Frank Filz
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Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com (business only please)
Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com
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In lugnet.castle, Frank Filz writes:
> Gary Istok wrote:
> >
> > Frank Filz wrote:
> >
> > > Shiri Dori wrote in message ...
> > > > In lugnet.castle, Frank Filz writes:
> > > > > In junior high, we had a classroom project which was built to such a
> > > > > scale. It was a study of Seattle WA, and different color bricks
> > > > > represented different types of buildings. I'd love to get the baseplate
> > > > > (it had the harbor and lake printed on it). I think the baseplate may
> > > > > also have had contours printed on it (it was a flat baseplate, I think
> > > > > 48x48).
> > >
> > >
> > > > Wow, that's cool! Sounds like a great thing... how long ago was this?
> > >
> > > 1976 or 1977
> > >
> > > Frank
I think this soccer base plate did have printed lines on it - white lines for
the soccer pitch markings?
> >
> > Frank, I don't remember ever having seen a 48x48 (or 50x50) baseplate in
> > anything other than all gray. The only exception to this (AFAIK) was a • 50x50
> > 1970 Samsonite only LEGO green plate with a curvy "T" shaped roadway on it.
> > Since this roadway had no markings, and was somewhat light blue (rather than
> > gray) in color, it could be used for water as well as roadway. Could this
> > one be it? It was totally flat though. Otherwise I don't remember any • other
> > variations to the large plates.
>
> Well, there is another exception of course, but it's rather current...
> The Soccer baseplate, 48x48 green...
>
> This was a flat baseplate, with printing, I don't think it had any
> unstudded area (i.e. not a custom mold). It could easily have been a
> non-TLC printing on a standard LEGO grey baseplate, or it could be a
> custom order (even if the kit wasn't sold by DACTA or whatever). It most
> definitely was NOT the Samsonite road plate (the non-studded area on
> that just would not have worked with the excercise).
>
> Of course it could be totally non-LEGO at all...
>
> --
> Frank Filz
>
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