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Matt's Roller Coaster is Back!
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lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.us.wa, lugnet.loc.us.or, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.org.us.sealug, lugnet.loc.ca.bc, lugnet.loc.us.id, lugnet.loc.us.ca
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lugnet.events.brickfest
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Fri, 9 Jan 2004 03:52:28 GMT
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I will be showing my roller coaster one last time at BrickFest PDX this February. If you want to see it in action, come to this
event, because it will be taken apart afterwards (unless someone decides they
want to own it for themselves, of course). See what Todd Lehman has called “one
of the 7 wonders of the LEGO world”.
The roller coaster is 126 track sections long and carries a 3-car, 12 minifigure
passenger train from the station, up and around to the elevator ramp to the top
(4.5 foot elevation gain). Gravity then takes over for the next 10 seconds or
so as the train goes around a curve, drops 4 feet, goes up through an inverted
loop, around a banked turn, down again and up over a hump, then through a 540
degree spiral and back to the station.
View pictures and video of the first version of the coaster, shown at GATS in
Portland 2 years ago at Matt’s
Lego Creations. Since then, it has been considerably improved and shown again
at the PNLTC Beaverton Mall show in Beaverton, Oregon a
year and a half ago. At BrickFest PDX, you will see
the latest, greatest and final version.
Hope to see you there!
-Matt :)
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Matt's Roller Coaster is Back!
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| My brother and I built a roller coaster back in 1980 (I was only 12 at the time)!! And yes of course, it was based on the roller coaster from the ideas book 241. We didn't have enough rail tracks; it was only a downhill (from top of a book-case, (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jan-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
| | | Re: Matt's Roller Coaster is Back!
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| (...) Oh, I wish I could see it with my own eyes for once...(Living in Holland, the States are a bit too far away from me of course...) (...) AAaaaaarrRRRggGGGGHHhhHh!!! (...) You mean you're willing to sell it? Oooh, wish I had the money for it.... (...) (20 years ago, 11-Jan-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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