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Re: New MOC: 30,000 piece neighborhood with minfigs that walk around
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lugnet.town
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Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:46:06 GMT
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Wow that is amazing! I can only imagine how much trial and error was
required to get the whole minifig-walking aspect right.
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Thanks!
How much trial & error? Well, way too much -- but still not enough! :) In
retrospect, there were a few things that I could have planned better to make it
much less of a pain:
For example, the paths of the minifigs cross each other. I did that to make the
motion look a little more random, and less mechanical. But this meant that the
machinery had to be synchronized so that the figs wouldn’t bump into each other,
or so that the mechanisms underneath wouldn’t jam into each other as paths
crossed. (What a pain!) It also meant that I had very few places to add
supports for the baseplates above. That, in turn, led to floppy baseplates,
which introduced a giant world of friction problems and loss-of-contact with the
magnets.
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Your LEGO studio is to-die-for - having foam playmats on the floor
is an excellent idea.
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LOL, thanks. :)
Those playmats are hard to find! I found them in 4-packs at a Target here in
Austin; I proceded to buy out the entire supply of 4 Targets here in Austin.
Now I’ve discovered that Lowes has tons of them (cheaper too!) at a larger
scale.
Although since they’re so brightly colored, it makes it easy to lose
similarly-colored LEGO pieces on the floor! :)
But after having my “LEGO studio” crammed into a 1 bedroom Manhattan apartment,
it’s nice to have a lot of “Texas sized” space in my new place to really spread
out. You need to for a project this big!
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Did you glue the entire display together?
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Yes... all of the models are glued. Each building can be lifted up (they’re
resting on tiles) for easier transport, and the two larger buildings separate
into sections. The base, containing the machinery, is 8 feet by 4 feet, and
splits into four 2 x 4 foot sections. I was lucky that the event was in Dallas
(“only” 200 miles away) because shipping something like this would have been a
nightmare!
Sean
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