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Pick-A-Brick is our friend.
I’m an excellent procrastinator. Over the last month or so, I’ve been
surreptitiously working on an actual physical brick MOC, when I should’ve been
doing other things. You can tell me if it was worth it.
The design itself isn’t really noteworthy, except maybe for the half-plate
offset of the tiles to give it a layered look. What really catches the eye is
the sheer amount of dark red 1x4 tiles. Since I lack imagination or originality,
I call it BinkTower.
(Click thumbnail for Brickshelf gallery)
This was born of several trips to the Washington Square Pick-A-Brick wall, where
one day dark red 1x4 tiles showed up and were immediately cleared out (not just
by me). While puttering around and avoiding more important things, I saw a way
to use a pair of 1x1 washing machine parts, a 1x4 black plate, and the coveted
1x4 dark red tiles to build a
meta-brick. Put eight
of those together, you get a panel. Put about 40 of those together, you get one story of a building.
Add 1x2x2 smoke panels and you get some nifty windows. Since I’m a slow builder,
it took a while for me to get the whole thing together. I rebuilt it a couple of
times before I was happy with it. The structure is actually quite stable.
Fun BinkTower Stats
- 29 inches tall with a gray baseplate footprint
- ~98% of the bricks used came from local store’s Pick-A-Brick
- 2,000+ dark red 1x4 tiles
- 4,000+ red 1x1 washing machine bricks
- 2,000+ black 1x4 plates
- 600+ trans-smoke 1x2x2 panels
- Building is completely hollow
- Foundation uses dark bley modified bricks[1]
- Est. PaB cost: $150; est. BrickLink cost: $350; est. LEGOFactory PaB online cost: $800
- ATM awning is the obligatory Bionicle piece
I’ll be showing this at BrickFest, assuming my kids don’t trash it in the
meantime (they shouldn’t).
Kelly
[1] Binky’s secret Brick Mutilation Recipe
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| (...) Nice building. Great color. Nice building technique. I love the foundation bricks. When I can, I use the similar styled MegoBlok bricks. And, while at Toy Fair this year I noticed Knex had a similar brick. (...) Wow! I was approaching $60.00 (...) (17 years ago, 26-Feb-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| Kelly- This is great! And more importantly, you beat me to it! I was down at that very PAB wall a while ago and bought myself loads of red headlight bricks and 1x4 dark red tile. I have the first two floors of a building built with this exact same (...) (17 years ago, 26-Feb-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| Big and red and shockingly affordable ; ) Good work all round! The atm looks very different to the ones I'm used to but that is probably just a regional thing... God Bless, Nathan (URL) (17 years ago, 26-Feb-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| (...) -snip (...) Excellent work! I was checking this out on Brickshelf a little earlier. Seeing so many parts compose this structure is so cool to see! Plus "ya done good" with the ATM awning! But, I want your Mask/USB Flash drive. :( Great (...) (17 years ago, 26-Feb-07, to lugnet.town)
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| (...) I helped clear out some of those dark red 1 x 4 tiles, too. But certainly didn't do as an effective job as you. ;o) I think the building is very well done, and certainly looks beautiful. -best, Wolf (17 years ago, 26-Feb-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| (...) Kelly- Who are you kidding? This building is great! And what else SHOULD you be doing if it isn't building?! (You ARE allowed to do things besides run LEGO websites and organize BF and ...)! I look forward to seeing it in person. -Ted (17 years ago, 27-Feb-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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