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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message
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> > Some pictures here: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=25643
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> Thanks for sharing these. Can anyone give some more details? Where did all
> the bricks come from? Are the segments a standard design? Who developed • it?
> Were the millipede segments prebuilt or built on site? Was this an • official
> sanctioned LEGO event? Was it an official world record event?
It seemed fairly LEGO-sanctioned, and world-record officials were mentioned
several times. There seemed to be roughly between two and three hundred
children and parents. There was a bandstand laying music and announcements
were periodically made, LEGO prizes were also given out but we weren't there
to see them.
Things that left an impression on me:
* Piles and piles and piles of light gray 2x4s and 2x8s. There was something
about the huge number of light gray bricks lying around and mixed in with
the other colours that made the abundant 40(?)-litre tubs of bricks very
aesthetically pleasing. Sadly the LEGO workers take all those squillions of
bricks away afterwards. [dream] Dear LEGO, please sell me 100,000 used exc.
cond. 'light gray 2x4', AUD$0.01 per brick [/dream]
* I was a beautiful day for it. Sunny, but not too warm, which was lucky
because they didn't have a drink stand, which IMO is an oversight - two
hundred dehydrated children would be a bad thing!
* It never ceases to amaze me to see how badly some parents were
interlocking the brick structures and patterning the colours, compared with
how _well_ some unsupervised children were doing it... I think it was
Sigmund Freud who said, "how distressing the contrast between the radiant
intelligence of the child, and the feeble mentality of the average adult."
He was obviously referring to mundanes, not us. ;-)
--
Cheers,
Paul
LUGNET member 164
http://www.geocities.com/doctorshnub/
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