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In the spirit of the recent Classic Space building contest, I'm proposing (and am willing to organise) a building contest for us TOWN junkies. I have some ideas of how we can do it (and I've set up a placeholder page on LUGNET for it, same as Todd (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Poor timing for me since in your time frame my church will use up most of my pieces. I intend to enter it, though, in the obscene-number-of-pieces category :-) (...) Consistency would be great. I vote for minifig. (...) Keep the number of (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.town)
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Amy Hughes wrote in message ... (...) my (...) category Sounds good to me. Better make sure we have that category :-) (...) I think we could have different scales without too much trouble, and making it minifig-only excludes people like Gary Istok (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.town)
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(...) I think we shouldn't let Gary participate at all (coz he'll obviously win). <grin> Kidding, kidding! But he prolly would, too. :-) -Shiri (who *is* actually considering doing something... but what? hmm) XFUT .o-t.fun (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.town, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Shiri Dori <shirid@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:G6G54x.7Fp@lugnet.com... (...) Oh just go ahead and pick on the guy because he has more classic windows than any of us ever will. Sheesh. ;-) -Tim (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) How about a military category? KZ (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.town)
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Kevin Zwicker wrote in message ... (...) Military seems to me to deserve a whole separate contest, like Trains. Kevin (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Scale should not be a criteria with structures. Think about it...most people build town models to minifig scale already but what about the few who don't. Do we exclude them or create categories especially for these other scales, knowing that (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.town)
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(...) I was thinking about this the other day. I guess that if you built a military base or academy in your town, it would fit into and compete in a category with the "civilian" structures. After all, the base employees live and work in your town (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Fabuland? thank you... Bendy arm big people too? microscale? (...) Would this be one vote per catergory? How about some across the board awards ? best use of color most unexpected/creative/novel use of an element overall favorite best use of (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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How about just 3 catagories: ~100 pieces ~1000 Pieces ~unlimited So, you would have vehicles in the ~100 piece catagory, along with parks, park benches, and other neat (small) things. Smaller houses/buildings would fall into the ~1000 piece (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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In lugnet.town, Sheree Rosenkrantz writes: <snip> (...) Ooooh, ooh! Please do include microscale. That would be totally nifty; I'd love to do something for the contest if it included microscale. I don't think I'd have the time for a minifig-scale (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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| | TOWN building contest - categories
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Well, I've read all the discussion of what to include as categories and I'm going to take a stab at a resulting list. First some blurb... if I included all the categories everyone has suggested we'd have so many there would be very few models in (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: TOWN building contest - categories
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In lugnet.town, Kevin Wilson writes: [snip] (...) [snip] (...) [snip] It looks like you came to a very good solution. I'm ready! -Suz (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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