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Re: Brickswest mecha stuff
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Wed, 20 Feb 2002 09:36:28 GMT
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Jeff Ranjo wrote:

In lugnet.build.mecha, Christopher Snead writes:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=121422

I could have played with LBB all weekend long!  Eric is a genius.

hehe...yes, he is!



I also got to meet Jeff Ranjo.  After seeing his two newest mecha, I had the urge to run out and buy a bunch of new Bionicle sets just so I can make a copy of his stuff.

Good! It's nice to see others are starting to respect the ball socket joints properly!



Sun Yun's mecha are unbelievable!  I wanted to play with them more, but as it was, keeping kids from grabbing the mecha was a full time job, and I didn't want to encourage them by playing around with his EVA.

lol! I can just picture you slapping away their hands because you wanted to play with it! :)



I took pics of Jeff's and Sun's stuff, but I don't want to post there new stuff until they get a chance to do so.

Dave Johann also has a new mecha that is very large.  Some of the coolest legs I've seen on that scale.  That's all I really got to see before the unfortunate incident... :-(

Yep! Invictus Horriblus took a mighty fall because I didn't follow the 'Guide to Setting Up Large Scale Mecha' by Bryce McGlone. I knew the steps to take to ensure that everything held together just fine, but
didn't follow them. No worries though. I'll just present the new mecha once it's 100% ready to go...sometime in the next 3 weeks or so. Definitely before the next LUGOLA meeting at the end of March/early April.
I'll post the leg pics in a couple of days just so folks can get an idea of what I'm working on. I still haven't gone back into the red chest that IH is stored in. It's just not something I want to do at the
moment. I'd rather organize my recent acquisitions before attempting the repair/completion of Invictus Horriblus. Eric posted a couple of pics on Brickshelf that show a bit of what I was working on. It was
aproximately 70% finished at the time. I'm back down to 45% now. :(



Bryce's newest mecha is huge and frightening as ever!  Okay, Bryce, your next mecha better be a Bunny Rabbit mecha or something ;-)


I refer to it as 'What if Todd McFarlane built an EVA?'. That seems to be the most accurate description anyone's come up with so far. Wait until June before Bryce attempts anything new. I suspect he's mildly
burned out at the moment. That design took quite a while gestating, so I think he'll take a back seat to the rest of us for the time being once he publishes the descriptions about this one.


All of the mecha builders who weren't there were missed, and always in our minds.


Too true. Only a lack of time prevented me from contacting some of them so that we could display their mecha efforts. Next year I'll do better.


Later, Everyone!

Chris

My take on Brickswest '02

It was great getting a chance to meet everyone and get a chance to put a
face to their respective awesome creations.

Chris, you're a engineering nut and it was nice to get a chance to sit down
with you and talk shop about joint technology.  You, Dave and Bryce gave a
great lecture on mecha and I'm glad I was there to get it on tape.  If you
want a copy I'll send you one.


YES! Talk to Bryce about this one. He can probably take care of it for us. I, for one, would like to see how I came across while speaking about joint tech. I know Chris came across well. Bryce too!


I had the chance to say about three sentances to Eric but sadly never had
the time to hook-up properly.  Sorry Eric, don't take it personally!  E-me
sometime! Thank God for the Internet.


Yeah, Saturday wasn't a happy day for the Legomaster. He was quite busy repairing his MOCs in the MOC Pavilion.


It was a nice surprise to see Sun there.  I love his stuff and his web site.
Surprisingly his mechs are ALOT bigger in person than on a computer screen.
You have to see them in person!!  Sun, hope to see you at the next LUGOLA
meeting!


Late March/early April-location TBA


Bryce and Dave, great lecture on Saturday, hope Sunday's was just as good.
Agiel...spooky-spikey love! Also, thanks for grabbing my stuff.   I thought
the take down time was on Monday not Sunday!  Oops.  aheh-heh. I'll call ya.


In many ways I thought Sunday's talk was better and in many ways it wasn't as good. Consider it as Saturday-beginner/ Sunday-advanced discussions. One thing is true-both days covered different subjects and that's
what we were going for. Don't think all the info has been gone over yet. Not only do I still need to get the handouts to Matt Gerber for upload to the BricksWest site, but there's some stuff that Sun, Chris and I
discussed that will be posted to .build.mecha in the coming weeks. Keep watching for it!


Got to meet some guys from SEALUG Mark and Stephen.  Nice guys from
Microsoft.  Thanks for the ride!


Yeah, they were so cool that I think they need to be honorary LUGOLA members until we can talk them into abandoning that sinking ship caled Microsoft and coming to live here in L.A. ;)


Overall it was short and sweet.  I wish I had more than one day to attend
but I saw alot for my first Lego experience.  Maybe I'll schedule more time
next year...


DO! DO! DO! There is no such thing as scheduling 'too much time' for Lego.


One last parting thought...  Hey!  Where was everyone else?!?

Jeff

Build Well!
-Dave



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