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Re: Wow... check out this parade float!!
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lugnet.general, lugnet.build.sculpture
Date: 
Wed, 29 Jan 2003 20:36:08 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
In lugnet.general, Stéphane Simard writes:
I got this from someone posting at the forums of a game site. (Thanks Darth
Mawl)

That must have taken FOREVER to build. Probably glued, too.

http://www.charismafloats.com/images/Lego.jpg

I'm guessing but that looks like a Rose Parade float. If it is, it's done
with plant fibers (flower petals, leaves, beans, roots, whatever has the
right color and texture) as the outside surface and is almost certainly glued.

Yup, it was a Rose Parade float. And they only allow organic material to be
used on the flots. So no bricks there :(
http://www.tournamentofroses.com/

But the one in the Macy*s Thanksgiving day parade was made up with fake
oversized Lego parts. Here is one of the few pictures I could find of it:
http://www.landofbricks.com/images/float.jpg

But even with the Legoland float being all organinc material it still would
have requred lots of glue ;)

Mark P
http://www.landofbricks.com



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Mark P wrote: > But the one in the Macy*s Thanksgiving day parade was made up with fake > oversized Lego parts. Here is one of the few pictures I could find of it: > (URL) are some more: (URL) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build.sculpture)

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(...) with plant fibers (flower petals, leaves, beans, roots, whatever has the right color and texture) as the outside surface and is almost certainly glued. Pasadena, CA (home of the Rose Bowl(tm)) is not THAT far from Carlsbad, CA. Would be (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build.sculpture)

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