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Re: Introducing Brickenbloom Place & Gardens
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lugnet.build, lugnet.duplo
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Wed, 12 Jun 2002 15:38:07 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Tanya K. Burkhart writes:
> When I was scrolling through pics, my five-year-old came along, looking over
> my shoulder and said, "Now that's really *pretty*." He thought the little
> train was really cool, too.
When I displayed Brickenbloom at the RichLUG train show in March, it was
interesting to see the different reactions of people. Particularly amusing
was the reaction of young boys who were adamant that did not like my house
or train. Other youngsters (no doubt more secure in their masculinity) were
able to appreciate and compliment it. Of course, girls tended to like it
immediately and a lot of them compared it to a dollhouse. It was also fun
to hear the different names people called it like "Candyland Castle".
> I didn't read your ramble until after I looked at all of the pics, and I
> didn't realize how many of those pieces were Duplo. I recognized the
> greenhouse pieces, since I just bought one for my two-year-old, and thought
> how clever it was for you to use it in a mini-fig scale model.
Thanks for taking time to read my write-up. I had meant to mention the
greenhouse - thanks for bringing it up. I thought that folks might have a
question about that particular building which was also a DUPLO-System
hodge-podge creation. After I was well into designing the gardens, I
happened to stumble across the Growing Garden DUPLO set
(http://guide.lugnet.com/set/3088) at the local Zany Brainy.
I was immediately taken with the green house element and instantly saw its
potential for use in Brickenbloom. I ended up grabbing two copies so that I
place the green house "glass" sections back-to-back. I'm really happy with
the way this structure came out.
The other great find for me in this set was the molded carrot pieces. One
of my future projects is to build a Farmers Market for Brickmond which would
include a lot of the printed bricks as signage for the various stalls at the
market. I was thinking those carrots would be perfect for building a sign
for "The Carrot Castle" or some such enterprise.
(snippage)
> PS I also just realized that the current Belville sets I have been drooling
> over, but reluctant to buy because of the weird size dolls, would make
> excellent fodder for parting out to my daughter. She likes BABIES! :)
I've been saving some my Belville figures (others I'm trying to sell)
because I'd like to try doing some stop motion animation with them at some
point (thinking about a version of Romeo & Juliet using the prince/princess
figures - would also like to do some kind of sword fight scene). Any of
them that I don't end up getting rid of will probably eventually go to my
nieces in a few years when they're a little older.
Thanks for the comments Tanya. Glad you and your son enjoyed the pics.
Greg
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