| | Re: Photos of Lindsay Braun's giant cruiser at BrickFest
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(...) just... well I already said that. :-) Kind of makes me wonder what you will do the next time you build something Space. :-O -Mike Petrucelli (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.build.military)
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| | Re: The clock is ticking
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(...) HUH??? You say you are kidding and I hope so. Right on the front page of www.brickfest.com it clearly states the information you were looking for: WELCOME to the official web site for BrickFest! July 19-21, 2002 - Arlington, Virginia Seems (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Brad J Brickfest 2002 Keynote Speech synopsis
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(...) His question was no more inane than your comments, and perhaps a bit less, since it's illuminative of some doubletalk on your part. (...) I disagree strenuously that it was mismanagement. If they had done that, some small number of people (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Back Home
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(...) I believe those would be the custom weapons that were recently available at (URL) Armoury, on the right-hand side) although the link appears to have been disconnected, the direct link (URL) works. (...) (URL) capital letters in address for (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Brad J Brickfest 2002 Keynote Speech synopsis
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(...) Which may be precisely the reason they chose not to say so. They knew the item was in demand. They knew they could only make a limited number. They wanted as many people to get in on it as possible. So, they didn't mention the limited number, (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | My Thoughts on BrickFest 2002
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Well, now that I'm feeling a little more rested (after spending a day at work struggling to stay awake), I thought I'd share my thoughts: - I really appreciated the airport pickup. Everything went smoothly (including watching TJ Avery hauling my big (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Photos of Lindsay Braun's giant cruiser at BrickFest
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(...) I have enough space to have posted one of my photos of the cruiser (named Takao, not "giant damn ship" as some have speculated ;) ) at: (URL) I also have a photo of its "current state," meaning, the only way it will fit on the two 30x60 tables (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.build.military)
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| | Photos of Lindsay Braun's giant cruiser at BrickFest
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Here are some pictures I took of Lindsay Frederick Braun's amazing giant Japanese war cruiser on display at BrickFest: (URL) full collection of Lindsay photos was 120MB at full size, so I batch- resized them resized down to 800x600 resolution for (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.build.military)
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| | Photos of Shaun Sullivan's creations at BrickFest
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Here are some pictures I took of Shaun Sullivan's creations on display at BrickFest: (URL) The full collection of Shaun photos was 85MB at full size, so I batch- resized them resized down to 800x600 resolution for web viewing. Let me know if you (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.military)
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| | Re: Back Home
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Ouch....mass carnage on the ol' Alphabet! Those little ray guns in your haul....MegaBloks? Cheers, -G (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: My random thoughts and comments on Brickfest 2002
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(...) You could also throw in other competitions like the International System Creativity Contest over at 1000Steine.de or the Classic Space/Blacktron/Iceplanet contests here. There was a big Star Wars contest a while back. Lots of smaller contests (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: My random thoughts and comments on Brickfest 2002
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(...) I actually rather like Scott's idea. The problem with implementation, of course, is that the "master class" wouldn't be especially large now given that this was only our second year with a major, formal slate of awards--and if you give people (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Brad J Brickfest 2002 Keynote Speech synopsis
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(...) I have to agree big time here. I only ever got one pack. I was planing on ordering at least a dozen more IF TLC ever decides to offer the only bulk pack I NEED. (everything else is just nice to have) Since I was about 8 years old the bigest (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: My random thoughts and comments on Brickfest 2002
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<snip> ok, Adrian, for you, no sweatshirt...and I only asked ya once...cause I didn't want to push the issue.. (...) <snip> Would that be the "Lindsay Frederick Braun Huge-A** Ship" Award or the "Jeez (...) I don't think that people are too irked, (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Pictures are up
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(...) ...I know you live "too far" from your nearest train organization from previous postings, but this is probably the easiest way to go. I know a couple others that were allowed if another adult "guardian" signed consent to look after them. There (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Pictures are up
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(...) Just to quickly answer, it was never really formally announced, but it's been under construction for the last 6-8 months or so, and semi-intentionally made its debut at BrickFest 2002. (Tho there may have been some whisperings in the NELUG (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Build Room (K8)
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I'd like to point out that the build room (K8) was running out of display space toward the end. That's a measure of success. I took lots of pictures, watch for them. There were a couple ideas tossed out for Build Room Activities next year. Mostly (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Animation at BrickFest (and Beyond...)
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Its been really interesting to observe (and be part of) the growing interest in LEGO-based animation over the last couple of years. At the time of the first BrickFest, Thomas Foote and I were the only exhibiting animators. Beyond the two of us I (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Brad J Brickfest 2002 Keynote Speech synopsis
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(...) Good point, I forgot about that...I was made aware of this in a follow-up message by Jake. Benjamin Medinets (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: My random thoughts and comments on Brickfest 2002
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(...) (snipping positive comments, that I also agree with, except for the sweatshirt comment because I don't wear sweatshirts) (...) Would that be the "Lindsay Frederick Braun Huge-A** Ship" Award or the "Jeez Adrian, quit winning all the other (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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