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Re: Santa's Building Creation Station
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Mon, 25 Nov 2002 12:56:00 GMT
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Peter Guenther writes:
> You may remember that a few Christmases back, Department 56 issued several
> Lego-licensed collectibles, including the Building Creation Station:
> http://www.department56.com/BrowseProductsDetails.asp?itemNumber=56735
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> For MichLTC's train show today in Livonia, MI, I thought I'd translate it
> into real Lego:
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> General views (deep links):
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/pguenthe/0211-livonia/pb240010.jpg
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/pguenthe/0211-livonia/pb240013.jpg
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/pguenthe/0211-livonia/pb240014.jpg
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> Detail of the workshop, with Santa overseeing eight busy little elves:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/pguenthe/0211-livonia/pb240012.jpg
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> I consider this to be a pretty faithful reproduction of the original,
> complete with bins of Lego on the roof. I attempted to show snow on the
> roof... successfully on the front, I think, not so successfully on the right
> side.
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> Enjoy!
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> Peter
Nice work Peter. Seems very close to the orginial. Do you own the orginial
or just base it off pictures? How did the crowd like it? The snow on the
front is indeed nicely done. I wonder if the slopes on the side couldn't be
raised one plate to simulate the snow being raised.
-Jason
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Jason Spears
MichLUG - http://www.michlug.org/
Lego Page - http://www.ozbricks.com/brickcentral/
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| (...) Just pictures. I spend my money on real Lego! (...) Pretty well. Larry's mountain ((URL) was the real show-stealer but people seemed to like this pretty well too. The dynamics of the show didn't really allow for hovering around and getting (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-02, to lugnet.fun.holiday)
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