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Re: Darth Vader at K-mart
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 6 Aug 1999 17:08:50 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Julie Krenz writes:
> I went to K-mart yesterday and as soon as I walked in and took a left
> to head to the Lego section - BOOM! There was a HUGE (at least 6 feet
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> Darth Vader guess the number of bricks display.
Do these contests (guess the number of bricks in this big huge model) strike
anyone else as... well, really kinda difficult?
With the kind of contest it's based on- guessing the number of pennies in a
jar, jellybeans, etc- the items you're trying to guess the number of are
relatively constant. But the difference between the space taken up inside the
model by, say, a 1x1 plate as opposed to a 2x8 brick is pretty large. And
there's no way to tell what they decided to use internally. And yeah, those
two bricks are extreme examples, but when you consider that for every 2x4 they
decide to use 2 2x2s to to take the place of you double the piece count at a
constant volume...
I'm not complaining, it's a contest and it's free stuff and it's fun and I'd
LOVE to see a 6 foot Vader. It just strikes me that any entry is a shot in the
dark. No way to make an educated guess.
eric
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| Lorbaat <eric@nospam.thirteen.net> wrote in article <FG1zMq.G1v@lugnet.com>... (...) strike (...) a (...) inside the (...) And (...) those (...) they (...) at a (...) I'd (...) in the (...) Maybe they do it that way intentionally. This way everybody (...) (25 years ago, 6-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Darth Vader at K-mart
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| Lorbaat wrote in message ... (...) I'd (...) the (...) Here is a picture of a six foot high Darth Vader from LEGOLand Windsor: (URL) is the last of the four pictures on the page and the quality isn't very good. Mike - mike_walsh@mindspring.com (URL) (25 years ago, 6-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Darth Vader at K-mart
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| (...) Yes these are difficult. I actually spent about 45 min counting the Yoda in Target, then I re-counted on a different day and was off by 2 bricks. So I put in about 4 guesses for each number within 20 bricks. I was around 570 pcs...the actual (...) (25 years ago, 7-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Darth Vader at K-mart
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| I went to K-mart yesterday and as soon as I walked in and took a left to head to the Lego section - BOOM! There was a HUGE (at least 6 feet tall) Darth Vader guess the number of bricks display. Very cool. Prizes were kinda lame, 1st $30 system,2nd (...) (25 years ago, 6-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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