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last Brisbane meeting
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Tue, 2 Oct 2001 10:17:18 GMT
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I just realised that nobody has reported on our last BUGs meeting held
at Mark Harrison's place on Sunday 23 Sept. So, here's a quick rundown
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The theme was "things mechanical" and Mark had laid on a display of
"super cars through the ages" from his vast Technics collection, showing
the historical progression of the large Technics car. As always, the
earlier vehicles were clunkier in appearance but used more general
parts, whereas the later models were sleeker but used more specialised
parts.
Aaron brought along an apparently endless selection of fire engines, and
wore his Fireman's uniform to complement the theme.
There were a number of space and aircraft MOCs with everything that
opens and shuts, a certain familiarity of colours shows that Star Wars
sets have found favour with the local MOC builders.
Mel was particularly slack and didn't bring anything along! However, she
swears she is in the middle of a very large project, hopefully to be
revealed at our next meeting, assuming we can find a means of
transporting this megametropolis (being Mel, my money is on a Town
theme).
I was almost as slack as Mel, having done virtually no Lego building for
some weeks. However, I got up very early that morning and build the
AT-AT from the Dark Side Developers Kit. This is a Microscout-based
model, that walks back and forward shaking its head as it goes. It was
the first time I'd built it, and I was impressed at how well it walked.
Or to put it another way, my attempts at building walking robots have
been far less successful. I also had my photos of Legoland Windsor with
its models of European towns and landmarks.
Lunch commenced with a entree of junk food (chips and chocolate
biscuits), followed by a main course involving hand-to-hand combat with
a large fresh loaf of bread. And we finished with a dessert of pizza.
The National Heart Foundation awarded the meal "-100 out of 10", but it
seems to go down a treat with the BUGS!
After lunch, we did the traditional buy-sell-trade session. As always,
Peter Parsons had space items to tempt us and Aaron seems to have an
inexhaustible supply of Res-Q sets to pass on. Incidentally, Aaron is
still in the market for more airtanks for his fireman. He is also still
hoping someone will buy his Silver Champion (only one careful owner!).
There were rumours of experiments with the first Brisbane Brickwars
after lunch, but Mel and I escaped at that point, as Mark had revealed
that there were huge piles of discount Powerpullers at Mr Toys Toyworld
stores in the CBD, and I had only 1 shopping hour to get myself one. Mel
decided to come along as it was a rare opportunity for her to shop
without the assistance of small children. As it turned out, there were a
number of attractively priced sets at Mr Toys Toyworld, or maybe the
buying frenzy was upon us. Whatever, we seemed to leave with a lot more
than we had set out to buy :-)
Anyhow, to finish up, thanks to Mark once again for his hospitality and
the tours of his vast Lego den, now rather more organised than at our
last visit.
And finally, anyone else who was there, please mention all the things
I've doubtless forgotten.
Kerry
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Kerry Raymond, Lady BUG
Lugnet Member #599
Mindstorms, Technics, Star Wars
Brisbane, Australia
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) Hmm. We have been a bit slack haven't we? Well, this was my second meet, and slightly less daunting than the first. We discussed international events, compared MOCs, looked at the upcoming harry potter series (argh!) and drooled at the sight (...) (23 years ago, 3-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
| | | Re: last Brisbane meeting
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| (...) Hahahaha :) Funny stuff! I am indeed in the middle of a largish project, let me call it... 'Project Secret Mel' lol. I dunno about being a megametropolis though... it's approx the size of 6 baseplates. I'd love to see some of the ideas people (...) (23 years ago, 3-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.au.qld.bri)
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