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Re: Idea for building activity at NorthWestFest
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Sat, 2 Oct 1999 22:42:03 GMT
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On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Ian Bishop (<iThB6GA6YK93EwoI@goodlife.demon.co.uk>)
wrote at 12:16:58
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> > Those of us who were at LLW, and indeed the staff, were in awe of Liam's
> > tower building prowess :-P
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> Elaborate, s'il vous plait.
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> Ian Bishop, Ayrshire, UK
I hope I'm not going to steal anyone else's thunder, but hear goes:
In the Imagination Centre, there are 4 'earthquake tables' to test
people's constructions to destruction. Liam and Carbon both built fairly
tall towers. I had the bright idea of building an earthquake-proof
foundation (it had an outer perimeter wall 3 bricks high and 2 studs
wider than Carbon's tower. There were 1x1 tiles on the base, so the
tower would slide on the foundation).
Carbon's tower lasted quite well first time round, and the foundation
failed first. So I beefed it up (another layer of bricks on the
retaining wall), and we tried again.
This time, the tower failed, but after quite a long time. I have to
admit that sticking a block of 9 2x6x2 weights on top as ballast may not
have been the best idea, but I think it warrants further investigation
:-)
Anyway, next up was Liam's architectural meisterwerk. I think it fitted
into my foundation exactly, so there was no movement. By this time there
were 3 Legoland staff watching. On full power, which was *very*
vigorous, Liam's tower took everything thrown at it for long enough that
the onlooking 'professionals' were very impressed.
Would anyone else like to add any observations?
An immediate one is: if you're going to LLW, make a weekend of it.
Miniland will take at least half a day to do really properly, and you'll
want to spend all day building the perfect tower :-)
--
Tony Priestman
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| (...) Yep - those weight bricks were your fault! :-) A few more design modifications and it wouldn't break. (...) His building was so flexible which made it earthquake proof. (...) I know, we didn't have enough time to look at Miniland properly, I (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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