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Re: Idea for building activity at NorthWestFest
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Sun, 3 Oct 1999 11:17:40 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.uk, Tony Priestman writes:
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
:-)

Yep - those weight bricks were your fault! :-)  A few more design modifications
and it wouldn't break.

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.

His building was so flexible which made it earthquake proof.

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 :-)

I know, we didn't have enough time to look at Miniland properly, I think we
should have gone a bit earlier...

Carbon 60



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  Re: Idea for building activity at NorthWestFest
 
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Ian Bishop (<iThB6GA6YK93EwoI@g...on.co.uk>) wrote at 12:16:58 (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 2-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)

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