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KCCUSA Summer Block Party
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lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.mosaic, lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.aquazone
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lugnet.events
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Sun, 12 Jun 2005 04:22:37 GMT
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As promised in this teaser thread...
I am happy to (at long last) announce that Milton Train Works™ has been, as
overall contractor, with significant help from members of MichLUG, working in
partnership with Kellogg’s Cereal City USA™ to provide the statues and displays
for their Summer Block Party 2005.
This has been a pretty busy spring for us, and it’s been hard to keep quiet
about it! ... but we delivered the display case contents (4 cases, 4 themes,
town, castle, space and aquazone) two weeks ago and the statues last week...
everything will be on display all summer. For more information please visit the
KCCUSA site or their block party
page or the Milton Train
Works KCCUSA pages,
or ask questions here and participants will try to answer!
This never would have come together without a lot of help from a large number of
people including:
- Jim Garrett - Jim helped out with construction on Tony, doing much of the torso musculature.
- Ken Koleda - Ken did much of the image processing for, and helped out with construction of, the Froot Loops box.
- “Purple Dave” Laswell - Dave helped with Tony the Tiger, doing the upraised hand, and other details.
- Chris Leach - Chris was Lead Artist for the Froot Loops box.
- Nik Pieniazek - Nik was responsible for the undersea display.
- Spencer Rezkalla - Spencer was Lead artist for Tony the Tiger, by far the largest statue in the project.
- Steve Ringe - Steve was Lead artist for Pop!®, Steve also had design and fabrication responsibility for all the bases and armatures.
- Jason Spears - Jason was Lead artist for Snap!® and Crackle!®. Jason also was the display coordinator and the bulk of the display items are his. As President of MichLUG Jason served as the executive liason to the club.
In addition to the above
MichLUG members
that worked very hard to design, develop and build the displays, the statues and
their associated armatures and bases, a special thanks goes out to Aaron Sneary
for advice, and to Bob Kojima for Bricksiac. We couldn’t have done it without
them!
Also thanks go to a few special sellers who were able to source the parts we
needed in the quantities we needed. If you were having a hard time finding good
quantities of orange or red 2x4 bricks this spring, now you know why! (I would
have preferred to be thanking LEGO® here, but alas, it was not to be)
Lastly we have to thank our spouses, friends and co-workers who all no doubt are
tired of how much we talked about how we can’t talk about why we were so busy.
We hope to see folks at KCCUSA this summer, it should be a lot of fun.
Larry Pieniazek
ILTCO | MichLUG |
BrickFest
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Message has 5 Replies:
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| WOW, What a great project! Tony's Face is just perfect. Heck all of it just looks Great! So that’s where all the orange went. ;-) Christina (19 years ago, 13-Jun-05, to lugnet.events, FTX)
| | | Re: KCCUSA Summer Block Party
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| (...) Wow! That's just simply incredible--the characterizations of faces are beautiful--I hope Kellogs was very impressed! I heard you had orange--we just got some in at our PaB..I only wished it was sooner--I could have sent some your way. Now, I'm (...) (19 years ago, 13-Jun-05, to lugnet.events, FTX)
| | | Re: KCCUSA Summer Block Party
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| I knew about the mosaic but had no idea the other sculptures were being made. This is some amazing work! I'm glad i was able to help. It was really cool looking at the 'how they were made' pictures. I especially likes seeing the pictures of the (...) (19 years ago, 13-Jun-05, to lugnet.events, FTX)
| | | Re: KCCUSA Summer Block Party
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| (...) Great job guys! Therrrre GREAT! (Sorry, couldn't resist!) Excellent job everybody. My favorite being Tony the Tigers head. Really captured the essence and look perfectly. Cool to see such high caliber work coming from others out there! So what (...) (19 years ago, 14-Jun-05, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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