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Zoo area for GATS
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Thu, 8 Jul 2004 04:32:41 GMT
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Hi all,
I would like to pass on some ideas that I had for the Zoo in the upcoming GATS
layout. So far Leah and Brian Alano have said that they’d help with the zoo,
but anyone is welcome to make stuff for it.
The zoo is right next to the
Theme Park, and there’s going to be a dividing wall between the 2 areas that is
based on the Classic Castle
City wall standard as stated in
Brian’s post on Yahoo. Of
course, this wall will be quasi-modern looking as opposed to a crennelated
medieval wall. We will need 2 train-size gateways--1 at each side.
The first
thing I’d like to make clear about building something for the zoo is that you
do not need to have animals in order to build something. There are several
non-animal structures that you can make, such as:
• Consession stand
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Ticket booth
• Sign
• Animal food storage building
Of course, I’d like
most of the space in the zoo to contain animal pens of some sort. I would
like to have a gray baseplate foundation for at least half of the zoo. (I can
provide the gray baseplates.) Then I would like the cage style pens to be
made on either 16X16, 16X32 or 32X32 green baseplates. I think that building
the cages on smaller baseplates will let us move around and rearrange the zoo
quite easily. If you want to build a cage on regular plates or bricks, that’s
cool too. A couple of caged animal ideas I thought of were:
• Bird aviary
•
Monkey house
There are several types of animals that go better in an open
area with a fence around it than in a cage. These types of pens would take up
more space that a cage, but they might be just as easy to build since they don’t
need a roof. Animals that would go in a fenced-in area would include:
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Elephants
• Horses
• Alligators
• Polar bears
There are also LEGO animals
that would go well in one of those aqua-arena things. This would be a good
opportunity for someone with DUPLO animals. We could make a pool with
bleachers in front of it. This could be used for LEGO size sharks and dolphins
&/or DUPLO size killer whales and seals.
Last but not least, there are those
tiny little critters that go in glass aquariums. We could use clear panel
pieces to make large (for minifigs) aquariums for creepy crawlies like:
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Snakes
• Frogs
• Scorpions
• Spiders
I know that there are several Duplo animals that aren’t made in LEGO scale
(giraffes, lions, tigers to name a few). Please feel free to use these too, if
you have any. I think they’d add a great variety to the zoo.
If you want to
build an animal out of pieces instead of using a pre-existing LEGO animal,
please do. There’s a
great list of
nonstandard animals at Classiccastle.com. It shows examples of everything from
barnyard beasts to Safari fauna.
Overall I’d like the zoo to have 2 basic
halves. One half would have smaller items that sit on the gray baseplates
(which can serve as walkways). The other half would be the larger fenced in
pens on the green baseplates. In the green area we could use gray plates for
sidewalks, like Brian A. suggested with the theme park.
Please don’t limit
your building to the ideas I listed here. Anything goes...besides dinosaurs.
Also if anyone has any ideas on how we could make the zoo better or something
cool to add to it, please let us know.
David “Fuzzy” Gregory
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| (...) I was also thinking about putting a pedestrian gate near the middle of the wall. The nice thing about using the castle wall standard is that anyone can contribute a single baseplate-length of wall. I propose using primary and secondary colors (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-04, to lugnet.org.us.indylug)
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