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Re: Contraption 2001 - MichLUG Space Colony Display a Sucess!
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Mon, 25 Jun 2001 17:02:06 GMT
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In lugnet.announce, Scott Sanburn writes:
> Friday – June 22, 2001:
> When we arrived there, Chris Leach, Amy Hughes, Kai Brodersen, Trevor Pruden
> and his wife, Janet, were there already! They started going into my stuff to
> finish the display. As per typical Scott fashion, after accidentally putting
> shaving cream in my hair instead of gel that morning (I was tired after
> packing and loading the Suburban up) was walking back out to get something
> in the mighty Suburban, and walked full speed right into a glass plate
> window, luckily I did not break it, but everyone had a good chuckle at the
> interesting prints my face, my hands, and my watch and wedding ring made.
*KLUNK*
> Unfortunately, we forgot the stops in the Monorail track, so Chris had to
> get some and bring it in Saturday. We also met Amy’s friend, Rain, who
> seemed really nice. Rick and I made a food run to McDonalds, and had
> probably the worst and slowest service I have seen in many moons.
The service there did stink. Our Counter peep was doing the best he could
with the manager lady biting his head off the whole time.
> This reminds me of SW: Episode 1
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51079
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51080
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51081
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51082
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51083
Egad! The Yellow Futurons are invading! Or are they liberating it from the
Confederation Soldiers?
> Rick brought his hanger, a medical building, and other various vehicles,
> including his awesome Iron Eagle! Unfortunately, I don’t think I have many
> pictures of your stuff, Rick. Make sure you bug me about it! ; )
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51071
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51065
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51062
You are the weakest link, Good Bye!
> I brought about everything else: My Octan tank, my Waste Processing Plant, a
> ton of vehicles and ships, pictures for the display. It appears I did not
> pictures of my stuff, either. =D’oh!
> Part of Octan tank:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51065
Those buildings were nice Scott. I like the Water Processing Plant. You
might want to try making the Fuel storage tank more cirular by getting a
compass and making a cirlce of wahtever size you want, then building inside
the circle's edge. It works for me.
> Tony Hedglen brought his two great buildings, his red office towers and his
> black house with gardens. I did not get a good picture of that, either. I’m
> fired!!!
>
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51073
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51069
You're fired!
> Anyway, we had lots of fun getting things set up, we had to get some more
> tables, but with the small area, we could not have anymore. Another problem
> we had was the fact that we, the displayers, were in the way of the items,
> and there really wasn’t enough room to do anything about it, so it was a
> little tight.
>
> List of People on Friday:
> Chris Leach
> Rick Hallman
> Amy Hughes
> Kai Brodersen
> Tony Hedglen
> Trevor & Janet Pruden
> Scott Sanburn
>
> We adjourned for the night around 10:00~11:00PM, and left. Tony and I drove
> up to Flint, and slept at my parent’s house. We tried to get a hotel room,
> but it was 120.00 for one night!!, and only a single bed. No thanks!
ZZZzzzZZZzzz
> Saturday, June 23rd, 2001:
> There were various people that came through throughout the weekend, nothing
> like a GATS display or anything, but I saw a gentleman with a white Star
> Trek Next Generation uniform, and he told me it was the Chaplin’s core
> uniform. I thought it was really cool! : )
Wow! I never knew that!
> Shortly after Peter arrived,
> there was a young girl who was our GOPHER, and she stayed in the room while
> we went to breakfast / lunch / whatever at IHOP (International House of
> Pancakes, I never heard of that acronym before, but oh well) We had a waiter
> there, it was his second day, and we were a handful. : ) The Coke machine
> broke down, but it was fun.
Hehehehhe. Me and Kai took his words "You can have anything to drink that
you want" out of context. We both had Choc. Shakes.
> We wondered back to the hotel, and worked on various things. Trevor started
> working on his ship, I started building a Futuron set I had, the Star
> Defender 200, http://guide.lugnet.com/set/6932 , Tony was building some
> various sets I received, Rick was setting up scenes in the colony.
Boom. Hover car accident, Security breach at the landing pads, Confed
soldiers were takin over!
> Spencer
> stopped by and saw the display. Trevor and Peter went to a TRU on 8 mile, I
> think Lindsay posted something about it last week, the 3552 Zsnap model for
> 3.90 and the Sith Infiltrator / Naboo Swamp set for 19.99. They bought some,
> and told us. Kai had to leave also, so Tony, Amy, and myself drove over
> there, I bought 5 of them, and Amy and Tony bought a few sets and the like
> as well, they had some really old sets, and most of them were still full
> price. Weird. We also went to Target, but there weren’t any good deals. We
> drove back, and went to Meijer nearby, we found A-Wings for 8.00 and 6520
> Arctic set for 15.00, so wee picked a few up, and went back to the hotel.
>
> We went to dinner soon afterward, and decided to shut the door for a little
> while. We went to Big Boy, and had some good discussions. : )
The monorail derailed in the oddest place. Right by the glass in a space
where nothing would snag it. We theorized people were trying to make it
derail or that some peeps ran by, because it THUMPED like nuts up there.
> After a very
> weird transaction with me AMEX, we headed back. Our GOPHER came back with
> her friend and started building some stuff with the 3033’s, Rick and Chris
> were already, and here is a picture of that:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=51086
Me and Peter were making spaceships of the mighty Star Trek. We made an
Enterprise TOS, a red klingon cruiser, a romulan warbird, a borg cube, a
cardassin cruiser, and a red Tie fighter. I made some various animals too
and Peter made a green cat. I made a blue skeleton too.
> Sunday, June 24th, 2001:
>
> I drove from Lansing to Flint, and then onto Roseville after seeing my mom.
> The last day of the event was really quiet, we talked with one of the
> organizers, and packed up. There were not a lot of people, so I think we
> could have skipped Sunday, but oh well! We all talked extensively, and had
> fun packing up my Suburban. We departed around 3:30PM. I drove Rick Hallman
> back to Lansing, after getting lost trying to find the KB-Toys outlet, which
> had a minimal LEGO area, with nothing good. After dropping off Rick, I
> managed to get to South Bend around 9:30PM EST. It was along weekend for me!
We got lost in Howell during the town festival. how fun. TRAFFIC? anyone?
> We had a lot of fun at this event, I think the next ones will be better! It
> was great event for MichLUG, and I am looking forward to more of them! : )
>
> Scott S.
Nice summery Scott!
Rick
"Where the heck are those reinfocements!?"
http://confed.8m.com/
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