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Re: Moonbase at Brickfest... how was it planned?
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lugnet.space
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Thu, 4 Mar 2004 18:33:17 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Steven McDonough wrote:
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Yeah it did not turn out as useful as I hoped because many people either were
not there or they didn’t have their module done. It did however whip up more
interest in the club members that were not into space. It also let the people
who didn’t have their modules done really see what was needed of them. I had
a hard time getting number of corridors from people. Mostly I think, because
they didn’t have their module done.
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Yeah, I can see how that could be a problem. Do you make updated layout plans
available to club members on a regular basis? That might help people who can’t
show up for a dry assembly meeting see what needs to be filled in a bit more.
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I think it would be cool if IndyLUG and MichLUG could do a layout together
sometime. We pretty much used all of the club members grey baseplates this
time.
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Bigger is better. I think the easiest way to pull something like that together
would be to get some sort of annual mid-west convention going (probably either
Chicago, Detroit, or Indianapolis), but not in December like the Cantigny show.
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I really like the hanging corridor idea. I think you can expand the base
really fast with out tons of bricks.
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I think the value of a hanging corridor is less being able to make a bigger
display as it is being able to connect sections that otherwise wouldn’t be
connectable, particularly when you have lots of 1-connection modules to squeeze
in.
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And it gives lots of ground space. Hopefully it will catch on for other
moonbases.
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I’d forgotten about this, but Trevor put together a pair of quicky straight
corridors for the October Motor-City Comic-Con last year. You can see one of
them clearly in the full-size version of this shot, right above the moving
Monorail train:
I’m pretty sure they were identical, since he built them on-site to fill gaps in
the layout. I know the one shown in the picture was necessary just to allow the
Monorail train to exit the station module because none of the other modules had
ground-level clearance. I don’t remember for sure if the step-up in the center
was necessary for clearance on the one shown, but the other one didn’t have
track running underneath it, so it might just have been done for decorative
purposes.
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