 | | SCLTC Sets World Record for Largest US Flag
|
|
SCLTC has claimed a world record for the largest United States flag ever made of LEGO bricks. Built by visitors to the 2005 Orange County Fair during the weekend of July 15 through 17 under the direction of SCLTC, the flag contains the 127,624 LEGO (...) (19 years ago, 18-Jul-05, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org.scltc, lugnet.org.us.lugola, lugnet.build, FTX) !!
|
| |
| | Re: Help set a LEGO world record this weekend!
|
|
(...) Larry- We initially planned to embed the stars, but a number of reasons converged to make overlaying them the best choice: Since we put a wave in the surface, the union is not flat and embedded stars would have been more complex. We wanted to (...) (19 years ago, 17-Jul-05, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: Help set a LEGO world record this weekend!
|
|
(...) That's really cool. I was sort of surprised to see the stars attached rather than embedded in the layers but I guess a lot of early flags (sewn) have stars sewn on... How is the flag going to be supported, it seems like it would put a lot of (...) (19 years ago, 17-Jul-05, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: Help set a LEGO world record this weekend!
|
|
(...) Wow thats really coming along nicely! (...) Do I get a prize for guessing that strip 9 has 6 at brick 2 and 5 at brick 14??? Hope you didn't get too much sunburn! ROSCO (19 years ago, 17-Jul-05, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: Help set a LEGO world record this weekend!
|
|
Here’s some Day 2 pictures of the world record US flag build attempt at the 2005 OC Fair. Stripe #7 is the first to have the blue union (sometimes called the canton) and stars. To precisely locate the star centers, we used a horizontal measuring (...) (19 years ago, 17-Jul-05, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX) !
|
| |
| | Re: Help set a LEGO world record this weekend!
|
|
(...) Wow, SCLTC, looking good already, you guys made amazing progress... looking forward to todays update. Janey "Red Brick" (19 years ago, 16-Jul-05, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: Help set a LEGO world record this weekend!
|
|
Here's some Day 1 pictures of the world record US flag build attempt at the 2005 OC Fair. With the flag pole reaching high into the sky (or so it seems!), we're ready to start. (URL) Jeff Elliott and David Michon confirm that the starter course of (...) (19 years ago, 16-Jul-05, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX) !
|
| |
| | Re: GFLTC NOT at GATS Clearwater this weekend
|
|
IndyLUG has had an excellent expierence with GATS over the years. We do their show twice a year, October & January. We always get all the space we want, a decent apperance fee plus we also do a couple of paid workshops entitled "How LEGO Trains (...) (19 years ago, 15-Jul-05, to lugnet.trains.org)
|
| |
| | Re: GFLTC NOT at GATS Clearwater this weekend
|
|
(...) It is just me, or is GATS hard to deal with? I've heard several cases where GATS was just a pain in the a**. I know NGLTC missed a Greenberg show to committ to at GATS show, only to have GATS back out of it. O, S, HO, N, TT, Z... let's see. (...) (19 years ago, 15-Jul-05, to lugnet.trains.org)
|
| |
| | Re: GFLTC NOT at GATS Clearwater this weekend
|
|
(...) Those S,N.O,TT,HO,L,Z!!! I hate 'em! :P Rob (19 years ago, 15-Jul-05, to lugnet.trains.org)
|
