Someone with WAY too much time on their hands...

[leftcoaster]

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=118683

[MEng85]

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!! awsome........yet strangely sick at the same time..... :D:

[DLRFantasmic!Dan]

LOL, that is so cool!!!

They didn't make it all from Legos, did they?? it looks like the pieces were already made and all they had to do was put them together!!

[GMC]

that looks like a team of many people who really love nos/cc attractions, and holiday five.

[Main Streeter]

:) :D: This was great! Hope Lego Dan views the site.

[FerrisWheelJunkie]

That's really neat! Inaccurate, but neat!

[BirdMom]

Well...it's not really a new idea... When I was in junior high, Bobby Sherman - the big teen idol around 1970, was (in)famous for building a scale model of Main Street from scratch...I remember seeing pictures of it in Tiger Beat magazine!

Should I be embarrased that I admit to reading Tiger Beat when I was 11?!

A little bit of trivia - security had to rescue Bobby from the screaming mobs of girls during his stage show on the old stage that was in Tommorowland before Space Mountain was built. The girls didn't understand the concept of watch the show from the audience area - and no, I wasn't there - I just heard about it :cool:

[shorty1219]

I (being a LEGO buff) always wondered why LEGO and Disney never got together and made park style sets like that. I'm sure there are plenty of people out there that would buy them. I wonder what our castle would look like...

[LegoDan]

:) :D: This was great! Hope Lego Dan views the site.

Yes i just viewed it and I have to say that they need a life, or they need to become "Model Builders" at one of the four Legoland parks, especially if they designed it themselves.

Looking at some of the pieces you can see that they have been collecting these pieces for many years, some of the sets in there are discontinued.

[pnutshuman]

if you look closely there are cool things like r2d2 and c3po walking around the park, hehehee
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[Stduck]

I (being a LEGO buff) always wondered why LEGO and Disney never got together and made park style sets like that. I'm sure there are plenty of people out there that would buy them. I wonder what our castle would look like...

Cause the family that owns Lego probably didn't want to sell it to Disney. (There was a partnership somewhere and there was Mickey Mouse in Lego sets for awhile. Yes I remember the stupid video they showed us during orientations). You can't buy stock in Lego.

[DLRFantasmic!Dan]

Cause the family that owns Lego probably didn't want to sell it to Disney. (There was a partnership somewhere and there was Mickey Mouse in Lego sets for awhile. Yes I remember the stupid video they showed us during orientations). You can't buy stock in Lego.

What stupid video would that be??

[Stduck]

^ The one during day 1 of the Legoland Model Citizen orientation.

[LegoDan]

yes i remember those videos too, and it's funny, i remember more from orientation than any of the new hires.

Back to the subject, if anyone has been to legoland recently they have a scale model of the skyline by times square also including the soon to be built "freedom" tower that will replace the twin towers. and there's a scale model of the jefferson space center and Washington D.C.

now those people have a lot of free time, one more thing, Legoland California has the world record for the tallest lego tower ever built. 92 feet tall in about 4 days.

[Stduck]

^ Why Do You Know This?!?!?!

[MEng85]

^ Why Do You Know This?!?!?!


LOL! i wonder the same thing..... :rolleyes:

[Stduck]

^ It just scares me cause I know LegoDan very well. Oh Dan, no I am not signing you in. JK

[LegoDan]

well ms. satanic duck, i know this because i work at Legoland, and i helped build the record tower. The other stuff i got from walking through Miniland U.S.A. Oh, and there is another new ride there soon stduck if you want to ride it, it opens late May.

[Stduck]

Why would I want to go to Legoland....except to maybe see my old supervisor. The last time I was in that park he told me "Go get to work we're understaffed." I went :eek:

[CBeilby]

Why would I want to go to Legoland....except to maybe see my old supervisor. The last time I was in that park he told me "Go get to work we're understaffed." I went :eek:

Um, he did know you weren't an employee there any more, didn't he?

[Stduck]

Yes he did. Which is what made it funnier. I said "I don't work for you"

[LittleOriginalOne]

I (being a LEGO buff) always wondered why LEGO and Disney never got together and made park style sets like that. I'm sure there are plenty of people out there that would buy them. I wonder what our castle would look like...


To the best of my knowledge they once did. I know because when I was a little girl my dad bought me Cinderella castle as a lego set. He built it up once said "Isn't that pretty" undid it and sent it off to my cousin in Peru. I believe that was the last time ANYONE has seen on of those.

[SilverStyle]

Wow that looks pretty dope

[leftcoaster]

For LEGODAN:

http://www.insidebayarea.com/localnews/ci_2701246

Build with Legos, be a part of history
World's biggest Rube Goldberg machine to be constructed at Alameda County fair
By Matt Carter, STAFF WRITER
Inside Bay Area

PLEASANTON — Among the prize-winning pigs and flower arrangements at this summer's Alameda County Fair, a few exhibitors will be shooting for a world record.
The fair and a Fremont-based non-profit are sponsoring a contest to build the world's most complicated Rube Goldberg machine out of Lego building blocks.

Named after the cartoonist Reuben Goldberg, such contraptions are designed to do something simple — like swatting a fly — in a needlessly elaborate fashion.

For the contest at this summer's fair, the machines can use gears, pulleys, motors, rubber bands and strings to accept a rolling ball and raise a flag for five seconds before ejecting the ball.

The trick will be to design the machines so that they can be connected with others to form the largest Rube Goldberg machine ever built.

Building a "cascadeable" machine — one that can be connected to others — is actually simpler than it sounds, said Jill Wilker, president of Playing at Learning, the non-profit organization that's helping organize the event.

cept a rolling ball and raise a flag for five seconds before ejecting the ball.

The trick will be to design the machines so that they can be connected with others to form the largest Rube Goldberg machine ever built.

Building a “cascadeable” machine — one that can be connected to others — is actually simpler than it sounds, said Jill Wilker, president of Playing at Learning, the nonprofit organization that’s helping organize the event.

“Lego has a baseplate they are very strict about (it’s dimensions),” Wilker said. “We’ve defined three entry points on one side of the baseplate, and nine exit points” for the ball on the remaining sides.

Wilker said organizers may have to build some “transition” machines to carry the ball from one contraption to another. But she said other Lego groups already have developed the techniques needed to interconnect many independently built components to form giant train layouts or “Mars scapes.”

Anyone can enter the contest in four age divisions, and machines that meet the require ments to interconnect with others will be invited to participate in the record breaking attempt on Sunday, July 3.

A Rube Goldberg machine is judged by the number of steps it takes to accomplish its goal.

Students at Manache High School in Porterville hold the record for building a 113step machine out of everyday materials. Now that Wilker has a goahead from the Guinness World Record organization to enter a “community machine” as a challenger, she expects the record will fall. But that could also mean that other groups will be quick to mount similar attempts.

“We’re thinking that by doing this, it will create more general interest in Rube Goldberg machines,” Wilker said. “We may have to reset (the record) next year because it may have been broken in between.”

The Rube Goldberg Machine Contest will take place in the Technology Adventures Building at the 2005 Alameda County Fair.

There is no cost to participate, but entries must be registered by May 14, with judging taking place June 1819. For more information, visit www.AlamedaCountyFair. com or call (925) 426 7611.

[Anna]

My favorite lego site is: http://www.thefrown.com/blockdeath/

It has torture, death, mutilation, and accidents complete with red legos for blood. It is hillarious.

[MEng85]

hmmmmmm.....thats mildly disturbing.....and that dude totally has too much time on his hands :rolleyes: interesting none the less :)

[GMC]

that was great! i got a few good chuckles out of it. Particularly the occupation hazards, i'm suprised none of those have come my way.

[DLRFantasmic!Dan]

LOL, those were hilarious!!!