I had a freakin' blast this past Saturday. A group from NELUG, as well as LUCNY and GardenSLUG, came down to Entfield Conneicut to give them a hand building bugs. The PR departement is renovating a waiting area in the Children's Hospital with a rainforest theme. As it was explained to us, they have X amount for the budget, and that includes all the real-world things like carpet, seats and other regular features for a waiting area.
So we get to be free labor. But they gave us access to the company store which is 50% off retail. Sweet.
First, we met up at Solomon Pond Mall. There were two new guys Jason and Greg? (I'm terrible with names.) Carpooling was the best idea. I drove Joe and Tom in my caaaahh and the time just flew. Except for that moment at the beginning where I got "confused" on which way to go and sort of banged a semi-U-turn thru a red light - it was all smooth sailing.
Lego pulled out all their builder's stock and that set up was groovy. They keep everything sorted by color and element in grey trays, which they layed out over this giant presentation room. There was tons of old grey, old brown and some other very old parts (classic-space yellow glass and trans-yellow plates!). Some of it was clearly aged. There were bins of white that were more like yellowed teeth.
And there was bug building. Joe and I built 2 beetle like things which have latin names I can't possibly remember. One was yellow, does that help? Actually most of the creations were awesome. More than a few belong in a BrikWars Starship Troopers game... Oh, now *that* has possibilities...
A trip to the company store and I spent more than I meant to [1]. Plus, waiting for Joe's "Millenium Falcon" caused me to spend even more with his high-pressure buy-buy-buy techniques... I'm probably lucky someone got the last Star Destroyer, I was considering it because at 50% off, that's about the only way I would get that monster (it's about $300 normally).
Later, we headed back to Eric K's for food and he wowed us with his monument to consumer excess - a 5000-foot plasma TV that not only looks like a window on HDTV, actually allows you to step into the picture and stroll around until someone changes the channel. Truely amazing.
Here's my pics from the event:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=93926
Other people's galleries
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=93928
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=94143
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=93877
[1] Actually, I'm not sure why this always surpises me. It's like a drug addition some times. You're there and you go into it thinking, "Okay, I'm going to get a couple of things and that's it." Then you stand there, amonst the items and think, "Okay, we'll I'll be kicking myself later for *not* pick that up at 50% off." In fact, I am -right now- kicking myself for not picking up the Land Busters set... *stupid!* *stupid!* *stupid!*
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