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BiggerJim wrote:My time off fell through so I cannot make it this year. I sure hope to make it back next year!

Sorry to hear it.

If you EVER are at a convention I am at, PLEASE feel free to ask me for a tour... Frank I can attest to the fact that the interiors of Frank's buildings are at least as well thought out and impressive as the exteriors. I got to see a number of them at Bricks Cascade last year, though we ended up ru...

Other ideas to consider: If you want to hold up a particularly tall section, there are a number of variations of LEGO girders that are 2 bricks wide x 2 bricks long x 10 bricks high. They're designed to be supports, and they do that task quite well. I agree with the sentiments put forward by others ...

mpoh98 wrote:What is Bricks By the Bay, and where is it held? It is another convention I am guessing?

Yeah, it's a convention in San Francisco.

Well Frank, I will of course miss seeing you there, but I can definitely understand your reasons.

Cheers,
Sean

Classic-Castle Colleagues!
Who's coming to Bricks Cascade next month in Portland, OR? What are you bringing, and how much space do you need for it? (And, if you're ffilz, how large an army of staff do you need to help set it up? )

Cheers,
Sean
Your Castle theme coordinator

I'll be there as Battle theme coordinator. I'll probably be too tied up with Battle tasks and too constrained as to what I can transport from Washington to California to commit to doing an LCC collab.

Okay, I've been asked for the final list, so it looks as though we're going with

Best Building

Best Faction

Best Fantasy Creation

Best Fortification

Thanks for the votes (and, in AK_Brickster's case, the reasoning behind each vote)!

I saw it last night and was not too impressed. You could barely even tell that it was based off of the book, and not just because they added things, which is to be expected when you stretch a 200-page book into 3 movies. They also took a lot of book content out, and totally changed what little was ...

Okay, gang, it's almost time for me to submit the list of categories for the Castle theme at Bricks Cascade 2014. I'd like you to help me do that by weighing in on what categories are most interesting to you. We need to come up with a list of about 4 categories, so, drawing either from the list belo...

1. YES!

2. YES!

3. Yes

4. Yes

a. No strong preference, but leaning toward yes

5. YES!

6. No strong preference, but leaning toward yes

LOL it is from doing a lot of MHS (Cafe Corner) layouts that I discovered that we don't need the pin connections. We do some sort of "street scene" at almost every VicLUG display and I use my lamposts, garbage bins and trees to join the modules together. :D I think it should be noted in t...

I love the idea of realigning CCC wall sections to base8 alignment. It does seem like a bit of a "no-brainer" to me and I cannot think of any real objections. Of course, I do see objections for the "interior" which is why I suggest bare baseplates for the interior. If we move to...

I love the idea of realigning CCC wall sections to base8 alignment. I love the idea of standardizing on baseplate-plus-brick as the height. In fact, for a lot of the stuff I've been building recently, I've been using baseplate-plus-brick-plus-plate. This allows me to put 1x2 bricks with Technic pin...

So let's propose some alternate color palettes, and we can work some transitions so older modules can be mixed. Let's also add an optional water standard that uses baseplate plus plate or tile, but also acknowledge that people may want to do different things with water, and as long as they cooperat...