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New York City, LEGO Style
Obiwan Kenobi writes "I know we've done LEGO links to death, but The Brick Apple is in a class all by itself. Between the 5 foot tall Empire State Building, the 50,000 piece Greenwich village or perhaps the best of all: the World Trade Center, from which this quote was taken: 'Actually, sticking together all those little 1x1 and 1x2 pieces would get VERY tedious, and after a while they would really hurt my thumbs. Each floor had over 500 little 1x1 and 1x2 pieces.' Wow."
Been up for about a minute and we're already getting everyone's favourite error:
/usr/www/users/smkenney/moc.php on line 31
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Cue The Sun...
This was in the new movie Elf. Will Ferrel decorated Macy's with a lego NYC (among other things) in honor of Santa's visit.
Looks pretty good.
~Philly
You do realize that all of the links on the Google cache versions still use the same server right? And I'm pretty sure they use the same images from the server too. So if you point to a cached page that the server doesn't have images for, you won't get them. So it's still trying to pull all of these images from that server... you know, the one that isn't working.
Be kind ...
Get the zip if you can.
Otherwise here's the index page, and midtown manhattan.
If you can put these up elsewhere, that'd be much appreciated.
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Empire State Building
World Trade Center
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Bleah! Heh heh heh... BLEAH BLEAH!!! Ha ha ha ha...
All the images (with the exception of the Greenwich Village... look them up directly on the Google cache if you want) load correctly (they're on a different server than the pages, oddly enough).
It's better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.
- E. Debs
First, there's copyright and common-carrier issues. If you cache pages, you become responsible for their content. Google is realizing this as they get served for DMCA removal requests.
Second, it's not something a 'ping' will help. It's usually a db / apache tuning issue, where there's too many connections. The server's alive, it just can't connect to the db, or there aren't enough apache processes. To find these types of errors, you'd have to read the responses and grep for errors. This becomes non-trivial, and more often than not, more trouble than its worth given (1).
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NYC - WTC - Empire - Empire2 - bleh
Here's a backup of the WTC page in the wayback machine.
Here's another guy with a lego WTC
--I prefer the term "Karma Slut"
It is possible to
order the specific pieces you want, although the prices aren't really any better than the buckets of assorted pieces.
Now that I've seen it, of course :)
:)
All of Sean's work
If you ask nicely, I might put up a mirror
But what I've always wanted was legos that could be remote controlled. :)
Aha, but you can. At least, you can if you are willing to build a bit. As part of my CSE X86 series at my undergrad hell-hole, we had to merge forces with all engineering disciplines and build lego robots, controlled through the parallel port. It's actually not as difficult as you would think, and the pinouts are quite freely available. Of course, you'll need a language with low-level hardware access, and an OS without an abstraction layer that will thwart your code.
Besides that, the rest is reasonably simple - you build the control box, hook the sucker up to your lego creation via an umbilical cord of wires, and viola - you're running via a wire.
Now, running R/C would be even easier. However, most standard servos that I know of (e.g. Futaba, JR, Hi-Tec) from flying R/C planes aren't likely to be what you're looking for. Rather, you can get high-performance servos for some extra dough, but hey, if it's what you want to do, then go for it.
My personal recommendation on a radio? The Futaba 4-channel digital radio (model number escapes me right now). It's awesome, and you can do flaperons / etc with it, so if you ever want to do R/C flying with fixed-wing craft, you'll be in good shape.
Hope this helps a bit -
http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:http://www.moc pages.com/moc.php/2
Liberty is a standard kit in the sculptures series at Lego's Shop at Home store.
If you just want to look at the pictures, you can bypass the PHP and use his gallery.cgi...
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/seankenney/
It would cost a lot if you actually had to buy the pieces from LEGO. The cheapest LEGO available is a 2000 piece tub for $20, or 10 cents a piece. Unfortunately, that only contains bricks, not the plates and arches needed to build a WTC model. LEGO has been very slow to offer any bulk packages at all, and even those that are offered are still very limited and very expensive (around 10 cents a piece still, but you get the pieces you want.) At 500 pieces per floor, you are looking at an absolute minimum of about $5500 worth of bricks.
This is actually much better than it was a few years ago, when bulk packs were not even available. At that time, LEGO seemed genuinely disinterested in and threatened by people building and displaying original modeles built of LEGO. In fact, it went somewhat beyond that. Many people (myself included) have received almost hostile rejection letters when we have contacted LEGO with ideas of pictures of models.
As much as I enjoyed playing and modeling with LEGO, I have given it up due to the expense and the company's attitude.
> The cheapest LEGO available is a 2000 piece tub for $20, or 10 cents a piece.
> Unfortunately
Your mistake was buying them all new. Lego has been around for quite some time,
and so there are a *lot* of them available in secondhand-toy land. When I was
a kid, we picked up a big cardboard box of them (must have been two feet long
by a foot wide at least, and there were maybe three inches deep of legos in
there) at a garage sale for a couple of bucks. Granted, that's an especially
good deal, but if you hunt around you should be able to pick up used Legos in
good condition at well less than the new price. You'll probably still have to
buy some new if you need specialty pieces in certain colours or whatever, but
for just plain old ordinary regular-sized bricks that you need in bulk, you
should be able to pick up quite a few of them used.
Cut that out, or I will ship you to Norilsk in a box.