Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: regiment on October 17, 2010, 06:54:00 pm
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cellecting tokens from sun newspaper pay for one aldult and get one aldult in free alton towers thorp park chessining legoland windsor dungeons warwick legoland manches ter 12 vouches altogether gordon send address e mail
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????? Same here, I am confuesed <*<
Jim.
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NO WONDER YOU ARE CONFUSED CANNOT EVEN SPELL YOUR OWN ISLAND RIGHT (MAN)or confused
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buy the sun newspaper that might help ????????
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But what does 'gordon send address email mean'? And also why would you need vouchers to go to Manchester lol?
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i address to me by emai the vouchers are for the LEGO LAND DISCOVERY CENTRE AT LEAST THE SOUTH GOT THE MESSAGE FOR WINDSOR
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its a merlin entertainments deal- get entry to a multitude of merlin entertainment attractions via vouchers in the sun newspapers...
the manchester attraction is the legoland discovery centre in the trafford centre- ( an indoor legoland )- built into the trafford shopping centre- somewhere for dad and the kids to go whilst SWMBO is doing retail therapy.... ( you need between 2 and 4 hours to enjoy this place- and its totally unaffected by the weather)
the legoland in windsor is outdoors set in 150 acres- you need all day to get round, - more rides and lots of different attractions and its very much weather dependent !!!
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THANKS GUY for explaining it to /// still have vouchers if any body wants them
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THANKS GUY for explaining it
no problem, i built the contents of both !!!
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how long did it take you to build gordon
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which one?
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windsor my wife went a few years ago gordon
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took 32 modelmakers in the UK and about 48 in denmark 3.5 years to build windsor park as it was at the time of opening in march 1996.....
much bigger now of course....ithere is a team of 24 at windsor now to build and maintain the exhibits.....
the legoland discovery centre in manchester was my 'baby' - we started in early part of 2009 designing it, we brits ( 8 of us modelmakers and 4 animation engineers) and some danes built it - and it opened in march 2010
we are building another now to go into dallas- its a 9 month project, the idea is we do 2 of these a year from now on going forward........
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thanks guy for answer silly question now what are the bricks made of you must enjoy your job gordon
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the bricks are all standard lego ... made of ABS... stick well with ' plasweld' and the likes.....
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no problem, i built the contents of both !!!
Did you have any input into James May's lego house?
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yes and no.....
plum productions were tasked by the BBC to investigate and go onto actually produce tyhis TV programme,
they came to us to ask if it could be done..... and for some input.
we came up with a plan, a design and an estimation of the numbers of bricks required.....
plum did not believe us and said they would do 'their own design' with 30% less bricks...... they had an expert on staff now ( a chap i had trained 8 years previously )
and they started out on their own design - they kicked us into touch.... <:(
approximately 20 % the way through they started to add timber stud frames to support the house... they also suddenly worked out they were short of bricks as thier calculations were wrong....
they came to us to see if we could provide a further 'couple of million bricks' - we again helped them out.....( they now had the similar number of bricks as we had estimated originally.... O0)
we were then asked if we would display the finished article at windsor once filming was complete.......i started the ball rolling at this end and got the relevant planning forms which asked for dimensions and detail of the structure....plum productions could not give me finished dimensions for the planning document.... %%
needless to say the whole thing went sour.... they suggested the building would be chain sawed up into panels for us to reconstruct once at windsor, but as you know once the stud frame is cut the strength is gone, plus we would need to take the lego off the frame to rejoin the studs to give it strength and allow it to be rebuilt, the strcuture was not suitable to let thousands of kids to goupstairs and view the structure so the house came to windsor in a shpiing container ( full of boxes of bricks)
every year we get the bricks out and do a public building event at windsor so the house lives on... ( its just a car and a helicopter and a tower, and a fish, and a cat and...... and a .... now :} )
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and still nobody wants the vouchers to admire your work
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nope it would seem not..... let 'em pay...( it supplements my bonus !!!!! )