Previously I rambled on about building something, it breaking, and me tearing it apart.
So I built something new (and it needed to be blue).
Building the Big Blue Box 1
Building the Big Blue Box 2
Building the Big Blue Box 3
Building the Big Blue Box 4
Building the Big Blue Box 5
Building the Big Blue Box 6
Completed With Mess
The Mess
More of The Mess
Shark Fight
Tunnel Exploring
Left Drawer
The Ocean
The Lookout
Resting
Ta da!
So I built my eldest nephew a giant (or well to pixal/Lego scale) Donkey Kong.
LEGO Donkey Kong (with Mario for scale).
Then I built my niece a Lego jewelry box.
This left my youngest nephew (the middle kid) feeling a bit left out.
I had to build him something and it damn well better be impressive.
No ideas for months.
So I came up with the idea of a Lego globe (like of the Earth).
Not very original but I figured I would make up for it by having the top removable and put something cool stuff inside (someone recommend liqueur but I ain’t sharing and certainly not with a kid).
Plan was to put a support wall down the middle, have a ship wreck/island scene on one side and on the other a jungle temple or a Lego version of hell ( not the best idea for a 12 year old (or well I think he’s 12 it’s hard to keep up with such things) but seemed funny to me).
To make up for the unoriginal idea I figured I would do it from scratch without looking up how others had done it.
Several nights of trying to work out the scale, where the continents would go etc I had nothing and I was tired.
I found some nice instructions and got to work (lazy can’t find the link right now but very nice instructions).
The instructions were for a hollow globe (no internal support) but I wanted to make sure it was sturdy so I was going to add “beams” of Lego running through the bottom half (I apparently don’t have or am too lazy to look for a picture of these) and the top and bottom halves would be built separately so I construct the fancy scenes in the bottom and the top would be a removable to reveal them.
Lego Globe - The Start
Lego Globe - Make Progress
Lego Globe - Half Way?
The half way point wasn’t reached before I was pretty much out of blue and tan Lego. So several orders were placed on BrickLink.
At this point in time I was already tired of the damn thing but I figured I should finish what I started (unlike my first go or three at college).
Lego Globe - Done?
So there we have it.
A Lego globe of the Earth built with someone else’s instructions (once again very nice ones) and some of my own changes: internal support in bottom half, the poles were white (like ice), a opening left in the bottom in case I wanted to mount it on a stand ( the idea of the scenes died as I went along, not as much room as I had hoped and I wanted done with it).
All I had to do was stick the top and the bottom together and I was free of it.
Just a bit of gentle gentle pressure to get the bricks stuck together.
Just a smidgen, not too much.
Just a tad.
Lego Globe - Really Really Done
Too much pressure and not enough structural integrity (remember kids to always use sound engineering).
All I could do was chuckle.
It seemed fitting that this thing I had poured more hours and Lego into then I wanted to think about, this thing I had really come to despise, was in pieces.
It could have been fixed, couple of hours more, not much compared to how much time I had already spent.
Instead, being me (who is a fan of using commas and line breaks more frequently then needed), it was broken down into it’s base parts, sorted (by color and size of course), and I was left with nothing for my nephew except for some photos and a crap load of blue bricks.
So I needed a new idea and it better be blue.
I saw Henry Rollins do spoken word tonight (For those unfamiliar, Henry Rollins doing spoken word is something like comedy meets travelogue meets preaching (or maybe it’s just sharing)).
The Empty Stage
The sixth time in 16 something years.
I think the strangest thing I heard was that has been to William Shatner’s house for Thanksgiving.
Haven’t used this damn blog thing in forever (which seems to be the internet norm), probably should make an effort.