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Rank: Operation Bricklord General
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Now that I am finally recovered (caught some sort of bug on the way home) I wanted to take a moment to make a short report on the success of Operation Bricklord. Overall I was amazed and delighted at what we all accomplished. By the time the first members of the public walked into the hall we had a fantastic scene of WWII carnage that was, IMHO, the BEST single display going. It may not have been the biggest (Castle battle) or the craziest (Zombie Apocafest) but it looked like one continuous action scene all tied together nicely and the details were amazing. I took some pictures during set up and the public hours and I wish I could do the display justice. Hopefully those who missed the show will see some better pics to truly appreciate the awesomeness of the final product. It was a little touch and go on Friday morning. We had only a few buildings, lots of vehicles and the South Essex (Sah!) As the day progressed more stuff arrived, everybody pitched in to build and it started to really come together nicely. Saturday morning we finished off the right flank with Tom's bomb-damaged farm modules which, in the end gave us a respectable length of eleven baseplates. A little shorter than we had hoped for but after seeing the detail put into that length I don't think anyone was complaining. My apologies for not naming all the participants but I totally forgot to try to get some sort of sign-in sheet. It also does not help that I am bad with names at the best of times but when you start throwing in both real names and forum aliases... I do need to single out my 2iC, the man who really made OpB the success it was, David (Ranger of Awesomeness). Acting as theme coordinator at Sealug planning meetings, drumming up some fantastic contributions from locals who may not have even heard of Bricklord until he started talking about it, taking the contributions and combining them into fantastic scenes - especially the Spitfire (by Dan Siskind) strafing the bridge (by me) - this young man did a lot of work and deserves a round of applause. I also wanted to thank the BAF members who came to the public hours. I think I met three of you wandering the convention floor and was very pleased to hear your thoughts and know that we made something worth seeing. Finally, for a bit of fun, I present the OpB Can Can:       Thank you all again for making this a fun collaboration and thanks to Will for providing this forum space and the fantastic contributor packs full of BAP-y goodness. It was so much fun we MIGHT just have to do it again next year. :)
 
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Rank: Airborne Ranger
Joined: 3/4/2009
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Location: UK
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Cool! PLEASE do it next year(even though there is a 99.9% chance I won't attend) it just looks so cool!!
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Joined: 4/13/2009
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The Gun wrote:Cool! PLEASE do it next year I hope they do it too! But theres a 99.9% Chance I WILL be coming.
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Rank: Resident British Madman
Joined: 4/25/2008
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Location: Essex, England
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There is a high chance we will be doing it again next year, don't worry. This year went so well :) -Sir Norman "Looking up plane tockets already" Ray.
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tedward wrote:Now that I am finally recovered (caught some sort of bug on the way home) I did as well! Also, most of the Brothers-Brick staff complained about the same thing. . . Anyway, I hope that BR is continued next year, as I forgot to register until the day of, which I got very angry about! ;) I'll try Sir Norman Ray's technique here. . . The " Swine Flu!!" Newb. ;)
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The Newb wrote:tedward wrote:Now that I am finally recovered (caught some sort of bug on the way home) I did as well! Also, most of the Brothers-Brick staff complained about the same thing. . . Anyway, I hope that BR is continued next year, as I forgot to register until the day of, which I got very angry about! ;) I'll try Sir Norman Ray's technique here. . . The " Swine Flu!!" Newb. ;) Alright alright, I was flaming tired. If you dont understand, I started clucking like a chicken. Besides, it was Mad cows disease I was doing :P -Sir Norman "HA!" Ray.
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Sir Norman Ray wrote:Alright alright, I was flaming tired. If you dont understand, I started clucking like a chicken.
Besides, it was Mad cows disease I was doing :P
-Sir Norman "HA!" Ray. Well. . . That made about as much sense as Monty Python, which doesn't necessarily mean it's bad. . . ;) Yours truly, " I see pink flamingos!" The Newb.
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!"In self defense and in the defense of the innocent, killing is not murder, hesitation not moral, and cowardice the only sin"-Dean Koontz
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I too, got sick... perhaps it had something to do with being in the same room as close to 10,000 people? That aside, I'm well underway with troop preparations & vehicle repairs after the flight home (my BrickMania jeep took a few hits...) and I think that next year should be even bigger! Also.. being a flickr noob, how do I add something to the operation Bricklord flickr set?
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I love the can-can line. Classic.
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Joined: 10/26/2008
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Wow, seems like everyone got sick... I was tired, deathly tired... up for 48+ hours and then finally getting the chance to sleep.. It was great to see all the people at out display and be able to talk with them. I am really hoping I will be able to go next year and be able to do this again. Almost forgot to say that it was great to meet all of you from the forums. -Ewok
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Joined: 10/31/2008
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It was great. I think there was something else in those attendee bags because I came down with something as well. I also found that bubble wrap is very usefull in transporting fragile models. Great meeting everybody, and I hope I can attend next year!
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Rank: Advanced Member
Joined: 3/8/2008
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Well I felt fine. Maybe a bit tired, but that's about it.
I just want to thanks Ted and David for doing such an awesome job coordinating the whole thing and making it happen. I feel honored to have been a part of it. It lots of fun hanging out with all you guys, and I sure hope to see you all next. I'd love to do it again next year, and next time I'll be sure to contribute more.
Thanks agian!
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