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General => Community Events => Topic started by: Rasputin on September 24, 2012, 05:21:12
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Well here is our first public show. It was at the Sonoma County Train Show. I my wife, 3 kids and a friend set it up in 12 hours on Thursday, 3 hours on Friday and we played/arranged it on the 3 show days.
First we piled up gravel and built the bridge. It all fell apart when I tried to move it so I basically built it on site. Then the gravel got piled up.
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I started learning a common situation, You never have enough. I started running out of LGB straights
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SHOW TIME
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Wow! :wow:
Absolutely amazing! I really like the bridge and the landscaping. Simply stunning.
Greetings from Germany
Oliver
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Thanks for going for the ride on the crazy train :P
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For the newspapers ;)
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Break down in 4.5 hours
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Impressive! :clap:
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Impressive Ras! :o AMAZING.
What's the animal in this pic? The one on the right part fence?
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That's one outstanding layout Ras. Well done
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The magnitude of this display is just unbelievable!!! Very well done! So many great details in there, too, just awesome. I see a lot of skeletons bleaching in the sun... did one of them have a cow's head? Oh, and I see you got some advertizing for your business in.
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A wonderful display Ras, you did very well to set all that up in so short a time. :clap: :clap: :clap:
I was very impressed with all the details you were able to include too.
The use of the sand, bark etc. worked well. I liked the water too :love: what did you use for that.
The only thing that puzzled me was how all the bodies (skeletons) lay undiscovered for so long, just along from the saloon :lol:
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I am blown away, Ras! :loco: This is one of the best layouts I have seen. The water is great, (I think I have an identical tarp in my garden shed) great idea. My favorite area is the farm :love: with the plot of sunflowers and pumpkins. Absolutely brilliant! :)9
Joe
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You must be exhausted now, Ras. What a pity it all has to come down! I especially liked the suspension bridge!
It seems your kids had a lot of fun.
I wonder whether you just set the first stone for future Playmobil exhibitins in the US.
Best,
HDL
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EPIC!
That is the word that popped into my head as I viewed these amazing photos. Setting up on the floor rather than on tables has one obvious advantage in that you can really spread things out. Your use of gravel and different colors of mulch really worked well to highlight the various areas as well as to give everything an "old west" feel. The tarp that you used for the water is perfect - I think most of us have at least one of those blue tarps somewhere around the house and, until now, probably did not think of using it in this way. The bridge is magnificent! One's amazement at the sheer quantity of elements in this layout is only surpassed by an appreciation of the cleverness and wit displayed in the way everything is arranged. Well done! :clap:
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Impressive Ras! :o AMAZING.
What's the animal in this pic? The one on the right part fence?
The only non playmobil item in the whole display and you found it :lol: There is a tread about it in here somewhere . its a mystery I would like to solve.
I see a lot of skeletons bleaching in the sun... did one of them have a cow's head? Oh, and I see you got some advertizing for your business in.
Yes my sons were putting them all over the place. The cow head one, my middle son put in the smoke stack of the steaming mary to freak out the moms :P
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A wonderful display Ras, you did very well to set all that up in so short a time. :clap: :clap: :clap:
I was very impressed with all the details you were able to include too.
The use of the sand, bark etc. worked well. I liked the water too :love: what did you use for that.
The only thing that puzzled me was how all the bodies (skeletons) lay undiscovered for so long, just along from the saloon :lol:
Elaine (http://www.anchoredbygrace.com/smileys/mgqueen.gif)
The water was a problem up to the last minute. A few hours before the show set up I went to 3 craft/fabric stores to get something. They wanted like $100 for some stupid looking material and no one had mylar wider than 1 inch. About 10 minutes before I left my wife said "why don't you use a tarp?" I grabbed an old stained one off our wood pile .
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I wonder whether you just set the first stone for future Playmobil exhibitins in the US.
Best,
HDL
You should have heard all the talk from all the vendors and the management and the other displayer's and the visitors and the....... :-[ :-[ :-[ I learned a lot of stuff
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You did an amazing job, it looked fantastic. Lots of clever stuff. I like how you converted the pirate island and lighthouse for use with the Western theme. I'm sure you've learned all sorts of things that will be useful if you do the event again. Did it go over well with the event management?
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Amazing diorama and so huge!!!! Excellent job Ras, well done.
I like very much all the scenes and you have done wonderful work with the details.
The bridge is fantastic and I like also very much the town. The sallon is awesome too.
Congratulations Ras and many thanks for sharing with us all these pictures.
Friendly George. :)
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I'm sure you've learned all sorts of things that will be useful if you do the event again. Did it go over well with the event management?
Yes I learned a lot of back room business stuff. I did not know the high financial incentives at these events. Setting LEGO's up, well I learned you have to work like hell in a short time. and I want to make it way better with some planning. Water features, mountains, tunnels, tables.............
The management asked me to display at every show they do forever. Most of the management I found standing around stating at the LEGO diorama. Their offices were in the other building but they wanted to stay looking.
Playmobil, you blew a big one on this marketing but do not fret it is not only you but the local toy store, the landscape supply house, they all blew a great chance to stimulate commerce. They do not like money.
I can safely say very few people knew what it was, they want it and now they think its LEGO's :P
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EPIC!
That is the word that popped into my head as I viewed these amazing photos. Setting up on the floor rather than on tables has one obvious advantage in that you can really spread things out. Your use of gravel and different colors of mulch really worked well to highlight the various areas as well as to give everything an "old west" feel. The tarp that you used for the water is perfect - I think most of us have at least one of those blue tarps somewhere around the house and, until now, probably did not think of using it in this way. The bridge is magnificent! One's amazement at the sheer quantity of elements in this layout is only surpassed by an appreciation of the cleverness and wit displayed in the way everything is arranged. Well done! :clap:
Thank you, it did work well on the ground, I found many kids and parents sitting staring. One mom and son were sitting looking for hours.
The tarp was old wrinkled stained and was the perfect effect. I heard many people say they wanted to dive in :lol:
I wish I had more time to set all the other junk I had. I must have had dozens of building and many new sets that I never got around to setting. To much to do and so little time
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:o What a fantastic dio!! Great job!! :wow:
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Nice job! It looks like your work paid off quite well; the display looks excellent! :)
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Amazing setup Ras!! :wow: :wow: :wow: I'm glad it turned out for you so well. Love that bridge and the giant fort!
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Wow what an amazing setup and collection you have there! As for the only non playmo animal, is it an aardvark also known as an anteater?
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Thanks for the pictures. Very creative setup. Looks like you had no problem filling the space.
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MAGNIFICENT DIO RAS!!!! MARVELOUS JOB !!!!
I 've loved that your kids help you with that.
It is a great thing when you are building a dio yourself but if your kids are committed to it too, is the most amazing thing!!
Bravo!!
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This was simply amazing!
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Thank you Elric, I am not sure what it is :lol: to me it looks like a freak of nature. Maybe a genetically modified animal :P
Thank you PlaymoMan for the kind comment
Thank you Pynedor, you know I am not sure if it was worth it :lol: I am still unpacking 8} but we all had fun in the end you should have seen how proud my boys were, so for that I will do it again.
Thank you el jefe, yes the bridge was a big hit, most kids and parents would stand in front of it and gawk at the show
Thank you Knight Train, I even had lots more that I did not have time to put in :-[ or sets to open
Thank you grangel, having my kids help was the best part. I was even unaware of all the scenes that they built until I was packing them away. Even for me during the show it was impossible to see everything and I was there 12 hours a day
Thank you tigana123 we had fun
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Great diorama WOW 8-)
I especially liked the picture of the indians bowing for their totempole :lol:
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Thank you conniefrere , That was my youngest (7) idea. We had a bunch of that native from the pirate boat and I had no idea what to do with so many of the same figure. A scene where a bunch of identical people praying to an idol seemed perfectly fitting
Now if only I could figure out how to load videos to youtube. I keep getting error messages or that it will take 1000 minutes to load and then when its done it says " your video is to long and we deleted it" its only 20 minutes. I hate computer problems 8} but I am quite stubborn and will figure it out eventually ::)
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Still no luck on the Video >:(
I did get a letter from the management of the fair. "Please come back next year, we have a spot for you and want you to reserve it now". Its a year off :hmm: I may demand more than 1200sq.ft. this time. If I do a modern dio I could easily fill 5000 especially if I do airports, seaports, racetracks, horsetracks, mining & logging operations etc.......
Also a toy store (Hobby Town franchise) that is in the next town contacted me. "Please come to our train show in November, you will have a 12' x 15' space". What am I to cram into a 180sq.ft. ? I want big not tiny, this is G scale not Z :hmm: They also want me to set it in 4 hours 8}
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:lol: Sounds like you will be negotiating on that one.
I'm glad you brought this up, 'cause for some reason I missed this thread entirely. I read about the preparations and I knew it was going to be big, but can I just say: WOOOOOW!
With thàt much space, the whole thing just comes to life! Amazing, and I would have loved to be there to see it irl... You truely have an awesome collection :wow:
My favourite is the saloon and everything going on in there. And the streets with merchants scattered here and there. The mansion looks perfect as a single building occupied by a rich owner. And the water looks stunning! You guys should do this for a living ;D
+ It must be so nice to do be able to do this with the entire family.
Thank you very much for sharing :)