Building 101.
So as I'm unpacking from Brickcon, I keep finding things with little back stories... so here's another one:
There's a game called 101 Pieces - you show up and you bring 101 pieces and they tell you what to build. Sounds fun! So I put together a little package that consisted of mainly Travis bricks, clips and (apparently) too many light saber bars. My plan was that I could basically build a skeletal shape of pretty much anything I wanted.
Nick (Brickthing) coming from New Zealand didn't have time to make his own set, so I put together two exact copies, so we could go head to head ;)
What I didn't know was that you didn't have an hour to build one thing. You had 3 minutes each thing, doing it 10 times... yeah so my strategy would have sucked. So I went to the Blind Build finals instead (and beat Lego Junkie ;). But I still had the two sets so I gave them to Aaron and Forest to play.
Being the builders that they are, they said nuts to this 'build what I say crap' and they built their own thing for that hour. Nick swung by later and added his build with the remainder of the left over pieces that Aaron/Forest didn't use....
So using my 202 pieces they built three positively iconic builds:
Forest - Master of Mechs and hardsuits - a bitch'n robo-dog
Aaron - Starfighter God - built a VV
Nick - using the just scraps, built an old man - but what gets me is the evocation of feeling he squeezed into his build - so Nick.
Building 101.
So as I'm unpacking from Brickcon, I keep finding things with little back stories... so here's another one:
There's a game called 101 Pieces - you show up and you bring 101 pieces and they tell you what to build. Sounds fun! So I put together a little package that consisted of mainly Travis bricks, clips and (apparently) too many light saber bars. My plan was that I could basically build a skeletal shape of pretty much anything I wanted.
Nick (Brickthing) coming from New Zealand didn't have time to make his own set, so I put together two exact copies, so we could go head to head ;)
What I didn't know was that you didn't have an hour to build one thing. You had 3 minutes each thing, doing it 10 times... yeah so my strategy would have sucked. So I went to the Blind Build finals instead (and beat Lego Junkie ;). But I still had the two sets so I gave them to Aaron and Forest to play.
Being the builders that they are, they said nuts to this 'build what I say crap' and they built their own thing for that hour. Nick swung by later and added his build with the remainder of the left over pieces that Aaron/Forest didn't use....
So using my 202 pieces they built three positively iconic builds:
Forest - Master of Mechs and hardsuits - a bitch'n robo-dog
Aaron - Starfighter God - built a VV
Nick - using the just scraps, built an old man - but what gets me is the evocation of feeling he squeezed into his build - so Nick.