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Hey all, so I'm pretty new posting wise to these boards after just reading for a while and wanted to share a project I've started working on over the past year. After seeing some of the hockey rink creations across the internet, especially one posted on here, I was inspired to start designing my own creation in LDD and later Stud.io. I've been a hockey fan my whole life... originally a Hartford Whaler fan... now New York Rangers fans (if you can guess from my avatar) so this seemed to be the natural next step in my LEGO revival that started about 5 years ago. My goal is to build a LEGO minifig scale (about 1:48) of Madison Square Garden. Which for the ice surface equals 50" or 162 studs long by 21.25" or 68 studs wide. Eventually I also want to have two full teams of 40 players (custom created with individual jerseys), Rangers vs. Bruins, plus coaches, referees, off ice officials, ice crew and of course Zambonis. Later, when I have more space, I would love to start building out the stands. But after a couple of digital designs, I haven't gotten a look I've really loved yet so that's on the back burner for the moment until I finish the actual rink and obtain more space for this monster, lol. The first picture is what I'm hoping for the first phase of this to be. As a small sample of how many pieces are in the ice surface alone... 884 2x4 white tiles. My guess is over 2,300 in just tiles for the entire ice surface And here is my current physical build. I've completed center ice and am working on one of the end zones and starting to build out the benches and penalty boxes. It's really crazy how big this is in real life, haha. I have 46 16x16 dark bluish gray plates so far in this photo Better sense of the scale with one of my first custom minifig attempts for the future players for this rink. The only problem that I have run into so far that I didn't anticipate when building this digitally was getting the doors to the benches working correctly. It fits good closed... but can't open it up, haha. So posting this to see if anyone may have an idea on how to resolve this. I really... really don't want to cut a corner of a brick... but not sure what else would work right now. Thanks everyone for checking this out, and I'll throw up some more updates as I continue. You can also see more pictures at My Flickr Albumn
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Today I was lucky to receive the 5014 hockey slammer set free with a Bricklink order I got through the post today,so I thought I would make a review of it. Some basic details: Theme Sports Year released 2003 Pieces 28 RRP £0.78 Packaging Polybag The front of the bag is pretty boring as you would expect for a set this size..... why is that player aiming for the other players face? Back of the bag looks like this.... The back of the bag also shows you how to place the puck in-between the 'legs' of the players and what should happen if you press down the 'head',that is if you build it right..... The parts..... The parts sorted.... There is no really interesting parts here,but you could say that all the parts may help boost you collection of technic parts. The instructions. The back of the instructions. I wounder if that red basketball player is really that bendy? Half way through the build,for some reason I have chosen to build both players simultaneously.... And finished..... Players from the back. Spare parts,there should be another spare rubber band but I got a piece of hard plastic instead... Ratings: Parts 8/10 Build 6 /10 Playability 5/10 Overall 7/10 So to sum up it's a interesting set,it is not very expensive but does give you some good parts to add to your collection. The build was as you can expect from a set this size not very interesting,just some parts stuck on top of each other. personally I would not of bought it myself,I got it as a free give from a Bricklink order..... so I am not going to complain.
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