MOC: Green Gables Stadium

[RoxYourBlox]

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Dome:

Baseball:

Football:

Gymnastics:

Modular units:

Until next time!

Edited June 23, 2014 by RoxYourBlox

[Kristel]

Wow! This just looks amazing in real bricks. I love how you have done the roof, the facade and the signage. The effect of the sand green columns next to the offset dark orange columns is really nice. Beautifully detailed inside and out!

What's the seating capacity?

[jimmynick]

Fantastic, just as always. That's a great domed roof you made; very impressive!

[RoxYourBlox]

First, I'd like to apologize for late replies and "raw" photos. I have to split personal time (Lego & photography) with family time and it's hard to find a moment to myself!

Here's some trivia:

• 18,612 bricks plus minor adjustments throughout the build
  
• 24 sides
  
• 2.5 foot diameter at the base
  
• Occupies 4 gray XL (48-stud) baseplates
  
• Several iterations designed by yours truly across several months
  
• The second iteration was inspired by the GABLE ELEMENT (#6044), which was later replaced by technic bricks in the final
  
• 3x4x5 and 6x8x10 stud triangles were exploited aplenty to create tiered seating
  
• 3 full days to build
  
• 3 builders including myself
  
• 312 base capacity: 309 general admission, 24 box seats, and 12 for the press
  
• 345 capacity (33 extra) for baseball
  
• 368 capacity (56 extra) for football
  

I built my first stadium on a single gray road plate in August 1987 as a tiddly winks-type game using a 1x4 brick as a bat and a minifig head as a baseball. The objective was like a homerun derby: pry the ball from a white (home) plate, trying to get it to land in the outfield seats. Failure to get a home run = 1 out. 3 outs = 1 inning. 3-5 innings = 1 game. My brothers and a cousin had their own stadiums approximately the same size, and we established a league amongst ourselves. The dichotomy in scale that you can see here (e.g., the stands vs. the baseball field where 1 stud = 10 feet) represents a carry-over. Replace home base with a plate or brick instead of tile, and you could challenge a friend to a game.

The stadium can be dismantled into 8 light-yet-strong interlocking quarters. The playing field(s) can be lifted from the base plates. The dome is fairly solid but will jiggle a bit if you poke it. Stronger on the edge than in the middle, it is also stronger to compression than lift.

Edited April 21, 2013 by RoxYourBlox

[Brickington]

Incredible build! And it only took three days!

Amazing! Just amazing! I love the little minifigure head signs and the seats are done nicely.

[L@go]

Wow. That dome... and the lovely facade. I haven't ever seen anything like this built with LEGO before. Fantastic! I'm going to have a look at Flickr now.

I think the gymnastics interior fits best, scale-wise, with the building. But it's all gorgeous!

[Legogal]

The exterior color scheme and design is first class....sand green and dark orange look wonderful with orange bricks. Very nice textures here. Congratulations on such a fine build! The baseball capped heads on the exterior are wonderful!

[TheLegoDr]

That is beyond impressive. The size alone is impressive, but then add in the detailing.

Needless to say I won't be duplicating his anytime soon. But still very impressive.

[Cpt Rahmer]

Wow! Great moc! The roof is awesome, and the color scheme is nice!

[Aussie BJ]

The colors, the dome, the field/s, the size it's just amazing VERY well done and many thanks for building and sharing it with us.

[slimani]

OMG! Thank you very much the LXF file. I love this building. Could you upload the parts list? Thank you!

[trippybrowneyes]

Wow. This is awe-inspiring! I love that it can change functions, just like a real stadium.

[Steph 104th]

This is a brilliant MOC I love every aspect from the roof to the respective sports inside

[stevkir]

This is freaking awesome!! Great job and I have loved your designs since I saw your pumpkin house 2 years ago.

[rollermonkey]

Very cool.

The change in field scale between baseball and football is pretty small, but between those fields and the seating is a bit jarring. At least in the gymnastics arrangement, the seating and the equipment is similar scale.

Love the exteriors and the dome, though. I'd love to see a picture of the underside of the dome.

Edited March 17, 2014 by rollermonkey

[3BrickFriends]

Wow, that's amazing.

[LegoRacer1]

Wow, I love how it is different sports stadiums at the same time. 

[paul-USA-CA]

Just curious -- has anyone else tried the undertaking of building this MOC?  (Though I see the thread for purchasing the instructions, and Kristel's Bricklink store, is now closed/unavailable.)

This was on my bucket list project list and my 8-year-old assistant and I ramped up the part purchase pace and started construction six weeks ago.  (We're about halfway done - torn on the roof given the crazy cost of the one piece and need for 250+ of them, with only minor tweaks in color to make it *somewhat* affordable...)