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My builds are never slow, nor are the ever quick, they are always at the right speed.

Awesome, I started the basketshooter today.

I was working on the lift and the ball trigger at the same time. I initially thought that the videos and the instructions were the same. I have now learned there are differences. The trigger is working but I'm still figuring out some timing stuff on the lift. Another question. I see many people use a 9Volt transformer to power their builds. I have a few of them but for some reason I can't figure that out. How do you connect the 9Volt transformer to the motors?

Hello all, I've been collecting brick and am at the point where I can start building. I see there are two versions of the instructions. Which are recommended the video or the pdf?

Where do you guys get all the balls? Is it me or are they just realy expensive?

I love this....currently building the ball lift but will add a few more. I also have some ideas about making them my own. If you still need somebody to test the ball factory instructions. I have almost collected all the parts. I'm happy to do it.

With me the program just freezes.

Been using Bluerender for a few weeks now, it is pretty cool. I may need to start playing around with it because I'm hoping for a bit more quality. First question, what could be the reason that the Rotation doesn't work with me?

Not the urge, it takes to long to explain what happened. Although I don't really understand it myself, I messed up at some point. Didn't know I posted it twice.

Two years ago I went to LegoWorld in Utrecht for the first time. I had a blast and barely enough time to see everything. I had to skip last year so when I went today I was really excited. Now at the end of the day, I’m glad my daughter had a great time. That might be enough for the organizers since I’m probably not the main target audience. Still as an AFOL I can’t be anything else than disappointed. I know a lot of people worked hard on this event and there will be a lot of people raving about it. Here is what I think. The good: The Lego Fans section was cool. Although I feel it is greatly reduced since the last time I was there. There were also a lot of builds that were there two years ago. Still this was by far the best part of the event. It is great talking to the builders and trying to figure out how their brains work. The Lego Museum was cool but at the same time it felt missing a lot. There was a lot of Star Wars, and off course Star Wars is always cool. The rest was some 70’s and 80 stuff, mostly trains. No technic at all, and there was a lot lacking. There should be more in a museum. I’m sure they can find people to show part of their collection. If they want my technic collection is available. Still it was a cool section. The build your own minifig. We were lucky to be there early. It is also nice you can get something that you don’t have the pay way too much for. Dirk Denoyelle, I liked his stuff. Not sure if it is art or if he is just a great builder but I liked it. You never leave empty handed. The bad: I basically didn’t care much for the whole setup. Each theme had his own section on the floor but it was all the same. The section were in the color of the theme, maybe a display and some supersized models. In each section there were some tables with bricks of that theme were you could build. The kids enjoyed the playing but I was hoping to see more models of that theme. Maybe even have a small museum per theme. It just feel that like they dumped a lot of bricks in certain areas, fence it off and give it the name of a theme. When you need 10 air filled bounce castled to keep the kids entertained at a Lego event you may need to rethink a few thing. Okay some were really cool, but guess what I have this near where I live as well. The shops, they weren’t just bad they were awful. I’m not talking about the toy store that was setup well. There were two places where you could buy bricks. The problem was it wasn’t sorted. There were about 10 buckets filled with all sorts of bricks. The buckets were too deep to really search for anything. The floor space was way too small which resulted in some pushing and shoving and frustrations. Off course it is Lego so it was expensive. Two years ago there were a lot of unofficial sellers, that was more fun. I guess the problem lies in the unofficial. So some build were very approachable like the Formula 1 car at the Speed Champions section, the big London Bridge or the build by the artist Dirk Denoyelle. The problem was that the only security here was a sign, please do not touch. This is an event with a ton of kids, many of which can’t read. Other are too excited to read. If you only put up a small sign you are not allowed to touch it at this event, don’t be upset if kids start touching it. Sure we as parents have a job here as well, but guess what even the best parents in the world will not always be able to keep their kids fingers of the pretty lego bricks. Feel free to disagree with me, but I truly feel that in the past two years LegoWorld lost a lot of its appeal.

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Website, promotion and all those things is not a problem. I'm thinking about holding it in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

So for a while now I have been thinking about organizing a Lego event. During that event I can off course show of my own collection. Although it is getting faily large I do not believe it is enough to call it an event. What do you guys think I would need to organize to make it attractive for people to come.