Meeting # 3: playground creations, 27 May 2012

 Here is a picture of our whole playground - it's a playground by everyone.  

Below is a description of each piece of playground equipment.

The Wall of Doom, The Slide of Death and Miniscule Seesaw by Grainger.
It's WAY cool.  Took me 1 day to build this equipment.

Seesaw by Otis F
this is a mini seesaw and it's way cool!. it has two clones on it. i made it out of green platform for the surface of the thing. star wars people sit on each side of the seesaw and a thin white piece was added to make it higher. There is a green stick for the people to sit on...










Flying Fox by Samuel.

I got the idea of the flying fox after finding this rope from a fire set.  I had to build it up and make it strong.  It was really hard working out how to make it work, I tried a few things until I found this round base he's sitting on.  Then I cut some string  and tied it on.  Awesome it works!  There are steps up the side so you can climb to the top.

 

Topple Tower, High Seesaw and Balance Beam by Harry.   This is my creation.  If I made the balance beam higher it would have been a "thriller playground" because the seesaw has no bits to hold onto, and it's so high.  And the topple tower has no restraining parts.

Slide-Seat-Tree by Noah.
I made this tree because playgrounds have trees.  I made this seat because people sit on seats in playgrounds.  This is a big slide, two minifigures could go on it at once.









 Way Cool Swing by Lachlan.
I made this swing and it can swing forwards, it was quite tricky to make.  I made it upside down because the hinges could only be connected that way to make it swing.  I used a big flatpiece for the bottom and for the seat, I used those pieces with the cross holes on the inside.





 Climbing wall with Rope Ladder  and Fireman's pole, and Plank by Lachlan.
There's a guy on the plank with a sword, making the other guy "walk-the-plank", and he's going to fall face first into the bush.  The guy with the sword is a little boy but with areally huge sword that is so heavy he might topple over. And the plank can turn into a slide - cool.

The Jet Seesaw by Josh.

 This is mini-scale.  The person sits inside the sloping front part, and they put in a dollar and it goes up and down and side-to-side, for about 3 minutes.  It's for 4-7 year olds.  I think Lego Club is cool.

The Swing of Death by Henri.
If you swing on the swing you die because it makes you fall off.  This swing will be in every playground, but it will have a danger sign.

The Warplane That Crashed by Henri.
It's a piece of playground equipment - people can climb on it.  It crashed because a guy with a gun shot it, it fell out of the sky, it crashed into the playground and then everyone wanted it to stay in the playground to climb on.

 OTHER MODELS by members of the IB Legobuilders:
Angry Birds by Grainger.


My angry bird is multicoloured because i didn't  have quite the right pieces. I got the instructions off the internet on how to make the angry birds, but i couldn't find instructions for the pigs, so i just got little green dots for them.  the slingshot is made from a rubber band.








Decisions this week:


1  Next meeting is on Sunday 10 June at 3:30pm.

2  The theme for next meeting is Camping Creations:  we can make tents, campfires, sleeping bags, a camping bus,  hut, campervans, bikes, food, trees/forest, cars for driving there and a carpark, cooking, bears, animals in the forest, birds, horses, a swingbridge and whatever else we can think of.

3  We decided to plan an Island Bay Legobuilders Mid Winter camping trip.  We'll plan this next week.

4  We can email any pictures and explanations of our creations to jennifer@wishbonedesign.com before the club meeting if we have them.

5  Another theme for a future meeting could be the Underworld.  The types of things we might build are:  a big lavapit, Haedes (a cave with a sword-guy and lightening), a zombie army, the living dead, monsters, monster tanks.