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fabricated signage: lego
Here’s a couple of signs I did last winter (notice the blue sky). 😀
We were adding some new features to our “driving school” at the park which included a subway (underground). I decided to make it look like the London underground. The big yellow sign is 3 pieces of MDF painted with cut vinyl on top. The little sign on the fence is a subway map I designed and made. All the stops of the subway are other attractions in the park. It was really a mess trying to get all the seperate subway tracks to line up and not get too mixed up. Probably something that will never get noticed by any of the 6 year olds driving the cars! The newspaper the little LEGO dude is holding is another one of my creations. It is 3 pieces of 3mil Sintra (PVC) heat bended to look like a paper. I then designed a fake headline and story and of course gave myself the credit of being the senior staff writer of the paper.
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That looks nice, especially the little lego dudes.
The blue sky has obviously been added using corel 😀
Any chance of a demo on the newspaper?
regards
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Hey Andy,
I’ll snap a few pictures next time I get a chance. It’s really nothing spectacular. I just take a piece of pvc that is a little over twice the length of the desired finish size. I take a 2 inch round dowel and heat up the pvc around it to form the outside of the newspaper. You can use a heat gun for this. We have a little nifty machine that has a rod in it that gets hot and heats a perfect line on your material. (I will post a picture of that as well if anyone wants it). For the inside of the paper I use the same technique, but with a smaller dowel. I put little 1″x1″x1/8″ spacers between each material to add space.
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great work mate, looks really cool/creative. nice one 😉
like the little blokes too… reminds me of eh…me? 😕 😉 :lol1:thanks for taking the time to post your work 😀
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Nice work ….. you obviously get a lot of fun signs to make working where you do 😀
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Well done Marek, you’re obviously a talented bloke, and an asset to the park.
Do you have themed areas in the park? just a little surprised they did a london underground, and not something based in America. 😕
If they have a stetch on the training road with pot holes and debri, you could base it on just about any major city in OZ 😳
Cheers mate, thanks for sharing
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Thanks everyone. 😀 😀
dsi,
I don’t think we have any subways here in southern california, maybe San Fransisco has one. Not sure. The kids probably think it is a staircase to a sandwich shop (We have one called Subway here!). Most of the park is based on Europe. There are 3 other LEGOLAND parks in europe, so most of the designs came from there. I always like the London Underground sign, so when my boss came to me and asked me to design a sign for the “subway” they were making I based it off of the U.K. version.
-Marek -
Thanks Mate. I didn’t know LEGOLAND was such a big organisation 😮 Only experience I have had with the stuff is trying to convince my kids not to insert it in an their ears, nose or anything else that was not designed for a square peg in a round hole, if you know what I mean 😕
Cheers mate, thanks for the reply
Shane
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