Electrical Work Continues

 

 

See that red line sneaking up and across the bamboo poles of our log ride? That's our positive and negative electrical lines. It is now in place and running down both of our upramps.

 

 

Look closely and you will see the copper wires, both on the left and right, jetting out of the top of the drop. These will be attached to the sides where they will come into contact with the lighting that will be on poles running up the ramps.

 

 

Now that these wires are in place, it is time for us to finish creating our lighting poles and getting them wired and into place.

 

This part of the model just proves that you really can do anything you want to do if you put your mind to it. I had no idea how to do any of this before starting this project. But thanks to mostly information on the internet, I am getting it done. You can do! 

 

 

Attractions Department: Logs

We wanted to know if our logs were going to be comfortable for our little guests, so we invited some of our "New Guests" to try them out. Well, actually, we glued them and......ummm....removed some of their legs. Hmmm...that just sounds terrible. But it turned out really nice and it was a small price to pay to get to ride the log ride over and over and over.

 

See how happy they all look? Actually, we had to "modify" a few folks to get them to sit on the seat. We moved these guests toward the front of the logs. As we get more people we will had them to the ride, though I kind of like that a few logs have only one person in them.

 

 

 

So now our guests are ready to ride the log ride. That means we better stop writing and get back to work. We have a lot of lighting to install before we can continue with the actual construction!

Mystic Mountain Update

We wanted to send out an update on the progress of Mystic Mountain construction.

We got delayed a bit as our poor Lego Millennium Falcon kept falling apart. I built it last year for fun and never displayed it, so it went from box to box, corner to corner, shedding pieces and parts as it went......which then became property.....and dinner....for Sprite, our eat-anything dog.

So, before he ended up with the entire craft in his stomach, I decided to take it apart, piece by piece, and start over again...this time with a bottle of glue! (For those of you who saw The Lego Movie, I know you are hating me right now).

It took a while, but I finally got the thing rebuilt and it is now together permanently and ready to be hung.

So that brings me back to Mystic Mountain, and yes, I worked on it some more last night. I am happy to report that The Flipper is now ready to be stored until installation day. The model is finished complete with lighting. Once installed, all it will need is a few touchups. I am also considering hot gluing the electrical wires underneath the base so as not to affect what they are attached to above which was happening anytime I had to move the model. But for now, it slides into storage.

Next, we go back to the lighting work on our log ride!

Mystic Mountain Update

 

Wanted to send in a quick update to let you know work continues nightly on the project. I say "the project" because we are jumping around from one aspect to another, with electrical being the number one focus.

 

As you can see from the picture, last night I started putting Flippers' light stanchions back into place, hopefully for the final time. As much as I would love to flip this attraction over and work from the bottom, I'm afraid it is too fragile to do so. Makes working on the electrical interesting.

 

I need to get two or three more color-changing LEDs into the center of the arm lift and electrical will be finished on the Flipper........unless I decide to add more  ;)