{"id":3015,"date":"2013-03-17T12:21:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T16:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=3015"},"modified":"2015-06-22T13:00:29","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T17:00:29","slug":"vermont-rails-train-show-03162013-barb-pitfidos-lego-layout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2013\/03\/17\/vermont-rails-train-show-03162013-barb-pitfidos-lego-layout\/","title":{"rendered":"Vermont Rails Train Show, 03\/16\/2013: Barb Pitfido’s Lego layout"},"content":{"rendered":"

As far as I was concerned, the crowning jewel of the Vermont Rails Train show was, naturally, Barb Pitfido’s Lego layout. I enjoyed her work immensely when I first saw it<\/a> at the Dollars for Scholars Train Show last year, and yesterday was no exception. We recognized each other on sight :p, and she pointed out to me the humorous details of her layout this time around.

This is Gulliver. He has appeared in a past layout tied down by minifig Lilliputians.<\/p>\n

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Along the front of the display, there was a swamp.<\/p>\n

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The livestock had escaped their alien overlords from the earlier layout<\/a> and were running away down the tracks.<\/p>\n

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Some people were having a shovel fight.
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A dude led an ostrich herd, keeping pace with the train.
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Further back in the layout, an obviously evil train, staffed by ghosts, belched noxious green smoke. [It glows in the dark.]
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A makeshift settlement sprang up near the evil train tracks.
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People used it as an informal dump.
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Santa moved in and got drunk. [That yellow thing in his lap is a bottle, more clearly seen two photos up.]
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Pirates [?!] commandeered a nearby tree.
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A leprechaun [extreme lower left] popped out of a stump.
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Someone let loose the killer clowns [bottom center between two tall pine trees]! Unfortunately, my camera would not pick up their angry expressions and weapons.
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Little Red Riding Hood [center background] dreamed of having a SmartCar of her own one day.
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The monkey, already well-stocked with bananas, refused to dismount, even with the promise of bribes.
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People enjoying their meals were puzzled and slightly disturbed by the presence of someone dressed as a chicken.
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This entry was originally posted at http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1484191.html<\/a>. You can comment here, but I’d prefer it if you’d comment on my DW<\/a> using OpenID.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As far as I was concerned, the crowning jewel of the Vermont Rails Train show was, naturally, Barb Pitfido’s Lego layout. I enjoyed her work immensely when I first saw it at the Dollars for Scholars Train Show last year, and yesterday was no exception. We recognized each other on sight :p, and she pointed… Continue reading Vermont Rails Train Show, 03\/16\/2013: Barb Pitfido’s Lego layout<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[646],"class_list":["post-3015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-trains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4977,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions\/4977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}