Spider-Man Advent Calendar - Day 7
Posted by CapnRex101,
New York City scenery has been the main focus over the first week of this Advent Calendar, but based on the packaging, we should be moving indoors at some point.
Let's see whether that begins today...
Not yet. Instead, we remain outside and receive a traffic light and fire hydrant. These are nicely detailed and certainly look as though they belong in New York City, complementing the previous days. However, there is nothing to associate this item with Spider-Man, which is a shame. I would have liked a web string piece, for example, so Spider-Man could swing around the traffic light.
Overall - This is another reasonable piece of scenery, but it lacks Spider-Man theming.
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What do you mean it lacks spider man theming? The traffic lights are an integral part of Spider Man 2. They forced him to deliver that pizza while swinging!
Pretty sure the 1x3 plates should be Flame Yellowish Orange, which to me is closer to the shade of yellow for stoplights in NYC. Don't know how that would look with the trans yellow piece, though.
City Advent Calendar 2 feat. Spider-Man
You gotta feel for Lego designers when they're told something like: design a traffic light or Christmas tree, but you can't duplicate any design that's been done before.
Oh that note, I've been adding bricks to yesterday's hot dog cart so it's more in line with 30356.
I like the BB8 head on the fire hydrant.
Beyond that it's just another new york street thingy. Again it's at least distinctly new york with the yellow traffic light.
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@Binnekamp said:
"I like the BB8 head on the fire hydrant.
Beyond that it's just another new york street thingy. Again it's at least distinctly new york with the yellow traffic light."
Pretty much every stoplight in the US was probably yellow at one point. Now, I’m starting to see ones that are black with a black rectangular plate that has a highly reflective yellow strip around the edge, but yellow is definitely the standard. What’s really interesting is if you ever see one of them lowered down to the ground, which usually only happens if they’re swapping one out for a new one. Those things can be as tall as an adult!
@PurpleDave said:
" @Binnekamp said:
"I like the BB8 head on the fire hydrant.
Beyond that it's just another new york street thingy. Again it's at least distinctly new york with the yellow traffic light."
Pretty much every stoplight in the US was probably yellow at one point. Now, I’m starting to see ones that are black with a black rectangular plate that has a highly reflective yellow strip around the edge, but yellow is definitely the standard. What’s really interesting is if you ever see one of them lowered down to the ground, which usually only happens if they’re swapping one out for a new one. Those things can be as tall as an adult!"
I didn't know that! I've never been able to travel all that far, let alone across the pond. So I kind of made an assumption based on what I see in movies. Which is the worst thing to base assumptions on, as we all know XD
@Binnekamp said:
" @PurpleDave said:
" @Binnekamp said:
"I like the BB8 head on the fire hydrant.
Beyond that it's just another new york street thingy. Again it's at least distinctly new york with the yellow traffic light."
Pretty much every stoplight in the US was probably yellow at one point.... What’s really interesting is if you ever see one of them lowered down to the ground, which usually only happens if they’re swapping one out for a new one. Those things can be as tall as an adult!"
I didn't know that! I've never been able to travel all that far, let alone across the pond. So I kind of made an assumption based on what I see in movies. Which is the worst thing to base assumptions on, as we all know XD"
Nothing wrong with the assumption that street lights in NYC are yellow--they are! ( @WilsonPark , I agree that flame yellowish orange would be a better color for it, including having better contrast with the yellow light.)
@PurpleDave said:
" @Binnekamp said:
"I like the BB8 head on the fire hydrant.
Beyond that it's just another new york street thingy. Again it's at least distinctly new york with the yellow traffic light."
Pretty much every stoplight in the US was probably yellow at one point. Now, I’m starting to see ones that are black with a black rectangular plate that has a highly reflective yellow strip around the edge, but yellow is definitely the standard. What’s really interesting is if you ever see one of them lowered down to the ground, which usually only happens if they’re swapping one out for a new one. Those things can be as tall as an adult!"
I once ended up with an entire intersection worth of traffic signals and street signs in my office at work for a few weeks (no I don’t work in construction, it’s a long story). I knew the crossing and traffic signals were gonna be big, but I was stunned at just how big those street signs are too
@Binnekamp:
I’ve read a number of “misconceptions X people have about Y people”, and two that I see pop up all the time regarding what other countries think about the US are wondering if school busses are really yellow (yes, unless they’ve been repurposed for something like a church or summer camp), and do those red plastic cups exist (yes, because it would be incredibly expensive to fool those up just to make them for the occasional Hollywood production). I’d never seen someone question the traffic lights being yellow before.
@tedgarb:
Of course, it does depend on the intersection. Around Metro Detroit, the surface roads are mostly laid out in a grid, with main N/S or E/W roads every mile. Where those roads cross, the traffic signal lights are probably almost twice the diameter of where side streets have signals. Street signs are also smaller, particularly when you get into the interior residential streets. My question is less how that happened (though, that too), and more how you got any work done until they were gone.