Random part of the day: Flat Panel 3X11M

Looks like several technic parts stuck together

So I go to the element page to see how many of these I own, and see that I own several, in a few different colors. I'm expecting them to come from different sets, but with the exception of a single dark gray one (from 42060), they're all from 42128.

How very IKEA

I own precisely two of these, in 42042.

@Norikins: There's a fun MOC idea!

I'm surprised that I own 2, and both are in 80013 Monkie Kid's Team Secret HQ. I forgot about them completely.

@Norikins said:
"Looks like one of those white foldable tables you always see at events."

Buffalo Bills fans going to start jumping through these pieces now.

@TheOtherMike said:
" @Norikins: There's a fun MOC idea!"

It needs to have a itsy-bitsy LEGO city layout on it then! I think it's doable with the old Spiderman rope for train tracks, and 1x1 plates / tiles for buildings. The hard part would be getting it to not move when you bump it, just like a real layout!

@Murdoch17:
https://brickshelf.com/gallery/DecoJim/THF2014/thf_10144.jpg

Meh. Fear will keep people from bumping the table. Fear of getting crushed to death! Also, the few hundred pounds of LEGO pieces tends to dampen any vibrations. Of course, we can’t actually do layouts like this on our club’s plastic tables, so this one has our custom wooden tables with the entire layout bolted together into one platform. This particular show also has extra short legs, because The Henry Ford Museum wants young kids to be able to look down at the layout, rather than having to stand on tippie-toes just to see over the tracks. I think the table surface is around 15-18” off the floor, which is also difficult to do with plastic folding tables.

Also, we did once have a building get knocked off the layout. We were doing displays at Brickworld Indy, and two members did a town/train layout together. They put three skyscrapers on the end of the layout. The rightmost white building from that picture was on the left, on the right was a pair of dark-bley towers about 5’ tall, and just over one square foot each at the base. Between them was a building that dwarfed even the light-grey tower from the photo. It was about the same height, at 11-1/2’, but it had vertical sides all the way to the top and filled a 30”x30” footprint.

Someone with a recent foot injury was there, and had just that day received a motorized scooter to get around while his foot healed. He mixed up forward and reverse, and rammed it into the table that these three skyscrapers were sitting on. The white building is pretty squat, so it didn’t budge. The dark-bley towers went down like they had been tackled, and the building smashed into component pieces all over the floor. The real issue, though, was that the roof of the tallest tower, which was built in four quarters and probably weighed a combined 100 pounds, shifted over 1” out of alignment with the rest of the building. It was too late to get a ladder or scissor lift in to fix it, so the marked off a crash zone that was longer than the height of the building, moved the barriers out to that mark, and set a banquet table in the middle of the open space to keep the barriers from creeping in towards the layout. And prayed.

It made it through the show without further incident, and the shattered tower got rebuilt pretty easily. The building it’s based on isn’t very ornate, and it has no interior built, so the entire model was fairly simple. They had kids lined up all day to help rebuild bits of it, and even had to start rationing parts so they wouldn’t run out before the day was over.

You can see the tall building in this photo (it’s the one sticking up into the rafters):
https://brickshelf.com/gallery/DecoJim/THF2015/thf_0316.jpg

https://brickshelf.com/gallery/DecoJim/THF2015/thf_10290.jpg
^ That’s the roof with one corner missing.

https://brickshelf.com/gallery/DecoJim/DSO2007/dso5319.jpg
^ And there you can see the one that shattered, off to the left in the background (it has a brickbuilt “1001” at the top), with Detroit Symphony Orchestra concertgoers providing a sense of scale.