Art imitating life part 2

 So I see a funny video in the news

However I submit that this was an illusion started in lego set 555 back in the 70s

Thank God for the modern miifig!!!

The set i played with the most

 The police station was my most played with set. 

I loved the cars and the helicopter.  I remember when I was little and would go to the airport to pick up family at night...I thought the blue lights lining the airports taxiway.  The police set had blue lights just like that as I didn't have any transparent blue cylinders til that point.  And to have 9 blue pieces to stack into a cool tube!  I also remember  at the airport when little going out on the observation deck which this lego set had also.  

The frustrating thing about the set was that when the cars and motorcycles left the station, the gray baseplate and lego world of that one set was harshly cut off on to the orange 1970s carpet in our living room.  Not much crime happening on the living room carpet.  Plus any orange convict that escaped blended in the orange carpet and was untraceable.  So my solution was to take the motorcycle,  cop cars and police force and helicopter to the most realistic setting in tve house....the fireplace.   Heres the scene

Yes, through the magic of online house sales, I found pics of the exact fireplace that was the site of search and rescue operations.  All the cop cars would gather and the helicopter would decend off the hearth into the carpet ocean and rescue the guy in the blue suit.  Yes the hearth was so close to the cliffs of the pacific coast.

Now the problem was this room was partially underground and never warm.  And wind always made the area in front of the fireplace drafty.  And the brick just kept cold trapped. The firewood in the holder caused me allergies so I couldn't breathe and the splinters of wood would poke my hands.  But despite all these obstacles,  that blue suit guy survived by climbing on the police helicopter...and then returned guiding the helicopter in.

The industrial lego look part 1

I love the look of steel towers, power transformer stations, catwalks.  I don't know why I like this look except I think it came from my 2 most favorite video games of the 80s...

Both games featured a steel structure that i thought looked so cool...it even inspired me in the 80s to make my own pole position moc

And then the lego movie came out ...I dint like the movie, but the steel elevated track caught my eye.

So I  thought I was weird thinking about lego steel structures that could be made.  Then I saw the following masterpiece on lego ideas and thought wow, some other peopleine the industrial look

So I felt like there are others out there that like the steel industrial look....here are pictures I took in real life to inspire me

Ok I know this is all strange, but it lead me to order my favorite part from lego.com

I bought $100 and plan to make something like a radar tower for my airport!

So keep creating industrial structures!!!

Favorite pieces i like to build with

These are my favorite pieces to build with...I think I'm probably weird but I love thinking about what I could make emphasizing these pieces .  I like the industrial look!!