Greetings Bricksetters...
Because it is the Saturday before Thanksgiving (over here in the US), and a splendid
Fall Winter day in New York - I have returned to preside over another BonusBall.
The first fifty nine (59) unique posts get a numbered entry for Wednesday, November 27th's UK BonusBall.
Please try avoid double-posts, and I am easily confused and don't count so well.
As I have a wide variety of extra sets, polys, figures and Lego-related whatnot in my inventory, the prize will be a bit of a "winner's choice". The only condition will be that whatever prize the lucky winner chooses - it will be revealed further below in thread. And if you don't care, there's a
#40033 Turkey polybag with your name on it!
The question for your consideration:
If there were another era you could travel to and observe folks at the time in there element - where and when would you go? (Also setting aside historical biases, exposure to lethal sanitation conditions and unpleasant cuisine that would jeopardize one's safety during said era.)
@SumoLego's answer:
Despite my obvious heritage and predilection for Kurosawa films, and my affinity for Colonial American History and Classic Roman Civilization, I'd really like to observe exactly how the ancient Egyptians built the Pyramids, and construction of the Great Wall in the Qin Dynasty period.
Good luck!
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Roman Empire
modern day Tokyo
Happy Thanksgiving to all!
Do I include some secret binary ASCII message here or just FACE (base 16) the music and finish this post?
Would also like to go back and find out if the Mayans were really as clever as they appear to be or really good practical jokers.
Thanks for hosting @SumoLego and Happy Thanksgiving.
I would definitely like to be a fly on the wall during the French Revolution! Or the colonization and expansion of the Americas.
But I would be particularly interested to see how the initial migration of humans out of Africa and around the world occurred. Particularly the Polynesians traversal of the Pacific.
Seriously though, I'd like to have been around to observe the Moon landing in 1969, in an omnipresent kind of way, both from Earth and simultaneously with Neil, Buzz and Michael on the Moon. (seeing as asphyxiation isn't a problem in this scenario).
Thanks for hosting. Great question!
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Thanks 4 hosting Sumo!
Thanks for hosting @SumoLego
I'd have to find out if Gary Larson was correct.....!
WW2. So I could hang out, and ride around in a Sherman tank with my grandfather
The wild west. Love Westerns
The Golden Age of Piracy. Just because.
Late 60s early 70s one word muscle cars
Either that, or I'd go back to see if Gilgamesh really was so big he could hold a lion, and if the giants of the lovelock cave were real.
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Time of Abraham and his sons
Moses
Early ADs
Around 600 AD
Others I don't know enough to provide a date or person 😊
For my time traveling, I chose the turn of the last century to take a journey on the Orient Express.
I’m tagging along with @mak0137
Just to find out if any of them are right and try to stop some arguments.
Thanks for hosting @SumoLego and have a great Thanksgiving!
The Crucifixion
Gilgamesh & the flood
That sort of thing
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