We got all the individual rides on the carousel done as well as all the fascia decorations. All that is left to do now is to put the top on and the whole thing will be done!
This first picture is from Saturday evening after we got all the horses and sleds built and people in them. When you turn the carousel, each of the carriages moves up and down - just like on a real carousel. Most move pretty smoothly but there is a lame grey horse that seems to get stuck on the floor plate. This is due to the fact that the floor plate keeps popping up and is a big pain to try and push back down because you invariable end up popping something else up! So we decided just to leave it and that the lame horse adds to the story. :)
Speaking of the story, we had one mini-figure where the head came pre-attached to the body. And unfortunately, it was stuck on there so hard that we couldn't pull it off and so we had to leave it as is. It would not have been such a big deal except that it ended up being a bearded man's face on a flowery shirt that would be more suited to a little girl.
So either this person was some odd cross-dressing dwarf of a man or it was a greedy little girl who had smeared her face with chocolate sauce as she was such a little piggy that she couldn't wait until after the ride to eat her Nutella crepe. I am partial to the second scenario as it reminds me of myself .... but I'll let you decide. Here she (or he if you go with story #1) is below:
The fascia decorations are quite intricate and ornate. Once we got them on, the carousel really started looking pretty fancy and akin to what you would see at a real fair. This is the bigger and fancier of the 2 types of fascia.
I forgot to take a separate picture of the smaller fascia but you can see it below. It's the one with the large golden dish in the middle.
And here is the carousel on Sunday night after we had attached all the fascia pieces. It is really coming along nicely.
In fact, it is far enough along that we are contemplating what to build next. We were at the Lego store on Saturday and saw a couple of new sets that caught our eye but we were kind of thinking of leaving those for the time being so they could be put on our Christmas wish lists (yes we are already thinking that far ahead). We have a few thoughts on what to do next. I, of course, would like to do something Star Wars so we'll see if we can find a colorful one that mom wouldn't mind building as well.
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