Epic Lane Stadium Gingerbread House

An miniature edible version of the home of the Virginia Tech Hokies.

By: Joe Lanza @thekeyplay
PUBLISHER
on December 22, 2014, 2:38 PM | 47 comments
[Bill Roth ‏(@VTVOICE)]

Whoever made this nailed it, and was overly generous in their representation of Virginia fans in attendance.

Previously from the Lane stadium baked goods or desserts category, the Lane Stadium wedding cake. Has there ever been a Lane Stadium pie? No... OK, then.

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Virginia Tech Football

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historyhokie's picture historyhokie
HOWDOITURNTHISON
| 11 years 6 months #

There have been plenty of Lane Stadium pies, but people actually wanted to eat them, so no photo evidence.

@historyhokie.bsky.social

ohherro's picture ohherro
🥁STICK IT IN🥁
| 11 years 6 months # ^

SHOTS FIRED!

http://i.imgur.com/asdKLLm.gif

VPIhokieME's picture VPIhokieME
'_'
| 11 years 6 months # ^

this GIF is amazing...I can't stop watching...

Onward and upward

VTimHokie85's picture VTimHokie85 | 11 years 6 months # ^

.

@VTimHokie85

marinehokie's picture marinehokie | 11 years 6 months # ^

I love pie.
That is all.

Some people spend their entire life wondering if they made a difference, Marines don't have that problem

Egbert's picture Egbert
BEER
| 11 years 6 months #

Call me a geek but, I'm actually in the planning stages of a Lego Lane Stadium.

This is going to be great for the ACC.

Joe Lanza's picture Joe Lanza
PUBLISHER
| 11 years 6 months # ^

If you take pictures throughout the process and the finished product I would love to publish them on TKP.

Egbert's picture Egbert
BEER
| 11 years 6 months # ^

That's something I have not thought of.
It looks like I'll need to do this in stages.A small one to work out a few details and get the scale correct and how small I can make it and get details correct.
My initial plan had one that was way too big and was going to get real expensive real fast. I mean it's way too easy to get something where the field is 10 ft long so the stadium model is about 15 ft and looks to cost well over $3000.

So, I'm working to see how small I can go for the first one then reset the scale.

Edited: I dropped a zero, I was well over $30,000 not $3,000. Added a , too to make sure I wasn't doing it again.

This is going to be great for the ACC.

ltrepeter2000's picture ltrepeter2000
HOKIE HOOPS WIZ
| 11 years 6 months # ^

Its going to cost you a hell of a lot more than $3000 to build a ten foot replica.

When the professor at Ohio State built their stadium, I think he estimated that it cost him almost $75,000 or more in parts alone and took him about 1000 hours to build. It was a 1:100 scale replica of the stadium with about 6,000 lego figures inside.

This link gives you the best photos to appreciate the size of his creation: HERE

You will probably need to go to a 1:1000 ratio if you want to be able to do it for less than $1000. I have experimented with building field parts to look like Worsham Field, done a couple end zones and mid field logos over the years but cant see having the time or space to build something like the professor at Ohio State, at least not until I am retired.

I cant find a link to it, but I believe that Ohio State found a way to buy this from the professor and now uses it as a donation tool, where you can donate a certain amount of money to have a lego figurine created in your likeness to be placed in or around the stadium. Not sure if thats still the case or not.

Rob Peterson
VTCC
Charlie/Hotel Company
Class of 1999

Egbert's picture Egbert
BEER
| 11 years 6 months # ^

Yeah, I dropped a zero.
That's why I stopped computing and decided I needed to go smaller, I was not going to have the space anyway.

$1000 would be in my budget for preliminaries esp if I could find a way to make it charitable somehow.

I'd definately toss $1k at it if we could figure out a way....

Getting ahead of myself. I need to figure size and scale first before we start going there.

This is going to be great for the ACC.

swvadon's picture swvadon | 11 years 6 months # ^

So, will you have it done by Christmas?

(ducking a thrown shoe)

An early Lego lesson I learned - never buy your son multiple Lego sets for Christmas while promising to 'finish them together'. Good luck on the project...

Egbert's picture Egbert
BEER
| 11 years 6 months # ^

I will but no promises on which Christmas.

I plan on segments to knock it down to manageable size.
Things like the exposed ends of the east and west stands will determine how small I can scale it down.

This is going to be great for the ACC.

Egbert's picture Egbert
BEER
| 11 years 6 months # ^

While we're at it, can I put out a call for anyone with overview type elevations or studies of details like the front facade or the facing of the bleachers as seen from the gates at the N endzone?

A top elevation with dimensions?

Links are fine.

This is going to be great for the ACC.

nubinile's picture nubinile | 11 years 6 months # ^

Cant help with that but I can help with this..
http://www.oyosports.com/Football/Virginia-Tech

Tweedy can run like a dadgum antelope or whatever. I like to use scalded dog. Do antelopes lumber? Cheetah, OK. He runs like a cheetah. He's fast. - Bud Foster

Egbert's picture Egbert
BEER
| 11 years 6 months # ^

I saw that but the logo and stuff are printed on the baseplate and that's cheating, as far as I'm concerned for a project like this.

This is going to be great for the ACC.

nubinile's picture nubinile | 11 years 6 months # ^

Oh well, best of luck!

Tweedy can run like a dadgum antelope or whatever. I like to use scalded dog. Do antelopes lumber? Cheetah, OK. He runs like a cheetah. He's fast. - Bud Foster

Egbert's picture Egbert
BEER
| 11 years 6 months # ^

I have the figurines though.

This is going to be great for the ACC.

nubinile's picture nubinile | 11 years 6 months # ^

Awesome. Make sure you have the top half of a uva figure and the bottom half a couple of bricks away and Kam C. in the middle!

Tweedy can run like a dadgum antelope or whatever. I like to use scalded dog. Do antelopes lumber? Cheetah, OK. He runs like a cheetah. He's fast. - Bud Foster

ltrepeter2000's picture ltrepeter2000
HOKIE HOOPS WIZ
| 11 years 6 months # ^

Thats pretty cool, I hadnt seen those before. Only problem I have with the endzone set is that it makes it look like we have an offense capable of reaching the Red Zone so its obviously not from this season.

I will give Oyo credit though for making the figurines with legs that bend, something Lego has been missing out on forever.

Rob Peterson
VTCC
Charlie/Hotel Company
Class of 1999

historyhokie's picture historyhokie
HOWDOITURNTHISON
| 11 years 6 months # ^

If you do this, I will refrain from making you the butt of any jokes in 2015 TKP Fantasy Football.

@historyhokie.bsky.social

Egbert's picture Egbert
BEER
| 11 years 6 months # ^

Don't make promises you can't keep.

This is going to be great for the ACC.

RealDiehl's picture RealDiehl | 11 years 6 months # ^

Thought you wrote "refrain from you making any butt jokes" and was confused as to why

I just sit on my couch and b*tch. - HokieChemE2016

Compeau's picture Compeau | 11 years 6 months #

Enter Gingerbread Man.

AirplaneBottleOfBourbon's picture AirplaneBottleOfBourbon | 11 years 6 months #

More gumdrops than fans at UVA's spring gingerbread house contest.

VTBlackout's picture VTBlackout
| 11 years 6 months #

Mike London's going-away present perhaps?

The Dude Abides

Alum07's picture Alum07
🦃 LEG KING 🦃
| 11 years 6 months #

Epic?

http://archive.randi.org/site/images/stories/Inigo.jpg

Don't get me wrong, its a good effort... but epic would have had the bleachers drowning in bourbon, and the sheer mass of Sam Rogers would have had the thing collapsing within itself.

"When I was growing up, Virginia Tech was a school that was kicking ass and taking names, and it's time we get back to that" - James Franklin

jrosgood's picture jrosgood | 11 years 6 months #

Since you folks seem to like Hokies baked goods, this was our wedding groom's cake last year.

Our Wedding Cake

reesejenks520's picture reesejenks520 | 11 years 6 months # ^

You had me at cake.

#teamcake

99AgHokie's picture 99AgHokie | 11 years 6 months # ^

Awesome!

There is nothing in the world like Thursday night in Blacksburg!

Mike London's picture Mike London | 11 years 6 months #

Those gumdrops are obviously photoshopped. Everyone knows no one goes to football games.

Did you know I used to be a cop?

BirdmanBirdman's picture BirdmanBirdman | 11 years 6 months # ^

How's the offseason Mike?

Couldn't resist

"It might be dark outside, but it's LeDay in here." - Jay Bilas

Musky's picture Musky | 11 years 6 months #

Next year I will challenge the Lane Gingerbread stadium! BTW....if any of you caught the Steelers game yesterday, I swear Mike London was the ref! I will try to cop a pic. Merry Christmas.

Even when you get skunked; fishing never lets you down. 🎣

Egbert's picture Egbert
BEER
| 11 years 6 months # ^

That was horrible.

Cop a pic.......

This is going to be great for the ACC.

Musky's picture Musky | 11 years 6 months # ^

Egbert how old are you? 14....17.....22? Do you know what cop means as slang in the 70-80's? It means go steal or find something......anything. Cop a feel....Cop a buzz.....Cop a vibe...

Even when you get skunked; fishing never lets you down. 🎣

804VTHokie's picture 804VTHokie | 11 years 6 months # ^

People still use that slang today. I think he thought (as I'm sure a lot of us did) you were making a Mike London cop joke.

Bruce Smiff 82's picture Bruce Smiff 82 | 11 years 6 months # ^

that's what I thought. cop pun. dude is coming out blazing. Watch out for him.

"How you doin', Randy?"

historyhokie's picture historyhokie
HOWDOITURNTHISON
| 11 years 6 months # ^

Having met the wonderful man that is Egbert, I will put the over on 22 years old and also the over on him being a master of slang.

@historyhokie.bsky.social

Egbert's picture Egbert
BEER
| 11 years 6 months # ^

^ be careful, this man obviously lies.

I am however, master of something.....

This is going to be great for the ACC.

hokie07ME's picture hokie07ME | 11 years 6 months # ^

baiting?

now who's 14

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Egbert's picture Egbert
BEER
| 11 years 6 months # ^

Nope, I'm a fly fisherman.
No bait.

This is going to be great for the ACC.

Egbert's picture Egbert
BEER
| 11 years 6 months # ^

What these guys said here.

It was actually a good pun that I was calling out there.

This is going to be great for the ACC.

TheFifthFuller's picture TheFifthFuller
| 11 years 6 months # ^

Well, technically his third. DID YOU KNOW HE USED TO BE A COP?

vtdirk12's picture vtdirk12
| 11 years 6 months # ^

Does that mean he can help police our threads to keep everything on topic?

hokie07ME's picture hokie07ME | 11 years 6 months # ^

#B4P

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Musky's picture Musky | 11 years 6 months #

OK...OK..I was drinking Christmas Bourbon!

Even when you get skunked; fishing never lets you down. 🎣