Dec. 22nd, 2007

Christmas tree

Monorail Santa

I've got Monorail Santa onto the tree and sorted out some extra support wires to stop the track tilting wildly under the weight of the carriages. Here's a video of it in operation. Apparently you can still buy them, but they cost quite a lot more than I paid for my broken (but repairable) one.

After I uploaded my video to Youtube, the related videos thingy pointed me to a video of a vastly more impressive Christmas tree monorail layout. Me want!

Dec. 20th, 2007

Christmas tree

Is it Christmas yet?

Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer

Dec. 14th, 2007

Christmas tree

A cautionary tale

[info]autopope says [info]feorag has a monorail that goes round their Christmas tree.

Three days later: [info]alex_holden has a broken Magic Santa Monorail Tree Ride from eBay.

[disassemble]
[spot snapped-off flimsy bit of plastic]
[root in scrap pile for a suitable bit of steel]
[cut, bend, file, hammer, superglue, reassemble]
[place on section of track, connect power]
[Monorail Santa screams "HA! HA! HA!", runs over [info]alex_holden's fingers, and falls off the end of the track]

[info]alex_holden has a monorail that goes round his Christmas tree (or will do when he gets around to putting it up).

Dec. 16th, 2006

Christmas tree

I want to be a treeeee...

I'm feeling a bit more Christmassy now I've put the tree up and decorated it: reveal photo )