Wamalug: Virtual Happy Hours: 2020
zoom.usDecember 29, 2020
S1E33(033): The thirty-third installment of Wamalug Masters Happy Hour concluded the calendar year, which served as tonight’s theme (no dumpster fires, though, or anything political).
Ben Paczak summarized the year with a gaming table attended only by his sigfig.
December 22, 2020
S1E32(032): The thirty-second installment of Wamalug Masters Happy Hour. The challenge was a new year.
Ben Paczak with fireworks at midnight.
December 15, 2020
S1E31(031): The thirty-first installment of Wamalug Masters Happy Hour.
December 8, 2020
S1E30(030): The thirtieth installment of Wamalug Masters Happy Hour. Challenge: a scene or character from a Christmas movie.
December 1, 2020
S1E29(029): The twenty-ninth installment of Wamalug Masters Happy Hour, which took as its theme any holiday other than Christmas.
Ben Paczak with May the Fourth (Be With You). Lee Anne Murrell with a Jack Skellington.
November 24, 2020
S1E28(028): The twenty-eighth installment of Wamalug Masters Happy Hour. The challenge this week was to incorporate a brick separator.
Charlie Stephens was voted the winner, his construction is visible at the bottom. He explained on Facebook that the vignette depicted a visit to the museum to learn about their ancestors. Your chronicler sees googly-eyed Bright Orange 630-3 Brick Separators visiting the preserved remains of an (Old) Dark Gray 6007 Brick Separator on a pedestal.
Channeling the spirit of the recent election, perhaps, another participant regretted his vote and conceded NOTHING!
November 18, 2020
S1E27(027): The twenty-seventh installment of Wamalug Masters Happy Hour, the seasonal challenge was “Autumn.”
Ben Paczak wins with a mug of warm apple cider.
November 10, 2020
S1E26(026): The twenty-sixth installment of Wamalug Masters Happy Hour.
November 3, 2020
S1E25(025): The twenty-fifth installment of Wamalug Masters Happy Hour. The challenge was gravity.
Ben Paczak wins with a Portal-themed entry.
October 27, 2020
S1E24(024): The twenty-fourth installment of Wamalug Masters Happy Hour. The challenge this week was something you could wear or accessorize with. Mike Harrod’s necklace using 6102767 Hinge Plate 1×2 in Dark Green was declared the winner.
October 20, 2020
S1E23(023): The twenty-third installment of Wamalug Masters Happy Hour. The challenge was monsters.
Ben Paczak with a Deor Cryptid.
October 13, 2020
S1E22(022): The twenty-second installment of Wamalug Masters Happy Hour. The challenge was thirteen.
Amber Niblock with a bar mitzvah.
October 6, 2020
S1E21(021): The twenty-first installment of Wamalug Masters Happy Hour, Mike Harrod’s response to the “Hallowe’en” challenge was declared the winner.
Ben Paczak’s vignette.
September 29, 2020
S1E10(020): The twentieth installment of Wamalug Masters Happy Hour.
September 23, 2020
S1E19(019): The nineteenth installment of Wamalug Masters Happy Hour, with “The Beatles” as its building challenge.
September 16, 2020
S1E18(018): The eighteenth installment of Wamalug Masters Happy Hour had “The Great Outdoors” as its challenge.
September 8, 2020
S1E17(017): The seventeenth installment of Wamalug Masters Happy Hour. The challenge was water.
Ben Paczak wins with a surfer.
September 2, 2020
S1E16(106): The sixteenth installment of Wamalug Masters Happy Hour.
August 25, 2020
S1E15(015): The fifteenth installment of Wamalug Masters Happy Hour had as its challenge this week a “Bond” gadget (in honor of Sir Thomas Sean Connery’s 90th birthday on this day).
Ben Paczak wins with a ballpoint pen/laser/spy camera.
Amber Niblock may have been disappointed her cranial-riding seagull did not do better in the rankings.
August 18, 2020
S1E14(014): The fourteenth installment of Wamalug Masters Happy Hour. The challenge was “COVID Buddy/build something that normally doesn’t have a face (ex : ‘Wilson’ from the movie ‘Castaway’)” this week.
Amber Niblock added a face to a double cheeseburger.
August 12, 2020
S1E13(013): The thirteenth installment of Wamalug Masters Happy Hour. The challenge was a smashup of genres/subjects/themes.
Ben Paczak’s alien flower.
August 5, 2020
S1E12(012): The twelfth installment of Wamalug Masters Happy Hour. The challenge was animals.
Ben Paczak won with a Bionicle Jackalope Mark I.
July 29, 2020
S1E11(011): The eleventh installment of Wamalug Masters Happy Hour had “underwater” as its challenge.
Lee Anne Murrell was very pleased with her 90-minute build of an aquarium.
July 21, 2020
S1E10(010): The tenth installment of Wamalug Masters Happy Hour, with a challenge to build an iconic movie or television prop.
Ben Paczak’s first win with the Grand Budapest Hotel miniature. Lee Anne Murrell’s first thought was Jack Sparrow’s compass.
July 14, 2020
S1E09(009): The ninth installment of Wamalug Masters Happy Hour, the building challenge was “a square meal” which may or may not have been taken literally by the participants.
Amber Niblock won with a strawberry-topped Belgian waffle.
July 8, 2020
S1E08(008): The eighth installment of Wamalug Masters Happy Hour had transportation as its building challenge.
Jason Wolfson’s eight-legged, seven-humped beast of burden that… walks on water… was considered the winner, making it his third win of the season. (The seven-humped camel called a Wump is a character in the 1960 book One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Suess, Wolfson explained later.)
Ben Paczak’s transporter.
June 30, 2020
S1E07(007): The seventh installment of Wamalug Masters Happy Hour, participants were asked to build a mosaic.
A portrait of Covid-19 by Linda Schamus prevailed this week.
Ben Paczak’s castle shield of masonry bricks.
June 23, 2020
S1E06(006): The sixth installment of Wamalug Masters Happy Hour had “your first” (or earliest #LEGO memory) as its theme.
Dene Quest’s challenge was ably met by Charlie Stephens with a then-and-now approach to the 1999 LEGO System Adventurers 5925 Pontoon Plane set.
June 17, 2020
S1E05(005): The Wamalug Masters Happy Hour has a fifth installment, Amber started using Dots to create an image for each event.
Dene Quest was the winner, on the theme of surprise (or inside out).
Ben Paczak had a volcano with a Ninjago duel inside.
June 10, 2020
S1E04(004): Lee Anne Murrell hosted a video conference, which upon Benjamin Paczak’s suggestion will be billed as Wamalug Masters. This week’s theme for the building challenge was summertime.
Ben Paczak’s rollercoaster. Lee Anne Murrell was unable to finish a Mötley Crüe concert in time.
June 3, 2020
S1E03(003): Amber Niblock hosted a video conference, the building theme selected for the Happy Hour was to find inspiration from the words or pictures found at page 82 of any book or magazine.
Ben Paczak’s contribution was from the first page of his favorite short story in the book The Squirrel’s Birthday and Other Parties by Toon Tellegen: “A Speck of Dust.” Lee Anne Murrell used a National Geographic magazine for her entry.
May 27, 2020
S1E02(002): Amber Niblock hosted a video conference.
May 20, 2020
S1E01(001): Amber Niblock hosted a video conference, the building theme selected for the Happy Hour was “First place I want to go after quarantine.”
Ben Paczak was hoping to attend a convention. Lee Anne Murrell looked forward to meeting friends for coffee again.
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