[Icehouse] Laser-cut Icehouse storage

[miyu]

I have about 21 Treehouse stashes all in their tubes sitting in a cabinet in
my classroom. :lol:

You guys are making me very very jealous with the sweet cases.

                     -Ryan

On Jan 8, 2008 12:23 PM, Bob Winans <rwinans at stny.rr.com> wrote:

> Again.. Very cool case! Much nicer looking then mine.
>
> My setup is a plastic storage bin with locking sides and a top handle.
> It looks very unimpressive but it stores all my LL stuff.
>
> As to the treehouse vs. Single color stash, I took the simplest route.
> I have one stash of every standard color and a stash of grey in single
> color
> tubes (6 tubes total), then I have four treehouse style stashes, three are
> the standard treehouse colors and one Xeno stash.
>
> This covers any game you could want to play from treehouse to mega volcano
> to Zendo.
>
> It also holds: fluxx, eco fluxx, family fluxx, zombie fluxx, chrononauts,
> nano-fictionary, AYAW, Zendo, three house, cosmic coasters, my 5x5 wooden
> volcano board, Aquarius, Martian coasters (2 sets), q-turn, some extra
> large
> D6's,a carrot box, bunchs of promo cards and catalogs and a ton of little
> glass stones.
>
> It's my "I'm doing a demo" box.
>
>  -Bob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: icehouse-bounces at lists.looneylabs.com
> [mailto:icehouse-bounces at lists.looneylabs.com] On Behalf Of Carl Worth
> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 11:52 AM
> To: Icehouse Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [Icehouse] Laser-cut Icehouse storage
>
> On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:31:52 -0700, David Artman wrote:
> > I *is* a nice case, but I'd have to agree with Bob regarding all the
> > loose items. Plus, if you have no tubes, you can't play Moon Shot, Ice
> > Golf, or Drip (some of the cooler dexterity games, IMHO).
>
> I've gone back and forth about the tubes. Originally, I carried my
> pyramids tubeless, (but packed fairly tight), in a small case and I
> liked that.
>
> More recently, I've been carrying things tubed up and the tubes all
> thrown fairly loosely into a small bag. And I have taught both Moon
> Shot and Drip with some good success with that, (I should take another
> look at Ice Golf sometime).
>
> But one thing that still annoys me about the tubes is getting at the
> pyramids I need. I still go back and forth between keeping each tube
> filled Treehouse-like or single-color. And invariably if I want to
> play a game like Icetowers requiring single colors I find my tubes all
> Treehoused, and when I keep the tubes holding single-color stashes
> someone asks to play Martian Coasters.
>
> So when Simon showed me his case photos earlier, he mentioned how easy
> it is to pull out a single row of pyramids and leave the others
> undisturbed. And that definitely sounds appealing. There's still the
> rows-vs-columns conundrum for colors, but it looks easier to handle
> the "wrong" arrangement with Simon's case rather than with tubes.
>
> Meanwhile, I've twice found that a tube lid has popped off leading to
> a bunch of spilled pyramids at the bottom of my bag. But fortunately I
> haven't lost anything to that yet.
>
> -Carl
>
> PS. But any excuse for doing laser-cutting is super-cool anyway. I'm
> quite looking forward to services like ponoko.com growing up and
> becoming affordable enough that I can get custom-shaped acrylic any
> time I feel like it.
>
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