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Back-To-Back Building of LEGO’s Forestmen’s Hideout (6054) and Forest Hideout (40567)

One of my favorite LEGO sets when I was younger was LEGO’s Forestmen’s Hideout (6054) from 1988. In 2022, LEGO released a Gift with Purchase (GWP) set that updates the 6054 set with modern bricks and design called Forest Hideout (40567). I’ve had Forest Hideout sitting on a shelf for the past two years. When Y asked me recently if I was ever going to put it together, it got me thinking about the original 6054 set. I began watching auctions on eBay for a good deal on a complete set (a boxed original was out of the question due to its much higher cost). Eventually, I found a complete set of 6054 for a reasonable price. After receiving it in the mail, I sat down to build both sets back-to-back and record it with my Panasonic Lumix DMC-G85 camera set to 2 second timer and controlled by the Panasonic Image App on my Pixel 6 phone (I’ll show how to set that up in a future post).

Forest Hideout (40567) has 258 pieces, which is 64 more than the 194 pieces in Forestmen’s Hideout (6054). While the tree branch and leave elements are the same, the tree’s main structure is constructed differently in the two sets. The original relied on Black Panel 3 x 3 x 6 Corner Wall pieces for most of the tree’s main trunk structure. These larger elements reduced the part count of the original. The updated version used a combination of Black Cylinder Half 1 x 2 x 1 and Black Cylinder Quarter 2 x 2 x 5 with 1 x 1 Cutout to create the tree trunk. While there are no vines for swinging in the new version as in the first, the update includes an internal ladder for minifigures to climb to into hideout. 6054 includes two smiling minifigures with hats while 40567 includes a male with hat and female with long hair minifigures.

Below, I show an over-the-shoulder view of the building process for each set and then side-by-side comparisons of the completed build of both sets. I used a scanned copy of the 6054 instructions to assemble it, which was displayed on my computer screen out of the frame on the right. Since I hadn’t opened 40567 until this build, it included the original set of instructions, which is seen in the photos.

Forestmen’s Hideout (6054)

Forest Hideout (40567)

Side-By-Side Comparison of 6054 and 40567

October 28, 2024
Post Office in Hortense, Georgia
Located next to the train tracks crossing Highway 32 just west of the Hwy 32/Hwy 301 intersection is the nondescript Hortense, Georgia United States Post Office. It has a plaque stating,:
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THIS BUILDING 
DEDICATED TO 
PUBLIC SERVICE 

1968

LYNDON B JOHNSON
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

W. MARVIN WATSON
POSTMASTER GENERAL
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One of my earliest memories is going into the post office with my mom when I was a very young child–about 12 or 13 years after the building was dedicated. There wasn’t grass and weeds growing in the cracks of the concrete, and the parking lot wasn’t as sandy as it is now.

While reading about W. Marvin Watson, I learned that he eulogized Lyndon B. Johnson at his state funeral, which you can watch here. This is a poignant passage considering today’s state of affairs where politics are winner-take-all, zero-sum game, and without the hope of compromise:
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"He was ours and we loved him. Beyond any telling of it he shared his victories and he shared his defeats. In victory, he taught us to be magnanimous. In defeat, he taught us to be without hate, to learn, to rally, to accept the challenge, and to try again. He believed that good men together could accomplish anything even the most impossible of dreams. No matter who his opponent, he constantly sought to find that touchstone within the soul of every man which if discovered would release the impulse for honest and fair solution. Hate was never in this man's heart."
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October 18, 2024
Homestead in Hortense

While I was visiting my parents earlier this month, I took some pictures around their house, shop, and driveway. Despite the hurricane and everything else, it was nice being around so much nature everyday.

This is the same place where I took photos of the night sky and easy to spot constellations back in January.

October 17, 2024
Finnish Community Roots in McKinnon, Georgia

About a third of the way between Hortense and Jesup in Georgia is the Wayne County community of McKinnon, whose history includes the arrival of Finnish immigrants who wanted to develop this land after World War I. Their arrival was initiated by a group of Finns in Brooklyn, New York who advertised and convinced other Finns in the northeast USA to invest and move to this part of southeast Georgia.

Above is a picture of the old school house, and below are some street signs representing the community’s Finnish roots.

Sauna St, and E and W Kallio St

Looking back at my photos, I realize now that I forgot to take a photo of Finland Street, because that was where I was standing!

Looking East and West on US 301 from the Center of McKinnon

October 16, 2024
Juggling in England

This is one of the most dynamic photos that I’ve ever taken, and I made it completely by accident. In 2006, I saw this juggler across the way from where I was walking with friends in England. I targeted the focus on the juggler with my old Panasonic LUMIX camera. Thankfully, the camera kept the shutter open long enough to capture the action of the crowd around the juggler doing his thing.

September 26, 2024