Castle Visit
 

Just wanted to let everyone know that my visiting brother (from Maine) and I visited Castle Creations in Kansas today. I got to meet Patrick and many of his staff, and they were all extraordinarily nice. Patrick himself took a few minutes out of his busy schedule to provide us with a guided tour of his facility where we got to see the parts, assembly (those expensive machines are impressive to watch in action), testing, etc. Really cool stuff! I wanted very badly to covertly fill my pockets with a bunch of goodies but the presence of the armed and large guards convinced me otherwise (just kidding); besides that's no way to repay a gracious host. :smile:

Despite my brother's lack of understanding the "geek speak", he too thought everything was quite impressive.

Thanks again to Patrick and staff for allowing us to visit!

i hope you kept up with tradition and took pizza!

Cool! Wish I was close enough to check em out. I took a tour of a Phase linear (audio components) factory back when I was in school. Pretty cool to see how they put all the high tech stuff together.

Unfortunately no. By the time we got there, it was around 1:30, and it never crossed my mind anyway. :oops: Even without a pizza bribe, they were still very nice. Imagine how nice they would have been with pizza! :smile:

did you at least sneek a look behind a door that said "top secret" and take pictures for us:yes:

When do you start?

No camera. They destroyed it at the door. :lol:

Start what?

We have to convince Brian to move out of beautiful Des Moines, and to beautiful Olathe Kansas... :lol:

Patrick - Sorry to nag - but did the drag brake make it - We're dying over here....

PS I love the MM link update - V Cool way to support Vista/Windows7 64bit

So did you find those exciting new stuff like the 1717 motor, MMP, Hydra-ICE? or they just put those into drawers when heard you're coming?

Happy for you Brian, I'm sure that made your week being in your element like that.

Awesome! I bet it was exciting! I'm very jealous!

too cool. I would have loved to have been there.

You suck BrianG! But really, I am just jealous.

i too am wishing i was in your shoes, hopefully they will have some cool stuff at their booth at the ihobby expo next week,