Any whimsy on your layout?

You mean like this grizzly up on his hind legs behind this unobservant guy chopping

wood outside a mine shaft house?

I think "Nel" is in danger!!!

A bit of whimsy --- YES !!!

Gerry

"I only have eyes for you".

Is that the Flatiron building, Spence?

From what is shown in the photo, it is the Flatiron Building by D56.

Does Gabe the lamplighter count?

Here are a couple of others:

"Peanuts" seems to be a popular theme.....mine is still a "work in progress"

Star Wars, however we moved and the layout is gone

I have an O scale Tardis and an elephant (not together).

It's a young elephant so it's O scale. If it was older, it might be HO.  

Here are a few of my friends.  You will know them all.

We have a couple of sick scenes on the layout because we're pretty warped.

One of our members owns a few McDonald's Franchises, so we took the cheap shot. We've since added the Grim Reaper arguing with a personal injury attorney over the poor soul being jump-started on the street. Note the cop eating a donut.

There's another scene (and I can't find the photo) where a steam roller runs over a bicyclist. At first glance your mind says "Oh that's horrible!" Then you think about the whole scene. You have a paving crew, safety cones, signage, and a genius riding blindly on the wrong side of the road getting nailed by a machine moving at 3 MPH. Kinda like one of the last scenes in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Ever wonder where those Gateway computer boxes came from?

Matt, 

We were at AGHR to visit a few weeks ago... Here's a picture of the steamroller scene you were describing.

-Dustin

No layout yet, but I do have the Batmobile from Batman: The Animated Series, and ultimately intend to include steampunk elements.

Tom Groff added a worker who ducks down into a manhole in a black asphalt road when a trolley approaches and come up again after it passes. He is located between the circus and the yard below a house that catches on fire and is saved by the prompt arrival of the local fire company.

Thanks. For the life of me I don't know why I don't have a photo of that. That's the second steam roller we've had. Someone bagged the first one. Dave O'Connor had to modify another driver figure.

Marty,

If you can get that Energizer Bunny to run around on the SuperStreets, I'll be REALLY IMPRESSED!

(...paging Lee Willis.... paging Lee Willis....)

Congrats on the big 32!

Ed

Yes I've a few from Fat controller, Harry Potter, Bat man,Around the world in 80 days,  To a man caught with his pants down.

Guys,

Ask yourselves this (if you haven't already) isn't the very nature of this hobby whimsical? So the question properly framed must therefore be: What is intensely whimsical on your layout?

Friend of Sheldon

First, I too have pink flamingos!!!!!

And second, here is Lord Peter Wimsey.  I have tried to recreate the scene in the opening animated credits of the Peter Petherbridge movies where he hands Harriet Vane a flower, except I use the car from the books (Daimler Double Six Corsica) rather than the Rolls in those images. 

While I used to be a stand-up comedian years ago and do cartoons for various publications, I have zero need for whimsy on my soon-to-exist (On30) layout. I find whimsy annoying in many cases as the local layouts I know who have it are just so darned cheesy (one has a UFO being recovered by the Army) when you're counting rivets elsehwere.

Another thing that drives me nuts are figures on a layout in a motion pose. I've never understood figures trapped frozen in a running pose when the trains are moving. So my layout will only have standing or sitting figures, none in any motion poses. And I have all my figures already (several Tamaiya WW2 GI figures had to modified to static poses just for this reason).

That said, my layout will take place in the middle of WW2, and I already have all the fugures painted and set up for a poker game to take place beside a depot while they're waiting for their train. And there'll be an MP (again, all these figures are complete already) being distracted by another GI on the other side of the same structure. That's as close to whimsy as I'll be getting. I laid out WW2 era playing cards and silver certificates onto a WW2 GI blanket, took an overhead photo of it, and printed the photo out several times, building the layers of photos to create a 3D photo of the real thing. It looks really good if I do say so myself (need to get some shots of that eventually, I think there might be an MR or RMC magazine article in that concept)...

Ed, I am sure he could do it.

Aaaaww-man, talk about whimsy! I decided to have a Thanksgiving Day (NYC) / Miracle Mile (Chicago?) / Rose Bowl (Pasedena?) type stumpy li'l parade down a street once-upon-a-time, and crafted it for removal post-holidays, which it was.

The figures are supposed to "model"/represent parade floats and/or balloon figures carried aloft by marchers.

What d' ya' think?

Great parade float.  I wish I had one on my layout.  Well done.

Thanks, Marty, good to hear from you and to have your approval for my parade!

And Thank You to Alibatwomble, Leavingtracks, and Spence for sending me those "Likes" for my parade, too!

I much appreciate the feedback and your kindness.

FrankM.

Here's another moment from my pre-Holiday parade modeling...a 'Benz limo with fairytale characters, Snow White and Tinker Bell, riding with Santa and waving "Hello" to the community as they make their progress down the main street in Moon Township...

That would be pretty cool!