We're going to wait for 1 moment, then we'll start the meeting. So, anyone who has inside please type your name in the chat box. Vamos a empezar en algunos momentos por favor, pongan su nombre y su correo electrónico en el chat. The chat box is right here on the tops can see here.  Can you see my screen? Now I can't see any video. It's on the bottom right corner. Can anyone see my screen? I know. Yes. We can only see your PowerPoint, but we can't see anything else. Okay, it's next to it looks like a person with 3 lines. There's next to it. There's a bubble. Yeah. So, yeah, this is a chat box. I get it from here. You see my mouse. My next 2 participants. Okay, we're starting the meeting right now. So, thank you everybody for joining us in the common sense public meeting number 2. And this is already the 2nd public meeting we host to we're going to present the architecture design of the new community center. This meeting is hosted by the seat of the worst parking recreation department and the project manager, Jean Yang. And before we start the meeting, so I am going to read some recent important rule about meeting. So, first, I'm going to mute everybody during the presentation. And and also previous type of name and your email in the chat box so that I can get a meeting sign list. Attendee please also if you have any question, please also type your question in the in the chat box. And then we will answer your question at the end. Of the presentation and if you have any additional question you can send the additional question to me. By November 6 for consideration and the meeting recording and the presentation slides will be available in cities website for review after the meeting. We are starting if you have any questions, please put it in the chat. This is the 2nd meeting of the community center of Diamond Hill. If you can also send an email right now, put your information and you can also ask in the chat and then that will give you information after the meeting. So, as I mentioned, I'm the project manager of these projects and my name is here is my phone number and my email. If you have any further question feel free to contact me. Did council member forest is also in the meeting with us today. So council member voice. We would like to show some thoughts with us. About this project sure very briefly and thank you very much. Jane. Welcome everyone again, as Jane said, this is our 2nd meeting despite COVID restrictions. We continue working on this very important project as you recall in the cities 2018 bond program voters resoundingly approved projects like this to go forward. It is a $10 million project to replace the old Diamond Hill Community Center brand new modern facility. Again, that will be done. With the old facility continuing to serve the community, the new facility being built and constructed. And then once the new facilities online, the old facility will be demolished. So we're currently in the design phase around the course over the winter. Early quarter next year, we will be entering the bidding process and then around summertime of next year. Construction will and demolition will hopefully start. So thank you again for everyone attending. I'll let Brenda go ahead and translate. That's how I'm going to get on this is the 2nd reunion del Centro Comunitario, the Diamond Hill. Um, la gerente del proyecto es la señora yin gang y ahí está su información si necesitan. A comunicarse con ella también el concerjar flores. Um, dio información que vamos a revisar. Wait, I'm going to miss a couple of those things. Um, but oh, um, queremos a bienvenida a todos para que empezamos a reunion. Um, so we have published a meeting notice in numerous media included the city's website meeting flyers and social medians. We also send out the meeting invitations through emails. So after the meeting, we're going to post a recording and also the presentation size on city of a worse website. So you can so everybody can can see the recording after the meeting. La publicación de aviso de la reunión van a tener la información también en el sitio de web de la ciudad de Fort Worth para que. Si necesitan información pueden a contactarse con la gente del proyecto o lo que necesiten. Um, this is our meeting agenda up tonight. So, first, we're going to introduce our project team. And then I'm going to briefly to introduce a history of existing diamond hill community center. And later I'm going to introduce our current project scope and no project schedule and budget. And later I'm going to hand this over to our design consultant gff architects. So they will do a more detailed presentation about the architecture design. And our public arts designer, at least others, she's also going to do a presentation about her public arts design. The final the last session is question answer session. If you have any question during the presentation, please type a question in the chat box. And during the question and answer session, I'm going to read and answer all the questions. So that's the agenda of the meeting. I'm going to do a brief history of the community center of the diamond hill, but I said. Introduction is Detroit. All the project, all the people that are working with the project. And also information about the calendar and budgets. And also the architectural design. And then information about the public arts. If you have any questions and during the presentation, please put them in the chat or also send them. First, let me introduce our project team. My name is James. I'm the project manager in parking and recreation department with our team also had Jerry McDonwell. He's the superintendent, a district superintendent and Kelly Picard. She is the assistant director and we also have role. He is the supervisor in the community center. We're also getting support from other steps in diamond hill community center. He is the project manager from our property management department. And Michelle Richardson, she is the public art manager. Our design consultant of this project is GFF architects and the artist is the service. The introduction of the project team, the Department of Parks and Recreation is the management of the project is Ms. And then they also have Jerry McDonnell, Kelly Picard, who are also from the Park and Recreation, Raul Mesa and Diamond Hill, the staff of the community centers. And also the administration department of properties. Alfonso Mesa is the project manager there. The council of the art is the Fort Worth and the county of the Tarrant, the Tarrant is Michelle Richardson, who is the public art manager. Consultors is GFF architects and the artist is Elizabeth Akamatsu. First, I'm going to give you a brief introduction about the history of the center. So as many people may have already know, the majority of existing building was building the 1950s. And in 1997, a CDBG grand fund boxing ring was added to the existing building. The brief history of the community center of Diamond Hill, the majority of the community center was built in the 1950s. In 1997, the existing building was added and a boxing ring was financed with the block suspension for community development. The original design is from the 1950s. This project is still in this council district too. So, as you can see the maps here, the new building is going to be right next to the old building. So this is the yellow shady areas, the footprint of the existing building and the blue shady area is the footprint of the future in Diamond Hill community center. So our project scope include the design and the construction of the new 25,000 square foot Diamond Hill community center. The scope also include a site design and site reconfiguration. So the consultant is working on to reconfigure the relationships between the new building and the parks and existing playground and parking lots. They also work home to reconfigure the traffic circulation in the entire site and the scope also include the demolition and of existing building. So that the old building will be demolished after the new building has been built and we also help help the public arts design and installation in front of the new community center. The introduction of the project Art 1 is in the district of the council. The scope of the project, the design and construction of the new Diamond Hill community center is 25,000 square feet. And the design of the reconfiguration of the site will also be a demolition of the buildings in the center when they finish the other and then the design of the public art will also give them information. So here is our project schedule. As council member Forrest mentioned earlier, well, the architect is currently working the design phase right now. So, we're supposed to finish that by winter this year and then we will start the beating process and the construction will start around summer 2021 and construction that demolition of the old building will be finished around winter 2023. Right now they are in the calendar of the design project until December 2020 and then they start the beating and then the construction and the demolition and that they finish on November and December 2023. Our project budget comes from the 2018 bomb program. There will be 9.9 million from the 2018 bomb and it's 9.9 million. Well, please mute your microphone. Thank you. So, this 9.9 million will include both the design construction and the interior furnishing. And besides that, we will got we got another extra 1 million from the Texas parking by life departments into a grant. So, this 1 million can only be used for construction. The public arts budget is comes comes from another separate project budgets. It's not including in this 10.9 million. The budget of the project is from the 2018 bomb program. It was voted and approved in May of 2018 and then also the budget is 9.9 million dollars from the 2018 bomb program. Todo incluido y luego 1,000,000 de dólares de la subvención para interiores de WD que solo es para construcción y lo ver por supuesto de arte público no está incluido en este por supuesto de del proyecto. Now I'm going to hand the presentation over to our consultant of architects. Keep are you going to put the design of the architectural center, the community of the J. F. F. Architects. Yes, this is Lance brought with GFF architects and everyone hear me? Yes. Great. So there are 3 of us from GFF architects tonight. There is me. I am an associate principal. With GFF and the senior designer of the project and there is Kent Pontius, who will also be helping me. He's the project manager and there is kept check lower left there and he is project architect. So we're very excited about the this project and we think we've come up with a really good design for the project and we're anxious to show it to everyone and thank you all for coming tonight. Next, this is the site, which I'm sure everyone recognizes. So 37th Street is at the top 36th Street is below that the red dash line there and then Weber Street comes up from the from the north. So what we have done is just a quick site plan here, which shows the elementary school, the middle school, the high school. This is really a hub of activity in the community and the dash lines, particularly along 36th Street during the afternoon. And we've been there very, very congested that I stopped for a translation at some point and yes, I can go ahead and do that. Okay. I keep Done Dando information Del Centro Comunitario Existente ahorita y tovan las escuelas que están ahí ahorita se ve la Calle 37 y también la 36 que hay mucho tráfico y conces con gestión ahorita solo que esto es lo que están enseñando en donde van a empezar y y donde están el Centro Comunitario, existente también. So, what I would like to do also is say right up front that this project, when you look at the site from the ground level, it looks like there's a lot of space for a new building. When we started to look at the site, particularly from this aerial level, what we realized is we were very limited in where we could place the building. The reason for that is the dotted line that goes from the elementary school, I'll go through the reasons. The dotted line, white dash line that goes from the elementary school to the existing community center is the path of travel for elementary school kids after school. There's typically 40 to 50, sometimes 60 kids that will travel from the elementary school to the, they're escorted over to the community center. And this is something that's pretty important and they need a path, a safe path of travel. Secondly, as Jen mentioned earlier, we need to, the community center has to be, we can't tear it down before we build the new buildings so that the community center can stay open. And then after we're done building the new building will tear the existing community center down. And then the red playground to the west of the community center needs to also stay pretty much where it is. And then to the west, you see those dotted lines, that's the existing baseball field. And we'll see in a minute slide that there are some very large light standards that like this field at night. This is a heavily used field. And so we, this, thank you, this picture shows that. And you can see the red dots there. It would be very, very, these are very large light standards that would be very expensive to move those standards. So, yeah. Would you like me to proceed? I'm sorry. Please, yes. The community center needs to stay open. What they want to do is wait. Right now they can't stop and do something with this community center until later. Thank you. So, given all those restrictions, we have located the building in what is designated as the darker hatched area. Right between the baseball field and the existing community center. And it's, we've pulled it forward so that we, it's the L shape there and we pulled it forward so that it fronts onto the street. It has a very strong presence along 36th street. And we'll, we'll see in a minute what we have also done is we're proposing that the front door of the bill. They're really two front doors along 36th street and along 37th street. Because when we tear down the existing building, we're proposing to put the parking lot along the back there and we want people to walk in the front door. So the front new front door is going to be off of 37th street. And this shows the proposed site plan after the building is the existing building is torn down. And this, this solves a number of problems. One of them is during the afternoons when 36th street is so heavily trafficked, you can, you can access the building from 37th street without any problem. Okay. Here it says that, or they're saying that the building is located between the baseball field and the community center that exists right now. Because they put all of this together, they wanted to put it in front of 37th street so that it is close to the street and also that it has presence on 36th street. And they're also proposing that the doors of the entrance are closer to the 37th street. And here, as you can see on the map, when the other center is removed, they put their parking lot so that the 36th street, which has a lot of children walking around there, can still access it from there. The other thing that this does is, as I said before, there's two fronts of the build to the building. So the pedestrian front is facing north. But the other front of the building is facing directly onto 36th street. We've pulled it forward. So it's even with all with the elementary school adjacent to it. It'll have a very strong presence on the street. And one of the things that we've noticed and that we, when we talk to people, is that the outdoor spaces here are just as important as the indoor spaces. And so we're proposing to the north what we're calling the Great Lawn. And this would be a, we'll show you this in a minute, but this would be a lawn area that kids can play in, that they can play ball in, they can kick a ball around. We'll show you that in a minute. And then to the south, where it's right at the termination of Weber Street, there would be a patio, open patio. And this patio would be secured by fence. So it's only accessible from the main entry. So they also said that there will be two front doors in front. One is to 37th street, 37th street. And another one is to 36th street. So the students walking around there, they can also access it from that side. They also want to propose to the north, to make a side where they can play the kids. Here it will be where the kids can play outside. They also want to make a patio where they can access it in a certain way. So they can't go around outside. But it will also be nearby to make sure that the kids don't leave. So the other thing about the site plan, and then we'll move on, is that there is only one main entry, which is from the north. And that is for security reasons, which you'll see in a minute. This also provides, as we mentioned earlier, a very quick and safe pathway to the grade school directly to the east. And it provides great access in terms of parking in the evening, not only to the community center, but the baseball field. So let's go to the next slide. Okay, this is the floor plan so that L shaped in the first, in the other drawings that you saw, the footprint. This shows you at a small scale what all the rooms in the building are. And we'll talk about this for a minute. But then we'll go in so I know it's small. So we'll go we have slides that will blow this, these areas up and we can talk about individual areas in a minute. So as you can see, you would come along, you would come through from the parking directly headed from the north into the vestibule in the lobby area. And that area is central to the entire building. And one of the things that we're doing is making sure that the control desk has really unrestricted views of down quarters of the main entries into the gym and the boxing gym and down the hallways and to the game room and all of these areas so that there's unimpeded supervision of all of those in terms of security. We're going to go ahead. Thank you. This is a member florist jumping in I'm sorry to interrupt. I just want to remind everyone please mute yourselves if you're not speaking, getting some background noise. Thank you, Councilman. So, as I said earlier, we're really excited about this project. We're going to go into the plans now more detailed. And I think you'll see how everything just sort of flows together. And if we'll go to the next slide, was there anything you wanted to add about this slide. No, the next slides will show it. So now we're going to blow up an area, which is the area to the east, which is the east building wing here. So you can see this is exactly twice as large as the slide before. And so you can see that what we've done is taken this area, blown it up. You come in on the upper left from the parking, past the great lawn and through the vestibule and into a lobby area where there will be enough room for seating. And then directly as you come in to the right there is the control desk, which is in yellow there. There's a family restroom right off of there. So if somebody, if the kids or somebody needs to come in from the outside and they need to go to the restroom. It can immediately go there and that's supervised from the front desk. As you go back through that smaller quarter. That this is the administrative area. And so we've got a work room. We've got a club office. We've got a general office for two folks there. We've got the director's office. And on the other side of the quarter, we have an IT room, which handles data and those sorts of things. We've got a storage room and then another smaller storage room off that larger office. So going down the main quarter. And this is the public court. One of the things I'd like to mention also is as you come in the front door, you'd be able to see right out into the outdoor courtyard. And here you can see that's a fairly good size courtyard. And we envision this as literally an outdoor room. You'll see that in a minute, but this is an outdoor room partially covered. So even during bad weather, it would be okay to go out there and it's got security fencing along the front. And it's got a the game room directly to the right looks out over that. And then you can't see it because it's cut off, but we'll see it in a minute directly to the left is the boxing gym. And one of the neat things, and I'll go ahead and talk about this now is the boxing gym to the left. There that opening there, there are windows and then the second opening there that Jing is pointing to would be an overhead glass door. So you could throw that door open on nice days and air out the gym and folks from the boxing gym would be able to come out into the courtyard. And the game room starts on the very right there, which is a pretty sizable room you can see we've grown in some furniture just to let you know how that would all lay out. And immediately to the right of that is the arts and crafts room. And below that is the arts and crafts storage, a good size storage room for all the projects that folks are going to be working on. So the right of that would be a really good size multi purpose room. And you can see there's a line down one down, which divides it into one third, two thirds, and that is a folding partition that could come across. So in when you have really big meetings or events, you can open the room up when you have a smaller event, you can close it down. And you can use both sides of this room at the same time so you could have two events going on simultaneously. So the right of that is a good size kitchen, essentially a demo kitchen that's in the kind of lavender color, purple color there. That would have an overhead door. So if you're not using the kitchen for an event that could be pulled down and kept secure. There's a pantry for storage up above that. And you'll also notice that all of these rooms we've made, because we heard this from in the community meetings, the previous community meeting that it was important to get light into this building versus what you have now where some of the rooms are really internal and don't have any light at all. So you'll notice that all of these main rooms where people are gathering have the ability, have light coming in, natural light coming into them. And also I'll add that if you notice the spaces that face either north or east have larger windows because in the evening and afternoon, the southern and western ends is a really hot. Sun and we'll bring in too much heat and glare to the building. But the north light is really an even light and so we wanted to bring as much of that into the building as possible. So I think we may have talked a little too long in terms of getting this translated but I'll give it a pause right now. Here's the information of the area of the building in the east. The plan of this partial floor. They say that when you get to the building north of the entrance, the vestibule, you can have chairs to sit in. And also the control desk will be there. Also if the kids need to use the bathroom or the families need to use the bathroom, it's also available. Also there you will have the administrative area. They also have all of that there. The working room, the club office, the director's office will also be there. At the entrance of the corridor, you can also see the exterior of the outdoor courtyard. There you will also have a place to go outside. Also, all the security is there so that they don't need to leave the courtyard. Also there you will have a game room, the boxing gym. You also need a room for appointments, a multi-purpose room. They also want to put a lot more windows than they needed but also to limit them in the south. And those areas that when they come in the sun and they have a lot of heat, they also limit them. Or they also put something there so that they can close it if they need it. This is one of the three largest rooms probably in the building. This is kind of the heart of the community center in terms of working out and stuff. The main fitness room, this will be a taller space. You can see that there will be a room for a lot of workout equipment in there. And it's going to have glass all along the quarter so as you're walking you can see in. And the other really nice thing about this room is one of the things, we've done a lot of fitness areas before. One of the things that it's not fun to do when you're working out is to stand on a treadmill or a machine and stare directly at a blank wall. In this particular case, this room will open to the north so there won't be sunshine glaring in. And it looks out directly over this green, the great green lawn that we're proposing in front. So when your kids are outside, you'll still be able to see them. Okay. I got ya. The only other thing I would add before we move on to the next slide is. The only other thing I would add before we move on to the next slide is the control desk and the location of it allows. Visual control of the entire facility. They can look down all the corridors and everybody who walks into the front desk has to go by the control desk or check into the control desk to make sure there are members there. But the control desk is kind of the hub, excuse me, of the entire facility. And we wanted to make sure that they knew who was coming in and who was leaving and had visual control for not only security reasons, but for also safety reasons. You can also say that the control desk in the location is that you can see it from all sides. That area can also be seen from the entire facility. You can see who is coming, where the people can be seen from all the corridors. Also, the people need to be registered when they come. In that control desk there, they will be able to do everything just for the safety of the people and the children. Also, this installation of the desk is going to be what you can see. The only other room on this slide that we didn't talk about was the computer room directly behind the control desk. And that small classroom, which would be obviously could be used for computers, but also for instructional classes. They also have computers in the back of the control desk so that they can use them. That is a smaller room, but also if you need to use it for reading, you can use it for reading. All right, let's go to the next slide. So now we're going to the left of the lobby, so you can see on the right, you're coming in and you turn directly, if you were to turn directly to the right, there's a corridor that divides the two gyms from each other and the dance floor. So we're going to talk right now quickly about the boxing gym and then the dance instructional room directly to the left there. The boxing gym is one of the things that really makes this particular community center unique. It's an important program here and so we wanted to give it obviously a central location also. So as I mentioned earlier to the right are windows and a door that opens up that goes directly to the secure outdoor courtyard. The boxing gym would sit right in the middle of the room around the perimeter are the activity areas, the bags, all the workout areas and then down below are bleachers currently like similar to what you have now for when you have competitions or people just want to sit up there and watch what's going on. So the left is a boxing is a small storage room are actually pretty good size storage room for the boxing gym and then to the up above in the yellow is the boxing office, which would have glass on two sides. And has supervision of the whole room. So this is going to be a pretty exciting space. I also mentioned that it's also like a story and a half tall. So it's a very tall space also directly to the left of the boxing gym is the dance room. So we have smaller windows that look out towards the West that would control the any glare and too much sun coming in and then to the right is the mirrored wall for all along there are mirrors. What we're posing would be mirrors for the dance. In the chat. The dance studio. Okay. The dance studio. Okay. So as you go down this quarter, you can also see that the doors to the boxing area are immediately adjacent to the lobby. So that's once again, I will be supervised by the front desk as well the doors up above to the gym to the main gym, which we'll see in a minute. But the last thing on this slide I'd like to mention are the women's and men's locker rooms, which are directly off the quarter here. Once again, those are easily supervised by the front desk, the entries and exits, and there are men's lockers and women's lockers along with the restrooms there with space for future lockers and a shower in each locker room. You can also see that there are doors near the boxing gym. The boxing area is also immediately next to the control desk. The locker rooms for women and men are supervised by the reception area. And they also have more space for the lockers. All right. Hey Lance, you're on mute. I apologize. Now on the other side of the quarter from the quarter that we saw before where we just talked about the men's and women's locker rooms and those are down at the bottom there. You'll see the competition gym, which is to the north of the building and Azure. One of the neat things about the gym is we think and we've done a lot of gyms. And the thing about gyms is, is it's good to get, we believe it's good to get some natural light in the gym as long as it's not glaring light. It's nice to get some light in there. And so we're proposing some window, a one narrow window up there to the. Which is in the corner and then smaller windows along the east there. And so as you're walking in, you'll be able to see people playing in the gym as you're walking in to the building. So the neat thing about the gym is, as I said before, this is a competition size gym, but then in the middle, you'll see that dash line. That's a curtain that you can pull down. And you can then essentially have 2 smaller gyms when you're practicing or you have other events, double events going on. And the curtain will come all the way down to the floor. You can still walk around the ends. But it essentially divides that space into 2 and we'll have cross court goals so that you could play a small, you know, a smaller game of pick up basketball or do whatever on either side of the gym. And then the bleachers, as I mentioned on the left. And then of course, gym storage for all the athletic equipment at the top and also at the bottom. Trying to provide as much storage in there as we can. Okay. Okay, so I think you can see we've packed a lot into this building, and I know there's some questions coming up, we'll answer those at the end, as Jing said, and we're happy to answer those. But now we want to go and talk a little bit about the inside of the building because we've been each 1 of these rooms has different requirements. And so we have an interior department that has done some good work here, I think in terms of looking at all the spaces. This we just wanted to show you, I'm not going to go over it over each room, but it shows you all the different surfaces on the floor that we're proposing for for each 1 of these rooms each 1 of these rooms is going to receive. And a premium flooring that is suitable for the activity, which is occurring inside and we can talk about after during question and answer we can talk about any of that stuff. So why don't we go to the next slide. You might wait for the translation. Oh, I'm sorry. You're okay. Okay, next slide, please.  And here is the lobby space and this is sort of from the front door as you're looking towards the front desk. You can see off to the right there are the material some of the materials that we're proposing. And 1 of the things that we're trying to do with the interior. And even the exterior is really used timeless materials, a low maintenance that won't go out of style in the next couple of years, but will operate help, you know, help the building operate efficiently for the next 50 years. And here you can see the space of the vestibule from the reception. You can also see some of the materials that they want or that they're proposing is low maintenance that won't go out of fashion, but that can help what they need to do in that center. Okay, next slide. So I want to just briefly mention this shows a building elevation if you were looking at walking into the gym looking at the end of the gym. We're thinking about things like wall pad protection down there low and then up higher midway we are showing some acoustical wall panels. So you can have games in there. It won't be as loud and probably as some of the other gyms you might be used to. And then to the very right you can see that's that window in the corner I talked about that would have north light coming in to to the building and the pain down below would be it's not marked that way but it would be metal so it's not glass going all the way down to the floor. Okay. You're good to go. You mute yourself. I'm sorry. You'll notice that the panels go around the room in in these kind of varying stripes, which will be some of the accent colors that we are looking at for the building. The reason I'm calling attention to this is because in a minute when we talk about the outside of the building, you will see how we're tying a lot of this all together. And this, this also illustrates that we are really concerned with the noise levels in the gym. So in addition to the acoustic wall panels, the ceiling system will be like a metal panel but it will have acoustic properties as well and as well as a flooring. So we're really trying to keep the noise down as much as possible in the gym while still making everything work correctly. They are talking about the designs that they remember that in the rooms they have a lot of stripes, also the accent colors that they are looking at for the building. They want to put different things like that because the noise from the gym and the boxing and all that can be very loud, but what they want to do is put acoustics there so that they can reduce all that noise. You're on mute. Yeah, I'm sorry. So this shows the boxing area. The picture that we're showing you there is not obviously the exact picture of the boxing gym, but it's very close. We will have a tall space like this. We are proposing round lights over the boxing gym like this that will give a really nice point of accent obviously with the boxing ring in the middle of the room and then individual track lighting around the perimeter where kids and people are training. We're excited by this space and we think it's going to be a real interesting addition to what would otherwise be a normal community center. The image is not exact, but in the boxing area, there they are saying that it will have a very high space and also show the lighting where the boxing will be. I think before I move on from this one, one thing to understand about this area, when we know the boxing area is very important to the community, it's something that's kind of in the original right center. One of the things that is kind of unique about this is we have this kind of corner area of the building right to the lower right where we have these windows where we get this natural light. It not only does it up until the end, but you also see a view of the actual boxing ringing activity in that area and that main road out out front. The other entry and transform and that's just a really nice feature of the building and something that we feel is really important to the community. The boxing gym is very important for the community and what is unique about this lower right is that they receive the natural light through the sun. The sun is also something that they wanted to do for the people out there. Okay, let's go to the next slide. So I don't want to get into every one of these materials, but this is kind of the typical palette where we're proposing subtle but unique colors and timeless colors and then some small accents of colors that would occur in specific areas of the building. And all of these materials are heavy-duty use and require relatively low maintenance. Okay. The materials that you see there are providing unique colors with small accents of colors in specific areas of the building. It is also intensive use, but you can use it a lot and it is also easy to maintain. All right, now let's talk a little bit about the outside of the building. I'm sure you're wondering about that, but before we do, I alluded to the fact that the acoustical panels and some of the colors and things, accent colors, we were drawing also from a palette that we were going to propose to use a little bit on the outside. One of the things that we wanted to do was not only build a very modern, well-used community facility, but a community facility that belonged to Diamond Hill. And one of the first things that we noticed is that obviously Diamond Hill is a very strong multinational Hispanic community. We've got generations of families that have lived here for a long time and feel a special connection to this community. We wanted to honor that even somehow on the outside of the building. So one of the things that we started to look at were the textiles and fabric and blankets or ape of the Hispanic community in terms of how those work visually and also color-wise. One of the things that we want to stress is that the colors aren't as important as how they're used and where they're used. This is a community center, and we were told this by many, many people, a community center by or everyone, not just one specific, maybe high school or one specific grade school, but for the entire community. Okay. I wanted to give information on the outside of the building. I wanted to build a modern and well-used installation for Diamond Hill. Okay. So what we did was we looked at this and then we incorporated those ideas we think into the overall look at this building. So this shows the building from an aerial point of view, which is probably about 100, 150 feet up. So you would never actually see the building from this view, but it helps in terms of locating, giving you a bearing, and we'll show you in a minute from some eye-level views. So here you can see looking north towards the main entry, the parking is down below, the great lawn in front, and as you park your car and drive in through this drive, which is on axis with Weber Street.  There's a protected walkway there. The great lawn is to the left, or as we mentioned earlier. And then to the right, you can see the two-story double-height gym, and in back of that, the boxing gym. And then straight ahead is the entry to the building. What we're proposing, and then to the left is the workout exercise room, and on the backside are all the other rooms that we talked about earlier. You can see in terms of materials, what we're proposing here is a glazed block, concrete block, and so it's like a glazed, like you would see on pottery or something, and it has a very, it's the great thing about glazed block is that the colors remain consistent for many, many years. You never have to repaint it. It's vandal resistant in terms of graffiti, and it has a very crisp and clean look to it. And so we've taken that motif that we talked about earlier in terms of the acoustical panels that are inside, some of the accent colors that are inside, and the textiles that we looked at earlier were proposing to apply that to the front of the building. So as you drive up, it immediately grabs your attention and you know where the front door is. And one of the things I think is a little unfortunate about your community center now is it's difficult when you first drive up if you haven't been there. The front door really isn't that, isn't all that noticeable. And so this, I think this changes that. Okay. Aquí nomás muestra edificio desde este punto de vista. Aquí también pueden ver el estacionamiento y el césped en la frente, también el guapo y el camino chiqueo que tienen ahí protegido. Pueden ver que el gimnasio de boxeo desde allí, también la sala de ejercicios, quieren proponer materiales para hacer bloque de formigrición, perdón, pidriado donde los colores permanezcan existentes y también que se vían limpios. Solo que se pueden usar también si alguien colorea o alguien hace graffiti allí, también es simple para poder a quitarlo de allí. Okay. También los textiles afuera donde los ven quieren a poner todos ese color ahí afuera. All right. A few more things before we move on. Okay. Well, here you can, you can see as you're walking in the front door, you see the windows off to the left and the tall window that looks into the gym that's facing north so you won't get direct sun there. And you can see as you'll be able to look through directly through, you'll see the immediately the control desk to the left and then in front of you and looking through you'll be looking through to the interior courtyard on the other side. You'll also see the green space to the left. And this is also mentioned now, which we'll get into in a little bit with the artist this area to the left is where we would propose to put the outdoor art piece in a prominent area here. So as you're walking in, you would see that and the windows that you see to the left, those are all the offices that you saw earlier. So they look directly out onto the green space. And so that there would be immediate supervision, even on the outdoor spaces that that are outside there. And then to the very left, you can see those double height windows and that is the fitness room. So remember earlier, we talked about those folks are in there and exercising and they have the ability to look out onto this kind of sedate green space, which is which is right there. And this is once again, that is facing north. So you're not going to get an overabundance of sun. Yeah, and I will point out that it was very important to show what's going on inside the center to people walking up to the center so that that energy people see people working out people, you know, see people inside the gymnasium playing basketball. There's a lot of activity as you're walking in. Also, there are a lot of kids and middle schoolers that hang out at the community center in the afternoons until their parents come pick them up or until they go home. And we made that large entry vestibule area shade structure so that they're not out in the in the bright sun. They're under shade the lawn area they can play on. As Lance mentioned the the staff offices overlook that so do the the the fitness area which provides, you know, some some security and protection for them so it's a safe place for them to hang out. Here I could look through the monitor when it comes to the office desk control, also to the left of the patio area on the left is where they would like to put the art, the windows. También ahí van a ser de las oficinas, también pueden haber directamente hacia para la supervisión cuando están los niños jugando afuera. Y luego más a la izquierda también va a ser la sala de ejercicios también que puedan haber hacia afuera. Cuando están usando los niños lo que tienen, si están jugando afuera o si están en el centro los van a poner. Okay, thank you.  And we mentioned briefly that all the materials we're using on the outside of the building are going to be very durable and very, I think will do well in terms of time.  So most of the building is masonry, and then there's going to be a small amount of at the end, so you can see it on the very right, an architectural grade, architectural grade metal panel system to the right of the glass. So next slide. So this shows the green space, the great what we're calling the great lawn as you're walking in from walking in and around from the parking lot. And you can see the clear story windows on top that look into the gym and the windows along the bottom as you're walking in so you'll be able to see into the gym. And then you can see on the left there, once again, the workout fitness room and above below Diamond Hill Community Center, the admin offices that look directly out onto the great lawn. Okay. Okay, next. So as we mentioned earlier, there really are two fronts to the building. Obviously you only enter from the parking side because of security. But along 36th Street, where all of these folks are, you know, during the day, a lot of people are queuing up to let kids out along along there to the elementary school or the high school.  And this is the outdoor courtyard, which occurs right in front and right behind that where the glass is is the lobby area with the control desk. And so this space is also, we think, an outdoor, an exciting outdoor space in terms of on nice days, you'll be able to come out there, be able to sit down and then to activate the space. Obviously the lobby is right behind there with the control desk, so people will see it as they come in. But to the very right of there are is the game room where kids will be where kids and adults will be playing games. And then to the very left, you'll see the boxing gym, the two-story boxing gym. And as Kip talked about earlier, in the evening, you'll be able to drive down the street and kind of get a glimpse in of the boxing gym with the ring there. And during the day or even in the evenings, if it's a nice evening, a nice day, one of those openings, as we mentioned earlier, will be an overhead glass garage door that can be pulled up and then you can air out the gym and kids can walk back and forth between the gym and the outdoor space. Once again, this is all supervised by the front desk, easily seen. And the outdoor, as you can see, we're proposing a fence. So the only way to get into this space is by going past the control, going in the front door on the other side and past the control desk. So you saw this slide before. I think that concludes at least the art of boxing. So you saw this slide before. I think that concludes at least the architectural outside the architectural portion of the presentation. Jing, I don't know. Do we go to questions now or should we wait until our artist presents? I think we just go on our presentation. So we will wait until the very end to answer all the questions. But I noticed some people have mentioned they have to leave at 8 o'clock for the president debate. So we can wrap this hour as quickly as we can. It would be great. Thank you. Jane, if I could mention, you know, Elizabeth Akamatsu did a presentation in May of this year, which is on the city's website now that we don't have a translator present at the public. Fort Worth art commission meetings. However, I'd be happy to put that link in the chat so that we can get to the questions if that would be your preference. Okay. Okay. So we'll just go to the question and answer session. So, so everyone I'm putting in the chat the communications FWTV. And you'll see there how to find the the public art commission presentation. And anyway, just so we can get to those questions. Michelle, can we go ahead and at least show an image or two of the art so that if there are questions that people know exactly what they're looking for. And I'll just skip ahead towards the end. So Elizabeth Akamatsu who's here today and thank you Elizabeth for being here. We're currently in the final design phase, which means that a preliminary design which is at that link from May. That design has been approved at a public Fort Worth art commission meeting with input from community members from council member Flores and from other advisors. So what you'll see if you move forward a few more slides, Jane, we have some examples of a rendering of the of the design as it stands now, which is a stainless steel sculpture. And is meant to to capture the surroundings of the space and and Elizabeth, I don't know if you want to maybe make just a comment or two real quick, but I think it's important to note that the final design presentation by Elizabeth Akamatsu is expected to take place on December the 14th. That's a Monday that meeting will begin at 5pm and there's a slide a few a few ahead that has more information about that as well as my contact information. So this is the meeting I'm speaking about again. This will be the final design presentation where people can give input on this design before it moves forward into a commission, which would be when when Liz begins to fabricate her artwork. But anyway, I don't want to take away from our question time. So we'd be happy to stay on if you'd like. Hi Michelle. Hi everyone. This is Elizabeth Akamatsu. And I just wanted to say thank you again. I'm sorry I didn't get to talk. I miss everybody and I'm just grateful for this wonderful opportunity. But I too want to watch the debates. It's going to be exciting. So thank you very much. Bye. Okay, so let's just go to the question and answer session. I'm going to read through all the questions so we'll answer that quickly. So the first question from Roxanne, she's asking, well, the competition gene be regulation size, regulation size to be able to host CD basketball against with enough space for stands for spectators. Yeah, my answer is yes. Lance, can you answer this question? The answer is yes. So, and can you can join in here. But yes, it's a regulation size gym for competitions and then you've got seating off to the side for crowds that they come in. Okay, the next question is from George Fallon. He concerned I'm concerned that not enough room is being allowed for senior citizen arts rooms and after school activity for our arms. Do you do we really need all that space for physical activity for adults when any fitness only charge $10 a month. Nice. Can you help me answer this question? Well, we designed the the community center. So that everyone can everyone can use it. The room, the game rooms, the all of the rooms are available to senior citizens as well as young people. And in terms of the size of the spaces, we have not given any extra room. For instance, our, our task, we were tasked with a competition size gym. So we have we've given that in terms of the boxing gym. It's about the same size. It's roughly the same size as you have now. Fitness room. It's accommodates all the equipment that we we were told was going to be in there. And then the meeting room that accommodates all the people that we were told we're going to be meeting in there. So there's no extra space in terms of the function that have to happen in this building. Yeah, I would like to make a comment. If I may. Yes. Yes, I've been involved in this project and I'm very proud resident having grown up in diamond Hill.  And everybody comes from that area and I'm very proud to have been a part of diamond Hill. But I'm just concerned and I must show you this. This figure that my grandmother made in the diamond Hill community center after my grandfather passed away in 1990. It meant a great deal to her to be able to have that space to make these types of art things. And as far as I'm concerned that needs to continue. And I saw the amount of space that you guys had for the physical part. Okay, 8, 8 to 10. Exercise things, but how many people are going to be actually using that as opposed to folk older folk in our community utilizing the art space. Are the children are a community going to the after school program utilizing the computers and such. I'm sake simply seeking the utmost utilization for community optimization in diamond Hill. And I just, I don't want to walk into that new building that's going to cost us millions of dollars and see 1 or 2 people walking on those treadmills. And that concerns me. Thank you very much. All right. Do you want to answer that? Yes, I think we have enough space when we first start the program in this space, we have considered enough space for everybody. So you can look at the art and craft space that's for the senior, but besides that space, they can also use the game room. And also the multi purpose room too. So we, we put table here, but that doesn't mean the people have has to be laid out like that permanently. It can be removed for any extra activity extra time. And we have this curtain in the middle of this multi purpose room. It can be separated into 2 different size room for after school kids program and for other activity too. So, like, a lot of the room here is not like, like, have this 1 purpose permanently we have considering to use them for by different users and at different times, like here at the computer room. It can be also used to teach class and through different time because majorly senior will use the community center up to 1 o'clock. Every day, every afternoon and after that, the school kids will come in so they have a different time schedule using this community center. So we're just trying to decide this space like more flexible working for different kind of people not like just for 1 age groups permanently. Does it make sense to you? Well, just be certain that you involve the community and what they need and not what you think we need. Thank you. Yes, yes, to answer your question we taking to the inputs from the community. We have our 1st public meeting and we collect a lot of inputs from the from the citizens from the senior and from the parents and from. Well, let's be honest about it.  I mean, how many folk in the domino community are able to be involved tonight. That concerns me greatly. Thank you. Alright, let me let me say something right here to to George's concern. I understand. That it's always difficult to get as much input as we seek. Our 1st public meeting was a decently attended. We had several people from the community come out. And put indicator dots on what they wanted to see. We got input from them on what. The new community center ought to have in COVID 19 restrictions. We have additional challenges of getting the word out. I know that I post on social media to get the word out. I've seen conversations going on here in our chat. That the community center will be posting a recording of this meeting and make available the presentations that come. People jings making herself available as the project manager to be contacted directly. By folks that may see this presentation later. And to be and to be honest, we're making, I think, a good effort to hear from everyone. And, you know, we appreciate the committees and the stakeholder inputs here. So, we'll continue to make those outreaches. And then I ask each of you attending here at these meetings who are at the community level and representatives of the community to reach out to your neighbors. And tell them about this presentation. Tell them what you've heard and invite them to make an outreach out to staff. Myself or anyone else that may have this information so we can spread the word and keep doing the utmost to collect community input. Yes, thank you council member for us. So, just to make, make, just to clarify for the 1st public meeting, we do have a lot of people attend our 1st public meeting and give us inputs. For this public meeting, since this is a cop 19 situation, we are following the city city procedure to host this virtual meeting. But as I mentioned earlier, we can we record the meeting presentation and we will post all the information in cities website to make it available for the committee to look at it after even after this presentation. And all can also bring out the meeting presentation to hot copy and also can can play the meeting recording in the community center for the seniors so that everybody can have an understanding of what's going on during this presentation and they can also reach me after this presentation with any extra comments and questions. Thank you. Well, I just want to say it's unfortunate because in my opinion, you know, it's a technological issue that minorities and the disenfranchised aren't able to get this information. I'm a member of the city of Fort Worth water and wastewater capital improvements program. We just barely put this on the internet at the last 2 meetings, but it has never been done before and it's just, it's just another issue of disenfranchised minority folks not having access to information and that's wrong. Thank you. Okay, let's move on to the next question. So, it's from from from June. So, her question is how about a great splash pad or second playground. So, for the playground is this was renovating in 2015. So, we're not touching the playground in this design. So, our, our consultant is. It's managing to reconfigure the site design without damaging the playground. So, the playground will remain as it is right now. But for the splash pack question, Joe, can you help me to answer that? Yes, I'm Joel McElhaney with the park and recreation department. Capital program manager. And wanted to share that we have a. Aquatics master plan was adopted by our city council. And right now that plan calls for 5. Facilities city wide north, south, east, west and central. And that right now in this area. It's covered by marine park pool. When we have other or currently we have other areas of the city, west, south. That don't have a pool facility. And for north for worth right now we're working on a partnership with YMCA for a pool city in northwest. We're at the marine creek lake. But once we meet develop those pool facilities in each area of the city. North, south, east, west, central, then we can start looking at adding more. But right now, if we have funding available, we got to put it in those areas that don't currently have a pool facility. Thank you. So, let's move to our next question. It's from Jen. Sound, her question it is, I'm curious about opportunity for community collaboration in this process. This seems like a lot of the same features we have now and I'm wondering if feedback I gave today. Well, go into the void of actual or actually have influence on the project. So, to answer these questions. As I mentioned earlier, we do have the 1st public meeting before so during that public meeting we have gathered a lot of inputs and information from the community. So, all of these feedbacks have been taken to consideration in our design process. So, our design has reflect a lot of requirements from the community based on the last community meetings. And we, we do have a lot of collaboration in our design process with both the community and community center staff. So, this is a great actor we've been made. And you're welcome to give me extra feedback or extra comments we can, we can, we can, we can we can still weather that feedback seem to our further develop and all the besides. Let's go to the next question. Not enough folk have access to this process. Evidently by kids not being able to get good education in this period because I like access to internet. So, in our community center design, we do provide computer room, which can be used as a education purpose for the for the after school kids. And we also have game rooms and multi purpose which can also use to provide extra programming space for the after school program. Okay, next question. Why are you guys is from June. Why are you guys are not streaming this. Everyone in this community has a right to know what's happening. We are following the city's safety procedure not to have their in person meeting at this period of time. This is the standard procedure we're using to do the public meeting right now. We don't have the capacity to do the streaming for the presentation, but we do recall the presentation and we will post all the meeting material on the city's website after this meeting. I will send all the email to every meeting attending with the links to the city's website so that everybody can still have access to the presentation materials. I'll just add that I think we've addressed that pretty thoroughly right now. There may be some repeats of those questions as I scroll down, but there's a lot of different questions and I want to get to those. So, I think we've addressed our format. So, I just move keep moving on. Yeah, the next question from Roxette. Her question is that the kitchen are open up to the multi purpose room for cooking diamonds and interaction between the kitchen and the room. The answer is yes. We have the curtain then can be removed during the if needed. So the kitchen can be used to do the cooking demo demonstration. So, the next question is the senior definitely to use the rec center a significant amount and I'm not seeing your needs. Represented as I mentioned early, we have trapped room. And other space for the senior, even the game room and the multi person can be used by the senior to so is we're not designing this. Community center just for one specific age group we're a designer center for multi. For multi purpose room we're designed for different kind of age groups. So, the next question. Okay, so I see people talking about brief. During a pool splash pad that question I've been answered by Joe. And Roxette mentioned this information should be should definitely be shelled at the neighborhood meeting next Tuesday. I will provide the information so that you can show that that during your neighborhood meeting. Okay, so I guess. I guess I, I've been covered all the questions here. Here's a duplicate questions. We're not going to answer that twice. Something I'd request that I know information that our consultant team has that Jane, if we could put. The size the current size of say the room, the multi purpose room in the current building. And compare that to the overall square footage that we're going to have for multi purpose rooms classrooms. All of that. If we could put that comparison out there. I think people are going to would be surprised to see how much more room there's going to be overall. And just for a quick number, because I bet you have it off the top of your head. What's the square footage of the existing building with boxing, Jim. Compared to this building is 25,000. I want to say it's 16,000 for the current quality. Is that correct? 17 south and square. So as far as concerns about space, we're growing this building by a factor of what's at 17,000 to 25. Who's math's good? Is that, is that seven 50% more 50% more square foot and it's going to be laid out better. The existing building has an addition on to it. So it's not laid out. Well, it doesn't matter. In other words, it doesn't maximize that that footprint of 17,000. We're going to do a new building at 25. It's going to seem very large. Or, you know, a lot more space. Yeah, the other thing I would mention is that the lighter lines there furniture but that that just shows suggestions for where furniture would be. Flexibility was one of our main concerns as been mentioned earlier. So multi-purpose room is exactly that you can move the furniture around. You can take it, you can take it out. You can put it all into the chair storage area. Game room could be moved around. All of these spaces are sort of have maximum flexibility and visibility from, from the, from the control desk. That's not what you currently have because the spaces in your existing building are somewhat oddly shaped in certain areas. Your usable area is, I would say is even less than 17,000 square feet. Does anyone have any extra information or questions you want to ask? Jane just just a comment and I'll let you determine how to best do this. You know, please, if we're going to wrap this up now and I was getting late. We have an upcoming meeting. Do we not know this is the, this is the last public meeting we're going to have. Okay. All right. Well, I just wanted to be sure if we have any other subsequent meetings that we let folks know about it. Again, let me just reiterate in light of some of the concerns circulated here. You know, please supply the community center folks with any materials that they need to, to give to people and necessary, maybe even some hard copies. You know, with with a link that people can go to for the full presentation, whatever you think is appropriate to get more of this information out and into people's hands. Okay, we'll do that. Any other questions. Okay, then we just wrap this meeting up. Think everybody attended meeting. Good night. Good night. Thank you. Councilman. Thank you. Jen. Thank you everyone for attending. Thank you everyone. Bye. Thanks everyone. Good night everyone.


Hey everybody, this is Brian and I want to talk a little bit about CUTE and C++ and basically what I wanted to cover instead of writing code is different aspects of the CUTE community. What I've done is I've made some of these videos and admittedly I'm not an expert in either C++ or CUTE, I'm still learning both and neither of them are my native languages, I'm actually a C-sharp programmer by trade, I just like learning other things and I'm really falling in love with the CUTE and I hate to call it a framework because I've been corrected, it's a library. And what I found is that when you find someone who knows more than you, you should generally pay attention to them because you can learn from their experience. So what I've gone and done is I've gone out to the CUTE developer network. It's developer.cute.nokia.com slash forums and you can learn a lot from these people. I've been kind of reading the forums for a long time and searching and you know they've been answering some of my questions and I broke it down and I actually went out and in the CUTE education I actually posted it in general but somebody moved it to CUTE education and wow there's my post right there. And I basically said you know I've made these videos, please review and give me any feedback. And I've gotten some just awesome feedback. I mean people are really helping me out here. So they've kind of gone through and said okay you know video one, video two at this time at this time and I've got permission to take these notes and put them right in the video comments. So I'm going to make kind of a dynamic errata if you will. So I'm going to go through and just copy and paste into the comments. I don't want to do animations because I think they really distract from the video and I personally don't like them. So I just wanted to take a moment and thank everybody who's kind of pitched in and done this because I have you know a kid, a job, a girlfriend and very limited time and resources to do these videos. It's just kind of in my spare time. But I would implore you to go out to developer.cute.nokia.com slash forums and there is another one out there that I posted to if I can find a link to it really quick here. Yes, www.cutecenter.org. That's another very good forums. And actually let me open that up so you can see what this looks like here. So that's what the cute center forums looks like and it looks kind of weird. But yeah, I said, you know, I also posted in the official. But yeah, I've gotten some good feedback out there too. So kudos to everyone who's really helping me out. I'm learning a lot from just the feedback alone. I'm learning a lot from my mistakes. And it's always good to learn from somebody else. Don't ever take somebody else's criticism personally because you're learning from their experience. They've already made the mistakes and they're telling you, hey, you know, wake up, you're going to make some massive mistakes. And what a couple of people have pointed out is I've made some very glaring mistakes in the tutorials. And hopefully I'll find the time to fix it. But until then, I'm just going to post the notes and the comments and we can all kind of learn together. Another thing I thought I'd mention is Nokia actually has some official video tutorials. And it's cute.nokia.com slash developer slash learning slash online slash training. And they've got all these videos out here. I think Mirko Brum is one of the instructors. I think his name is Torbay. I'm sorry. I don't remember your name fully. It's been a while since I watched these. And they're a very good starting point. I learned a lot from watching these videos. My only critique of their videos is they're coming from somebody who's fairly proficient with C++ and Qt. And it kind of, my eyes started glazing over on a couple of them because I had absolutely no clue what they're talking about. But I recommend you also go out there and watch those videos as well. But I just wanted to thank everybody for your feedback. And I will go over as much feedback as I can. It's going to take me time. And I will post comments and links as much as I can. And keep making videos. And hopefully not make any major mistakes. So thank you for watching. And thank you for your feedback.  And you can learn a lot from everybody in the community.


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The featured button this video is Transformers War for Cybertron Kingdom, Tigertron. Now this figure right here was a surprise find tonight at my local Walmart. I went with the wife to pick up some Christmas decorations and you know how it is.  Took off to the action figure aisle that I've been to multiple times this week. And there he was just laying down flat on the shelf.  And I immediately picked him up. So glad to have him in my collection. I have him pre-ordered, but he says he's not due to arrive till January. So a very lucky find. And yes, I searched all over trying to see if the rumored blaster was there or another Tigertron was just him and Rhinox. So very excited to have this guy in my collection because Tigertron was a great character in the Beast Wars television show. So real quick, let's take a look at the packaging. We've got Tigertron there in robot mode behind the window. As usual, some fantastic art of Tigertron in tiger mode and robot mode. Transformers War for Cybertron Kingdom. Back of the box, we've got Tigertron in robot mode in beast mode once again. And that great kingdom artwork.  So I'm not sure if that's how it came out of the case, but I don't care. I opened my figures up. So now let's take a look at Tigertron and see how cool he really is. And welcome to Patriot Prime Reviews. Now once you get Tigertron all opened up and out of the packaging, you'll see he does come with a sheet of instructions that as usual are very well illustrated and easy to follow. And I can already tell his transformation is going to be different than Cheetor. When this guy was first announced, he was going to be a jumbo sized version of Cheetor, but looks like I may be pleasantly surprised. He also comes with this trading card that, you know, this is the final wave of this line and we're still getting black arachnia cards. And let's see. That's the dark arachnia card. I wish we got a figure of that. But oh well, what's really cool is Tigertron comes with his gut gun. And that looks really good. Look at the sculpted detail on that. And they gave it paint application. So you have the gut area right there. And man, that looks good. I wish Cheetor would have got his. He also has his tail whip, which he will need for beast mode. And then of course we have Tigertron himself. Okay, now first impressions. Tigertron here looks amazing. I mean, he looks exactly like he did on the television show. And look at the paint applications. You got paint there for the eyes. You got all the stripes and whiskers. And I like the off-white that with the rest of the figure kind of makes me look like he's dirty, like he's been out in the jungle. But man, he looks good. And I can't get over that face sculpt and look at the color scheme. That nice, shiny green. I'm not sure what color that is exactly. But that looks amazing. And that sculpted detail is fantastic. Got a little red right there for the crest. Love the eyes. But man, this guy looks awesome. I can't believe I was originally planning on passing him up because I'm not a big fan of the Cheetor mode. But damn, this guy looks great. Now, as far as articulation goes, the head, it's on a ball joint, but it really doesn't have much range of motion up or down. It can do a complete 360 and you get a very, very slight head tilt. Arms. Oh, nice tight joints. Hear that? This figure's right out of the package, by the way. I haven't even missed with him at all yet. So the arms could do a 360 if he didn't have these back flaps. There is a rotation right there at the shoulder. There is an elbow bend. And there is wrist rotation. He also has waist rotation. Legs can go forward. They can go back. I love these tight joints. Well, he's got a butt flap right here. So you kind of have to move this out of the way if you want his legs to really go back. But I love tight joints. A lot of these kingdom figures, it's one extreme or the next. This one, nice tight joints. Of course, like I said, you got the rotation there. You got a knee bend. And there is ankle tilts. So let's go ahead and give Taggartron his weaponry. See if he can get you to stand up. There we go. So let's go ahead and give him his gut gun. I always thought that was a funny name. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the original Taggartron and Cheetor, the gut guns, was like a little water pistol. That was like a bladder you pushed. I never had the original Cheetor and I keep passing up the reissues.  And this figure just looks fantastic. I am so pleased with this surprise find tonight. So now let's get Taggartron transformed into beast mode. All right. The first thing we're going to do before we transform Taggartron into beast mode is remove the weaponry, the gut gun and the tail, which we will use later on. Now I'm going in blind on this. Just glance at the instructions real quick. So the first thing we're going to do is bring the arms up. There is a double bicep right there. So you're going to bring the arms up like so. So that forms the tiger belly. And then right here we've got these oblique panels we're going to pull out. Get those all to match up. So you get the legs out of the way and pop it right off. So as you can see, the legs have a ball joint. Like I said, these joints are just super tight. I love it. So now let's see.  And I guess we're going to rotate or fold the head down and then collapse the tiger head right there. So we've got that going on.  And I guess it's going to clip in right there. Now let's go ahead and bring in, let's see. Looks like there's some tabs need to line up. And just like Cheetor, we're going to tab the forearms together underneath the chest. It's going to be the chest of the tiger. If I can get them, there we go. Bring these parts down. Have I already screwed up? Probably. Let's bring this out. Bring this up. I think maybe I should bring this in first and then form those around that little section on his waist. I think that's going to work a lot better. And then this will collapse over the chest. Or forming the chest. He's a lot more complex than Cheetor. I am still missing something here. The arms need to go up. Oh, okay. Arms need to go down lower like so. Now, so you have the chest or the bellies hanging over the crotch plate there. Now let's see if this will fit a little better. Yep, there we go. That was it. So that stamps together nice and tight. Bring those panels down. Go ahead and rotate the arms around. So now we got the legs. And these look very familiar. These look just like Cheetor. So let's bring the beast legs down. It looks like you got some panels. Panels there on the inside. So push those down. Fold the heel spurs in. And then you're going to bring the feet back into the leg, which pushes those panels out. We'll see that here on that leg. And now you just angle. There we go. Get the legs down. Bring the feet down. All right. So there we've got Tiger mode. Get the tail. Plug the tail in right there. And there. Oops. Let's see. Oh, yes. I popped that off earlier when I was showing the leg articulation. Make sure that snaps into place. There's a little tab right there. Snap that in place. Bring the legs back. And there we have Tiger Tron in beast mode. And that is a good looking Tiger. Once again, I love the paint applications with all the stripes and the off-white kind of yellow that makes him look dirty. That's really cool. Kind of a more natural look. Now he does lose a little bit. That popped back off. He does lose a little bit for me back here with the toes sticking out of the thighs just like Cheetor. And then he got the green spikes there on the back of his legs. But still, this is not a bad looking Tiger at all. Let's see. Articulation. Let's see if the mouth moves. Yes. The jaw does open and close. I wish that was painted on the inside. That would look cool if he had a red tongue. Nice pink nose, the eyes. Of course we saw those earlier. But yeah, this is a really good looking cat. So let's set Tiger Tron right here and bring in Cheetor. So there we got Cheetor and Tiger Tron together. Now Cheetor, this is the regular release version. He's got a lot of blue that shines through. Tiger Tron, not so much. He's got a little bit here on the neck, both the front and the back. And of course, they're back on the legs. But that looks really good. And I like the face a lot better on Tiger Tron than Cheetor. So that is a very, very good looking beast mode. So there you go. Oh, let's see. Let's take a look at the gut gun. If he does have storage and the instructions did show that you can store the gut gun right here on one of these pegs underneath his belly. So you've got that going on. And that looks terrible. So I'll just keep that gun off to the side. So there you go, guys. Sorry about bumping the camera. War for Cybertron Kingdom Tiger Tron. And now for some quick size comparisons. Here is Transformers War for Cybertron Kingdom Tiger Tron with War for Cybertron Kingdom Optimus Primal. And was Tiger Tron that much bigger than Prime in the show? War for Cybertron Kingdom Cheetor, little cat. And the spark of his spark, War for Cybertron Kingdom Air Razor. Transformers War for Cybertron Kingdom Tiger Tron is the cat's meow. I love this figure. He looks so good. I can't get over how much he looks like his cartoon counterpart. The robot mode is great, highly articulate. The tiger mode looks great and highly articulate. The only drawback, I don't like the toes sticking out of the back of the legs. But in my opinion, I think it's a better beast mode than Cheetor. And not to mention, he actually comes with his gut gun. So there you go, guys. Transformers War for Cybertron Kingdom Tiger Tron. So, does a Transformers War for Cybertron Kingdom Tiger Tron belong in your collection? Absolutely. If you're a Beast Wars fan, you need this figure. This guy looks great and spot on to his cartoon appearance. I just can't get over how good he looks. Fantastic paint applications. I like the fact that he actually comes with his gut gun, unlike Cheetor. And not to mention, I'm so happy that this is just not an oversized Cheetor figure. He's his own bot. So yeah, bot mode looks great. Beast mode doesn't look bad at all except for the heels or the toes sticking out of the back legs of the tiger. But still, I like how the paint applications are that make the tiger look a little dirty. So yeah, highly recommended. If you see this guy pick him up, you're not going to be disappointed. Now guys, if you enjoyed the video, don't forget to like, don't forget to subscribe, and don't forget to click that bell icon to get notified when I upload new reviews. 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