Building a brighter tomorrow with LEGO® bricks

Palo Alto Museum Show now open

This weekend we (the Bay Area LEGO Users’ Group) set up our annual “Living LEGO-cy” show at the Museum of American Heritage in Palo Alto, CA.

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BrickCon 2011 Photos

I’ve uploaded all the photos from BrickCon. There are 833 photos and 2 videos. Enjoy!

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BrickCon 2011 Trip Report, Part 2

This is a continuation of the trip report which I started while I was waiting in the airport, interrupted by the boarding of my plane….

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BrickCon 2011 Trip Report

Another year, another BrickCon. The annual Seattle, WA LEGO convention has come to an end and I am writing this sitting in the Seattle airport, waiting for my flight to board.

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BrickCon 2011: Blogging Panel

I am at BrickCon, writing this in a classroom in the Seattle Center, in the audience of a panel on LEGO blogging. Josh Wedin and Andrew Becraft from The Brothers Brick (TBB), and Ace Kim from TBB and From Bricks to Bothans (FBTB), are talking about their experiences in the LEGO blogging community.

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Registration is now open for Bricks by the Bay 2012

The 2012 Bricks by the Bay Convention registration is now open!

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LEGO makes a deal with Marvel too?!

I just posted about the new deal with DC Comics, and now I hear that LEGO’s Disney deal has expanded to include Marvel superheroes as well! So it looks like we’ll be getting Spider-Man back also. According to an article on stitchkingdom.com:

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LEGO Batman is coming back, with reinforcements!

Good news for superhero fans! LEGO and DC Universe (aka DC Comics) have announced a new partnership made through Warner Brothers that will have LEGO making new sets featuring Batman and other heroes from the DC Universe. According to an article in Variety,

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LEGO at NMRA 2011

Earlier this month I was involved in the LEGO display at the National Model Railroad Association‘s (NMRA) National Train Show held this year in Sacramento, California as a part of their annual convention.

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Brickworld Trip Wrapup

This is the rest of my travel journal from Brickworld 2011 LEGO convention in Chicago. I’ve been home from Chicago for two days now, but it’s time to wrap up the journal. My previous installment took us up to Friday afternoon, before I even started taking photos of the exhibits. Carrying forward from that point:

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Brickworld 2011 Photos

Here are all my pictures from the Brickworld LEGO convention in Chicago:

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Brickworld 2011: Lake Michigan Ballroom Pictures

I’ve taken photos of all the LEGO creations on display at Brickworld 2011 in the Lake Michigan Ballroom.

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Brickworld 2011 Part 2

Here’s the second installment of my trip report to the Brickworld LEGO convention in Chicago, for Day 2 (Friday, June 17). I went to a bunch of presentations and events:

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Brickworld 2011: Event Pictures

I attended a bunch of events on Thursday and Friday at Brickworld 2011 in Chicago.

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Brickworld 2011 part 1

I flew to Chicago yesterday (Wednesday, June 15) for the Brickworld LEGO convention. I used my Frontier air miles to travel from San Francisco to Chicago Midway by way of Denver. It was a long trip – I left SFO at 9am and got to Chicago at 6pm local time – but it was very pleasant and had no problems. I shared a cab from the airport to the hotel with two other guys, who had flown in from Florida.

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Yellow Victorian House

This is the third of my LEGO houses that often feature in the suburbia section of BayLUG/BayLTC train layouts.

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Red House

This is one of those LEGO creations of mine that’s been around for years but never blogged about before.

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Red Bungalow with Dormer

This little red LEGO bungalow with dormer was built about a year ago.

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Sailboat

I built this LEGO sailboat to be a scale model of a 25 foot daysailer.

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Double Trailer Truck

A double semi-trailer truck made out of LEGO, featuring tractor, two trailers, and a dolly to connect the trailers together.

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Mail Trucks

United States Postal Service trucks in LEGO. Designed by me in 2003, and featured on many BayLUG and BayLTC layouts since then.

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Fifth Wheel RV

I built this many years ago (2003 or so?) but never posted it online before. It’s been on many BayLUG and BayLTC displays, though. I’m still fairly happy with it, though it could surely be improved in a number of ways.

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