Weekly LEGO news roundup for September 12, 2009 [News]
We’ve gotten enough suggestions for things we’ve already blogged (check out Page 2, people!) that I thought we should do a quick roundup of this week’s news items.
10197 out. 10197 Fire Brigade is now available and has been inspiring LEGO creations throughout the week. Andrey Kudinov built a 1930s-era Gaz-AA fire truck and Alex Eylar recreated 10197 in microscale.
- TBB in NYT. The New York Times mentioned The Brothers Brick in an article about how LEGO has recovered from its own financial crisis in the midst of a global recession.
BrickCon 2009. Only a few days left to pre-register for BrickCon and guarantee all your goodies. We’re organizing Zombie Apocafest 2009, with other collaborative displays like Operation Bricklord and Battle Bugs.- 6299 in NA. A petition is underway to get 6299 Pirates Advent Calendar in the US and Canada. No guarantee of success, but we can try.
Blogged! Inspired by The Living Brick, we’ve started a Blogged by The Brothers Brick group on Flickr, where you can add your photo if it’s been blogged and peruse lots of the great LEGO creations we’ve highlighted.
Thanks to mumu over at かわいいレゴずき for the idea! Let us know if this is a good idea for us to do as well, and we can make it a weekly feature.
September 12th, 2009 at 11:08 am
It’s time for a contest TBB!
September 12th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
I don’t speak for everyone, but right now a lot of the contest energies are invested in the Zombie Apocafest at BrickCon. Contests, especially global ones, are a lot of work. We do have a few ideas bouncing around, which I’m sure we’ll share as soon as there’s anything worth sharing. Thanks for the reminder though. I’m looking forward to my 1st TBB contest.
September 12th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
I like having this recap of the week! I would say I visit this site everyday at least and I still missed the post about the flickr pool!
September 12th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
@Olog: What Thanel said. :-) I need to learn to delegate contests to contributors who have BrickLink stores and are used to shipping stuff. I own the budget, so that sort of thing generally falls to me, but there’s no reason it always has to be me.
@Sarah: Well, we didn’t actually have a post about that one. Thanks for visiting every day!
September 12th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
I like these weekly recaps! It reminds me of what FBTB used to do…
September 14th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
I can definitely buy and ship prizes if I get reimbursed.