The idea of rolling around our creations in the dirt is anathema to most of us LEGO SYSTEM builders. Not so a group of LEGO Technic engineers who gathered in Prague last month for the 2009 LEGO Technic Rally.
I was rooting for this Tatra by Nikolas Tepper.
Read more about this event on TechnicBRICKs.
The chain of LEGO store openings continues with two more stores to open in July in Dallas and Oklahoma City. Here are the details:
Oklahoma City, OK
Dates:
July 24 – 26, 2009
Times:
Friday, July 24: 11am
- 7pm
Saturday, July 25: 10am
- 6pm
Sunday, July 27: 12am
- 6pm
Location:
Penn Square Mall
1901 NW Expressway
Oklahoma City, OK 73118
Exclusive: LEGO Cowboy
Dallas, TX
Dates:
July 17 – 19, [...]
This coming weekend, June 13 and 14, Legoland California is hosting Star Wars Days. The park, located in Carlsbad, CA just off the I-5 freeway, will be open from 10:00am to 6:00pm on both Saturday and Sunday. Single-day ticket prices start at $53 for children and $63 for adults, though membership, multi-day and “hopper” packages [...]
We know that Perth is a little far away from just about all of us but for the few readers living in the great West we have a treat from the Perth Adult LEGO Society. Please head along if you’re in the region.
World Record Lego Bridge Attempt
The Perth Adult Lego Society (PALS) will have a [...]
UPDATE: Planning is now underway for the next Zombie Apocafest. Read all about it in our Zombie Apocafest 2009 strategy, tactics, & logistics post.
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The LEGO convention season is upon us, and BrickCon 2009 is just over four months away — time to start planning your trip and what you’re going to build. Likewise, it’s time [...]
With only 4 days left to register for BrickWorld, a record setting number of more than 440 registrants is bringing registration to its capacity at 480. If you’re still sitting on the fence, what are you waiting for?
A comprehensive schedule of all four days’ events has just been posted, with LEGO’s CEO Jørgen Vig Knudstorp [...]
BrickWorld, one of the largest fan-run LEGO conventions in the US taking place in Chicago from June 18-21, is approaching in less than a month. There are only 7 days left to register for the event to join thousands of LEGO fans of all ages and see more than 20,000 square feet of LEGO display [...]
This past weekend at the grand opening of LEGO’s newest store in Frisco, Texas, massive crowds of kids and adults visited the first ever LEGO store in North Texas. Sales from Friday until Sunday topped over $130,000, setting a new record for sales at the grand opening of a LEGO store and surpassing the previous [...]
I’m super excited to announce the upcoming opening of three new LEGO retail stores in Frisco, TX, Annapolis, MD, and Raleigh, NC.
There are special events taking place at all three new stores during their “Grand Opening Weekend.”
Frisco, TX
Dates:
May 15 – 17, 2009
Times:
Friday, May 15: 11am – 7pm
Saturday, May 16: 10am – 6pm
Sunday, May 17: [...]
The Indianapolis Children’s Museum, working with Lego, has put together an incredible traveling exhibit, designed to educate children (and adults!) on the intricacies of Medieval Castle building and medieval life. Among the many activities are “jousting”, building castle walls, dressing up in medieval costumes, and firing a catapult.
It has already been booked for [...]
Every year, I host a Medieval Battles Contest at Classic Castle Forums and now is the time!
So get out there and build the biggest, baddest battle you can!
There will be prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places….so you have a pretty good chance. Get cracking!
(The picture is of the winning battle scene from the [...]
Registration is now open for BrickCon 2009! BrickCon is a private convention and public exhibition for adult fans of LEGO, and will be held October 1-4, 2009 in Seattle, Washington at the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall.
BrickCon is the longest continuously running LEGO fan convention in the US. Last year’s convention drew more than 250 attendees [...]
The latest edition of Hispabrick Magazine is now available.
Hispabrick Magazine 004 includes:
Coverage of events like the Hispabrick expo and Japan Weekend in Barcelona.
How to build LEGO trees
Interview with Marta Tantos, Design Manager at LEGO’s Concept Lab
Interview with Steven Marshall
How minifigs shop for new clothes
Check out Hispabrick Magazine 004 on HispabrickMagazine.com today!
The Portuguese LEGO Users Group (PLUG) is planning an event called An Adventure in the World of LEGO, an exhibition held in Lourinhã, Portugal from April 27 – May 3.
PLUG (Portuguese LEGO Users Group) will organize a major Exhibition – “Uma Aventura no mundo do LEGO” (An Adventure in the World of LEGO).
It will be [...]
The big news from BrickFest 2009 may be more details about 10194 Emerald Night, but there’s more to come in the next few days. ;-)
In the meantime, attendees have begun uploading photos of displays and events.
Bill Ward already has 160+ photos online, while Mark Neumann and PurirideVry have uploaded quite a few as well.
The BrickFest [...]
Slovenian LEGO club Kocke Klub has announced that they will be holding a second LEGO exhibition on April 4, 2009 in Ljubljana. (“Kocke” means “brick” and is pronounced COT-SKA.)
Here’s the full announcement in Slovenian:
Kocke klub v soboto, 4. aprila 2009, 10h-17h v OŠ Šmartno pod Šmarno goro pri Ljubljani organizira 02. KockeFest – pomlad 2009 [...]
I blogged the 7th annual Original Model Contest last week, but winners hadn’t been announced yet.
Sachiko Akinaga now has the final list of winners.
First Place: “Howl’s Moving Castle” by TEN (more photos):
Second Place: “Memories of a Dream” by Mokuami:
Third Place: “Goldfish Balloon” by Sachiko Akinaga:
Fourth Place: “Animal Happy Cake” by Kana-Oyako:
Fifth Place: “MSN-100″ by Tuwake-de-Sondake:
Although winners of the 7th Original Model Contest (sponsored by Japanese LEGO specialty store clickbrick) won’t be announced until March 7, some great photos of the LEGO creations entered in the contest are now available.
Entrants are free to choose their own theme, but are restricted to 20×20 studs and 30 cm tall, and they can’t [...]
The Brothers Brick got an invite to the LEGO Preview at Toy Fair 2009, but we just couldn’t make it. :-( The good news is that our pals from FBTB and BrickJournal are covering this important event.
Although we’ve seen quite a few of the late 2009 LEGO sets from the earlier Canadian toy fair, there [...]
The Job Muller Contest, on Classic Castle, has certainly been generating a lot of great entries! Here are some of my favorites.
‘Shroom Whisperer by Foamrider:
Ye Olde Toliet Salesman by Life Unscripted:
Sanitizers by Shmails:
GFLUG will be displaying various LEGO creations in Orlando, Florida from February 27 to March 1.
Here’s the full announcement from Michael Huffman:
GFLUG will be doing MegaCon 2009, Feb. 27 – March 1, 2009 in Orlando, FL. GFLUG have a 50’x50’ display area, half of the area will be a LEGO MOC display and the [...]
Aliencat and Bluesecrets are hosting a brand-new contest over at Classic Castle.
Born in a frenzy of whimsy and late-night chatting, the Job Muller’s Contest is something unique. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is build a fictional medieval occupation, the funnier the better. I think I’m going to be [...]
It was recently brought to my attention that we missed covering a major collaborative display at BrickCon last October. This was a major oversight on our part as this display was incredible. In fact, I think it was one of the best collaborative displays I’ve seen.
Ryan Wood, founder and namesake of ChiefLUG, organized the [...]
Registration is now open for BrickWorld 2009, the annually held LEGO convention in Chicago. Last year the event attracted around 300 attendees and dedicated 20,000 square feet of ballroom space to display their amazing LEGO creations. For only $50, you can register for this four day event hosted at the luxurious 5 star Westin Hotel [...]
Registration is now open for BrickFest 2009, to be held March 27 through 29 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, OR.
You can register now at BrickFest.com/Registration/.
For a sampling of what you can expect at this year’s BrickFest, check out the BrickFest pool on Flickr.