Early Bird Registration for NWBrickCon 2007 is now open through the event website.
Shirts, Brick Bazaar Spaces, and the 2007 Commemorative Model are also now available for pre-order.
Early Bird Registration offers all the benefits of Advance Registration with the added benefit that registration is only $38, while Advance Registration is $44. (On-site registration is $50.)
Early Bird Registration closes May 22, so act fast! On May 23 we will move to Advance Registration.
NWBrickCon is a convention and exposition for adult fans of LEGO. Starting in 2002, every October has featured a progressively larger convention in the Seattle area. NWBrickCon 2007 will be October 5, 6, and 7 in the Seattle Center Pavillion.
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One night in Bangkok
BS user Pongsit has posted pictures of an enormous LEGO Suvarnabhumi Airport. Not sure if this is fan made or official but it’s certainly very impressive.
EDIT: Hippotam from Kkocki.blox.pl has tracked down some more information here (in Polish and English)
Necromancer’s Tower by Patrick Bosman
Patrick has built a very nifty Necromancer’s Tower for the Lego Castle Contest currently running on Classic-Castle. Don’t tell anyone, but I think this will be the winner in the Tower category!
News: First LEGO League World Festival 2007
The First LEGO League World Festival 2007 is going on through today in Atlanta, Georgia.
Head on over to The NXT STEP for extensive coverage. Hope you’re having fun, Gothic Lawn Gnomes!
2007 Brickfilming Achievement in Motion Picture Arts Nominations announced
After some considerable delay, the Brickfilming Achievement in Motion Picture Arts (BAMPA) nominations have been announced. The nominations are as follows:
Best Film
Faithless
Grace
Mirrored Perspective
System Reboot (RevMen and Nosniborus)
Triumph of the Empire
Best Animation
Capastroid
Faithless
Grace
Macbeth: Act V Scene VII
System Reboot (RevMen and Nosniborus)
Best Cinematography
Douleur
Faithless
Grace
Mirrored Perspective
Triumph of the Empire
Best Screenplay
Climb So High
Faithless
The Fisherman’s Wife
Grace
L’Inspiration
Best Sound Design
Beast
Grace
Faithless
Mirrored Perspective
Triumph of the Empire
Best Score
Edison
Faithless
Grace
Mirrored Perspective
Triumph of the Empire
Best Visual Elements
Faithless
Grace
Men o’ War
System Reboot (RevMen and Nosniborus)
Triumph of the Empire
Best Voice Acting Performance
Brennan Davis – Tectonic Man – Tectonic Man
Mike Dyer – Mr. Hanson – Back 2 Skool
Scott Preston – Grand Moff Tarkin – Triumph of the Empire
Nathan Snow – Darcy – Grace
Peter Wood – Fabron – Grace
Links to the brickfilms can be found in the link above. A small plug: my brickfilm Beast (watch it here on YouTube), second-place winner in the Brickfilms.com Fame, Infamy and Glory contest, has been nominated for Best Sound Design. I’m honored, but also amused. I hated doing the sound for Beast, especially since I was working with Windows Movie Maker 2 at the time, and had to struggle with only one audio track.
The BAMPAs have a seperate website, but it hasn’t been updated in a while.
BrickFest 2007 Highlights from Andrew
BrickFest 2007 wrapped up on Sunday, but I’ve been so busy I haven’t had a chance to sit down and reflect. Well, here goes.
Highlights for me:
- Hanging out with all the great people in the extended LEGO community — both from The LEGO Company and fellow fans.
- The ride down with Caylin. I think I left my sunglasses in your glove box.
- MAX, Chinatown, and House of Louie with TBB’s very own Josh, world-famous Mike, and aforementioned Caylin.
- Having a minion.
- The new UCS Millenium Falcon in person.
- The singlest largest LEGO Castle display in North America, ever.
- Sessions standouts for me were LEGO Quality with Bjarke Schoenwandt and the future of LEGOfan.org with Kelly McKiernan.
- Lunch at Wendy’s with Steve Witt and The Usual Suspects.
- $1 minifigs from Bob Kojima and Paul Hetherington.
- MINDSTORMS NXT Sumo!
- Sharing a Mountain High Mudd Pie between two tables at Red Robin.
- Scratched and dented LEGO sets (no damage to LEGO inside) for 50% off at the Washington Square LEGO Store!
- Breann Sledge’s Bionicle creations.
- Nathan Proudlove’s completed Blacktron II
- The ride back to Seattle and post-BrickFest dinner at I Love Sushi with Dan Sabath and Dan Boger. Best sushi ever! Sorry you couldn’t join us, Pamela.
- Seeing all the great photos in the BrickFest group pool on Flickr — more than 2,700 photos so far!
Phew. That was all so fun I’m now miserably sick. :-D
Still, I can’t wait for the next major LEGO event I’ll be attending, NWBrickCon. See you all there! (You can read more about what NWBrickCon was like last year right here on The Brothers Brick.)
My LEGO figure has dated more girls than I have!
See for yourself:
At least Ginny doesn’t have an RPG like last time. Oh, wait…
Holy %&*#!@.
Don’t forget to check out Caylin’s post on Classic-Castle.
BrickFest PDX is just around the corner!
Both Josh and I are headed to BrickFest PDX 2007 in Portland, OR this coming weekend. This is my second convention in less than six months, but I’m told that NWBrickCon and BrickFest are two very different events. I can’t wait!
(BrickFest 2005 photo from the Washington Post in Dan Rubin’s Flickr photostream.)
If you’re a reader of The Brothers Brick and will be attending, let us know and be sure to say hello if you see us! As I did for NWBrickCon last October, also I created a BrickFest Flickr group. Join up and add your photos from past ‘Fests, as well as the one coming up this weekend.
LEGO at SXSW
I love music. I love LEGO. For at least the last couple of years, the “Interactive Playpen” at the SXSW music festival in Austin, Texas has featured LEGO.
Here’s a cool shot from last year by Flickr user alykat:
And the Flickr new user icon, built and photographed by naelyn:
The festival this year started yesterday and runs through Sunday. So far, the interactive playpen has yielded the Digg logo, as photographed by narisa:
If you’re in Austin this week, be sure to check out some great music, and stop by the Interactive Playpen and build something cool!
Winners announced for CCCIV!
After months of difficult judging by Classic Castle Admins, the winners for Colossal Castle Contest IV have been decided!
Not only are the winning entries incredible, the 348 other entries includes some awesome creations too (thanks to Jens for compiling stats on the entries)! Check out all the entries here.
Earth Park by Sachiko
Back on the old blog, I posted a couple times about a series of TV episodes in Japan called “LEGO King Championship.” You can read more about the show here, and see a YouTube video here. Unfortunately, the images I linked to in my original post quickly expired, and the YouTube footage doesn’t do justice to the creations.
After a very long wait (well, I’ve been waiting), Sachiko Akinaga has uploaded a great set of pictures that show off the “Earth Park” that won her the title of LEGO Champion:
Click the image for the full gallery on Brickshelf.
News: Prototype Sets Shown at Fan Event in Germany
Remember when LEGO asked fans what kind of classic car we’d like to see in a collector’s set?
Well, LEGO Ambassador Stephen Sander announced on LUGNET (via Based on a True Story and How Many Studs to LEGOLAND?) that The LEGO Company displayed several prototypes at an event held in Frechen, Germany.
Ford Mustang:
Aston Martin:
Delorean:
(Note the fusion power thingie on the back, making this the car from Back to the Future. For licensing reasons, I doubt the production version will include this little detail, but it’s still very cool.)
Volkswagen (classic) Beetle:
Finally, here’s the text of an announcement about a completely new (potential) product line displayed at the event:
In April we will launch a big Modular Building. Product will be announced in Brick Journal March issue. What type of building would you like to see as a LEGO product? Which one of the buildings shown do you prefer?
Check out Stephen’s LUGNET announcement for links to all three pictures, but here’s my favorite, a hotel:
