Non-brick LEGO related decorations, collections, etc.

[cksubs]

Hey all, I love LEGO. One of my other interests is vintage advertising, paper materials, signs, boxes, etc. Especially actually USING such things as decorations and interesting pieces, rather than letting them sit in a box.

There's big potential to combine the two. I can't wait till I have kids, as the baby's room is going to get a framed "Duplo Fire House No. 9 -- #2658" front flap from when I was a kid. Might frame a few of my other boxes soon too.

Basically, if you've ever seen a "garage mahal," they're often covered in old gas station signs, vintage autopart items, etc. as seen below:

I want to see what LEGO fans have done in the same vein. Any framed boxes or instructions on your wall? Promotional items from toy shops? LEGO signs? How do you decorate your building room?

I'd like to see lots of non-brick items, but I suppose LEGO murals and the like qualify too. Especially if they're in a 'normal room' rather than your dedicated building room. Fine-art LEGO sculptures elsewhere in your home?

Hope to see some awesome pictures!

[Aanchir]

I used to have a lot of the little promo-posters that came with 90s sets decorating the walls of my basement (where my LEGO building takes place). Never got them framed, though, and they had to be taken down when they were replaced with walls of shelving where I actually could keep the physical bricks (something that was a lot more essential given the constant disarray of my building area).

Today in my dorm I have an assortment of posters from the Brickmaster magazine. Specifically, the 2008 poster of BIONICLE's key character Mata Nui, the 2009 poster of the same character in their new form (their first form to appear as a set), and the 2010 LEGO Club poster of the Max minfigure next to the Club Door from LEGO Universe.

As far as other physical collections go, I don't have anything all that impressive. But I have assembled a lot of digital LEGO graphics on my flash drives, computer, and Brickshelf. For instance, on one flash drive I have a collection of printed part and other specialized part renders from the service.lego.com replacement parts site, including a collection of microfig images I've hosted on my Brickshelf. On the same flash drive I have a ridiculous collection of random pieces of interest I encountered while digging for buried treasure browsing archive.org's Wayback Machine archive of various parts of the LEGO site.

Of course, I also have a physical collection of LEGO Mania Magazines (1996-2001), LEGO Magazines (2002-2005), and Brickmaster magazines (2005-2010). Sadly these aren't in good shape as far as collections go-- my post-2000 magazines are OK (at least, those I can find) but my Mania Magazines are for the most part in shreds (which is a pity, because back then that was the only good source for the sort of promotional material and character blurbs that today can be found on the LEGO website)

[cksubs]

My cousin had this poster as a kid. Pretty cool, those are the kind of minifigs I remember playing with. Nice straight smiles, none of these gaping wide mouths!

[cksubs]

I think I've seen square LEGO murals of the Ice Planet 2002, M:Tron, Classic Space, etc. logos... anyone have links to those?

Edited November 2, 2010 by cksubs