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Hi all, This is a call out to any LEGO Fan in Adelaide, South Australia. In May this year we are going to be running our first major Fan Expo, BRICKtopia, and we would like to invite you to be a part of it. There is no cost to exhibit. All you have to do is fill in the registration form and it all goes form there. We are looking for builders of MOC's, Sets, historic LEGO - basically anything built from LEGO in any size. For more information head over to the BRICKtopia website. Cheers Tim Southern Bricks LEGO Users Group - South Australia
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2,000 True Fans: Making Chess cool for kids using Star Wars LEGO
avisolo posted a topic in General LEGO Discussion
2,000 True Fans: Making Chess cool for kids using Star Wars LEGO -
Greetings to all! I'm fairly new to this site and these forums, and only started commenting in earnest about 4 months or so ago, after a period of more than a year lurking. First off, Eurobricks is my "go-to" site for LEGO news and information - what a fantastic resource! I admire and appreciate all who take their time to post thoughts, instructions, solutions, creations, etc. It is all enormously inspiring. A couple of things about me... 1) I got out of my "Dark Ages" around the time of the birth of my daughter in 2009. My first exposure to nouveau-LEGO was the release of the Emerald Night, which I saw in the windows of my local LEGO store. That train just caught my eye, and I couldn't stop thinking about it, I couldn't get that damned thing out of my head. A gracious mother-in-law, who assumed I had gone temporarily insane with the prospect of being a first-time dad, bought it jointly with my wife for my Christmas gift. The Emerald Night has a solid hold on my #2 spot for "Best LEGO set ever" (#1 remains, and always will remain, the Black Seas Barracuda which I got for Christmas when I was 6). 2) I received the Black Seas Barracuda for Christmas in 1989. I got my Emerald Night in 2009, 20 years later. 3) In no particular order - my favorite themes are/have been: Town, Train, Pirates, Creator "Expert" (modulars) and the Collectible Minifigure series. 4) I've also made recent room for Alien Conquest (RIP), The LEGO Movie, and Friends for my daughter. 5) I am 30 yrs old and live in Portland, OR - USA. 6) In addition to LEGO, my hobbies include: cooking, illustration, all things comics and graphic novels, and movies. I'm a budding audiophile and woodworking enthusiast. A couple of things I love about the LEGO hobby: -It gives me time to bond with my kids. It's fun to share something we can all relate to and for different reasons/motives. -The quality of the higher-end sets just boggles my mind. -The increased color pallet over the past few years -It may seem odd to say so, but I really like the direction of graphics team - the minifigures have so much personality and quality of printing has just gotten better and better -Correlations to my own job. Substitute "plastic injected molds" for "sand-casted steel," and the companies I've worked for professionally are very similar to LEGO (down to the manufacturing processes, supply chains, etc.) In fact, we use LEGO Adult education products for some of our internal training courses. Things I don't like about the LEGO hobby and wish would change: -Stickers. Boo. -Poorer quality manufacturing from overseas sources -Designs that got pumped into market way too fast. I almost feel like LEGO is overheating a bit these days and almost needs to scale back number of themes or new products to market. Too many are half-baked (and don't give me the "target market" argument - a poorly-thought out set design is a poorly-thought out set design, be it geared to the 5-12 age group or the 12-16 age group) -Pricing - especially for 2014. -Recent changes to exclusives discount policies (booo!)
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Check out the Unikitty I built with the help from my Lug for Toronto's Breakfast Television on the 4th and todays Premiere!
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Hi everyone! It's been 6 years since I last visited this amazing Lego site and after resetting my forgotten password, I am now back for the second time round! My name is Aaron and I last posted here in 2008. Back then I really rediscovered my lost childhood love of Lego, and I fell back in love with the shiny little plastic bricks hard! Unfortunately, after a good few months of posting on here and building various unfinished projects, I slowly started to lose interest and once those magical little bricks were tidied away, they have stayed there ever since. I am now living in my own flat with my (ever so understanding) girlfriend, but my countless boxes of Lego are still stored at my parents house (though not for long I'm sure ). Recently I found myself itching to have another go at it. I have just purchased a few bargain sealed Lego City sets from the last few years and should be building them within the next few days (around the daily work grind ). Fun builds with lots of pieces, such as the 4439 Police Heavy-Lift Helicopter for £20.00 and I've just picked up the 4436 Police Patrol Car for only £5.00. Looking at the latest sets, It's amazing how intricate the designs are now, with so many new parts and building techniques implemented. I did find it quite difficult to go through with it and spend my hard earned money, on what most people think as children's small plastic building blocks. But I like to think that by having such a massive interest in Lego as a child, it helped me become who I am today in adult life. I am a very hands on person who is always interested in how things are made and how they work. I do moan a little at how expensive Lego is these days, but I am surprised at how the quality of current Lego products is still so high! I would much rather them keep their quality high, than cut corners or cheapen the bricks. So I understand that for this reason, the prices have to increase with today's economical climate. I am in need for an enjoyable hobby, one where I can really stretch my now dwindling adult imagination. Maybe a hobby that lets you just escape this harsh world you slowly discover as you get older. I have now chosen to buy some Lego, to rediscover some of that enjoyment and imagination I had as a kid. I also hope to interact with other Adult Fans of Lego on these forums, it's been a while since I participated in any social forums online but I know how much fun they can be and especially this one. So I hope to have a good old chat with you lovely people, Lego is an amazing system indeed and it's nice that we can all share our enjoyment of it with others here at the Eurobricks forums. Thank you
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This might sound like quite a stupid question, but I see that on this website many AFOL's do a lot of different things with their Lego. I personally display my sets and I occasionally make some brickfilms. I thought it would be interesting to find the most popular AFOL activity! If you do more than one thing with your Lego (which most of you probably do) try and pick the thing you mainly do
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http://www.hispabrickmagazine.com/en/content/english-hispabrick-magazine-018 Father Christmas is early and brings you this new issue of HispaBrick Magazine®. While we are busy preparing our HispaBrick Magazine Event 2013, we hope you will enjoy Kaneda’s bike, the new creation by the Arvo brothers the humanoid robots by FateHeart and graybandit2000 or the cars by Martins. You can also get up to date with the most important new elements of 2013. And don’t miss out on the many tutorials and reviews of sets and books. In the section Pillars of the Community we have interviewed Joe Meno, a pioneer in the world of LEGO® publications and in Great Creators of the World you will get to know Thorsten Bonchs (Xenomurphy) a little better. And if you like, you can buy or build the newsstand ICHIBAN Toys has created specially for HispaBrick Magazine The HispaBrick Magazine team wishes you a happy holiday!
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This is my first finished MOC ever since I started again with building Legos this year in September... I really wanted to get into those monthly building events and NnoVVember was perfect. When I heard of it I kind of thought about the typical shape of a viper and this image of those two wings with the engines popped into my head :) I was then researching in which color they are available and to my fortune there is one single set that was done by Lego out there with exactly those engines... I do not know why I am so fixed on orange and white right now, just loving it and will start continuing my work on my first Mecha in the same color scheme. Building my first MOC was really a challenge... and at first I wanted to keep it relatively simple because I am not able to do any complicated building techniques. I took some inspiration from around the net and experimented in LDD first. And then ordered on Bricklink and just started building. Hope you like it and would love to get your feedback on my first MOC! SE-83 Starjet Viper by Brickmasta on Flickr
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Registered a little bit ago and haven't posted much yet, but figured I'd introduce myself. I'm Heather, I'm from Cincinnati, Ohio, been a Lego fan since childhood, it was always my favorite toy and up until recently I only got them out periodically or played with them with my niece and newphews when they visit. I found the local Lego store a couple months ago and now I'm obsessed again, I think it was the Galaxy Squad sets that caught my eye. I've always been a big fan of the space/sci-fi and castle themes, but I'll build most anything if I get the urge to. Hoping to get some good ideas and maybe post some MOCs of my own here, too. Any other AFOL from Cincinnati on here?
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It seems hard to imagine a childhood without LEGO, but did anybody here become an AFOL without ever being a CFOL? I've recently bought a couple of the sets that I wanted but never got as a kid and wondered how much nostalgia has to do with keeping LEGO as an adult. There's certainly enough (modular buildings, Architecture, Creator, all the big exclusive sets) to get an adult interested even if they never had LEGO as a kid. If you weren't a fan of LEGO as a kid, what brought you here?
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Here is a a movie I made for Rebrick's "Show us an AFOL" contest. It is more of a "biopic" than I care to admit. Hope you enjoy it, and any comments, suggestions are appreciated. PS, sorry for lacking "Flick" in the title. I'm a bit rusty.
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Hello All, My name is Josh and I have been playing Legos as long as I can remember (except for a time in High School when I was too busy). I live just outside of Kansas City, in Overland Park. I have amassed quite to collection of bricks. Even with what I have built, I still have 3 large plastic totes full. I really enjoy MOCs especially fire department stuff. I went to College to be a firefighter but never joined a department because i lacked experience (evil catch 22 if you ask me). At one time i was big into a Lego Fire Group called the International Association of Lego Fire Departments, or IALFD. I think it is now defunct but i still enjoy looking back at some of the pages made by the members. There were several of them back in the day. I started a similar list, organized differently, called the Association of Lego Emergency Medical Services. Currently I have a Lego Fire Department for a fictitious city call Morse that is based off my community made of both real physical Legos and .ldr models. The old website for it is http://www.freewebs.com/mfre/ One of these days, i plan on updating that (read as "I forgot the login info")
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Hi everyone! I just wanted to share with you my latest MOC and one that has been a real passion-project for me. I'm a huge movie fan and Jaws is probably the film that I love the most. So creating a Jaws MOC is something that I've been thinking about for quite a while. The poster measures approximately 15.75" (40cm) tall, 13.5" (34cm) wide and 5.25" (13.5cm) deep. I estimate the finished model is likely to be in the 3300 – 4000 parts range. It took about eight hours to put it all together and about 20 hours to design in LDD. The water effect is achieved by pouring 1x1 round transparent clear plates in between a solid brick wall and a wall made up of Transparent-Clear panels. The gap between the back wall and the Trans-Clear plates is a single stud. The gap on the left and right is four studs wide. A view from the side where you can see how it sits inside the black 'box' A view from the other side. Dinner time? You can view the full set on Flickr at THIS link UPDATE I have made a couple of tweaks to this piece. The first was a minor change to the top of the 'W' in 'JAWS'. I had capped it off with two 2x2 red tiles but they did not go all the way to the edges, so I replaced the 2x2s with two 1x3s and this makes the 'W' look better. The second modification was more significant and is based on some feedback I received below from Clone OPatra. I was never truly happy with how the shark's nose jutted out over his top lip. To solve this, I made the shark's head one brick wider but kept the nose where it was. This leads to a smoother transition from lip to nose. Finally, whilst I had the camera out, I took the top off to allow for a 'cross-section' view, showing how the various 3D elements look when viewed from above.
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This is our entry for the ReBrick's Show Us an AFOL Competition. We totally fit the title hehe. Hope you enjoy! Ooops...mispselled the title. :P
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Sometimes the everyday life seems to be sad and grey like in this town. But not for the AFOL who lives there. Making LEGO Creations is his bright spot in his everyday life. More pictures: http://www.brickshel...ry.cgi?f=532399
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I'm "Lego King" and I'm new here. I couldn't stay away. I'm a huge AFOL (enthusiasm and body type--ha ha), helped found NMLUG (New Mexico Lego Users Group), which is growing and started in early 2012. I've mostly interacted on Facebook, in person at SANDLUG, CACTUSBRICKS, and Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53325190@N05/) Perhaps my greatest contribution to the wider Lego community is that I counted out a large pick-a-brick cup full of 1x2 tiles to see how many tiles it holds (no fancy stacking)---the answer is 1703! If someone knows where I could've found that kind of info that wouldn't have involved me counting them by hand, please tell me! So I can feel bad.
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About a year and a half ago I joined the brony community, but it wasn't until this spring when I attended a brony convention that I really discovered how amazing the brony music scene is. Previously, I had been more or less avoiding it. Music isn't quite like art or comics that you can glance at, form an opinion on, and go on to look at other things. Particularly when you're someplace where you don't want to play music and distract others around you. But after experiencing a brony concert and hearing bronies singing some of the more well-known songs, I realized this was too important and too impressive a part of the community to ignore. A few months later and I have nearly six hours of brony music on my iPhone. Moving on to my main point, this got me wondering why music isn't a bigger part of the AFOL community. I've been to Brickfair several times, and I find music is conspicuously absent from most of the event. The folks from BZPower at the BIONICLE table occasionally bring a stereo to play music, but there is never any live music or community-generated music. This year, some BZPower members who have their own band are hoping to possibly hold a concert at a BZPower picnic one evening during the convention weekend, but their music generally isn't LEGO-inspired. The best explanation I can come up with for this dearth of AFOL music is that LEGO, as a hobby, is already a form of creative expression in and of itself. When it comes to creative expression among LEGO fans, MOCs far outnumber fan art, fan fiction, fan animations (even those generally are using the LEGO products as their medium), fan comics and fan music. But even in the BIONICLE and Ninjago fan communities, which have had a wealth of other forms of creative expression (and which have had well-promoted official promotional songs), music seems to be conspicuously absent (the closest we got in the BIONICLE community tended to be fan-made music videos of the official songs). Besides, it's not like other creative hobbies don't have their own musical expression — my mom is a quilter and has at least a couple albums of quilting-inspired music. Are there any musicians here on Eurobricks who can offer some insight into why this might be? Perhaps you have other passions you prefer to write music about, or perhaps you find the LEGO building experience hard to express in music and lyrics, or perhaps you just don't think AFOLs are interested in listening to music by other AFOLs? Do you think that the kind of creativity that the LEGO hobby inspires simply doesn't overlap much with the kind of creativity it takes to write good music? Do you think there's something more that the LEGO Group could or should be doing to encourage its fans to explore their musical talent? Do you think fandom-inspired music is a silly concept to begin with? I'd like to hear some other people's thoughts! EDIT: Also, on an unrelated note, does anyone know why when I went to edit my post I found HTML bold tags in the middle of every instance of the word "expression"?
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My name is Kim, aged 32. I came out of my Dark Ages about 6 years ago when my oldest son was 6 years old. My Lego collection and building has expanded heavyly since then and I have now "Lego collection v2.0". I have a great collection (v1.0) from my childhood but prefer working with brand new bricks. I live in Bergen, Norway, married and have 4 kids aged 13 to 1 years. Besides fulltime work, family and friends I try to spend as much time with Lego as possible but its not always that easy. I prefer the CITY-theme but also buildings and other "natural" sets from licenced themes. Hope to get even more inspirated as a member of Eurobricks as well meeting new people with the same interest.
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Hi, my name is Luke, but Zaeley is fine also. I've been lurking in the pirates forum for a few years now and finally decided to join the team. Just getting around to a few bricklink orders at the moment but will hopefully be able to add to the community soon. Can be a little difficult while living with my girlfriends parents given the amount of room I don't have, but it doesn't stop me from enjoying what I love. It is really great to see such a thriving adult community for such a fantastic hobby. Will be hoping to make a new avatar once I've pieced my new lego character together. Red Coats rule! Can't wait to dive straight into the community. Regards, Zaeley
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Hey, was considering starting a local lego club and was looking for info on how others may have gone about it. If there is another place here it's discussed drop a link and I can end up in the right place. How do people usually go about it? Is there a larger organization in the US and then you become a chapter? What kinds of things do the clubs do at meetings? What kind of age rage do you shoot for if you want to keep adults? We are in a community of about 60 thousand. Would this be big enough to draw from?
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After five years in your midsts it’s time for HispaBrick Magazine 016. In addition to the usual sections like courses, tutorials and reviews, in this issue you will be able to learn more about geniuses of the LEGO world like Konajra, Schfio_factory, Yoshihito Isogawa, Nannan Zhang, ... and much more. We hope you like it and we are looking forward to hearing your opinions and ideas for future articles. You can download it here: http://www.hispabrickmagazine.com/en
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At last! A build! I've been meaning to do a few things during March, and was finally able to get around to them today. These things are: 1. Entering the FBTB Contest 2. Building a Tachikoma 3. Using Olive green I'm really happy I got to do all these things, even if they were extremely rushed since I only built them in a few hours. Enjoy!
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(UK) Southern Lego Train Club show - call for exhibitors
DavidT posted a topic in LEGO Events and User Groups
At the end of May is the 4th annual SLTC exhibition at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre in Quainton, Buckinghamshire - Sunday 26th and Bank Holiday Monday 27th, with optional setup on the Saturday afternoon. We usually have a good number of Lego train layouts and other theme displays and activities, plus exhibitor-only stuff after hours. The Centre will also have real steam trains running and other non-Lego activities going on. Lunch is provided, limited accomodation or camping is available for overnight. Our exhibition is not just about Lego trains, we've also had displays covering most of the other themes. If you are an AFoL and would like to come and exhibit with us, you would be most welcome; please contact me to arrange your display space etc. Regards, David SLTC Admin http://www.southernltc.org.uk http://www.bucksrailcentre.org -
This here is a ship I built just before my dark ages, about 5 or 6 years ago. I'm calling it the Grimm Galleon because it is a very depressing looking ship :P With it originally, the only minifigure was the Bluecoat with the Morion helmet, on a lonely 6 year voyage through the dark ages. Grim! Also, sorry for the bad image quality, I have yet to set up a proper place to take photos of things. Here's a view of the back of the boat, it seems the sail supports are slightly off :s there's 3 chests in behind the steering wheel, ready for pillaging! Here's a view into the cannons and the lower deck. Again, this ship isn't exactly a work of art, it's the last thing I made before my dark ages :p This is the Captain, who is just the Shakesperian actor from the collectible minifig series, with a peg leg and bicorne. He looks despairingly out across the blue oceans, Here's the final shot of the ship,... where it looks it's best. Pretend the Jolly Roger is a different flag, please! Anyways, I just wanted to get some pictures of this up here before I take it apart and build a different ship, probably based off the Carribean Clipper. Thanks for looking :) Please give me some constructive criticism!
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I have a bunch of 2x2 bricks from when I was a kid. I am now more of an AFOL and I am wondering if 2x2 bricks are useful at all for MOCs. If so, how would you usually use 2x2 bricks? I just bought MMV, which is more of an AFOL set, and that set uses very few 2x2 bricks, opting to use more 1x2 bricks instead.
