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Sometimes Weird Parts Just Work

I given a small bag of “lego” pieces from a colleague of my sister. It was mostly non-LEGO, but I can still use it for my kids club when/if it starts back up.

In it were a bunch on weird masks that I had to look closely at to make sure they were LEGO. They were. These weird pieces are from the heyday of weird LEGO parts and hail from the NHL hockey sets.

I played around with them and made a totem pole of sorts. Then revamped it a couple of times. Now I think I want the rest of the face masks.

I wound up using the above MOCs in the daily brick limit challenge on Instagram this past January. It was fun and the first challenge that I participated in for each day of the event.

These masks could be fun in other rock builds. Maybe challenge it as a seed part some time.

GoggleWorks Building 6

Digital renders of building six at the GoggleWorks.

I decided to play with the animation renders in Studio.

Reference photos for the project.

Psycho House MOC

Bate’s home with Mother in the upstairs window.

On display at the virtual con Brickworld Halloween.

Northeast Middle School MOC

Northeast Middle School LEGO Project

Poe Toaster and Edgar Allan Poe MOCs

Poe Toaster is the media sobriquet used to refer to an unidentified person (or probably more than one person in succession) who, for over seven decades, paid an annual tribute to American author Edgar Allan Poe by visiting the cenotaph marking his original grave in Baltimore, Maryland, in the early hours of January 19, Poe’s birthday. The shadowy figure, dressed in black with a wide-brimmed hat and white scarf, would pour himself a glass of cognac and raise a toast to Poe’s memory, then vanish into the night, leaving three roses in a distinctive arrangement and the unfinished bottle of cognac. [from Wikipedia]

The long standing Poe Toaster tradition ended in 2009 with no explanation. In 2016 the Maryland Historical Society organized a competition to pick someone to take up the mantle.

The Shining Hedge Maze MOC

Initially I was inspired by the minifigure head on the back of a LEGO City police set. It just screamed crazed Jack. I created the fig using all LEGO pieces (no custom stuff this time).

I still haven’t done the MOC I want to do with this fig. But while trying to coming up with a winter village scene for our SnailLUG display I started working on this hedge maze. I like how it came out. And it doesn’t look bad in the winter village either.

Grouchy Xmas

We Grouches prefer the holidays after they are over.

Another LEGO Holiday Habitat

These little builds are kind of addicting.

I did another build of what my plans are for the holiday.

Sitting around with my cats reading a book and watching the yule log on TV.

This may not be completely accurate as I also intend to watch Wonder Woman 1984 and The Mandalorian while building some LEGO sets.

Happy Holidays everyone.

Holiday Minifigure Habitats

Over on Instagram @BrickFamBuilds has a contest for #holidayhabitats.

Loads of people are building and sharing theirs. They are rather easy to construct but being able to contain your story to a small foot print is challenging.

You are building on an 8×8 plate which is reduced to a 7×7 area once you build the walls. (They are designed to be stacked or attached to each other. )

Here are my first two entries into the minifig habitats. Be kind these are the very first ones I have ever done.

First up we have Scrooge and the ghost of Christmas Future visiting his grave.