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Reading Pagoda MOC

More information and images on the Reading Pagoda in LEGO can be seen over on my fb page. But below you will find build images as well as the MOC on display.

Designed to look like the Pagoda in Reading, PA. The only pagoda in the world with a chimney and working fireplace.

Most LEGO builds are built from the bottom up. This one was built from the top down. I know a little backward. But I wanted to get the roof figured out before I continued. It was all free built.

As you can see this is before I had all the red windows I needed for the build.

The Blob Run Out

Love classic B-movies and living in the area where The Blob was filmed and being a fan of the Blobfest held at the Colonial Theatre in Pheonixville, PA I just had to do a MOC.

Get even more Blob with the Blobfest Home Edition Virtual Event

And even more Blob MOCs can be found on my fb page.

Our LUG Dispay for Brickworld Halloween

Halloween 2020 would have been boring with this pandemic, but thanks to Brickworld and their virtual Halloween LEGO convention all was not lost.

SnailLUG pulled together and we were able to setup a nice monorail display for the event. Seeing and hearing from fellow AFOLs was great.

There will be another event this holiday season. Please join us. Check out Brickworld’s website for all the details. https://brickworld.com/brickworld-virtual/

Blobfest 2020: The Home Edition

For the last several years I have been attending Blobfest — a local festival celebrating the movie the Blob at the theater shown in the classic film. Each year I set up my LEGO MOCs of the Colonial Theatre featuring a minifigure run out, the Downingtown Diner and some other MOCs featuring bits from the movie including a brick built Blob.

This year due to COVID-19 they are having a stay at home edition of Blobfest. So I created a new digital MOC of the festival’s street fair using my theatre MOC and two LEGO modular sets (the brick bank and the new bookshop).

You can see the street vendors (food, collectibles, t-shirts), a car show, retro roadmaps camper, and a minifgure run out from the theatre and a smaller brick blob (can’t not have him).

Super excited that the folks at the Colonial and Blobfest liked this display enough to share it on Facebook and Instagram.

Part of the fun is that they are including us at home. Having an at home run out, costume contest, Miss Blobfest, and Blob Across America. I did a quick stop motion video with my sigfig for that.

Another Addition to the Cemetery

As a fan of Poe (as seen by some of my MOCs) I follow a few Poe related pages on Facebook. The other day The Virtual Poe Toaster shared a photo of a really cool tombstone so I had to add it to my LEGO cemetery.

This is the grave of Dr. Betts in Trenton, NJ. He must have been a Poe fan as well.

More information at WeirdNJ website https://weirdnj.com/weird-news/edgar-allan-poe-tombstone-lenore/

Find a grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10933257/truman-s_-betts?fbclid=IwAR2dmzu1uX8fLcwjGKpjlkeXpkgDM9cbIYdjQbi8vSeXqfpV8d-EEk9Vdp4

Charles Evans Cemetery

I already have a pretty large LEGO cemetery and nowhere to display it, but I am reworking it now to include monuments inspired by real cemeteries.

First up are a few from a local cemetery, the Charles Evans Cemetery in Reading, PA.

I started out with renders in Studio and I am now in the process of building them.

First images are the renders followed by the reference photos I used to create the MOCs.

Poe Toaster

The Poe memorial finally has its Poe toaster. Wish I had all the parts for him back in January in time for the actual toasting. Next year.

I will try and get him to Baltimore to toast at the actual monument this summer.