We Grouches prefer the holidays after they are over.
Grouchy Xmas
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.
Then I did the Grouch that stole Christmas.
Head over to IG and check out #holidayhabitats for more of these fun little builds and maybe make some of your own.
The Blob Theater Interior Scene MOC
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Blob Theater Run Out MOC
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.
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Shhhh No Politics Here
Personally, I try to avoid any political conflicts. Just bringing it up will either piss you off or get someone else butt hurt. So stay away from the topic altogether. Sometimes you can avoid it.
But I have to say I have been enjoying some of the political memes done in LEGO form. The latest such meme is the Four Seasons Total Landscaping press conference held by Rudy Giuliani. Such an odd locaton which makes this so much fun to pick on.
Brothers Brick just shared this meme on Instagram and has apparently offended many an AFOL.
Of course this means a lot of fighting in the comments. But the one that got me was this comment by some who apparently cannot take a joke.
The best thing is that the person that says “Politics and LEGO don’t mix” seems to like to mix them themselves. Hypocritical much.
I find it only fitting that the minifigure head used for Giuliani in this MOC is none other than Lex Luthor himself.
If you are unaware, Luthor also was elected president of the good ole USofA. He was a great president. A terrific president. One of the best.
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/
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.
