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Huge LUG Display at America on Wheels

SnailLUG, PennLUG, and ColonialLUG have joined forces to create one awesome display at America on Wheel in Allentown, PA. And I am proud to be a member of each of these LUGs.

I have not yet had a chance to get up to see it myself, but several of my builds are in it, specifically my Reading Pagoda that sits atop Mt Penn and my Colonial Theater in Phoenixville, PA.

The exhibit is called the World of Transportation and it is pretty darned awesome, if I must say so myself (and I do, because this is my site).

My sigfig can be spotted hanging out around the Pagoda and I believe there is geocache code in the near vicinity as well.

*Special thanks to KC for sending me pics and for taking my MOCs up to the museum.

Green Army Guys

I got a set of the classic green army men from Brick Mini during Bricks LA and have to say they are pretty darn cool.

They work on a LEGO stud or minifig hand so your sigfig can sit around and play with them.

You get eight standing (all in different poses) and three tank parts (the dude coming up out of the tank and two tank hatches, one opened and one closed).

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.

Chess Anyone?

I had seen the Brick Mini chess sets around Instagram and Facebook, but had only thought of getting them in passing.

Then at Bricks LA’s virtual con I got to see a presentation of their products and decided to bite the bullet and place my order (the attendee’s discount didn’t hurt either). I got a chess set (seen in this review), a set of the nano soldiers, and a couple meeples (I will discuss the others in another post).

For the chess pieces you can take your pick from a number of LEGO color matched options. I went with the classic black and white.

You buy each side separately. So a full set will cost $18, but doing so allows you more creative options with the color schemes. Each side is comprised of two sets of four pawns, a rook, a knight, a queen, and a king. You wind up with an extra king and queen for each side.

You have to build your own board or buy a starter board from them (the parts will be official LEGO pieces).

You will need 64 1×1 plates in two colors. 32 of each color and an 8×8 plate.

The pieces are all designed so that a minifigure can hold each one.

These are really kind of fun. Whether you want a little something for your own desk or want to add a touch of Queen’s Gambit to your city’s park, I think you’ll like these.

Available at BrickMini.com.

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.

Handmaid’s Tale MOC

Based off the LEGO Hans Christian Andersen set 40291. I had just finished reading A Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood when the official set was a gift with purchase so it was fresh in my mind.

An AFOL I was following was doing all kinds of books and got me thinking of doing one myself. Then the two merged.

The priest and handmaids are customs from Citizen Brick.