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Designer Con 2014 Happening This Weekend

November 7, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

Designer Con 2014 is coming up this weekend at the Pasadena Convention Center. BrickStuds has come up with a very cool LEGO building theme called Comic Bricks! The idea behind Comic Bricks! is to take any comic book cover and build it using LEGO bricks. Members of BrickStuds, LUGOLA, SandLUG, FBTB, and BrickNerd will be collaborating to display a number of these builds. There’s a Flickr group going that already shows off some of these MOCs.

That’s not the only thing that will be happening at Designer Con. FBTB will also be hosting a speed build event and where the contestants will be building the LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes UCS The Tumbler (76023).

Tickets to Designer Con 2014 are available for purchase for only $5 per person or $10 for both days. Tickets will be $7 at the door.

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Upcoming LEGO Conventions in November

November 6, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

There are a couple of upcoming LEGO conventions this month and their representatives have emailed us to help spread the world about them. The first one is LUG Brazil EXPO 2014 which is happening this weekend.

The LUG Brazil EXPO 2014 is an exhibition of creations made with LEGO® parts, built by members of the LUG Brazil. This is the 4th edition of the event, which is free and will feature 23 stations distributed over 1,000sqm.

Location and Dates

Campus Barra Funda Faculty Impact of Technology, located at Av. Rudge, 315 – Barra Funda, Sao Paulo .

Free admission!

November 8 »12h to 19h
November 9 »12h to 18h

The other LEGO convention is Brick Nation which is happening next weekend.

Join us at “BRICK NATION” a Lego Fan event.

November 15th & 16TH

Brick Nation, a Lego Fan event for enthusiast of all ages. Brick Nation is being created to increase awareness of the fact that science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are all in play when it comes to LEGO and other construction toys. Creative arts, the sometimes forgotten form of education, can be expressed with LEGO. Families will be able to participate in unique Lego building activities and attractions.

Listed below are some of the actives that you will find at “BRICK NATION” are:

Lego charades – It is Pictionary, except you build your clues with LEGO pieces.

Rubber band race – Build a Lego rubber band powered car and race it against other contestants

Robot rumble – Two Lego remote control robots

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BrickUniverse LEGO Convention Coming in 2015

November 2, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 4 Comments

As the LEGO community grows, there are more conventions popping up in various cities. One of these new conventions is BrickUniverse 2015 which will be held at the Raleigh Convention Center in North Carolina.

What’s interesting about BrickUniverse is that it is ran by TFOL, Greyson Beights. Usually these types of conventions are ran by AFOLs but for a TFOL to run it will be a monumental task but not unobtainable. Check out the press release below for more details of BrickUniverse 2015:

We are pleased to announce BrickUniverse 2015, a convention for LEGO fans of all ages to be held at the Raleigh Convention Center in Raleigh, North Carolina.

The event will be held on March 26, 27, 28, and 29 2015 with public days being on the 28 and 29.

Show off your awesome creations

Try your luck and earn free LEGO in our drawings

Test your skills and win in our various games

Learn more about the bricks in our seminars

Hang out with fellow LEGO enthusiasts

And much much more!

Check out our builder website for more info on the four day convention and to register.

The quicker you register, the cheaper! Register before November 15th to receive preferred pricing.

Please go to: www.brickuniverse.org

And contact us at: [email protected]

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Upcoming BrickLink Changes in 2014-2015

October 17, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 1 Comment

Users of BrickLink, this piece of news is probably what you’ve been waiting for. Chief Site Architect Marvin Park has given an outline for what’s in store for the updated BrickLink until the end of 2015. They’ve been gathering information from various sources and getting feedback for improvements to BrickLink. Many of the features listed are what buyers as well as sellers have been waiting for so it’s great to see that they’ll finally being implemented.

Also, they’ve dropped the version numbering system like BrickLink 1.0, 2.0, etc. to available confusion. As a substitute, the major revisions will have an unique code name. Check out below BrickLink has in store for the next year.

November 2014 – Price Quotation

– Sellers will be able to opt-in to give price quotes for orders.
– Buyers aren’t obligated to purchase the quoted orders but quoted items won’t be held for the buyers.
– Quotation-based ordering system will comply with the German e-commerce law (a.k.a German Button solution).

January 2015 – Automated Shipping Cost Calculation

– Shipping costs can be automatically calculated when sending invoices and quotes.
– Initial release of this feature will officially support USPS (USA), Royal Mail (UK), Deutsche Post (Germany), and PostNL (Netherlands).

Q1, 2015 / TBA – Express Checkout

– Paypal payments will be integrated within the store checkout process. (Finally!). Buyers will be able to send Paypal payments directly to sellers as part of the checkout process. (Q1, 2015).
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Creations for Charity 2014 Sale Begins Today

October 15, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

Creations for Charity store opens today!

The 6th annual Creations for Charity sale starts today. If you haven’t heard about it before, it’s a fundraiser founded by Nannan Zhang and it is for LEGO builders to donate their creations to sell and raise money to purchase LEGO sets for underprivileged children.

Until the November 15th, you can donate your creations and they will be listed for sale until November 30th. Check out Creations for Charity to see the builds that have already been donated and help raise money for this very worthy cause.

Last year, the fundraiser donated over $20,000 worth of LEGO sets to children in six different cities across three countries and they hope to surpass it this year.

Merry Christmas from Creations for Charity 2013!

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San Diego – Fashion Valley October 2014 LEGO Community Window

October 9, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 1 Comment

To get in the Halloween mood, the LEGO Community Window at my LEGO Brand Store (Fashion Valley) has been updated by a couple of members from SandLUG. This month, we have Spooky Ville! which is a haunted house filled with a number of CubeDudes built by Jason which he names CubeCreatures. As you can see, the Creatures are based on monsters that you probably would see during Halloween time like Dracula, the Bride of Dracula, the Mummy, the Wolf Man, the Blob, the Frankenstein Monster, the Bride of Frankenstein, the Headless Horseman, the Swamp Thing, and many more. I’ve been informed that a couple of the characters were built by Hao as well.

The haunted house itself is created by Hao and Tommy and has some interesting details like the way they created the cemetery headstone in the shape of a cross using a TECHNIC belt wheel and modified 1×1’s with clip.

If you’re in the area and have some free time, I highly suggest swinging by the store to check out the LEGO Community Window and see it in person because the pictures really don’t do it justice.

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The LEGO Group Ends Partnership with Shell

October 9, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 1 Comment

The Guardian is reporting that The LEGO Group has ended their partnership with Shell. This comes after pressure from Greenpeace and their viral video against Arctic drilling. Before, LEGO announced that the company would live up to their long term contract with the oil company but it looks like LEGO has done a complete 180 on the deal.

The partnership between LEGO and Shell has been going on since the 1960s with the first Shell sets being released in 1966. This most likely means that there will be no more promotional Shell sets being released anymore which makes existing sets go up in value on the secondary market. LEGO CEO Jørgen Vig Knudstorp notes:

“Our stakeholders have high expectations of the way we operate. So do we. We do not agree with the tactics used by Greenpeace that may have created misunderstandings among our stakeholders about the way we operate, and we want to ensure our attention is not diverted from our commitment to delivering creative and inspiring play experiences.”

You can the full statement from Jørgen here. And with that, this post will be the last time that we will be reporting on it.

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