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Philly Brick Fest 2015 Glow Zone

May 7, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

The LEGO news is fairly slow the past couple of days so I’ve had some time to go over the pictures I took while at Philly Brick Fest. The first thing I’ll be featuring is the Glow Zone which was newly implemented since I last attended PBF from last year. The Glow Zone is pretty much a collection of builds that use translucent pieces contained in a curtained off area that is lit up by a blacklight to give the builds a cool effect. The main centerpiece of the Glow Zone is the Cthulhu-looking creature by Carter Baldwin.

Also check out some of the other cool builds that were displayed in the Glow Zone below.

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BrickConnection 2015 LEGO Fan Event Happening Next Week

April 30, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

If you’re near the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex area next week on May 8-9, there’s a LEGO Fan event that you can attend called Brickconnection. The event will be held at the Golden Triangle Mall at the Macy’s Wing in Denton. Tickets are $6 per adult and $4 per child.

BrickConnection will feature many MOCs by local and national LEGO artists including works by Sean and Steph Mayo. There will also be building contests with prizes as well as a community build for the public. Check out the press release below.

DFWLUG (The Dallas/Fort Worth LEGO Users’ Group) announces its BrickConnection LEGO Fan event, featuring the award-winning LEGO artists Sean and Stephanie Mayo. This event takes place in the vastly populous Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex in the Macy’s wing of the Golden Triangle Mall in Denton, Texas, USA. Public hours are Friday, May 8th, 2015 from 12pm to 8pm and Saturday, May 9 th from 10am to 9pm local time. The event features games and building contests for children and adults with over 100 prizes. MOC displays include large town and historic displays, a large train display, robotics demonstrations,and superheroes. There will also be a unique community build where we will build a large detailed LEGO
display from start to finish with community involvement where pros will teach the general public how to plan, organize, build landscape elements, and incorporate various building techniques from simple to advanced. We also have vendors selling various LEGO and LEGO-related merchandise. Admission is only $6 per adult (13 and up) and

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LEGO Friends: The Adventure Guide Exclusive Minidoll Revealed

April 24, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Brickset has revealed the exclusive minidoll that will be included in the DK LEGO Friends: The Adventure Guide that will be released in June. The book will be featuring Kate, who is a fairly new character for the Friends line, in a new outfit along with a basket and a strawberry tile as her accessories.

Join Mia, Stephanie, Emma, Andrea, and Olivia on their exciting adventures around Heartlake City and beyond in LEGO® Friends: The Adventure Guide. Learn about their pets, personalities, dreams, and passions. Discover how the girls like to spend their days: find out what it takes to look after the horses at Heartlake Stables, get fashion tips from Emma, see what goes into organizing a surprise party, and learn about the girls’ dream jobs.

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LEGO Building Instruction Generator Program for LDD

April 21, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

If you’re an avid user of the LEGO Digital Designer (LDD), you would know that the program lacks a proper building instruction feature. This is where Eurobricks member msx80 comes in. They have posted a LEGO building instruction generator program called Blueprint which takes your LXF file and generates building steps while using the LDD group definitions. There you can adjust the steps by moving them around, adding more steps, and more. After you’re satisfied with the instructions, you can generate and save the pages as image files.

Blueprint is still in beta but it works fairly well. With that being said, there are still some limitations with the program such as no undo button and some multipart pieces may not work as intended. You can read more of the limitations in the link thread above.

Requirements for using Blueprint include having Java 8 with revision 8u40 or better, Opengl 3.2 or higher, and LDD. This may sound sophisticated but if you have the latest drivers and updates for your system, you should probably already have everything that’s need to run the program. When you click the link above to download it, your anti-virus program may block it but I tested it and it works fine.

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Brick Fest Live/Philly Brick Fest 2015 Happening This Weekend

April 21, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Brick Fest Live/Philly Brick Fest 2015 is happening is weekend and for the second year in a row, I’ll be heading out there to attend the event. There will be tons of MOCs on display from various local LUGs such as PennLUG as well as a number of vendors like The Brick Show, eclipseGRAFX, and Brick Warriors just to name a few. There’s still time to get tickets if you want to attend the public days on Saturday and Sunday.

I look forward to hanging out with friends of the site from the east coast again and meeting new people. If you’re heading out there this weekend, come by and say hello. I’ll be around doing coverage throughout the whole event and be posting on our Facebook Page so make sure you like to page to get the notifications.

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Last Week for BrickMagic 2015 Early Registration

April 9, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

BrickMagic 2015 is almost here and if you want to attend the event as a registered attendee, you have one week left to register at a discounted price. After April 16, the price for registration will go up to $75. Below is the press release sent by one of the founders of BrickMagic, Joe Meno from BrickJournal. There is also more details about the Swag Bag that all registered attendees will be getting as well.

Last Week Left for BrickMagic Early Registration!

BrickMagic 2015 is coming up fast, and registration goes up to $75 on April 16th! If you want to save a few dollars, NOW is the time to register at both the hotel and the event!

If you’re still on the fence about attending BrickMagic, here’s some more reasons to come to Charlotte:

The Swag Bag

We’re still adding items for the goodie bag –

• Brick Earrings, from JT Turner
• a free LEGO compatible phone case from Smallworks
• a mini-arcade machine model from the Brick Show
• free Build-a-Figure with two accessories, from Atlanta Brick Co.
• a custom BrickMagic mini figure from Minifigs4U
• LEGO parts bag from Lost in a Vacuum Toys
• Fill a bag with LEGO parts from Classic Plastic Bricks
• Minibox of surprises from BrickLoot
• 10% and 15% discount coupons from Brickstuff for their electronics, both at the event and online.
• One Chick-Fil-A sandwich, from the Concord Mills restaurant.

This is in addition to what is already in the bag…which is a lot!

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2015 Second Quarter LEGO Store Build-A-Minifigure Bar Elements

April 4, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

While I was at the LEGO Store yesterday taking pictures of the new Pick-A-Model sets on the Pick-A-Brick wall, I also got a chance to take a look at the Build-A-Minifigure bar as well. Like with the PAB Wall, the Minifigure bar was also changed out on the first of the month with some elements that haven’t been there, at least to my knowledge. There might have been some parts I missed while I was there so I may update the images when I go to the Mini Model Building event on Tuesday.

For the torsos, I like the inclusion of the Space minifigure floating and the airport crew ones.

For the legs, I feel like I missed a couple but below are the ones I found.

There are a bunch of great accessories that are in this quarter including the pretty rare brown cat and the seagull which only came with the Sea Captain from the Series 10 Collectible Minifigures. The armor piece is also pretty rare because it only came with the Heroic Knight from Series 9. The 2×2 tile pieces are pretty neat which are from the Galaxy Squad theme. I think I’ve also seen the gray katanas for this quarter but I wasn’t able to find them.

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