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LEGO Inside Tour 2015 Swag

May 8, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

For those who are lucky enough to attend the 2015 LEGO Inside Tour in Billund, Denmark, attendees were given some swag during the very exclusive event. Shown above are some of the stuff that were given away to an attendee on the first day of the tour which includes some business card LEGO minifigures, keychain, pen, badge, DUPLO brick, a LEGO Simpsons Series 2 blind bag, a LEGO Jurassic World container with a piece of amber, and a trans-blue LEGO BIONICLE Gali Mask numbered to 200. Obviously the most notable items are the last two with the amber container not in an official set and a very exclusive Gali Mask similar to the Tahu Mask given out at NYCC last year.

There’s also the LEGO Inside Tour 2015 Set (4000020) that’s given out to everyone who attends but there’s no images of the set yet. I’m sure we’ll see something in a day or two since the first tour ends today.

There are still three tours left for this year, one later this month and two in June, and I assume the attendees will be getting similar items as well.

**Via BZPower**

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Philly Brick Fest 2015 TubeLUG Showcase

May 7, 2015 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

One of the LUGs that attended this past Philly Brick Fest was not your ordinary LUG that gets together regularly physically but virtually. This group of people is called TubeLUG and it is made up of members of the YouTube community. I believe every Saturday, many members get together on a livestream on YouTube showing off their creations and what they have going on during the week.

The biggest TubeLUG build at Philly Brick Fest was easily the one by Bricks4Chris as you can see from some of the images below although it doesn’t really do it justice of how big it actually is if you saw it in person.

Below is a list of some of the TubeLUG members that attended PBF, in no particular order. If I missed anyone, let me know in the comments section.

Your Creative Friends (Brick Fest Live)
Bricks on the Dollar
The Mad Stacker/Stacks on Stacks on Stacks
Classy Bricks
Bricks4Chris
Kelyn39
Bubba Bricks
Fikinbricks
TMX Brick Notes
Cookie’s Bricks
Brick Adjuster
Brick Zapper
AGuyNHisBricks
AGirlAndHerBricks
Brick Revolution
Extreme Bricks
OBFD
Yankee Brick Picker
Beatrice Bricks
Matt’s MOCs
Master Builder Productions

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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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