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Philly Brick Fest 2015 LEGO Fan Festival Announcement

November 21, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

I am happy to announce that Philly Brick Fest 2015 will be returning to the Philadelphia Expo Center April 23 – 26, 2015.

As many of you know may or may not know, Philly Brick Fest was the first LEGO convention I ever attended and it was worth the trip. I hope to attend again this year to cover the event, so stay tuned for updates on my travel plans.

LEGO conventions like Philly Brick Fest give FOLs – Fans of LEGO an opportunity to come together as a community under one roof. Convention activities include playing fun LEGO games, learning new building techniques from other builders, and of course seeing the amazing creations.

Some of my favorite games during the private days from last years event included the Minifigure Identification Game, and Bowling for Bricks which was a relay race where we built a LEGO set and played a game of bowling at the same time. There were also seminars from Alice Finch, Kevin Hinkle from the LEGO CEE Team, and Clutch (Chris Byrne) gave a talk about running one of the largest US-based Bricklink stores, Bricks On The Dollar.

Then came the MOCs and collaborative LUG layouts. PennLUG, SteelCityLUG, ColonialLUG, and DelVaLUG each had their own layouts. PennLUG touted the largest train layout in their club’s history and other layouts included a Moonbase, Explorian Fleet, and more. In addition to the collaborative displays, there were also loads of stand-alone creations. Here is the link to my Flickr stream from last years event.

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Toys R Us Ultimate Wish Saturdays LEGO Building Event This Weekend

November 20, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Continuing with their Ultimate Wish Saturdays at your local Toys R Us stores, they will be hosting another LEGO building event. This Saturday, November 22 from 12pm-4pm, head to your store and your child can build a winter city scene.

Again, these free building events are intended for children ages 3 and up and they usually get pretty packed so get there early if you want to attend. There’s no images of what the winter city scene will look like at this time so you’ll have to go there and check it out. Thanks to everyone who emailed in about it.

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Adult LEGO Users Survey and Sweepstakes

November 19, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

LEGO is doing an Adult LEGO Users Survey and they are collecting information about the behavior of AFOLs who use LEGO products.

The survey asks you typical questions such as how likely are you to recommend LEGO products to others and reasons on why. It also asks if you have been in the “Dark Ages” and why you decided to become an AFOL.

It’s a pretty interesting survey and after you finish, you have an opportunity to enter their sweepstakes to win some LEGO products so there is an incentive to doing it. The survey takes about 5 minutes to complete and ends on December 17, 2014.

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Designer Con 2014 Happening This Weekend

November 7, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

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

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

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

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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