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Art of Craft Featuring Brick Artist Nathan Sawaya

January 13, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 1 Comment

Nathan Sawaya, known for his LEGO sculpture art, has partnered up with Art of Craft to bring you some products featuring Nathan’s work with some of the proceeds going to Art Revolution, a cause to help kids get art supplies and art education back into schools.

There are nine limited edition t-shirts that are available to purchase as well as his book, The Art of Nathan Sawaya. What’s also cool is that Nathan has created 12 exclusive limited edition Hugman sculptures for the cause. These sculptures will be personally signed by Nathan and shipped in 1-3 weeks.

10% of each t-shirt sold and 50% of each Hugman sold will go to Nathan’s personal charity, Art Revolution. If you want to own some of Nathan’s work and help a great cause, check out everything Art of Craft has to offer.

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Philly Brick Fest 2014 Living Social Deal

January 2, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

If you missed out on the Philly Brick Fest 2014 deal a few weeks ago on Amazon Local, there is another one going on Living Social. For $20, you get a one day entry to the convention as well as a free t-shirt.

Remember, the organizers of Philly Brick Fest also have an art contest going for you to design their program cover. The winner will get a $100 LEGO Gift Card. See all the official rules here.

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LEGO Collectible Minifigures Compendium 4th Edition Now Available

January 1, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

The LEGO Movie Collectible Minifigures (71004) are now available and Michael Bradford has updated his LEGO Collectible Minifigures Compendium to include the new minifigures. He has also included details of each of the LEGO Movie characters such as their descriptions and stats. In addition, Michael has also updated all the information from the other Collectible Minifigures series to reflect the changes since the previous version of the compendium such as the valuation and sales data. If you like to have your own copy, you can download it here for free.

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BrickLink API Now Available For Beta Testing

January 1, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 2 Comments

Eric over at BrickLink has announced that their first version of the BrickLink API is now available for beta testing. They are currently looking for some testers to help catch any bugs it may have. The beta period starts on January 6th and will end at the end of the month. After that, the API will be available for the public on February 3rd. A requirement as a beta tester, you have to know how to implement REST API in your code. Any programmers who are interested and want to help test the new BrickLink API, contact the team at [email protected].

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The Brick Fan 2013 Recap

January 1, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 9 Comments

So 2013 is now over and now time to take a look back at what took place last year on The Brick Fan. Many things happened in 2013 but the biggest thing was the amount of traffic that we got on the site. We had over 185% increase of page views from 2012 to 2013. In addition, the site had over 235% more unique visits than in 2012. Finally, we had over 185% more first time visitors than in the previous year. We look forward to improving those numbers in 2014.

We’ve also hit some traffic milestones during 2013. We hit 1 million page views in June and 2 million during December. In addition, we also hit 1.5 million page views and almost 1.3 million unique visits in a single year.

Next up is the number of “likes” on our Facebook Page. From 2012 to 2013, we had 545 new likes and are looking to gradually increase that number over the course of the year.

Over on our Google+ Page, we have over 2600 +1 on the page itself and over 200 have us in their Circles. That’s a lot considering Google+ is not as popular as Facebook but social media trends are changing as we speak and we hope to grow that community this year.

On Twitter, we had over 600 new followers and will most likely pass 3,000 sometime this year.

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Merry Christmas from The Brick Fan!

December 25, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 3 Comments

We here at The Brick Fan would like to wish all of our friends, fans, and readers a very Merry Christmas. We hope your day is filled with fun and surprises as well as many LEGO gifts! Let us know in the comments if you got any LEGO sets for Christmas.

The above MOC was created by members of SandLUG and was displayed at our local LEGO store here in San Diego.

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Philly Brick Fest Announces Program Cover Art Contest

December 24, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 4 Comments

Philly Brick Fest 2014 is coming up in a few short months and today the organizers have announced an art contest for the cover of their official event program. The winner of the contest will get $100.00 LEGO Gift Card, courtesy of Philly Brick Fest. Two finalists will be chosen and a three judge panel will cast the deciding votes for the winner. The judges will include Joshua Hanlon from Beyond the Brick, Huw Millington from Brickset, and us here at The Brick Fan. Take a look below at the official rules of the art contest:

1. Design must include the following:

Name of the event: Philly Brick Fest
Date: April 24 – 27, 2014
Venue Name: Greater Philadelphia Expo Center
Location: Oaks, PA
The theme of your design must be related to Philadelphia

2. Dimensions need to be 8.5 x 11 (or that scale)

3. Any art form is acceptable (Brick built, Photograph, Drawing, Painting,Digital Art, etc)

4. Submittal Rules:

Email all submissions to: [email protected] (one entry per person)
Submissions are due Midnight EST Saturday, February 1st
Winner will be announced Saturday, February 8th
Contest is open worldwide

All questions should be directed to: [email protected]

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