Our Trip to Temporary LEGO Store in Orlando, FL

We were in Downtown Disney in Orlando, Florida two weeks ago on our family vacation, so we HAD to visit the LEGO store there. The new LEGO Imagination Center hadn't opened yet (official opening would be April 19th, 2011) so we visited the temporary store, a big yellow LEGO tent!



The inside of this tent/store cast a cool yellow shade on everything in there, including us!



We purchased some fun LEGO souvenirs, including LEGO mugs...



A LEGO Easter Basket kit (with eggs...)



And a Brickley the LEGO Sea Serpent kit (which is a smaller version of the 170,000 piece Brickley in the lake near the LEGO store in Orlando!)



Now we'll just have to go back again to Orlando to see the new LEGO Imagination Center!

Bricks By the Bay 2011 is Coming!

Sam and I attended Bricks By the Bay last year, and we're very excited about attending it again this year. It will be held in Santa Clara, California on Sunday, March 27th, 2001. Here's a bit of information about it from their web site www.bricksbythebay.com

Public Exhibition

Join us for our second annual celebration of the LEGO® hobby and the brick as an artistic medium!

Join us again in 2011 for our public exhibition of LEGO models from around the country. This time we have a new hotel with a much larger ballroom, and will be working hard to ensure that we can accommodate whatever number of people come to the show.

Sunday, March 27, 2011
10am-4pm (last entry at 3pm)
Hyatt Regency Santa Clara
5101 Great America Parkway
Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA

Sam and I hope to see you all there!

LEGO Halloween Kits

We picked up three LEGO Halloween kits at the LEGO store this week. Each of them cost $1.99 (or 3 for $5). Here they are (the LEGO pumpkin, ghost, and bat:)



These were fun, quick builds, and now they're Halloween decorations in our house!

Sam's review: "They're all very quick and nice looking, although they should've made the bat's wings a little thinner."

LEGO South America

Here's Sam's LEGO version of a map of South America. He used a different color for each country, and added minifig heads to show the capital cities of each country.

My LEGO House MOC

Here are some cool photos of a LEGO house, submitted by Cody. We especially like the red sports car in the garage, the arched doorways upstairs, and the garage door that opens and closes (controlled by a worm gear). Very cool, Cody!

LEGO Club from May 6, 2010

Our theme for this week's LEGO Club was "LEGO Endor" from Star Wars. A couple of the kids weren't familiar with Star Wars, so they built their own projects instead. Here are our cool creations!

The Cute House


Ewok Tree House


Beaver Field (the beaver's name is Pat)


Battle of Endor

LEGO BrickMaster Magazine Builds and Update

We just received our May-June 2010 LEGO BrickMaster magazine, and it is chock full of cool stuff!

Builds
Here are the two builds we received with our magazine. Here is the Alligator:


And here is the frog and his lilypad:


LEGOLAND Updates
Coming this June 2010 to LEGOLAND California, is the world's first LEGOLAND Water Park! It will include a Build-a-Raft river (where everyone floats on their own custom-built LEGO raft), four-person raft slides, single-person tube slides, body slides and hands-on toddler areas.

And if you are a member of the official LEGO Club, there is a LEGO Club weekend at LEGOLAND California and LEGO DISCOVERY CENTER Chicago on August 14-15, 2010.

According to LEGO BrickMaster magazine, just bring your LEGO Club Magazine to receive a LEGO Club button, LEGO Club commemorative Brick, and more! You can challenge your family to a LEGO Games tournament, join in a LEGO Scavenger Hunt, and receive one pound of Pick-o-Brick and get a half pound free!

LEGO BrickMaster magazine also includes two free child tickets to LEGOLAND. Very cool!