Category Archives: Caught My Eye

LEGO Games Tour coming to Raleigh

July 9, 2010 – 12:32 pm

We received our copy of the LEGO Club Magazine this week and it contained a flyer advertising the LEGO Games Tour. I noticed that Raleigh was on the list and it is coming up in a couple weeks.  The Games Tour will visit Raleigh July 16-18, 2010 and will be at Moore Square in downtown [...]

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AFOL A Blocumentary

February 21, 2010 – 8:45 am

While I dislike (despise?) the term AFOL, this video (direct link here) is very well done and worth 25-30 minutes of your time to watch. AFOL A Blocumentary from AFOL on Vimeo. What is it about the term AFOL (Adult Fan of LEGO) that I don’t like? It is hard to put it into words [...]

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Toy Fair 2010 Pictures

February 15, 2010 – 4:36 pm

A few years ago I found a link to a site called Altered States Magazine.  ASM had very good Toy Fair coverage, particularly of LEGO.  These days pictures from Toy Fair are pretty prevalent but ASM still has very good coverage. Unfortunately there are no pictures of the 2010 trains.  At least none that I [...]

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Cool background on the Emerald Night

January 21, 2010 – 3:14 pm

I am not sure how I missed then when it was posted, but I just saw the link today on Eurobricks  (which admittedly I don’t visit very often). There is some pretty cool footage in the video and some insight into the LEGO Vault. There is also an brief view of the LEGO Hobby Train [...]

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2010 LEGO Train Sets

December 24, 2009 – 11:13 am

I saw a link to this image on the WamaLUG mailing list. You can read a bit more about 2010 LEGO Trains in this article on BrickSet.  A couple of initial thoughts: It is nice to see LEGO Trains coming back and as expected, they are Power Function based. I really wish LEGO would release [...]

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