Category Archives: Shopping

WITC display goes up today

December 3, 2009 – 4:22 pm

Later this afternoon I will set up the WITC display at the Raleigh LEGO Store.  I ended up not going down the route of modifying my church to fit the display.  When I sat down and looked at it, there just isn’t a good place to break the church in half.  I have stained glass [...]

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My turn in the WITC window

November 29, 2009 – 9:01 pm

It is my turn again to set up a display in the Community Window at the Crabtree Valley Mall LEGO Store.  I had the honor of doing the first community window when the store first opened and now I am lucky to have the holiday season too.  The community window is a funny size – [...]

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Unloading Some Old Sets

November 4, 2009 – 1:26 pm

From about 1998 – 2002 I accumulated a lot of LEGO sets.  I was very active in the hobby at that time and was regularly scouring Wal-Mart and Target for clearance deals.  I parted out a lot of sets, keeping what I wanted and selling the rest on BrickLink.  Over time a lot of sets [...]

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Profile of Joe Meno in N&O

March 1, 2009 – 5:39 pm

Yesterday a profile of Joe Meno ran in the News and Observer in which I was quoted.  The N&O reporter had called me Friday morning to ask some question about Joe and the LEGO hobby.  I ended up talking to him for almost half an hour.
It is a nice article which really focuses on Brick [...]

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LEGO Store at Crabtree Valley Mall

February 5, 2009 – 3:51 pm

Uh-oh.  Looks like a LEGO Store will be coming to Crabtree Valley Mall in May.  Wow!   I never thought I’d see a LEGO store in this area, it seems like such a small market compared to the other locations where LEGO has stores (Northern Virginia, Northern California, North Jersey, Chicago, LA, London, Munich, etc.).
Joe [...]

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