Great deal on 9v Train Motors

Posted on July 14, 2008 by Mike Walsh

Last week LEGO Shop at Home had an awesome deal on 9v LEGO Train Motors – $13 each.? I guess they also had track but I have plenty of that and didn’t try to buy any but I did pick up half a dozen motors to have on hand.? Looks like LEGO is unloading the last of the 9v inventory in anticipation of the Power Function trains later this year.

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LEGO Popsicles!

Posted on July 14, 2008 by Mike Walsh

Wow – it has been a while since I posted anything LEGO related.? Indicative of the fact that I am not doing much LEGO related.

I came across this today in my RSS feed for Gizmodo.? Pretty funny, I might have to get some.? We go through some popsicles in my house, particularly in the summer time.

?LEGO Popsicle Tray

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WordPress Updated

Posted on April 26, 2008 by Mike Walsh

No LEGO news but I did update this web site with the latest version of WordPress (2.5.1).? I went ahead an installed some of the plugins as well.? Most of them run behind the scenes so readers won’t see anything.

Not much new on the LEGO front.? I am not doing anything meaningful other than playing with the couple mini sets I have on my desk at work.? I am seriously considering packing my stuff up for a while and putting it away.? I had lunch with Cary Clark last week and he is in a similar situation.? No real enthusiasm to do anything new but not really interested in unloading everything either.

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NCLUG / NCLTC Christmas Tree comes down

Posted on January 7, 2008 by Mike Walsh

Last Friday I stopped by Tinsel Town to take down the last of the NCLUG/NCLTC Christmas Tree.? While it was fun to decorate the tree, it really took a lot of abuse.? Apparently some people feel that since the tree was decorated with LEGO ornaments and LEGO is a toy, it was ok for their children to play with it.? The train in particular took a lot of abuse.? Each time I stopped by to check on it, it was in some state of disassembly.

If we do a tree again next year I don’t think we’ll have the train, it is too tempting for little hands to play with and parents are unwilling to tell their children not to touch.? To be honest, I expected some level of deconstruction because of the accessabilty of the tree, but not the level it received.? Live and learn – it certainly was the best looking tree when it first went up!

Now to try and put all of the ornaments back together and get them to their respective oweners.? I have some and Carin Proctor has some.? We’ll get it straightened out at some point!

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4837 Mini Trains

Posted on December 22, 2007 by Mike Walsh

4837 Mini TrainsA few weeks ago when I was doing some digging around on 2008 Star Wars sets, I found the 4837 Mini Trains set on BrickSet.? I haven’t purchased much LEGO in the past year but I have a soft spot for these mini sets (I have posted about it before) and I buy them from time to time and keep them on my desk at work.? A train mini set?? Had to have that so with 2008 sets starting to appear at Toys-R-Us in the US, I stopped by last weekend to have a look.? Sure enough, they had two of them so I bought them both!? I sent one to my dad as part of his Christmas gift and kept the other.? It is a cool set (other then I stil think they are too expensive at $6.99) and would make a great Christmas ornament.? So far I have only build the primary model, it is sitting on my desk at work.

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