Tag Archives: LEGO

Judging LEGO at 2012 NC State Fair

Posted on October 10, 2012 by Mike Walsh

Yesterday Joe Meno and I judged the LEGO entries for the 2012 North Carolina State Fair. A few surprises this year and one story to share. Overall it seemed to me the number of entires was up this year. In … Continue reading →

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The Challenge of “Reassembling” a Set

Posted on October 2, 2012 by Mike Walsh

This past weekend I decided to “reassemble” my 4565 Freight and Crane Railway.  I am in the process of getting my LEGO together as I plan to “purge” quite a bit of it.  I have far more LEGO than I … Continue reading →

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New Train for 2013

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Mike Walsh

This past weekend LEGO unveiled the 10233 Horizon Express at the 2012 LEGO Fan Weekend in Denmark.  The train is modeled after the TGV, a famous European high speed train (which I once rode from Brussels to Paris). This is … Continue reading →

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LEGO Train Commercial circa 1991

Posted on July 1, 2012 by Mike Walsh

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX5I4nzuYgk] Saw this on the WamaLTC mailing list – pretty cool.  The first release of the 9v trains in 1991 were awesome.

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More pictures of the new Maresk train

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Mike Walsh

More pictures are appearing and a release data briefly appeared on the LEGO Shop at Home web site. There is some dialog on the Eurobricks forum that this is a European only release, I really hope that is not true! … Continue reading →

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