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We’ll be meeting on Sunday, January 30th from 1pm - 4:30pm at:
Bear Library
101 Governors Place
Bear, Delaware 19701
New members always welcome ...
At this meeting, we’d like to plan what the the display will look like at next
week’s Hobby Expo. Bring the models you intend to show, and we’ll work on
setting up a display.
We can also start working on scaling up the head for our charity project. If
you have 2×4 or 2×8 plates, we’ll need them! (A 1:4 scale 2×4 plate ends up
being 1 brick + 1 plate tall).
Of course, if you’ve got a kit you want to build, bring it!
Stay up to date with the 1st State LUG:
Website
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ByoB (Bring your own Bricks) to the November meeting of the 1st State LEGO®
User’s Group.
We’ll met at the DelDOT Admin building, located at:
800 S Bay Road
Dover, DE 19901
It’s right across the street from Jake’s - look for the doors near the flagpoles
that face Jake’s Hamburgers.
The front doors will be unlocked between 12:45am and 1:15pm, so make sure to be
there on time!
Bring whatever LEGO® project you’re currently working on to build. We’d also
like to discuss in more detail the community service project we talked about in
October, as well as some other opportunities from LEGO®.
For more info & to stay connected:
Website
Facebook Twitter
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Join the new LEGO® store at the Christiana Mall at their Grand Opening
Celebration weekend October 1-3!
Help a Master Model Builder construct an 8-ft tall model of R2-D2 out of LEGO®
bricks during the LEGO® Store Grand Opening weekend beginning Friday, October 1
through Sunday, October 3!
Friday, October 1: 11:00am - 7:00pm
Saturday, October 2: 10:00am - 6:00pm
Sunday, October 3: 11:00am - 6:00pm
Plus, on Saturday, be one of the first 300 customers to spend $35 in the LEGO®
Store and you’ll receive an exclusive, limited-edition LEGO® cargo plane set!
On Sunday, the first 300 customers to spend $35 in the LEGO® Store will receive
an exclusive, limited-edition LEGO® Minifigure T-Shirt! Shirts are available in
child’s sizes only.
More info at the store’s website
here.
Robert Fries
Member, 1st State LUG & BaltoLUG
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DelVaLUG, the Delaware Valley LEGO Users Group, successfully
exhibited a group layout at the comics and pop-culture expo
Wizard World Philadelphia
pop-culture expo on 15-17 June, 2007, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
Participating members were Tim Caffrey, Roy Cook, Alice Leber-Cook, and Phillip
Thorne, plus new members and first-time exhibitors Arthur Stromberg and Amy.
Set up in a 10x10-foot parcel near the front of the show (amidst the major
corporate exhibitors), the layout was 6 Fleske-modules in size, in a “J” shape,
and featured one train loop, two trains, seven buildings, numerous vehicles, and
a plethora of minifigs; including:
- The Hall of Justice
- Four Freedoms Plaza
- Café Corner
- A dark variant of Café Corner
- Interpretations of robot-mode Bumblebee, Megatron, and Optimus Prime
- Vehicle-mode Bumblebee and Ironhide (from the new movie)
- The three-segment Fantasticar (from the new movie)
- Official minifigs from Batman, Harry Potter, and Spider-Man
- Custom minifigs from the Fantastic Four, Justice League, Spider-Man III, and X-Men
An article
about the show, with one photo of the exhibit, appeared in the Monday 18 June
2007 issue of the Philadelphia Inquirer. About 80 people added themselves to
the club’s email announcement list (for post-show photos and upcoming-show
announcements), including several likely prospects for new members. The exhibit
cross-promoted Philcon 2007, which is likely to be our next
major activity.
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DelVaLUG, the Delaware Valley LEGO Users Group, will be exhibiting at the
Wizard World
Philadelphia pop-culture expo on 15-17 June, 2007. The event is held at the
Pennsylvania Convention Center.
Featured elements of the display will be custom models tied to three of this
summer’s action movies: “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer,” “Spider-Man
3,” and “The Transformers.”
Behind the scenes: This is an event that DelVaLUG members first proposed before
the 2006 show, but we finally approached Wizard Entertainment this April. You
have to be diplomatic when cold-calling, and cite the right advantages; but they
were very happy to have us. After all, the company isn’t just comic books -- it
does publish the magazines ToyFare and ToyWishes, so a toy-based display
that can adapt itself to the show’s themes is definitely appropriate.
We’ll be using this event for AFOL promotion and club recruitment; the product
literature distributed at BrickFest will be used. Since I’m deeply involved
with the Philcon SF convention, I’ll also be promoting
that. It’s not a big segue; a matter of “Oh, and we’ll be appearing later
this year at Philcon -- different theme, much more convivial, and you get to
build with the parts.”
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