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Now here’s the tricky bit, before I can finish setting up a store in iPaB, I
need to know the dimensions of the PaB wall. Does anyone know how big the
PaB walls are for the Chicago area stores? Once I know how big a store’s
wall is (in terms of rows & columns), I can go ahead and un-hide the store.
Thanks,
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I’ll make sure to gather that info when I’m there. I’ll be going to the store
in the Northbrook Mall, the Woodfield store in Schaumburg and possibly the new
Discovery Center close to the Woodfield Mall.
David
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http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/couriernews/lifestyles/1081876,3_5_EL31_LEGOS_S1.article
Block party
Legoland Discovery Center in Schaumburg is first in the US
July 31, 2008
By MIKE DANAHEY Staff Writer
Had Led Zeppelin recorded a song called Whole Lotta Legos instead of Whole Lotta
Love, it would be on Dan Morey's iPod.
Morey, a carpenter by trade and graduate of Nequa Valley High School in
Naperville, is a master builder at the new LEGOLAND Discovery Centre on the
Streets of Woodfield in Schaumburg. He will be busy showing children what they
can create with the plastic blocks.
Morey also will build his own objects of art.
"With it (almost) being football season, I'd like to make a model of Soldier
Field," he said. "I figure it would take about three to four months working by
myself."
The Soldier Field replica would fit nicely in the "Miniland" cityscape of
Chicago, an impressive display of downtown architecture.
Morey's first creation -- a jumbo Chicago-style hot dog (mustard, no ketchup)
made from more than 700 LEGO pieces -- greets guests entering the
30,000-square-foot fun town. To get to the hot dog, guests must pass through a
giant Lego giraffe standing over the doorway of the first indoor amusement park
of its kind in the United States.
It's a LEGO lovers dream.
There is a Hall of Fame with LEGO models of Batman, Darth Vader and characters
from the Harry Potter saga; the Dragon Ride through a castle replete with LEGO
bats, knights, damsels, a chef in shackles and a fire-breathing dragon; a Jungle
Expedition of LEGO animals; and a faux factory where guests learn how LEGOs are
made.
There even is an old man made of LEGOs sleeping on a park bench, a Lego bust of
Albert Einstein and a store selling LEGOs to take home.
The center will change exhibits every three to four months, said attraction
manager Mike Pastor of Joliet, who also said there will be special events for
certain holidays.
Pastor said LEGOLAND also is working to partner with another attraction, the
joust-and-dine Medieval Times, and will offer educational outings for schools.
LEGOLAND has a movie room, too, currently showing Spellbreaker, a 4-D flick
about a medieval blacksmith who, with the aid of his lady, a jester and a
friendly young dragon, saves his land from a band of marshmallow-headed ghost
skeletons. The fourth dimension includes simulated wind, rain, snow and more.
On the center's second floor is the Build and Test area, where children can play
with LEGOs on a speed ramp, on an earthquake table or wherever their
imaginations take them.
It all went over well with Schaumburg's Campanelli YMCA campers, who visited
Friday in advance of today's grand opening.
"I liked the race cars and Batman," said Logan Caro, 6, of Hoffman Estates.
The race cars, Batman and the LEGO version of Chicago topped the list of fellow
campers Rohan Pathak, 9, of Schaumburg, Ajai Rajeev, 9, of Streamwood, Nikolas
Pohlschmidt, 8, of Hoffman Estates, Harshita Kumbham, 8, of Schaumburg, and
Julie Pallas, 8, of Elk Grove Village.
The two "Golden Brick" winners who received a free tour were Claire Strother, 8,
and Garrett Strother, 10, who both enjoyed the jungle area.
"I liked the Indiana Jones," said Garrett.
"And I liked all the animals," said Claire.
Taking it all in, wearing a big smile and a bright red golf shirt, was Joseph
Tiesch of Frankfort, who works at the center as an entertainer.
"I've always been a big LEGO fan," said Tiesch, who studied broadcasting in
college. "When I saw a pamphlet that they were hiring, I applied right away.
What I like about the job is it's great to see kids having such a good time, to
see that they liked LEGOs as much as I did when I was a kid."
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As many others have said already on LUGNET, BrickWorld was a fantastic event!
All of us coordinators were blown away by the attendance at this very first year
for BrickWorld. Here are some event highlights that I really enjoyed:
•
Watching a new motorized Monster Dino smash
its way down 12 feet of town layout and then push a
Knight Bus off the table at the end
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Drinking enough root beer at the Ram to give a horse diabetes
• The look on my
face when Steve Witt gave out the gold C-3PO’s (or so Jeramy tells me)
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Watching Jan Beyer and Steve Hassenplug line up the engraved BrickWorld minifigs
in a row and knock them over like dominos
• Seeing the white stress marks on
John Neal’s Pick-A-Brick tubs and feeling that they weighed about 15 pounds
each
• Seeing the displays on the news (all 20 seconds of it) ; )
• Realizing
Monday morning that I had forgotten to lock my car on Sunday night after I
packed everything in it, and finding that it hadn’t been touched
• Finding that
the Woodfield store had just gotten Market
Street sets back in on Monday morning before I got there
See everyone in
2008!
David
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Using the PicToBrick
program, I have made a 48X48 studs-out mosaic of the Chicago Bears NFL logo.
Once I had downloaded PicToBrick (and enough auxilliary components to get it to
run), I had a lot of fun running random pictures through to see what kind of
mosaic the program would generate. I thought that I would find some small
square image with not too many colors and run it through PicToBrick so that I
could actually build a mosaic instead of just staring at instructions for them
on a computer screen. For starters I wanted to do one that would fit onto a
48X48 baseplate.
Being a Bears fan and knowing that I’d be going up to
BrickWorld in Chicago in June, I thought
that a mosaic of the Bears logo would be perfect. Another plus for the Bears
logo choice is that it fits nicely into a square perimiter. I found a Bears
logo image and brightened it a little.
Orange and white are easy enough to come by, but enough dark blue for a 48X48
version of the Bears logo would be pretty expensive. Since the logo’s blue is
such a dark blue, I opted to use black instead. PicToBrick generated this
instruction image:
Now that I had full instructions for a creation that was only 1 layer of bricks
and only 3 colors, it wasn’t long before I had the completed mosaic:
I almost feel like a fraud by claiming to have built this “MOC” when I really
only followed instructions similar to how you’d build an official LEGO set. But
anyway, here it is.
Enjoy!
David “Fuzzy” Gregory
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This is a friendly reminder that Chicago House of Bricks is rapidly approaching.
Come join us May 12-14 in Downer’s Grove, Illinois! Please be sure to register
soon if you plan to attend.
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Chicago House of Bricks will once again be held in conjunction with To Be
Continued! A fine cut of LEGO will be served with savory science-fiction,
buttered fantasy, and field-fresh gaming. But the ‘piece de resistance’ will
be the fun camaraderie had by all. Come join us May 12-14 in Downer’s Grove,
Illinois!
2BeCONtinued brings together fans from all domains. Last years attendees
mingled with celebrities, comedians, pirates, artists, and more. This year
looks to be just as exciting. Though HoB is held in conjunction with a science
fiction convention, all themes are invited to attend (the train layout was a
crowd favorite last year).
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I’m very happy to announce that registration for Chicago House of Bricks at To
Be CONtinued 5: Legends is now online. Prices and information for registration
can be accessed here.
Registration is not exclusive to House of Bricks and will allow attendees access
to all areas of the convention. To Be CONtinued 5: Legends is being held at the
Doubletree Guest Suites and Conference Center in Downers Grove, which can be
seen here.
For Dealer information, please click on the Dealers link on the sidebar.
What’s really neat is that the Guest of Honor of this convention is
Weta Workshop, the effects facility that was
responsible for the visual effects to all of the Lord of the Rings movies and
King Kong.
Currently, plans are for a Great Ball Contraption and sci-fi models. Attendees
are encouraged to bring models that tie into the movies mentioned above, as
there is a nice SPACE to fill!
If you have questions or comments, please post them to
lugnet.events.houseofbricks, as others may have similar questions. Questions can
also be sent to HoB@2BeCONtinued.com which will forward to me as well as other
members of the ToBeCONtinued staff. Please refer to the following list of event
coordinators for any specific question.
Joe Meno
Chicago House of Bricks Coordinator
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Hi, everybody!
For the past 3 months, I’ve been working with folks from Gortons Seafood on a sculpture of the Gortons’ Fisherman (as seen in
their logo.)
Alone, he’s not such a big model -- but I was asked to build EIGHT of them!
See photos on my MOCpages site
Six of the models will be touring the U.S. over the next month, in conjunction
with their new “Build dinner around Gorton’s” campaign. They will be visiting
about 100 supermarkets across six metro areas: Los Angeles, Chicago,
Indianapolis, San Antonio, Harrisburg, and Charlotte. (There’s a
full schedule on my web site.)
The remaining two models will go on permanent display in Gorton’s headquarters
and their marketing firm’s headquarters.
I hope folks get a chance to get out and see the model sometime over the next
few weeks! Unfortunately, I don’t live near any of those cities, so I won’t be
able to see any of the finished models “on site”... If anyone happens to snap a
photo of it while they’re there, I’d love if you could e-mail me a copy!
Each model is 2 feet tall from the waist to the head, and contains about 6,000
LEGO elements. It’s a straightforward “sculpture”, using almost entirely
studs-up construction and just basic LEGO bricks and plates. (I had to giggle,
actually, that one of few places that I actually used some SNOT was... on his
nose.) :)
As some of you know, I just moved back to New York City, after spending a few
years in Texas. What fun it was to move 2000 miles in the middle of a giant
commission! I’ve been working out of boxes and in a very temporary
makeshift-workshop for the latter half of this project... I’m looking forward
to finally being able to set my space back up! :)
Oh, and oddly enough: midway through this project, I was coincidentally
commissioned to build Nemo and Marlin
from Disney’s “Finding Nemo”. What are the chances I would be asked to build a
fish & a fisherman at the same time? :)
I’ll part with a “fun-fact”... If you stacked the LEGO bricks from all 8
Gortons’ Fishermen one on top of another, they’d go higher than the Empire State
Building! :)
Sean
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Sean Kenney
LEGO Certified Professional
http://www.seankenney.com/lego
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Meeting Report
MichLUG members got together for a meeting on Saturday, July 23rd.
Meeting Report
Chicago House of Bricks Report
House of Bricks was a blast! Three days of LEGO filled goodness. Unfortunately
things got really busy for me (and
other club members) after the con, so I didn’t get a chance to write this up
till now.
Event Wrap-Up
Jason Spears
Michigan LEGO Users Group
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In cooperation with LEGO®, Wonderworks, and the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation
Trust, members of CLB and NILTC volunteered to help ‘LEGO day’-- a family
building event held in Oak Park, Illinois. A great time was had by everyone.
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In lugnet.loc.us.ca.la, James Trobaugh wrote:
> You can find pictures of most of the store fronts on the LEGO.com site using
> the store locator. Of course these pictures are property of LEGO.com but if
> you asked nicely they might let you use them for your site....never hurts to
> ask.
(Breezes through Lego's pictures http://www.lego.com/legostores/Default.asp?x=x)
Huh, what's the deal with Illinois? They've got "Woodfield, IL" and "Schaumburg,
IL" as two different stores, despite the fact that they point to the same store!
(Woodfield looks like it immediately bounces you to the Schaumburg page).
Interestingly, it doesn't look like they've updated the store locator with the
new stores yet (have they added any other new ones?). I notice that MA's new
Natick store isn't represented-- I think it's been around for... uh... almost a
month and a half now?
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Mark,
You can find pictures of most of the store fronts on the LEGO.com site using the
store locator. Of course these pictures are property of LEGO.com but if you
asked nicely they might let you use them for your site....never hurts to ask.
jt
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Hello everybody!
While I was checking out the newest Lego store in Ontario, CA (ok, getting
the opening bricks would be a better term) I thought it would be nice to try
to get a basic picture of the front of each Lego store that has issued a
store-opening brick to link to on the Lego Store page of my site. Sadly, I can not travel the world to snap
pictures of each storefront so I am calling out for help.
This is what I am looking for:
http://www.promobricks.com/img/ontariomillslegostore.jpg
Nothing fancy, just something that shows off the front of the store in an
image that can be about that size. Of course - full photo credit would go to
you (that pic only has my URL on it because I took the picture).
If you can help me out you can send me mail at my email listed in the header
of this post, or on the header of any page on the
site. If you do email me please name the email “Lego Store Picture” or
something along these lines so I will not miss it. Another option is to reply
to this post (of course please set the follow up to reflect the location of
the store)
Thank you for any and all help!
Mark P
PromoBricks.com
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In lugnet.loc.us.ca.la, Mark Papenfuss wrote:
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While I was checking out the newest Lego store in Ontario, CA (ok, getting
the opening bricks would be a better term) I thought it would be nice to try
to get a basic picture of the front of each Lego store that has issued a
store-opening brick to link to on the Lego Store page of my site. Sadly, I can not travel the world to snap
pictures of each storefront so I am calling out for help.
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It is probably worth mentioning that some malls do not allow pictures to be
taken inside the mall, and even if some malls do allow them, individual stores
can still say no. I know this from experience.
Russell
BayLUG/BayLTC
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Hello everybody!
While I was checking out the newest Lego store in Ontario, CA (ok, getting the
opening bricks would be a better term) I thought it would be nice to try to get
a basic picture of the front of each Lego store that has issued a store-opening
brick to link to on the Lego Store page
of my site. Sadly, I can not travel the world to snap pictures of each
storefront so I am calling out for help.
This is what I am looking for:
http://www.promobricks.com/img/ontariomillslegostore.jpg
Nothing fancy, just something that shows off the front of the store in an image
that can be about that size. Of course - full photo credit would go to you (that
pic only has my URL on it because I took the picture).
If you can help me out you can send me mail at my email listed in the header of
this post, or on the header of any page on the
site. If you do email me please name the email “Lego Store Picture” or
something along these lines so I will not miss it. Another option is to reply to
this post (of course please set the follow up to reflect the location of the
store)
Thank you for any and all help!
Mark P
PromoBricks.com
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I’m pleased to announce that we will be giving away awards (and prizes!) in
the following categories for the castle room.
Best Vignette
Best Small Detail
Best Medieval House
Best of Show - Castle
A team of judges will examine all the creations on Sunday morning.
I look forward to seeing you all there and I know we are going to have a blast.
--
Jason Spears
Chicago House of Bricks 2005
Castle Coordinator
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It’s the Great Ball Contraption - LIVE!
You are invited to build modules, or just watch the action, live & in person. We
will be constructing a Great Ball Contraption
<http://www.teamhassenplug.org/GBC/> at the House of Bricks
<http://2becontinued.com/hob/> event at the Chicago Marriott, Schaumburg, on May
6-8. But we need your help - the more modules the better! In order to make this
as smooth as possible, we wanted to put out a formal call for modules. Please
send us an email detailing the information listed below for your module(s) so we
can smoothly assemble the full Contraption for this event. Then just show up at
the event with your creations, and let the good balls roll!
GBC roll call:
1) Module name & builder
2) Size: width & depth (preferably in studs), & height
3) Lift mechanism(s) & output type (continuous or batch output)
4) Preferred input: Continuous? Batch? No preference?
5) Peak throughput: in balls per second, or “bps” (aim for at least 1 bps)
6) Power source: Battery box? RCX? Pneumatic? Other? Do you need access to a
powerstrip?
7) Description: feel free to include what the module does, as well as any
special abilities or features, or anything else you want to draw attention
towards.
Please feel free to post this information to the forums of your choice, but also
email a copy to <brdavis@iusb.edu> so we can plan for the grand assembly at
House of Bricks. For any questions about the GBC or the module standard, please
take a look at Steve Hassenplug's page listed above.
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Hello,
I am working with the events coordinator of Capricon 26 (Chicago, IL)
http://www.capricon.org/ to plan a robotic challenge event for the February 2006
convention. He has also asjked if I could help find a few people interested in
providing a LEGO Robotics panel. The robotics competition would be something
more along the lines of the Robotica show which once aired on TLC. It would test
the overall capabilities of the robots more than the simple head-to-head style
competition of their annual critter crunch. Although the top two competitors
would face off in a final fight... We are looking at both remote controlled and
autonomous classes.
If you are interested, feel free to email me at white_volg@yahoo.com
The more contestants we can get the better!
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In lugnet.events, Joe Strout wrote:
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Sounds neat! But please include lugnet.org.us.clb (Chicago Lego Builders) in
announcements about it -- seems like that’s the most directly relevant group.
I almost missed it, but just happened to see it on the home page before it
was cycled out.
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Good idea. I’ve also included .loc.us.il.chi as a regional area and kept .events
in there because it is indeed an event.
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Will it be possible to attend HoB without registering for the whole
convention (which isn’t as interesting to me, as, say, models of subways and
donut shops)?
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2BeCONtinued4 is comparable to other brick
conventions.
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Still, if this is the only way we could get such a big LEGO event in Chicago,
then I’m happy to support it. Thanks for setting it up and letting us know
about it!
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It may not be the only way, but it does give us a good start. Let’s see how this
year goes and then move forward from there.
Jason Spears
Chicago House of Bricks
Castle Coordinator
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What?
It’s just a meeting, an informal gathering of other lego
builders/fans/collectors in the Chicago area. People will likely bring creations
to share. Past meetings have had lots of lego related conversation, ranging from
online buying experiences, to sharing of building techniques, to how to tell
your boss that you dig lego bricks. Also one person expressed interest in
playing the X-Pod
game.
When?
The meeting will be on Saturday, December 18th, 2004 from Noon till approx 4 or
5pm.
Where?
Beth Weis’ house in Deerfield, IL. Email Tim Courtney or me for the
address.
--
Jason Spears
Chicago Lego Builders
http://www.chicago-builders.org/
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