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The LEGO® Brick Factor: If You Build It, They Will Come
GRAPEVINE, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OPEN auditions for a position as Master
Model Builder at the new LEGOLAND Discovery Center Dallas/Fort Worth will be
held on Saturday, January 22, 2011, from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m., at the AT&T Plaza
at American Airlines Center in Dallas, and on Sunday, January 23, 2011, from
noon to 2 p.m., at Grapevine Mills Mall. The indoor attraction, where the new
Master Model Builder will demonstrate his skills in full force, is slated to
open in late March 2011 at Grapevine Mills Mall in Grapevine, Texas. Advance
tickets are currently available through the attraction’s website at
Legolanddiscoverycenter.com.
This unique audition aims to find a potential model builder who is skilled
enough to be responsible for developing new features, exhibitions and building
new models, as well as working with the thousands of children expected to visit
the attraction. Candidates interested in auditioning must register in advance by
visiting the Dallas/Fort Worth section of the attraction’s website at
Legolanddiscoverycenter.com and filling
out the online application. Applicants must be 18 years or older. For more
information, candidates can also call 972-539-9386.
“The master model builder is a unique job and it is one that will be ideal for
someone with a great sense of imagination for LEGO bricks,” said Iain Scouller,
general manager for LEGOLAND Discovery Center Dallas/Fort Worth. “We are holding
open auditions to find the most talented and enthusiastic model builders and we
anticipate the activity will draw a wide variety of LEGO fanatics not only from
North Texas, but throughout the region. We are excited about meeting the
candidates and feel this approach is the best way to find the perfect one for
the job.”
Faced with millions of LEGO bricks when they arrive, job seekers will be
required to show how skilled they are at building LEGO models by undergoing a
series of creative LEGO challenges. A special panel of judges, which includes
adults and children, will evaluate each candidate’s performance. At the end of
the first day of auditions, 10 successful builders will be chosen to move on to
the final stage of the competition, which will be held at Grapevine Mills Mall
on Sunday. At the conclusion of the final audition, one candidate will be named
the winner of the competition and will be awarded the title of Master Model
Builder, a full time position at the LEGOLAND Discovery Center Dallas/Fort
Worth.
Efforts for the new Master Model Builder competition are being made possible due
to the tremendous support of the LEGOLAND Discover Center Dallas/Fort Worth’s
partners, including American Airlines Center, Grapevine Mills Mall, Souper Bowl
of Caring, North Texas Food Bank, Tarrant Area Food Bank and the Harlem
Globetrotters.
“Whether it’s through special appearances of celebrity guests, on-site giveaways
or other awareness activities, our partners are helping us to not only create an
exciting atmosphere for all of our guests – entrants or observers – but also
leave them with a one-of-a-kind and memorable experience their entire family can
enjoy. This experience is definitely a precursor to what they can expect to see
when the attraction opens in late March,” added Scouller.
Described as stepping into the biggest box of LEGO bricks in the world, the $12
million, 35,000-square-foot LEGOLAND Discovery Center Dallas/Fort Worth will
feature a unique MINILAND – a recreation out of LEGO bricks of landmark
buildings in D/FW - as its key attraction, which the successful model builder
will be responsible for helping to create and maintain. With over two million
bricks under one roof, this exciting indoor attraction also will offer its
visitors a fun, highly interactive and educational two-to-three hour experience
that is made up of a series of interactive features, including hands-on play
areas, a 4D cinema, LEGO rides, special party rooms for birthdays and other
celebrations.
About Merlin Entertainments Group
Merlin Entertainments Group is the leading name in location based, family
entertainment, which has seen the most successful and dynamic growth of any
company in the sector over the last five years. Europe’s number one, and the
world’s second largest visitor attraction operator, Merlin has 62 attractions
and six hotels in 12 countries, across three continents. The company aims to
deliver memorable and rewarding experiences to its 38.5 million visitors
worldwide, through its iconic global and local brands, and the commitment and
passion of its managers and more than 14,000 employees. Merlin Entertainments
operates the following attractions - SEA LIFE - the world’s No 1 aquarium brand,
Madame Tussauds, LEGOLAND, The Merlin Entertainments London Eye, Dungeons,
Gardaland, LEGOLAND Discovery Centres, Alton Towers Resort, Warwick Castle,
THORPE PARK, Chessington World of Adventures, Heide Park, Underwater Adventures,
and Earth Explorer. Visit Merlinentertainments.biz for more information.
Businesswire.com
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A TEXLUG Austin Meeting
(Texas Lego Users Group)
Where: Anna’s Toy Depot
2620 S Lamar Blvd # B
Austin, TX 78704-5170
(512) 447-8697
When: Saturday March 6, 2010
3:30-5:00pm
Bring a MOC! There will be a contest with prizes!
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A TEXLUG Austin Meeting
Where: Anna’s Toy Depot
2620 S Lamar Blvd #B
Austin, TX 78704-5170
(512) 447-8697
When: Saturday November 7, 2009
4pm with dinner excursion afterwards
You are encouraged to bring a small MOC!
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TexLUG was invited to participate at Maker Faire 2008 in Austin, Texas this past
weekend. We’re not the first LUG to display at Maker Faire, but this was our
first time, and we walked away with not one but two “Editor’s Choice” awards for
our display/booth.
We were given a huge area to work with, which we filled with two displays - a
Space/Moonbase and a Town/Train (with tall ships). We also had two areas for
kids to come and build, one filled with Duplo, the other with regular System.
My pictures can be found here:
Gallery
We had a lot of fun and we hope that we’ll be invited back next year.
--Tony
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On Saturday, April 19th, I’m having a book signing at a Barnes & Noble in
Austin, Texas for my book The Unofficial LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Inventor’s Guide
(No Starch Press, 2007). The signing will begin at 2PM, and I’ll be bringing two
robots with me to the event: Tag-Bot (shown on front cover of book) and also
“Spike” from the NXT set.
Following is the address of the Barnes & Noble where the book signing will be
held:
Sunset Valley Village
5601 Brodie Lane Suite 300
Austin, TX 78745
Hope to see you there!
Thanks,
David J. Perdue
Inventor’s Guide companion website: http://www.nxtguide.davidjperdue.com/
Inventor’s Guide companion blog: http://www.nxtblog.davidjperdue.com/
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Flickr
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For a third year, TexLUG was invited to display at the Healthy Baby and Child
Expo in San Antonio on March 8th and 9th, 2008. While only two TexLUG members
were able to attend, the layout was nevertheless a success. The theme this year
was “Around the World in 80 days”, featuring well known landmarks and monuments
from around the globe, along with a few LEGO sets and MOCs.
--Tony
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I’m having a book signing this month for my new book The Unofficial LEGO
MINDSTORMS NXT Inventor’s Guide (No Starch Press), and I decided to officially
announce the book here on LUGNET and invite everyone who lives in the Round
Rock, Texas area to stop by the signing (details below).
First, The Unofficial LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Inventor’s Guide is a general guide
to the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT set (retail version). In a nutshell, the book teaches
you how to effectively create NXT robots. It examines all the pieces in the NXT
set and discusses building techniques; covers the NXT-G programming language and
introduces some text-based languages; and provides six projects with building,
programming, and testing instructions. There are also three appendixes,
including an NXT Piece Library and an NXT-G Quick Reference. At the book’s
companion website, you can read a complete description, the table of contents,
and sample pages. In addition, you’ll find pictures of all the book’s projects
(robots), the source code (NXT-G), and more. Furthermore, I’ve started a
companion blog, and I also have several videos of the robots on YouTube. Here
are the links:
The book signing is scheduled for January 12th, 2008 at 2PM, and I’ll be
bringing two robots from the book with me (probably Tag-Bot and Guard-Bot).
Following is the address of the Barnes & Noble location where the book signing
will be held:
La Frontera Village
2701 Parker Road Bldg A Suite 700
Round Rock, TX 78681
See you there! :)
David J. Perdue
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It was really nice having Tony visit our show and share his steam MOCs with
us and the public at the show. I will be posting a review of the show within
a day or two...
Kirk H
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Here is the promised review.
The show was sponsored by the Texas & Pacific Historical Society in Marshall to
raise money for the T&P museum and the old historic depot. The Marshall Civic
Center housed the show. In addition to the NETLTC, there were 2 HO layouts, 1 N
scale, and 1 Lionel layout. We were debuting our modular tables and we only had
6 full sized and 2 skinny tables finished - so we displayed a much smaller
layout than at previous shows (10 x 15ish). Our smallness was a benefit because
the show organizers miscalculated the meeting space and didn’t have room for us
if we had been full sized.
The show was lightly attended with the strongest crowd numbers showing up Sunday
afternoon. There had been some media coverage on Saturday. I was interviewed
for a local radio station. As usual, the Lego trains are a real crowd pleaser
and we get the usual - ‘didn’t know Lego made trains’, etc...
We have done shows in Tyler, Tx and now in Marshall, TX - all of these shows
have been for rail historical societies. One of my personal Lego train goals is
to model the fallen flags from East Texas. So the Cotton Belt folks in Tyler
(birthplace of the St Louis and Southwestern - aka Cotton Belt) really like my
Cotton Belt engines and the T&P folks (birthplace in Marshall) really like my
T&P engines in ‘Swamp Holly Orange’. Well - Lego orange is close enough! So we
have won some friends.
Our future plans are to build more tables and improve the layout and add more
engines and rolling stock in road colors from East Texas...
for pictures visit the NETLTC website:
NETLTC
also see tony’s pictures - links below...
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I took some pictures of my time there, plus some video. I’ll link to the
video once I can figure out how to get it out of the camcorder and online.
Full
Gallery
-Tony
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In lugnet.events, Anthony Sava wrote:
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I just recently found out about the existence of the North Eastern Texas LEGO
Train Club (NETLTC), and even more recently discovered that they were going
to be attending the train show in Marshall, Texas. I was only able to attend
one day but the members of NETLTC were kind enough to let me run my trains on
their layout, plus they made me an official member :)
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It was really nice having Tony visit our show and share his steam MOCs with us
and the public at the show. I will be posting a review of the show within a day
or two...
Kirk H
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I took some pictures of my time there, plus some video. I’ll link to the
video once I can figure out how to get it out of the camcorder and online.
Full
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-Tony
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I just recently found out about the existence of the North Eastern Texas LEGO
Train Club (NETLTC), and even more recently discovered that they were going to
be attending the train show in Marshall, Texas. I was only able to attend one
day but the members of NETLTC were kind enough to let me run my trains on their
layout, plus they made me an official member :)
I took some pictures of my time there, plus some video. I’ll link to the video
once I can figure out how to get it out of the camcorder and online.
Full Gallery
-Tony
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In lugnet.org.us.texlug, Anthony Sava wrote:
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TexLUG was invited to attend the Institute of Texan Cultures’ Halloween
Howl’r event in San Antonio, which corresponded with their “Here Be Dragons!”
exhibit. We were asked to put together a medieval/dragon themed display, and
while only Chris MacDougald and I were able to attend, between the two of us
I think we did pretty good (well, the young master MacDougald helped, too).
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Looks like it was a lot of fun! I esp. like the use of upside-down 1x1 orange
bricks for the kiddies trick-or-treat bags!! Very nice detail for sure.
Imagine my surprise when I saw that you managed to take a photo of BrickLink’s
main Admin/owner as seen below! ;-)
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TexLUG was invited to attend the Institute of Texan Cultures’ Halloween Howl’r
event in San Antonio, which corresponded with their “Here Be Dragons!” exhibit.
We were asked to put together a medieval/dragon themed display, and while only
Chris MacDougald and I were able to attend, between the two of us I think we did
pretty good (well, the young master MacDougald helped, too).
We also added a ‘Trick or Seek’ to our layout - a laundry list of hidden
findables in the layout, with a little prize going to whomever could find
everything on the list. On the list was everything from 10 Harry Potters to
Spongebob and David Hasselhoff. It went so well I have suggested a seek and
find be a permanent part of all of our future public displays (though our mail
server seems to be down at present).
The lighting was horrible for photography in the museum, so I apologize in
advance.
Full Gallery
--Tony
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What: TexLUG-SA Meeting
When: May 19, 2007 - 1PM
Where: Goerke’s Country Tavern
Who: TexLUG Austin, San Antonio, and the surrounding areas. Or anyone else
interested in LEGO.
Why: Because we want too.
See: http://www.texlugsa.org/2007/05/09/may-meeting/ for more details.
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This past weekend TexLUG Houston held a private event for the children of the
Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital. It was a pretty mixed bag of themes, but
everyone had fun. The LEGO Company donated 200 X-Pods to be given away to the
children who attended.
Pics 01 - 38
Post-Mod Gallery
We’d like to thank Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital for having us, and the
LEGO group for the donated sets. I think we really brightened some days.
--Tony
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Would love to get together with you and talk about the set, share ideas, etc.
Or do you know ne1 that has the set? Or plans to get it? Or is leaning toward
getting it?
Y’all may remember me from two Austin meetings: the last one I went to was 2002
(I think), which met at NI and I sold a lot of my LEGO (made like $400). I
sold some cabinets of LEGO and most of my train stuff.
But I did not sell my LEGO Tecnic parts or LEGO robotics stuff, knowing that
someday I would use them again... Perhaps that day is now.
PS--Little did we know that NI would be the software develop for nxt. Or did we
know that? :)
Alan
A,TX
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Howdy!
All the AFOLs from Texas and neighboring states are invited to come see and/or
join the Fall 2006 State-Wide meeting and public display in Houston!
The details:
When: October 7-8th 2006
Saturday 7th 10am-5pm Public Hours 1pm-5pm
Sunday 8th 1pm-5pm Public Hours 1pm-3pm
Where: Clear Lake City - Country Freeman Branch, aka The Freeman Library
16616 Diana Lane
Houston, TX 77062
http://www.hcpl.net/branchinfo/fm/fminfo.htm
Theme: This season's theme is a combination of Castle and Space, so bring your
CCC buildings and your Moonbase Modules. As always, MOCs of any theme are
welcome to be displayed.
See y'all there!
--Anthony
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All,
This Sunday's TexLUG Austin meeting is
cancelled.
The robotic line follower contest
scheduled for 6/11 has been postponed.
Look for an announcement here for a
future date.
Future TexLUG Austin gatherings will be
announced as they are arranged.
-Tim
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All,
Come on by the next Austin TexLUG meeting this coming
Sunday. (And yes, it *is* on Mother's Day. Show your
Mom you love her by getting out of the house for a
couple hours!) Particulars are below.
If you have a creation to show, bring it. I'll be
bringing tiles for the upcoming line-following
contest (the paint is drying as I type this), so if
you'd like to try out your 'bot before the 6/11
contest, now's the time.
For contest details, see:
http://www.io.com/~rueger/lego/texlugaustin/line2006/
See you there...
-Tim
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Date: The second Sunday every month (next meeting 5/14/06).
Time: 2:30pm-5:30pm
Location:
Austin Public Library, Little Walnut Creek Branch
835 W. Rundberg Ln.
Austin, TX 78758
(Just west of the Lamar/Rundberg intersection)
Phone: (512) 836-8975
URL: http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/library/little_walnut.htm
(has map link)
Come on out and join in the fun!
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