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My wife and I met Peter Barth, another IndyLUG member, at Dan Brown’s Toy and
Brick Museum in Bellaire, Ohio on Friday April 11 to see what it was all about.
Like this post’s title says, it was well worth the trip. I was so impressed that
I wanted to tell others about the museum. There is a lot of everything LEGO at
this old neighborhood school building located right smack dab in the middle of
Bellaire. It’s only 10 minutes from I-70 southwest of Wheeling, West Virginia.
Dan has accumulated a bunch of MOC’s from well known AFOL’s and LEGO Master
Builders. You’ll also get to see many one-of-a-kind models, vintage store
display’s, antique wooden LEGO toys, Roadshow cast-offs and AFOL layouts.
Take a look at these pictures, but they are only a fraction of what’s there:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=313328
Be sure to call or email ahead to let him know you are an AFOL and he’ll meet
you at the museum for a one on one behind the scenes tour. One of the best
parts is when he takes you behind the closed doors in a couple of the classrooms
where he has oodles of loose brick piled waist high. (You will drool all over
yourself, guaranteed.) He’ll also give you insight as to how he’s acquired his
collection and what he has in store for the museum’s future events.
If you like LEGO, you’ll love the Toy and Brick Museum.
Brian Darrow
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Home of the world’s largest LEGO(r) image.
Home of the largest private LEGO(r) collection
www.brickmuseum.net
The one, the only, Bellaire Ohio Toy and Plastic Brick Museum
We will reopen FULL TIME on April 16th, 2008.
also will be hosting Brick Show 2008 in Sept.
www.brickshow2008.com
Thanks
Dan
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In lugnet.loc.us.oh, James Trobaugh wrote:
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In lugnet.loc.us.oh, John Patterson wrote:
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In lugnet.loc.us.oh, James Trobaugh wrote:
I don’t know if this makes a difference but Ebay removed the listing, wonder
why? John P
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Maybe because I posted that on Mon, 24 Jan 2005
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never mind...did not see any dates. We just did that listing about 3 weeks ago.
Dan
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In lugnet.loc.us.oh, John Patterson wrote:
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In lugnet.loc.us.oh, James Trobaugh wrote:
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I ran across this listing on eBay:
Lego museum. DISPLAY, Statue, and DONATIONS NEEDED
We are going to open a LEGO museum. We need TONS of blocks, displays, and
any other lego “stuff” we can come up with. Presenters gain a place in
HISTORY. We are selling space on a Plaque that will be put on the front of
the building, as well as smaller plaques that will be put in front of
individual display items. We are also purchasing LARGE amounts of special
items for this project. Those people will not be included in the plaques,
but will be put in a buying bio at the computer room (lego games a’
running). We will have a web sight in the NEAR future, and we already have
purchased the building (old school house, 36,000 sq.) so we have all the
room in the world to do this.
Anyone know anything about this? I’d like to hear more if so.
jt
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I don’t know if this makes a difference but Ebay removed the listing, wonder
why? John P
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Ebay did not remove the listing, it ran its 10 day course!
I sold 2 tickets off of it, and got a couple of NICE sponsers as well.
Dan
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In lugnet.loc.us.oh, John Patterson wrote:
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In lugnet.loc.us.oh, James Trobaugh wrote:
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I ran across this listing on eBay:
Lego museum. DISPLAY, Statue, and DONATIONS NEEDED
We are going to open a LEGO museum. We need TONS of blocks, displays, and
any other lego “stuff” we can come up with. Presenters gain a place in
HISTORY. We are selling space on a Plaque that will be put on the front of
the building, as well as smaller plaques that will be put in front of
individual display items. We are also purchasing LARGE amounts of special
items for this project. Those people will not be included in the plaques,
but will be put in a buying bio at the computer room (lego games a’
running). We will have a web sight in the NEAR future, and we already have
purchased the building (old school house, 36,000 sq.) so we have all the
room in the world to do this.
Anyone know anything about this? I’d like to hear more if so.
jt
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I don’t know if this makes a difference but Ebay removed the listing, wonder
why? John P
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Ebay did not remove the listing, it ran its 10 day course!
I sold 2 tickets off of it, and got a couple of NICE sponsers as well.
Dan
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In lugnet.loc.us.oh, Dan Brown wrote:
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well everyone needs to be somewhere.
And in Ohio we are within driving distance of EVERYONE on the east coast!!!
Dan
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I hope to get there some day soon.
Ohio is an interesting state, demographically. I never extended this, but it was
in response to a posting about Ohio:
http://news.lugnet.com/market/shopping/?n=11573
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In lugnet.loc.us.oh, John Patterson wrote:
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In lugnet.loc.us.oh, James Trobaugh wrote:
I don’t know if this makes a difference but Ebay removed the listing, wonder
why? John P
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Maybe because I posted that on Mon, 24 Jan 2005
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In lugnet.loc.us.oh, Dan Brown wrote:
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well everyone needs to be somewhere.
And in Ohio we are within driving distance of EVERYONE on the east coast!!!
Dan
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Hey Dan, you do realize you are replying to a post from 2005 right? :)
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In lugnet.loc.us.oh, James Trobaugh wrote:
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I ran across this listing on eBay:
Lego museum. DISPLAY, Statue, and DONATIONS NEEDED
We are going to open a LEGO museum. We need TONS of blocks, displays, and any
other lego “stuff” we can come up with. Presenters gain a place in HISTORY.
We are selling space on a Plaque that will be put on the front of the
building, as well as smaller plaques that will be put in front of individual
display items. We are also purchasing LARGE amounts of special items for this
project. Those people will not be included in the plaques, but will be put in
a buying bio at the computer room (lego games a’ running). We will have a web
sight in the NEAR future, and we already have purchased the building (old
school house, 36,000 sq.) so we have all the room in the world to do this.
Anyone know anything about this? I’d like to hear more if so.
jt
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I don’t know if this makes a difference but Ebay removed the listing, wonder
why? John P
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well everyone needs to be somewhere.
And in Ohio we are within driving distance of EVERYONE on the east coast!!!
Dan
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