Monthly Archives: July 2009

August Meeting

After this past Saturday’s delightful and low-key meeting (thanks again to Doug for hosting), we’re heading back to another public venue for our next meeting. We’ll be meeting at the Durant Road Musical Theatre in north Raleigh (at Durant Station, 8471 Garvey Drive, #111 (corner of Garvey Drive and Durant Road), Raleigh, North Carolina, 27616) [...]

Charlotte Store Soft Opening Photos

As previously noted, this past week was the opening of the “Charlotte Store”: the LEGO Education Center at Concord Mills in Concord, NC. Although scheduling conflicts prevent us from attending the store’s proper Grand Opening (which happens during BrickFair, the only regional LEGO fan convention on the east coast), Matthew (AKA Brickapolis) was able to [...]

More Charlotte Store News

This is probably the last post on this as we approach this week’s soft opening of the store. An official statement by a Concord Mills spokesperson was released to some media outlets this past week. According to Charlotte Business Journal, the new store will have 4,520-square-feet of floor space. The LEGO Company has unveiled more [...]

Excellent LEGO Advertisement

I am scanning through my RSS feeds this morning and found this article at the top of the list.  It links to Gizmodo and the article is mostly about the author’s visit to the LEGO Vault in Billund.
What really caught my eye was the scan of the old LEGO advertisement.  This advertisement is from 1981 [...]

Raleigh LEGO Store Grand Opening / Yoda Build Event Photos

I’m sure there is still more coverage of this out there (feel free to send your links to photos/videos/articles/etc to me at legomodeloftheday@gmail.com – it doesn’t matter if you’re in our group or not, we’re just looking to provide a thorough recap of the events of that weekend), but here’s what I have gathered so [...]