Monthly Archives: January 2010

Layout Planning with BlueBrick

I have been using TrackDraw for layout planning for years. My friend and former NCLTC member Cary Clark wrote TrackDraw and I authored many of the parts in the TrackDraw library so I had a vested interest in using it.  Compared to TrackDesigner, TrackDraw was a huge improvement particularly if you were planning a [...]

Converting the Emerald Night to 9v

I built the Emerald Night a while ago and it has sat in the box down in my basement ever since.  It is a beautiful train although it really does need additional passenger cars.  A month ago when I had the e-mail dialog with my Dad about the Emerald Night, he asked me how it [...]

January Meeting Reminder

Reminder…this coming weekend:
Sunday, January 24th, 2010
1:30 – 4:30 pm in room 202A
Cameron Village Library
We will discuss LEGOPalooza! It’s coming up quickly.
Bring stuff you’re working on, we’d love to see it!
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New Trains for 2010 but limitations persist

New Trains!
When I first saw some links to the 2010 trains I was excited.  These would be the first trains to be based on the Power Functions and in my opinion, the first train sets to come from LEGO since the decision to drop the 9v line.  One could argue that there were two RC [...]

BrickMagic is Coming Mothers’ Day Weekend!

There will be a LEGO Convention held on Mother’s Day weekend (May 6th-9th, 2010) in NE Raleigh. This event is what came of the “BrickJournal Con” idea you may have heard tossed around at recent NCLUG events – as such, it’s a bit more than a standard Adult Fans of LEGO (AFOL) convention. Among the [...]