Monthly Archives: February 2010

AFOL – A Blocumentary

Although there have been many LEGO-related films put out, very few really offer a fair overview of the LEGO hobby. This particularly one really impressed our group. For those of you who have looked at NCLUG (or other LEGO Users Groups) and wondered “what do they do?”, this is the clip to watch. The “blocumentary” [...]

AFOL A Blocumentary

While I dislike (despise?) the term AFOL, this video (direct link here) is very well done and worth 25-30 minutes of your time to watch.

AFOL A Blocumentary from AFOL on Vimeo.
What is it about the term AFOL (Adult Fan of LEGO) that I don’t like? It is hard to put it into words but it [...]

Toy Fair 2010 Pictures

A few years ago I found a link to a site called Altered States Magazine.  ASM had very good Toy Fair coverage, particularly of LEGO.  These days pictures from Toy Fair are pretty prevalent but ASM still has very good coverage.

Unfortunately there are no pictures of the 2010 trains.  At least none that I [...]

NCLUG Links

At last year’s LEGOPalooza, we gave out a slip of paper with some links about the LEGO hobby. I’ve finally gotten around to getting a copy scanned in for our website (just in time for our discussions about what to offer this year). It’s a reasonably good FAQ even if it isn’t exactly an exhaustive [...]

LEGOPalooza Date Change

We just got word from our coordinator for this year’s LEGOPalooza event that we will be on a different weekend than was previously announced:
Due to the recent snowstorm this past weekend, Morehead Planetarium was forced to reschedule a number of its events to accommodate the cancellation that they had to make last weekend. They [...]