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LEGOPalooza 2011

NCLUG Admin — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 18:32:01 +0000

Head on over to the Morehead Planetarium in Chapel Hill, NC for the 7th annual LEGOPalooza.

Saturday, March 5, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Sunday, March 6, 1-4 p.m

There will be numerous displays including Castles, Star Wars, Town and Train, FLL Robotics, and many more. Admission is free, visit the Morehead Planetarium web site for additional details and directions.

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BrickFlix and Facebook

Dan — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:22:31 +0000

Some housekeeping here: BrickFlix2011 will once again be just before BrickMagic. This time around, that works out to Star Wars day (May the Fourth be with you!) but the event will not have a Star Wars theme. Much like BrickMagic, this event is hosted in NC but features work from LEGO fans the world over. You can keep up with BrickFlix news at http://brickflix.org/

For all the Facebookers out there – you can now use Facebook groups to keep up with BrickFlix and LEGOPalooza.

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LEGOPalooza 2011

Dan — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 02:30:30 +0000

LEGOPalooza 2011 is coming March 5th and 6th, 2011 at the Morehead Planetarium in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Hours are as follows:
March 5th – 11am – 4pm
March 6th – 1pm – 4pm

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More LEGOPalooza Photos

Dan — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 03:06:43 +0000

More Palooza photos are online now. This might not be a complete list, but this should give you a good idea of what most of the displays were like (and it seems to be all the photos I knew about).

OperationOrange’s flickr photos
my (Dan Pikora’s) flickr photos
Dan Larson’s flickr photos of his dragstrip
Matthew’s flickr photos
Doug’s Brickshelf gallery

Previously:
LEGOPalooza 2010 coverage, round 1
LEGOPalooza 2010 is this Weekend!
LEGOPalooza Date Change
LEGOPalooza 2010 (announcement)
Want to Display Your Models at LEGOPalooza 2010?

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Layout Planning with BlueBrick

Mike Walsh — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:24:10 +0000

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 large layout.

But times change and Cary has phased out of the LEGO hobby and TrackDraw, while it still works, hasn’t been updated in years. At one point I could build it from source myself but about a year ago I tried to build it and was unable to. So the version I have running is from the RailBricks site and includes some custom parts in the library. TrackDraw still has some oddities and will crash from time to time.

Recently while working on the 2010 LEGOPalooza track plan I couldn’t get text to work correctly so on a whim I decided to try BlueBrick. I had looked at BlueBrick about a year ago and dismissed it as it had some real limitations. However when I looked at it again, most of my issues had been addressed and it works pretty well.

I have not tried to create my own parts yet but probably will soon but I do like the layering model in particular. I recaptured the NCLTC layout I am doing for 2010 LEGOPalooza in BlueBrick and did a couple more iterations using it. I really wish the layout area had scroll bars and I really miss the TrackDraw feature to add a bunch of elements using the numbers on the keyboard followed by clicking on the part you want to place but other than that, I don’t have any real complaints.

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