February 5, 2009 – 3:51 pm
Uh-oh. Looks like a LEGO Store will be coming to Crabtree Valley Mall in May. Wow – I never thought I’d see a LEGO store in this area, it seems like such a small market compared to the other locations where LEGO has stores (Northern Virginia, Northern California, North Jersey, Chicago, LA, London, Munich, [...]
February 2, 2009 – 12:02 pm
I got to Morehead just before the doors opened on Sunday afternoon to find a long line of people waiting to get in. The word was out! The crowd was heavy all day long until an announcement was made that the Chapel Hill Police were towing cars on Franklin Street! From that point on the [...]
February 1, 2009 – 7:40 am
My scheduled worked out and I was able to be at Morehead when the doors opened yesterday and the flood of people was overwhelming. It was packed – so packed it was difficult to move around.
The train layout looks great, we had a bit of trouble getting the outer loop to run (it is really [...]
February 1, 2009 – 7:37 am
Other than running a little late, my setup for LEGOPalooza was fairly uneventful. Big thanks to Will Stroh and Dan Larson for their assistance setting up the train layout. They laid out almost all of the track and baseplates for me which is a huge help.
I had spent a couple days really limiting what I [...]
January 27, 2009 – 6:10 pm
My area of the layout got tweaked a bit today as we finalize the layout plan. In general the layout is a bit cleaner and it is by far the largest layout NCLTC has ever done. I have a few things to figure out but for the most part, I think I am in pretty [...]