Tag Archives: Mike Walsh

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 [...]

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 [...]

Pictures from the LEGO Experience Tour

Here are a few pictures from my visit to the LEGO Experience Tour at the North Carolina State Fair this Saturday.  Isabelle and I spent about an hour playing with the bricks and doing the various activities.

The City layout.

Isabelle with the Minifigs!

Isabelle with her turtle.

My contribution to the City layout.
There are a few more photos [...]

LEGO Experience Tour at NC Fair

Yesterday afternoon my youngest daughter Isabelle and I went to the NC Fair for a few hours and while we were there we checked out the LEGO Experience Tour.  The LEGO Experience Tour will be at the Fair through today (Sunday) so if you want to check it out, you’ll have to do so today.   [...]

New look for my LEGO blog

This evening I installed a new theme for my LEGO blog.  This blog is run by WordPress and WordPress allows a site to be styled using what is called a theme.  I have wanted to build a new theme for my site for a while and I have been working on a LEGO theme based [...]