Bill Ward’s Brickpile

On June 18, the Space contingent of the Bay Area LEGO Users Group had its first Space-only meeting.
We met on a Sunday evening at the Round Table Pizza parlor in Mountain View. They have a nice back room that you can reserve for free if you call ahead, which we’ve used for various members-only […]

Hey, your chocolate got on my LEGO! Hey, your LEGO got in my chocolate! Two great tastes that taste great together.

Well, one that tastes great, one that’s great to build with I guess. Anyway, this is one of the most novel uses of LEGO I’ve ever seen - and one of the […]

What are good ethical guidelines for blogging about LEGO? Sean Mykael over on BrickBrick has posted a proposal for a LEGO Bloggers Code to answer that question.
I read it and think I agree with the proposed guidelines. I would like to think that I’ve already been following those guidelines but if I’ve had […]

As I wrote recently, Unique Brick Tecniques is a great blog for discovering some of the clever ideas people have posted about.
The obvious way to connect two LEGO pieces is by putting the studs of one into the underside of another. But there are other ways. For example you can use a right-angle […]

When I was a kid, Peanuts was one of my favorite cartoons. The (mis)adventures of Charlie Brown and his friends were always a treat. My father had several books of Peanuts cartoons from the 1950’s and 1960’s which I used to read over and over. So when I saw this […]

One of the most amazing LEGO models I’ve seen has recently been making the rounds of all the LEGO blogs. And this one is no exception. It’s just that good. It’s the USS Harry S. Truman, minifig scale - complete with a full complement of aircraft!

Wow!
I mean really, wow!
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I recently found out a bout a relatively new LEGO blog called Unique Brick Techniques and highly recommend it. The authors, “Mr. D” and “Nathan,” monitor the Net for all the latest clever ideas posted by LEGO fans.

On Sunday, May 28, we (Bay Area LEGO Users’ Group) installed our first-ever display at the LEGO Store in the Valley Fair Mall, Santa Clara, CA. Our display, changed out about once a month, was previously at the Stoneridge Mall in Pleasanton (such as the Microscale San Francisco in January and the Aquarium […]