The book From an Idea to LEGO by Lowey Bundy Sichol is a part of a series of books providing a history of well-known companies, such as Google, Disney, and Nike, for children. But since this is a LEGO blog, we’ll just focus on this one.
Author: Bill Ward
Advent 2019 Day 6
Can you believe we’re 25% of the way through Advent already? Have you finished your Christmas shopping yet? It’s day 6, and today’s models are a Christmas tree, a cake, Professor McGonagall, and a Resistance Troop Transporter.
Advent 2019 Day 5
Day 5 of the LEGO Advent Calendars gives us a stump and axe, a Friends minidoll, a pole with two banners, and Poe’s X-Wing Fighter.
Advent 2019 Day 4
On the 4th day of this year’s LEGO Advent Calendars we get a snow fort, a hamster on a sled, a much better tree, and a big gun.
Advent 2019 Day 3
Day 3 of this year’s LEGO Advent Calendars give us six models, because Friends and Harry Potter are doubles.
Advent 2019 Day 2
It’s the 2nd day of the LEGO Advent Calendars, and here are today’s models (I just posted Day 1 a few hours ago, though I backdated the post to the 1st).
Advent 2019 Day 1
I can’t believe it’s already December! As I do every year, I’ve purchased all of the available LEGO Advent Calendar sets and for each day I will be posting photos of that day’s models and discussing them.
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Fan community reacts to LEGO buying BrickLink
The LEGO Group announced this week they will be acquiring BrickLink, the online marketplace for LEGO parts. This has sent shockwaves throughout the entire LEGO fan community. 
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East Bay Mini Maker Faire 2019
Last Sunday, as we do every year, BayLUG had a display at the East Bay Mini Maker Faire in Oakland, CA. Several of us brought Micropolis modules and we had a pretty extensive city set up, plus a variety of other models. See the photos below for more details – click on any photo to go to the Flickr photo album.
BayLUG October 2019 Meeting
This past weekend I attended the annual BayLUG anniversary meeting in San Leandro, CA. It is the club’s 21st year, but we had a big celebration last year for the 20th and this year it was more like a regular meeting. We had a Halloween themed contest and lots of people brought models to show. My photos from the meeting can be seen here or on Flickr (click any photo to go to the album).
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