where I talk with my inside voice
The Minifig Shop has been in Kirkwood for a number of years, and I’ve taken the kids there a couple of times. Today they had the grand opening of their second location in Chesterfield, so Josie and I went to see what they had. It’s a much larger store, so they have a lot more inventory, and they hired a...
After having visited The Home of the Brick in Billund, the bar is set pretty high for me, and I’m not sure I will get much out of these Lego displays anymore. But the St. Louis County Library was nice enough to celebrate my birthday with Lego Night at the Clark Branch, so I figured I had to go check...
The whole trip isn’t booked yet, but last week I was able to get my tickets to the LEGO House Fan Tour and today I booked our flight to Billund. This is part of a larger Scandinavian tour next summer for Dixie and I (no kids this time). We are taking a bus tour of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, which...
Ever since I started working the MQ-25 program, I’ve been wanting to build a Lego model of the aircraft. I started working on this in September, and I probably spent about 20 hours in Studio refining the design. It took two weeks to order and receive all of the parts from Bricklink, but it is finally done. I’m happy with...
As a birthday surprise for Josie this year, I’ve been working on my first MOC (in Lego lingo that’s My Own Creation). It’s a Lego model that I designed in Studio (what used to be called Lego Designer many years ago) and then ordered the parts to build it. It took a lot more time than I was expecting, but...
Well, it’s not exactly new. It’s been my workshop since we moved into this house in 2006, but for the last three years (since we sold the house in Illinois), it’s been so full of junk that I couldn’t even walk in there. So I’ve spent the last couple of months cleaning it up, selling stuff on Craigslist, dumping stuff...
It’s a faux Lego brand, but it’s not a bad model and is definitely recognizable as the iconic F-117. It took me less than an hour to put it together, and it is currently on display next to the faux Lego F-15 I got last year.
I just finished putting this together today. I’ve bought a number of the Lego Ideas sets (13 so far) since the original site went live in 2008, and there are some sets that I see and I just know I have to have them (see Christmas 2020), and this was one of those sets. It’s a really cool idea and...
Hey, what do you know? The kids got Legos for Christmas this year. Even though this is the first year they no longer believe in Santa, it certainly doesn’t diminish their enthusiasm for the little plastic bricks. This was a big set too – almost 2500 pieces – but they did a good job working together. Noah was also happy...
Ever since I got the board game Cathedral, I thought it would be cool to make a copy of the game and its pieces using Legos. Well, the Lego folks have some software called Lego Digital Designer that you can download from their web site. It is a CAD application that lets you build anything your heart desires using the...
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