Lego Convention

There was a lego convention in Raleigh today.  I thought 'cool - maybe there will be some awesome stuff that adults have built'  (after all, have you ever seen some of the aircraft carriers and battleships that people have made?)

Huge mistake.

Im not sure what I was thinking, but it was a kid zoo in there.  Ugh.  My wife and I went for about an hour.  I was done after about 15 minutes, but my wife convinced me to hang in for a little bit.

There were a few cool things however

A massive battleship....USS Missouri.  You can see the minifigs on the deck to get a good sense of scale at how big this thing is.

A castle and working train - you can see the train at the bottom

Minifigs!  Probably my favorite part of lego.  But, check out the prices on them!  If you look on the top row, there is a Kylo Ren for 30 bucks.  This was as close as we could get - most of the time the people flooding the figs were at least 3 deep, sometimes 4 or 5.

For Corey

First thing I did when I walked about of the convention center?  Washed my hands.  Even though I dont think I touched a single thing.

Best advice I have?  Dont go to a lego convention, but look at others pictures on the internet.

LEGO Space Shuttle Adventure completed!

We finished working on this this morning....great fun.  It has rekindled my love for LEGOs.

Lego Dork, Part 2

My wife and I have been working on this about an hour or so each weekend since XMas.  It is really friggin cool if you have ever been into LEGOs as a kid or the US' space shuttle project (which I am both).  We are working on the booster rockets and external fuel tank now - I think we only have another 30 minutes to hour left!

It has a retractable arm, a satellite, and working landing gear!

LEGO Dork

Hi.  Im Jay.  And Im a LEGO dork.

I freely admit it now.  I played with LEGOs when I was a kid - I got my first set around 1977.  It was a Lunar Lander, before they had LEGO minifigs.  I was into the SPACE series and the CASTLE series.  I probably played with them until I was 13 or so, and the 'cool' factor caught up to me. 

I had forgotten about LEGOs until fairly recently when I happened to be in the toy section of a department store, and was amazed by all the cool sets they had come out with.  The Millenium Falcon and AT AT Walkers both caught my eye.

Well, I was over at a friend's house over the Christmas break and she had the LEGO Eiffel Tower (which looks like it sells for about $700 bucks IF you can find one!)  After that, I started looking around on the 'Net just for fun, and there is this entire LEGO subculture I had no idea about!

Ive loved the Space Shuttle program, and now that it is going away, I felt like it was time to relive my LEGO dorkism...

LEGO Shuttle Adventure - 1204 pieces

Now that is a lot of pieces!

Ill throw some more pics up as it starts to build up...I think my wife is looking forward to this too!