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Fish
These two fish were built as part of a display that my LEGO club, the Bay Area LEGO Users’ Group, maintains at the Stoneridge Mall LEGO store in Pleasanton, CA. On February 20, 2006 we installed an...
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Yoda Build Event at Hillsdale Shopping Center
LEGO has been doing these “Yoda build events” all around the country as promotions for their retail stores. We finally got a chance to participate in one! Members of BayLUG spent most of the weekend of...
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Another 2006 Garden Gnome by another Bill posted by another Ward
In Ted Ward’s pictures from Northwest BrickCon 2006 I came across a picture a while ago of a garden gnome, created by Bill Volbrecht, former LEGO Master Builder. As far as I know, Ted Ward is no...
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Buzz Lightyear at Hillsdale Mall
On July 23-25, members of BayLUG volunteered to help LEGO Master Builder Steve Gerling and LEGO store employees, and thousands of kids, build an 8-foot tall statue of Buzz Lightyear, from Disney’s Toy...
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Rainbow Connection
My latest creation is a life size model of Kermit The Frog with his banjo, as seen in the opening scene of the 1979 film The Muppet Movie, when he was playing “Rainbow Connection.” I haven’t done a...
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Pie for Pi Day
In the American way of writing dates at least, today is 3/14/15 which is of course, π (pi), that irrational mathematical constant we all love to memorize the digits of (or at least the geekier of us...
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day
March 17th is St. Patrick’s Day, the day when just about everyone in the U.S. claims to be at least a little bit Irish, which means wearing green clothing and often imbibing copious amounts of beer...
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Desktop LEGO: Easter Bunny and Trees
I won this bulk bricks box (#6177 Builders of Tomorrow) at the annual BayLUG raffle, and took it to work, where I built a couple things: Easter Bunny with two eggs, and a couple trees (not to scale)....
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Easter Bunny
Spring is here and with it come two ages-old symbols of fertility – the rabbit and the egg. But since Easter comes in the springtime, these symbols are part of the Christian tradition of Easter. Either...
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Pokémon, my first LEGO sculptures
With the Pokémon Go game being such a huge hit at the moment, I thought I’d post about some old MOCs that I built 15 years ago. Sorry about the photo quality – this was the early days of digital...
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Teddy Bear (2015)
I’m afraid I haven’t built much in a while – this is my latest major model, and it is over a year old! But I never posted about it here until now. It’s a teddy bear. I built my first teddy bear out of...
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Hillary for America logo
On November 8, 2016, Americans face a very important decision – Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton for President. My preference was for Bernie Sanders, and I voted for him in the primary. I’m not entirely...
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California Republic Flag
For this year’s Bricks by the Bay LEGO convention, which had the theme “California Dreamin’,” I built a model of the California state flag. The flag of California consists of a white background with...
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Sheep Instructions
I received an email today asking for instructions to build the sheep model that I made two years ago. I figured that other people might also appreciate it, so here they are!
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January 23, 2003: Maneki Neko
This is a repost of an entry I had originally posted on an old website in January 2003, before I started this blog. This LEGO sculpture of a Maneki Neko (Japanese good-luck cat) was one of my earliest...
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Flat Owl
Inspired by the “platecraft” technique used in Christmas decorations by Chris McVeigh, and my own Flat Santa and Flat Rudolph holiday decorations, I wanted to try the technique on a larger scale and...
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Birds on a Clock
LEGO set 21301 “Birds” from 2015 is a great model, and I found a new place to display it. This is the clock that was in my house throughout my childhood, and when my mom moved out I found it among her...
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