This past January, Tom Alphin, published a great article on LEGO elements and their colors. Feel free to geek out and up your knowledge of LEGO colors, elements, popularity and rarity. Hard-to-Find LEGO Colors (and what to do about it)
Dedicated fans and members, summer must be coming soon as our event calendar starts filling up. We are very pleased with all the activity, member growth and continued engagement with our partners that will deliver a bricktastic 2018! Several events, kids club, monthly member meetings and steering committees are already …
For the last handful of months, and for the `foreseeable future, we are running monthly Build Challenges at our Monthly Meet Ups. Each month there is a unique rule or set of rules (we retain the right to reuse rules that were popular) and time limit for the challenge, and …
On November 11th and 12th we held an event for the Strong Museum of Play featuring two days of hands-on-building by the Museum patrons as they helped us to create two Star Wars themed displays. Each day of the event, young builders stopped at our station to work on the …
RLUG & SUNY Geneseo hosted a building workshop @ the Wadsworth Public Library in Geneseo. This was our third year participating in a joint workshop with SUNY Geneseo’s education department! Previously held on campus at the Milne library on campus, this years workshop was moved to the Wadsworth Public Library, …
The weekend of October 21st and 22nd, we put on a large display at the Fall Family Fun event at the Garden Factory in Gates NY. The Fall Family Fun event involves several dozen attractions, including carnival rides, a petting zoo, animal rides, food, pumpkins, face painting and everything else …
On August 5th, the Oswego Public Library sponsored the Rochester Lego User Group to bring hands-on workshops featuring Lego Micropolis and Lego Digital Design, build challenges, and of course, FREE PLAY! It was an amazing day to see the creativity and ingenuity of everyone who came! A very special thanks …
We returned to the Geneseo Airshow this year with numerous displays: Great Ball Contraption, Large Medieval Town, Micro World War II creations, and various other models made for plenty to look at. Quite a few of the builds have been posted online by their creator: The Kinslaying at Alqualondë, Feather …
RochLUG returned to Geneseo college for a Micropolis themed event, that also had a large free build section with various prizes to be won in different build challenges. Participants could free build, enter challenges, get some LEGO Digital Design experience designing a Micropolis house, and then build that house with …
Our last display at the Strong Museum had something for everyone. The primary theme was STEAM (Science, Technology, Arts, Math), with a good sized Great Ball Contraption display, along with other STEAM models like a balance scale and calculator. A large Medieval Village layout, train setup, and numerous other stand …
