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 …
Our sister group, LEGO Users of Central NY, are holding their Spring LEGO show in April. We’ve attended in the past and definitely all agree it’s not a show to miss. Finding and parking at their venue is easy, which is a big plus. As long as the weather cooperates, …
Hard to imagine with the crazy weather we’ve had this winter that Easter is just around the corner! Last year two of our members, Leif H. and Mike G. worked on a collaboration to create a small Easter Bunny set. We wanted to share this free downloaded instruction file with …
This post details the build process of my first model in 2017, Sigurd’s General Goods: a medieval general store based off of the store Bits and Pieces from the game Skyrim. Despite being a very detailed model, it came together rather quickly, perhaps partly due to having reference images to …
Taking your build style from traditional block stacking to more advanced techniques often requires understanding lots of technical build points. Here is a great article about the 3.18 mm connection points. http://www.newelementary.com/2016/12/bravo-three-one-eight.html
The LEGO Community Engagement Team (CET) is how our recognized Lego User Group (RLUG) interfaces with LEGO. CET is a valuable resource for our group and helps us to be successful hosting events and growing our memberships ability to build awesome creations. Recently the CET requested a meeting with ambassadors …
