The December 18, 2011 TwinLUG meeting will NOT be at the Rondo Community Library! Unfortunately the Rondo Community Library has other needs for the other half of the conference room that we normally have our meetings in and so we have decided to change venues. Thankfully our friends at Brickmania and GMLTC have very kindly [...]
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The Greater Midwest LEGO Train Club (GMLTC) is the oldest of the local LEGO groups and this past year has found a permanent home for their fantastic display at the offices of BrickMania in North East Minneapolis. The new location has allowed them to have an open house on the second Saturday of each month [...]
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After several months of work and discussion by members of TwinLUG we have finalized the next version of the Micropolis micro city building standard. While there have been essentially no changes to the base module specification we have taken the opportunity to add several new module types to the spec to allow for extending a [...]
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Come see the creations of TwinLUG members at the MCBA SpringCon comics convention! TwinLUG will be bringing out an enormous Micropolis layout, a tremendous underwater adventure themed display, and a whole bunch of other fun stuff all built by from the creative minds of our members. Oh yeah, and there’s some really cool comics related [...]
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The LEGO Group has announced the new LEGO Ambassadors and we were ecstatic to see that Stacy Sterling has been accepted as one of the new Ambassadors. We’re sure she’ll do a great job over the next year and hope to congratulate her in person at one of the next meetings.
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It was a proud day for us on Sunday of Brickworld 2009 when the display area opened and sitting right next to the first ever Micropolis Collaborative Display at Brickworld was the award for “Best Group Layout”! The display would have been nothing if not for the great work done by everyone who contributed a [...]
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TwinLUG is bringing Micropolis to BrickWorld in a big way with a collaborative build that is likely to be the largest Micropolis assembly yet. Be sure to look for it in the Event Hall, and it’s not too late to bring your own module to add to the display! If you are planning on bringing [...]
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TwinLUG member and LEGO Ambassador Roy Cook has completed his replicas of the Cathedral of St Paul and Minnesota State Capital buildings and the will both soon be on public display for everyone to appreciate them. 200 hours of work assembling approximately 120,000 LEGO bricks is a fairly epic feat for even the more jaded [...]
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Roy T Cook, TwinLUG member and LEGO Ambassador, was interviewed recently by the Pioneer Press newspaper about two large architectural models he is building for the city of St. Paul. The video part of the interview can be found on the Pioneer Press website. The print article in the paper should appear soon (likely tomorrow [...]
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The February TwinLUG meeting was held once again at the Rondo Community Library in St Paul, MN. Garth has as usual posted a great summary of the meeting on his blog. We would like to thank everyone for bringing all of their Micropolis modules. The resulting assembly was stunning in it’s size, diversity, and was [...]
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