Mark your calendars for Sunday March 8, 2009 for the Family Day at the Cathedral of St Paulwhere they will be throwing open the doors from 1:30-4:30 for a whole host of family friendly activies including tours, pipe organ demonstrations, crafts, and TwinLUG’s own LEGO Ambassador Roy Cook showing of his work in progress model of the Cathedral building. More info can be found at the Cathedral of St Paul Website or download a copy of the  flyer (PDF).

The next full TwinLUG meeting will be 1:30PM Sunday February 15th 2009 at the Rondo Community library in St Paul, MN. The library is located at 461 N. Dale Street. Look for a placard on the front desk to indicate which room we are in this month.

This month we are hoping to assemble all the current Micropolis modules to get an idea of the state of the city. Bring all of your old or new modules as well as your cameras.

The next full TwinLUG meeting will be 1:30PM Sunday January 25th 2009 at the Rondo Community library in St Paul, MN. The library is located at 461 N. Dale Street. I can’t find the note that said which meeting room we will be in but if you ask at the front desk they should be able to tell you where we are.

At the December meeting Roy challenged everyone to come up with a micro-scale model of the Minnesota State Capital and/or the Cathedral of St. Paul in St Paul, MN. There is a target part count of less than 100 parts and a strong recomendation for not using rare or unusual parts so that the eventual set can be duplicated easily.

We hope to see you at the first meeting of 2009!

The last meeting of the 2008 was held on December 9th at the Rondo Community Library. As usual Garth has posted a good run down of the meeting to the mailing list. A few highlights: 

• In the spirit of the holidays we held a Dirty Brickster gift exchange. There was relatively little gift stealing (as per the rules of the game) but everyone who participated seemed to be pretty happy with what they ended up with.
• Roy brought in a mock-up of his Minnesota State Capital model.
• Several great new Micropolis modules debuted.

It was a fun meeting and a good capstone to a great year.

As I noted yesterday, Tom built a really amazing module for Micropolis based on Hamline University’s “Old Main” building and promised to post pictures when they were available.

Max posted his images from the meeting last night and there are a few decent shots of the module:

I am told that there is not actually a tank behind the real building.

The next full TwinLUG meeting will be 1:30PM Sunday December 7th 2008 at the Rondo Community library in St Paul, MN. The library is located at 461 N. Dale Street. We will be meeting in room “B”, which is the western half of the double room we had for November’s meeting. You can find the room by going around behind the front desk. “B” is the second meeting room.

In the spirit of the winter holidays December’s meeting will have a “Dirty Brickster” gift sharing. Notes and information about that event will be posted soon.

We hope to see you at the meeting!

Garth has once again posted to the mailing list a nice round up for the most recent meeting.

I would just like to amplify his comment about Tom’s Micropolis module, which is an incredibly gorgeous replica of the “Old Main” building from Hamline University. Hopefully we’ll be able to get pictures at some point to share.

Thanks again for everyone who showed up and joined in the fun of the parts draw and the general conversation.

There was an article on Ars Technica this last week about The LEGO Group loosing a court battle about whether the iconic 2×4 LEGO Brick is covered as a Trademark or not. The article itself is an interesting read, but analysis by Benjamin Hauger, Esq. on the TwinLUG mailing list is very much worth reading to help understand what the court decision really means.

The next full TwinLUG meeting will be 1:30PM Sunday November 16th 2008 at the Rondo Community Library in St Paul, MN. The library is located at 461 N. Dale Street. We will not be in our usual room right off the lobby but will instead be in rooms “A” and “B” to the left of the main desk.

Thanks to Roy doing the grunt work there will be a Parts Draw!

Garth will be returning Micropolis modules since we appear to have lost our display case at the Mall Of America LEGO Store. Hopefully there will be further news on that front as well.

If there is something you would like to discuss please post a message to our Yahoo Groups discussion list.

We hope to see you at the meeting!

A recent post on MicroBricks pointed out an excellent looking micro scale city group build (English Translation) done by the Double Brick group in Russia.