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Sunday, December 19, 2010

The New Dimensions of Tron

Who has seen or is going to see Disney’s Tron Legacy ?  If you are, then these cool Tron creations just might interest you.

           
With the inspiration from Tron Legacy and creativity of Iain Heath, we get this amazing model of Quorra.


  
These glow in the dark Tron disks where created by Brickarms but are not yet for sale but hopefully might not be to far away.

Full NinjaGo theme song



Brothers Brick found a downlaodable vision of the full Ninjago theme song! If you want to downlaod it then head over to Brothers Brick to download it for FREE!

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Disney Pixar’s Cars!

It’s official!  LEGO is planning to release Car’s themed sets to help promote Cars 2!  This is sure to be another amazing Disney based theme and will definitely become sought by collectors.

          

A Blast From The Past (LEGO Version)

Shannon Sproule recently gave us a peek of some unfinished MOCs that are modeled after some old and forgotten toys, Micronauts, and the M.A.S.K. Raven.  Shannon is still missing some transparent blue pieces to finish the last one but sadly; we may never see the finish model of the M.A.S.K. Raven.  Shannon wrote “I have reached the maximum level of frustration on this. Each square centimeter of this MOC has about 28 problems with it.”



   

David's Leaving for War Contest Entry

The classic castle contest has brought out all of the participants medieval creativity.  David Leest built this simple but emotional scene and writes “The Dragon Empire is at war again. The king orders his scouts to recruit young men all over the land. A mother and father see their son lost forever, a young boy sees adventure and a life as a knight.” This certainly has a good chance



Kingfisher GT

Cole Blaq gives us yet another amazing creation of his and just as his last one it is another simple yet amazing piece of art.    





Monday, December 13, 2010

Dachs ATV

             Words cannot describe the amazing usage of pieces in Cole Blaq’s ATV, I especially love the usage of General Grievous’s Windshield.  I wasn’t able to get the picture up due to copyright laws but you can view it on his Flicker page.  I would definitely like to see this as an actual set.     

Sunday, December 12, 2010

2011's LEGO Ambassadors

LEGO has announced this years Ambassadors for the Ambassadors Program.  I am not very familiar with the program and know nothing about last years Ambassadors or rules.
 
            The following list is of this years ambassadors and what site/area they represent.
   
LUG – Location – Representative
Brickset – Brickset.com – Ian Greig
LEGOBLOG – lego.blog.hu – Tamas Lassanyi
Classic Pirates – classic-pirates.com – Tom Jacobs
PLUG – Portugal – Paulo Jorge Pinheiro Castanho
Brikkelauget – Norway – Cecilie Fritzvold
NILTC – Illinois, USA – Matthew DeLanoy
Byggepladen – Denmark – Svend Erik Saksun
SweBrick – Sweden – Rickard Rasmusson
TWLUG – Taiwan – Josephine Shih
1st State LUG – Delaware, USA – Robert Fries
BrickInside – South Korea – Sung-Wan, Kim
HUNLTC – Hungary – Donat Raab
LUGOLA – Los Angeles, Ca, USA – Paul Lee
TurkLUG – Turkey – Cagri YUZ
LEAHI – Hawaii, USA – Nelson Yrizarry
Classic Castle – classic-castle.com – Sebastiaan Arts
GTWLUG – Saint Louis, Missouri, USA – Benjamin Ellermann
TVLTC – Huntsville, AL, USA – Kristina Schwarz
PennLUG – Pennsylvania, USA – Michael Tighe
Cactus Brick – Phoenix, Arizona – Clark Edwards
VicLUG – Victoria, Canada – John Langrish
Forbidden Cove – forbiddencove.com – Rebecca Deak
Communidade 0937 – Portugal – Americo Verde
Brickish Association – UK – Andrew John Summersgill
Palikkatakomo – Finland – Tuomas Kukkamaa
Pockyland LUG – Taiwan – Yen-chih Haung
Eurobricks – eurobricks.com – Mikael Sjöstedt
Lebgo – Bulgaria – Borislav Mihaylov
FBTB – fbtb.net – Ace Kim
RoLUG – Romania – Alexandru Armin Roșu
LUGPol – Poland – Maciej Karwowski
ParLUGment – Ontario, Canada – Jude Beaudin
LUG Brasil – Brazil – Wagner Cavalli Rodrigues
1000steine – Germany – Christian Krützfeldt
TexLUG – Texas, USA – Anthony Sava
AFOL of Japan – Japan – YOSHIKAZU SAITO
QueLUG – Quebec, Canada – Patrick Bégin
T-LUG – Thailand – Pijarn Charoensri
The Brothers Brick – brothers-brick.com – Josh Wedin
TechnicBRICKs – technicbricks.blogspot.com – Jetro de Château
LGOe – Austria – Verena Schaden
Double Brick – Russia – Alexander Horoshilov
MaLUG – Hungary – Peter Katulin
Builders Lounge – builderslounge.proboards.com – Chris Malloy
RailBricks – railbricks.com – Benjamin Coifman
Kocke Club – Slovenia – Vedran Šubic
Thai Brick Club – Thailand – Pitsanu Boonyarit
ItLUG – Italy – Luca Rusconi
Brickenburg – Romania – Sever-Mihai Alicu
HispaLUG – Spain – Vicente Lis
SwissLUG – Switzerland – Stephan Matter
LowLUG – the Netherlands – Harald Roossien
FreeLUG – France – Daniela Drost
MBFR – Germany – Stefan Klomberg
NeLUG – New England, USA – Bill Bourn
HKLUG – Hong Kong – Andy Hung
BeLUG – Belgium – Ludo Soete
NCLUG – North Carolina, USA – Rick Gratton
SALug – Alberta, Canada – Trevor Van Aalst
CoLTC – Ohio, USA – Ken Cefaratti
TwinLUG – Minnesota, USA – Stacy Sterling
BZPower – bzpower.com – Andrew Bulthaupt
Bricklink – bricklink.com – Troy Cefaratti
WHaCKOLuG – Ontario, Canada – Jeff Van Winden
rtl – Toronto Ontario, Canada – Iain Green
TonLUG – Ontario, Canada – Jenn Wagner
Brick.ie – Ireland – James Shields
Phantoms.su – Moscow, Russian Federation – Igor Makarov

            If you have any suggestions or have any complaints then you may be able to get an Ambassador to deliver the message.  I recommend that you check out the their website for more info just as I will.   


Saturday, December 11, 2010

2011 January Store Calendar

The 2011 UK store calendar has been released but I can’t imagine how the US one could be any different besides the store locations and phone numbers.

Click Here to view the full PDF form for Germany and the United Kingdom, just click on the picture.   

Friday, December 10, 2010

Early Pirates of The Caribbean Picture

As we get closer to the end of the year we find that more LEGO news and images are found on the web.  This particular picture was found in a 2011 LEGO catalog.  Tell us what you think in the comments.


Monday, December 6, 2010

Series 4 Minifigures Pics already!

                I found some rather exciting pictures on the web and as you probably already know from the title, it’s pictures of the series 4 Minifigures and they look awesome.    

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Kicking Off With a Ninja Sharp New Them!

            Hello to any LEGO® lovers and welcome to the very first post on Baseplate Bricks!  Although this newborn blog is just one of the hundreds of LEGO related blogs out there, I hope that visiting my blog will become one of you favorite sites to visit.  I personally research new and old LEGO news daily (or when ever I have the chance) so the idea on creating a blog about them seemed like a great idea.  This is in fact my second blog that I have started and I do plan to keep both of them updated weekly.

            Now, no LEGO blog post is complete with out any reviews, or other LEGO news such as NINJAGO!  NinjaGo® is on of the new themes that LEGO is coming out with in 2011 and let me say now it looks very promising!
                 
             From the picture above we can tell right off the bat that this is going to be a popular set and will most likely be seen in many MOCs, meaning “my own creation” (visit http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/My+Own+Creation for the definition).  Actually the LEGO website already has the NinjaGo on the products page which does in fact mean that the promo website is also up and running (here’s the link

The first 11 ninja sets LEGO released was in 1998.  The sets where pretty cool, considering that they were released twelve years ago.  Just this past summer my siblings and I got a good deal on some old sets such as Mission Control 6456 (space set), and Robber’s Retreat 6088 which is on of the first 1998 Ninja sets.  If you compare the 90’s sets and the upcoming ones, there are only slight differences.  The older sets seemed to be battling other ninjas but now they’re battling skeleton warriors, but perhaps they will change it later like with Castle and Kingdoms changed.        

There is one big difference though and that is they are a card game as well as a toy. 
It looks as if each minifigure comes with five cards, three weapons, a few bricks and a spinner to put the minifigure on.  You can view the rest of the NinjaGo sets on Brickset at http://www.brickset.com/search/?theme=NinjaGo&year=2011.  Luckily these new figs will not be in blind packaging as the Collectable Minifigs where so you’ll be able to pick out you favorite easily.  

            And that concludes the first post of Baseplate Bricks.  The comments are open to anyone so if you have any questions please ask me in the comments and I will be sure to respond ASAP (or email me at fredtennis@roadrunner.com if you like to contact me personally).

  
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