Arrgh! More on Pirates

Here's another article on the Pirate area coming to Legoland, CA.

Lego Batman!

There's some really good picts of the new Batman Lego sets that will be coming out later this year on Batbrick.com web-site. Check it out!

Fill My Room!

Okay... this is one I should have thought of -- FillMyRoom.com will put a 2x4 Lego brick in their room for each $1 donated, with special on-line advertisements to those who donate $10 or more.... I wonder if he has change for a 2x6.

LEGO Antique Toys & Dolls Collection To Be Offered

To quote from the article:

"As collecting has grown over the years, and dolls and toys are reaching stratospheric prices within an arena of hundreds of thousands of dollars, collectors have become just as concerned for the preservation of these precious objects as a museum might be. Any collector who pays $100,000 for a doll will most certainly work to display and cherish that object in the same way a museum does. In some ways even better, as the financial and emotional ties are stronger."

That's an interesting spin on dumping a whole collection on to the market... I wonder why they haven't found another museum to house the items or take over the collection? I see it was offered... I wonder where the proceeds from the auction will go to?

Follow-up:

I remember listening on NPR a few weeks ago about the high cost of up-keeping a museum -- the cost of staff, utilities, cost of restoration. On top of that, they have problems of having enough room to display everything and those things they can't be displayed, don't always get stored properly -- a lot of donated items become damaged over time... So I sympathize, but wonder why the change...

COLTC at Columbus GTX

I guess I should have announced this earlier... our Lego train club had a display in the Columbus Greater Train Expo, this weekend.

Pirates Coming to Legoland, CA

Just read about Legoland, CA expanding to include a new pirate themed area. Sounds cool. I've got old Lego magazines (from before Legoland, CA was around) with pictures of the pirate area in Legoland, Denmark. Always wondered why the didn't build one in CA... From the article, sounds like I might have another year or two wait... Now if they would build a Legoland, FL...

Wiki Brick Links

Received a nice e-mail from Klas Schöldström from Sweden, saying that he added my blog to his wiki, Wiki Brick Links. Thank you very much, Klasbricks! Very nice site... cleanly laid out... I'll have to start blogging about Lego more to make it into the 'More often than weekly' category. ;)

Mindstorms NXT

It's been blogged to death now, but Mindstorms NXT looks cool! I've added nxtbot.com Blog to my Google Newsreader...

It uses Bluetooth? Cool!