Brickfair & Mini MegaCon this Weekend

Brickfair swag,
originally uploaded by jmenomeno.

Joe Meno has started posting pictures to Flickr from BrickFair. Yeah! I am blown away the with the number of registered attendees to BrickFair... all I can say, it will be crazy, busy, plastic fun convention... Wish I could be there.

The reason for not being in DC this weekend? GFLUG will be displaying at (Mini) MegaCon this weekend. Can't let my mates down. :) This Mini MegaCon is a smaller show (the bigger show is in spring). It's a geek convention -- comics, artists, actors, models, wrestlers, robotics, anime, LARPers, gamers, etc. It's a fun mix of people watching & gawking -- there's lots of cos-players there as well.

I'll be posting pictures all weekend from the display -- a mix of LEGO and geekness. Oh and so will Joe. :)

The 2008 San Diego ComicCon

Lego Star Wars

Here's a few pictures from people who have tagged their photos with LEGO ComicCon 2008 (YMMV) -- from the 2008 San Diego Comic-Con that happened July 24-27, 2008 at the San Diego Convention Center.

BoingBoing Gagets

BrickBuildr was mentioned on BoingBoing Gagets! :)

Brickshelf RIP (2000-2007)

I've tried to resist jumping onto the bandwagon with this one... but I found this petition to be a little funny...

There seems to be a few different sides in reaction to Brickself going down: (a) those who feel entitled to knowing that BS was going down, (b) those wanting to help BS out (or buy it), (c) the clueless who doesn't understand how much effort goes into creating a site like BS and complain about it, (d) those who feel devastated that BS went down, (e) and those attacking Kevin personally. On one hand, it IS a blow to the LEGO community at large... but from what I understand, the images are not gone, but there is something in the works to preserve BS, so I expect to see a BS2 sometime soon... either the rights to BS will be bought and the web-site will be paid for somehow (either another volunteer or an business-smart group of investors); or another volunteer will fill in the the community gap.

But on the other hand, I really love Flickr and the tools/resources Flickr gives a person. Most people in Classic Space (and other fringe LEGO people) have moved to Flickr a long time ago, so it hasn't been that much of a blow. To be honest, I've stopped posting to BS over a year or more ago, in favor of posting to Flickr. I realized that not everyone got to see my pictures on a non-LEGO-community web-site, but I posted my Flickr gallery to LUGNET to get exposure. For awhile there, I favored my own image gallery -- I owned the images and it was easy to upload/maintain images on my own web-site -- but a few months back, I bought a Flickr Pro account, finding it worth the money.

The bottom line is that Brickshelf either needs to incorporate some of the features that Flickr does, otherwise not too many people will morn its passing.

LEGO KoL!

For those of you that know what KoL is (that's Kingdom of Loathing for you n00bs), there's a contest going on to build your favorite KoL scene out of LEGO... Hmm... I need to get to building... Deadline is Dec. 8th.

Ravensburger Puzzles?

So here's a new one on me... A co-worker sent a link to me of a Ravensburger Puzzle with LEGO sets. It's a puzzle of a picture of a LEGO set(s) and a little LEGO set included with the puzzle. He said he saw it right next to the LEGO, in the building toy isle.

WTF: Green Octopi?

What Lego set did green octopi come in? We wants it, my precious...

There's some dicussion over on BrickLink, but no one has a clue if it's a real LEGO item or just a painted one. I'm kinda hoping it's to be released in a set later this year...