A Look At One of the Largest LEGO Libraries in the World

Ok, picked this up from Modular Life, a story about the LEGO "library" at the NetDevil offices, the makers of LEGO Universe. The article was posted by Kotaku's tour of NetDevil's offices, since LEGO Universe is to launch later this October. There's a gallery of images from the visit with some interesting close-ups of some of the employee's LEGO creations, photos of the offices' LEGO storage system (for programmer reference), cubicles, people at work, and this interesting photo that I'm attaching.

Since LEGO has yanked most images of the 2011 lineup from Flickr (due to copyright claims; images I got to see briefly), I'm thinking some of these characters might be from the Ninjago line... But you are all welcome to come up with your own answers & speculate. :)

...I like the bone piece used as a axe handle.

UPDATE: Just got a request to yank Kotaku's image from my blog... And I see there's been some photos yanked from Kotaku's article... so out of the original 30+ images, only 26 left.

The Flintstones

Fred Flintstone & Barney Rubble,
originally uploaded by mhuffman.

I've been staring at the caveman from the Minifig Collection, Series 1 for some time now thinking, I should build something Flintstones related. So I played around with the fig and found a Fred and Barney that I'm happy with. And I started doing some sketches of a house and car to make a simple scene with -- I was doodling stars and octopi for some reason as well. Anyway, so in my head, I have and idea of how to build the scene in LEGO... and I've also been tossing the idea around to build it for Festival of the Masters (FotM) coming up in November.

The theme for FotM is "Movie Moments"... I'm sure there's been a Flintstones movie, or even a Flintstones meet the Jetsons movie somewhere, so I'm thinking I can get away with it. But I'm not 100% sold on the idea... Oh, and I do have some dinosaurs to put into the scene as well; but I'd prefer to have the Duplo ones, they look more cartoony...

Anyway, if you look on Google today, it's the 50th anniversary of the Flintstones... How's that for a coincidence?

Looking Forward to 2010

2010 is shaping up to be an interesting year... more LEGO Toy Story pictures have been released... and I'm personally excited about the collectable minifig series that is due out next summer...

On the technology side, I'll be working on the Brickworld web-site over the next few weeks, getting it ready for open registration... I've been helping Joe Meno out with a few special projects (can't talk about details yet)... I've started a Google Wave asking AFOLs their opinions of the impact of this new technology will be on the AFOL community (send me an email if you want to join in the discussion, or if you need a Google Wave account)... So far, it's more about playing with and understanding this new technology... As a result from the discussion, there's been a Google Wave containing a global AFOL contact list... And I've got some updates planned for BrickBuildr...

On the LUG side, there's the normal train shows & LUG displays at MegaCon and Festival of the Masters, but next year Star Wars Celebration V will be coming to Orlando, Aug. 12-15, 2010... the LUG will be looking into doing a display at CV... if we get display space, we're thinking about asking other LUGs to join us...

There's probably other things I'm forgetting about for next year...