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Brickish Model at Milton Keynes LEGO store

The LEGO Brand Stores have a LEGO User Group (LUG) Showcase - a display box in which AFoL models can be displayed. Models are displayed for six week periods and then switched out with a new one. These are co-ordinated by AFoL groups like Brickish.
Don't forget to have a look when you next visit the stores.



Tug/Tender Calshot at Milton Keynes by Jonathan Nolan - from January 2012

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Brickish models at Cardiff & Stratford LEGO stores

The LEGO Brand Stores have a LEGO User Group (LUG) Showcase - a display box in which AFoL models can be displayed. Models are displayed for six week periods and then switched out with a new one. These are co-ordinated by AFoL groups like Brickish.
Don't forget to have a look when you next visit the stores.



Princess Leia at Carfiff by Ed Diment - from December 2011



Geogian House (modular building scale) at Stratford by Mandy Dee - from January 2012

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LEGO Christmas tree as St Pancras station in the METRO

Why is Lego still such a hit with adults and children alike?



Read more in the METRO

Some Brickish members were involved in building a LEGO Christmas tree at St Pancras station.

also in Gizmodo

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Brickish models at Bluewater and Westfield (Stratford) LEGO stores

The LEGO Brand Stores have a LEGO User Group (LUG) Showcase - a display box in which AFoL models can be displayed. Models are displayed for six week periods and then switched out with a new one. These are co-ordinated by AFoL groups like Brickish.
Don't forget to have a look when you next visit the stores.



Yuri Gagarin at Bluewater by Gary Davis - from November 2011



Mr & Mrs Santa – Its Christmas and my 6x minifig model of Santa and his wife are here to bring us all lots of Lego presents and wish us all a Merry Christmas. “Merry Christmas to all, and to all a Good Night” at Westfield (Stratford) by Andy Walker - from November 2011

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Brickish model at Liverpool LEGO store

The LEGO Brand Stores have a LEGO User Group (LUG) Showcase - a display box in which AFoL models can be displayed. Models are displayed for six week periods and then switched out with a new one. These are co-ordinated by AFoL groups like Brickish.
Don't forget to have a look when you next visit the stores.



Rapunzel at Liverpool by Robert Clarkson - from November 2011.

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LEGO at Haddenham Dolls Show

At it was Remembrance weekend - War Memorial on High Brickham


More photos are shown here

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LEGO trains at Greenock Model Railway Show

Here the children were operating the trains:



As the first Model Railway Show at Greenock Town Hall was in 1986 (25 years ago), I had trains from 1986 and some current trains for the children to operate. You can just see part of set:7866 Remote Controlled Level Crossing.
I also had a small display showing blue, 12V, 9V and plastic track and a carriage from each era. I was amazed at the number of parents that had blue track trains when they were young - LEGO trains in the '70's were a major part of the range.
My layout came second as voted by the public - I think it was because the children could control the trains.

Other (non LEGO) layouts are shown here

Part of the layout showing LEGO trains of different ages. DG

Brickish model at Milton Keynes LEGO store

The LEGO Brand Stores have a LEGO User Group (LUG) Showcase - a display box in which AFoL models can be displayed. Models are displayed for six week periods and then switched out with a new one. These are co-ordinated by AFoL groups like Brickish.
Don't forget to have a look when you next visit the stores.



Town and train scene at Milton Keynes by Jonathan Nolan - from October 2011.

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Brickish models at the Stratford & Westfield LEGO stores

The LEGO Brand Stores have a LEGO User Group (LUG) Showcase - a display box in which AFoL models can be displayed. Models are displayed for six week periods and then switched out with a new one. These are co-ordinated by AFoL groups like Brickish.
Don't forget to have a look when you next visit the stores.



Yuri Gagarin at Stratford by Gary Davis - from October 2011



Space display at Westfield by Andrew Hamilton - from July 2011.

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LEGO experts think outside the blocks

The SUN newspaper has been giving away small LEGO sets all week.

But what could you build in just 15 minutes using just the pieces from all seven model giveaways?



Two Brickish members, Ed Dimint and Garry Davis were asked to see what they could build.

LEGO experts think outside the blocks in the SUN website

It includes a video of them building them (after the advert).

Try it yourself !

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Brickish models at the Brighton & Milton Keynes LEGO Stores

The LEGO Brand Stores have something called the LEGO User Group (LUG) Showcase - a display box in which AFoL models can be displayed. Models are displayed for six week periods and then switched out with a new one. These are co-ordinated by AFoL groups like Brickish.
Don't forget to have a look when you next visit the stores.



One was installed in September 2011 at Brighton. It is the Brighton and Hove Albion shield logo along with a geodesic lifesize football, both made by Stuart Crawshaw and Naomi Farr.



Another was installed in July 2011 at Milton Keynes. A model of High Wycombe's Red Lion Hotel set in the Georgian period by Skegga Thorn. Many of the bricks used in this model are over 50 years old.

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The previous model at Brighton was the Tan Temple by David Tabner which can be seen here.

George the Giant robot

Simon Burrfield's robot

LEGO George the Giant robot
On ROBOTC website

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STEAM 2011

Reports on STEAM (Great Western LEGO show)



Brothers Brick

Gimme LEGO blog

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Brickish members contribute to The LEGO ideas book

The LEGO® Ideas Book

Another Dorling Kindersley LEGO book - order for Christmas .

"Perhaps the best thing about the book is that most of the models have been created by AFOLs, the majority of whom are Brickish Association members: Barney Main, Tim Goddard, Duncan Titmarsh, Andrew Walker from the BA, and Debrah Higdon and Sebastiaan Arts. They have done a fantastic job, and it's interesting to see that they've sometimes used building techniques that LEGO set designers probably wouldn't."

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"We really are being spoilt for LEGO books this year. We've already had several excellent Dorling Kindersley books and now two more have been published. This one, however, is slightly different to the others in that it's been created with the help of AFOLs rather than the LEGO group, although of course it is licensed from them. (I'll be reviewing the other new DK book, the Star Wars Character Encylopedia, in due course.) As its title suggests, this is an ideas book that provides inspiration for your own models. It's A4-ish in size and about 200 pages long. Its presentation is as stunning as we've come to expect from DK: superb photos on clean white backgrounds surrounded with snippets of text. It makes a superb coffee-table book. It's divided into six chapters which set the theme for the models within: Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Town and Country, Out of this world, In Days of Old, A World of Adventure and Make and Keep. Most pages features a main model and variations of it. The book doesn't contain instructions for any models, but usually shows enough pictures of them to be able to reverse-engineer them should you want to. However, that's not the idea really, the models are intended for inspiration for your own creations. I had to chuckle at the statement in the introduction about this "We don't show building steps or lists because it's unlikely you will have all the bricks for each model...' Actually, I think it highly likely that I do, and I suspect many of you do too! Perhaps the best thing about the book is that most of the models have been created by AFOLs, the majority of whom are Brickish Association members: Barney Main, Tim Goddard, Duncan Titmarsh, Andrew Walker from the BA, and Debrah Higdon and Sebastiaan Arts. They have done a fantastic job, and it's interesting to see that they've sometimes used building techniques that LEGO set designers probably wouldn't, although I'm told all models had to be approved by LEGO. Should you buy this book? If you build with LEGO bricks then yes, this is for you. If you're someone who just buys sets and keeps them MISB, then it probably won't be of interest. But nobody here does that, do they? :-) It's available from Amazon for about half the publisher's price so there really isn't a reason not to add it to your bookcase." Review by Huw - Brickset.com

Chris Salt describes LEGO stop motion animation

'Using LEGO as the building block of movie making' on the BBC website.



Chris Salt describes how to make stop motion films

'A brick does not move. Its very immobility is its defining characteristic''

'All you need is a base plate, a figure and a camera to point at it.'

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The Royal Wedding

Brickish members have made their tribute to the Royal Wedding.

Clip of Justin Ramsden on 'This Morning'



And his pictures of the Royal Couple are here

The heads are also on permanent display in the Creation Centre at Legoland Windsor.



Also a group of Brickish members have built a model of Westminster Abbey

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Ed, Annie & Ralph and USS Intrepid - updated

Ed, Annie & Ralph are on lots of blogs with their model of the Aircraft Carrier USS Intrepid:



Click here for Gizmodo

Click here for lego blog

Click here for Dr Dave

Click here for Daily Mail

Click here for Merian West TV

Click here for Active Dad

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STEAM 2010

Here is a link to some photos from STEAM



Click here for photos

'TED' talk on being an adult fan of LEGO

An AFOL talking about being an Adult Fan of LEGO - sorry he is not a Brickish member

Some of you may be familiar with the TED talks that cover a very diverse range of subjects each in 6 minutes. This one is by Hillel Cooperman about being an AFOL. A quite a good promo for adult fandom I thought. It shows how buying a set for the children can change your life! Click here for 'TED' talk

Father's day shopping extravaganza

AFOLS hit the LEGO shops to buy their own Father's day presents.

Brickish members descended on the LEGO shops at Milton Keynes, Bluewater & Brighton to buy their own Father's day presents. They received a special discount and didn't have to prove they were fathers. Hopefully there will be several more similar events before Mother's day. All we need now if for LEGO to open a shop in the northern half of the UK. Thanks to Julie for organising it.

Lego Train Show at Bucks Rail Centre; a great success!

A new Adult Fans of Lego display where the model trains ran beside their full size counterparts!

The first display by Adult Fans of Lego at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre, on the 5th and 6th June, was an all-round success with positive feedback from all. It was a part of their World in Miniature weekend event. We are planning to return next year and to make this an annual event.

Links to pictures of the event on our Brickish Events Page.

The next display is a joint layout at the Alresford Festival of Toy Trains, in Hampshire, on the 26th June.

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Great Western Lego Show on SwindonWeb TV

The Brickish Association's biggest event of the year, The Great Western Lego Show, was featured on SwindonWeb TV. Click to get a feel for this amazing spectacle.

Steven Locke's Daleks in Evening Express

Brickish Association member Steven Locke was featured in the Evening Express on 16th October 2009 about the incredible life sized Dalek he's building.

Click here to see the article or here for an enlarged version.

David Tabner in Portsmouth Today

Portsmouth Today featured an interview with David Tabner about his models of tube trains and his 50,000 brick model of East Finchley train station.

Click here to see the full article.

James Sutton in the News

Brickish member James Sutton was featured in his local paper about his fantastic model of C3PO and R2D2 from Star Wars.

Click here to see the article.

The Great Western LEGO Show

The Great Western LEGO Show will be held at STEAM - Museum of the Great Western Railway in Swindon on 3rd and 4th October 2009. Please see the STEAM information page for more details or visit the STEAM Museum web site.

Peter Reid on Boing-Boing

In October, Peter Reid was featured on Boing-Boing, one of the most widely read blog sites on the web for his amazing robotic creations.

Brickish Member's Webcomic featured by BBC

The BBC website featured Andrew Summersgill (aka Doctor Sinister)'s Grunts webcomic in an article on comics on the web.

Brickish Member Wins BBC Animation Competition

BBC's Adam and Joe chose Chris Salt's excellent Jane's Brain video as the winner of their Video Wars competition. Chris's Lego animation fought off some stiff competition to bag him the prize. You can see his winning entry below.

Ed Diment's HMS Hood Featured in Daily Mirror

Brickish Member Ed Diment's 100,000 brick model of the naval vessel HMS Hood was featured in the Daily Mirror on 27 October 2008.

End of the block party?

The Irish Times interviewed Brickish members Yvonne Doyle and James Shields about a court decision opening the Lego brick up to competition from copycats.

The Great Western LEGO Show

The Great Western LEGO Show will be held at STEAM - Museum of the Great Western Railway in Swindon on 4th and 5th October 2008. Please see the STEAM information page for more details or visit the STEAM Museum web site.

Brickish member Duncan Titmarsh on ITV Thames Valley Tonight

See Duncan Titmarsh on ITV Thames Valley Tonight talking about the 50th Anniversary of the LEGO system of play!

Scroll to 14 minutes in for the start of the LEGO news story.

Brickish member Darren Smith on ITV Westcountry News

See Darren Smith on ITV Westcountry News talking about the 50th Anniversary of the LEGO system of play!

Scroll to 27 minutes in for the start of the LEGO news story.

Brickish member Michael LeCount on ITV Yorkshire

A giant giraffe joins Michael in the news studio before we see a tour of his house. View it here!. Scroll to 13 minutes in for the start of the LEGO news story.

Brickish member Tim Fegan on BBC Look East

See Tim Fegan on BBC Look East talking about the 50th Anniversary of the LEGO system of play!

Brickish member Phil Traviss on ITV Tyne Tees

See Phil's collection, the largest in the country! Scroll to 23 minutes in for the start of the LEGO news story.

Brickish members Pete and Yvonne on five News

Watch a tour of their LEGO-filled house, including Pete's robots, Yvonne's houses and a kiss made in LEGO Heaven!

More Brickish members in the news!

See photos of more Brickish members in the news including Tim Fegan, Duncan Titmarsh, Pete Reid, Yvonne Doyle and Michael LeCount all talking about the 50th Anniversary of the LEGO system of play!

Building Instructions for 5-Minute Models

Following Simon Bennett's appearance on the BBC Breakfast show on Friday 25th January, several other Brickish members have been interviewed for TV and radio to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the LEGO system of play.

In response to requests, Building instructions for 5-minute models have been made available here which show you how to build some of the smaller models we have created and talked about during our interviews.

Brickish Association Chairman on BBC Breakfast

Brickish Association Chairman Simon Bennett appeared on the BBC Breakfast show on Friday 25th January. Simon was interviewed as well as challenged to build a custom model during the show and he built a miniature version of the TV studio! The show coincided with the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the LEGO system of play.

Photos of the Chairman on BBC Breakfast are available in our gallery and the video itself is now on YouTube

If you would like more information on the Brickish Association, please visit our contact page for details.

See us at Celebration Europe!

Members of the Brickish Association will be displaying custom LEGO models at Star Wars Celebration Europe at ExCeL in London on 13-15 July 2007.

For more details, visit the Celebration Europe website.

Brick Issue 9 now available for download

Issue nine of the Association's magazine is now available for download from the Brick Issue page. Features include London Underground Trains, more building techniques, the Window into the Community project, Modulex, a version of the Cathedral game, an event report on Merrist Wood and instructions for a covered well.

Brick Issue 8 now available for download

Issue eight of the Association's magazine is now available for download from the Brick Issue page. Features include a ScotFest-Truckfest 2005 event report, building a market for a Castle Town, Building the village: Portmeirion, Building the Delphinus and instructions for a bench.

Brick Issue 7 now available for download

Issue seven of the Association's magazine is now available for download from the Brick Issue page. Features include AFOL Archetypes, a Modern House, the LEGO Inside Tour, building LEGO Ships, LEGO Robots (Part II) and instructions for Turtle Droids.

Brick Issue 6 now available for download

Issue six of the Association's magazine is now available for download from the Brick Issue page. Features include Art-Deco buildings, LEGOLAND Billund, Building the Colonial Vipers and instructions for a mini Naboo fighter.

The Brickish Association in the Media

Following an article on the BBC website which included some comments from the Brickish Association's Chairman, Tony Priestman, there has been a spree of radio interviews for other association members.

On the evening of the 13th of April, Duncan Titmarsh was interviewed for BBC Radio Kent's drive show. Then on the morning of the 14th of April, Jon Reynolds spoke to Anne Diamond on BBC Radio Oxford, and a few hours later appeared on ABC Local Radio in Western Australia. Jon was also interviewed for ABC Radio Canberra on the 17th of April (the 18th, Australian time). The Brickish Association - an organisation with international appeal!