We recently encouraged our friends to join us on a challenge just to get everyone excited about building and sharing. Our challenge was to build something animal themed, and here is what our friends shared:
Our friend MC created this lifelike tarantula. We think it's fantastic! MC was very creative with the photos he shared. We really like how it is swinging from a string in this image below.
The Spider Shot
Wazzup?
The Walking Spider
Please share your positive comments with us to let MC know how great this creation is!
Recently, we met virtually with some other Lego fans from BrickAwesome for some fun and sharing. Since we have not been able to meet in person due to the pandemic, this fantastic community has given all of us the opportunity to connect with others who have similar interests and still share our lego creations through online meetings and pictures a few times a year.
This past weekend, BrickAwesome organized a speed build as part of the event. There were two different builds to recreate: a mini dinosaur from a Classics box and a propeller plane from a Creator set.
Both of us took part in the Propeller plane build. Here are some photos and video of our progress through it.
Getting set up...
Starting...
E2 was the first one finished, and E1 was second.
Check out our future posts with the cool creative builds we shared with our friends at the event!
This is my version of Lego Monopoly. I came up with this idea when our public library issued a summer challenge to create a game out of Lego at home, and because Monopoly is one of my favourite board games!
Each of the coloured sections are different places to buy.
The very dark blue and the black are the highways because there are no railroads I replaced the rail roads with highways. The blue is Boardwalk and Park place. The light blue is Oatmeal Ave and Vermont Ave. The pink is Baltic Ave and Mediterranean Ave. The red is Indiana Ave and Ketchup Ave. The orange is New York Ave, Tennessee Ave, and Saint James. The green is Pacific ave, North Carolina, and Pencilveinia Ave. And lastly the yellow is Marvin gardens, and Atlantic ave. There are no utilities.
That's Go. Pass Go and collect $200!
This is the cop sending you to jail.
This is the jail.
The red bricks are the hotels and the green ones are houses.
This dinosaur shows one of the chance spots.
Get it? Because when you're running from a dinosaur you're really taking chance!
This is the other chance spot.
In the corner spot is "Free Coffee" like the Free Parking space.
2020 has been a very different year. We were looking forward to gathering with many brick enthusiasts to enjoy our common interest in all things Lego, however, with the restrictions imposed due to COVID-19, things needed to be done differently. No big gatherings meant that online meetings were going to have to do for now.
This post shows what we shared with our friends at BrickAwesome on May 9th on exhibition at the 2020 event.
E1: I built a large village, and here is a video that takes you on a tour of all my new creations!
You will see a drive-in movie theatre with lots of custom cars, watching my Lego Iron Giant tribute stop-motion mini movie,
a sky train, town square, restaurant, church, a hang gliding figure, a working crane, a pizza shop, a school, and see if you can spot the dinosaurs! Tell me how many you counted...
Then you will see my Time Machine ship, then my Iron Giant posable figure.
Next, here are some photos of E2's village and other creations.
E2's village
E2: In my village you will see a crane that works by pulling chains and levers, a camper, a tow truck, and a pizza parlour!
Busy Construction scene
This is Brick Pizza, my pizza parlour!
E2's Super-Awesome Jet
The online event went really well. We saw some neat creations at http://www.brickawesome.ca from the virtual entries tab. We learned that there are so many creative people who build with Lego!
During the event, we all explained our entries and voted for our favourite submissions in different categories.
Our submissions got voted on too.
E2's Super Awesome Jet won for best spaceship!
E2 with his Prize BrickAwesome 2020 trophy and minifigure.
And E1's Drive-In Movie Theatre with stop-motion movie won for one of the Creative builds!
E1 with his new BrickAwesome 2020 trophy and minifigure.
We are so glad to have a great community with other brick enthusiasts who continue to encourage and inspire us to keep on building!
There were so many awesome displays from other builders; it was so neat to meet other Lego enthusiasts.
Lego Star Wars display
We has so much fun; there was a table set up with piles of bricks to build with, including wheels to make racers. We made several models to race and play with.
Another table had racing lanes set up for mini car drag racing.
There were five Speed Building challenges, and we took part in all of them.
We're speed building the Jet!
Here is a video of us doing the Sailboat Speed Build. E1 finished first!
And we won an award at the end for 'Spectacular Build'
