LEGO Fan Weekend (Skærbæk) Round-Up

Name of Event: LEGO Fan Weekend 2014

Found at: http://www.fanweekend.dk/

Details: This year's LEGO Fan weekend event in Skærbæk, Denmark was announced to be the last, just weeks before the event. Being both a fairly official event and the last event of its kind, the usual issues of precedent and favoring one event above others didn't apply - so LEGO bigwigs Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen and Jorgen Vig Knudstorp were able to meet with some of the 350 exhibitors (from 24 different countries) and 2300+ public visitors. As an added bonus, the participating exhibitors also received an exclusive run of this year's Inside Tour set. Word is that the event will actually happen again next year, but as a fan-run event instead of an event LEGO runs for the fans. It should be interesting to see what that means for the future of the event, since it appears that most of the seminars for exhibitors at this year's event were run by LEGO employees. Now that we're back to rounding up events that none of our contributors personally attended, we've got coverage of this event: Mr. Tomato Bread's Flickr photos Community Team Blog: The Last LEGO Fan Weekend (event coverage) Community Team Blog: The Last LEGO Fan Weekend (announcement) Bill Ward has both uploaded photos to Flickr and blogged about the event. Cassiebsg's Brickshelf Gallery Gianni Bassini's Flickr photos The photo used above was taken by Bill Ward and shows a recurring miniland-scale layout by Stephan Sander.

San Diego Comic Con 2014 Round-Up

Name of Event: San Diego Comic Con International

Found at: http://www.comic-con.org/

Details: It's been a little too long since I've rounded up an event I didn't personally attend. July's San Diego Comic Con International is an enormous event that attracts an unreasonable amount of media attention, so rather than try to find everything, I'll focus on grabbing the LEGO-related coverage. While there's still plenty of that out there, my understanding is that the event itself isn't conducive to the sort of in-depth LEGO photos I like to see. If you've got a highlight we missed, let us know in the comments or by sending us an e-mail. IdleHandsBlog's Flickr photos (somehow, the blog these photos are tied to doesn't seem to have a dedicated post for LEGO coverage). StarWars.com: MASSIVE LEGO STAR WARS 15TH ANNIVERSARY MINIFIGURE CASE – SPECIAL PREVIEW! FBTB: LEGO Connect App LEGO Systems Unveils New Products, Experiences and Exclusives at San Diego Comic-Con MTV Reveals 75084 Wookie Gunship, Rebels’ Chopper Statue LEGO Stay Puft Marshmallow Man Statue to Debut at Comic Con Stay Puft Marshmallow Man On Display More Pictures of 79018 The Lonely Mountain Set LEGO Smaug Statue Details The Statues of The LEGO Booth The LEGO Star Wars Minifigure Gallery LEGO Batcycle Sculpture Allen "Tormentalous" Tran at The Brick Fan was in attendance and covered the event (and the announcements leading up to it) rather thoroughly in real time. Here are some of the highlights: POP! The Art of the Geek Exhibit at San Diego Comic Con 2014 San Diego Comic Con 2014 LEGO DC Comic Book Image Full LEGO Booth Details at San Diego Comic Con 2014 The LEGO Movie Unikitty SDCC 2014 Exclusive Minifigure LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham Panel at SDCC 2014 A Look at Beyond the Brick: A LEGO Brickumentary Panel at SDCC 2014 (Note: this is about the documentary film and not related to our favorite YouTube channel) The LEGO Movie Panel at SDCC 2014 San Diego Comic Con 2014 LEGO Recap He also took the photo shown above and about 200 more great photos (on Flickr), including close-ups of the four exclusive minifigures he was able to acquire. Rather impressively, LEGO and CREATACOR have put out official coverage of their presence at SDCC this year as well: CREATACOR's Flickr photos More of CREATACOR's Flickr photos CREATACOR blog post LEGO Press Release We've previously rounded up coverage of LEGO events at SDCC in 2010.

BrickCon 2014

Name of Event: BrickCon 2014

Found at: http://brickcon.org/

Details: BrickCon is this weekend! I (Dan) have all of 14 hours to finish packing before I leave for the airport! Who needs sleep? There are more MOCs to build! This year's theme is "Invasion", and that's why it's finally time for LMOTD to "invade" by making an appearance there this year. Although I actually used to live within driving distance of this convention, I never attended because I was in my teens at the time and BrickCon didn't allow anyone under 18 to participate in the full convention. Seriously, I still have the flyer from when they tried to advertise at a free event LEGO was running. Although BrickCon is still a needlessly exclusive event (seriously, why does anyone think LEGO events should exclude the people who have the most time to spend with the brick?), I've since aged to the point where I'd be allowed to attend - and more importantly, I've been convinced to go so I can see the birthplace of Mini LEGO Con. In spite of this being a smaller event (roughly 500 attendees, compared with nearly 1,000 at BrickFair Virginia or Brickworld Chicago), there are actually quite a few noteworthy builders attending, so it sounds like a promising show. Public hours are from 10-4 on Saturday, October 4th, and 9-3 on Sunday, October 5th. Find me there and you can get your hands on one of our 2x2 LMOTD tiles. I'll add our usual round up of coverage of the event to this post after the event has passed. This was a great event - in spite of the smaller size, BrickCon has roughly the same concentration of talent as some of the larger conventions, so there's still plenty of great LEGO creations to take in and exciting people to meet. Here's our round-up, still in the early phases as of this writing (10/10/2014): My (Dan's) photos are on Flickr. pasukaru76 highlighted Star Vikings at BrickCon 2014 (on Flickr). pasukaru76's general BrickCon 2014 photos on Flickr Lino's Flickr photos The Brothers Brick wrap-up Nannan's Flickr photos brickstuff's Flickr photos BrickCon Flickr pool Proudlove's Flickr photos legotanks' Flickr photos Lonnon Foster's Flickr photos Bill Ward's Brickpile's Flickr photos and blog post Sean Edmison's Flickr photos

BrickFair Virginia 2014 Round-Up

Name of Event: BrickFair Virginia 2014

Found at: http://www.brickfair.com/

Details: This was an absolutely fantastic event this year - as always - and I'm going to probably write much more about it over the next few months. I'm still recovering from what was an amazing and exhausting 7 days (yes, 7) at BrickFair Virginia. It could take weeks for me to process everything that happened there, and I could write pages of thank yous to everyone involved who helped to make it a magical experience. I recently finished uploading my photos to Flickr. There are fewer than 4,000 this year, which we should all consider a scandalous disappointment. Personally, I love this event too much - between the giant exact-map Mini Con layout and the 4 games/seminars I was in charge of, I spent most of the event running around setting things up. I didn't have time to photograph everything, and I actually never properly worked out where I needed to add an additional magnet to my badge (I ended up not wearing it much because I needed to make sure it didn't fall off). The photo to the left is from Joe "Unhalfbricking" Miserendino of this year's Micropolis collaboration, after the invasion of some Exo-Suit sets. Micropolis is always a large fixture at BrickFair Virginia, but the decreasing popularity of the micropolis standard at other events means that BrickFair Virginia now represents the largest ongoing Micropolis display at a convention. As always, if you have or know of photos or other coverage of BrickFair Virginia 2014 that I don't have here (I'm sure there's something I'm missing - I'm starting with fewer links than usual in the interest of not putting this off any longer), feel free to mention it in the comments or send an e-mail to legomodeloftheday@gmail.com so that we can add it here. my (Dan's) Flickr photos JustJon's Flickr photos Black Six's Flickr photos Kreativ Snail's Flickr photos Bob Hayes' Flickr photos ajfeist's Flickr photos TJJohn12's Flickr photos DJ Quest's Flickr photos and videos Official BrickFair Flickr group (goes back to 2008) AgeOwns.com's Flickr photos ajfeist's Flickr photos BrickFair 2014 Flickr Group (130 photos as 9/1/2014) ToaMeiko's Flickr photos Brickset posted about the event shortly beforehand. ExclusivelyPlastic (Caleb L.)'s Flickr photos Bosta's Flickr photos bhrome's Flickr photos and videos Rob Bender Cale Leiphart's Flickr photos Beyond the Brick's Joshua Hanlon finally made it out to BFVA and BTB actually have published their own playlist of videos by made Beyond the Brick at BrickFair VA 2014 - but before they went, Josh and Matthew interviewed the event organizer (Todd Webb) and a frequent volunteer who plays a role in coordinating some collaborations (John Rudy). Interview with Todd Webb Interview with John Rudy Beyond the Brick Guided Tour (2.5 hrs) playlist of shorter on-site videos (including 12 more that I haven't singled out here) Beyond the Brick's Flickr photos EDWW day_dae (esteemedhelga)™'s Flickr photos are split into multiple sets this year: Pre-Show & Showtime BrickFair VA LEGO 2014 BrickFair VA LEGO 2014 I BrickFair VA LEGO 2014 II BrickFair VA LEGO 2014 III The Fox 5 videos seem to be a bit better this year, although their anchors still keep trying to put an 'S' at the end of LEGO and pretend that's a real word. My understanding is that there were four segments aired live Sunday morning, although only two appear to be online: 7:20 AM: Mini Con interview with Mariann Asanuma and Daniel Pikora (hey, we know those two!) 8:40 AM: Charity minifigures interview with Ben Spector 6:24 PM: Evening recap Fox 5's Kellee Azar also gave BrickFair some positive coverage on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KelleeAzarFox5/status/496374700570705920 https://twitter.com/KelleeAzarFox5/status/495916112291594240 https://twitter.com/KelleeAzarFox5/status/495888337677586432 We also rounded up coverage of BrickFair Virginia in 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011. I'm not sure why 2012 was skipped - I still intend to catch up on BrickFair 2013.

Brickworld Chicago 2014 Round-Up

Name of Event: Brickworld Chicago 2014

Found at: http://www.brickworld.us/

Details: For the second year in a row, LMOTD made it out to Brickworld Chicago. Technically speaking, back in 2013 we were still trying to merge with Beyond the Brick, so we skipped rounding up coverage last year in favor of video work (Matthew) and behind-the-scenes efforts for the aborted site (Dan). I may try to do a proper round-up of BW13 at some point, but for now I'm focusing on 2014. In the interest of being competitive, I did not take enough photos to beat my record from last year, but I did seem to take more than any other individual. I don't know if that counts as winning, but it's a start. It's weirdly satisfying knowing that I ended up missing a few of the MOCs because I was too busy enjoying rare opportunities to catch up with friends from previous events. Another nice thing for many of us is that the amount of high-profile people who showed up this time around and don't always make it (the west-coasters in particular had a huge presence this time) turned this into more of a networking event than in prior years - it was great getting to meet many of you that I previously only knew from online. Pictured to the left: the spectacular Micro-GARC Brickworld Grand Prix was not just a highlight of the event, but perhaps the most successful online community collaboration ever, with dozens of excellent models being put in a side area because of overwhelming participation. Usually you see group layouts find creative ways to work around low participation - this was the first time I've ever seen extra space required to fit excess models. This photo of part of the layout is by Cale Leiphart. As always, if you have or know of photos or other coverage of Brickworld 2014 that I don't have here (I'm sure there's something I'm missing), feel free to mention it in the comments or send an e-mail to legomodeloftheday@gmail.com so that we can add it here. My (Dan's) Flickr photos Brickapolis (Matthew)'s Flickr photos Beyond the Brick's Flickr photos (most descriptions have links to their videos on YouTube, including the keynote address and a tour, as well as interviews - which they're actually still editing and uploading) Nick Brick's Flickr photos: day 1, day 2, World of Lights, day 3, & day 4. Kevin Hinkle's Flickr photos CEE Team Blog Event Recap RedCoKid's Flickr photos Cecilie Fritzvold Flickr photos hinckley39's Flickr photos Joe Meno's Flickr photos: setup, World of Lights, 1, 2 Bill Ward's Flickr photo album and (blog post) Cale Leiphart's Flickr photos The official Brickworld Flickr pool SavaTheAggie's Flickr photos blackpony72's Flickr photos We also rounded up coverage of Brickworld Chicago in 2010 and 2011. Some housekeeping sidenotes: Yes, we still intend to round up coverage of other events, in particular BrickFair Virginia 2013, BrickFair Alabama 2014, and BrickFair New England 2014, because I (Dan) loved all of those and continue to be active with BrickFair as an event volunteer (please join us in Virginia later this month!). Also, I've decided to back off of trying to keep track of the official Flickr jargon - from here on out, we'll just refer to a grouping of photos on Flickr as "Flickr photos" (rather than "photoset", "set", "collection", or "album", since these seem to change).

BrickWorld 2011 Round-Up

Name of Model: BrickWorld

Found at: http://www.brickworld.us/

Details: BrickWorld 2011 has come and gone. Here's a round-up of some photos: Bill Ward's recap part 1 Bill Ward's recap part 2 Bill Ward's flickr photo roundup When lost in.....'s flickr photos marc_buehler's flickr photos martiger's flickr photos Joe Meno's flickr photos the rest of Joe Meno's flickr photos sidersdd's flickr photos Bisonfuehrer's flickr photos Alex Eylar's photos on MOCpages BrickWorld pool on flickr

BrickMagic 2011 Round Up

Name of Event: BrickMagic 2011

Found at: http://www.brickmagic.org/

Details: Now that we're beginning to recover from this weekend's festivities at BrickMagic, it's time to start rounding up coverage of the event. As previously noted, the new Pet Shop set was unveiled on Friday. I'll be updating this page as I come across more photos and other coverage - as always, you can send your tips in to legomodeloftheday@gmail.com my flickr photos Official group flickr pool Joe Architect's flickr photos Brickapolis' flickr photos tehLEGOman's flickr photos Photo above by Brickapolis, showing the speed build team next to their completed Tower Bridge set.

Star Wars Miniland is Now Open at LEGOLAND California

Name of Model: Star Wars Miniland

Created by: LEGOLAND California Master Builders

Found at: http://california.legoland.com/plan/shows_and_events/STAR-WARS-Miniland/

Details: You may remember that Star Wars Miniland opened recently. It's gotten a considerable amount of attention. You know what that means - it's coverage round up time. Official coverage: LEGO® STAR WARS™ Miniland Webcam Press release: Carrie Fisher Returns to “A Galaxy Far, Far Away” for the Grand Opening of STAR WARS™™ Miniland at LEGOLAND® California There's an official LEGOLAND California YouTube channel with several videos related to the opening event and the new display. Highlights of the unofficial coverage we've seen: Mariann Asanuma's report (includes photos and a video) Mariann Asanuma's advance preview (from March 5th - she also has some Star Wars flickr photos spanning a longer period that covers some of the construction and the final display) Paul D Hayes's flickr photos BestOfTodd's flickr photos Pixelated Geek has a gallery of photos from the opening cermony amyr_81's flickr photos Tommy Poulsen's flickr photos (this set is where the photo above is from) San Diego News report fbtb's flickr photos bradthegso's flickr photos Previously: Bonus: A Sneak Peek At Star Wars Miniland's Progress Star Wars Miniland Coming to LEGOLAND California Have a great link on the LEGOLAND California Star Wars Miniland that we missed? Send it in to legomodeloftheday@gmail.com

All About "Three Story Victorian with Tree"

Name of Model: Three Story Victorian with Tree

Created by: Mike Doyle

Found at: http://mikedoylesnap.blogspot.com/2011/01/three-story-victorian-with-tree.html

Details: There are actually a few other links relevant to this stunning model. Since Mike Doyle is something of a rising star in the LEGO community, he's attracting plenty of attention and having much written about his work already. It's great to see a relatively new builder creating such amazing models and getting recognized for it, but it makes it difficult for those of us who focus on writing something original about models we feature. Fortunately, I can also aggregate links fairly well - here's a round-up of sorts: The original blog post is the definitive page for this model (same link featured above) That's just one post on Mike Doyle's blog This model is also on MOCPages ...and on flickr ...and already dismantled! You can buy a commemorative print with a small chunk of the model now. There are also two work-in-progress posts about the construction of this model. LEGO Designer Marcos Bessa interviewed Mike Doyle about his projects, goals, and experiences In the interest of encouraging other new builders, Mike published his own primer on the LEGO hobby (I'd say he's off to a great start there!)

...and for those of you keeping score at home, this is post #1100.

LUGNUTs' "For the Ladies" Roundup

Name of Model: New Ford Territory 2011

Created by: lego911 (Peter Blackert)

Roundup found at: http://lugnuts-cars.blogspot.com/2011/03/for-ladies-round-up.html

Details: The LUGNUTs have been at it again - this past month, they had a theme loosely based around the Valentine's day holiday. "For the Ladies" brought out the usual interesting and impressive mix of vehicles. My personal favorite is this 2011 Ford Territory, which I actually had to check to see that it was made out of LEGO bricks. The curves of this one are almost too believable, and it looks like the doors even really open. The actual offset techniques here are things we've seen before, but the application is spot-on and really sells this design.

LUGNUTs - By Random Appointment Roundup

Name of Model: 1937 Bugatti tipo Cinquantesette Atalante

Created by: r a p h y

Round up found at: http://lugnuts-cars.blogspot.com/2011/01/by-random-appointment-roundup.html

Details: For December's LUGNUTS challenge - "By Random Appointment" - members of this elite club of LEGO car builders randomly swapped assignments to build specific vehicles. While you can always count on LUGNUTS to collectively come up with some great designs, this particularly challenge required people to commit to participating before they were assigned a car to build - which brought out some different approaches than we've seen in the past. Case in point: the model I've pictured here, built by someone who generally builds in the 4-wide "Tiny Turbo" scale. That the jump to minifig scale worked at all is impressive, but this is actually a classy-looking 1937 Bugatti that'd fit well in any minifig-scale town. Elsewhere, we can see some more welcome improvements in the variety of models showcased - while "Model Team" style models are common in the group, it looks like Technic builders are finally starting to make serious inroads into LUGNUTS. You should, of course, check out all the models you can from the links above.

LEGO World Zwolle 2010 Round Up

Name of Event: LEGO World 2010

Found at: http://www.legoworld.nl/english

Details: As I mentioned last Monday, LEGO World 2010 in Zwolle is now underway. The size of this thing is a bit hard to comprehend - this event actually features a full roster of musical guests, in addition to official LEGO displays and hobbyist (AFOL, or Adult-Fan-Of-LEGO) layouts. Here's an attempt at rounding up what's out there. Since this event is still in progress, we'll keep updating this page as we find out more. We'll also be trying to cover a few individual models from the show soon. Vincent Kessels's flickr photos rtvoost's flickr photos Mark's LEGO Projects' flickr photos RobinFotografeert's flickr photos This event is not to be confused with the other LEGOWORLD event in Denmark (I'm not sure why they haven't tried to differentiate the names more), which we rounded up back in February. We also rounded up LEGO World Zwolle 2009.

Brickcon Round-Up

Name of Event: Brickcon

Found at: http://www.brickcon.org/

Details: It was Brickcon time again this weekend. As I'm writing this, the festivities aren't over yet, so expect this page to be updated with more links over the next few days (or weeks - sometimes people take a while to upload photos, but we keep compiling them). We've previously covered the new set unveiled over the weekend. On to the photo links (again, we're still adding these - if you know of photos or other coverage that we don't, send in your tips to legomodeloftheday@gmail.com): Tac Anderson's flickr set girlhacker's flickr set from BrickJournal's Joe Meno: Brickcon 2010 Saturday Brickcon 2010 Friday Pans Brickcon 2010 Friday Brickcon Setup 2010 Bill Ward's flickr set redfive99's flickr set Czar's Brickshelf gallery Alex Eylar's MOCpages coverage jjackowski's flickr set (accompanying blog post) Group flickr pool eric11blue's flickr set Mariann Asanuma's blog recap and flickr set SnowLeopard's flickr set rabidnovaracer's flickr set blakbird's Brickshelf gallery SquidgeyFlint We've also tried to preview Brickcon 2009 and round-up BrickCon 2008 and NW BrickCon 2007.

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LUGNUTS' The Scuzz And The Fuzz Roundup

Name of Model: Volkswagen Passat

Created by: Mad physicist

Round up found at: http://lugnuts-cars.blogspot.com/2010/09/scuzz-and-fuzz-roundup.html

Details: It's time for another LUGNUTS' roundup. This past month, the flickr-based car building club's monthly challenge theme was "the scuzz and the fuzz" - a sort of police and criminals theme. As usual, it's brought up a great set of car models in a variety of scales. My personal favorite that is not by lego911 (a great builder but he's not the only LUGNUT deserving of our attention) is this Volkswagen Passat, based on the unmarked vehicles frequently used for undercover surveillance in the Netherlands. There's often a few clever takes on a theme that keep all the cars from being too similar (although in the case of this challenge, there were enough options that there wasn't much overlap in what people actually built), and this completely unmarked vehicle looks great without looking like too much of a police car.

Klocki Zdroj 2010 Photo Round-Up

Name of Event: Klocki Zdroj 2010

Created by: LUGPol

Found at: (link to graphic announcing the event)

Details: It's time for another round-up - this time, of photos of the Klocki Zdroj 2010 city. I believe that this is one layout at the event described in this graphic. Some great creations are here, and surprisingly I think I've neglected to post all of them so far. Photo links are below: Kris1234 (Kris Kelvin)'s Brickshelf photos of his Town Hall and Market built for Lugpol diorama Klocki Zdroj 2010 pepik's Brickshelf photos PigletCiamek's flickr photos Piglet's Brickshelf photos hippotam's flickr photos of his contribution as a work in progress

Arte em Peças Recap

Name of Event: Arte em Peças

Found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/0937/sets/72157624354793724/

Details: We are once again recapping great LEGO events this summer from around the world. This time, it's Arte em Peças (in English: Art in Parts), a Portuguese event hosted by the LEGO Users Group that calls itself 0937 (which, if you type it into a calculator and flip it over, spells "LEGO"). I know this recap looks a bit short compared to some of the larger round-ups I've posted, but the photo links above actually point to the official 0937 flickr account, which has over 1000 pictures of this event. The one account includes photos taken by several members of the group. Here are those links again along with all other Arte em Peças links that popped up on my radar: Official flickr set Official event website Recap from Biczzz Mortymore's Brickshelf Gallery Einon's first Brickshelf Gallery Einon's second Brickshelf Gallery NoroPT's flickr photos

FANA'BRIQUES 2010 Round Up

Name of Convention: Fana'briques

Found at: http://fanabriques.free.fr/

Details: During the weekend of June 26th and 27th, the French LEGO fan community had their big convention. Since European countries are close together and travel is more accessible there (compared to in the United States), this ends up being another big international shindig. I've previously covered one of their Great Ball Contraption layouts - they generally have one of the world's best GBC layouts. Below are some links to photos and other coverage of the event. Francophone LEGO fans - we need your help digging up more photos and coverage of this year's FANA'BRIQUES event. Send in your links to legomodeloftheday@gmail.com tom.brehm's flickr photos b3rl1go's flickr photos Mindrunner's Brickshelf gallery marckl67's flickr photos f1tvf's Brickshelf gallery

Big Apple and More at NYC LEGO Flagship Store

Name of Page: New LEGO NY Store takes a bite out of the Big Apple

Created by various Master Builders for the LEGO company

Found at: http://modelbuildingsecrets.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/new-lego-ny-store-takes-a-bite-out-of-the-big-apple/

Details: This big apple (a play on New York's nickname) will be on display through next Tuesday at New York’s Rockefeller Center. The sculpture was built to commemorate the opening of a brand new LEGO store, which is open now. The store is a "flagship" store, which seems to be like the "Imagination Centers" we've seen sprout up elsewhere. Several smaller sculptures are in the store as permanent fixtures. There are more photos of the shop and sculpture at the recap linked above, alternately you can check out the official webpage for the new store (which has the location details so you can plan your trip). Rounding up additional photos and coverage: MovinOverTheMoon's flickr photos Vengeance of Lego's flickr photos jacquelinemortimer's flickr photos erockonvolks's flickr photos notenoughbricks' flickr photos (focused on the "ribbon"-style models that are unique to this location) Kinzcove's Brickshelf gallery

Creatures of Habitat

Name of Model: Creatures of Habitat

Created by: Sean Kenney

Found at: http://www.seankenney.com/portfolio/philadelphia_zoo/ (additional photos and information at the other links below)

Details: I put off blogging this one in favor of getting some photos and news coverage in addition to what Sean Kenney wrote for his own site. That decision paid off, since I can now offer you a round-up of coverage of this exhibit, which lasts for several months. The particular picture above is roughly minifig-scale, and is one of three showing a rainforest in various states (healthy, destruction, replanting). The rest of this exhibit (running from April 10th to October 31st at the Philadelphia Zoo) features large, life-size sculptures. Here's a round-up of links covering the events: Sean Kenney's page for the exhibit (same link as above) TV commercial for the exhibit Official press release Courier Post photo slideshow uwishunu post Jonathan Bender's interview with Sean Kenney, part 1 Jonathan Bender's interview with Sean Kenney, part 2 In addition to the long-term display, there are also two "Build with Sean Kenney" events scheduled for visitors to the zoo (both events are free with zoo admission). One is next weekend, the other is in September.

LUGNUTS' Kickin' It Oldschool Roundup

Name of Model: Oldsmobile

Created by: NK DeSign-er

Found at: Oldsmobile: http://www.flickr.com/photos/32900512@N02/sets/72157624118916410/ Round-up: http://lugnuts-cars.blogspot.com/2010/06/kickin-it-oldschool-roundup.html

Details: It's time for another LUGNut's round-up. This time, the challenge was to recreate a car manufactured before 1950 (hence the "Kickin' It Oldschool" title). As usual, there were many great entries, but my personal favorite is the Oldsmobile pictured above. While it's not based on an exact make/model/year of car, it's an evocative, distinctive design that gets the idea of curves down without actually using many curved elements. Better yet, it's an alternate model that can be made out of only the parts found in set 4939 Cool Cars.