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Interview with CBC St. John’s Morning Show

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NewfoundLUG’s Annual Showcase is coming up this weekend (Feb. 23), and CBC’s St. John’s Morning Show will be interviewing NewfoundLUG President Stephen Churchill.  Listen in on Friday Feb. 22 between 7:00 – 7:30 AM for details on Newfoundland and Labrador’s LEGO Users Group and the upcoming showcase!

CBC Radio One 
88.5 FM St. John’s
640 AM St. John’s

Listen online at:
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live/radio1/st-johns

NewfoundLUG’s Second Annual LEGO Showcase

NewfoundLUG on CBC NL’s ‘Whadd’ya At?’

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Back in August, CBC NL did an interview with NewfoundLUG members Matthew Zwicker and John Gillingham.  Check out the video to hear Matthew explain “What the heck is a LUG?” and hear John describe how NewfoundLUG got started.  The segment turned out great, with plenty of shots of member builds and sets.  Thank you to Bricks & Minifigs for lending space for the shoot, and to CBC NL!

NewfoundLUG, and a love of Lego

Who knew Lego could be art? This group in the St. John’s area get together to create NewfoundLUG – Lego Users Groups – because they love the creating scenes with the classic toys.

SHIPtember 2018

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SHIPtember – Build a LEGO spaceship at least one hundred studs in length during the month of September.

One of our LUG members (Swoosh Factor) is taking on the SHIPtember challenge this year and is sharing his progress via Flickr.  Check out his build in the album below and keep an eye out for updates.

SHIPtember Day 1

From the event organizers:

SHIPtember 2018

SHIPtember
One Month.
One Hundred (plus) studs.
Seriously HUGE.
Seriously FUN.

Build a SHIP must be 100 studs or longer between September 1st and October 1st. That’s it!

 What do I do? Simple! Start building your SHIP starting on Sept 1st, and start posting WIP shots as you go so everyone can all praise your guts for building a SHIP in a month!

Work in progress (WIP) shots should be posted in The SHIPyard

 And your final glory shots should be posted in the Finished Armada Thread

  Pre-SHIPtember Rule! – Start whenever!

Since a good portion of people are going off to school in September or otherwise disposed, you can start now as long as you start posting in the WIP thread – you have one month to finish.

 What is a SHIP? a S.H.I.P. is a Seriously Huge Investment in Parts and is at minimum 100 studs in length. Alternatively it has also been dubbed a S.eriously H.uge I.nvestement in T.ime…

 What scale should the SHIP be? Whatever floats your SHIP.

 Does it have to be space-ship

Yes.

Meeting Minutes: May 30, 2018

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NewfoundLUG met on May 30, 2018 at Bricks & Minifigs, St. John’s.

Attendees

  • · Paula Gillingham, Andrew House, Mike Matthews, Geoff Stevens, Steve Churchill, Patrick Barnes, Matt Zwicker, Andrew Wheeler, Jon Jones, Don Richard

Minutes

  • By-laws:
    • Draft by-laws for the LUG were posted to the Facebook group for consideration prior to the meeting and printed copies were available at the meeting.
    • By-laws were approved by all present.
  • Geek-Out at the Library
    • About 250 attendees.
    • Positive feedback from library staff about the Group and they indicated they would be happy to have the Group back in the future.
    • Some observations:
      • The area for building with LEGO was busy all day. This could be made larger. Noted that the LEGO was provided by the library.
      • Group members all felt the event went very well.
      • It was great to have lots of space.
  • Ideas for future shows/events:
    • Group members could do demonstration builds for kids, showing how a technique or portion of their MOC was built. Could be impromptu.
    • Set up small example models; challenge kids to build them from a pool of bricks.
    • Make-and-take type event, possibly in conjunction with the store.
    • Building technique demonstration by LUG members.
      • This could be included in meetings too.
  • Website
    • Domain name and 1-year hosting in place, thanks to Andrew House.
    • Cost about $60 per year.
    • Discussed email capabilities and decided to use Gmail due to additional cost of domain-based email.
    • Funds will be raised to reimburse Andrew for the website cost. This may be a set draw in collaboration with Bricks & Minifigs. Steve to discuss further with John G.
  • Upcoming Shows/Events
    • Avalon Expo
      • Event August 24-26 at the Remax Centre.
      • Discussion on last year’s event, and changes made for this year’s event.
      • Agreed for the LUG to attend Avalon Expo.
      • Applications not yet open for community groups.
    • Plastic Modeler’s group
      • Event in October.
      • Discussions are ongoing about the LUG joining the event.
    • Kids event
      • Discussion on the LUG hosting an event targeted more toward kids.
      • Tentatively planning for this in August.
  • Inclusion of kids in the LUG
    • Discussion on ideas for better including kids at the shows/events.
    • Good chance for kids to see MOCs by group members, learn new ways to build, and get ideas for things to build that interest them.
    • General consensus that kids are important to the LUG even though RLUG rules don’t count kids toward group membership.
  • RLUG Status (Recognized LEGO User Group)
    • Discussion on requirements.
    • For the purposes of RLUG status, LEGO counts group members aged teen and over.
    • Obtaining RLUG status is a goal but is secondary to building the LEGO community in NL.
    • Benefits of status:
      • LUG Bulk program. Designed for LUGs doing large layouts.
      • Some LUG specific-sets.
  • Group Ordering
    • Some ideas discussed on group ordering among members, such as adding on to BrickLink orders, using Bricks and Pieces, and splitting a bulk order by part/colour.
  • Scheduling Meetings
    • Discussion on how to best schedule meetings and suitable frequency.
    • Agreed to general meetings every 2 months, on alternating Tue/Wed.
    • Show/event meetings as needed.
    • Next general meeting: Aug 6 or 7.
    • Executive to discuss further and propose schedule for further meetings.
  • Set draft
    • Andrew Wheeler explained how set drafting works and asked about interest.
    • This could be part of a regular meeting or a more social event (Christmas?).
    • Noted that drafts are optional and the executive will discuss the idea further.
  • LEGO Conventions
    • Andrew Wheeler noted there are many conventions all over the world.
    • Anyone planning to attend one should let the group know. Other members may also attend.
    • Upcoming: BrickFair Virgina Aug. 4-5 and BrickCon Seattle Oct 4-7.
  • Logo for the LUG
    • Andrew Wheeler presented a LUG logo for consideration.
  • LEGO Mindstorms/programmable sets
    • Don Richard and Andrew House noted that the Geo Centre and Engineering Faculty have several Mindstorms sets on hand.
    • May be an opportunity for the LUG to do an event or build.