Successful Second LEGO Showcase

NewfoundLUG’s second annual showcase took place on Saturday Feb. 23 and was a great success. Some notes of thanks are in order:

  • All our visitors for your interest, great questions, and telling us about your LEGO.
  • NewfoundLUG members for bringing items to display and being available at the event.
  • Local media for their coverage of the event.
  • Bricks & Minifigs St. John’s for providing space for the event.

Media coverage of the event included interviews with President Stephen Churchill, Vice President Matthew Zwicker, and member Mike Matthews. CBC also stopped by to check out Stephen’s LEGO room! Check out some of the online coverage of the event:

Interview with CBC St. John’s Morning Show

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?’

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

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.