State of the LUG – 2023

Hi all – Happy New Year, and welcome to our new members! It’s been a minute since we had an update, so let’s talk about what we have coming up in 2023.

LUGBulk

If you are waiting for the next update on LUGBulk – so are we. We should see the parts list by mid January, and we will move fast when that happens. Next steps are:

  • LEGO releases list
  • Eligible LUGBulk Participants select 4-5 elements
  • Run Mock order for all participants
  • Use Mock order to reduce list to final 85 elements
  • Run the real order
  • Submit to LEGO

Watch this space and your email, we will need to move fast!

LUG Showcase

We will be at the Holiday Inn on March 31-April 1. Save the Dates!
If you are planning on having a table to display your LEGO Builds, we will be taking signups shortly. We’ve also had some interest from kids who’d like to display, so we will be discussing how that’s going to work.

Meetings

Meetings will continue – we want to try and have a meeting about once a month, so we will be scheduling something soon.

Build Challenges

We will also be bringing back monthly build challenges – if you have an idea for a theme, post in the comments!

LUGBulk has Arrived!

We have received our LUGBulk delivery!

We will be doing the sorting this Sunday, July 24th, 12:30pm at the St Thomas of Villanova Parish Hall, in Manuals.

For people that come, it would be helpful if you can bring a kitchen scale (that does fractions of grams) and some small tubs to help sort!

If you can come help, please let me know – if you come help sort, you can take your order home then!

New Challenge Build – Vancouver Island!

This is a really different one – we are doing a cross-Canada collaboration project, and our LUG was paired with Mid-Island LUG from Vancouver Island. So we want to see some builds based from there!

This one might need some research on your part! They did give us some ideas and starting points though:

  • Vancouver island architecture: The Bastion, The Empress hotel, Coombs (goats!), Chemainus, Ladysmith, Cape Scott lighthouse
  • They are BIG on Outdoor activities biking, skiing, surfing
  • Fishing, Logging are major industries
  • There’s a lot of small islands, so they have a lot of Ferry Boats
  • Wildlife can be things like Orca, Deer, Elk, Cougars
  • Dogwood is provincial flower
  • They also asked us to stay away from Indigenous Peoples iconography – we want to be sure we are respectful of cultural appropriation here.

Due date is August 20, and we are going to actually bring these builds together for a photoshoot if possible (if it’s not possible, we will figure something out then). Submit pictures on your build to newfoundlug@gmail.com.

Happy Building!