Today it is Open Bedrijven Dag, a day where all sorts of big companies open their doors to grant the people a look behind the scenes.
BeLUG had been invited by Infrabel, who are responsible for the train infrastructure within Belgium, to come and show LEGO trains. So three of our members, namely Ludo, Danny and Fabio, put down an awesome looking train display...
As I arrived, the build up was in full swing to marvel the audience, which started to arrive around 10.30.
...filled with all kinds of Belgium moc`ced trains.
The station featured was that off Treignes (nearby Phillippeville, Namur) and had a lot of LEGO travellers.
The trains then started rolling around the layout, as I filmed a full circuit in both directions:
And here are some more lovely pictures of the machinery present
As well as the rest of the layout decoration.
We would like to thank the participants for their efforts, and they where all very happy with the special Event Brick we had printed for them. It`s a rather unique one as only 5 had been made for the event, and they thought it a great memorabilia for the event :-)
Well, it`s Force Friday today (until sunday, you get a First Order stormtrooper and triple VIP points with all Star Wars purchases btw). so today I' uploading a small free set of instructions.
These are from the US arm of Toys R Us, and part of a mini-build event back there that was in "honour" of the Rebels cartoon series.
Enjoy, and may the Force Live Long and Prosper Be With You
Not every MOC has to be super impressive or completely life-like as all the pieces of art we see passing by every day.
We all had to start somewhere, and I think it is only fitting that as a club blogpage, attention is paid to the creations of EVERY member of the club.
So today, Arne's parents posted his depiction of the Ros Beiaard, a folk tale from the Dendermonde region, on our Facebook page.
Arne, only aged 8 years old, did a great job on his build of the story of the 4 children and their horse, making use of even the Nexo Knights figures to complete it.
One of the "core duties" of a LUG is to carry out the LEGO values, and that is first and foremost to put a smile on the face of children.
Last week, a friend of mine contacted me with a small request for BeLUG. Her son is currently in the "Reuzen D" kindergarten class of miss Stephanie, at the Andreas Vesalius school, Edegem.
The children there have a small LEGO corner in the classroom to be able to play with and deploy their creativity, but they lack minifigures, having borrowed two for now from another class. So to that end, she asked if I perhaps could help them out with preferably 8 figures.
Now, of course this wasn`t a problem at all, and so I went to their little cosy classroom today in order to hand over some figures from my collection. Now, I did avoid putting in "popular" figures to prevent class riots, so I just went for generic figures and pieces to put the minifigs together.
The kids loved it, and quickly the first figure was already "missing in action", after being transferred to the play corner while the teacher and the kids wanted to do a headcount, so there are only 7 on this picture.
