Where's Joe?

BrickJournal was completed about a week ago, so it's being looked at and proofed by the publisher right now, which is good because I have been doing some things since last post.

Orlando, Florida was the place to go in early November to go see the Festival of the Masters. I was there to display some Disney-related models andd also to hang around Walt Disney World. I have been a Disney fan since before my Dark Ages and so this is one of the must-do things on my annual calendar. It's also a good time to meet the Greater Florida LEGO Users Group and relax for a bit. The members are a great group, and this is their big event.

This year they also started a new thing: boat races. LEGO boat races, of course. There is a standard that was decuded, and they all met at a pool and competed. I acutally wasn't atthis event because I was at Epcot, but I kinda wished I was there, as there were some great stories and boats!

After that, I had a week, then I got 'the invite'... for a celebration at LEGO  Headquarters. And that's where I have been for the past few days. I'll post a story at BrickJournal.com soon about this - it was really neat!

Now it's back to the airport.....

LEGO MOC on TV...

Seen on the Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles:

The model was built by a couple of AFOLs who were recently in BrickJournal!

Doing more than building...

Kudos to LEGO's Enfield Office and Heidi Bailey!

BrickJournal will have an article on this.

You can find MOCs at the most unusual places...

2008-10-14 08:46:07 -0400, originally uploaded by jmenomeno.

One thing I do in my off time once a year is judge the LEGO models at the North Carolina State Fair. Most of the time, there are a variety of MOCs built by kids (there are two age categories and no adult category) and the ever-present entry of a set that is being submitted as a MOC.

This year, there was a MOC that was outstanding. Built by a teenager, this has a lot of nice work - the flowers are dogwood, and the butterfly is a swallowtail.

progress reports....

I'm working on quite a bit now, but it's always nice to add some real information to such a vague statement, so here's what I am doing...

BrickJournal Compendium 2 - Am in production on it, and am about 1/3 done. I compiled issues 4 and 5 and am repaginating (changing page numbers - easy - revising contents - not so easy). Tasks left: cover layout, composing the introduction, getting a foreward from someone. Possible ideas: Index for book. Currently, this is the priority project.

BrickJournal 4 (printed) - Am rounding up articles and editing/proofreading...about 20% done. Waiting for a couple of articles and need to write some too. 

BrickJournal 5 (printed) - Created cover design. 

BrickJournal 6 (printed) - Cover design pending.

Big goal for 2010: Bimonthly publication. This could be earlier, but all the compendiums need to be completed. 

They actually DON'T have knees!

Jason Freeny of Moist Production.com created this rather detailed anatomic diagram of the typical LEGO minifigure.

Egad!

got way too much to do, but I'm posting on the blog....

One of the great things about working on BrickJournal is that I never know what to expect for articles. Over the years (really) I have gotten articles from many people and places, and it's always been a fun process of discovery and construction to make an issue of BrickJournal.

There's other things going on too - BrickJournal is helping to spread the word of the community by assisting in promoting events and being part of a community event calendar. I had one by myself, but that became a real chore to do...now the calendar has been made available as a community effort, and BrickJournal is helping.

Working the LEGO Group has been an ever-evolving process, and one that is becoming more exciting as each issue is released. We have had some exclusive things presented, and will continue to do so...in fact there's a surprise for next issue!

so the question is:

What do you want in BrickJournal?