We had 24 people attend our January 18th meeting (1 new person). The main event for the meeting was our Sculpture Contest (with 1st, 2nd & 3rd place prizes) as well as a discussion about a full layout we are planning in conjunction with the Lego Movie release in Febuary.
Here’s some pictures of what people brought in:
Randy’s Warner Brother’s Water Tower
Clark’s Tovrea Castle
Tim’s RC Car
Rod’s Chess Set
Joe’s “The LEGO Movie” sign
Lawrence’s buildings
Larry’s Crazy Cat and friends
Here are the sculpture contest winners and entries:
1st place winner: Joe’s Balancing Spheres (or strange solar system)
2nd place winner: Michael’s Lamp
3rd place winner: Mark’s Hobbs
Stephanie’s Lego Sign
Motley’s Keystone Kops
Nate’s Piano
Nate’s Stain Glass
Here’s the first place winner:
1st place winner: Joe’s Balancing Spheres (or strange solar system)
We had a city/train layout at the Tucson Toy Train Meet & Show on Jan 10 and 11, 2014. We had 9 club members helping out on the display. We also had a small play area for the kids.
Over all view of our city/train layout
Tovrea Castle (created by Clark)
Old West Village (created by Nate and Joe)
Front Street (buildings created by Corey And Stephanie and trucks created by Randy)
Main Street (buildings created by Corey and Stephanie and Trucks by Randy)
Main Street (buildings created by Corey and Stephanie and trucks created by Randy)
The railyard (custom train cars created by Nate)
Play area
Overall view of the room we were in. The play area (not shown) is to the left of the picture.
A N-gauge layout at the train show.
Overall view of the main room that the Train show was in. CactusBrick was in a room to the right of this picture.
Cactus Brick will have a Lego train layout at the Tucson Toy Train Meet & Show in Tucson, AZ on Jan 10th-11th, 2013. The hours are on Friday: 2PM – 7PM and on Saturday 9AM – 2PM.
We had 14 people attend our December 21st meeting (3 new people). The main big event was the gift exchange (white elephant or dirty brickster), but we had a few things that people brought in to show:
Steve A’s old city set from the 80’s
Chris P’s tower building
Corey’s new office building’s bottom section. WIP
Stephanie’s new city layout buildings (the one on the left is WIP)
Randy’s Warner Bro’s Watertower (WIP)
Christmas Gift Exchange (Josh got first pick and seems happy about it)
We were at the Arizona Toy Train Show on Dec 7th, 2013 in Glendale, AZ. We had a great city/train layout and a play area for kids to build with either normal Lego bricks or with Duplo. Here’s some pictures of the event:
Overall view of the CactusBrick city/train layout with the city and winter village in the foreground.
Overall View of the city/train layout with the forest, valley and waterfall in the foreground.
Larry’s Winter Village (and Joe’s Ski Lift).
Joe’s High Plains (River and Cabin plus hillside)
Joe’s Valley and Train
Nate and Joe’s old Mission, adobe village
Main Street. Buildings by Corey and Stephanie
Steve (GenYus)’s Church, closed pool and house (with Larry’s Winter village in the background and one of Randy’s custom trucks)
Nate’s railyard with Joe’s Monorail and Corey’s Riverview Manor.
The vendor’s area of the Arizona Toy Train Show
One of the other train layouts at the Arizona Toy Train Show. This one is HO gauge.
We were at the Tempe History Museum’s Band Night on Dec 6th, 2013. In addition to 5 static displays that are going to be at the Tempe History Museum for the entire month of December, we also brought displays for their Band Night on Dec 6th. There was also a play brick area that was very busy most of the night. Here’s the pictures of our display:
Front door of Tempe History Museum with CactusBrick Banner
Micro City with Josh, Corey, Stephanie and Steve N’s buildings.
Steve N’s Winter Victorian House
Motley’s Christmas Scene
Corey’s Micro Castle Middleham
Stephanie’s Zebra Plant
Corey and Stephanie’s Scottsdale School House and ASU’s old main and Randy’s Custom Trucks.
Cactus Brick will have a Lego train layout and Children’s play brick at the Arizona Toy Train Show in Glendale, AZ on Dec 7th, 2013. The hours are 9AM – 4PM.
Cactus Brick at the Arizona Toy Train Show on Dec 7, 2013