lego – Page 8 – Cactus Brick

February 16, 2014February 19, 2014

March 15th, 2014 Meeting

We will be holding our March 15th meeting during our show at the Tempe History Museum. The show setup starts at 10AM, public viewing starts at Noon and breakdown starts at 8PM. Everyone is welcome anytime during those hours.

Tempe History Museum is at Southern and Rural (behind the Tempe Library).

CactusBrick show at Tempe History Museum on March 15, 2014

February 10, 2014February 16, 2014

February 15th, 2014 Meeting

We had 18 people attend our February 15th meeting (1 new person). No major event for the meeting. We had a lot of agenda items to discuss.

Here’s some pictures of what people brought in:

February 3, 2014February 11, 2014

Tempe Marketplace Display — Feb 6 to Feb 9, 2014

Cactus Brick had a display at Tempe Marketplace on Feb 6 to Feb 9, 2014. The display was our largest city/train layout we have ever done. This event was to help promote THE LEGO MOVIE which opened on Feb 7th. We had Emmet and Wyldstyle from Legoland on Thursday and Friday.

Tempe Marketplace (Feb 2014) – Overall view of citry/train layout

Tempe Marketplace (Feb 2014) – Overall view of city/train layout

Tempe Marketplace (Feb 2014) – Emmet and Wyldstyle at the CactusBrick display

Clark’s Tovrea castle, Randy’s Warner Brothers Watertower, Steve N’s Hayen Mill and Joe’s THE LEGO MOVIE sign

City scene with buildings by Steve N, Corey, Chris P, Tom, Lawrence, and Clark

Tempe Marketplace (Feb 2014) – City scene with buildings by Steve N, Corey, Chris P, Tom, Lawrence, and Clark

City scene with buildings by Steve N, Corey, Chris P, Tom, Lawrence, Clark and Josh

Tempe Marketplace (Feb 2014) – Tom’s cars

Tempe Marketplace (Feb 2014) – Steve N’s pool with several buildings by Tom and one building by Stephanie

Tempe Marketplace (Feb 2014) – Tom and Londa’s ocean scene

Tempe Marketplace (Feb 2014) – Joe’s Valley, bridge and waterfall

Tempe Marketplace (Feb 2014) – Joe’s Valley, bridge and hillside

Tempe Marketplace (Feb 2014) – Nate and Joe’s high plains with a cabin, steam, and path

Nate’s camp grounds, Joe’s mountain with miners and Clark’s Hall of Doom

Tempe Marketplace (Feb 2014) – Nate and Joe’s Adobe Village

Corey’s Riverview Manor with Stephanie’s lake and a simple farm scene and a special thanks to all of the corn makers

Larry’s Winter Village with Joe’s Ski Lift and Steve N’s Victorian house

Tempe Marketplace (Feb 2014) – Emmet and a few friends dancing to a favorite tune.

Micro City built by Josh, Corey, Stephanie and Steve N

Corey and Stephanie’s ASU old main and Scottsdale Schoolhouse with THE LEGO MOVIE posters

Tempe Marketplace (Feb 2014) – Tom’s Cuckoo Clock

Joe’s Q-bert, Clark’s sleeping ape, and some dudes with a hyperdrive

January 20, 2014February 14, 2014

January 18, 2014 Meeting

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:

Here are the sculpture contest winners and entries:

1st place winner: Joe’s Balancing Spheres (or strange solar system)

Here’s the first place winner:

January 12, 2014January 12, 2014

Tucson Toy Train Meet & Show – Jan 10-11, 2014

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.

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)

Overall view of the room we were in. The play area (not shown) is to the left of the picture.

Overall view of the main room that the Train show was in. CactusBrick was in a room to the right of this picture.

December 28, 2013

Tucson Toy Train Meet & Show

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.

December 28, 2013

December 2013 Meeting

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:

Corey’s new office building’s bottom section. WIP

Stephanie’s new city layout buildings (the one on the left is WIP)

Christmas Gift Exchange (Josh got first pick and seems happy about it)

December 9, 2013December 9, 2013

Arizona Toy Train Show – Dec 7, 2013

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)

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.

December 9, 2013December 28, 2013

Tempe History Museum – Band Night – Dec 6th, 2013

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: