Brick.ie The Irish Association for Adult Fans of LEGO®

The Great Western LEGO Show is the UK's biggest LEGO display event, taking place at STEAM, the Museum of the Great Western Railway in Swindon on the first weekend of October.

Brick.ie will have a presence at this event.

Hi,

This is just a quick note to let you know that the next gathering of Irish Lego fans will take place on Saturday 8th of May in the Long Stone Pub in Dublin from 2pm onwards.

Nathan has secured some pick-a-brick stock, so it could be a good opportunity to advance some building projects.

Check out the this thread on the Brick.ie forum.

Bring your latest model and you may win a prize.

We look forward to seeing you on Saturday.

The Brick.ie team.

We're having an informal gathering of LEGO fans on Saturday 20th March 2010, in the Long Stone Pub on Townsend Street, Dublin 2 (see map) from about 1pm. This will be pretty informal, just a social gathering of fellow LEGO fans, but there will be a prize for the best LEGO creation.

Hi there,

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We're having an informal gathering of LEGO fans on Saturday 20th March 2010, in the Long Stone Pub on Townsend Street, Dublin 2 (see map) from about 1pm. This will be pretty informal, just a social gathering of fellow LEGO fans, but there will be a prize for the best LEGO creation.

Hi,

This is just a brief reminder that Brick.IE are having an informal gathering in the Long Stone pub on Townsend Street (Just off Tara Street and behind Pearse Street Garda Station).

We'll be there from 2pm, so please pop along if you're free.

Hope to see you there for some Lego chat!

A model of the proposed new Drogheda Animal Rescue Centre has gone on display in the D Hotel, Drogheda, as part of the fund raising efforts for the costs of building the actual centre.

Designed by local architect, Florence Shields, and built by her son, James Shields, the model will be on display, and will include a competition to guess the number of bricks it contains. This will be part of numerous events in the town to help secure a new home for this very worthwhile charity.

You wouldn't believe how many times we get this question, about of all sorts of hard-to-find LEGO sets. There seem to be a lot of people looking for the Batman Tumbler in particular, as it was only on the market for a short time, and seemed to disappear before many toy stores had even received stock.

We have three suggestions...

Irish Lego fans have banded together to form Brick.ie, a new LUG aimed at bringing other like minded people together. We've already had our first couple of meetings, and we hope to have a public display event this year.

Membership is currently free to anyone who asks - just register on our website and post a message to the "Introductions" forum and we'll make you a member.

If you're a Lego fan in Ireland, or feel a connection to Ireland, please check us out.

A Lego model of the pet shop my sister runs.

The real Brenda's Pets.

More photos on Flickr

I'd had the basic shape of the LL-451 in my head for a while, but it wasn't till I happened to get hold of a big batch of old grey bricks that I was able to realise it. It relies on stressing elements, using short bricks in the two "wings" with crossbeams at different points to pull them both into curves. I built a back wall out of plates, though there are gaps. For the "command deck" I wanted as smooth a shape as I could manage, so used lots of different curved slopes. The windscreen is an X-Pod, tilted back at an angle.

It was built for the Neo Classic Space 30th anniversary celebration.

More photos on Flickr.