Link dump – Tuesday, July 14
- James Fleenor, contributor to Web news portal Examiner, offers his impressions of LEGO Battles for the Nintendo DS.
- Also via Examiner, contributor Anissa Graham encourages LEGO enthusiasts around northern Alabama check out a LEGO exhibit at the Huntsville Depot this weekend, which is being put together by the Tennessee Valley LEGO Train Club.
Even LEGO Huntsville's skyline features a Saturn V rocket, 2008 archive photo by The Tennessee Valley LEGO Train Club
- 411mania contributor Sean Garmer brings us his take on LEGO Rock Band, which he had an opportunity to demo at E3. That means, like Alex Lifschitz’s review I posted about last week, there are still Web/news portals out there publishing hands-ons regarding games that were demoed at E3 six weeks ago.
- Oklahoma CBS affiliates KWTV and KOTV have continued the story of Kurt Zimmerle, a LEGO Master Builder from Wolverine, Michigan who is spending his summer in Oklahoma City sculpting the city’s landmarks and skyline out of millions of LEGO bricks, all for an undertaking dubbed ‘OK Cityscape’ set to go on display for the holidays. The Oklahoman’s Aaron Crespo further has details of this past weekend’s Great OKC Build, a competition which offered youngsters an opportunity to land their own OKC-inspired building in Zimmerle’s finished display.
This building block calculator costs nearly a dollar per stud
- One well traveled news item over the past week has been word of the August release of Building Block Calculators by Pylones-USA [pronounced pee-lone], who also produces Building Block USB Hubs. As is typically the case, these are incorrectly identified as LEGO calculators in the majority of news postings on the Web [such as here and here], despite not being made or licensed by TLG. Additionally, like virtually everything else sold by Pylones, a French-founded company in New York City, the building block calculator is little more than gaudy, high priced kitsch, carrying a price tag of $27. That’s right, it’s a $27 imitation-LEGO basic calculator with tiny, impractical buttons that make it borderline unusable. Sure to be treasured by AFoLs about as much as a bucket of Mega Bloks!
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