2015 in Review: It was an awesome year for this AFOL!

As 2015 draws to a close let's all take a look at some of the MOCs I produced in 2015:

 


 2015 was huge for me as an Adult Fan of Lego (AFOL):

1.  My home Lego User Group (LUG) PhLUG had its 1st major exhibit - Brickxhibit 2015 over at Resorts World Manila.

2. I was picked by Lego to do a 6 months stint as a curator for Rebrick. ReBrick is a social bookmarking platform where adult users can share, organize and discuss user-created LEGO content.The content on ReBrick is not LEGO sets you can buy in a shop, but creations made by teenage and adult builders, who use their creativity to build their own models called MOCs (My Own Creation).

3. I was picked to be Rebricker of the Week in November over at  Rebrick.

  

4. I was able to exhibit at the office for the yearly Toy club exhibit.

Blog activity tapered off in the 4th quarter of 2015 as I was swamped with work.  Hopefully I can write more articles in 2016.

Happy New Year everyone!  Thanks for joining me in my Lego journey!  May everyone have a blessed 2016!  Keep on building!

Until then Leg Godt!

I got Rebricked!

What is Rebrick?

Rebrick is an official Lego website found in http://rebrick.lego.com 

ReBrick is a social bookmarking platform where adult users can share, organize and discuss user-created LEGO content.The content on ReBrick is not LEGO sets you can buy in a shop, but creations made by teenage and adult builders, who use their creativity to build their own models called MOCs (My Own Creation).
It is not possible to upload content to the ReBrick. Instead, users can bookmark videos and images from other sites on the web, such as Flickr, YouTube, MOCpages, Brickshelf and similar sites.

Its already awesome to be able to build and play with Lego but it adds an extra dash of awesome when an official Lego site features you. 

So I got featured on Rebrick!

Yay me

Event: PhLUG Brickxhibit2015 / Abrickadabra Lego Convention

Welcome to Brickstories' coverage of the Philippine Lego Users Group's (PhLUG) Brickxhibit2015 and Abrickadabra Lego convention.

Me and my hon Apple decided to break out our twin Lego backpacks for this amazing adventure and matching Lego shirts to boot.

Brickxhibit2015 is ongoing until May 3 and features MOCs (My Own Creations or what adult fans of Lego call their custom kits)  from most of PhLUG's great builders.

Once you've entered Resorts World's Newport Mall you are immediately greeted by a huge "I Love Lego" sign built out of a lot of red bricks.  The letters were made by Revjon Oblea with the bricks coming free from the Lego group itself.

Revjon Oblea made "I Love Lego"

Here's my hon Apple, my sister Richelle and Apple's nephew AJ posing in front of "I Love Lego"

Hon Apple, sis Rich, and AJ

Brickxhibit2015

After that it's a ton of Lego displays made by the talented sub interest groups (SIGs) of PhLUG.

The sigs are composed of (in order of display): PhLUG Mech (which used to be known as PhLUG MOC), Urban Builders, Force Legion, Kingdoms,  Garage, Armored Division, Starfleet and Minifigures.

Also among the displays are works of Team PMS (PhLUG's all-female build team) and a couple of other awesome moccers like Arthur Tanseco (Voltes V) and the Hope Christian Lego robotics team of David Ang.

The F1 diorama of PhLUG Garage SIG

One of my own contributions a P51 Mustang sporting the livery of the Philippine Airforce for PAD

My Lotus F1 car for Phlug Garage

PhLUG Ambassador Randie "Citizen Piper" Protacio giving the tour

My SIG - PhLUG Armored Division

Kids enjoying the PAD display

The awesome Kingdoms diorama which won "Best Diorama" of the convention

More kingdoms!

A slice of Pinoy life in Lego
(shown are mocs by Jergens Correa (angel's burger and Mark gotidoc (sari-sari store))

More pictures and updates later!

Event: Brickxhibit 2015 and Abrickadabra (PhLUG)

If you love Lego prepare for one of the biggest Lego exhibits the PH has ever seen.

Courtesy of the Philippine Lego Users Group (PhLUG), Brickxhibit2015 and Abrickadabra will unfold at Resort's World this April 2015.

Event: Philippine Lego User Group (PhLUG) March 2015 Brick-Fast Meet!

Another month, another regularly scheduled monthly meet for the Philippine Lego User Group (PhLUG).  So let's get to the festivities shall we? :)

Me and hon Apple :)

The Lego Oscar Statuette was there.  Recreated by Stan "Manila Brick" Lao.  It was there to welcome everyone attending Brickfast and most folks couldn't resist getting their pictures taken with the little statuette.

Lego Oscar says Hi!

As with each Brickfast there are three main activities:  The buy-and-sell of Lego items, The display from various subinterest groups and the state-of-the-LUG speech by our very own Lego Ambassador Randy "Citizen Piper" Protacio.

So let's take a look first at the awesome MOCs created by the various subgroups of PhLUG:

PhLUG Garage: Trucks and Bikes

Garage is the subinterest groups for MOCcers who like building models of cars, trucks, bikes and other motor vehicles.  I am one of the admins for the Garage and under the passionate guidance of Eric Teo it has produced many MOCs from crazy gearheads. Jeff Tagle completes the trio of crazy admins and is the person who came up with the Garage concept in the first place.

For this meet our them was #trucks and #roadwild which was MOCs of bikes.
 

Phlug Garage Road Wild!

Amazing truck MOCs

Awesome military style truck by Irwin "Icy" Cruel

A few bike MOCs from the prolific Billy Lee

ROAD WILD!

Team PMS: Fairytales, Fantasy and Fiction display

 Team PMS is PhLUG's resident all-female build team.  And yes sir they make awesome mocs.  For this meet-up they made displays following the theme of fairytales fantasy and fiction.

Well this wasn't Team PMS but it was Richard Cunanan's humble contribution to the theme

Maleficent by Louise Anne Mariano

"P" monogram by Louise Anne Mariano

Hansel and Gretel by Chestnut Pascual

Frog Prince by Kathryn Ang

Snow White awoken by her sweet Prince by Inez Vasquez

Tortoise and the Hare by Nikki Orial

And this was made by a 9 year old or so I was told... (feel free to correct me folks)

PhLUG Force Legion: Pod Race!

PhLUG Force Legion are PhLUG's resident Starwars fans.  They do all sorts of MOCs based on the Star Wars universe.  Gungans are pretty much tolerated.

Output of the Force Legion flashmoc!

Notice that Joker has his own pod racer in the back!

PhLUG Starfleet: Space Station

Space is the final frontier and its a frontier that Starfleet likes to be in.  They are the resident space moccers of Phlug, loving all stuff Blacktron and Benny.

Too much to drink?

In space no once can hear you party.

Make your own space minifig!

Blacktron inspired MOCs

Space rover mocs

Spaceship!

More Spaceships!

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Awesome powercore done by Scifi buff Tommy Lim.

Now this is a rover!

PhLUG MOC (Mecha Only Creations): MFZ and other Mecha

MOC as their name implies deals with mecha MOCs.   Ranging in size from Mobile Force Zero mini mechs to mechs of grand scale, you can rely on PhLUG MOC for all your mecha needs.

The orange tinged mecha were made by ME! :)

Green Dragon by awesome KFOL Daivik!

Green Dragon in all its awesomeness

PhLUG Minifigs Collectors: Elves and Trolls

Minifig collectors like to emphasize the huge amount of minifigs they have.  They dabble in MOCs that are centered around their prized minifigs.  For this brickfast they brought out their elven and troll armies from LOTR.

Open the gates you elves!

The dragon is facing the wrong way!

Elves!

PhLUG Castle:

Castle is a group of builders who love building castles and medieval themed MOCs. Here are some of their awesome creations.

The kid might be thinking of building his own castle!

Sentry duty!

Great moc of foliage and water by Tina Mallari

And other stuff:

Here are some other scenes from the brickfast:

PhLUG's ambassador Randy  "Citizen Piper" Protacio (in green) with announcements
Beside him is Josiah Samaniego, PhLUG's exhibits director.

Members of the PhLUG Garage SIG.  

Selfie!

Giveaways at the brickfast.

So that ends another great meet-up.  Apologies if I left out some displays as these are all the pictures I took that day.

Next stop: Brickxhibit in April. 

Leg Godt!