This should make you into a Miniland-scale fan: A woman named Leah applied for an internship by designing herself out of LEGO bricks and sending it — along with a resume in the form of a poster illustrated with Lego elements — to prospective employers. Guess you could say she’s really building up her career. (via Jezebel.com)
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NYCLUG LEGO News #008
In this edition, a new documentary on AFOLs will bow at the Tribeca Film Festival; LEGO formally announces the new Simpsons minifigs; and a Mindstorms team solves a Rubik’s cube in mind-numbingly record time.
NYCLUG LEGO News #007
In this edition: a working Lego keyboard; the latest UCS Star Wars set; and make your own Lego pieces… maybe.
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NYCLUG’s First LEGO Community Window Display at Rockefeller Center
Members of NYCLUG got together Friday evening at the LEGO Store at Rockefeller Center to install their first-ever LUG Community Window Display. (more…)
NYCLUG LEGO News #006
In this edition, The LEGO Movie approaches $300 mil at the box office, a woman in a famous LEGO ad is found, and a whiz kid makes a Braille machine out of those plastic bricks. (more…)

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I’ve never seen this before — reblogged for later viewing!
NYCLUG’s in the New York Daily News!
There are AFOLs among us, not the least of whom is Sean Kenney, one of the few artists in the world whose medium is the LEGO brick. This Sunday’s Daily News has a profile of Sean, in which NYCLUG gets a nice hat tip. (more…)
Special “The Lego Movie” event at the Rockefeller LEGO Store
Yours truly got to attend a special Lego VIP event at the Rockefeller Center LBR Store on Sunday evening, timed to the second weekend of The Lego Movie and the 2014 International Toy Fair. (more…)
NYCLUG LEGO News #005

Artist renderings for Wyldstyle from The LEGO Movie
In this edition, countdown to The LEGO Movie, amazing MOCs, and new sets at the Nuremberg Toy Fair. (more…)

NYCLUG LEGO News #004
Lots of LEGO news these past two weeks, including the newest CUUSOO set, a brick-based productivity killer from Google, and a New York City hotel makes art out of plastic bricks. (more…)