Uit een grijs verleden, en uit een sterrenstelsel hier ver, ver vandaan... komt LEGO Star Wars. Met dit speelgoed kunnen kinderen kennis maken met alle bekende en geliefde ruimteschepen en personen uit de fantastische Star Wars saga - en misschien ook een paar geheel nieuwe. Het thema staat garant voor uren spannend en leerzaam bouw- en speelplezier met de coolste personages, ruimteschepen en machines uit het Star Wars verhaal. Met de karakteristieke LEGO Star Wars sets kunnen kinderen hun eigen melkwegstelsel bouwen en allerlei spannende ruimte-avonturen bedenken en beleven - de enige begrenzing is de eigen fantasie. Iedere doos bevat suggesties voor activiteiten, voor urenlang speelplezier.Mark Hamill chats with the audience, answers questions, and tell stories about portraying the pivotal character of Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars universe. Oliver Steeples and Lee Towersey, the builders who brought the R2 units of The Force Awakens to life, join animatronics and programming experts Matt Denton and Josh Lee, the engineering team behind the iconic BB-8.
John Knoll, Chief Creative Officer, Doug Chiang, Vice President Executive Creative Director and Kevin Jenkins, Supervising Art Director take attendees on a journey through amazing stories and rarely seen imagery from the Star Wars films. Rebels Reunite as Ashley Eckstein and Dave Filoni visit the Star Wars Show Live stage. Get your first look at the new season of Star Wars Rebels, featuring the return of characters both new and familiar from both sides of the rebellion.MiniFigs.nl or swMiniFigs.net is a databank with all ABS LEGO® Star Wars™ minifigures that are part of an official LEGO set or that can be attributed to an official LEGO, LEGOLAND® or LEGO Store program, activity, event or display. • troopers, warriors and guards • bounty hunters and pirates • creatures, beasts and animals March 12-17: Bring in your little one for 10 minutes of LEGO® DUPLO building inspiration! March 1-15: FREE Police Helicopter with purchases of $35 or more!
March 20: Bring in one of your own Minifigures and trade it with other fans! March 6-16: VIPs earn double points on all purchases!As an adult LEGO builder and physicist, I think some people would argue that I am somewhat of a geek. One geeky thing I hadn’t done yet was attend a Comic Con. This changed last weekend, when I joined eight other members of Lowlug in displaying a wide variety of pop-culture LEGO models at Comic Con Amsterdam. Among them was Wayne Manor by Monstrophonic, which TBB blogged in July. Among the many attractions at the event were vendors selling comics, other collectibles or clothing. There were a few displays of movie memorabilia, you could have your face made-up to resemble a walker from the Walking Dead and could have your picture taken with a number of stars or simply meet them and get their autographs. Two of the better known actors who where there, Robert Englund and Peter Mayhew, are somewhat ironically mainly famous for roles in which their faces were invisible (Freddy Kruger and Chewbacca), but the queues for meeting them were long.
One of the main attractions of the event, however, was the public itself. Probably about one third was dressed up as characters from movies, games or comics. Their pictures are not LEGO-related, but be sure to check out Barry’s album with some of the cosplayers. How often do you get to see people dressed up as members of the Ghostbusters looking at LEGO versions of their favourite characters or get to discuss some of the more obscure Star Wars vehicles with a fan in a Stormtrooper outfit? Unsurprisingly Star Wars was very popular among the crowds and we had loads of Star Wars LEGO models on display. These included an enormous model of Kylo Ren’s Command Shuttle by Jourian Bax. HJR-Holland brought along his extensive collection of Star Wars models, including his Star Wars AT-IC. A bit more unusual among the Star Wars models and not (yet) seen in any of the movies was the Rancor mech by Barry Bosman, who also took the majority of the pictures in this post. I displayed a selection from my movie vehicle collection, mainly geared towards action and science fiction movies.
One of the models displayed by Largebricks was the Broken Tower of Winterfell from Game of Thrones. Rebla, who is mainly known on-line for building realistic models of WW-2 tanks, showed he has a humorous streak by building models from the Advance Wars game. This made some of the gamers among the audience very happy. Last but not least was a very funny mashup of Dr. Who and Back to the Future built by Tijger-San and workfromtheheart, that had fans of either poring over the details. I’ve displayed models at dozens of events in the last ten years or so, but most of these were dedicated to LEGO. Comic Con was obviously different. This event is a celebration of geeky things, where it is perfectly normal to care so much about a comic book, game or movie that you go to the trouble of dressing up as one of the characters. Some visitors expressed surprise that the models we were displaying weren’t LEGO sets and that we weren’t selling anything. We were there just for fun and it was fantastic fun, indeed.
The people were great and we fitted right in. As adults building pop-culture models with LEGO, we could hardly have wished for a more appreciative audience.Tell all your friends!Amsterdam is the capital of the Netherlands and was built on stilts in the delta of the Amstel River. In the 17th century, it was the fourth biggest city in Europe and, at the same time, one of the richest. More than 1,000 bridges connect the different parts of the city and canals with over 100 islands. Today, more than 700,000 people live in this city, many of them on houseboats. Bicycles, known as ‚fiets‘ in Dutch, are the most practical means of transportation after boats. Windmills appeared as early as the Middle Ages. Many of these were equipped with special wheels which were used to scoop out water and to dry out swamps and lakes. In the 18th century there were 140 windmills in Amsterdam which were used for pumping stations, mills and lumber mills as well as for the oil, tobacco and chocolate industries.
Today, they are tourist attractions. Windless: Our windmills are not powered by wind but by small 24 volt engines. If you visit Amsterdam, don’t miss out on a tour of the canals. The tour boats open their glass roofs when the weather is nice and take you down the Emperor Canal, the Patrician Canal and the Prince’s Canal past merchant and patrician houses, which were built narrow but high because the city magistrate only allowed houses to be eight meters (26 ft.) wide. It is still very popular to live at the canals. Water everywhere: MINILAND has 400 cubic meters of water. An old German song celebrates the tulips of Amsterdam. Holland is a country of flowers with countless greenhouses everywhere just like in MINILAND. Huge fields of flowers stretch across the geest landscape behind the dunes of the North Sea coast, the bulb region between Haarlem and Leiden as well as in the province of North Holland. Holland is the most important flower supplier of Western Europe.