Happy Halloween!

There's a little fun contest going on at Eurobricks; spook up your SigFig/Avatar to celebrate Halloween. I turned mine into the head spin-scene from the movie the Exorcist. Back in 1973 that actually got people fainting!

It was my first take at stop-motion animation and a quick one at that, so the image jumps around a little and the light flickers. But hey!

Here's a still image.

And the original for comparison.

How I did it.

SweBrick XI the movie

The 11th LEGO-gathering among AFOLs in Sweden took place this past weekend. I was there on Saturday.

We had tons of fun! Here's some footage:

LEGO: SweBrick XI 2010-10-16 from Tobbe Arnesson on Vimeo.

ULV, the movie

January 9th there was an ULV-competition in Eskilstuna. I shot some 35 minutes of footage that's now edited down to almost eight minutes.

LEGO: ULV 2010-01-09 from Tobbe Arnesson on Vimeo.

The forum thread with some photos, in Swedish only.

"eBay" find!

I recently joined the Swedish version of eBay, named Tradera. There I found set 802 with box. The box has lots of ball point markings on the back and at least one of the small red gears are missing (I have a few since before), the parts are in very good condition. I got it for SEK 77,- including shipping ($10 or €7) so I can hardly complain. :D

At the moment I'm quite hooked on Tradera bidding low on lot's of stuff, and loosing lot's of auctions. But I'm not there to win, I'm there to find bargains...

Nostalgia, video from SweBrick V

I found the old Hi8-tapes and what I shot from SweBrick V back in 2003:

LEGO: SweBrick V 2003-10-24 -- 26 from Tobbe Arnesson on Vimeo.

To read about the meeting and se still photos see it's general blog post.

First BrickLink order

I was just browsing the onion domes, I had a plan for those last time I built. Wanted to see if they still were available in any set, which led me to Bricklink where I found 'em in a Swedish store. They were too cheap not to buy and while I was on it I ordered a few other parts. Oops!

This was certainly not my last Bricklink-purchase!

lotek.nu goes blog

My old page used to be at www.lotek.nu but fiddling with HTML is not very 2009, so now I've moved all the content to this blog. I've also added some new material that never made it to the old page. Enjoy!