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!

SweBrick X

The Swedish AFOL's had a little get togheter in Fagersta. I shot some footage and edited this:

LEGO: SweBrick X 2009-11-07 from Tobbe Arnesson on Vimeo.

Here's my result after the "building blindfolded"-competition. Not so good, got three errors. One of the blue lights on the bar and both fenders turned the wrong direction.

Nice to build a little after a loooong rest from bricks. This is a small creek diorama.

Another competition was micro scale towns, I made this SciFi space Energy plant.

I also made this evil building.

Most of the attendees take photos of the ducklings (see the video).

TLG sponsored with lots of great prices, here's Harri with a big box of Star Wars. Personally I made second last place overall and "only" got a few small sets...

The day was turning into night and we all were a bit tired, strange things emerged...

Trying to remember one of the last MOCs I made before leaving the bricks I made this tank. 5 studs wide, up side down and half-stud centered lengths wise. Why make it easy?

It was a very good meeting, nice to see some old faces again and also meet a lot of new ones!

LEGOLAND

Went to visit a friend in Copenhagen. While in Denmark I just had to go to Billund and LEGOLAND for the first time. Enjoyed Miniland a lot but as there are already tons and tons of good photos from there on The Interweb™ I wont post that many...

Here's the real thing shot another day:

And here's the LEGO replica.

Café "Pitten" and it's menu of sodas next to the Traffic School. In Swedish this literately means "The dick", I did not want to drink anything from it. :D

Miniland was invaded by some mallards, made some good waves for the boats. :D

Best thing about LEGOLAND was the amazing Power Builder ride, strap down yourself into a gigantic industrial robot and ride what you programmed. Tons of fun! Here's someone else's video of it:

Unfortunately the park was crowded with kids and what not so there was a looong line for most attractions. Shame, I'd love to ride the Power Builder several times. There's always next time...

RobotWars bot

In March 2005 there was an AFOL-event i Karlskoga with RobotWars, for that I built this robot and in the end won the competition. To learn more about the event see the page for SweBrick VII.

Most of my bricks went into storage but I kept the robot and a RIS-set at hand in case my fingers got the itch. It took a while but the itch came and I decided to tear down the robot and build something else instead. But first I had to snap a shot or two...

Wedge-design.

In the middle I had an arm for lifting via pneumatics, four airtanks that I pumped manually before combat but also an on board compressor. The arm was way to weak to do any difference once into combat...

In the back I had two big wheels that spun fast to bounce away enemies that attacked from behind. The batteries for this function drained and the wheels hardly spun at all. I had two small battery boxes for these wheels and the compressor and two big battery boxes for propulsion.

Guts. I had four motors per wheel hooked to the battery boxes via a number of electrical plates arranged to put out 18V instead. Here's a guide how to build that, but stay cautious!

It was a lot of parts in this robot. :-O

In the end I never built anything with the parts...

Ooooh!

I want my bricks! Now! :-O