Friday, February 29, 2008


Here are some ideas for roads by Sebastian Sand. Check out some more here... Thank you for your message.


Even More Cars...



From orionpax80's gallery.

Layout

From Rickzoo's gallery. You can just about see a larger version of the cinema from Town Plan in this picture (Left hand side).





Building...


Monday, February 25, 2008

New Message Board

Check out viclug.com

Particularly this link.

Thanks Charlaine.

City Buildings


A Version of the Town Plan Cinema.


From channaher's gallery.

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Modulex Version Of Market Street


Ahh... How cute.
By Brixe.

A Version of GG.


By cazzmy.

De Bouwsteen



Some large clear pictures from a meeting of De Bouwsteen. From elex's gallery.

Friday, February 22, 2008

Theory...

I have this theory... Cafe Corner is refered to as CC, The Green Grocers (I'm sure) will become GG. Does that mean the third model will also be a double letter building - for example BB (Brick Bank) or PP (Pizza Parlour) etc. Could this be a clue?

Using this theory, which model do you think might be next?

I look forward to hearing from you.

LEGO Page.


This was the page that appeared and disappeared yesterday.
Hope it comes to the UK soon - and Portugal Roger.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Thank You.

Thank you to the people (including thevig) today who have let me know of the American Release of 10185 - Green Grocers tomorrow.

I had hoped to post a picture of the LEGO S@H Website - however, it seems to have been removed.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Detroit.

From kkoleda's gallery.




















Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Medium Blue


Yet More Cars


You may have guest - I'm quite into CC compatible cars at the moment.
This one is by bmck.

Apartment Building


Monday, February 18, 2008

More Cars.

From JBartosch's gallery.

Its My Birthday Today.



Happy Birthday to Me...

Brickstreet.

CC style Buildings Together


Taxi



Sheep has some really fantastic cars in his gallery.

Sheep, if you're reading, please could I use some of your ideas?

Modular Street



By TheBobBlog.

Colonial Library



By Jaredchan.

A New Blog...


Check out this New Blog by Casper Mathiesen. The address is legoforlife.blogspot.com

Not CC - but still very impressive...








By Amy Hughes. Read more here.
Thank you for the request for the creator of this model - hence the first four comments).


Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Okay - Here it is.

Here is the interview with Jamie.


I guess the main question is the release date (I'm guessing its March?)

The release date is indeed currently set for early March.


AFsOL have been aware of The Green Grocers for some time. How long have you been working on it? (Was it hard to keep secret?)

Green Grocer was finished about the same time as Town Plan which was just before Easter of last year. I worked on both models for the first few months of 2007.

The first year I worked for LEGO, it was extremely difficult to not talk about all the cool stuff I was working on. Now that I’ve got a few products on the market, it’s a lot easier to keep quiet because I have other things to talk about. Actually, by the time some of the sets come out, it could be up to a year since I last worked on them. They almost seem like old news for me once they’re finally launched.


Was the idea to do a Green Grocers yours, or were you asked to use that title?

Green Grocer is the second of three models that I proposed when pitching the idea for the modular building system. However, I originally wanted to call it Green Gables, but our legal department advised against that.

Although I had a rough idea of what the model might look like, I only specifically knew that I wanted it to be sand green, with a fire escape and a bay window. Everything else fell into place during the development process.


I'm personally interested in the design process. What sort of research do you do? Will we get to see some prototype pictures in Brick Journal as we did for Cafe Corner?

We mostly use the internet for our initial research. However, we’ve also got our own in-house library where we’ll often rummage for good images and info. Specifically for the Green Grocer, I found some great reference material in a book we have about architecture in the San Francisco area.

I have not sent Joe over at BrickJournal any development pictures of the Green Grocer because there are a few building techniques that I used in the initial sketch that I am now using in another model I’m working on. It’s potentially good stuff, so I’d hate to ruin the surprise J


Are the pictures of a LEGO designer sitting on a carpeted floor with a pile of LEGO accurate or do you have a different design space?

It’s not that far off! We may not be building on the carpet, but I can assure you that there is plenty of LEGO spread all over my desk. On some of the bigger models like the UCS Millennium Falcon, we can move over to other areas of the building where we have more room to spread out.

On my desk, I have two monitors that make it easier for me when I virtually re-build the model in our 3-D modeling program. Once it’s virtual, I can do lots of cool things like duplicate middle floors to make large versions of the models. I did this when pitching the idea of the ultimate Café Corner, but I could only get a black and white version because my computer could hardly handle the size of the file!

Another cool thing about having a computer model, is that I can find out valuable information like prices, piece count, element availability, types of plastics used and other neat stuff. This helps me make sure my model is on budget and in line with our design briefs.

Interview.

I have the answers from the interview questions (from the previous entry). Just wondered if anyone is interested in seeing the answers???

R.

Monday, February 11, 2008

Questions for Jamie.

Thank you to Jamie for your message.

I guess the main question is the release date (I'm guessing its March?)

AFsOL have been aware of The Green Grocers for some time. How long have you been working on it? (Was it hard to keep secret?)

Was the idea to do a Green Grocers yours, or were you asked to use that title?

I'm personally interested in the design process. What sort of research do you do? Will we get to see some prototype pictures in Brick Journal as we did for Cafe Corner?

Are the pictures of a LEGO designer sitting on a carpeted floor with a pile of LEGO accurate or do you have a different design space?

This isn't a question, but I would like to say how good it is to have someone working for LEGO who understands it as well as you do. We're about the same age, and I know what it felt like to be a fan of LEGO in the eighties, and what sort of sets we dreamed about. Now you're there making those dreams come true.

Richard.

Saturday, February 9, 2008

"A Gap in every corner"


See his folder, he has great stuff in there.

The Green Door

From legowiz23's gallery.

Inspiration???


I was searching for images of Cinemas to help with the extension of the one I'm building and found this.
I wonder if it was used in Jamie's research?

Monday, February 4, 2008

Street Scene.

From LEGO.com/services.

Simply stunning!

Thank you LEGOgarage for the tip off.

More Pics - Yey!


Lots of pictures to be found here.

From marakoeschtra gallery.