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NINJAGO news – Lloyd Garmadon has a blog!

by Thita (admin) on March 22, 2012

in LEGO Ninjago

If you are a LEGO Ninjago fan, here is a little interesting tidbit for you; Lloyd Garmadon (the son of Lord Garmadon – an annoying little brat who released all the dangerous snake-tribes because of some dispute over candy) has an official online diary! Yep! He is a blogger! 😛

There is only one entry from Lloyd so far; written right before he escaped from boarding-school (I guess he has been quite busy since then, and may not have Internet-access either), but nonetheless his first post is quite interesting and revealing about the details of his life at school:

Today was almost the best day of my life. I was eating breakfast when a package came from my grandmummy and it was filled with bright, sticky candy! At my boarding school for bad boys it’s REALLY, REALLY hard to get any candy or fun toys because they’re always busy teaching us how to pull tricks and take over the world and stuff. I was about to smush my face full of candy when that bully Finn saw me and his face had a big smirk on it. He got up from his seat at the next table over and grabbed the candy away, using his powers to turn it into crawly bugs and worms. Disgusting! I yelled, “HEYYY, MY CANDY!” He laughed, looking around at his friends, and then he pointed to his t-shirt that read “Evil Geniuses Don’t Cry.” Everyone was laughing. I had to get out of there before he decided to stick me in the trash bin again.

I hid in an empty classroom and thought of a plan. What was the word for that called? I have to try and remember all the words from my Villain Vocabulary List. Plotted, that’s right. So I sat there and I plotted. I was going to leave Darkley’s Boarding School for Bad Boys and never come back, AND I was going to get more candy. Everyone knows the first rule of any mission is to dress really scary, so I picked the lock on the teacher’s closet and found an extra cape and a black helmet to wear. There were also some stuff the teachers took away from us, like a rubber band, rubber snakes, and a soccer ball. Rubber snakes! That was it! They looked just like Serpentine. HISS!

I would suggest you head over Lloyd’s official blog and bookmark it, so you will know right away when he posts an update. His daddy, his uncle and his grandma are all anxiously looking for him! What do you think he should write about next? 😉

UPDATE: Right before I posted this, a second entry showed up from Lloyd! I guess he managed to get Internet-connection after all! Read here:

If you are a Ninjago fan you might also want to check out the LEGO Ninjago section for latest news, videos, and discussions, or see these posts:

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REBRICK – the ultimate hub for LEGO fans!

by Thita (admin) on March 21, 2012

in Community News

Have you ever wished there was one big hub connecting all the different LEGO websites, picture-sharing sites, blogs and forums? One place where you could see what’s going on in the LEGO-fan world and share your passion with others in the hobby? A place where you could show off your own LEGO projects, and see the work of others no matter which LEGO community they belong to? How about having one spot you could keep and organize all the awesome LEGO pictures, videos, blog -posts and articles you run across while browsing the web? Well, wait no more! 🙂

Today I would like to share with you a very unique and revolutionary project initiated by the LEGO Group in collaboration with the LEGO-fan community. It is called ReBrick, and you can find it at ReBrick.com. Here is a short video to give you an introduction to ReBrick:

As you can see, ReBrick is a social media hub where adult users can share and discuss user-created content online. It is a public stage for LEGO fans to share their wonderful models and creations with each other and the general public. You don’t upload content to the site directly, instead the basic functionality is for the user to bookmark content from other sites – such as Flickr, YouTube, MOCpages and similar sites – and have a discussion at the ReBrick hub.

Although the ReBrick website is made and facilitated by the LEGO Group, ReBrick is not part of LEGO.com. While LEGO.com is for children (of all ages), ReBrick caters to fans over 13. Though the LEGO Group retain ownership of the site, they have no commercial agenda – there will be no product announcements, campaigns, advertisements, advertorials or any attempt made to market LEGO products. The content is brought in, discussed and ultimately owned by the community – that’s you and me! 😛

Here is an excellent video featuring an interview with Peter Espersen, the man in charge of ReBrick. His idea and vision for ReBrick is very inspiring:

I really respect Peter for what he has done here; not just creating a bridge between the LEGO company and LEGO enthusiasts, but also pioneering a new way of a large corporation facilitating and interacting with their fans.

The website-platform is quite similar to the LEGO CUUSOO site featuring most recent, highest rated and most viewed uploads on the front page, with easy navigation all around. You can sign into ReBrick with your standard LEGO ID (or make a new ID if you don’t have one yet).

ReBrick is still in beta stage, and you are encouraged to give feedback on the features and functionality of the website via a tab on the side available on each page. So head over to ReBrick.com to check it out, and then let me know what you think! 😉

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