RVALUG News for August 2025
July was another fun month for RVALUG. We had a great meeting with a LEGO set draft and the LUG also Displayed at Brick Fair in Chantilly! This year at Brickfair RVALUG debuted our redesigned Western themed display. A 2 table western town and train epic! Many thanks to LUG President Chris Ost for spearheading this redevelopment project throughout 2024!  Our entire BrickFair VA display can be browsed in this photo album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/ooKL… Upcoming Meetings and Events: Upcoming meetings hosted at the Guzman Center (5200 Fitzhugh Ave, Richmond, VA 23230) LUG Meetings: August 16th Build Challenge is a seed part challenge. The challenge is to create any MOC that incorporates brick separators. September 20th Annual End of Summer Barbecue 3pm to 7pm BBQ IN ASHLAND; Select any set, and re-theme it. (Ex. Friends X-Wing). Planning for this annual party has already begun, here is a sign up sheet for the cook out: https://docs.google.com/spread… We will once again be hosted by Tyler at his Goat Farm, In Ashland VA. The Party is also our September LUG Meeting, which will start at 3pm for this event. The party is September 20th 3pm to 7pm. Join us on discord to participate in planning our displays for these upcoming events: Upcoming Display Opportunities: September 6 – VA Comic Con (https://vacomicon.com/) November 6 – 9 – BrickFair Philly (https://www.brickfair.com/tick…) November 7-9 – Local Community Display TBD View Full Calendar Build Challenge Spotlight The July Build Challenge was “Potted Plant/Flower!” We were all super impressed by this tiny entry shared by Josh B. at the July Meeting:  Better Know a LUG Member! This months featured LUG Member is Brian Slevin!  Tell us about your favorite LEGO theme: My Favorite theme is the LEGO Winter Village Theme (https://www.lego.com/en-us/cat…). I like the design and scale of the theme, the price point is more reasonable to me than the modular theme, and it has a limited release schedule of maybe two sets per year (when you include things like the GWP that accompany it). Which make it a manageable theme for a collector like me that doesn’t display anything at home. Every few years, though – the LEGO Christmas display is epic. What is the last LEGO set you built? What did you like about it? What made you buy it? Set number 76311; Spider-Verse: Miles Morales vs. The Spot (https://www.lego.com/en-us/pro…). I am a big fan of the Spider-verse movies and bought this because it is the only set officially tied to the movie, despite many sets previously being suspiciously linked to the movie. Spider-Man Noir and Spider-ham appearing in a few sets in the regular Spider-man theme, for example. I recently incorporated this into a MOC for BrickFair:  What is the earliest LEGO memory in your life? I never really connected it with LEGO but the toy box in my house growing up had some fabuland parts inside it. I realized this after seeing a Fabuland MOC at a brick fair that featured a recognizable part that unlocked this connection for me. It was the Fabuland Roof Support Slope, 6 x 2  I was the youngest of 6 kids so everything in that box was a mish mash of whatever toys survived my siblings before me. The building toy I remember most from my childhood was Fisher Price Construx, not LEGO. If you have an instagram or flickr, link to it here. https://www.instagram.com/slev… https://www.flickr.com/photos/… Interested in being our featured builder next month? Please use this form to tell us about yourself and we will add you as the featured bio in an upcoming newsletter. Follow this link to complete the featured member interview. |