Lego Stormers Robotics Day

This is short notice, but here you go. VicLUG wholly supports all FLL activities and look forward to participating in future events!

http://www.lego-stormers.com/fix-it/robotics-day-june-11.html

Saturday June 11, 2011

Community Hall, Oak Bay United Church
1355 Mitchell St. Victoria

Hosted by the FIX IT Robotics Team, who have just returned from the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) World Championship for high school teams.

Tillicum Kids!

Robin Sather from Brickville ( www.brickville.ca ) is back for the second year of Tillicum Kids ( www.tillicumkids.com ) and we’re jazzed to be part of it again. There will be the giant Duplo doubledecker bus that will be built over the course of the weekend and then on display all month, a kids creation contest, a kids build area, and a Where’s Waldo street scene designed by us.

It’s free to come check out and should be a lot of fun!

March 18-20, 2011
Friday 9:30am-9pm
Saturday 11:00am-5pm
Sunday 11:00am-5pm

Post-Gottacon

VicLUG was stoked to be part of Gottacon for the 3rd year, and it was the best one yet! We had a speed build, blind build, and kid build stations, as well as our VicWars game which we refined even further this year. Our kid build was a bit different this year, we encouraged convention attendees to title and label their creations, and we had some amazing additions.

Our VicWars game went great, we played maybe 6 games, and came up with lots of new ideas for next year already.

Here’s some videos of the game in action:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpCq6-LDH0s[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0-ifJ7ksb0[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEe4YvvJZNE[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZYrVvvW4x0[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2swinsVCjZA[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlPFTXYn2-o[/youtube]

Gottacon 2011, Saturday game 1
http://www.flickr.com/photos/blobfarm/sets/72157625909743917/

Gottacon 2011, Saturday game 2
http://www.flickr.com/photos/blobfarm/sets/72157626036149300/

Gottacon 2011, Sunday Game
http://www.flickr.com/photos/blobfarm/sets/72157625911215155/

Gottacon 2011, miscellaneous
http://www.flickr.com/photos/blobfarm/sets/72157625917823235/

Also, check back on this page: www.viclug.ca/vicwars.html for updates on the game. It’s just a text copy of the rules at the writing of this post, but it’ll be more elaborate, with links to all this media and our revised rules from the past convention.

I’d also like to thank Jon New from www.talismanisland.com for providing prizes at the Talisman game I hosted, it’s much appreciated and please check out his site for amazing Talisman resources and info! You can see more on that game in the miscellaneous photo gallery above.

See you guys all next year!

Gottacon

VicLUG will be at Gottacon again this year! February 4-6 we’ll have our VicWars ( based on BrikWars ) tabletop minifig game, blind build contest as well as our kid build setup. Our main hours of activity will be in the morning and afternoon of Saturday & Sunday, but the kid build will be open throughout the whole event.

Gottacon is at Pearkes Arena, by Tillicum Mall & Silver City. Go towww.gottacon.com for more info about the event.

Sidney Museum

The Sidney Museum Lego show is in full swing and VicLUG is happy to be part of this wonderful (6th!) annual event again! The show runs from January to March and is at 2423 Beacon, admission by donation.

http://www.sidneymuseum.ca/