Got six weeks of free time ahead of you? Getting bored waiting for spring to arrive? Or perhaps you finally finished all those little projects on your VW and are wondering what to do with yourself? The solution? A project assembling 400,000 Legos – an endeavor in which the whole family can partake! Unfortunately, we are still awaiting the announcement of a sale date for this kit (lol).
https://jalopnik.com/this-lifesize-vw-camper-built-from-40-000-legos-is-ever-1832729004
With summer over and autumn starting up, we once again made the 5-hour trip north to attend the All Air-Cooled Gathering in NJ. Our journey did not stray from schedules of past years, leaving early Saturday morning, arriving at Tom’s for a lunch that was followed by a caravan up to the showgrounds for a night of camping before Sunday’s main event. This year, my entire family, including our new pup, made the trip – a first – along with Tom, Monica, and her husband. Monica was excited to drive her ghia as she Continue reading
A while back I posted about a Lego double cab created by modifying the official Lego split-window camper kit. Thanks to social media outlets, I discovered that Lego developed a program that allows plastic brick aficionados to submit their unique creations for public viewing; it is called Lego Ideas. However, they do not stop there! The general population can vote on each idea and with 10,000 votes, Lego will consider turning the creation into an official kit. Pretty cool, especially with this single cab idea or a VW garage! Click around the for more details and photos of the project or you can visit Andrea Lattanzio’s Flickr page for photos of this and other bus creations (I am particularly impressed by the Lego Pisten-Bulli). Do not forget to give your support to the Lego Idea creation if you are so inclined!
A couple of linked photos to the Flickr page.
Last Sunday we got an old friend out of the shed, introduced her to our other old friend, and then took a short trip to the nearby lake. We have not had the chance to use the canoe in five years and it was nice to get her out for a bit. I need to work on tie-down system though and get the ropes off the paint, but it’s a good fit otherwise, I think.
Somewhere there is an identical picture of the canoe and Big Blue. I should probably hunt that down.
So many paddlers!
The canoe is a ceder/canvas canoe, made some time between 1890 and 1907 by the White Canoe Company, Maine.
I received this little Lego Creator set as a gift over the weekend from family that lives overseas. After a quick search of on Lego.com, I was oddly unsuccessful at finding this particular set. Perhaps it is not available in the states yet as I have not seen any references on the various VW sites I continually peruse. Very cool that Lego is continuing their VW sets and would love to see them expand into models beyond beetles and buses (hear that Lego?!).
Edit: Turns out this was a promotional kit; given away for free with certain purchases. Here’s to hoping they decided to offer it independently someday!
Officially licensed even!
The lego bus converted to a 1962 double cab with a little ingenuity and extra legos. Very cool! Click on the picture to see more.
When I came home from work yesterday, I discovered my daughter put her day off from school to good use. With great excitement she led me into the family room and pulled a doll’s blanket off “a surprise” she had waiting for me – a completed lego bus! True to her word about finishing this project before the one year anniversary of the kit’s arrival at our home, she made it with a couple of days to spare and she just beamed with pride over her accomplishment. I am a proud Papa!
We have had only a couple of weekends to get the lego bus out but it is progressing very nicely. We now have windows on the front doors, safari windshields installed, side-view mirror, and the front roof. Almost there!
Windows and a side-view mirror on the driver’s door.
Yep, you read that title correctly, the mall. Not the first place on your list? It is not on mine either. In fact, those that know me well recognize that for me, the mall represents a primeval source of dreadful parking lots, crowds, long lines, poor sales skills, and, dare I say it, mall music. I find myself at these places for only two reasons: Continue reading
Zero to Sixty . . .Eventually 
