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One day I want to get Lego to make the approach pylons, cause that would just make it *super* awesome :)

It took us fifty minutes to make our way along the queue and into the room they'd setup (which was a bigger room than last time).  There was a lot more Lego there this year, looks like a lot of SydLUG people had brought Lego down as well.

They didn't have the Hogwarts Castle this time, but there was a super awesome Space Lego setup (probably my favourite thing of the day) and an amazing western scene.

Last year when I went my camera was exactly one day old.  This year it was exactly one year old.  !!  To the day!  Since changing the focus mode in Japan last year I've been a lot happier with the results out of the camera, and generally this year's photos were better than last year's.

There were lots and lots of town/city scenes and lots of trains..

Bridges..

Towers..

Cool things from movies..

A delorean and train from Back to the Future





Wall-E and Eve




Lots of Star Wars stuff








The Blacktron vs Classic Space diorama

A big minifig


Snoopy!


A cool mountain scene


Parliament House

Another space type scene

But some of the most fun was in the detail people put into the dioramas.  You really need to look closely to see everything that's going on.  So much fun!

Fishing a skeleton out of the water

Geisha and sailors inside a very large building, that had stuff going on on all the floors

Chickens in the western scene

A bicyclist hit by a car

I used Gorillacam for the iPhone to do a timelapse series of photos every five seconds (871 photos total!).  The only problem was every few minutes the phone would go to "sleep" and it would stop taking photos.  Had to get up and unlock it just so it would continue.  Quite annoying really.

I went by myself but saw Neil driving up as I was walking to the queue (which was half way up the street) so we went in together (and had a beer afterwards).

My new camera was less than a day old at this point so it was a good chance to try it out.  I didn't have a great deal of success.  On automatic mode, the camera focuses in odd places (usually the foreground) and not the subject of the picture.  So didn't get great pictures (that didn't stop me taking hundreds anyway!).  Also discovered that you can take a heap of photos with the flash in quick succession, but after a certain point it takes *ages* to charge up the flash again.

And it was epic crowded!!  Stu would have hated it.  My patience was tested.  Little kids don't understand that their fat heads get in the way of people trying to take photos.

There was lots of "hey I've got that set!!".  Maybe I should do a table next year with all the Harry Potter or Toy Story Lego (there was lots of Toy Story Lego this year) or all the Classic Space Lego sets. 

The highlight for me was a custom Hogwarts Castle.  The owner of that castle asked me about photographing Lego (cause it can be tricky with flash reflection) so showed him a shot I took and he was impressed.  Someone also asked him about insuring Lego, to which I contributed that it's actually really hard - I asked once!

These Lego minifigs came with Creationary that I got for my birthday.

Aren't the new teeny tiny minifigs cute? :)

Buzz Lightyear to the rescue!!

*I* am your father!

This isn't flying, this is falling with style!

To inifinity and beyond!

A good soldier never leaves a man behind!

Woody's Roundup!

Toy Story Lego!

Two years ago today we left Vienna and headed for Salzburg, wandering around the old town and exploring the fortress, was a great day :)

And is this the cutest thing in the universe or what??

Still kicking myself I never got an original Buzz Lightyear in 1995.  We got them for Luc and Luc but I never got myself one.  Doh!!   I did get an original alien tho :)