The Vancouver LEGO Club has been invited to put together a display for the West Coast Railway Associations’ Mini Days Festival this weekend in Squamish.  Hope to see you there!

A great day of family fun on the small side! Mini Days Festival at the West Coast Railway Heritage Park. Come try the Pump Car challenge, ride the speeder, and of course be sure to have a mini-rail ride ! Mini cars, mini steam engine, mini me contest – All included in your special admission price for the day – $25 for the family, $10 for adults, $5 for seniors, kids and members. Come join us on the weekend of Sep 14 & 15th.

 The West Coast Railway Heritage Park is situated in Squamish BC, 70km north of Vancouver. The development will present a typical railway facility of the mid 20th century. It now provides the visitor with the opportunity to tour authentic railway equipment in various stages of restoration.

The West Coast Railway Heritage Park is an attraction designed to please the whole family, set in some of the most beautiful scenery in Canada.

How to find the West Coast Railway Heritage Park
From Vancouver it is about an hour drive north on Highway 99 along the spectacular Howe Sound to Squamish. Go approximately 2km past the McDonald’s stop until you come to Industrial Way. There is a traffic light at the intersection. Turn left and go to the stop sign at Queens Way. Turn right and follow the signs. After the BC Rail tracks, you will see our entrance sign on the right.

Thank you so much for all of you who came out to the Nikkei Matsuri 2013 at Nikkei Place in Burnaby.   Our members had a good challenge on their hand to custom build a lot of Japanese creations.   We brought Godzilla who mercifully did not attack Tokyo’s iconic Skytree Tower but instead ate a helpless minifig, Horyu-Ji Temple in Nara Prefect was (artistically being attacked by blue ninjas),  a beautiful cherry blossom tree with a lone samurai riding off from his wife, a kabuki theatre,  rice patties and a bamboo grove.  As well as a sumo wrestling ring with two oversizes wrestlers.

If you missed out on seeing our builds, I have just uploaded a photo gallery.  Otherwise, make sure to mark down your calendars for next year!

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The Vancouver LEGO Club is excited to be working with the Nikkei Place Foundation  in bringing our interpretations of Japanese culture and heritage to their Nikkei Matsuri: The Heart of Nikkei.  One of the structures we are currently building for this event is the famous Skytree Tower.  As well you’ll see a Japanese pagoda or castle scene, and who knows even Godzilla might make an appearance.

What is Nikkei Matsuri?

Nikkei Matsuri: The Heart of Nikkei is coming! It’s the first time we are running this Japanese children and family festival at Nikkei Place.

On August 31 and September 1, Nikkei Place will host Nikkei Matsuri: The Heart of Nikkei. Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre will be transformed into an indoor Japanese festival that will be divided into a kids zone – full of Japanese cultural games – and performance hall – where we will have Japanese food, vendors and performances.

At Nikkei Matsuri: The Heart of Nikkei we want to recognize the cultural significance of Japanese Immigrants’ contribution to the Nikkei Community. We also want to share Japanese culture with all Canadians. We hope to give all an authentic Japanese experience without visiting Japan!

For more information visit their website: http://festival.nikkeiplacefoundation.org/

Nikkei Place is located at:

6688 Southoaks Crescent
Burnaby, BC V5E 4M7
604.777.7000 | info@nikkeiplace.org

Happy Canada Day!  We’re excited to be back at the Port Moody Station Museum, this time with our vision of Port Moody in 2020 after the Evergreen Line and Station have been completed.  We imagine that somethings have  changed, yet other have remained the same.

Below is a teaser image because, we’ll always want to be having Fish and Chips on a gloriously sunshiny day like today.  Come check our display out and learn more about the Port Moody Station Museum!

Experience Port Moody’s past at the Station Museum. Explore the historical displays in the 105 year old train station and take a walk through our restored 1921 Venosta railcar. We will be featuring our futuristic Lego exhibit of Port Moody, “Yesterday and Tomorrow” created by the Vancouver Lego Club. Then we will get our guests to travel back in time as they view Jim Buckley’s zoomed-in model of Port Moody’s main street in the 1930s. We also have the Morse Telegraph Society joining us to demonstrate their telegraphy skills!

The Port Moody Station Museum is owned by the Port Moody Heritage Society and is located in Port Moody’s 1908 CPR Station. The building and displays illustrate the role of the station in the community and the early development of Port Moody.

For complete information head to the Port Moody Station Museum website.

Address:
2734 Murray St. Port Moody, British Columbia V3H 1X2
Located next to Rocky Point Park in Port Moody, the Station Museum is a gem of rail history and local heritage in the Tri Cities area of the Lower Mainland.

Parking:
Parking is free for Museum visitors. Our parking lot can accommodate many cars or one large bus.

Summer Hours (Victoria Day to Labour Day):10am – 5 pm every day   (CLOSED Labour Day)

Admission by Donation

We suggest a donation of $2 per person. Your contributions are important and help keep our doors open. We ask you to give what you can.

For those of you who came out to Family FUSE Weekend on Saturday at the Vancouver Art Gallery we’ve got some of the photos of your creations captured here on our website

Unfortunately, I forgot to charge all 3 of my DSLR batteries plus on top of that having a bad setting means the first 88 photos I took didn’t come out at all.  So the rest were taken on my camera phone.  Hopefully though you can find yours amongst all the fantastic creations.  Thanks for building buildings with us.

And for those of you who haven’t come down, there’s always today (June 9th)!  I know one young boy is coming down again to continue working on his creation.

It might take us awhile to get the Sunday photos up, as I won’t be there today and I’ll have to get the images from another member.

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