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© 2004-2012 Brickville DesignWorks. All rights reserved. LEGO®, the minifigure, and the brick configuration are trademarks of the LEGO Group of companies
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Welcome To
BRICKVILLE DESIGNWORKS
Robin Sather, Canada's only LEGO Certified Professional,
along with the rest of the Brickville team,
welcome you, and hope you enjoy your visit!
What's New ...
March 9-11, 2012 : It was LEGO Mania time again at Tillicum Centre in Victoria, and Robin, Christian and the VicLUG crew were on hand once again to build something cool and BIG, and display lots of cool creations. This year's BIG build was a 2.5 metre long replica of Victoria's Bay Street Armoury, or the "Army Castle" as many of the kids called it! It was great fun to build. We also had 120 kids enter the Building Challenge. The theme this year was "Sea and Sky" and the kids did not disappoint! There were so many great creations. |
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February 17-19, 2012 : Robin and the team spent the weekend at
Science World: Telus World of Science, building not one but TWO giant creations to celebrate the opening of
LEGO Castle Adventure. The first was a 'Drafty Castle Door', built for BC Hydro Team Powersmart,
and if you join Team Power Smart, you can try to guess the number of bricks used in the castle wall and door, and win some cool prizes! |
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| December 2011: A belated Merry Christmas to everyone, and best wishes for 2012! Robin was busy this Christmas with a few private commissions, as well as decorating a few Christmas trees around the lower mainland. One of the most fun was a tree that was LEGO-ized for Aspac Developments / River Green at Richmond City Hall for their "Winter Wonderland" display. Click here for some pictures. |  |
| October 30, 2011: The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, was visited by the giant Sphinx over the Halloween weekend. There were reports of a mummy seen lurching through the corridors, coming to help Robin build it, but nobody's talking! For Click here for a few pictures (sorry for the poor quality). |  |
| October 28, 2011: As many of you know, there's a lot more to LEGO than just the cool building sets you can buy on your local store shelves. If you have ever wanted to learn more about all the interesting ways that LEGO is used and played with by people of ALL ages, all around the world, you need to get this book - The Cult of LEGO. The title may be a little ominous, but if you're reading this, you already know how amazing LEGO really is. You'll learn about everything from the history of the LEGO Company, to what it's like to go to a LEGO convention and see thousands of creations built by adult fans! You'll see incredible LEGO robots, and even see how LEGO is used for very serious business, technical, and engineering applications. Of course, you'll also read about how some people create LEGO art for a living (like Robin!) I really enjoyed the book, and recommend it to you! Find it online at your favourite bookseller, like Chapters or Amazon. |  |
| September 24, 2011: London Drugs, in support of Canuck Place, hosted a fun event, as hosts of kids and adults came out to help construct a giant shopping basket! Click here for pictures. |  |
| September 10 - 11, 2011: Surrey Libraries sponsored their first 'Building for Literacy' event, with a corporate building challenge, and Robin constructing a model of the new Central Library branch. Click here for pictures! |  |
| August 13 - 14, 2011: Lots of fun for Robin & Christian at the Whistler Children's Art Festival, as well as the many kids who came out to play! Each session had some Creativity exercises, some Builder's School, a giant fort build, and a building contest (with prizes!) Click for a view of a giant fort in progress, a completed fort, and a shot of several of the winning contest entries. See you next year! |  |
| July 17, 2011: Krause Berry Farms hosted their annual Farmer's Feast, and Robin was on hand to build them a giant strawberry to display in the gift shop for a few weeks. Click here and here for a couple of pictures of the completed berry in the store. |  |
| July 1 - 3, 2011: Robin celebrated Canada Day in Ontario's cottage country - at the Muskoka Boat and Heritage Centre in Gravenhurst, where he built a 3 metre replica of one of the last operating steamships in the world, the RMS Segwun. Kids were also able to build their own creations and add them to a "Muskoka Wharf-scape" mural - which looks awesome! The LEGO Segwun remained on display until the end of July, and the Wharf-scape building event goes until the end of August! Click here for pictures from the Canada Day weekend. |  |
| June 5 - 8, 2011: Robin and Nathan spent 4 great days building and playing once again, at the Saskatchewan Children's Festival, and had a brilliant time creating pieces from Eric Carle's book, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar"! Click here for pictures. |  |
| May 20 - 22, 2011: Christian and Robin set up in the main square in Whistler Village and built a peak-to-peak gondola, while visitors built lots of cool creations to populate our mountain scene. Thanks to Tourism Whistler and the Whistler Arts Council for making it all happen. Click here for a few pictures. |  |
| May 6 - 8, 2011: Robin visited the Canadian Tulip Festival in Ottawa, and together with hundreds of eager kids, worked on a LEGO Garden together. Robin built giant DUPLO tulip blossoms, while the kids built everything from flowers to snails, butterflies, trees, and more (we had the odd monster, tower, and spaceship thrown in for good measure!) Click here for pictures. The giant tulips remain on display, and the LEGO Garden build goes on until May 23, 2011. Go and check it out! |  |
| April 30, 2011: The 2011 Cuboree went LEGO crazy! 600 cub scouts from troops all over the lower mainland built both BIG forts, and small creations at camp McLean in Langley. Robin & Christian were both on hand to make it happen. Click here for lots of pictures from the event. |  |
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Last Updated: 10 Apr 2012