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© 2004-2013 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 24 - 25, 2013: Robin was in Calgary at Telus Spark, teaming up with Dave Ware of Brickwares to build a Calgary-themed mystery mosaic. 48,000 LEGO bricks later - click here to see the finished creation. |  |
| March 15 - 17, 2013: Another great year of LEGO Mania at Tillicum Centre in Victoria. Click here for a quick photo of the finished BIG Build. More photos to come soon! |  |
| February 11, 2013: The city of Sidney celebrated BC's first Family Day holiday by throwing a pirate-themed party! Robin was there to build a giant parrot (well, a scarlet macaw, to be specific). Click here for a photo (more to come!) |  |
| November 21 - 22, 2012: Robin was on hand to build a full-size Christmas Tree to ring in the coming Christmas season! Check out some early photos (sorry about the poor quality) |  |
October 20 - 21, 2012: Robin (along with awesome builder John!), spent the weekend building a giant Jack-O-Lantern. The event was the Literacy Building Challenge which took place at Central City Shopping Centre in Surrey. The Jack-O-Lantern was on display until November 2. |
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Robin had a sneak-peak at three AWESOME new LEGO books, from no starch press, to be released in just a few days. Better yet, no starch is offering a 40% off promotion on all three titles, but only until October 31st - so get them now! In the Unofficial LEGO Technic Builder's Guide, Polish builder Pawel includes tons of tips, tricks, and building secrets for making your LEGO models come to life. Alan Bedford, fellow Canadian, has updated the Unofficial LEGO Builder's Guide, with a new 2nd edition. This book is filled with essential LEGO building information, and you're guaranteed to learn something that you can use to improve your own models. And finally, my good friend Megan Rothrock has written the LEGO Adventure Book, Volume 1. It's a fun story, told in the style of a LEGO Idea Book, and is sure to inspire your own LEGO adventures. |
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Robin is very excited to have his giant Egyptian sphinx featured in the Official 2013 LEGO Calendar! Find your copy at your nearest LEGO brand retail store, or get one online. Fun! |
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| May - July 2012: Robin, along with an awesome team of volunteer builders, spent much of May - July building a display of the Hong Kong skyline, including a giant mosaic backdrop, and 11 iconic buildings. Almost 250,000 bricks were used, taking almost 300 hours to build. The display is part of an exhibit at Aberdeen Centre in Richmond, called "In My Life - Pearl of the Orient - Hong Kong". The exhibit remains on display until September 3, 2012. Click here for pictures of the display. (Note that this is a very large slide show, and it will take some time to load before you can scroll through it! Alternately, view the photos on Flickr). |  |
| July 21, 2012: In keeping with the Surrey Museum's Mythology LEGO exhibit, Robin ran some "Temples & Titans" LEGO building workshops. Click here for a few pictures from the day. |  |
| July 15, 2012: Robin was at Krause Berry Farms for their "Farmers Feast" and built a giant slice of fresh LEGOBerry pie. Click here for pictures from the event . |  |
| April 5 - 7, 2012: Once again, Sevenoaks Shopping Centre was the host for the 'Corporate Building Challenge' to raise awareness and funds for the new Canuck Place childrens hospice here in Abbotsford. Lots of building fun, for a very good cause. Click here for pictures from the event . |  |
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 no starch press. |  |
| 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: 20-Apr-2013