Pilili Cuicui

Hello! FreeLUG (a French LUG in France) is organizing a Briqu'expo, this is a 100% LEGO event! It will take place the 7th and the 8th of June, in the city of Montdidier (this is a town between Lille and Paris). The access is easy by the motorway, or by train (there is a train station in Montdidier: http://www.ter-sncf....MONTDIDIER.aspx ) This is the 2nd edition of this event, last year the exhibtion welcomed 530 visitors. This a 170m2 exhibition! There will be: Lego dioramas of various Lego themes, animation for kids, Lego contest.... Whether you are in a LUG or not, you are really truly welcome to come with some of your Lego if you want to be an exhibitor with us! Feel free to contact me for the details! And, even if we are a French LUG there will always be someone to talk in english with you, you will not be alone, we are a friendly LUG! If you want to come as a visitor here are the details: Saturday the 7th of June: 17h-22h Sunday the 8th of June: 9h-17h Prices: Under 6 years old: Free From 6 to 15 years old: 1€ Older than 15 years old: 2€ Here is the exact adress: Salle Jean Dupuis 80500 Montdidier There is a Facebook page of the event: https://www.facebook...1189071897042/# (it is in French but don't hesitate to write me in English for any question if you don't speak French ) Here are some photos of last year event if you want to take a look: I hope we will see you there! Pilili Cuicui

Thank you for your nice comments! The most difficult for me was to build the inside along with the outside, and to "convert" the real place in Lego while keeping the spirit of the building. Take care! Pilili Cuicui

Hello! I've just finished my first modular! Here it is if you want to take a look . I took my favourite Tea Room as an inspiration for the front and the interior of the ground flour. The rest of the inside of the building I imagined it. This is an english tea room and the only place where I can find real english scones in my area! Tea room-front par Pilili Cuicui, sur Flickr Tea room-ground floor (other view) par Pilili Cuicui, sur Flickr Tea room- first floor: dining room par Pilili Cuicui, sur Flickr Tea room- second floor: private appartment (other view) par Pilili Cuicui, sur Flickr Tea room-third floor under the roof: private appartment par Pilili Cuicui, sur Flickr Here are two photos of the real building in my city (Lille-France): My favorite Tea Room in Lille for Lego inspiration par Pilili Cuicui, sur Flickr Inside of My favorite Tea room in Lille Lego inspiration par Pilili Cuicui, sur Flickr This my first modular, I made it for a Lug project (my lug, Freelug-France). I hope you'll enjoy it! Take care! Pilili Cuicui

Thank you for your nice comments!

Hello! I spent the summer to make a MOC. So here is the result of my work: The White Rabbit Herald, From Alice in Wonderland the Disney movie. It is 30cm high (ears excluded ) White Rabbit herald par Pilili Cuicui, sur Flickr White Rabbit: Her imperial Highness, Her Grace, Her Excellency, Her Royal Majesty the Queen of Hearts! [Crowd cheers] White Rabbit: ... And the King I hope you'll enjoy! Cheers! Pilili Cuicui

LOL! This is excellent, really funny! I love the way you made Oscar (and the banana, and the apple ) The whole picture is really amazing!

Hey! That's cool! This is an original concept and really well made! It's beautiful!! ++ Pilili Cuicui ps: ok...now I can't stop singing "En passant par la Lorraine" for myself !

Hello! Bienvenue à toi! Si jamais tu repasses par la France, depuis peu ici aussi il y a des Legostores (Paris et Lille) ! See you on the boards! ++ Pilili Cuicui

Wow! This is magnificent! Wonderful work! I love it ! I really like the exterior which is beautiful and the tramway, and the details in the inside of the building are really great !

That's so cute! I love it!! The roof is really great!

Hello! Are you a member of a LUG? 1: Yes I am! I've been a proud member of FREELUG (FRANCE) since 2012! Are you actively participating in your LUG? Well...I suppose this is a Yes and a No answer for me. I will try to explain: I've been a member of a LUG for only 1 year and a half now. First of all, whereas our Lug is nation-wide, it gives more importance to the contacts IRL than online. There are only a few members in my area and since I've been into the LUG I've tried to meet the others around a cup of coffee at home. But it's hard to meet regularly and harder to meet the other members who are in the other regions of France . My LUG organizes some periodical events for the members so we can all meet there, but attending is quite expensive (travel + hotel) and so it's a no-go for me at the moment. To communicate my LUG uses a mailing list so we can talk to each other, and I try to be active on it! The last way to participate in my LUG is to attend the events (exhibitions) it organises. Well, beside the cost to go, I am an AFOL but I consider myself as not really good at MOC. I'm trying, I improve myself of course but imagine the scene: me coming with my little fabuland pedal-boat while the members of my LUG present their full-scale Hogwarts ......well....picture it? ....In my LUG they do a lot of city and train, so they have always huge dioramas to display... I am really shy to come with my really few tiny and not so beautiful MOCs...And, well, I don't do city/train myself so I always think I don't fit in the event, but I am actually trying to make a diorama of my own, something big enough to present next to the trains of my LUG! Participating in the life of my LUG is not so simple. That may be hard to understand without the whole context: Here in France a LUG is an "association loi 1901" by law, I don't know if this the same thing in other countries. So as an association you have members (like me ) and the elected Administration Council (President, secretaries, Lego ambassador, treasurers). Each year we have a general assembly with all the members and we vote for the administration council (1/3 per year, so each member of the council is elected for 3 years) . The thing is, well... for example if LEGO wants to contact the LUG or if a town wants to organize an event they don't talk to the all members, they talk to the administration council, so the decisions and the hard work is made by the council. As a (normal ) member I only see and can participate to the top of the iceberg. To be clear: I can follow, but this is harder to impulse something new. But this not something exlusive to the LUG this is how it works in France with any "loi 1901" association. So to be simple for example I can't say " Hey, let's make a Forum for the LUG! , or, Hey! let's organize an event there!", well I can try to say it but then it must go through the council, then there is a vote, and then there is a "no" or a "yes". Well I hope I made you understand it's not so simple to participate the way you mean it ... Would you consider supporting more actively the online AFOL community (e.g. Eurobricks) as moderator, regulator (indexing, ...), making set reviews, etc.? My LUG only has an internal mailing list, it has no "online life" per say so I can't participate that way. I am a bit sad about that because I am good at computers (let's say it: I'm often called a geek ) and that would be a way for me to participate and to be active and feel useful in that LUG but well ...that's not the way my LUG has decided to work for the moment, as I said I am really sad about that . So I've come here, because this Forum is very friendly and we can talk to other AFOLS from around the world. But I am not so active and do a lot of reading because, I am not really good at MOCs so I can't do topics of construction, I don't think I have the legitimity to do reviews , but I try to enter the contests when I can so that I can improve my skills at MOCs . I really like the online life and I miss it in my LUG, I also miss the contacts with LEGO (but again I am not a member of the LUG council...). To conclude, I think when you ask yourself why the new members of the LUG are not really active online I think there 2 simple explanations: we are new members, we are new at MOCs so we feel shy to post our creations, we are new in the community so we don't know the people like you (old members ) can know each other , in a word: we are shy! Let's add the fact that we are not all fluent in English, for some people it's already hard enough to read the news in english, they simply don't feel confident enough to participate to a English online community. Moreover there is nothing in our LUG to make a link between the english-speaking Lego community and us... Just a little last thing, I am girl! ...and in my nation-wide LUG we are maybe... 4 active girls on the mailing-list (I mean not silent) . The boys are cool, really , but sometimes I wish we could be more, when we meet that's not the same thing to be a few girls around the table or THE girl at the table .... I hope it helped! ++ Pilili Cuicui

Thank you every one!All the entries were great! This is the first time I win something in a Lego contest , I am really happy! Gongratulations to Cecilie, your yellow submarine is really great, your first place is well deserved! I didn't have the Peter Panda minifig yet, I think it is just super cute and I am really happy to have it now!!

2. Ceclie - 2 4. Oky - 2 11. KartoffelViking - 1 I love all the entries and ideas, so original and so Fabuland!

1. ThaukaFilms - 1 5. Cecilie - 3 6. Burlogh - 1 Great video Cecilie, I guess it was a hard job to do it, and the result is just super great!

4. Burlogh -2 5. Quarryman -1 6. Cecilie - 2 You are really great builders! Each entry is amazing!