Erika and I went to see Kung-fu Panda last night at the AMC theaters in Downtown Disney, Orlando. When we arrived to pick up our pre-paid tickets, there was a huge giant inflatable Wall-E outside the doors. Many years ago, when the wife and I went to Disneyland, there was a similar inflatable crystal ball from Eddie Murphy's The Haunted Mansion movie... didn't take a picture of it, but it did light up at night -- very cool. Don't know if the Wall-E light up...

I would highly recommend Kung-fu Panda! Visually rich, good music, lovable characters, good plot. I didn't tear it apart too much; this one I just wanted to enjoy, without being super critical; and I did. I'd give it a 5 out of 5 stars... now I want to go out an rent more old school Kung-fu movies... takes me back to my childhood, with watching Kung-fu movies marathons on Sunday afternoons... the movie was good enough, I could see another sequel to it.

I'm a little surprised that there haven't been more campy Batman vigs. Adam West, the 60's Batman TV show and the wacky situations Batman and Robin were left in -- you'd think there'd be a die hard AFOL out there trying to reproduce some most famous episodes... though a lot of them elude me as I blog this... :)

The new Batman & Harlequin set was at the LIC when I went on Saturday -- I'll have to pick it up later. Ended up picking up a new Agents set with two dark-green alligators. I'm building the Jungle Cruise for GFLTC's display at NMRA/ILTCO convention in Anaheim in July... Posted By: Michael On: 2008-06-09 09:28:00 Category: LEGO Blog: Main Blog]]> http://www.mouse-network.com/?bID=596 http://www.mouse-network.com/?bID=596 So last weekend, I was asked to join James Wadsworth and Tim Courtney on LAML radio episode #43 to talk about LUGNET...

It was a good show... and it's got me thinking... and then I realized that I've been with the on-line LEGO fan community for 10 years now. My anniversary was Feb. 16th, 1998, the date of my first rec.toys.lego post. Pirate LEGO was being clearanced out at my local TRU & offered to buy sets for anyone looking. Steve Jackson ended up taking me up on my offer...

Just got back in town; went up to Bar Harbor, Maine over Memorial Day weekend. Our vacation started out a little rainy and cold, but later turned sunny and nice before we left. This was our 3rd trip to Bar Harbor and the first time it was sunny... Managed to get a few good pictures... if you click on the image above, it should take you to Maine photoset. The above photo was taken shortly after our arrival at the Balance Rock Inn... notice the gloomy clouds.

• #10185 Green Grocer
• #6277 Imperial Trading Post
• #6081 King's Mountain Fortress
• 1682 Space Shuttle, with the updated shuttle from #6339 Shuttle Launch Pad
• #4958 Monster Dino
• #6414 Dolphin Point
• #10020 Santa Fe Super Chief
• #6990 Monorail Transport System

Being a Disney-geek as well as a LEGO-geek, doing a little research on-line, there will be a NFFC (National Fantasy Fan Club) convention in Anaheim around the same time as the NMRA convention -- DisneylandâÂÂs 53th anniversary will be July 17th, 2008 btw. If you donâÂÂt know anything about the NFFC, itâÂÂs a national Disney fan club, please check their web-site out.

IâÂÂve been in contact with the NFFC convention planning committee, and have managed to secure a few display tables for a Disney-themed LEGO display for Sunday July 20th, 2008 during the public Disneyana Show and Sale event -- set up should be sometime Saturday or Sunday before the event.

So this is a call for participation; if anyone is interested in displaying Disney-themed MOCs and would be in the area during this time, please contact Joe Meno and myself. If you wonâÂÂt be in the area, but would still like to participate, let us both know, weâÂÂll try to make arrangements.

In the next few weeks, there will be some on-line brain storming of ideas for the display. Send me an e-mail and IâÂÂll invite you to the Yahoo planning group.

A few days ago, I was asked by James Wadsworth to participate in a episode of LAMLradio -- I had a blast. It was a little rough starting out, but after a few minutes, it was like doing BrickNebula all over again. :) I won't spoil the show -- you'll have to listen to it yourself -- but James, Andrew (news editor at BZPower) and myself talk about some fun topics... I just hope I don't embarrass myself too much.

The episode is not up yet, but it should be in the next few days, so look for it.

As a FYI, I updated the BrickNebula web-site today -- added some color to it (it was spammed to death over a year ago, so Dave turned it into a no frills web-site; I'm glad that he did) and added a flash MP3 player. After doing the episode of LAMLradio, I'm excited about doing another BrickNebula podcast sometime soon. Assuming Dave and I can find the time, we might try to put another one together soon -- there's been a lot happened since our last podcast.

We've been planning a trip out to Disneyland next July. A few of us from GFLUG are thinking about going to California for NMRA and hitting Legoland and Disneyland. So for the last few days I've been in a Disneyland mood. :)

So I've been uploading some of our old Disneyland photos up to our Flickr account. Click on the image to the right to check them out.