:____"Unofficial LEGO® Museum of the Ohio Valley"___

Plastica, The band made from LEGO bricks

This band has adorned our stage since we opened. Its long trip to Bellaire, OH was filled with twists and turns! Also alot of repairs were needed!

It is one of the best parts of the collection. Enjoy.

Black lit space room!!!

For those of you who have been to the museum you know about the black lit room! For those of you on the fence, this is one of the coolest rooms in the museum!!!

Coke sign made of LEGO

Made by Jason Burik.

Displayed at the NCAA Final 4

1,800 Blocks 36" x 12"

Bonsai tree made of LEGO

This very cool tree was made by Jason Burik.

World Record build 2008

Here are some pictures of the world record build 2008. Just so you understand the scale of this thing, it takes up an entire classroom at the school!!!

Back part of the HUGE Yellow castle.

During our winter months we will be completing the "fill" portion of the castle.

Our plan is to have you entire the kingdom and see it in the "round". Enjoy these pre-lim pictures. It only gets bigger and better in person!

Now 7 LEGO MEN exist!!!

1st one is in Enfield, CT at the LEGO US Headquarters

2nd-5th are at the museum in Bellaire, OH

6th washed up on shore in the netherlands

7th is now in England

We have HEAT! Open Winter hours!!!

Our 2.9 million FURNACE is now up and running!!!

Built by Nathan Sawaya....World Record boat made of LEGO

And now we have 3.

World Largest Image made of LEGO (Guinness Record)
World Largest Castle made of LEGO
2005 World's Largest Boat made of LEGO

Just got back from Seattle (yup, drove over 2000 miles!!!), this will be in the museum during our artist days of Nov!!! Come by and see this MONSTER CREATION in person!!! It is as big as it looks!!!

Dan

Zoo in the museum

For those of you who have not been to the museum. I present "The Zoo in the Museum"

feel free to watch the monkey's eyes!!! Very cool effect in person!

Dan

Our New Mascot!!!

For all of you at the show;

You know the talent of this future Master Builder

For all of you just checking us out;

Now this is REAL art work. Built from memory in 4 days with thousands of elements. I bring you our new Mascot. I call him Bill.

Brick Show 2008 is OVER!!!

And as quick as it began, BRICK SHOW 2008 is done!!!

Special thanks to my ARMY of builders!!!

We are NOW THE HOME TO the WORLD'S LARGEST CASTLE MADE OF LEGO!

Official measurements next week, as well as we will be putting in the display...get this;

OVER 1.4 MILLION bricks worth of displays made by MY KID ARMY!!!
Over 2100 figs
1 MASSIVE Kings Court Mosiac
Bionicle ARMY

This puppy is HUGE!!! I am sure you will be seeing pics, and made sure to order your pic CD, and tee shirt (we have a number of them left at 7.00 ea!!!)

Once again we have made history!!!

Dan Brown

New in the Museum, Girl made of LEGO

Very cool item, as with the LEGO boy as well. She has very special hands. They can grab items due to a very neat trick with the fingers.

New plaque coming to the museum!!!

Not here yet, but come see it after Brick Show!!!

Duanes bridge comin' to the museum

Yea, thats me with the bridge. Never knew it would be coming to the museum a few months later!!!

Oh well...Check it out in person at Brick Show 2008!!!

Dan

And a word from our founder!!!

Welcome to my dream. The ONLY LEGO based museum in the world. We are

http://www.brickstore.net
http://www.brickmuseum.net and soon http://www.plasticbrickmuseum.net/ / .com

During the past few months we have been getting advice from people on any problems we have been facing in the tourism market!

One of the main problems we faced was the name change game. Due to legal reasons that has been all over the place! We are now 100% secure, and approved for;

Toy and Plastic Brick Museum

In 2009 we will have a fluid campaign to advertise this.Our business model includes you, the MOC builder;We plan to have the following happen in 2009;

Continue to build the PBM Collection
Continue to feature LEGO builders in the museum
Continue to grow

New to 2010;

We are planning to open the new Dex lab
We are planning to open the new Lion's Den
We are planning to open the new Canadian room!
We are continuing to improve the museum and add to the "Toy and" portion weekly as well.

New to 2009;

We are planning a mass build of sets.
We are hoping to have one of each of the sets from 1970-date in house by 2010.
This means sorting, planning, building,and a bunch of effort from the community and staff to make this happen.
We are going to be working on the building during the winter and getting it more"green friendly". A 100yr old school is not very heat/cooling friendly!!!
We plan to complete the "Water Room" as well as the "Creators Lab".
These will be 2 new theme rooms coming to the museum as well.

We are now looking for a grant writer!!!
So if that is you please contact us.
We are now looking for a IPO business planner for future offerings for the for profit side of the business.
Again if that is you please contact us

Our contact information is;

Toy and Plastic Brick Museum
4597 Noble St.Bellaire, OH 43906
1-740-671-8890
http://www.brickmuseum.net/
toymuseum@hotmail.com

And again thanks to all the AFOLs that have made 2007 and 2008 great years for the ONLY LEGO based museum in the world!

Dan Brown founder

Special thanks section.

I cannot say it enough. So I am adding it to the website.

I would like to add special thanks to the following. I may have missed some people, so send me an E-Mail if you think you need to be on this list. The people and groups involved in the creation of the museum have made it a place I am proud of. I am hoping you will too when you come here.

Zondra from The Soccer Hall of Fame.
Bob from VP Productions.
Chrissy and Don Carter "getting the beast under control"
Larry Courtwright "Get 'er done"
Mandy Moore, the current "Wild Child"
Jon Bender for his new book "LEGO; a Love Story", will put us on the map!
Carol Brown, "getting it done"
COLTC especially Carol from Coltc. She put in the extra effort when needed and was a VERY welcome builder when needed.
Big Larry. Without you the place would be cruddy!
My tour guides. What a great group of people! A wonderful addition to the museum
PENNLUG...you guys ROCK!!
Eric Harshbarger...you started it all. With your crayons in the Strong Museum as well as allowing me to get your collection. People are AMAZED at your work...keep it up!
The Village of Bellaire. Local support was paramount to the sucess of the museum. THANKS!
The AFOLs. (adult fans of LEGO). Your continued support makes the museum a fun place.
Bill from The LEGO(r) group. Thanks for believing in me when no-one else would. This is not only my legacy but yours as well. With the last of the hand built models in our facility you helped make it happen!
The LEGO(r) group. Amazing people doing amazing "stuff" on a daily basis.
LEGOLAND(r) CA. When we were down, they came to help. Thanks guys. The addition to the museum was AWSOME.

I would like to add a generic but important note;

I would like to extent thanks to all the people who drove here, donated time and material to the museum, and made me feel good when things seemed overwhelming. It was a huge undertaking to complete the project. Without all of you I would not have kept going in the face of defeat.

A heart felt thanks.

Dan Brown founder Bellaire Historic Society and Toy and Plastic Brick Museum.