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

SR-71 Blackbird arrives safe in Bellaire, OHIO

Super FIG wall in place!

The long awaiting SUPER FIG WALL is now in place. Just in time for X-Mas! We also have a pile of sets awaiting your stocking stuffer needs. Feel free to come down and pickup (no tour needed). Just ask to go to the gift shop.

Molly Shannon's Mosiac is now in house.

LEGO Mosaic Designed And Made By Molly Shannon And Her Daughter

We won this at a LEGOLAND auction. Enjoy.

Brick by the pound wall!!! Bring it on!

aok, Ohio now has brick by the pound! Come and get it!

Fig wall, very cool stuff!!!

We have GOT THEM, Taun tauns are in house!

Gift Shop UPDATE!!!

Aok for August you will have some new things in the gift shop;

Brick by the LB! Yes, that is brick by the pound! Come on down and see the HUGE assortment. Over 300lb and growing EVERY DAY!!!

Also our new fig wall is up! It is SWEET! Grab up the Batman, Skeletons, Sponge Bob and other figs! Also a TON of Star Wars figs as well!

Have a great one, and as always make sure you ask about our weekly specials!

Masters room, say Hi to Bill.

Bill was a LEGO employee that helped us get the museum off the ground. So now he is our very own Master Builder!

More goodies at the museum!

Here are the gamblers at the museum!!! Story goes we were building the museum and one of our clubs (PENNLUG) did not like my LEGO cards! So they built their own! Add in some whisky bottles and you have a cool display!

One of a kind collection! NOW IN THE MUSEUM

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There were only 100 made of each of these! Rare enough on their own, but we found a complete collection of these VERY RARE LEGO Toby Jugs. These items were made in Australia by the Australian Lego Model Team. This is the only known complete collection of these rare items.

In house NOW!

Western Room

One of my favorites is the crossed eyed horse in the Western Room!

Mission from Mars room

Spooky, creepy and other wise just plain cool. The Mission from Mars room is off the hook!.

Now a 501c3!!!

Our federal paperwork just came back.

We are now a 501c3 under the federal guidelines.

Feel free to contact us via email about donations and our up and coming projects.

This year we will (drum role please);

"World's Longest Structure made from LEGO(r)", we are working on the designs now, but it will be "The great wall of America".

Please feel free to contact us via email (toymuseum@hotmail.com) for building, donation, and planning details. We will also be doing a monthly newsletter starting in April/May on the project.

The gang is all here.

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If you can see it, you can build it. These prototype models were made by the LEGO group under contract.

This could be you!

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Pictures last a lifetime at the Toy and Plastic Brick Museum.

We have MANY picture moments at the museum!

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.