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

Coming to the Unofficial LEGO Museum in Bellaire, OHIO

This model was paid for by a grant donated to the Toy and Plastic Brick Museum by Sam Kazemeini. Thank you Sam for the new KING SAM model.

New to the museum LIMITED EDITION LEGO SET 6500

This is a oddity among LEGO sets. There are only 1000 of these. They were made as a "facebook fan write in set". Enjoy the Shinkai 6500 Submarine.

Newest addition to the museum!

This is a model from a LEGO employee! Looking forward to getting some more history on him!

A loss of one of our visitors.

Sadly Mary (plucky husband Steve shown in the picture above) passed away from breast cancer last year. She will be missed. Thank you for being part of our legacy.

http://pluckysurvivors.com/roadtrip/plucky_2009/day07.htm

Had a famous guest over the weekend!

I hope he enjoyed our 'little gem' of a museum in Ohio! I was at Brick World during his visit. I always miss the fun stuff. Dan Brown www.brickmuseum.net

Direct from the program Trading Spaces, Jason Kidd made from LEGO.

We got this from the Kid's room. No not Jason Kidd, but the kid whose room was made over in LEGO. Jason Kidd's statue was shown on the program Trading Spaces, and now is home in the Unofficial LEGO(r) museum in Bellaire, OHIO.

New to the Unofficial LEGO museum. BABAR the elephant!

This was made in 1993. It has been sitting in the lobby of the Yale New Haven Children's Hospital. Babar is now in his new home at The Toy and Plastic Brick Museum in Bellaire, OHIO. Will upload more pics of us moving this huge model in the next few days!

LEGO Atlas in 14ft scale!

This new artwork was done by a local artist Mandy Moore for the Toy and Plastic Brick Museum. Those are 7ft large scale bricks!

LEGO cannon now in the Unofficial LEGO(r) Museum

This cute little model is now in the Unofficial LEGO(r) Museum in Bellaire, OHIO

Now in the Unofficial LEGO Museum. Hagrid!

This unique, one of a kind model was made by a professional builder for a friend. He is now home in the Unofficial LEGO(r) Museum in Bellaire, OHIO. This model is a bit special! If you look close there are numbers on the bricks! From what I have been told those numbers were used to count the bricks and then upscale the model!

NEW Lego Polar Bear. 10 on the CUTE SCALE!

This is an incoming models for the Unofficial LEGO(r) Museum. This little polar bear is coming home to the Toy and Plastic Brick Museum.

Sara Defehr in the Unofficial LEGO Museum.

During the later parts of her life she built with LEGO. Her collection was thought lost until her family found the Toy and Plastic Brick Museum in Bellaire Ohio.

Her room is almost complete!

This is the only known video of her building.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7ztgSC56c4

New LEGO Policeman

Landing in 2 weeks!

This 7ft tall Woody from Toy Story will be in the museum and will be on the road with us going to shows in May, 2011-

For the 1st time in over 10 years LEGO SOCCER CITY

This is the 1st time in over 10 years that both sections of the famed SOCCER CITY have been in the same place at the same time.

Enjoy!

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.