Month: August 2005

The Unofficial LEGO Builder’s Guide

The Unofficial LEGO Builder’s Guide

Legobuilder Cov This looks good- Bridging the gap between instructions included with LEGO sets and the unlimited world of freestyle LEGO building, The Unofficial LEGO Builder’s Guide is a nuts-and-bolts approach to making original models from those famous plastic bricks. Written by Allan Bedford, a lifelong LEGO fan whose most ambitious model to date is a 5,000-piece replica of Toronto’s famed CN Tower, this new title draws together core techniques, principles and reference information. Link.

The pachinko museum

The pachinko museum

Aapach1 I heard you can make a fine living playing pachinko once you have the “hungry spirit”…The Pachinko Hakubutsukan (Pachinko Museum, more pictures) boasts 148 machines, many of them rare and historic mementos of the game’s industry. “I am really grateful for my encounter with pachinko. I wanted to say thank you to pachinko and wanted to return something” to the game, explained Tetsuya Makino, its manager. Link.

MAKE on the newstands!

MAKE on the newstands!

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This was Day-1 for Vol.03 on newsstands, and so far it looks like they’re showing up all over the place! Photo! MAKE is available now at Amazon.com, and in the magazine section of Barnes & Noble, Borders, CompUSA, and Tower Records. MAKE is also available through many of the same leading online and brick-and-mortar retailers that carry O’Reilly’s other publications, plus select newsstand outlets. Link.