Hi, I'm Ben Rollman. Spend time with me while I design and build some LEGO MOCs (My Own Creation), talk about TV & movies, and try new beers. Semi-regular schedule of Sunday morning and Thursday night live streams. Cheers!
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Working on Forbidden West now. They're as "accurate" as I can make them. Once the game hits, even if we don't get official models, those will likely be the standards.
@@BensBrickDesignsby accurate I meant like the scale of the Lego aloy minifig being the scale. I've also been working on a crazy skill where you look at a kit or image gather parts and build smth without any instructions only one or two images. so when horizon Lego adventures drops it gives me more that one or two images
Hey Ben! So around 4:18 in the video, you go past a table that has a wooden Lego minfigure and some 8x8 displays. If you look right in front of the wooden minifigure, that's the Stell City LUG cards so that should be Marcella's table from Pittsburgh!
To whom it may concern, I wanted to check in and see if anyone was interested in a story about the ugly side of LUGs and Lego communities that are RLUGs and receive perks from Lego. I was a member of a Texas LUG until in 2022 I was physically attacked at their convention by someone thinking I was in a place where I wasn't supposed to be but was asked by another member to volunteer to retrieve something for them as they had to stay at the location they were at. I was upset by the hostile interaction, and I reported it as well as told my wife about the incident, but I was blown off and my complaint dismissed. I tried to get along with my abuser for a year after that but the abuse and the abuser acting like nothing happened bothered me more and more. Then in 2023 I reported the incident again to the group Ambassador who blew me off and told me they didn't want to deal with it and I needed to confront my attacker. I explained to them my past experiences and that I would be too intimidated to do that, and nothing was done. To explain, I'm Neurodivergent and a victim of extreme childhood abuse which is why I've collected Lego since 1975 to help me get past the abuse with creativity. With nothing being done, I then went to another member of the group who had a lead role in the group and reported everything to them. They dismissed my complaint by telling me they'd investigate it and get back with me but never did. At this point, my attacker has gained more power in the group by giving a meeting space to the group and inserting themselves into the leadership of the group. With nothing being done behind the scenes in secret, I made the incident public for everyone to see. With the leadership of the group now upset about it going public, they attacked me in posts and verbally in an attempt to protect my abuser. After they made me feel very unwelcomed, I tried going to other local clubs only to find out that I had been blacklisted for filing a complaint about how the group handled my incident. As a whistleblower, I was abused further and called every ugly thing in the book including being called crazy and needing to be on meds which is the classic American abuser thing to say about their victim. Things got ugly and in one of the other groups, a contestant from Lego Masters prejudged the situation and listened to the negative blacklisting and began to play mind games by blocking me in group chats and then unblocking me when I complained only to wait a little while and then reblock me. All I ever did in the group is respond to requests for parts and showed what MOCs I was working on. They even went so far as to try and instigate a confrontation in a thread where I was fulfilling a parts request. I know part of this is these people are abusers. But another part of this is the greed with the people in these LUGs. Because Lego gives only so much loot to RLUGs, these RLUGs hoard what they can get out of Lego and even go so far as to abuse the Lego LUGBulk program as well as Project Support programs. They fiercely defend their territories, and they attack anyone who would or could disrupt their access to the Lego loot. I think blowing the whistle on the group's activities to forcefully and abusively exclude someone because they were not as influential as their abuser/attacker. I am just trying to get the information about the ugly side of Lego collecting can be out there so that people can be more informed and cautious about some of the LUGs out there who are not as nice and clean as Lego would want.
