{"title":"Brickverse Today from Jain's Guide","link":"http:\/\/www.jainsguide.com","lastUpdate":"1227304197","charset":"utf-8","description":"Brickverse Today @ Jain's Guide is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. To view a copy of this license, visit http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/us\/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.","author":"Jason Whittenburg","email":"brickverse@jainsguide.com","copyright":"Copyright 2008 Jason Whittenburg, All Rights Reserved","generator":"Zend Framework - Zend_Feed 1.5.1","language":"en","entries":[{"title":"Trucking the Galaxy with Jerac","link":"http:\/\/www.e-klocki.com\/2008\/11\/21\/trucking-the-galaxy-with-jerac\/","description":"Ever heard of the term “juniorization”? Adult fans of LEGO call that tendency of producing large parts that can be used only in one way. 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Last time it was easier to get everyone "equal coverage" cause there weren't so MANY of you.  This time, instead of picking and choosing which MOCs I'm going to show, I'm gonna be lazy and have you all do the work for me. ","lastUpdate":"1227213094"},{"title":"Visible minifig","link":"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/archive\/2008\/11\/visible_minifig.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890","description":"\n\n\nArtist Jason Freeny has produced this awesome Micro Schematic of a LEGO minifig. Via I Heart Guts!\nRead mor","lastUpdate":"1227213000"},{"title":"The trouble with the LEGO fan community","link":"http:\/\/www.brickpile.com\/2008\/11\/20\/the-trouble-with-the-lego-fan-community\/","description":"The trouble with the LEGO fan community is that it takes all of the fun out of getting a new Shop-At-Home catalog.  Not only is there nothing new that I haven’t seen, but I already own several of the things marked “new.”  When I was a kid, a new LEGO catalog was a [...]","lastUpdate":"1227210468"},{"title":"Post apoc soldier (With short poem)","link":"http:\/\/cabg.forumotion.com\/minifigure-creations-f12\/post-apoc-soldier-with-short-poem-t1911.htm","description":"He sprinted fast, across the blood red soil,Which once was the ground for a world of toilThanks to his training, he didn't run out of breath,In his past, he had only known death.Seeing his family killed turned him mad,As he witness the killer behead his lad.Still now, he continued to feel pain,But now to him, life is just a game.A","lastUpdate":"1227205898"},{"title":"2009 Technic B-models","link":"http:\/\/www.e-klocki.com\/2008\/11\/20\/2009technicbmodels\/","description":"Anio, the administrator of the French SeTechnic forum, has published pictures of the B-models for the Lego Technic sets to be released next year. 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