Bellaire OHIO's Toy and Plastic Brick Museum

Museum Hours.

WE JUST GOT A HUGE SUPPLY OF NEW LEGO SETS IN FOR THE HOLIDAYS!There are many days when we are around the museum anyway. Call or stop by if you are in the area. Contact information is on the front door.

Jan 28th WE will be open normal hours 10-5pm.

You can reach our party planner via this email;

mailto:toymuseum@hotmail.com or toymuseum@hotmail.com

Feel free to call the office 740-671-8890 to make sure!

Admission is 8.00/adult, 6.00/child/senior

Group rates available.

Party plans available.

Feel free to contact us via email toymuseum@hotmail.com if you are in the area. Even if we are not open, I may be able to open up for YOU!

BRAND NEW to the Unofficial LEGO Museum

This Hagrid is HUGE. Come on down and see it for yourself.

New Duck Pond made of LEGO.

New LEGO display for the museum

This is a very rare Mushroom house.

Now on display at the Unofficial LEGO(r) Museum.

We have our Bellaire, Ohio version of this statue!

In case you did not know, Dora Diego and Boots are here!

Welcome to the Toy and Plastic Brick Museum. The home to Dora, Diego and Boots! They were touring the museum today!

Some new pics of the work being done!

LEGO Death Match 2011!

If you saw it, WOW. If you missed it. SHAME ON YOU!

LEGO Death Match 2011. AWESOME!

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!

Wooden LEGO Toys on display!

New to the Unofficial LEGO museum.

These rare wooden toys are now on display for a limited time.

New General Store in the Western Room.

New to the Unofficial LEGO Museum

This is our new Western Room General Store.

A dragon rebuilt!

This little guy was damaged by an overactive kid at the museum! We had a guest builder in this week Mike from PennLUG. He kindly rebuilt the little guy for all of your enjoyment! Thanks Mike!

LEGO based Giraffe now in the Unofficial LEGO Museum!

On Dec 28th we will have a Giraffe Building event.

This 10ft tall creation will be at the museum along with the builder who made him.

Come and see this new addition to the museum!

NOW IN HOUSE AND SETUP! Comes and see the newest addition to the UNOFFICIAL LEGO MUSEUM!

New models at the museum.

These are two models from a very large collection.

Come on over and see the new models. Now on display at the Toy and Plastic Brick Museum.

How do you measure up to a 7ft tall LEGO basketball player?

Downstairs we have MANY models, but this 7ft tall basketball player is one of the most popular!

Scooby Doobie Doo and friends too!

In the ONLY LEGO(r) based museum in the world, we have some fun friends!

Small spiderman at the museum

This is a small scale replica of a LARGER THEN LIFE SPIDERMAN!

Now at the museum!!!

Come and see the AMAZING LEGOLAND replica of the White House. This is a 6ft replica of the main building in Washington. Made by LEGO professionals at LEGOLAND.

PennLUG Mike and Darth!!!

Your guess is as good as mine. Who is taller?? During our recent event one of the AFOLs had a "who is bigger" contest! I still think Darth is, but that is for you to decide! (Mike was on his tippie toes maybe?? hehehe)

8ft Mini-fig...well maybe Maxi-fig!

One of only 8 known to exist, this tall 8ft Maxi-fig is standing guard in the back hallway! Favorite pic spot!

Coming to the museum!!!

This is a new McDonalds display for the museum! Will go nice with our Batman(tm) section!

Cactus "bob" made of LEGO products!

This is a trophy made of LEGO.

Cactus "Bob" is now in the museum for you to see!

Mt. Rushmore.

Brickshow1 048, originally uploaded by clarity2199.

This is a 50 plate Mosiac designed by BrickWorkz. The sky detail is AMAZING!

Come see it in person!

Blimey, its a CROC!

This is a new store display for the museum!

New LEGO recycle program now available.

We have opened a new LEGO recycle program.

Since we have massive storage space available to us, and we have all the tools to use and/or dispose of ABS plastic correctly! We have opened a new recycle program;

http://www.legorecycle.com

LEGO Enterprise, beam me up Scotty!

New to the museum is a LEGO built enterprise.

Currently hanging in the masters room for all to enjoy!

Items from a LEGOLAND collection.

We are always looking for unique items to add to our collection.

We found a person who collects LEGOLAND items.

Here they are for the Bellaire Ohio Toy and Plastic Brick Museum

Looking for Investors and Updates!

April 16th, 2010

Welcome to the new season for the Toy and Plastic Brick Museum. Over the next few weeks you will begin to see pics and links to our winter updates!

We have new rooms under construction, and should be complete by the time we open full time in May.

We have a new resident artist on board, and she is doing a wonderful job on the new Lion's Den room! Cannot wait to share pictures with you.

One of our original ideas is now in full swing. My passion while building the museum was flea markets! Well the upstairs of the museum now looks like one! We have MANY generations of toys! Everything you can think of, and it will be ever expanding. Come and check it out. Many toys from your childhood! Also we have MANY new displays, a new layout or 3 and as always a ton of fun!

Feel free to book your parties online, or contact the office to schedule.

Dan Brown founder

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

Museum EVENTS

This is the section for events;

March 2009. We put in the application for the new world record. "World's longest creation made of LEGO", this year another GUINNESS WORLD RECORD!

Jan 2009. Online company begins. We now have a non profit (501c3) and a for profit company. Investors welcome to contact us for information.

Oct. 2008, HUGE LEGO SALE at the museum. 20% all sets (except vintage), HUGE assortment of keychains and goods not found at other retailers!!!

Oct. 2008. Come see the new Jason Kidd on display at the museum.

Nov. 2008. Come see the 250,000 element Chris-Craft Boat made of LEGO by Nathan Sawaya

2009 for the Adult Fan

For 2009;

Hello all. I have been staying away from the BL forum due to negative people.

I would like to announce a few changes for the Plastic Brick Museum in the coming weeks;

1.) We are looking for people online to design a professional builder design set for us.

2.) Beginning in 2009 we will be sponsoring our own professional builder program.

What this includes;

Paid gigs, sponsored builds, and a "Shows and Events" portion of the museum which will have you going to shows, showing what you can do and of course traveling with life size models!
If you dream is to be a professional builder of LEGO by trade, this will be a 1st good step for you.
We have almost unlimited brick supplies and soon we will be having nationwide show schedules for promotion of the museum/building program.

3.) AFOL programs that will enhance your building life. With this announcement I would like to provide an insight to the museum in Bellaire OHIO.

In the past two weeks a HUGE negative was lifted from the museum. The "Toy and Plastic Brick Museum" is our final approved name change. We will be free to do/build what we want without problems (less copyright restrictions of course), and we will/are the only one in existence. There can be NO OTHERS LEGALLY.

We will begin in 2009 our "Guest Builder" program. This program is simple. Your club sponsors you to come to Ohio (in spirit), we will pay your expenses while here, and you just build! All you will need to qualify is a portfolio of your work/list of your theme. The rest is up to you.

In 2009 we will also begin a program designed for the clubs. This is a club sponsor build. We provide the product for you to build with, you keep the product for a time to show off your work at a show/event, then the work comes back to the museum for permanent showing along with the stories/information gathered along the way.

I call it "traveling pants" program. I want the stories to go along with the product. I want the museum to be so interesting people do not want to leave.
Other programs will be announced over the coming months both here and on lugnet. We will also be adding a "programs" link to the website for up and coming AFOL programs.

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.

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