The LEGO Community

A while ago I went to google to look something up and I noticed the word google was pictured differently than usual. It was spelled out using Lego bricks in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first lego brick. It reminded me of how much I used to love playing with Legos when I was younger. I decided to search for Lego on google instead of whatever it was I originally was going to search for and found some interesting sites. There is a vast community online created by fans of the toy. One of the sites I found, lugnet.com, is a site that has forums to discuss legos and report news items. another site, brickshelf.com, is a site where fans can upload pictures of creations they've made with their own bricks. I spent some time looking through some of these and they range from models that look like something I would have made when I was 6 or 7 to models that I had to look at closely to see if it was actually made out of legos. I also found some sites that incorporated legos into gaming. I thought these were kind of interesting. I also found that there are conventions held all over the place where people come together to create large scale models such as cities or castle villages. Here's a video of the set up of one of these conventions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pVJqHqyIWo&mode=related&search=
After looking at all of these sites, it kind of made me want to dig out my legos and start building something.