レゴにちは！BrickZenの武頼庵（ブライアン）です。このサイトの由来に付いてちょっと語ります。
息子が生まれたのをきっかけに再度本格的にレゴに興味を持ち始めた。子供の時にものすごくレゴで遊んでて（今でも両親の家に当時のレゴがある。。。取りに行かないと。。。）でも大人になってちょっと離れた。完全に縁を切ったわけではなく、自分の誕生日等に時々レゴを買って組み立てたりしていた、でも「息子のため」に買い始めると「やっぱりレゴはええな！」と再び思った。そしてインターネットでちょっとレゴについて何があるかなと思って検索したら、「わ！！」レゴの世界やコミュニティーはいつの間にかめちゃ広がっていた！展示会や「レゴのプロ」もあり、海外ではユーザーグループ（LUG）もあり、そして何とレゴファンのための専門誌「BrickJournal」まである！
また、自分が興味を再び持ち始めたのとほぼ同時に、親友も同じ様に「レゴに燃えてるで〜！」ということで、「情報交換のサイトを作ろうか！」という事になって「BrickZen」が生まれた。海外にある様々なレゴの情報を出来るだけ公開しながら、日本にあるレゴの情報を海外のレゴファンのために英語で発信しようと思っている。
日本には沢山の凄いレゴビルダーがいるにもかかわらず、海外の様に日本にはまだLUG（レゴユーザーグループ）はあんまりない（まだ見つかってないだけかも。。。）と思って、ユーザーグループも設立予定。第１回の集まり（関西）を１月中開催予定で、興味がある方は是非ご連絡下さい！
どれぐらいの情報やどんな頻度でポストが出来るのかは全然見えないけど、精一杯頑張るぞ！
レゴファンの皆様、今後とも色々とレゴしくお願い致します！よく遊ぼ！
Helego! Bryan from BrickZen. Just wanted to go into some of the back story of the site.
When my son was born I started seriously becoming interested again in LEGO. As a child LEGO blocks consumed many of the hours that I was awake (I even still have my LEGO collection at my parent's house.... really need to go and get it....), but when I went to college and then started working there were more things that took over my time. I never really stopped playing with LEGO. For my birthday I would often treat myself to a model and enjoy the time building it. Recently though, I started purchasing LEGO "for my son" and rediscovered just how much fun LEGO are! I did a few searches on the Internet and was really surprised to see how vast and expanded LEGO and the LEGO community had become! Conventions and "LEGO Pros", in many countries User's Groups (LUG) and even a fantastic magazine devoted just to LEGO called "BrickJournal!"
Around the same time that I was rediscovering LEGO a good friend also told me that he was "Really getting into LEGO!" We decided to create a site where we could share information and "BrickZen" was born. We want to provide information in Japanese about the many interesting things that are happening with LEGO around the world, and also provide in English information about LEGO that is happening in Japan.
Also, even though there are many incredible LEGO builders here in Japan, there don't seem to be many LUGs here (or maybe I just haven't been able to find them yet) like there are in other countries around the world. Along those lines, we are thinking of starting a new LUG here in Japan and having the first meeting (probably in the Kansai Area) in January some time. If you are interested please let us know!
With this just starting, we don't know how often or how much we will be able to do and post, but we plan to give it out best!
We look forward to meeting, talking and building with many LEGO fans! Play Well!
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