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We look forward to returning to the Great Western Brick Show in 2021 and hope to see you there too!
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 Good news folks, we're going to be attending our first show of the year - a totally online show - which will be held on the 25th and 26th July! This is all new to us so we're excited to see how it goes. So what is Bricks at Home?
Well, Bricks At Home is a virtual event for adult fans of LEGO® in the UK. It's two days of virtual LEGO fun on Zoom, including the latest MOCs from builders across the country, as well as activities and a chance to chat to fellow LEGO® fans. On the 26th our builder Dan Harris will also be giving a talk about how we carry out research and build our models - so if you're interested in what we do it's well worth dropping in. The event is being run by by Brick Alley LEGO User Group and London AFOLs and is totally free. You can find out more and sign up on the Bricks at Home website - we hope to see you there! www.bricksathome.co.uk For the latest on all our shows, news and models, follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram!  Woop woop! We have our first save the date of 2020 for you! We will be at Edinbrick at the Potterrow Dome in Edinburgh on Saturday 16th May!
The event will run from 10.30am to 4pm and there are a limited number of Quiet Time spaces between 10 and 10.30am. Entry is just £3 and under fives go free! A great deal all round! Find out more and buy your tickets here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/edinbrick The event will raise money for the good folks at Fairybricks who donate LEGO to sick and disadvantaged children in hospital. We look forward to seeing you there! For the latest on all our shows, news and models, follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram!  We have our final save the date of 2019 for you! We will be at Oban Winter Bricks at St. Columba's Cathedral Hall on the 16th November!
Entry is just £3 and under fours go free! A great deal all round! Find out more, here: www.facebook.com/events/1188231158052499/ For the latest on all our shows, news and models, follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram!  We have another show for your diary! On October 26th our man Simon Pickard will be holding an event at Moose Hall in Taunton. The show will feature Simon's work, including his amazing models for Brick to the Past!
Tickets are available on the door for just £3 per person, which we guarantee is an absolute bargain. Under 3's go free!  We know we’ve already given this away with our many social media posts, not to mention our blog about Peterloo, but we want to make sure you have this firmly in your diary.
The Great Western Brick Show is back on October 5th and 6th at STEAM Museum in Swindon. We'll be there with our epic new model to commemorate the Peterloo Massacre, which had its 200th anniversary this year. Once again it promises to be a great event and we hope to see lots of you there! Book your tickets at the museum’s website: www.steam-museum.org.uk/homepage/10/great_western_brick_show_online_tickets To keep up to date with all our forthcoming events, follows on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.  We have our first save the date of 2019 for you. We will be at the Discovery Brick Show at Newcastle upon Tyne’s Discovery Museum on the 11th and 12th of May!
The show boasts some of the newest LEGO models alongside displays from a hand-picked selection of the best LEGO builders in the UK. That’s right, we’re hand picked! You can also explore a range of specially selected LEGO traders and sellers and take part in a range of LEGO activities. In the unlikely event you don’t like LEGO, you can always just visit the museum itself. At £2.50 per person plus booking fee, the tickets are an absolute bargain, but advance booking is essential to see the exhibits. Find out more and buy your tickets here: www.brickalley.co.uk/discovery  See Henry Morgan: Welsh Raider of the Spanish Main at the Great Western Brick Show on the 6th and 7th October. Hello folks! Are you bored with the same old routine? Are you looking for something different to do at the weekends? Would you like to shake it up a bit with a visit to see some sick LEGO models by us and other talented individuals?
If the answer to just one of these is ‘yes’ then here’s what you need to know on where you can see us next! First up – we’re going international with Denmark’s Skærbæk Fan Weekend at 29th and 30th of September. Representing us will be James Pegrum, who is going the extra mile by cycling there all the way from London. James is embarking on this 1,000 km ride to raise money for the charity Fairy Bricks. His models will be arriving separately, Find out about the fan weekend here: https://fanweekend.dk/ To sponsor James’ bike ride, please click here: Bikes to Billdund Fundraising Page or... Fairy Bricks PayPal Donation Page The weekend after we have another of our big UK events – the Great Western Brick Show in Swindon on the 6th and 7th October. We will be there with our epic new model Henry Morgan: Welsh Raider of the Spanish Main! Find out more and get your tickets here: http://www.greatwesternbrickshow.com/ To keep up with all of our events, follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram! Hello everyone!
This weekend we’ll be at the totally awesome Awesome Bricks show at the National Museum of Flight at East Fortune Air Field in East Lothian. Our model will have a distinctly Scottish flavour – the internationally travelled LEGO Corgarff Castle, last seen in Norway’s beautiful city of Trondheim. The museum is a great place for a show, because not only do you get to gawp at lots of awesome LEGO models, you also get to gawp at lots of awesome retro aircraft. Right, that’s enough of the word ‘awesome’. Tickets cost between £9 and £14, while under 5s and National Museums Scotland Members go free! Remember, for the price you get access to the whole museum too, so this is a great value event! Find out more and book your tickets at: www.nms.ac.uk/national-museum-of-flight/whats-on/awesome-bricks/ Last month we sent Dan Harris on our first ever foray outside of the British Isles. Luckily for Dan, we sent him to På Kloss Hold in Norway’s beautiful city of Trondheim. The show gathered 87 exhibitors from across the world, including builders from Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, South Africa, Sweden, USA and the UK (...and of course Norway!). There were many, many highlights, but perhaps what wowed the 4,700 visitors most was the World’s largest LEGO Ferris wheel by Tomáš Kašpařík; it's absolutely amazing!  Trondheim. Who would not want to be sent here? Due to the restrictive nature of our baggage allowance, we were there with a slightly more modest collection of models than usual, which were chosen to give a taste of Scotland's rich history. On our table were LEGO Corgarff Castle, the Caithness Micro-broch and, linking Norse and Gaelic cultures, our intricately built Ard Ri set. Lessons were learnt in packing when we discovered that LEGO Corgarff had taken a bit of a knock during our flight and had arrived in a somewhat less than complete state. However, four hours of slightly panicky repair work saw it back in action and the model was able to take its place as the centrepiece of our collection. You'll be pleased to know that LEGO Corgarff has made in back to Scotland in more or less one piece and is ready for its next outing; stay tuned for an announcement!
The show offered a wealth of superb models. One of our favourites, partly because it is unlike anything we do, was the international collaboration that gave us Norway's largest ever Great Ball Contraption, usually just referred to as a GBC. You can see it in action in our slightly shaky, totally unedited video below. Other favourites more in our area of building was the superb recreation of Dresden Frauenkirche by Holger Matthes, the mad historical and landscaping skills displayed on norlego and northern_lego's Bree and Buckleberry Ferry collaboration and Rocco Buttliere's world famous micro-builds. We would love to call out-everyone but the quality on offer makes it impossible. We were blown away by the hospitality of our Norwegian hosts, the enthusiasm of the crowds and the general laidback atmosphere of the show and hope to return next year with a different collection of models. A huge thanks to the event organisers Are and Harald and the folks at Brikkelauget for all their hard work! The Great Ball Contraption
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