On Sunday I attended a meeting of the Bay Area LEGO Users’ Group at the Museum of American Heritage in Palo Alto.
The theme of the building contest for this meeting was “Harvest” and I created a vignette featuring the Grim Reaper (with a Halloween tie-in). It came in tied for first place!! I received a small Star Wars microscale Imperial Shuttle set as a prize. I’ll blog about that vignette when we get closer to Halloween…
There was also plenty of shameless commerce going on. I picked up a bunch of useful parts from Uncle Dan’s smorgasbord, and a bunch of minifigs from Mark Benz.
Besides my contest entry, I also displayed my DC-3 and moonbase “mobile lounge” – both of which are also in the “to be blogged about” category – and my Scarlet Mayhem spaceship.
Somewhat on a whim, I rode my bike down to the MOAH Sunday afternoon, the first time I had been to any sort of Lego event. I must say, for all the pictures of Brickfest and such I’ve seen, actually being in a room full of people and Lego was very interesting. I didn’t really talk to anyone (timid…), rather I walked around, looked at the tables, and bought some figs and a couple of parts. It was pretty fun, just to watch as so many Lego enthusiasts went about their business. Perhaps next time, I’ll bring some MOCs to display (along with a membership application, of course)