Building a brighter tomorrow with LEGO® bricks
LEGO Conferences such as Brickfest, BricksWest, or Northwest BrickCon
I’ve uploaded my pictures of Day 2 of Brickfest 2006 to Flickr.
The good news? We won!!! Our model “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” won the award for best small vignette out of all the vignette models at Brickfest! Holly and I are very pleased. Thanks to everyone who voted for it. Here’s a picture I took the other day of the winning model:
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Day one of Brickfest 2006 is done.
I spent a lot of time looking over the MOCs that had been brought in since the night before, and attended a facinating presentation on making brickfilms, which I recorded on my camcorder and plan to post on YouTube soon. The exhibit halls had been updated quite a lot with new models being brought in that morning so I took a lot of new pictures.[tags]lego,brickfest,brickfest2006[/tags]
The annual Brickfest LEGO convention has begun! 
It starts today (Friday) but all day yesterday folks were setting up their models in the exhibit room. I took these photos late last night.
This is the first time I’ve been able to attend Brickfest, though I have gone to a similar conference, BricksWest, twice. Brickfest is being held in the Sheraton in Tysons Corner, VA and is being put on by folks from the Washington DC area LEGO club, WAMALUG. Holly and I are staying at the hotel here and will go visit her family in Pennsylvania afterward.
The LEGO designer moonbase Contest seems to have been won by my favorite – Hungry Hippos. Or at least, I spotted it in the Moonbase layout.
If you’re at Brickfest introduce yourself to me. If not, keep watching the blog as I’ll be adding entries all weekend. But now, I gotta get downstairs and see what’s going on![tags]lego,brickfest,brickfest2006[/tags]
The LEGO company has set a challenge to their own designers – create a moonbase module and present it at Brickfest!
I think this is the first time that LEGO has embraced a fan-created system like this. It’s great news for the relationship between adult fans of LEGO (AFOLs) and the LEGO company.
You can vote for your favorite of the designs presented. Here are the candidates; click the images to see more pictures:
 1. The Loony Luna Knight |
 2. Command and Defence |
 3. Squidman Module |
 4. Space Hungry Hippos |
 5. Ice Planet Dome |
Personally I voted for the Hungry Hippos. Remember that game from when we were kids in the 70’s? See the video if you’re not convinced just how cool this LEGO model is![tags]lego,moonbase,space,contest,brickfest[/tags]