BrickCon 2014

Name of Event: BrickCon 2014

Found at: http://brickcon.org/

Details: BrickCon is this weekend! I (Dan) have all of 14 hours to finish packing before I leave for the airport! Who needs sleep? There are more MOCs to build! This year's theme is "Invasion", and that's why it's finally time for LMOTD to "invade" by making an appearance there this year. Although I actually used to live within driving distance of this convention, I never attended because I was in my teens at the time and BrickCon didn't allow anyone under 18 to participate in the full convention. Seriously, I still have the flyer from when they tried to advertise at a free event LEGO was running. Although BrickCon is still a needlessly exclusive event (seriously, why does anyone think LEGO events should exclude the people who have the most time to spend with the brick?), I've since aged to the point where I'd be allowed to attend - and more importantly, I've been convinced to go so I can see the birthplace of Mini LEGO Con. In spite of this being a smaller event (roughly 500 attendees, compared with nearly 1,000 at BrickFair Virginia or Brickworld Chicago), there are actually quite a few noteworthy builders attending, so it sounds like a promising show. Public hours are from 10-4 on Saturday, October 4th, and 9-3 on Sunday, October 5th. Find me there and you can get your hands on one of our 2x2 LMOTD tiles. I'll add our usual round up of coverage of the event to this post after the event has passed. This was a great event - in spite of the smaller size, BrickCon has roughly the same concentration of talent as some of the larger conventions, so there's still plenty of great LEGO creations to take in and exciting people to meet. Here's our round-up, still in the early phases as of this writing (10/10/2014): My (Dan's) photos are on Flickr. pasukaru76 highlighted Star Vikings at BrickCon 2014 (on Flickr). pasukaru76's general BrickCon 2014 photos on Flickr Lino's Flickr photos The Brothers Brick wrap-up Nannan's Flickr photos brickstuff's Flickr photos BrickCon Flickr pool Proudlove's Flickr photos legotanks' Flickr photos Lonnon Foster's Flickr photos Bill Ward's Brickpile's Flickr photos and blog post Sean Edmison's Flickr photos