Brick Fest Live!

 Brickfest! An actual "adventure day"! Lego bricks and stuff galore. We went to see what's up, so of course I'm going to get pictures to share.

Not quite sure why its's called "Brick Fest Live". Since these pictures are from a while ago, it's no longer "live". Also, the event schedule is a scan code. It's your fault if you are the only person who doesn't have a device to decode the dots thing. It's been a while since we've been to a convention, is that normal now?

Let me back up a little to the drive over to the convention center. It was super foggy that afternoon. I tried to get a picture of it, do you think it looks foggy enough? I remember it being a lot foggy-er.

The Hampton Roads Convention Center. Our unforgettable joke reference is my friend saying "it's the building with the tents on top of it. I said "TENTS!"" From here they look enough like tents, but from the highway, they kind of look like... tents.

Okay, we're here to look at bricks, not tents. Inside was so... underwhelming! This might be the smallest "convention" I've ever been to. Might as well have been a High School Gym. Maybe not that small. There was still some stuff to see, so let's get to it.

Near the entrance were tables full of white bricks of all various shapes. The idea was to build something, anything, and the fact that they are all white makes them match. 

Place your creation on the other table! Check out this beautiful mess? Oddly enough, the all-white thing is actually working.

Only one of us was excited enough to grab some bricks and make a thing. No worries that those bricks were crawling with germ-y kid hands a-plenty. They purposefully made a crazy arch thing with no attention to reason.

This was an unexpected celebrity to see. It's R-3X from Star Wars? The original pilot of the Star Tours ride in Disney Theme Parks, who was found crashed on Batuu and is now known as "DJ Rex" at Oga's Cantina. There it is, bopping around Brickfest? You can see the guy with the control unit behind it, complete with voice modulator/speaker system. The kids were all over it!

There was a couple of tables with Lego creation. Here's some mosaic video game characters from Street Fighter. Not too long ago, these were a lot harder to make, since Lego's color selection was not that great. But recently, they are making bricks in tons of colors, notice how many blues are on the Chun Li over there.

Snoopy! Did someone make giant circle stickers for this? Lego uses stickers in their own sets, so... is that okay to make some yourself? And yeah, this one had a motor for the propeller. Lego has motors.

What a simple but still cool thing. To use a bunch of bricks to make it look like giant small bricks. It's probably not as easy as it looks to make it so accurate.

One giant castle. I mean, there was only one of these. We expected tons more creations, but at least somebody came with a giant castle. They said their club was working on a whole modular medieval city and they would eventually all connect together. Which is why the bottom of it looks incomplete.

Looks like a renaissance faire. But it's really just part of the castle theme, so... just a regular faire for them.

Nobody notices the "cheat" of using cloth sails. You just saw cool pirate ships. Somehow, pirate ships can get away with that in Lego models.

There were a few giant sculptures there for crazy photo ops. Here's a fellow green-skinned lady that matches my minty color. We're both over here defying gravity. Did I use that reference right? What a world, what a world.

Giant inflatable Lego bricks? That's cool. Kinda makes me think there should have been a Lego bouncy house over here instead. That might have been a lot of chaos with all the kids though.

Speaking of chaos and kids... AHH!!! Forget about germs. It's a whole pool of bricks for the kids to play around in. It looks like soooooo much fun, right? I mean... if you forget about the germs thing.

Exhibit A: The nearby table for the kids to display the creations shows these "white" bricks that look like they've been stepped on by a million shoes. Eh, they're kids, they'll be fine.

I took a picture over by the promo wall that looks like where all the celebrities get the fashion pics at. 

Looks like these guys sell instructions? There was a lot of cool giant things over on this wall. But not so giant. You could imagine yourself having enough extra bricks to build your own thing this big?

This woulld be a lot cooler if Lego did not already offer it's own official Thor's Hammer set. Shocking!

Pikachu! It's improbable that Nintendo will make merchandise for every single pokemon at this point, since there's thousands of them from all of the games. But thanks to Lego, you can make your own of whatever pokemon you want! Even though there's tons of merch for Pikachu already.

It's a me! Minty-o! Bling bling!

Impressive. Most impressive.

Clone Trooper Rex! They may all be clones, but they have names, too. 

People were keeping their socks on, but the intent was to walk on the bricks with your bare feet. For charity? Because if you are going to torture yourself, it might as well be for a good cause. It's "common knowledge" that stepping on Lego bricks is... intensely painful.

We donated to enter the raffle, but passed on the brick walking. Thanks for offering the torture, but no thanks.

Celebrity! It's Manny Garcia from the Lego Masters TV Show! We were too shy to rush over there for a photo op at the moment. We thought we'd get over there later, but when we went back, he was gone. At least I snapped a picture, at least.

My phone's super camera was trying to brighten up this image, but this table was lit by a blacklight. It's a Lego community known fact that certain colors of bricks GLOW in a neat way under black lights. This was similar to the white-pieces tables at the entrance, but the much much cooler version of it.

This was a lot more glowy in person. I suppose it's weird to say something like "you had to be there" when I'm posting pictures as if you are here.

Cute artwork behind the tables was also glowing in the black lights. Maybe that benefits a little from my camera's efforts, it's not glowing but you can see the artwork better.

Oddly enough, I'm a little more impressed with Lego models on a smaller scale. If you make them too huge, then of course you can capture all the details. But to capture the details with a lot fewer pieces, that's a different sort of skill.

I'm not exactly sure what's going on here, but these Lego minifigures were just... a lot bigger than normal, but looked perfectly like regular figures.

See the regular brick-built jeep next to this Army Guy from Toy Story? Yeah, the figures were that big. Is there any particular figure you'd want a giant version of?

Lightsabers! Can you match those to the characters? Darth Maul is the big double-sided one. A few others you should be able to recognize. They are all from the main characters.

You're not crazy, that is indeed a big version of an actual Lego minifigure of David Hasselhoff from Night Rider. They made a set for the Lego Dimensions video game. Turbo boost! Stay tuned for more pictures, there was too many for just one post.