Great news: Tickets for the Brickvention 2026’s Convention Day are now on sale. As Australia’s AFOL networking event, we expect to see a fantastic collection of models on display. By attending the Convention Day, you are among the first to see them, to say nothing of the fun and celebrations of Brickvention’s 20th anniversary.
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Melbourne LEGO® Lovers, rejoice. MUGs, the Melbourne LEGO Users Group have their inaugural Melbourne Brick Show coming up this weekend. at the Coburg Town Hall. The show will be open from 9am -4pm Saturday; 9am-3pm Sunday. Tickets are available online here
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I built a thing. This is not a specifically unknown concept. Each year, I build an original model for Brickvention, Australia’s AFOL Networking Event, which was held last weekend. I presented a MOC (my own creation) paying homage to the LEGO Adventurers theme from 1998. The amount of Lore that found its way into the MOC possibly warrants a post in its own right. Here it is.
Let me tell you a tale…
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Do you love LEGO?
Are you in Melbourne?
Are you tired of working out what to do with the kids in Melbourne this weekend?
Brickvention 2025 is on at the Royal Exhibition Buildings in Melbourne on 18-19 January 2025. You can still get tickets for the public expo here. Some sessions have sold out, and others are filling rapidly.
I will be showing off my latest build, based on the Adventurers theme from 1998 (A sneak peek below), and I’ll have some Rambling Brick Tiles and a passport stamp.
Jay and I will also be recording some content for the Extra Pieces Podcast – so, keep an eye out. (While you are here, we have a new episode out, discussing some of our favorite sets of the new year!)
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Tickets go on sale today for Brickvention 2025. Return to the Royal Exhibition Buildings in Melbourne for Australia’s Premier LEGO FAN EVENT. Use our link to enter a draw for a Brickvention Merchandise voucher, just for readers of the Rambling Brick.
Tickets for the public expo are now available. Readers of the Rambling Brick who use this link to buy their tickets before December 15th, 2024, will be entered into a prize draw for a voucher to spend at the Brickvention Merchandise Stall.
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Last weekend, Branko headed off to the Illawarra Brick Show. Along the way, he got caught up in a celebrity brick battle…
On the weekend of 20-21 April 2024, the Illawarra Annual Brick Show took place in Berkeley NSW. Organised by Gonglug, the event was raising funds for Kidswish, a charity in the Illawarra region which is committed to fulfilling the lives of children with disability or illness and their families through supportive programs, special events and community-impact projects, with a goal of building an inclusive community that can be enjoyed by all.
The show has a great vibe, more akin to a LEGO theme park than a LEGO display show, which I really enjoyed. Aside from many LEGO displays there were a lot of activities related to LEGO to keep kids entertained.
From memory there was:
Read on to see what the ‘Celebrity Brick Battle’ was about. No, it did not involve throwing bricks at each other… much.
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Last Weekend, our Sydney correspondent Branko took a trip to Haymarket where LEGO Australia were in the process of engaging members of the public to build the world’s longest LEGO Dragon. The head and tail were already built, but the forms of the dragon’s body needed to be covered in scales, and so visitors were offered an 8×8 plate to fill and place on the dragon.
“Last weekend anyone could come to Haymarket to decorate the world’s longest LEGO Dragon. The dragon wound itself through the pavement like a sea serpent with two parts of its back rising out of the floor to be decorated on the sides. Anyone could drop by to decorate a 8×8 plate with Dots and place on the side of the dragon. Staff were cheerful and happy to have a chat, children and adults alike were deeply focused on building their contribution. The dragon was about 20m long (nose to tail) but the majority of the body was hidden under the pavement.”
Read more for more images…
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The Lunar New Year is just around the corner, and to celebrate the year of the Dragon, LEGO Australia are setting out to create the World’s Longest LEGO Dragon. . The build will arrive on the corner of Harbour and Hay Street (Haymarket) from Friday 16th to Sunday 18th February to celebrate Sydney’s Lunar New Year festivities. Create endless play moments for the whole family and make warm, endearing memories that last forever!
The Head and Tail have been created by The Brickman team, and LEGO Australia are calling on the community to come and build up the parts in between.
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Brickvention 2024 is only a weeks away, taking place at the heritage listed Royal Exhibition Buildings in Melbourne, we are excited to see AFOLs converging from around the country and around the world. The Public Expo is taking place on Saturday 20th January and Sunday 21st of January 2024. If you are planning to go, you can get your tickets here. Sessions are starting to fill up and some have already sold out. If you see me there, some and say G’day.
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January is still a few months away, but Tickets are now on sale for Brickvention 2024. The Public Expo will Take Place on January 20-21, 2024 at the heritage-listed Royal Exhibition Buildings in Melbourne.
With International borders now well and truly open, and a Melbourne Summer providing a welcome respite from the Northern Winter, there is also the chance for LEGO® Fans from around the world to attend Convention Day on January 19. This also includes admission for the duration of the public exhibition.
This year we will have over 300 exhibitors from across Australia and Around the World displaying their new and creative builds from a wide variety of themes and genres – there will be something for the entire family to enjoy. For the Die Hard Fans, there are still tickets available for the Convention Day – a day of games, workshops, talks and a chance to wander around the exhibits the day before the show opens to the public .
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