Brickvention

Get Your Brickvention 2026 Tickets: 50% Discount for LEGO Insiders!

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Crowd at Brickvention 2026 expo with colorful banners and promotional signage highlighting ticket availability and discounts for LEGO Insiders.


The countdown is on for LEGO® fans! Tickets are now available for the Brickvention 2026 Public Expo, and the team organising the event are thrilled to announce an exclusive 50% discount on tickets for members of the LEGO® Insiders program. just for being part of the community.

The public expo runs Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th January 2026 at the Royal Exhibition Building in Carlton (just outside the CBD of Melbourne, Australia).

“For two decades, Brickvention has brought Melbourne an explosion of colour, creativity and community,” said Brickvention spokesperson Jason Cichon. “Public Expo sessions regularly sell out, so we encourage families and fans to book early…”

There will be hundreds of original, never-before-seen builds crafted by Australian and International builders. There will also be build zones, workshops and interactive areas. Its a great chance to catch up with fellow LEGO Enthusiasts and creators. And of course, a chance to find exclusive merchandise, and hard to find sets from the vendors.

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Melbourne Brick Show: LEGO® Fun Awaits This Weekend

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Promotional graphic for the Melbourne Brick Show 2025, featuring event details including date, location, and logo design.

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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Brickvention 2025 is on this weekend, and Tickets are still available.

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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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Brickvention 2025: Ticket Sales Now Open!

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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.

Special Offer for Rambling Brick Readers:

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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Brickvention 2024 Tickets On Sale Now: Public Expo and Convention 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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Brickvention 2023: Public Expo Tickets Now On Sale. Win a Family Pass!

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Brickvention 2023 is only 2 weeks away. Australia’s Premier LEGO Fan Event has been at the mercy of public health orders over the last couple of years, with an online event and another at an alternative venue: This year they are back at the heritage listed Royal Exhibition Buildings on the norther fringe of the Melbourne CBD.

Tickets are now on sale for the Public Expo of 21-22 January 2023. The opening session on Saturday Morning has sold out, with the other Saturday and Sunday Morning sessions filling up fast.

Sunday Morning opens with a Special Needs session – The session environment includes low volume and less frequent announcements and fewer people. The session is also longer, with 40 minutes before the next session is admitted.

Tickets are now available here.

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Builders’ Journeys: Simon Soars into Space with the Awkward Middle Child [924: Space Cruiser]

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Welcome to Builders’ Journeys – our Throwback Thursday inspired, nostalgia-driven look back on sets that have helped to define AFOLS around the world become the builders and LEGO Fans they are today. Today, we hear from Simon (@simonspace70s on Instagram). Simon lives in Mebourne, and recently discovered the joy of exhibiting his own MOCs, during a small lull between lockdowns. Simon has a tale that began back in the 1970s, and was changed for ever when he was given Set 924: Space Cruiser (released in the USA as 487) for his 6th birthday. The Awkward Middle Child of Classic Space sets, this ship seems to be relatively rare compared to 918 (one man Space Ship) and 927 (Galaxy Explorer). And there is just something about the shape of the nose. Perhaps that’s just me. Anyway, read on for Simon’s story.

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Brickvention’s Back in 2022: New Venue, New Dates. Exhibitor Applications Now Open

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Brickvention is Australia’s Premier LEGO Fan Event, and was directly responsible for me coming out of my dark ages over 12 years ago. After a year of on-again, off-again lockdowns, the team behind Brickvention have announced the 2022 event. With a new venue, timing and logo this year, a lot is changing! This year, the event has been designated an AFOL Networking Event by the LEGO Group.


The Royal Exhibition Building, home to the event from 2012 to 2020 is currently being used as a COVID-19 vaccination hub and isn’t available. So this year, the event will take place at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre (MSAC) in Albert Park, Victoria. Located on the other side of the City Centre, this venue offers a huge area for exhibiting MOCs, in an appropriately socially distanced fashion.


The timing is also a little different: rather than mid-January, it will take place much earlier in the month: after bump-in (January 6th), there is AFOL Convention Day (January 7th), followed by two days of Public Expo on the 8th and 9th of January.

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The World’s Biggest Minifigure Swap at Brickvention 2019

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This crossed my desk today, from the LEGOLAND Discovery Centre in Melbourne. They are organising some great opportunities in conjunction with Brickvention, coming up at the end of next week:

WORLD’S BIGGEST MINIFIGURE SWAP

LEGOLAND® Discovery Centre at Brickvention 2019

LEGOLAND® Discovery Centre is hosting the World’s Biggest Minifigure Swap at Brickvention 2019, Australia’s premier LEGO® fan convention taking place from 19-20 January at the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne.

Trade your superhero for a villain or your pirate for a police officer at LEGOLAND® Discovery Centre’s Brickvention booth, whereyou’ll have over 3,000 LEGO® Minifigures to choose from!You might even get lucky and find that one Minifigure you’ve been searching for, such as the rare C-3P0 or the popular Harry Potter!

“Last year we hosted a swap meet with over 1,500 Minifigures – this year we’ve got double the fun making it the World’s BiggestMinifigure Swap. LEGO® fans of all ages can recycle their pre-loved or duplicate Minifigures to refresh or complete their collection,” said Dave Holder, LEGOLAND® Discovery Centre Master Builder.

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Brickvention 2019: Coming Soon-Win Tickets!

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Are you likely to be in Melbourne during the weekend of January 19-20? Why not come along to Brickvention, Australia’s Premier Convention for LEGO® Fans. As well as amazing trains, towns, roller coasters Great Ball Contraptions and other models made by LEGO builders from all over Australia, there will be a huge minifigure swap, in conjunction with the LEGOLAND® Discovery Centre in Melbourne, as well as the build zone to play in.

International visitors this year will include You Tube Fan Favourites, John and Josh Hanlon from Beyond the Brick.

The event will again take place in the beautiful Royal Exhibition Buildings, in Carlton, from 9am-5pm (Saturday) and 9-4 pm (Sunday). If you are planning to attend, you can book timed session tickets now, by following this link.  Tickets start at $9 for children, and $18 for adults.

The Organising committee have given the The Rambling Brick a few passes to give away over the next couple of weeks. There are several ways to win. You can comment below, or on the Rambling Brick Facebook Page – tell me what you are most looking forward to seeing at Brickvention. Facebook not your preferred social media? Thats okay: You can message me on Twitter or Instagram, using the handle @ramblingbrick or the hashtag #ramblingbrickvention or using the good old fashioned email. 

Tickets are valid for either day of the public exhibition. I will be drawing prizes this Sunday (6/1/2019, Midnight AEST) and the following week (Sunday 20/1/2019, entries close midnight AEST). Winners will be drawn at random.

So… What are you looking forward to seeing at Brickvention 2019?

Leave your comment below (or via any other means listed above). And until next time,

Play Well…