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And finally I got to go to Brickfest..
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Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:37:13 GMT
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After planning to attend and registering for 3 consecutive years, I finally made
it to DC this year. Wow, and wow some more. The best thing was not the bricks,
but the people. I recognized the vast majority of names, but only met a few
prior to Brickfest. I had a great time talking to all, I will not name names, as
I will forget to many. Besides all the attendees, the collection of moc's was
the best I've seen in the brick ever. Most may know me from bricklink (I am
Brickbuy), but I am only selling to get money to buy and build. I did not bring
a camera, so I'll make some pictures of my own stuff later, but it looks like
there is no shortage of pics.
This year I brought 2 skyscrapers (the white one and the tan one) for the COLTC
portion of the train layout:
<http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jbucy/BrickFest/BrickFest2004/TrainLayout/COLTCLayout/img_5612.jpg>
and helped dressing-up the downtown with lightposts, trees, etc.
<http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jbucy/BrickFest/BrickFest2004/TrainLayout/COLTCLayout/img_5567.jpg>
And I parked some new trains (can't for now find pics of the cars that were
pulled):
<http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jbucy/BrickFest/BrickFest2004/TrainLayout/COLTCLayout/img_5580.jpg>
<http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jbucy/BrickFest/BrickFest2004/TrainLayout/COLTCLayout/img_5457.jpg>
As well as a train in the train yard (front white one):
<http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/pdonis/BrickFest-2004/Event/Town/dscn0765.jpg>
For the castle room I brought the medieval townhall:
<http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/mhuffman/Events/2004-BrickFest/dsc01438.jpg>
and a moc for the castle competition:
<http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/pdonis/BrickFest-2004/Event/Castle/dscn0744.jpg>
On the latter one I got a lot of nice comments. The one thing I expected by far
the most comments on nobody seemed to have noticed. Placement up against the
wall was to blame here I guess. I'll post pictures later this week to show the
"creme de la creme" of this moc...
Finally, I build a micro-moc (I finished it an hour before departure for DC):
<http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/mhuffman/Events/2004-BrickFest/dsc01404.jpg>
That one was quick and fun to build, especially the trains (TRAIN!!).
The shopping trip to the outlet mall was decent, I picked up a few sets, but did
not spend nearly as much as I though I would. On Sunday, I did get drawn to pick
second of the "palet of plenty" while I was already checking out, ready to throw
away my ticket, while John, with whom I drove there, picked first. This was very
lucky, for both of us, but we were the first ones there (by a full 3 seconds
before 2 Michluggers pulled in, so fair is fair!
Both tear-down and the 7 hour trip back went quick, I was home (Columbus, OH) by
2 AM.
Thanks to John for driving with me, and many thanks to all who made it happen,
that is all attendees, and last but not least, Christina and Joe, and their
gang, for putting it together.
Paul Janssen
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: And finally I got to go to Brickfest..
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| Couldn't agree more. The entire event, meeting all the "big" names so far only familiair from LUGNET and BrickShelf, "supper/breakfast" at 4am at IHOP with Todd Lehman (math during breakfast, +5 points on math geekism), Felix applying LEGO tattoo's (...) (20 years ago, 18-Aug-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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