The BrickFair LEGO Expo Guidebook

LEGO EXPO

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Get To Know Every Detail About The Bricks The moulds used in LEGO production are super precision accurate (to within five my, =0.005mm) meaning only 18

items in every million products fail quality standards. The exact design has remained the same for over 50 years,

so any Lego element made since 1958 is fully compatible with all other elements. There are a staggering 915 million ways to combine six Lego bricks of the same

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color. By the Lego Group’s latest estimate, if you aver-

aged out how of many Lego BrickFair bricks there rom the initial stages planning, wasare in the world, every person Earth would own 102The bricks. As of designed to be linkedon with a children’s charity.

2014,isaround 760 billionnamed individual Lego elements had chosen charity Maryland-based, The SladeChild been manufactured.

Foundation Charitable Trust.The charity provides food, shelter, clothing, and medicine to children around the

world. The Foundation has been supported by BrickFair since 2008, and has a booth at BrickFair Virginia each

August. The Foundation offers bags of donated, cleaned, and sorted Lego bricks and other items to support their cause. The Charity runs a Lego piece yard sale and

auction at BrickFair Virginia for the exhibitors, with basic parts offered at the yard sale and more valuable items offered at the auction.

Brickfair Shows You What LEGO Can Build BrickFair is a Lego convention and exhibition held

annually in the Eastern United States. It was first held in 2008 at Tysons Corner, Virginia by Todd Webb, and in

subsequent years, the Virginia convention has been held in Chantilly, which is typically during the first weekend of

August. BrickFair is a four-day event, operating generally Thursday through Sunday. The convention displays Lego models, displays and trains, most often covering more

than 100,000 square feet of convention space. BrickFair operates in every season and in four East Coast states.

BrickFair is believed to be the largest Lego convention

in the United States and one of the largest in the world.

Blind Build Players all receive the same small set to

build. Players may read their instructions, but cannot see the parts they are assembling! Points are deducted for parts in

the wrong places, and for missing parts.

The winner gets an awesome prize, and everyone keeps their small set.

Minifig Swap Bring in your unwanted or less-than-loved minifigs to trade with others! Before the Yard Sales, this one hour exchange is a

great opportunity to mix up your minifig

collection. Bring all the minifigs you wish; you never know what others might want!

Stay and Play

Hands-On

a room full of LEGO bricks where kids

A few models are interactive. They

Castellanthe creative energies. We understand

usually nearby to assist. In fact, they

and parents together can exert their

are clearly marked, and the owner is

difficulty in enjoying all the LEGO usually enjoy showing off.

Will be played tournament style, starting models without touching. So Stay & Be gentle and enjoy! with 8 players. Three rounds of two player Play allows you to dig in. games will be played: an opening round with eight, a semifinal with four, then the final with two playing on a LEGO-built

version! A single game lasts ~30 minutes; the whole tourney will last ~2 hours.

Win Free LEGO Pieces

Win Free LEGO Sets

Speed Build Answer a quick Public Opinion Survey Guess the number of LEGO elements in the jar... and win it. Four jars full of the your iPad,set andwith you’re automatically We swap a parton from your LEGO parts are given away during entered intoand the drawing for some competition.

You must find steal back BrickFair weekend, at 1:00pm and in order great LEGO prizes! that part to complete yourPersonal build info

3:00pm each day.Closestand guess used solely to notify winners. See winwins. your game!

As always, players

In case of tie, the guess that didn’t go they exact prizes onand display keep the sets play with, the at the raffle

over wins. If still tied, a coin is flipped. table. prize Winners drawn randomly from winner gets a LEGO to boot!

Presence not necessary to win; we will ship prizes to winners.

all entrants and prizes mailed a few days after the show.

Rocco Buttliere unveiled his 40,000 piece Golden Gate Bridge. The bridge spans over 12 feet in length and uses real suspension to carry the weight of the road

deck. This is Rocco’s 51st landmark and first sole model of a bridge. Not only was the design approach for this

model vastly different than anything in his body of work up until this point, it is also the most accurately trans-

lated of all his models, in terms of structural design, in comparison to the real-world landmark.

MEET THE DESIGNERS

Jason Allemann I have loved building with LEGO bricks for as long as I can remember. I have fond memories as a child of digging through basic bricks, flying around the moon with my Classic Space sets, and creating awesome Technic creations. In my teen years I would often use LEGO bricks as the medium for school science and engineering projects, and thanks to my younger brother I still had an excuse to purchase sets (as gifts, of course) and play with them.

As a young adult I even acquired a few sets for myself, mostly to put on display, but that all changed in the late 90’s. LEGO released the first version of their Mindstorms programmable robotics system and also obtained the Star Wars license. The combination proved impossible to resist, and so began my slow, but inevitable, transition from casual LEGO aficionado to full blown AFOL (Adult Fan of LEGO).

LeonovMy interest in the hobby has evolved over the years, from creating stop motion videos, to collecting LEGO Star Wars sets, to building my own custom models. Along the way my partner Kristal (the K in JK Brickworks) has also started building some amazing models. This website showcases many of the models we have designed and built.

Through it all I am continually struck with how amazing the LEGO system is as a medium for building, well, pretty much anything you can imagine. It allows people of all ages to enjoy the challenge of bringing their ideas to life, exercising their visualization and problem solving skills along the way.

ROCCO Rocco BUTTLIERE Buttliere skyline isnumerous world famousskyscraper for its tall, monumental towers, and Since 2009, Chicago’s I have created models at one person is on a quest to recreate the city’s downtown using a common 1:650 scale. I find the experience of capturing LEGO bricks. As a student at the Illinois Institute of Technology’s College of my desired level of realism both challenging and enjoyArchitecture, Rocco Buttliere is intrigued by design and how Chicago’s able. Whilebuildings my initial is together. to celebrate thetinkering built environall fitfocus and flow He started around with the idea of building a scale model of Chicago few years back, ment by expressing landmarks through theamedium of and now he’s completed the north end of the Loop and parts of River North LEGO®, I have come to appreciate the idea of capturing a and Lakeshore East. However, to recreate the entire downtown area, Buttliere contiguous urban landscape; not only for the purpose of estimates that the ambitious task could take nearly a decade to complete. connecting individual models buildings adjacent to one Building the city’s famous of towers at a 1:650 scale, Buttliere has used thousands LEGO bricks to build his model of over another intens realoflife, but toofportray a realistic expression of 30 a buildings, and he’s only really just getting started. cityscape. My hope is to one day form a contiguous layout Deciding to build the Loop really came as a result of my studies at IIT. I of the downtown area of Chicago. think studying architecture has shifted my focus with these models in a completely new direction. Wanting to study architecture got me interested in representing buildings, but actually studying architecture and urbanism led me to consider the importance of each aspect of the urban environment. This is why I strive to include more and more of each model’s surroundings, so that I can more honestly express its context as truly being a part of a whole, not simply an individual and standalone monument as the designation of ‘landmark’ would have you believe.

Royal Plaza Trade Center

181 Boston Post Road W. Marlborough, MA 01752

Follow I-90 E, I-94 E and I-90 E to US-20 W/Lakeside Ave in Marlborough. Take exit 24B from I-495 N

Continue on US-20 W. Drive to Royal Plaza Dr