Lego Kidsfest, not just for Kids!

Well, it really was pretty much just for kids, but Lego wanted us adults to display some of our stuff for the kids to marvel at and they were willing to pay us for the privilege! Nathan and I joined forces with Alyska Bailey Peterson and Chris Doyle from Reasonably Clever and managed to fill two spaces with Micropolis and other creations.

Kidsfest is a loooooooooooooong event. Running friday evening, all day Saturday, and all day Sunday. There was plenty for kids to do, and I took the opportunity before they all stuck their grubby little hands in it, to pose in a pile of lego big enough to fill a truck bed.

Micropolis was mainly Nathan, Jennifer, and my modules, with some additions from Garth and Tom, but we still managed to put up a very large display. This is in addition to a whole different Micropolis TwinLUG was showing at the same time, across town at the SpringCon comic convention. My newest addition was the conversion of my drive-in theatre to actually show movies, in this case the Lego Cars 2 trailer.

In addition to the paycheck directly from Lego, at the end of the event, we were invited to the event's Lego store to pick from whatever they had left at a hefty discount. Of course, I couldn't quite resist and ended up picking up quite a bit! The Pet Shop and Grand Emporium are my first-ever modular buildings sets (building the Pet Shop took me about 6hrs with multiple, "holy cow!" moments). Several of the sets were further discounted due to damaged boxes, and the Death Star is sealed up in the basement as a long-term investment. One of the Lego Master Builders also brought us a huge box of clear Lego dome pieces to do with as we pleased. I've got at least 30, no idea what I'll do with them!