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Brickfest 2006!


ChocolateFrogs

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Well, it started Friday, Aug 25. (maybe thursday night)

Boy was it awesome. I got dropped off at 8:00 (even though it started at 9:00) My mom signed a paper because I'm under 18, and left. So I'm standing around watching people try to get registration started, in my hands my shoebox with 4 MOCs in it and a gift for "Dirty Brickster"

 

I register at say...8:45. Get my brickbadge and have to make some of it. (It's a rule)

My brickbadge says:

-Benjamin P*****

-ChocolateFrogs

-BZPower

-Brickfest 2006

 

They all say BF06, and you build the clapper shutter on top. This year's theme is showbiz.

We also get a goodie bag/tote bag. It has the BF06 logo on it and is awsome. In it is free stuff like a magnet, custom guns by custom modelers, and a welcome booklet explaining BF. I also got my BF06 shirt but kept my BZPower one on.

 

Thoughout the event I changed the decorations on my Brickbadge:

Brutaka's mask, to...

Spiderman, to...

flames, to...

visorak and a green Kakama, to...

Visorak and a proto miru nuva

 

So I get in, and people are all over the place setting up their own models. I find the Bionicle table but no Omicron. I walk around trying to find where everything is. That's outside the Grand Ballroom where most of the MOCs are. I'm trying to find the Bionicle Room to find Omi to set up my MOCs.

 

In the end I walk around the GB and set up my two non-Bio MOCs. One of them being my friend's and is very delicate, and practically fell in half even with layers and layers of bubble wrap, the other classified wrong and had to be moved.

 

But wait, there's more!

 

I go to a talk on minifig customization. It's actually a class! We get to take the design off a minifig body and put on a BF06 logo. We are also taught how to take a stud off the top of a explorer hat, and drill holes for gogels.

 

So I'm still looking around for Omi and in the end just set up my MOCs in the Bio room. Then I look around in the GB at everyone setting up their castles, towns, moonbases, big spaceships, etc.

At about 12 o'clock I find Omi. And Rayg. We walk around together looking at everything. We also meet another BZPer (who's name I wrote down but is upstairs in my room and I don't feel like moving) and we basically hung around for the rest of the day.

 

But wait, there's more!

 

We go to the BrickBazaar and but things, like minifigs and peices. I got Spiderman $3), Doc Ock($3.50, but afterword found out he was $3 at another place), and some great peices: 56 flames ($1), 7 lightsaber blades blue and green ($1), 25 lightsaber handles and 1 curved Dooku and 1 grey ($1)

 

The whole brickfest experience: priceless

 

I went back later that weekend and got some sweet peices as well.

 

At about 3 o'clock somebody mentions lunch and we decide it'd be a good idea to get some. We order pizza and eat it in the Bionicle room because a hotel guy said we couldn't eat in the hotel eating place we were at.

 

But wait, there's more!

 

We keep looking at models and then go to the opening ceremony. Pretty fun and I kinda forget some of it. Basically, welcome to Brickfest, highlights, and don't forget that judging will end tonight.

 

I left at 10 o'clock.

 

I also met Cajun on Friday and K.I.E...maybe Bionicle Rex. Either that or on saturday.

 

But wait, there's more!

 

I got to BF06 on Saturday at 8:30. Looked at some models. There is this one of a larger than life Battle Droid that when you push a button, it unfolds and stands up.

 

At 10 o'clock, there was the Keynote speaker, who is a CEO of Lego. He was a great speaker talking about the hows and whys of Lego. He made it clear Lego focused on the target audience versus the large amount of AFOL's* there and around the globe.

He also talked about the new Mindstorms NXT, and how there was a panel of 4 people, and then 11, and then a lot!

 

But wait, there's more!

 

Also in his talk was a film about AFOLs and how they enjoy their lives with Lego included. Best of all, it was narrated by Binkmeister, who sadly couldn't make it to BF this year. It was full of laughs. One of my favorites was a quick reference to imitators of Lego bricks, and he wouldn't say any names, but that he will refer to this as "Brand M"

 

Before 12 o'clock I grabed some lunch and waited for my friends to show up for visiting hours. When they came I gave them a tour that they led also. A favorite was the Great Ball Contraption. This was a buncho of builders working together to connect all of their contraptions side by side, and using motors move Lego soccer and Backet balls from one thing to another.

 

But wait, there's more!

 

We also went to a talk about Lego Design. This was about things that stresses the Lego elements. Such as putting a click hinge halfway between two nobs. Also a cone in a brick, because it can break the brick like a wedge. And it's not the best idea to put a lightsaber blade in a transparent cone because they are made of the same plastic.

 

At 10 o'clock was the Dirty Brickster. This is a white elephant game gift exchange. Basically, each person brings a gift. An order is decided and people choose gifts. The first gift is chosen and unwrapped. The next person can either choose another gift of steal the prevous one.

I stole Krekka from someone, but that was stolen from me. I then stole a box of bionicle and roborider peices, which was good, because no AFOL* would want that right? Well, I was looking through it and I found a chrome Hau. I made the mistake of pulling it out and another person stole the whole collection just for that to sell on ebay. I stole krekka back and he is a great set.

 

But wait, there's more!

 

Sunday was great too. I got there at 10:30 and immediatly went to a talk about BrickJournal. There should be a paper issue coming out withing a year. This came from the discussion of perhaps making is paper media versus internet, and charging say...$50 for 6 issues in a one year subscription. An example was given that this was the Brickmaster of AFOL's*

 

I then went to a talke about Mecha building and got some great ideas there to try out if I ever find enough time to break into my system box.

 

My friends showed up again and we kept looking around. Later we went to see some brickfilms. There were some pretty good ones.

My favorites were:

The Lucky rejection (about the sad hobo)

Blambo

and the Time Traveling Janitors

 

They left and I was on my own again. Closing ceremonies came and sadly, that meant BF06 was over.

 

But wait, there's more!

 

It was fun to go around the GB and see it as it was being taken down. And then I went to the Bionicle room with Omi and Rayg.

 

But wait, there's more!

 

Overall, this was a blast! I can't wait for next year, with the talks and everything else that makes this a great event recognized by Lego. I made some great friends and some awesome memories.

I also got some great masks. 2 proto-silver Miru Nuva, 3 transparent Kaukau, and a red and green Matatu. That's right! Misprints! I also have "Free the Band" patches. I hope to be trading all this along with a signed comic 3 (volume 2)

 

It was great meeting Omi, Rayg, K.I.E., and all the other BZPers.

See everyone next year at BF07!

 

-CF :usa:

 

*Adult Fan Of Lego

PS: Sorry I don't have pix yet. But it would be insane for me to load up 300 photos on dial-up. I'll do it at school one day soon and it will take almost no time at all!

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You can drop the periods and just call me "KIE". :)

Pleasure meeting you, Rikmeister, and all the staff who I now have voices and faces to go with names.

 

-KIE, who was never told his softball team went 4-9 on Saturday, but did pick up 4 misprint Matatu (red, blue, green, black)

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o.o Misprints, very, very nice. All this Brickfest business, as I was saying to omi yesterday, I'm going to try to get there next year, it sounds like a jolly old time.

 

Sorry to hear about your loss of the chrome hau, I actually got one from a friend yesterday (along with a pair o' manas, a pair o' nui-rama, 6 toa olda, 6 bohrok and 7 rahkshi), it is a grand mask, shame you didn't get to keep it. :( (and yeah, that collection cost me)

 

Can't wait to see some pictures, perhaps you have some of my moc in the lot. (Kranais, you know, the black and copper one :P)

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