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Is this a fancy way to say BrickFair?

Is this a fancy way to say BrickFair?

No, Brickfiesta is something different! It's a convention happening in Austin, Texas, during the 4th of July weekend. Ray and I live in Oklahoma, so it's a not too terrible drive for us.

Another LEGO convention?

 

What types of events can be enjoyed there?

Another LEGO convention?

 

What types of events can be enjoyed there?

They don't have a lot of stuff on their site, but they are advertising Brickfast Tacos!

What's the latest date to arrange attendance and hotellin'?

 

I doubt I could make it but it's worth looking into, if it's a chance to hang out with you four.

Tacos?

Show up to BrickCon and I'll think about going.

 

Otherwise, I'll stay where it's wet and cold ^^

What's the latest date to arrange attendance and hotellin'?

 

I doubt I could make it but it's worth looking into, if it's a chance to hang out with you four.

I haven't seen a date for registration cutoff? It's probably there, but I suck at Brickfiesta's website.

 

And you should come! Another person to split hotel room costs would be great, though you'd have to cuddle with two other people! And one of them wouldn't be me. And neither would the other.

If I had a job going on at exactly that time, I would love to go. Maybe next year, right? It can only get better with age.

 

Edit: Gah, I must've been really tired. I meant that if I hadn't had a job going on then I'd go, haha.

 

~EW~

Bah, why'd they have to cancel the Portland convention! Then all the cool people could've come here! Now I have to wait until BrickFair!

 

Enjoy your Fiest de los Bricks.

 

Woo! BrickFiesta! Partytime in Texas. I can't wait Pat, I just can't wait.

And, as I stated before, you all can put me down as a possibility. We'll just have to see how lenient/strict this upcoming internship is.

Why isn't it in the UK?

 

You USians have about a hundred gazillion Lego conventions. I'd walk, but that would use up all my shoes rubber, and I'd probably drown/get pneumonia/be starved from the Internet.

I might be there (Austin isn't that far away from me, at least when compared to the other LEGO conventions), but I'm not sure right now.

 

-TNTOS-

Why isn't it in the UK?

 

You USians have about a hundred gazillion Lego conventions. I'd walk, but that would use up all my shoes rubber, and I'd probably drown/get pneumonia/be starved from the Internet.

...yet I look at Brickish.org and they are having LEGO events and conventions in the UK up the ying-yang.

 

To my knowledge the US has:

 

BrickFest - Portland, OR (cancelled this year, and usually every other year if it comes back)

BrickFair - Chantilly, VA

BrickFair, Alabama -Birmingham, AL (a new con to be introduced in 2012)

BrickCon - Seattle, WA

Bricks by the Bay - (I believe it's held only every other year)

BrickWorld - Wheeling, IL

BrickFiesta - Austin, TX (a new con, only in it's first year)

BrickMagic - Raliegh, NC

 

Doesn't look like "a hundred gazillion" to me. And, not all of these are held every year, some are just starting out, and even one of them was cancelled.

 

Also, the size of the United States is a whole lot bigger than the UK (apparently the area of the UK is slightly smaller than the area of Oregon), so naturally, there's going to be many more conventions in the US than the UK

 

-Nukaya

Also, the size of the United States is a whole lot bigger than the UK (apparently the area of the UK is slightly smaller than the area of Oregon), so naturally, there's going to be many more conventions in the US than the UK

Yeah, this is something a lot of people from other countries often don't seem to realize. Most countries in this world are just size of just one state (or, in many cases, smaller) here in the US. I knew an exchange student from Germany who actually cried one time when that dissonance of scale really struck her. The US is really, really, really big.

 

This doesn't make it better than other nations or anything - it's just that it means it's a huge (and expensive) hassle to travel to different corners of the country. It's generally either impractical or impossible for, say, a person in New Jersey to go to a convention in Oklahoma (as if there'd be a convention in Oklahoma ). Cross-country travel is an infrequent thing here. I'd really like to go to this con, for example, but it'd cost me hundreds of dollars and multiple days of travel both ways, so it's difficult. This is different in, say, England, where if a convention is in London, that'd just be like me driving to North Carolina, at worst. Even if you're in the furthest corner of England, it's not too difficult a proposition to make it to London.

 

Now, I can understand people in places like Canada feeling a little gypped, given that their country is of comparable size to the US (slightly bigger, actually), the difference there is that the United States' population is massively larger than Canada's, so it's a population density thing.

 

But when push comes to shove, really, the only real reason that the UK or Canada, or any other country has fewer Lego conventions than the USA is because there are fewer fans there taking the initiative to run them. You realize that all these US Lego cons are entirely fan-run and fan-organized, right? Just regular Joes who decided 'I want to run a Lego convention in my hometown.' If you're perturbed by the lack of conventions in your area - then do exactly what these blokes did. Start one of your own.

I could almost probably attend but I don't know about work... I'll have to look into it more later.

It's horrifying that they're doing the convention in the dead of summer. Texas summers can get pretty gnarly.

 

But Austin's weather is better than the weather in most of the state, so I guess it could be worse. It could be in Houston.

 

I don't think I'll make it this year (who knows?) but I'm quite sure I'll come the year after, if they hold it again.

You USians have about a hundred gazillion Lego conventions

I don't know what USians are?

 

People from the United States are properly referred to as "Americans", no matter how much that gets some people in other countries but still on the Americas grumpy.

You USians have about a hundred gazillion Lego conventions

I don't know what USians are?

 

People from the United States are properly referred to as "Americans", no matter how much that gets some people in other countries but still on the Americas grumpy.

YoUS guys are.

BrickMagic - Raleigh, NC

How have I never heard of this convention.