Brickvention
| Convention | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Brickvention |
| Dates: | 2006 - |
| Frequency: | annual |
| Location: | Melbourne |
| Type: | |
| Focus: | AFOL (adult fans of LEGO) |
| Organization: | Brickventures Inc |
| Founder: | |
| Founding Date: | 2006 |
| URL: | Brickvention Melbourne |
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'Brickvention' is a LEGO convention held in Melbourne annually since 2006. The annual event highlights a huge range of LEGO models such as trains, castles, pirates, Star Wars™, space ships, planes, buildings, sculptures, street scapes, and much more.
Brickvention is held over a weekend and a LEGO convention is held on the Friday preceding the weekend display. The venue of the convention is the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne.
Auspiced
Brickvention is overseen by Brickventures Inc, a not-for-profit incorporated body that oversees the running of Brickvention and the Melbourne LEGO User Group (MUGs), and MUGs Junior. The Brickventures committee is comprised of volunteer Adult Fans of LEGO (AFOLs).[1]
Fiona Kingdom Award
The convention presents an annual "Kingdom Award", named after science fiction and LEGO fan, Fiona Kingdom.
The Fiona Kingdom Award, hereby known as The Kingdom Award was developed to honour persons who are making a significant contribution to the AFOL community through their time, actions, talents and dedication.The honouree selected should serve as a role model for compassion, and service and be striving to make the AFOL World a better place.[2]
Reviews
Brickvention 2024, an AFOL Networking Event, was recently held at the World Heritage-listed Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne, Australia. It’s now in its 18th year and continues to attract some of the best builders and most enthusiastic AFOLs from around Australia and other countries. This year, around 280 exhibitors displayed their creations, with an additional 250 non-exhibitors attending the convention day. Around 15,000 members of the public visited the exhibit over the weekend of January 20th and 21st...Trains, as always, were very popular at Brickvention. The Melbourne L-Gauge Train Club (M>LTC) combined the work of nearly 30 builders to create a massive train layout that dominated the central section of the west end of the building. Part of the build included a recreation of the Historic Newport Train Workshops created through the RLUG Project Support Program from LEGO. The Newport train sheds provided the perfect background for a group photo of past Brick Train Awards winners. This build can be seen at the upcoming Steamraill Victoria open day event on the 9th-11th of March, 2024...
This year’s Brickvention also featured the largest Great Ball Contraption (GBC) ever assembled at the event. Just 12 people put together around 167 modules. It was so popular that it was difficult to follow a full circuit on public days, so Rohan Beckett created a video of this year’s Brickvention GBC.
Members of the Bendigo LEGO User Group (BALD), other volunteers. and members of the public worked to create a lovely floor mosaic promoting the new season of LEGO Dreamzzz. Located in the northern section of the building, this was a popular distraction as visitors headed towards the LEGOLAND Discovery Centre Minifig Swap Wall and interactive zone.[3]
References
- ^ About Brickvention, Brickventures Inc.
- ^ The Kingdom Award, Brickventures Inc.
- ^ Sue Ann Barber, A Tour of Brickvention 2024, 30 January 2024.