https://www.brothers-brick.com/2025/12/14/close-encounters-of-the-holiday-kind/#more-468359

Are we getting glossy, matte, or transparent? I’m thinking I would buy two.

I parked behind Kristin’s car at TUBS, and I took a pic, since I didn’t know whose car it was at the time.

It was definitely used. It was the background in all five phases from November 2018 to Jan/Feb 2019:

Have you still been talking to Todd? Are you aware that Steel City LUG is still on the map twice? Is he aware? I know it’s not the final version of the map yet, and I figured he’d fix it eventually, but he recently posted on brickfair-dot-com: “Every…Read more

Yeah that’s alone is a deal breaker. Besides trusting third parties to handle my precious MOCs (hard pass), I’m pretty sure it would amount to a lot of standing in line waiting your turn to load in and out, which is a lot of time wasted when you might not h…Read more

I’d say you don’t need to be in a hurry on that. My experience is that version 18 is a low number and that he constantly revises the map. But also, I suspect his thinking is that it’ll be easier for Steel City LUG to give back unused space towards event time than it will be for him to…Read more

https://www.brickfair.com/file/

He did say he has no idea what to expect for MOCs for this event – I remember at the first Fredericksburg, he said we were “thin on MOCs” and that we should spread out as much as possible – but I see that Steel City LUG has its…Read more

Three days ago…Read more

I went on the site, and somebody’s brought it up on Yak already, and so far Todd’s only response is “Well **** me.”

The first two years (which I didn’t attend), BrickFair was at the Sheraton in Tyson’s Corner, and…Read more

I had not noticed that this could be an issue. I need the answer to that also, because I want my VIP points. I last sold on BL in 2008, and after my inventory…Read more

>> Hi Ben – Mark said we can just change/rearrange the tables once you’re
there. Thanks!

I didn’t realize Mark was still involved. My comment in an earlier email that I thought it would be easier to have the table setup people have the correct plan, since redoing the skirting…Read more

>> they shorted us 19 inches. ‘
>
>> although I have rearranged tables in both versions, I have not changed the number of tables

Neither of these statements is correct. On the drive, I realized that during my rearranging, and I’d…Read more

There was the last two years. We can ask Skip for confirmation. Although we don’t know for sure, I have assumed that when Mark sold to new management, that that included all physical assets.

I do remember in 2023, Mark, who had never done a Lego convention setup before, initially…Read more

I opted for mirroring, I like the idea of Hoth being front and center when people come in the main entrance. Version 3 is attached.

I haven’t sent anything to Skip yet, I wanted to give people a chance to weigh in here on the layout. I think I’m going to set a deadline for 7pm tomorrow (Monday)…Read more

In case it’s not immediately clear: although I have rearranged tables in both versions, I have not changed the number of tables, nor have I changed our overall footprint.

I’m taking a look at it now. My mom pointed out that we can solve our double-depth issues by simply rotating one of the tables up. This one’s a little more complicated than the last three layouts I’ve done because we have people using up a table amount that isn’t a whole or half a table, but I have…Read more

I might be able to take a run at it tomorrow afternoon (I just drove 230 miles, it’s bedtime). But at first glance, I’m not sure that the layout they gave us will work. We have three people asking for 192″ at double depth. That means that one of those people will have…Read more

He did? Where? I didn’t get an email about it.

>> does the LUG section off spaces per person, or do we just do a first come basis??

We’re going to make a plan. The last time our plan was too vague going in (BFPA22), things did not work out so well (ask Logan).

I might have time to…Read more

I’m gonna plan on not coming tomorrow then, I should use…Read more

The short version is, unless things have changed (in which case I missed it), AFOL Days is still on indefinite…Read more

😀 Fortunately, as far as I know, you are not too late to request display space.

https://www.steelcitylug.com/forum/topic/the-ultimate-brick-show-nov-2025/

I did it last year, and I was also thinking I could do it this year. In 2023, Mark Concilla (of Erie Promotions) did it. Last year he did it again, based on the spreadsheet we’d filled out for Skip, but I f…Read more

That’s good to know, thanks, I don’t think I’d figured out that the schedule is interactive.

The yard sale is very popular, there will be a lot of sellers and a lot of shoppers. But…Read more

http://www.brickfair.com 😛

Somebody asked about it on Yak, the free ticket is still Sunday only. The full schedule is available on the site, public hours are 10-5 on Saturday and 10-4 on Sunday.

Heh, you are correct, thanks. That’s not even the first time I’ve made that error. Okay, I got it sorted out now.

I’m excited that Krista has Duck Hunt listed as her MOC. I’ve been hearing about how that one is “coming soon” for…Read more

Did you leave it filled in from last year? There’s a Ben with no last name that looks like a match for me in every way, but I still didn’t want to assume that it wasn’t somebody else, so I added…Read more

I do have a minor problem where I don’t have cable and fox-dot-com is a giant pain in the butt, which means I may be going into the finale without having seen the episode that’s going to air tomorrow evening, so it’ll be a surprise as to who’s still remaining. I still haven’t been able to complete the 90’s…Read more