The GertLUG Committee would like to announce that during the last weekend of August, our webmaster will be taking our website offline for a much needed revamp. This will take place during Saturday 30th – Sunday 31st August 2025. During this time, the website will not be accessible to our members and the general public. The website will go offline at midnight on Saturday the 30th and we hope to get it back online by…
For the third year running, GertLUG was invited by Aerospace Bristol to host a brick show at their amazing museum. The Supersonic Brick Show has quickly become GertLUG’s second biggest brick show of the year behind the Bristol Brick Show and is loved by both our members due to being under the last Concorde aircraft to ever fly and by visitors for its focus in interactive displays. A message from the event organiser, Rob Youdale…
After a triumphant Bristol Brick Show in 2023, GertLUG return with Bristol’s biggest LEGO show and this year promises to be better than ever before! Bristol based LEGO User Group GertLUG will be back at the Gloucestershire County Cricket Club on the weekend of 16th/17th November 2024 and we’ll be bringing a host of fantastic new displays with us! This is the fifth Bristol Brick Show since the inaugural show in 2018. We are entirely…
The summer holidays will soon be upon us and, at the time of writing at least, the weather finally seems convinced too. As well as days out to the beach and barbecues with a mind of their own, we’re also looking forward to two exciting brick shows coming up over the next couple of months. On 20th July, we’ll be hosted again at the amazing Aerospace Bristol for the Supersonic Brick Show. This was great…
A Supersonic Brick Day @ Concorde Back in November 2022, after successfully organising and running Bristol Brick Show (GertLUG’s biggest show to date), I had a meeting with Adam from the Aerospace Museum – the home of Concorde. In this meeting we talked about putting on a similar show to Bristol Brick Show but I had a little niggle in my brain from some of the feedback we had received at BBS. Can the show…
GertLUG LEGOLAND Windsor Trip – 17th June 2023 Another year and another annual trip to LEGOLAND Windsor with our amazing GertLUG LEGO group. This year was a couple of months earlier than last year and yet we still had a hot sunny day to enjoy the wonders of the LEGOLAND theme park. It was a great turn out of our GertLUG members, most with family and friends in tow, to explore and participate in the…
Battersea store opening day – words by Gordon Tutt As a LUG member I had a fantastic opportunity, together with other GertLUG members, to attend the new Battersea LEGO store preview evening on Wednesday 24th May. The store’s official opening was the following day. The first thing that stood out at the new store was the absence of the familiar yellow LEGO shop logo. At Battersea all store signage is black and white, and very…
On the Road – experiences of the Black Country Last year, when I wrote a blog about my first ever show at Brick Express ‘22, there was talk of nervousness, of anticipation, of worrying about how many people would be there and so forth. There was still anticipation as the M5 wound inevitably to its understated conclusion in West Bromwich, but the other concerns had been replaced by excitement, both at the opportunity of showing…
On Saturday 22nd April we held a little one day show at a local school that our Ambassador at the time has a very close connection to. This local show raised £1,744.31 for the fantastic Friends of Waycroft Academy and was attended and enjoyed by hundreds of people, many of who had children at the school. GertLUG member Georgia Hill shares her thoughts below in her own words: I recently had the absolute pleasure of…
After an amazing Bristol Brick show 2022, GertLUG were able to donate an fantastic £6813.55 plus £1000 worth of LEGO sets to Children’s Hospice South West. This was a fantastic amount to be raised and Emily, Paul and Carol took it over to the Hospice. As a thank you the Hospice invited the LUG to return for a tour of their facilities so we could see where all the money we raised has gone. Last…