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…
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anticipation as the M5 wound inevitably to its understated conclusion in West Bromwich, but the other concerns had been replaced by excitement, both at the opportunity of showing…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 the success of ‘Hairy Luke’s’ first school show last year, he has been approached by a number of other schools who would love the opportunity to work with GertLUG and fundraise for their school. GertLUG member Luke Beedle, was contacted by Liz, who runs the PTA at Kings’ Forest School in Kingswood. She asked if GertLUG could put on a show at her school to help raise some money to update and improve their…
The Bristol Brick Show 2022 at the Bristol Pavilion It’s been 3 long years since we last held a Bristol Brick Show event (the biggest show in our annual calendar) and blimey was it good to be back! With a brand new venue, many new GertLUG members since the last one, numerous amazing new builds and a bustling and enthralled crowd this felt like a triumphant and much needed return to big shows for us…
We’re back! It’s been a while since our last Bristol Brick Show but we’re back for 2022 and at a new and fantastic venue! Come and join us on the weekend of the 19th and 20th November at The Bristol Pavilion, BS7 9EJ. This will be the BEST LEGO SHOW that Bristol has ever seen. Over 70 traders and displayers covering everything from huge Pirate builds to Star Wars, train layouts and theme parks, there…
Brick Express, Avon Valley Railway – The reflections of a noob The main thing that surprised me about my first ever show as an exhibitor was how nervous I, as a grown up person, could get about it. But still, here I was, at the advanced age of *CENSORED*, in my first ever Brick Express at Avon Valley Railway with the GertLUG posse.When I started putting one brick on another to help with anxiety a couple…