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…
Annual Pop Badge Hunt…I mean…LEGOLAND Trip This year the GertLUG group of family and friends on the trip to LEGOLAND amassed a huge 45 people! We had decided to change the day to Sunday to make it accessible for people that can’t typically do Saturdays. The day may have changed but the weather certainly didn’t. It was one of the hottest days of the year so the water rides were a big hit like the…
Our latest GertLUG online meet was full of chat and updates on what everyone is currently building and how people sort their bricks. We had various themes of builds in progress such as Paul’s Pirate Island, Darren and Mark were building dinosaurs and a secret admission to LEGO Ideas and we also got a tour of Tom’s town. When the discussion turned to how people sort their bricks there were a lot of ways that…
Meet-up at Zion Community Cafe, Bristol Fancy trying something new? Well so did we! This months meet had a new location, we met at Zion in Bedminster Down, Bristol and this time everyone was invited! This meet was an open meet and an opportunity for members of the public to come and see what we do and maybe even join in. We had almost a dozen intrigued members of public that were open to exploring…
Back in September 2021, the LUG took the opportunity to visit LEGOLAND Windsor! As well as a few birthdays to celebrate and pop badges to collect it was a great excuse to see DJ L.L.A.M.A playing a concert in Miniland. Here are some highlights from our day! Miniland: As AFOLs Miniland felt like a holiday! We were able to visit so many incredible places, recreated as perfect miniature brick built versions, from New York to…
Wow, what a year it has been! January – April We started off the year (1st Jan) with an early morning trip to the Bristol LEGO store for the new set releases. This was on the verge of another national lockdown and we were lucky enough to be able to meet up and see each other. The next few months in lockdown, we were able to meet up online for fun interactive LEGO meets and…
After being treated to a great meeting hosted by Richard from Brick Alley earlier in the month, the second meet of the month saw Brick Alley’s Sunday afternoon slot at 1pm taken over and hosted by James (Secretary) and Emily (Social Secretary) of GertLUG. To kick things off we had some quick introductions and a question of “What is your favourite element?”. With 17 attendees from both GertLUG and Brick Alley present there were some…
March 16th, 2020, somewhere in the UK (in-fact, many different places in the UK at the same time). So, something a little bit different happened for our March online member’s meet. Firstly, there were two of them (the write-up for the 2nd will appear shortly). But secondly, and more importantly, the first meet was hosted by Richard (otherwise known as Bricks McGee) from Brick Alley LUG. For anyone who doesn’t already know him, Richard is…
February the 16th saw us enjoy our second meet-up of the year with a delightful 15 member romantic (well, perhaps not) online Zoom chat hosted by our Chair, PK. Before the meet, and with a hint of Valentine flavour, members had been asked to build something flower, vase or plant themed with all entries posted on our Facebook page, voted for and the winner receiving a LEGO prize. Photos of these entries are shown below.…