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…
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…
While our 2022 Collaborative Build – Pirate Cove is still ongoing, parts of which have been displayed at a few events during the first half of the year, we have already been planning the 2023 GertLUG Collaborative Build! The Pirate Cove Collaborative Build page of the GertLUG website contains some photos of the display during Bristol Comic Con And Gaming Festival in March and at the Brick Express event held at the Avon Valley Railway…
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…
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…
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…
On Saturday, 30th April, GertLUG was able to support members Paul Clark and Ian Kimpton putting on the Black Country Brick Show. It was a fantasitc day of LEGO fun with many GertLUG members making the trip up north to join in the fun on the day. They joined many other AFOLs (Adult Fans of LEGO) from multiple other LUGs to raise money for the Birmingham Children’s Hospital Charity. The buzz in the school halls…
The Brick and Craft Show, Sunday 4th April 2022 Held at Mangotsfield Secondary School in Bristol this local event was all for a good cause and went down very well with the public who were thrilled with the displays GertLUG put on alongside all of the other things to do. So let’s take a look back to early April with a bit more detail from Dawn, one of the organisers: Dawn and Luke, who organised…