With our newly acquired interest in Lego it seemed like a good idea to visit a 'Brick Fest' event in the not too distant town of Nottingham. After a bit of a struggle to find the entrance we stumbled across it and trundled around the wholly inadequate carp ark looking for a space. We eventually found one, though it was a bloody tight squeeze and we only got the space because the person who was trying to get into it in front of us gave up.
We went in and the main hall was basically a glorified market, with boxes and boxes of Lego everywhere... about 50% of it Star Wars themed. No joke, one stall had at least 4 different Millenium Falcon sets.
While it was interesting to look around, we really wanted to see the displays and for that we had to go and find the other rooms dotted around the school yard. Some of them were good, but I think I had unrealistic expectations of what would be there. I kinda thought there would be some large scale stuff the like of which you might see at an official Lego park or on Lego Masters, but clearly what was on show was built by private individuals and when you consider the cost of the bricks probably even these quite small builds cost hundreds if not thousands of pounds to make.
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