We’d been to a National Brick Events Lego show in the University Sports Hall last year, but this was a different Lego event from a different organiser, so we thought we’d give it a look.
Cost of Entry
Tickets for the Wrexham Brick Festival started from £5. Children at £5, Adults £7, and a family pass for £18 for 2 adults and 2 children. For those eager to grab a bargain, you could get the 10am early entry ticket for £13, which would also give you a free Lego gift. The gift was probably going to be a polybag that no one wanted so we got the family pass for £18. Entry slots were 10am for early entry, 11am and 12pm onwards. We headed in for 11am.
What’s inside?
It was a similar event to the National Brick events show. Nothing like Bricktastic back in February, this again was pretty much a sales floor with a few activities for the kids and a couple of exhibition areas of cool builds.
Lego Mocs and Builds
This was a much better collection of builds to see than the NBE event. A giant multicoloured mosaic of Chewbacca, Lego Space themed versions of Star Wars ships, and other Star Wars dioramas, a stall displaying and selling Lego sci-fi weapons (like Lightsabers, sonic screwdrivers, lasers, guns, Lord of the Rings swords, and Gandalf’s pipe, proton packs from Ghostbusters and more…), castles, Dr Who mosaics, army builds, some great Batman builds and artworks, more Ghostbusters mocs, the Xenomorph from Alien, The Iron Giant, an awesome Robocop build and much more. Loads to see, and some really clever and fun builds.
The Brick Consultant was also here displaying some of his builds. If you’ve ever seen the Lego Ideas Typewriter set, that was based on his winning Lego Ideas submission. Here he was showing his original submission along with the set it eventually became. He was also displaying his latest submission, the Inventor Kit – a set of small wind- up builds of different inventions through time.
Stalls
You’ve got to come to these events with a shopping list and a wallet full of money to make the most of them. They’re just a massive Lego market selling new sets, retired sets, bricks and pieces, rare minifigures, Lego related artworks and items. The kids had a list of things they wanted to we had to hunt for those: They both wanted a ‘Creature from the Black Lagoon’ minifig. And we found them!
Otherwise, you can spend thousands of pounds here if you wish. Some of those rare sets that retired 10, 20 years ago may be here and if you want them, be prepared to pay an extortionate price. You will see the odd bargain on some recent sets too, so worth looking around, but don’t snooze on them as they go pretty quick.
Lego Activities
They did have a few activity spots around the room that you could partake in. There were some remote control Lego vehicles to drive, some consoles with Lego games on and there’s always a little build area you can make something random in.
Summary
It wasn’t a bad morning out for the price and they had a lot of decent things to see if you weren’t just going to buy Lego at the stalls. The kids loved seeing some of the fun mocs and were always hunting for some fun Minifigs and sets. I was good and didn’t buy anything!
Brick Festival Wrexham felt a lot more of an exhibition than the previous NBE show, with a lot more things to see, but possibly less activities. NBE are back in Wrexham again soon, so we’ll have to see if they’ve improved.
Brick Festival put on Lego events across the country. To find out if or when they’re near you, visit the Brick Festival website.
