Category: GBC Events

  • BrickFair Virginia 2019

    BrickFair Virginia 2019

    Arriving early Wednesday evening to BrickFair VA 2019 I was surprised to see that almost all of the GBC area had already been filled, however, after a bit of cajoling I was able to secure one and a half tables to set up my modules on.

    This year I displayed my newer modules Lego GBC Stargate and Tower Crane, as well as my Lego GBC Mini Golf course, after these modules I had a small area dedicated to modules with Lego GBC Instructions.

    We ran the whole loop for World of Lights on Friday evening this year by using UV Led Strips and PV glow in the dark balls.

    All in I had loads of fun and picked up a “Best GBC Module” award for my Lego GBC Stargate.

    (FYI that’s Tom Atkinson’s Ferris Wheel in my area underneath my Tower Crane).

    GBC Workshop

    This year I was the designer of the GBC Workshop module kit “Compact Cardan Lift”, these kits were produced in 4 colors (Red, Yellow, Green and Blue) and will be used in the BrickFair NJ 2019 (Builder), BrickFair AL 2020 (Builder), and BrickFair NC 2020 (Builder) conventions to allow attendies to build there own GBC module.

    Just over a 100 kits were assembled in two workshops and 30 or so of these participated in the GBC loop.

    You can get Lego GBC Compact Cardan Lift Instructions in my store, however, I would recommend picking up one of the kits at the upcoming shows if you have the opportunity.

    Videos

    This year I had some big shoes to fill by being the Narrator in the Beyond the Brick video, a roll that has been filled by Tom Atkinson for many years.

    Adams Brick Junction’s video of the GBC loop for World of Lights.

  • Bricks By The Bay 2019

    Bricks By The Bay 2019

    Bricks By The Bay is a premier Lego fan event in Santa Clara, California (USA), that I got the chance to attend this year and participate in the GBC layout.

    For this event, I had my 9 Lego GBC Mini Golf modules, Cardan Lift, and a V2 testing version of Lego GBC Hoecken module along with 9 other builders with a total of 46 modules.

    The layout started on a custom drain system over 6 tables, however, this was quite a compressed layout and I encouraged them to expand the layout onto an addtional two tables for the Sunday run. This made the loop easier for the public to see at the expense of more work cleaning up balls.

    The GBC layout also won peoples choice (voted by the public) and I picked up “Greatest GBC” for my Mini Golf modules.

    Videos and Media

    My Mini Golf modules ended up featuring in a few different places including a piece in the Mercury News.

    https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/07/13/photos-lego-aficionados-gather-for-annual-convention-in-santa-clara/

    I also had the express pleasure of chatting with Norman Chan from Adam Savage’s Tested about Great Ball Contraption.

    https://www.tested.com/art/lego/882126-lego-great-ball-contraption-mini-golf-modules/

    And Boon and John from Beyond the Brick filmed the whole layout (I’ll link the video when it’s released).

    Lego GBC Counter rolling over to 20,000 at Bricks By The Bay 2019

  • Brickworld Chicago 2019

    Brickworld Chicago 2019

    Attending Brickworld Chicago 2019 this year I joined the record-breaking GBC loop that was there.

    The layout contained over 390 modules with a linear length of over 320ft / 120 meters and it took a ball over an hour to travel around the whole loop.

    I had 2 tables of continuous modules which started with a group of modules with Instructions.
    This led into my Lego GBC Mini Golf then into my Tower Crane (bridge) module.
    After spanning the gap I had GBC Chain Reactions, Lego GBC Lapras, and Rover before my new Stargate module.

    I also had a range of other modules scattered about the loop for a total of 48 modules (roughly 12% of modules on the table).

    This year was particularly busy and some of my older modules like Lego GBC Scrolling Display, Lego GBC EV3 Truck, and Lego GBC Super Tower Battle stayed in there boxes under the table.

    This year we also ran the entire perimeter loop for the first hour of World-of-Lights.

    As GBC Night Coordinator this involved several hours set up to ensure we had UV charging stations spaced around the layout and that all modules were pre-loaded with the UV balls for the run.

    We also moved Toms Ferris wheel from the inner loop to the outside to include it in the night show.

    Video of my section

    Video of the entire loop by Beyond the Brick

  • BrickCan 2019

    BrickCan 2019

    BrickCan is a premier Lego fan event in Vancouver Canada, that I got the chance to attend this year and participate in the GBC layout.

    For this event, I got to participate in GBC Loop with my 9 Lego GBC Mini Golf modules and my Lego GBC Hoecken module along with 6 other builders with a total of 56 modules.

    Due to venue constraints, the event ran in 2-hour blocks with us putting on 3 shows a day over 2 days.

    There was a bunch of neat giveaways at the event including a limited edition Bobba Fet minifigure, loose brick, and merchandise from Brewski Boyz.

    I was lucky enough to win “Best GBC module” as well a beer bottle memento for my Lego GBC Mini Golf module.

    Video

    Video of the GBC Layout, shot by Great Ball Pit.

  • Syosset Library – Sycon Presents: Bricks Rock 2019

    Syosset Library – Sycon Presents: Bricks Rock 2019

    Syosset Library – Sycon Presents: Bricks Rock 2019 was a 2-day Lego fan event put on by Syosset Public Library and ILUGNY.

    My role as GBC Coordinator was running a 40ft display of GBC modules, that had a mix of my own GBC modules and LUG built modules.

    The LUG also had a massive train layout, lots of great MOCS, and ran speed building competitions throughout the weekend, you can read more about that here ilugny.org/2019/05/02/sy-con-presents-bricks-rock-2019-recap/.

    The Table Layout was a “Square” shape consisting of eight 60×30″ tables and one 30×30″ table, with my Tower Crane acting as a bridge to complete the loop.

    The layout used 20 Train controllers, 24 Lego GBC Fence sections as well as most of my other Lego GBC Equipment.

    We also ran a “Kids GBC” area with a table lowered to just 12″ off the ground, so that younger children could see the modules better.

    All the modules in the “Kids” area were required to have Instructions available and many other modules had them as well.

    Video

    Video of the GBC Layout.