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Yorkshire Brick Show 2019 - LEGO Fan event! #HUDDERSFIELD - Tickets Available Now!

We’re pleased to announce that tickets are now available for The Yorkshire Brick Show 2019, which will be held on the 4th and 5th of May 2019, at our new venue, the University of Huddersfield.

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Get early entry into the Yorkshire Brick Show at the University of Huddersfield. With this ticket, you can avoid the queues, and gain early entry to the show from 10am on Saturday 4th May.

The ticket allows you access to the show throughout the day.

We’ve halved our ticket prices since last year, which means you get more for less, but be quick, because these early bird tickets are limited, and…

Trader Space for Yorkshire Brick Show 2019 in Huddersfield. There are a total of 20 single pitches.

We have reduced our prices dramatically from last year, on both pitch costs and ticket prices.

There is a maximum of 5 pitches available per trader, which includes a table per pitch. Each pitch is equivalent to 6ft (180cm) frontage. Payment is accepted via Credit or Debit Card, or via PayPal.

Backi…

BlockCon LEGO Fan Convention returns to Hull for its Third Year

The Block Con LEGO Fan Convention will be returning to the Hull in two months time on August Bank Holiday, following another successful year in the City last year.

Returning once again to the City’s fabulous Guildhall on Sunday the 26th August, the event promises to be full of exciting new LEGO models created by some of the UK’s finest LEGO builders.

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VENUE: The Guildhall, Lowgate, HULL, HU1 2AA

BlockCon is returning to Hull for its third year and will feature of LEGO® models from talented Adult and Teenage Fans of LEGO® from around the country. It will be hosted by Stackable Events.

We aim to bring you a…

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VENUE: The Guildhall, Lowgate, HULL, HU1 2AA

BlockCon is returning to Hull for its third year and will feature of LEGO® models from talented Adult and Teenage Fans of LEGO® from around the country. It will be hosted by Stackable Events.

We aim to bring you a…

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***A digital ticket will be available to download and print after checkout – please check your e-mail and spam folder.***

VENUE: The Guildhall, Lowgate, HULL, HU1 2AA

BlockCon is returning to Hull for its third year and will feature of LEGO® models from talented Adult and Teenage Fans of LEGO® from around the country. It will be hosted by Stackable Events.

We aim to bring you a…

Accomodation & Meal

Subsidised Evening Meal for Sunday the 6th May 2018. One subsidised meal per person. As such, only one can be booked per person – if you need to book for a second Exhibitor/Volunteer, please place a separate order under THEIR name.

Meal: £5 per person after subsidy.

Subsidy is intended for Exhibitors and Volunteers Only.

The pub address is: Holmfield Arms, Thornes Park, Denby Dale Rd, Wakefield…

Subsidised, Shared Accommodation for Sunday the 6th May 2018, plus non-returnable deposit for evening meal.

Rooms are Double, with a double Sofa Bed, and are intended to be shared – as such, only one bed can be booked per person – if you need to book for a second Exhibitor/Volunteer, please place a separate order under their name. Breakfast is NOT included.

Room: £15 per person after subsidy Meal:…

You might have caught the brief report on BBC Look North about the event on Sunday night, which gave a taste of just how popular our events are. We’re now in full swing planning for the Yorkshire Brick Show, which is celebrating its 5th Anniversary this year,but we’ve just got time to wrap up the winners from Sheffield.

Build Trophies

As regulars will know, we like to have a little friendly competition between our builders, and as such, we have 3 trophies available for our builders to win. You guys help us with one of the trophies, and I’m sure you’re itching to find out who the winners were.

Winner – Public Vote: The Great Ball Contraption, by Macieira Alicio – Voted for by the General Public.

Winner – AFOL Award: Back to the Eighties, by Terry Fisher – Voted for by the builder’s in attendance.

Winner – Critic’s Choice: Ancient Egypt, by Greg McCarthy – Voted for by our independent critic.

  Great Ball Contraption

Back to the Eighties

Ancient Egypt

We want to say a big thank you to everyone that voted in the Public Vote category. As always, we enter you into a prize draw to win LEGO goodies, and our randomly selected winner is Flynn Micklethwaite, aged 7. We’ll be in touch shortly!

If you’d like to see more fantastic LEGO models, be sure to visit us at the Yorkshire Brick Show on the 6th and 7th May 2018. Tickets are available now!

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Yorkshire Brick Show 2018 – 5th Anniversary

We’re pleased to announce that tickets are now available for The Yorkshire Brick Show 2018, which will be held on the 6th and 7th of May 2018, at our new venue of Thornes Park Athletics Stadium in Wakefield.

What’s On?

As it’s our 5th Anniversary we want to make this one something special, a LEGO fan extravaganza not to be missed. We’ll have the usual amazing mix of LEGO models from our masters…

Sheffield “Micropolis” Public Build Competition

For the first time ever, we’re holding a public build competition, and you can bring YOUR OWN CREATIONS along to the show to display alongside our master builders’ models. What’s more, we’ll be picking our TOP 3 favourite models to win a fab LEGO set each.

The challenge is simple. We want you to help us expand our micro-scale city with one of your own 16×16 stud Micropolis Modules. Starting with…

Tickets Available for BlockCon Sheffield 2018

BlockCon is returning to Sheffield for a second year and will feature LEGO® models from talented Adult and Teenage Fans of LEGO® from around the country. It will be hosted by Stackable Events and the Sheffield LEGO User Group on the 25th February 2018 at Ecclesfield Sports Centre in North Sheffield.

We aim to bring you a great LEGO® shopping experience, with handpicked, leading independent…

With representatives from at least 6 of the country’s top LEGO® User Groups, the event was well supported with over 35 AFOLs in attendance, and what a variety of displays we had from them. If you missed it, don’t worry, we have loads of pictures from the show in our Flickr Gallery, which you can find at flickr.com

As always, during the show, we run a bit of friendly competition for our AFOLs, and pit them against one another for a chance to win one of our highly coveted event trophies from one of the following categories: Critics’ Choice, which is carefully selected by an independent critic from within the LEGO® Fan community; AFOL Award, which is voted on by all of the AFOLs in attendance at the show; and the Public Vote, which is voted on by you, the public.

This year’s winners were:

Critics Choice – Wacky Racers vehicles, by Martin Redfearn. AFOL Award – Viking Display, by Chris McKnight and the BrickBox Hull team.

and finally

Public Vote – ‘The Olympics’ display, by Neil Burgess

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Wacky Racers

Viking Display

Olympic Display

Thank you all for your votes. We entered each and every one of the voting slips we received into a prize draw, in which we selected 1 person at random to win a mystery box of goodies, courtesy of Stackable Toys. We can now announce that the winner is Six-year-old Corey Cummins, who voted for the Ninjago Temple to win, so congratulations to you, and we will be in contact soon.

So that’s it for another year, but we hope we’ll see you again next year, and in the meantime, enjoy the pictures!

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Summer Fun with our LEGO® Builders’ Club

Finish your Summer holidays off with a bit of fun at our LEGO® Builders’ Club from August 29th until September 2nd 2017.

Bring the kids to one of our sessions from 10am or 2pm each day and let them loose with thousands of LEGO® bricks. In each workshop, we’ll be challenging your child’s creativity with build challenges, or they can spend the time doing their own thing in our Brick Pit.

The…