It took us fifty minutes to make our way along the queue and into the room they'd setup (which was a bigger room than last time). There was a lot more Lego there this year, looks like a lot of SydLUG people had brought Lego down as well.
They didn't have the Hogwarts Castle this time, but there was a super awesome Space Lego setup (probably my favourite thing of the day) and an amazing western scene.
Last year when I went my camera was exactly one day old. This year it was exactly one year old. !! To the day! Since changing the focus mode in Japan last year I've been a lot happier with the results out of the camera, and generally this year's photos were better than last year's.
There were lots and lots of town/city scenes and lots of trains..
Bridges..
Towers..
A casino..
Cool things from movies..
A delorean and train from Back to the Future
Wall-E and Eve
Lots of Star Wars stuff
The Blacktron vs Classic Space diorama
The Western diorama
Some other miscellaneous models..
A big minifig
Snoopy!
A cool mountain scene
Parliament House
A Tardis
A wind turbine (this is actually a set - I saw two of these)
80s Video Games characters
But some of the most fun was in the detail people put into the dioramas. You really need to look closely to see everything that's going on. So much fun!
Fishing a skeleton out of the water
This was in the casino. Hagrid, Harry and Ginny using slot machines?? With Dobby watching??
Geisha and sailors inside a very large building, that had stuff going on on all the floors
This Buzz was flying around the top of the tower - you couldn't really even see him from ground level
A kitten needing rescuing from a tree
People having a spa
Chickens in the western scene
R2-D2 serving drinks on the sail barge
Hagrid and Dumbledore on platform 9 3/4
A bicyclist hit by a car
A barbeque
By 3:30 the room was starting to thin out, and by 4pm there was wide open spaces. So glad we decided to stick around, as it made for much less stressful viewing of Lego with no crowds and kids sticking their heads in the way of photos.
Debating whether I should join CLUG (and display any of my Lego at one of these things - but I don't think I could do that - I'd be far too stressed about kids touching my Lego and breaking things and losing pieces... hrmmm.. maybe if I could display stuff behind plexiglass?? :) )
kapgar
I want that TARDIS!!
Kazza the Blank One
It's pretty cool hey? :)