Last Sunday afternoon I went along with Nat and Andrew to this year's Lego Brick Expo at the Hellenic Club.
Verdict: the Lego was awesome, the venue was a disaster.
They've learnt from previous years, and now you line up outside the venue where they have staff come along and check tickets. Then when your allocated time slot comes up you can all just go straight in. So it was much more efficient getting in. The problem was that inside things were spread out all over the place in different rooms and in corridors, so people were squeezing in to see the Lego while other people were squeezing past, and it was a rabbit warren of rooms so I was worried about missing a room just because I hadn't seen the entrance to it.
Not to mention the crowds and crowds of people. They sold 12000 tickets for the two days. !! So it was jam packed with little kids that seem to know exactly when you are about to take a photo and stick their heads or hands in the photo. It was amazingly frustrating. We did get the last session of the day, so at least at about 5:20pm things were thinning out enough to go back and redo some photos with less crowds.
They really need to get a big room at Epic and be done with it. I think if they do it at the Hellenic Club again next year I might not even go.
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