Cherrybomb 10th Toy & Hobby Show

VicLUG is going to be at the CBT show, natch. Here’s the deets, hope to see you there!

Victoria’s 10th Ultimate Hobby & Toy Fair
October 14th, 2012
Pearkes Arena
3100 Tillicum Road (By Tillicum Mall and Silver City)

Vancouver Islands premier toy & hobby show! Vendors with items for sale including action figures, vintage toys, models, trains, comics, Barbie, dolls, bears, LEGO, video games, Star Wars, GI Joe, Transformers, diecast cars, Hot Wheels, vinyl records and more! You never know what you might find with 200 tables of fun!

General Admission – 9AM to 3PM

Adults $5 and kids are FREE!

Early Bird entry for the serious collector at 8am for $15.
Store Promo at Cherry Bomb Toys – Early Bird Tickets $7
Free door prize entry with admission. You could win stuff!
Loads of door prizes donated by local businesses!

Special Guests! Jim Henshaw, Ken Steacy, Glen Mullaly, Gareth Gaudin, Tanya Zbitnew

Silent auction for the MS Society.

Special Spooky Charity Carnival with all proceeds going to BC Children’s Hospital.

Costume Contest! Dress up and get an extra door prize entry!

Please visit our website for further show information and feel free to contact us if you need any further details.

http://www.ultimatetoyfair.com

Post Tillicum Mania event

Over the weekend, Robin Sather from Brickville in Vancouver came over to do the Tillicum Lego Mania event, now in it’s third year. Our local Lego club, VicLUG, was there to help Robin wherever needed.

This year we made the Bay Street Armoury, a military compound built in 1915 and still in active use. It’s quite close to downtown Victoria and is a well recognized landmark. Using photo reference and Google satellite/streetmap info, Robin was able to figure out the dimensions of the structure and build it over the course of the weekend. It has about 26,000 pieces and is almost 50/50 Duplo vs Lego.

The club had a display table of mocs and a street scene with a Where’s Waldo fig find. There was a very successful kids contest with a silly amount of wonderful entries and registration for it was filled within 4 days. We had a kid build area that was divided between baby/toddler and older kids as well.

If we talked at this event please followup the conversation by writing the club: lego@viclug.ca

Our next event is coming up soon, the Cherrybomb Toy and Hobby show on April 1st at Pearkes Arena!

http://www.tillicumkids.com/

http://www.brickville.ca

Article on the Times Colonist:

http://www.timescolonist.com/Photos+Lego+Mania+Challenge+Victoria/6285112/story.html

Article on Saanich News:

http://www.saanichnews.com/community/142538065.html

Great article on scrimporsplurge.ca that is very knowledgeable about everyone involved:

http://scrimporsplurge.ca/2011/03/lego-exhibits-in-victoria-and-sidney-unleash-the-imagination-in-adults-and-children-alike/

*edit: Ted noticed that this article is from last year’s Tillicum event, but all the facts hold true except for the dates interestingly enough

John Langrish’s photoset on flickr of the event:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/j1a3l5/sets/72157629573544919/

Photos Joseph took of the event:

View post on imgur.com

Tillicum is Go!

The event is going great and the turnout is amazing. I’m making this post because I talked to *so many* people today and hopefully got our contact info to everyone. If you find this post and wondering… ok what now?

Our next event is April 1st at Cherrybomb Toy & Hobby Show at Pearkes, just trip outside the parking lot of Tillicum and there you are.

If you are interested in joining the forums please email me: joseph@viclug.ca and we’ll get things rolling.

Met a lot of great builders today and don’t want lose track of you people! Tomorrow is a big day, really looking forward to it!