My Lego Adventures | Peter Folk

For those who know me well, they know I’m a big kid at heart. I own a lot of movies and quite a few of them are kids movies (I still enjoy watching the old Disney classics). Well what some may or may not know is I’m a huge fan of Lego, and I know I’m not the only one!

Back in January of this year, I was lucky enough that my girlfriend did her research and found out about the Brickvention expo. I believe it was the first time that they ran this expo in Australia and it was must attend for any big Lego fans like myself, and judging by the size of the crowd, I’m definitely not unique in my love for Lego. I was seriously like a big kid in a candy shop.

They had many different and awesomely built displays, there was even a huge Lego replica of the Golden Gate bridge, which I had only just seen the real thing for the first time a few months before hand. It was out of this world, if only I had a big enough room in my house to dedicate it to building Lego. My girlfriend can also be a big kid, so she jumped at the chance of having a photo with the Lego Tigger!

They had random Lego displays to show off what people could make themselves, to displays of various landmarks around the world, like the Sydney Opera House and Big Ben in London. And of course they had displays for Lord of the Rings and Star Wars. The best displays for me were the ones that involved the big boats, the trains and planes, especially when they were zooming around their Lego world.

Now of course when you go to one of these events you need to buy yourself a little souvenir. Unfortunately the R2D2 Lego pack was a bit pricey, so I settled for the train. As a kid I loved playing with my train set, so this one was a no brainer. I’m still in the process of building it, but I’ll get there one day and will hopefully get the tracks and room to play with it too.

I may be a big kid, but I’m happy to admit it!