out there this weekend,
you're going to have the chance
to check out the Lego creations
of artists from all around the .
The Louisville Brick Conventiona
great time for the family to eny
construction zone, watch live builds,
check out all the impressive creations.
We have a couple here today.
Joining me now is cofounder Gran
J to kind of take us through.
I'm sure you just you probably have fans
that are obsessed with the Legod
you brought some great pieces as well,
but kind of give us an overview.
Of of what you guys are going to be doing.
So Louisville Brick Convention s
a brand new Lego convention for
the whole region because we have
people drive a couple hours to ,
I bet there's Lego fans of all ,
you know, young and old.
There's something there for everyone.
There's Star Wars, there's cast,
there's planes, trains,
anything, everything Lego.
It's going to be there this wee.
How is this convention and why did you want
to make it maybe different from others?
Yeah. So it's definitely,
I would say we're a big Star Wa.
There's a huge like half the conventions.
Lego Star Wars, yeah.
There's so many Lego Star Wars
fans and we have different mode,
scenes from the movies.
We have artwork that's been
featured in magazines and books,
real like famous pieces themsels
that are going to be on site
that are actually going to
be. They were looking at one
of the pieces right now.
I had to walk up and touch
this to see if it was actually
a Lego from a distance it.
Truly, truly looks like a paintg
and it's filled with thousands f
pieces and everyone wants to touch it.
And we said and don't touch the artwork,
but we do have brick pits wheres
and kids of all kids of all ages can go
in and just build whatever they want.
But yeah, so this is built with thousands
of pieces by an artist from Ohi,
EJ Bulk and the 3rd.
And it's just we have mosaic.
So these are mosaics.
We have mosaics, we have life-size pieces,
pieces as tall as you and me.
Anything
and everything.
The Taylor Swift 1 is pretty incredible.
I just showed a picture of that there.
This is taking everybody
inside just to kind of see.
I love that. It's also,
like you said, it's hands on.
It's hands on. Yeah.
So we have brick pits with thousands,
thousands of Lego bricks that
you can go and just build.
We also have meet and greets
with Lego celebrities.
These are people at the
top of the Lego community.
There's Lego celebrity.
You're blowing my mind right no.
This is a whole new world.
Yes, there's Instagram,
famous for Lego,
and you're able to come to the
show and meet them yourselves.
So it's really nice opportunityo
actually meet these master buil,
insight on persons.
Are there things that even
you see having gone to other
conventions that you see here,
you're just thinking,
I can't even imagine the time
like this blows my mind.
Some of these pieces just look e
they've taken hours and hours ad
hours and weeks and weeks to dod
what we have the convention.
I think some of the best Subs ever been made.
And I'm saying as someone who's
been the community forever, lik,
yeah, it's incredible what we h.
Tell us about the Taylor
Swift piece. So Taylor Swift
is also by EJ on Boken.
So he specialized in mosaics.
And he built this maybe a year .
And this is also thousands of
different pieces, each little.
There's each one little stud.
The nuances and the shades and
colors are just incredible.
Indeed. Indeed. Yeah.
And everyone you know tells us
on tour right now. So everyone.
Yeah, a big fan right now.
Absolutely. Well, what else can people
do while they're there? So we also have,
you mentioned all ages, all age.
And there's also vendors
selling anything, everything.
Like there's multiple vendors.
So parents window, can I buy,
can I buy things right away? And then
we have like thousands of mini figures laid
out and people collect like a mini figures.
So if you want like a Star Warsi
figure from the 1990s or anything like
there's summer vendors selling anything,
retired Lego sets, new Lego set,
Lego apparel and accessories.
You can get the convention, Absolutely.
All right. Is there cost to get?
Anything that we need to know at
how long it's going on in price.
So we're there Saturday and Sun,
just two time sessions each day,
10:00 AM to 1:00 PM.
OK, 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM.
Tickets are 15 online.
18th the door.
They hadn't stood out beforehan.
We always recommend buying
Doesn't say this sounds like a
definite by head and get your s.
And also you're also supporting
creations for charity. Yeah,
so we're having a lot of fun with Lego,
but we're doing a bit of good,
so we're supporting Christmas for charity.
It's all volunteer organizationt
gives new Lego sets to hospitalized and
underprivileged kids during the holidays.
It's all over the world,
like it's in Brazil, Europe,
right here in America.
So we're really happy to
be supporting them as well.
We are so happy you stopped by d
brought these beautiful creatio.
Thanks for everything that you're doing.
It's going to be a really,
really great time this weekend
to check out everything.
The full list of events where to get those
tickets and you're highly encoud
to get your tickets ahead of ti.
Go to Brick Convention,
Comm back slash Louisville.