Four of our club members (and 2 spouses) went to a Lego convention in Santa Clara, California called Bricks by the Bay. There were about 300 AFOLs (Adults Fan of Lego) attending and a little more than 3000 visitors on the public days. We put together a 12.5′ x 25′ large City and Train layout. We won the Best Large Team Large Display award and a Pop Culture award for “Looking to Pop Back” for Jennifer’s Muppet theater. Here are some pictures of that display:
Cactus Brick will have a 5′ x 10′ train layout at Arizona Railway Museum for their Fall Rail Festival on Nov. 12, 2022 (9AM – 4PM).
Tucson Comic-Con was a smaller display for us, but we put as much as we could in the space we had. Our main parts of the display was Castle and then on the side some Star Wars, DC and even the Expanse with Rocinante. This was on display from Sept. 2nd to 4th, 2022.
We participated in the Lego Group’s 90th year anniversary celebration. Here’s the result of our club members builds (Special thanks goes to JC for the idea). This is using only 2×4 Brick.
Phoenix Fan Fusion 2022 display was a large display. It included city, Jurassic area, castle and a miscellaneous area.
Here’s some pictures showing our display:
Here’s a video of us setting up the display (at 1000x speed up):
Cactus Brick was at Southwest Makerfest in March 2022. We had a community build Mosaic, Arduino based train controller on display, a Lego based spirograph and a couple remote controlled Lego cars.
We had a small display at the Tempe Library for FanCon on Jan 29, 2022. This is a small outdoor display.
Here’s a few pictures of our display:
At our January Meeting, we had a pirate contest. We had 4 entries into the contest. Here are the top 3 winners of the contest:
We had a small train display at the Tucson Toy Train Show on Nov 13, 2021. We showed our Tatooine display again, although we had to shrink it a bit due to the smaller area we had and we had one of our club members bring some very detailed trains.
Cactus Brick had a small display at Railfair this year. This was at McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park on Saturday, Oct 2nd and Sunday, Oct 3rd. This was a free event and we had tons of visitors come by to view our display. Here’s some images of what we had:
