Events – Page 5 – Cactus Brick

December 4, 2014December 4, 2014

Arizona Toy Train Show display (Dec 6th)

We will have a Lego display at the Arizona Toy Train Show on Dec 6th. It’s in Glendale near the Cardinals Stadium at the Renaissance Hotel.

Arizona Toy Train Show - Dec 2014 — Arizona Toy Train Show – Dec 2014

November 1, 2014December 19, 2014

Tempe Marketplace Display – Nov 2014

We had a large city/train display at Tempe Marketplace across from the GAP. We were there from Oct 31 to Nov 30. Here’s some pictures of that display:

Tempe Marketplace (Nov 2014) – Winter Village

Tempe Marketplace (Nov 2014) – Joe’s bridge with Geoff’s train on it

Tempe Marketplace (Nov 2014) – Warner’s Brother’s Watertower

Tempe Marketplace (Nov 2014) – Tom’s Cars Drivein

Tempe Marketplace (Nov 2014) – An overview pictures of Adobe, Forest, City

Tempe Marketplace (Nov 2014) – Display Shelves

Tempe Marketplace (Nov 2014) – One of Joe’s Bridges

Tempe Marketplace (Nov 2014) – Dragons, snowman and some balls

Tempe Marketplace (Nov 2014) – Misc MOCs on shelves around the display

Tempe Marketplace (Nov 2014) – Clark’s three little pigs with various city buildings around it

Tempe Marketplace (Nov 2014) – Lego City

Tempe Marketplace (Nov 2014) – Joe’s Castle Gate and Book of Faces

Tempe Marketplace (Nov 2014) – Fully switchable trainyard

Tempe Marketplace (Nov 2014) – Forest with Sea Monster

Tempe Marketplace (Nov 2014) – Arduino control system used for train control

Tempe Marketplace (Nov 2014) – Nate and Joe’s Adobe Village

October 13, 2014December 19, 2014

Display at Railfair 2014 (McCormick-Stillman Train Park)

We had a smaller city/train layout at Railfair 2014 (Oct 11,12). It was our first deployment (and test) for the new train control system. Here’s are some pictures from there:

Train Control System (Arduino and Android App)

June 3, 2014June 14, 2014

Phoenix Comicon 2014

We were at Phoenix Comicon 2014 this year in the exhibitor hall (next to the Star Wars guys). This was our largest display ever.

Phx Comicon 2014 – Overall view from Northwest

Phx Comicon 2014 – Overall view from east

May 19, 2014May 19, 2014

McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park Display

We have a 4 ft by 8 ft area in the model train building at the McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park (7301 E Indian Bend Rd, Scottsdale, AZ) thanks to the great guys at the Paradise & Pacific Railroad club. We just changed out the display. This display will be there until late September. The first few pictures show us putting in the new display.

Joe placing some trees in the far corner of the display

We’re placing the final support board into the display area.

Overview of the Cactus Brick Display showing Nate’s buildings and our standard roads and ballasted track.

View of the back area of the display, showing the car that missed the turn and ended up in the wall.

View of Stephanie’s lake, our standard ballasted track and roads as well as some of Nate’s buildings

McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park (May 2014) – View of Stephanie’s lake and our ballasted track, road, a train crossing and a few vehicles.

March 16, 2014March 16, 2014

Tempe History Museum – March 15, 2014

Cactus Brick had a display at Tempe History Museum. The display included a city/train layout, several historic buildings and a few misc Lego items.

Overview of city/train layout (city side)

Tempe History Museum (Mar 2014) – Overview of city/train layout.

Tempe History Museum (Mar 2014) – Clark’s old west town, Nate and Joe’s adobe village with Clark’s Natural Bridge and Randy’s Warner Bros Watertower

Front of the city, with buildings by Clark, Corey and Stephanie. Vehicles by Tom.

Tempe History Museum (Mar 2014) – Side of the city with buildings by Corey, Stephanie and Tom. Vehicles by Tom. Light rail and road by Corey and Nate.

Tempe History Museum (Mar 2014) – Side of the city with buildings by Tom. Vehicles by Tom.

Tempe History Museum (Mar 2014) – Side view of the city with buildings by Corey, Stephanie and Tom. Vehicles by Tom. Mr. Roger’s Trolley by Nate. EV3 mindstorms config and software by Corey.

Double loop for inner track (for 3 trains to run around the track at once). Buildings by Corey and Stephanie. Trains by Nate (and TLG). Vehicles by Tom.

Ocean dock and boats by Tom. Buildings by Stephanie and Corey. Trains by Nate.

Nate and Joe’s old adobe village and Clark’s natural bridge.

Corey and Stephanie’s Scottsdale 2 room schoolhouse and ASU’s old main with Michael’s lamps and Steve L’s Captain America.

The play brick area for the kids (with duplo table)

February 16, 2014February 19, 2014

March 15th, 2014 Meeting

We will be holding our March 15th meeting during our show at the Tempe History Museum. The show setup starts at 10AM, public viewing starts at Noon and breakdown starts at 8PM. Everyone is welcome anytime during those hours.

Tempe History Museum is at Southern and Rural (behind the Tempe Library).

CactusBrick show at Tempe History Museum on March 15, 2014

February 3, 2014February 11, 2014

Tempe Marketplace Display — Feb 6 to Feb 9, 2014

Cactus Brick had a display at Tempe Marketplace on Feb 6 to Feb 9, 2014. The display was our largest city/train layout we have ever done. This event was to help promote THE LEGO MOVIE which opened on Feb 7th. We had Emmet and Wyldstyle from Legoland on Thursday and Friday.

Tempe Marketplace (Feb 2014) – Overall view of citry/train layout

Tempe Marketplace (Feb 2014) – Overall view of city/train layout

Tempe Marketplace (Feb 2014) – Emmet and Wyldstyle at the CactusBrick display

Clark’s Tovrea castle, Randy’s Warner Brothers Watertower, Steve N’s Hayen Mill and Joe’s THE LEGO MOVIE sign

City scene with buildings by Steve N, Corey, Chris P, Tom, Lawrence, and Clark

Tempe Marketplace (Feb 2014) – City scene with buildings by Steve N, Corey, Chris P, Tom, Lawrence, and Clark

City scene with buildings by Steve N, Corey, Chris P, Tom, Lawrence, Clark and Josh

Tempe Marketplace (Feb 2014) – Tom’s cars

Tempe Marketplace (Feb 2014) – Steve N’s pool with several buildings by Tom and one building by Stephanie

Tempe Marketplace (Feb 2014) – Tom and Londa’s ocean scene

Tempe Marketplace (Feb 2014) – Joe’s Valley, bridge and waterfall

Tempe Marketplace (Feb 2014) – Joe’s Valley, bridge and hillside

Tempe Marketplace (Feb 2014) – Nate and Joe’s high plains with a cabin, steam, and path

Nate’s camp grounds, Joe’s mountain with miners and Clark’s Hall of Doom

Tempe Marketplace (Feb 2014) – Nate and Joe’s Adobe Village

Corey’s Riverview Manor with Stephanie’s lake and a simple farm scene and a special thanks to all of the corn makers

Larry’s Winter Village with Joe’s Ski Lift and Steve N’s Victorian house

Tempe Marketplace (Feb 2014) – Emmet and a few friends dancing to a favorite tune.

Micro City built by Josh, Corey, Stephanie and Steve N

Corey and Stephanie’s ASU old main and Scottsdale Schoolhouse with THE LEGO MOVIE posters

Tempe Marketplace (Feb 2014) – Tom’s Cuckoo Clock

Joe’s Q-bert, Clark’s sleeping ape, and some dudes with a hyperdrive

January 12, 2014January 12, 2014

Tucson Toy Train Meet & Show – Jan 10-11, 2014

We had a city/train layout at the Tucson Toy Train Meet & Show on Jan 10 and 11, 2014. We had 9 club members helping out on the display. We also had a small play area for the kids.

Old West Village (created by Nate and Joe)

Front Street (buildings created by Corey And Stephanie and trucks created by Randy)

Main Street (buildings created by Corey and Stephanie and Trucks by Randy)

Main Street (buildings created by Corey and Stephanie and trucks created by Randy)

The railyard (custom train cars created by Nate)

Overall view of the room we were in. The play area (not shown) is to the left of the picture.

Overall view of the main room that the Train show was in. CactusBrick was in a room to the right of this picture.

December 28, 2013

Tucson Toy Train Meet & Show

Cactus Brick will have a Lego train layout at the Tucson Toy Train Meet & Show in Tucson, AZ on Jan 10th-11th, 2013. The hours are on Friday: 2PM – 7PM and on Saturday 9AM – 2PM.

Dates	Event	Display Size
Feb 22-23, 2025	Brick Fest Live (Mesa)	Large
Jun 5-8, 2025	Phoenix Fan Fusion	Extra-Large
Aug 29-31, 2025	Tucson Comic*con	Medium