Last week was the second edition of my personal “home” event, Brick Féile. The name is Gaelic for Brick Festival, and the event is organised by brick.ie, the Irish Association for Adult fans of LEGO. It was first held three years ago to mark the 10th anniversary of the club. Like the first edition, it's again supporting Fairy Bricks, the UK charity that gives LEGO to children’s hospitals.

Brick Féile is not a convention so there were no presentations or workshops. Being on an island on the edge of Europe also means it's not easy to bring large MOCs from abroad.

So if it's not a convention and you have no large international MOCs, what was there to see and do? Let me show you around.

Let’s start off with a MOC that is very familiar to our members. It’s our home away from home, the pub where the club currently meets once a month (this is Ireland remember, of course we meet in a pub!) as recreated in bricks by Wes Gill.

The pub where we used to meet, called Jack Nealons, was built by David Fennel, along with a number of other buildings from around Dublin.

**Tir na Legog**, a theme park by brick.ie members

One of the larger models was a collaboration between a number of brick.ie members. The name, Tír na Legog, is a play on Tír na nÓg, the land of eternal youth in Irish mythology.

Based on a common template for paths and fences (an adaptation of the MILS building standard) to make the collaboration easier, a number of members each built a section of the park, including (working!) bumper cars, a mini golf course, a Ferris wheel, a maze and food stalls.

The sStar attraction was the rollercoaster built by Dave Fennel. You can see him at the far end keeping an eye on the operation. Rather than using the LEGO rollercoaster track, he developed his own ingenious (if somewhat fragile) system.

One of our members, Jessica Farrell, has worked on a number of books. She had brought some models from her latest book all about building LEGO houses.

Some models from the book ‘**How to build LEGO houses**’ by Jessica Farrell

Ralph 'Mad Physicist' Savelsberg is well known for his incredible military aircraft but this weekend he brought a selection of iconic cars from movies and TV series.

Our friends from Comunidade 0937 in Portugal also brought some of the smallest and cutest models—little monsters so cute you almost want to hug them!

Chief Fairy Kevin and his crew from Fairy Bricks brought their gigantic mosaic for kids (and adults) to build, tombola (raffle) and brick pits, providing a lot of activity for the public. For those who didn't win big in the tombola, there was a shop selling minifigures and sets, including an immaculate Offshore Rig with Fuel Tank set 373 from 1977!

Adding to the fun, LEGO has provided LUGs with boxes of 2x4 bricks in primary colors for their 90th-anniversary celebrations, leaving it up to the LUG to come up with a creative way to use them. And this LUG delivered! Brick.ie scaled up a model of the iconic LEGO duck on wheels. Members of the public could help create the model by building the 3x scaled-up bricks that made up the final model.

Big Duck being watched by a Rebel Trooper

Here you can see the duck being inspected by a member of Emerald Garrison, a Star Wars costuming club that entertained the public with various Star Wars characters.

The event spans a whole weekend and on Saturday night, all the exhibitors and other volunteers get together for dinner and drinks. For those who knew each other from previous events, it was a chance to catch up in the flesh after two years of COVID isolation. For others, it was a chance to start new friendships. Drinks and chats went on until the early hours of Sunday...

On Sunday, the exhibits and activities continued except for the duck. That had been completed on Saturday, so what were we going to do with the remaining bricks and an empty table!? Well, you just put Ed Diment behind that table and then this happens:

**Titanic** made from 2x4 bricks by Ed Diment

There were many more MOCs, big and small. Too many to mention them all, but here’s a selection you can scroll through.

After two days of happy faces, we were able to make a sizeable donation to Fairy Bricks that will help make even more children happy. And our very tired exhibitors are already making plans for next year...

What would you build with thousands of 2x4 bricks in basic colors?? Leave your thoughts in the comments below.

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