Brick.ie The Irish Association for Adult Fans of LEGO®

Its that time of year when we start to look forward to some well-deserved rest. For AFOLs it will soon be a time of much shopping and building in anticipation of 2025 events.

Before we look to 2025, its worth recalling how busy we've been over the past few months.

Kicking it off in September after a post-Brick Féile break, brick.ie returned to the library events we did pre-Covid with Blessington library being the venue once again for our builds and a brick pit. Some of our members then undertook their annual pilgrimage to Skaerbaek and Billund in Denmark, the home of LEGO, at the end of that month before visiting the Steam railway museum in Swindon the following weekend for Brickish's flagship event. Shortly thereafter, many of our builders were busy at the popular Dublin Brick Con event in Tallaght before returning to Dublin to bring a large collaborative LEGO display to the Model Railway Society of Ireland's show at its new Clontarf venue over the October bank holiday weekend. Some of the team even made it to Brick Mania in Antwerp in November. We've still time for one more event before year-end; a unique build challenge lined up for lucky students at a school in Celbridge this December - follow us on Facebook to find out more about that.

In between these events we had our regular Dublin meet-ups and we also hosted the Fairy Bricks delivery team as they delivered tens of thousands of euro worth of LEGO to Irish hospitals in September before more recently visiting these shores again to deliver to Northern Ireland hospitals.

Already, events for 2025 are being pencilled in. Visit https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/brick-feile-tickets-1015459224877 to find out more about Brick Féile 2025, brick.ie's annual flagship event in July 2025. We are already planning the 2025 collaborative builds that will feature there.

Many of our members will be at Cork Brick Con at Easter, with returns to the Cork Summer Show and Taney also planned for June and August respectively. Before any of these, expect to see plenty of pictures of Irish models at the UK's biggest LEGO show, and europe's newest fan networking event, Bricktastic, which is held in February in Manchester by Fairy Bricks. If you can make it to one UK LEGO event, this should be it. There will even be Irish representation at Brickvention in Australia this coming January to keep us busy clicking bricks.

From all the team at brick.ie we wish all our members, friends and supporters the very best for this coming holiday season. We look forward to seeing you at a LEGO event in 2025