Back to work! LEGOWorld is all over
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Well, it's all over and done with here in Copenhagen. I've spent another long weekend with the Danish, Germans, Belgians and of course the mad Dutchmen! Staying in a hostel with people I don't know very well - but end up knowing much better by the end of the show
In all honesty, I love events like this that make a change from the usual early morning/flight/office/flight/late night in a hotel. Of course I love the LEGO part of it, but the evenings here are no different to the evenings at Lotusphere - just cheaper accommodation and (much) more expensive beer (£7/pint)! I've posted a bunch of photos to my Flickr stream and I'm sure Flickr has many more as well. Highlights of the weekend? Well, in no particular order:
- Copenhagen airport has a 'Swedish Taxi' line and a 'Danish taxi' line. Nothing to do with Saunas of pastries - just a reminder how close to Sweden we are here.
- I met Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen again, who is the owner of the holding group that controls LEGO (yes, it's a private company)
- I also completely ignored the crown Prince of Denmark, his wife and baby when they came to visit St Pancras (in my defence, he didn't have a crown or a minder - or really anything!
- There are lots of exclusive goodies in my bag
- Copenhagen airport is a dream to get through security - and there is a duty free LEGO store!
- The condom machine in the toilets sells condoms with a brilliant karma-sutra style acrobatic reach-around position picture on the front...
- Oh, and it's REALLY cold. And snowing. And frozen. And the roads are still open
LEGOWorld itself was an interesting experience. Unlike any UK show, which is based around our club and the MOCs (My Own Creation - ie, things we build, not LEGO sets) we create - this was far more focused on existing LEGO themes. So there were was a Power Miner train car ride and catwalk for girls to dress up as princesses. Of course there was also a vast amount of LEGO. Each theme has it's own area with thousands of parts from themed sets so that kids can build an Atlantis monster, or a toy story building etc. All in all, that probably comprised 3/4 of the entire area. The AFOL area I was in was still very busy though - and according to LEGO Denmark we were some peoples' prime reason for coming
And now, back to the UK. Not London as planned, but back to Edinburgh instead, which is good - because I'm going to be glad to be home after 5 nights away. Now all I need do is build all the things I've promised to build before the next show!
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Well, it's all over and done with here in Copenhagen. I've spent another long weekend with the Danish, Germans, Belgians and of course the mad Dutchmen! Staying in a hostel with people I don't know very well - but end up knowing much better by the end of the show
In all honesty, I love events like this that make a change from the usual early morning/flight/office/flight/late night in a hotel. Of course I love the LEGO part of it, but the evenings here are no different to the evenings at Lotusphere - just cheaper accommodation and (much) more expensive beer (£7/pint)! I've posted a bunch of photos to my Flickr stream and I'm sure Flickr has many more as well. Highlights of the weekend? Well, in no particular order:
- Copenhagen airport has a 'Swedish Taxi' line and a 'Danish taxi' line. Nothing to do with Saunas of pastries - just a reminder how close to Sweden we are here.
- I met Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen again, who is the owner of the holding group that controls LEGO (yes, it's a private company)
- I also completely ignored the crown Prince of Denmark, his wife and baby when they came to visit St Pancras (in my defence, he didn't have a crown or a minder - or really anything!
- There are lots of exclusive goodies in my bag
- Copenhagen airport is a dream to get through security - and there is a duty free LEGO store!
- The condom machine in the toilets sells condoms with a brilliant karma-sutra style acrobatic reach-around position picture on the front...
- Oh, and it's REALLY cold. And snowing. And frozen. And the roads are still open
LEGOWorld itself was an interesting experience. Unlike any UK show, which is based around our club and the MOCs (My Own Creation - ie, things we build, not LEGO sets) we create - this was far more focused on existing LEGO themes. So there were was a Power Miner train car ride and catwalk for girls to dress up as princesses. Of course there was also a vast amount of LEGO. Each theme has it's own area with thousands of parts from themed sets so that kids can build an Atlantis monster, or a toy story building etc. All in all, that probably comprised 3/4 of the entire area. The AFOL area I was in was still very busy though - and according to LEGO Denmark we were some peoples' prime reason for coming
And now, back to the UK. Not London as planned, but back to Edinburgh instead, which is good - because I'm going to be glad to be home after 5 nights away. Now all I need do is build all the things I've promised to build before the next show!
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