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[Closed] Great Western Brick Show - basically 'Lego Porn' 🙂

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 Alex
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Not really my thing but was a family day out. I loved the GWR Steam museum where it was hosted - it's really well done. However onto the main event:

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5 Years to build. And he's going to start again as it keeps falling apart!

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This fella had spent two years getting his design for the Caterham approved. Which meant:

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I had to have on. My wife *nearly* bought he Technic Porsche that was on here a while ago but finally probity stalled that deal.

There were some. er, very focussed people there but probably no worse than me with mountain bikes. Surprisingly good fun and very busy:

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Posted : 02/10/2016 6:53 pm
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That F4 Phantom is astounding - such clean lines, and for the scale the other fighter jets are pretty good too!


 
Posted : 02/10/2016 8:02 pm
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That F4 Phantom is astounding - such clean lines, and for the scale the other fighter jets are pretty good too!

Beaten to it!


 
Posted : 02/10/2016 8:33 pm
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Yep, that Phantom is stunning. And I want the Caterham.

Stumbled across a couple of those Lego expo shows in recent years - fantastic events.


 
Posted : 02/10/2016 8:37 pm
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Very cool!


 
Posted : 02/10/2016 9:35 pm