A convention honoring the thing if you step on it at night in bare feet your family will hear you serenade them in a new language !
- d127gengler
- Sep 15, 2025
- 2 min read
I’m talking about the Lego, stepping on it barefoot will teach your kids a brand new vocabulary. Well 7 Sandies did attend the Brick convention in Pensacola. It was about all things Legos. There where exhibits, Lego parts pieces, and figures. Some of these inch high figures were going for tens of dollars. Kits no longer in production easily hundreds of dollars. Ecto-1 the Ghostbusters 59 Cadillac Ambulance $ 450.00. The boat Orca from Jaws $500.00 . There were kids with boxes of Lego stuff wheeling and dealing with vendors buying and selling. I had no idea the sub world of Legos was so huge.
First the stats for Sandie Lego Adventure, 110 miles , weather in the morning outstanding. We arrived pretty early Tony couldn’t get a ticket, all sold out. But The Sandies never take no for an answer. With Skullduggery and Technology Tony G attended the Convention. Joejoe just walked in , literally, opened the front door and strolled in. Now when you think about it, JoeJoe could pass for a Lego nerd easily. The next time we saw JoeJoe he was at the Lego play area building stuff.
I stood in line while the rest stood in the shade as the line began to move here comes Sandy S and Sam with Tommy following. All expecting to cut in line, au contraire, nope, not doing it. I mean Sandy got a little miffed, then ignored me, when I said in a loud voice “Hey no Cuts”. Well they paid no attention and cut in line anyway. Felt like Rodney Dangerfield, no respect.
When you go with Sandies anything may happen well somehow we found ourselves going in the opposite direction of the crowd. How I have no idea but I noticed this phenomenon pretty quick. It’s never easy going anywhere with the Sandies. You need to see the pictures Sandy and JoeJoe took they are a pretty good representation of some of the more spectacular exhibits.
Apparently the coveted Lego Master Builder Title is the pinnacle of Legodom. It means you have reached the apex of building Lego structures and scenes. To give you an idea there was one Exhibit where the Builder designed Star Wars houses as if Franklin Lloyd Wright had designed them, very impressive. Just look at all the pictures of the Exhibit it was something.
It was crowded mostly with kids, as you would expect , there were a fair amount of adults. A lot looked like they hadn’t left home and where living in Moms basement. It was a very diverse crowd to say the least. Now granted some of the folks would scare the dead but everyone was having a good time and that was important.
As we left the Convention and started for lunch, we had spotted 850 Seafood Grill. It was outstanding food, great service and a bit different décor . On the way home , on the three mile bridge. We watched a Gulf Breeze pull over a high flying motorcycle. Tony G’s video ( link below)captures the moment.
It was a fun day, good friends, good food and fun stuff to do. Join us next trip, promise a great time.
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