The annual Brick Fiesta was held in San Antonio this year (it will be back in Austin next Summer) and since any kind of vacation we’re taking will probably be scheduled around 2019, so we took a quick weekend trip to check in. See all the fantastic setups made by the state’s best master builders. I also bought a discontinued Old Republic fighter which is pretty cool and I think one ship is loosely based upon it for the upcoming Resistance show this Fall.
This is a hospital/base station the Rebels took over after it was abandoned when the Clone Wars ended.
The Battle of Scarif on the ground.
The Battle of Crait, if you look closely, you can see Kylo Ren charging toward Luke Skywalker.
Brick Fiesta isn’t exclusively Star Wars setups, it’s just one of the more popular themes and licenses. These people are amazing. They built their walkers from scratch to have them at their actual scale to the height of a mini figure (say the average represents a person at a height of 5′ 10″).
Can’t be Texas without a Whataburger!
I met the builder behind the Whataburger. He told me how this very accurate replica of their famous A-frame stores came to be. He went to the Lego Store at the mall in his city and bought up a bunch of orange-colored bricks from the bins. Then he realized he didn’t have any purpose for them until he drove by a Whataburger. Inspiration!
The train in the foreground circles the whole display.
This year’s Brick Fiesta was extra special because 2018 is the 40th anniversary of Lego’s introduction of the Space and Castle themes. Castles come and go but Space has been a solid seller through numerous iterations. The master builder on this had four monorails running around various sections of the landscape. Sadly, Lego only offered the monorail element briefly in the late Eighties.
Wildstyle and Benny!
The Ghost from Star Wars Rebels in “Space” colors.
The busiest quadrant.
You can see Bowser of Mario Brothers under the monorail.
The masterbuilder put minifigs of Krusty and Xenomorphs all over the place. A white astronaut and Unikitty are unaware of Krusty’s fatal encounter with a Xenomorph drone.
This astronaut’s eyes have enlarged to cartoon proportions since he has stumbled upon a clutch of eggs and their Queen. Corn guy appears OK.
A dropship from the USS Sulacco. Too bad it’s part of another display, the huge Space set could use some help from the US Colonial Marines!
Overall, we had a great time at the convention and I really enjoyed our hotel room. I was more exhausted than I thought I would be on Saturday night. I blame the stop-n-go traffic along much of I-35.
Can’t wait to see what these people have planned to show off next Summer in Austin. If we go with the same venue, there will be plenty of room for more train-based setups. Lego Movie 2 will have occurred too, last-minute influences maybe?