On Sunday, April 11, 2010, Bricks by the Bay opens its doors to the public. All are welcome to come and see the LEGO creations on display in the approximately 7500 square foot grand ballroom of the hotel. We also will have a vendors room selling all kinds of LEGO and LEGO-related accessories!
Location:
Fremont Marriott Silicon Valley
46100 Landing Parkway
Fremont,CA, CA 94538
The public exhibition will be open from 10:00 AM until 4:00 PM.
The cost to attend will be $5 per person (regardless of age), with children under 2 years old free. Strollers will not be permitted in the display area. Watch this space for an online pre-registration option!
Please come back and visit this page for more details as the event gets closer.
where and how much? how many venders? will you have Brickarms accesories? special guests?
The location is the Fremont Marriott hotel, like it says elsewhere on this site. We don’t yet know how many vendors will sign up, but we have a large room devoted to vendor space. Brickarms have told us they probably won’t be able to come. We hope to have special guests from LEGO, but we have not yet determined who they will be. They will be invited to give a keynote presentation to the convention, but that won’t be open to the public.
Confirmed. BrickArms will not be attending.
Brickmania WILL be attending and of course I proudly feature BrickArms accessories in my kits whenever possible!
^^^ Addendum to my previous comment. A broad selection of individual BrickArms will also be available from the Brickmania table, as we have just been officially sanctioned to act as surrogate BrickArms representatives for this event.
o.K. Thanks
Daniel if you are going to be selling at the event make sure you have the proper forms to do so since you will have to be registered with the alameda county board, abroad spectrum sellers permit will not work.
information can be found here:
http://www.aclibrary.org/research/default.asp?topic=Research&cat=ProcedureforStartingaBusiness
What’s the procedure for bringing MOCs to display?
First, register for the convention. Then we will send instructions on how to list your MOC space requirements on our wiki pages.
When will sign ups for the public expo be online? Do you feel the entire convention would be worth taking a 10 year old to that is a huge Lego fan? Thanks
Most 10 year olds would probably not be well suited for the full convention. Some teenagers who are very adult-behaving might do well, but 10 is pretty young. If neither of the parents is an avid LEGO hobbyist, I’d suggest just coming for the public day.
We’ll probably put signups for public day online in a few weeks. Be sure to get on our announce mailing list so you will hear about it in advance. There may be a small convenience fee charged for advanced signups to cover our costs.
Plz add me to your email list as a member of the public. Thanks. PS – heard about the convention while at a model train con in Daly City last weekend.
Joel G
To get on our email list as a member of the public, go to our Contact page and fill out the form for the Announce mailing list.
I’m with Alejandro on his original comment. The location of the event should have appeared prominently in the Public Expo announcement, for those of us in the non-LEGO public ranks who don’t automatically “know” that this is where the event will be, have heard about it for the first time, and are interested in attending.
The address info was on the “Event Details” page, but I have just added it here as well. Thanks for the feedback.