Rebuild
Rebuild previously loved sets or rediscover your favorites from childhood. With thousands of LEGO® pieces to choose from, you'll have those childhood sets rebuilt in no time.
Brick Cities was not designed in a marketing meeting. It was sketched on the back of a vendor invoice in a Roseville, Minnesota storeroom. Here is how it actually happened.
Mindy and Rob Warland are lifelong brick fans in Roseville, Minnesota. They could not find a place in the Twin Cities that treated their hobby with the right balance of care and play. The big-box stores carried the new sets but did not know what an old gray castle wall was worth. The collector circles knew what it was worth but did not let kids touch anything. The Warlands wanted both worlds in one room.
So they started building it themselves. Bulk bins the kids could dig through. Glass cases of vintage Castle, Pirates, and Bionicle for the adult fans. Birthday builds on Saturdays. AFOL nights once a month. A community started forming around them.
"We believe used bricks should always find a new life. That belief built our community. That community built Brick Cities."
Before long, they were hosting more events than they could fit in a weekend. The local LUGs were asking for display space. Educators were asking for STEM workshops. Parents were asking if there was anywhere bigger their kids could go. There was not. Not in the Midwest. Not without driving 14 hours to a national show that did not feel built for them anyway.
So Mindy and Rob did the only thing the math allowed. They built the show themselves. What started as a Twin Cities event has become a national tour reaching 19 cities across the country. The Twin Cities stop is still on the calendar every November, anchored by the Roseville community that started it all.
Brick Cities runs on three principles, brought to life on the convention floor.
Rebuild previously loved sets or rediscover your favorites from childhood. With thousands of LEGO® pieces to choose from, you'll have those childhood sets rebuilt in no time.
No single LEGO® piece goes to waste. Every brick has the potential to be part of a new creation, traded, gifted, or rebuilt into something new.
Toss away the manuals and get creative. Reimagine old sets or assemble a unique build of random bricks. Create a one-of-a-kind masterpiece straight from your endless imagination.
We built Brick Cities the other way around. The local brick community is the soul of every city, so the event belongs to that community, hosted by the people who know it best.
So in every Brick Cities city, local hosts are the presenters. They book the regional LUGs they have known for years. They bring in the local STEM educators they already work with. They invite the families who already build alongside them.
The national Brick Cities team handles the heavy infrastructure: timing systems, signage, vendor logistics, ticketing, and the headlining MOCs that travel city to city. But the heart of every weekend belongs to the local family. Same standards everywhere. A different family hosting your weekend in every city.
"Watching a kindergartner finish her first MOC next to a 60 year old finishing his first castle. That is the whole point. That is why we do this."
The four values we carry from city to city.
Creating a welcoming and familiar environment for every customer who walks through the door.
Working together effectively as a team - local hosts, national organizers, builders, and vendors all pulling in the same direction.
Encouraging innovative thinking and play. Toss away the manual and build something only you could imagine.
Recognizing and marking achievements and milestones - for builders, families, vendors, and the communities we visit.
A day ticket gets you a session. The community gets you a story you'll tell for years.