Entertainment Swindon

The Great Western Brick Show at the Steam Museum in Swindon saw crowds attending this years event, now in it’s 21st year from all over the country. The weekend of brick fun for all included full access to the museum, the return of the exciting Lego Robot Wars, plenty of stores selling both new and collectable figures and sets, including one of the rarest Star Wars Lego figures ‘Boba Fett’ from the discontinued Cloud City set. The Boba Fett figure today is worth around £1800.

The event saw over 120 creations on display from over 200 creators, displaying railway layouts, including one of the Swindon Rail Works, Star Wars inspired creations, space moon sets cars, including a number of Back To The Future Delorean variants, a huge mechanised theme park lit up with hundreds of LED lights, creations inspired by movies such as Star Wars, Harry Potter, Fast & Furious, Marvel Avengers and many more.

There was also a Spitfire from WW2 over a metre long that took the creator over two years to build.

The event organised by both STEAM Museum and the Brickish (the UK club for adult LEGO fans), Click HERE, for more details and to join Brickish put on their biggest event yet, not only were there the magnificent creations… For the little kids, there was a Lego Trail that took them round the museum on the hunt for LEGO treasures, LEGO pits where kids could get creative themselves and build their very own LEGO builds, including for the little ones, Duplo bricks.

With the upcoming release of Transformers One at the cinema, LEGO’s Optimus Prime is now available at a third off

In keeping with the upcoming spooky season, the public could help create a huge LEGO mosaic made up of over 100,000 bricks that when completed pictured The Nightmare Before Christmas.

There was opportunity to listen to creators in Q&As throughout the weekend which included LEGO House Master Builder Stuart Harris and Fan Set Designer Simon Scott, the creator of The Nightmare Before Christmas LEGO set.

With Christmas just around the corner there was plenty of opportunity to purchase all the latest LEGO sets, as well as rare collectables.

The Great Western Brick Show will be back in 2025! We at Entertainment Swindon will definitely be back!