Back when I was living in Los Angeles, I would always make the annual July pilgrimage down to San Diego for Comic-Con International. One of the booths I would make a point to check out would be the LEGO booth. 2018 had been my last SDCC, but this year I, along with GeekMom Yvette Geer and her daughter Laila, decided to make a return trip. And of course, I was going to have to hit the LEGO booth! And boy, was I glad I did. This had to be one of the best booths at the entire convention, so I wanted to share a bit with you.
LEGO Masters Season 5
If you’re a LEGO fan like me, then you’re probably watching Lego Masters, the Fox show where teams compete to build various LEGO challenges. While I knew that LEGO was going to have a LEGO Masters panel at Comic-Con, it was pure happenstance that I swung by the LEGO booth just as they were getting ready for a signing by some of the finalists from this season. Here is the team of siblings Sage and Ian Summers:
We also got to see one of the other finalist teams, Coach Anthony Amoo and Band Director Joseph Cherwink, who work together at Tays Junior High. Yvette was thrilled to run into them on the show floor, where they graciously posed for a selfie.
San Diego Comic-Con Convention Center Model
Yes, there were plenty of sets to drool over at the LEGO booth, including newly announced ones like the Nintendo LEGO Game Boy. There were the life-sized figures built from bricks of Elpheba and Glinda from Wicked. But the absolute show stopper was the LEGO recreation of Comic-Con at the San Diego Convention Center.
This model represented both the exterior of the San Diego convention center, as well as the massive exhibit hall floor. It was made from over 200,000 bricks and 8000 minifigures, and took about 1500 hours to build. It’s packed with features familiar to SDCC attendees, like the lines wrapping around the building for panels and the towers of t-shirts. Speaking of panels, the infamous Hall H is on display in brick form, though ironically Marvel Studios didn’t come to Comic-Con this year:
There are recreations of many familiar booths on the show floor, including a Star Wars booth and both Marvel and DC Comics. But the most accurate brick-made booth has to be the LEGO one itself, which includes a tinier version of the life-size convention center model:
The posters even match those of the actual booth:
On the other side of the model from Hall H, LEGO has recreated another Comic-Con staple, the Masquerade. If you’re not familiar with it, that’s the costume contest that occurs on Saturday night at the convention, where contestants perform skits showing off the costumes they’ve created.
There’s just so much to look at with this model, it’s overwhelming. You can’t possibly hope to catch every detail and Easter egg. And in many ways, photos don’t do it justice. Hopefully LEGO will put it on permanent display at the San Diego Comic-Con Museum, so that anyone that was unable to attend SDCC this year will be still be able to see all the work that went into this recreation for themselves.
LEGO really outdid themselves this year with their booth. After so many years away from San Diego Comic-Con, it was a real joy to see them there, better than ever. While there have definitely been changes at the convention since the pre-Covid days, LEGO continues to be one of the consistent presences at the con that, like a fine wine, gets better with age.
I’ll leave you with a few more pictures of the convention center model to enjoy.
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