BrickCon 09 ... October 1-4, 2009 ... Imagination in Motion!

As a paid, Registered Attendee, you are allowed to bring whatever you'd like to display. As a paid Public Guest, we cannot allow you to display your creations due to logistical and insurance reasons.

There will indeed be vendors selling LEGO® related stuff: T-shirts, individual parts and sets, including many older, discontinued and custom items. There is no way to know ahead of time what will be available. Please come Saturday and Sunday to find out!

Our Convention is at two levels. The primary level is for Adult LEGO® Hobbyists who come together to share friendship, ideas, and activities with fellow hobbyists and to display their amazing creations. The second level is for people of all ages and interest levels to come view our amazing creations and, hopefully, be inspired to build themselves - and perhaps join the LEGO® hobbyists at a future Convention.

If you are of the first type - an adult who enjoys the hobby of working with LEGO® elements - then you should Register and plan to join us for 3 15-hour days of fun and friendship. If you are unsure about this level of intensity, you should visit (with paid admission) on Saturday and/or Sunday and see the amazing things people do with LEGO® bricks.

Yes! Throughout the Convention there will be T-Shirts and LEGO® parts, sets and related items for sale at our Brick Bazaar. The Bazaar will be open to the public during Public hours (11am - 3pm Saturday and Sunday).

Our eighth annual BrickCon will be held from October 1st to 4th, 2009.

We are located at the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall, which is on Mercer Street just across from the Parking Garage.

We will be open to the public from 11:00am to 3:00pm Saturday, Oct. 3rd, and Sunday, Oct. 4th.

The admission price is $7 per Individual, $20 per Family. Tickets can be purchased at the Exhibition Hall ticket booth beginning at 10:30am on Saturday and Sunday.

A registered participant (attendee) is allowed to attend all three days of the Convention (8am to 11pm; Friday, Saturday and Sunday), plus Thursday Move-In (8am to 10pm). Activities include presentations, seminars, roundtable discussions, contests, games, door prizes and many experiences unique to a LEGO® Fan Convention. The full attendee receives a Convention Packet contaning a personalized brick name badge, a program of activities, some hand outs, coupons and other fun stuff. The fee is $50.

"Open to the public" means we invite everyone to view our exhibition of hundreds of hobbyist-built LEGO® models involving hundreds of thousands of LEGO® pieces. Also, there will be a building zone, a Brick Bazaar (where LEGO® stuff may be purchased), door prizes, and other give-aways. The public times are Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 3pm. For this, there is a modest fee of $7 per person (children under 4 are free), families $20.

BrickCon is a Convention for Adult LEGO® Hobbyists (ALH). It is made up of two parts: Convention and Exhibition.

The Convention provides a place for ALHs to get together, meet other hobbyists, some of whom have been only names before being met at the Con, share their experiences and show off their fantastic creations.

There are many smaller events within the Convention including contests, games, round-table discussions, seminars and presentations.

The Exhibition invites LEGO® fans of all ages to view, and hopefully, be inspired by, hundreds of hobbyist-built creations.

Although we do permit people under the age of 18 to attend the full Convention as long as a parent (or adult guardian) also attends, we strongly discourage people under the age of 14 from attending. Most of the activities we schedule are directed toward adults and usually require attention spans longer than most younger children exhibit. It is common for the adults who attend to have conversations which might be deemed inappropriate for younger listeners.

If you do choose to bring your son or daughter to the full Convention, we must remind you that you are responsible for their behavior at all times during the Convention. It is possible that your son or daughter (or anyone) may be asked to leave if their behavior becomes inappropriate or too disruptive.

Not at this time. You may purchase admission for the Public Exhibition only at the door. The Public Exhibition hours are 11am to 3pm Saturday, Oct 3 and Sunday, Oct 4. The ticket booth will be open at 10:30am each day for your convenience.

All of the activities scheduled for the full Convention Attendee are intended for adults. Younger people can certainly enjoy most of them, but children (younger than 14) would probably not.

All of the activities scheduled for the Public Exhibition are intended and suitable for all ages.

For the full Convention, we have Wacky Races, Speed Build and Master Build contests (several varieties), Dirty Brickster, Draft, and more.

For the Public Exhibition, we have free Door Prize raffle drawings. There may be un-announced contests that the public will be welcome to participate. Visit the Exhibition (Sat, Oct 3rd, and Sun, Oct 4th) for details.

One of our fan-favorite public activities is the large Building Zone where children of all ages can play and build with hundreds of LEGO® elements. Once built, these masterpieces can be displayed for all to see on our Building Zone display tables.

Private Convention Details:

Wacky Races involve building something that, powered only by gravity, will be rolled down a ramp to test survivability and travel distance.

Speed build is a race to build the same item from the same parts in the shortest amount of time.

Master Build is a judged contest to see how well a builder can represent a given theme where all participants build from the same set of parts in a set amount of time.

Dirty Brickster is a prize exchange game (white elephant type - open or steal!)

Draft is an event where everyone brings one copy of the same (unopened) set. We open the sets, sort the parts into piles and take turns Drafting piles of parts.

There are also impromptu games, competitions and other activities. Join in or start your own!