Lego Fest 2013

This past weekend was the annual Lego Convention, or as I like to call it Lego Fest 2013. I like going to Lego Fest, even though I'm not that into Legos. I like the fact that you just never know who or what you are going to see.

Right off the bat I saw tubs of … pieces? Parts? I don't know. There was a tub containing only Lego heads, one had only Lego hair, another torsos, and one held only accessories like a snazzy ball cap or a lime green metal detector.

Not sure how I feel about tubs of parts being the first thing I see upon entering a room, but there you have it.

Lego enthusiasts have quite the imaginations. I'd say a solid eighty percent of the time, the enthusiasts' imaginations are wonderfully spectacular, highly creative or somewhat quirky. Sometimes they are disturbing.

Why yes, yes that is a merman being eaten by four sharks. What? Like you don't see that every day.

Would you prefer to see an alien ordering off of the dollar menu at McDonald's? Here you go.

Perhaps you'd like a campfire scene.

Not going to lie. I do love a world in which Superhero Spongebob roasts a weenie with R2D2, Indiana Jones and that quasi-irritating creature from Harry Potter.

My husband found the Lego version of something he sees everyday in his life: an engine. To be fair, all of the engines in his life are official Caterpillar yellow, not red. But still. This is impressive.

Since my husband found himself represented at Lego Fest, I made it my mission to find myself represented. And I was successful.

Yep, that's me. Tooling around town on a pink flowered scoot wearing a tennis outfit circa 1984. Ok. It's closer to the real me than the Wonder Woman mini figurine roping a robber with her Lasso of Truth that I proclaimed (quite loudly) to be me.

Or so I was told.

Oh look! A sombrero sporting, maraca shaking hombre working at a deli.

You just don't see this kind of stuff everyday, people. I mean really, where else but Lego Fest are you going to see an hombre working a deli.

Or Thor mow the lawn?

Or an aging hippie with both flowers and mushrooms?

I see your point. Aging hippies bearing both flowers and mushrooms still exist.

Moving on … I saw a celebrities at Lego Fest.

Behold. Smokey and the Bandit.

I'm not kidding. That is totally Smoky and The Bandit right there. Tell me this isn't the spitting image of a Mr. Burt Reynolds.

The attention to detail was amazing. Right down to the cases of Coors stacked in the back of Snowman's rig.

Gosh, I love Lego Fest. You just never know who or what you are going to see.

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