On May 22nd to 24th we had the pleasure of hosting this year's Recognized LEGO Fan Media Days.
We invited the tier 2 Recognized LEGO Fan Media (RLFM) and raffled 3 participation tickets to the rest of the RLFM, the Recognized LEGO User Groups (RLUG) and Recognized LEGO Online Communities (RLOC) in the LEGO Ambassador Network (LAN) forums.
This resulted in participation from:
Blocks Magazine
BrickFanatics
Brickset
Hispabrick Magazine
JediNews
Klemmbausteinlyrik
New Elementary
Stuck In Plastic
The Brothers Brick
Zusammengebaut
The Rambling Brick
AFDL
ItLUG
In total we had 23 participants representing the above communities and fan media. It was quite hectic, but I believe we pulled it off fairly ok and, as always, the participants leaned in and helped us work through any "bumps" quickly and smoothly.
Wednesday was dedicated to talks and presentations from various parties inside the LEGO Group. We had the team from LEGO Foundation behind Braille Bricks there and also the Powered Up Team was there, talking to the new power platform and providing more information. There were other presentations, but the content and information is still under embargo - so you will have to wait for that to come from the participating communities and fan media.
Thursday was all about interviews with LEGO designers and employees from various LEGO themes/franchises. There were interviews conducted with Creator Expert, Architecture, Ideas, Technic, Overwatch, Star Wars Boost, Hidden Side, Jurassic World, Harry Potter, LEGO Games, Speed Champions and Powered Up! Furthermore Tormod Askildsen (Head of AFOL Engagement) and Signe Lønholdt (Head of Community Growth & the LEGO Ambassador Network) were also available for interviews and talks. I really wanted to show a picture of the interviews with the various themes, but there were also embargoed and confidential items being shown - so again, you'll have to wait for the fan media to publish their articles on embargo time for more insights.
In the morning prior to the interviews starting, we had the pleasure of getting a presentation from the designer of the new LEGO House Dinosaur set. Nina talked us through the design process and afterwards everyone got to build one of the dinosaurs from the set.
On Friday we visited the LEGO Factory "Kornmarken" and I gave a guided tour of how we make the LEGO bricks. Sadly the factory is confidential and therefore no pictures or video was allowed in there. After the tour we met with Kasper from LEGOLAND and he gave us a tour of the new Castle Hotel in Billund and once everyone was fed and happy, we went for a "Behind the Scenes" tour of LEGOLAND. It was truly amazing - to a point where it proved very difficult to "persuade" the New Elementary participants to leave, when we were in the LEGOLAND element warehouse which has elements in colors never used in LEGO sets.
This was the fourth time we hosted this event for the Recognized LEGO Fan Media. It was a pleasure and I look forward to seeing all the great content coming from this event. Below is a few links for already published articles and videos:
http://www.newelementary.com/2019/06/lego-jurassic-world-designer-interview-bessa.html
https://itlug.org/2019/05/intervista-a-jamie-berard-sul-10266-nasa-apollo-11-lunar-lander-e-molto-altro/ (In Italian)
http://www.newelementary.com/2019/06/lego-apollo-11-interview-jamie-berard.html
https://itlug.org/2019/06/intervista-a-mark-stafford-e-marcos-bessa-sul-set-t-rex-rampage/ (In Italian)
http//www.newelementary.com/2019/06/lego-75936-jurassic-stafford-bessa-designer-interview.html
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