PennLUG will be at this weekend’s Greenberg’s Great Train & Toy Show in York, PA with one of our largest train layouts. Public hours are 10 AM – 4 PM on both Saturday, January 19th and Sunday, January 20th at the York Expo Center. Tickets and more information are available now at the event’s website. Parking is free and Adult Admission is $10 Saturday or $9 Sunday (kids are FREE and do NOT need a ticket).

We’ve committed to a few upcoming train shows. We’ll have more announcements and reminders closer to these events, but here’s a quick list:

• World’s Greatest Hobby on Tour in Oaks, PA on January 12th & 13th, 2019
• Greenberg’s Great Train & Toy Show in York, PA on January 19th & 20th, 2019
• Nebraska Brick Days 2019 in Lincoln, NE on March 30th & 31st, 2019

PennLUG is pleased to once again have our annual holiday train display at the America on Wheels museum in Allentown PA.

We encourage young and old to visit the museum and see all they have to offer – it’s a great experience.

http://americaonwheels.org/2018-holiday-train-display/

Come see PennLUG members and some of our original creations and LEGO memorabilia on Saturday, September 8th at the Tri Valley Library in Hegins, PA. The library is normally open from 9 AM-1 PM, but our show is open from 10 AM-4 PM. Admission is free for all ages.

For a fun departure from our regular shows, our own Daniel Pikora spoke at this year’s FOSSCON in Philadelphia last week. At most of our events, the focus is on the completed models on display, but at the Free and Open Source Software CONference, the focus was on the software we use in the process of getting our creations to do what we want. You can view the LEGO and Open Source slides in the presentation’s GitHub repository.

PennLUG member Kelly Hoffman’s model of the Pagoda in Reading, PA was recently featured in Reading Magazine. While we’ve enjoyed seeing this model at a few recent PennLUG events, it’s always nice to see one of our own get recognition from outside the LEGO hobby community.

After a few of our members were at Brickworld Chicago last week, we’ve got a few people exhibiting at Philadelphia Mini Maker Faire this upcoming Sunday. Billed as “The Greatest Show and Tell on Earth”, Maker Faires feature a variety of (primarily hands-on and/or educational) exhibits about different things you can make. You may have heard that we can make some interesting things out of LEGO. Look for the exhibit “LEGO Fan Display”, which will feature a moonbase and an interactive DUPLO Ball Run.

As previously mentioned, we currently have a display at the Great Philadelphia Comic Con in One By One Cat Rescue‘s booth. This event runs through Sunday. This is a great chance to see our more comic- and pop-culture-based models, models involving cats, and of course, models involving superhero cats. It’s also a great time to make a donation to One By One Cat Rescue or learn about adopting or fostering a cat.

As a reminder, we will have a display (including our train layout) visible to the public this weekend at Brick Fest Live Philly in Oaks, PA.