RVALUG News for February 2025

Brian Slevin

RVALUG News for February 2025

Hello LEGO friends!  Here is your summary of what the LUG has been up to the last month and what to look forward to in the coming weeks. Below you will find a meeting update, reminders regarding upcoming events, interest survey requests, and details regarding our upcoming monthly build challenges.

Meeting update

At our January meeting, the build challenge was to build a pop culture moment from 2024, and Vitaliy took home top prize for his build challenge entry, election night.

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Our next meeting is this Saturday from 1 to 4 pm at the Guzman Community center.  We will be providing members with flyers to promote RVA Brick day which is barely a month away. Many thanks to Ben Chung for designing this year’s amazing poster!

Also, the fundraiser page for RVA Brick Day is live:

https://rvalug.betterworld.org/giveaways/rva-brick-day-2025-lego-giveaway

We are giving away some amazing stuff this year in our prize drawing giveaway.


Upcoming Event Reminders

March 15 – 4th annual RVA Brick Day

  • Our 4th annual RVA Brick Day event is 10 to 4 PM Saturday March 15th, with set up hours starting Friday Night. Please take a moment to fill in the survey below if you’d like to help plan this event. Planning is also ongoing on the dedicated discord channel for this event, join the conversation with this server invite: https://discord.com/invite/FCwJuyfeju

March 27 -30 – BrickFair Fredericksburg

  • BrickFair returns to Fredericksburg on March 27th, With Dennis R. coordinating our overall Layout and Connor O and Sean W coordinating our city and train layout. Let us know how you would like to participate by filling out the survey form below. And be sure to join in planning RVALUGs participation at this AFOL Networking Event in our dedicated brickfair channel, join the conversation with this server invite: https://discord.com/invite/FCwJuyfeju

Surveys and Forms

RVA Brick Day:
Fill out our interest survey so we can start planning our big annual event. General Volunteer Survey:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdCNESwy_9pZMm_0z_vtb8CIs_ggC_dryYuvMFqNafutrTrMw/viewform?usp=sf_link

Brick Fair Fredericksburg:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfhpr0uY_TRWmRIIK8djkYgD4LaqwpyGsrS_MLy2dwX_l1jlg/viewform?usp=sf_link

Communication Preferences:

Please take a moment to update your email preferences for RVA-LUG.  If you haven’t provided an email address yet, use this opportunity to do so:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfMM1vkxFsTZS8wyQLxdHHCsBjYqwJCdbK9f72_-6of01NOMQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

Build Challenge Update

February:

Arkham Asylum. Like the museum challenge, but jail cells for the criminally insane. Standards guidance found here: 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1qGOPbSNctfex9Ur96UggpPwMdYYRTXnO?usp=sharing