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Reminder that we’re having our last Open House for 2016 on Saturday, December 31st, 10am – 4pm.

After this Open House, we’re going to tear down layout #4, wash & sort the pieces, and continue work on layout #5 (and maybe layout 5.1?) So this will be your last chance ever to see layout #4, as we started building it in January of 2001 and we’re ready to work on a whole new layout.

Also this is our last Open House until December of 2017. Brickmania needs more office space as their business continues to grow, so the train clubs are moving out of the smaller room and into the bigger room. As part of that move, the monthly Open Houses will go on hiatus until next December.

Bring your Lego trains and run them on our layouts, as we want to see your trains!

November Open House is this Saturday, the 12th, 10am – 4pm.  Weather forecast is for lovely September weather, so we’re hoping for a nice turnout.

In December, Brickmania will being doing an Open House four Saturdays – the 3rd, the 10th, the 17th, and the 31st; 10am to 4pm each day.  (We’ll be closed on Christmas Eve.)

Then in 2017, some big changes at the Toyworks.  Brickmania the company keeps growing, and needs more office space for employees.  So the train clubs are moving out of the smaller room back into the bigger room, to make room for several more desks and workstations.  This means no more regularly scheduled Open Houses.  We’re tentatively thinking of a smaller, simpler Art-A-Whirl weekend, and then some fancier and more organized Open Houses a year from now in December of 2017.

So if you want to see the layouts, see them before the end of 2016 because that will be your last chance for a while.  And, layout #4 will be dismantled in 2017, so we can devote all our efforts to layout #5.  There is a possibility we might do a model train show or two in 2017, if we have something good to display.  We’ll let you know!

As always, thanks for your support and interest, and if you bring your Lego train to one of our Open Houses you can run it on our layout(s)!

It’s October! (And I’m actually getting an Open House notice out more than two days before the date!)
Open House this Saturday, October 8th, 10am to 4pm. $5 per person, or $10 for a group or family up to four people.

Brickmania will have the incredible USS Missouri WWII battleship on display, if you haven’t seen it in person it’s worth the price of admission all by itself.

Brickmania head honcho Dan Siskind will be there, with a Q&A session. Ask him how he comes up with so many incredible models, because honestly we’d all like to know.

And as always, if you bring your LEGO train you can run it on one of our layouts!

Kids are back in school, the State Fair is already over, Vikings season starts in a couple days, is it really September already?
I guess that means one thing: the September Open House! Saturday, September 10th, 10am – 4pm at Brickmania Toyworks. Trains will be running, displays will be displayed, shoppers will be shopping. $5 per person, or $10 for a group or family up to four people.
And if you bring your Lego train, you can run it on one of our layouts!

Second Saturday Open House is August 13th, 10am – 4pm.  $5 per person, or $10 for a group or family up to four people.

(And J-1 is hoping to have his voice back after being at Brickfair Virginia last weekend.)

Bring a Lego train, and you can run it on either of our layouts.  We love “guest trains”, they’re the best part of each Open House.

Hope to see you there, weather forecast for Saturday is sunny & nice, come out and enjoy Brickmania, and Nordeast!

Hey, it’s July!  Open House is this Saturday, July 9th, 10am – 4pm.  $5 per person, or $10 for a group or family up to four people.

Brickmania will have the big D-Day diorama on display, but I don’t know if the USS Missouri will also be on display.  Things are moving so fast at Brickmania that I can’t keep up with all the changes!

Come on out, bring a Lego train or two, run them on our layouts!

Second Saturday Open House is May 14th, 10am – 4pm.  $5 per person or $10 for a group or family up to four people.  Weather forecast is looking dreary, but Brickmania will be warm and dry.  If you’re not going to “The Opener”, stop in and visit us.

This month we’re having a special “Minecraft” build table, come on out and build something for display, and see what other people have built.

May is also Art-A-Whirl weekend, the 20th – 22nd.  It’s a great weekend in beautiful Nordeast Minneapolis, with hundreds of artist studios and galleries open for one of the largest “art crawls” in the world.  Brickmania will be open 5pm – 10pm on Friday, noon – 8pm on Saturday, and noon – 5pm on Sunday.  The usual displays and train layouts will be on display, but also some local artists and friends of Brickmania will have fun and interesting things for sale.  Pizza Luce will be selling pizza by the slice right inside the Brickmania doors on 18th Ave.  It’s a great weekend, with lots of interesting guests & visitors, and we hope to see you there!

And yes, you can bring your Lego trains during Art-A-Whirl and run them on our layouts.

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Don’t forget, World War Brick is coming in June!

April Open House is this Saturday, April 9th, 10am – 4pm.  $5 per person, or $10 for a family up to four.

I believe the USS Missouri model will be on display on the Brickmania, along with a couple of their other traveling displays.  We’ll have trains running, our new layout is slowly being built, and as always if you bring your LEGO train to one of our Open Houses we’ll pull one of our trains off the track and let you run yours.

Oh, hey – tomorrow is the Second Saturday in March!  That means we’re having another Brickmania Open House, 10am – 4pm.  $5 per person, or $10 for a group / family up to four people.

Most of the Brickmania crew is in Indianapolis this weekend, along with the USS Nicholas and USS Missouri models, but the Toyworks will be open, the play areas are ready, and we’ll have trains running all day.  Weather forecast is for just beautiful, so get out, enjoy the weather, and hopefully stop in and see us!

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