We’re excited to welcome Brick Derby to STEM Quest!
Get ready for high-speed creativity as kids design and build their very own LEGO® brick derby cars, then race them down the track for an unforgettable hands-on experience. 🎖️
Inspired by classic derby racing, Brick Derby combines engineering, creativity, and a little friendly competition—allowing kids to build, test, and race their designs in real time.🏎️
Best of all, this experience is included for ALL attendees to enjoy! From first-time builders to future engineers, everyone will have the chance to jump in, create, and race to the finish line. 🏆
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Brickworld Indianapolis 2026 Part 1:
This year's brickworld was yet another amazing year for the event. While there were, as always, overpriced minifigures and build-a-minifig galore, this post will be focusing on other aspects of the show. A very notable addition this year was a Brick Derby track, where you could build a car and race it. I didn't participate directly in it, but I'm a huge fan of pinewood derby so this was a spectacular addition. It also felt like there were even more displays than the previous years, but that could be inaccurate. Some of my favorites included the Olympics/world flags display, the amusement park and various ferris wheel displays, the two American flags, and the native American display. The funniest has to be the various sets that were built out of spare multicolored parts. It reminded me of the meme where someone built the entire UCS Millennium Falcon out of spare parts. I also didn't get a direct photo of this, but there was a display next to the Olympics display that had various flash speeders in multiple colors. That was pretty entertaining to see. Outside of displays, a common issue I saw was the overcrowding. I was planning on scouting out every vendor before making any purchases, but that plan quickly fell through when most of the vendors were packed. I ultimately went to the ones that weren't as crowded. Block party specifically was the worst since it was at the very front. Next year I'm going to visit that vendor very last since it was the most consistently crowded throughout the show. In most of the photos there aren't many people, and that's because I wait until the very end to take most of the pictures since it allows me to easily speedrun viewing the displays.
To be continued...
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