The coolest Monorail yet!
The Ravinia Ballroom has to be the biggest exhibit of all of Brickworld, it is 83.2 x 179.2 feet, and with all that room, you’d think there would be a lot of Lego displays there. Well you’re absolutely correct! The Ravinia is a consistent mix between hardcore Lego fanatics, and people who just want to show off. This time around, this room contains more adult Lego builders, and because of that, their creations are bigger, and better then the Lake Michigan ballroom. Ironically enough, the Northern Illinois train club, was in the biggest room in the convention! That is both an honor, and a privilege, because they are smack dab in the middle of the entire room! Its great to see them again, because I thought they would have the new things, but no. They recycled the same trains, and buildings they did last year. Well at least this time around, there was more room to walk around, because in the Cantigny hotel, I was only limited to a confined space of where to walk. Now I have a lot of room to walk around the display, but like I said they didn’t really make any new stuff this year, so I didn’t bother taking pictures of them. Besides the Northern Illinois train club people, there were a lot more train displays, and monorail displays! The monorail displays excited me, because the tracks are out of production, and in short supply; to see them with my own two eyes was just amazing! Even more amazing, is instead of a normal layout, they make the monorail tracks bend, turn, go under and over bridges, around a stunning space themed 
display! There was so much stuff going on besides trains, I did not take a photo of it, but in the corner of the Ravinia room E, there was a Lego Mindstorm battle bots competition. The arena that the Lego Mindstorm battle bots are in is made from Lego mosaic to make it look like the old battle bots show. Unfortunately, the most carnage I seen in this competition was seeing a battle bots flip upside down. The battle itself was not like the show where they destroy each other, but more like a Sumo wrestling, because they would push each battle bots off the edge. I was not sure if there was a prize awarded if someone won, but I assume it be a small Lego accessory of some sort. Right next to the Battlebot arena, there was a large scale Technic themed Chess game going on. I couldn’t try playing the chess game, because there were already two both intellectual people on both sides, going head to head. I don’t think there was a prize to win that either, it was probably just for fun, and that is what Brickworld is all about.
