PortLUG minutes, general meeting, March 14th, 2026
Location: Shiekh Studio at Washington Square
Meeting host: Kelly Bartlett, Ambassador
- Swap meet
- Event participation rewards
If you could only have three LEGO sets to keep forever, what would they be?
- Mark II Technic Crane
- Red Delivery Van, Public Works Center, Airport from 80s
- Motorized Lighthouse, Lion Knights Castle
- Both rollercoasters
- Galaxy Commander, Ninjago City, Super Chassis ‘94
- Ninjago City sets
- Red Dragon’s Keep
- Metroliner
- 2017 Ninjago
- LEGO RC car, Milky Way
- PortLUG will be participating in the new Westside Comic Con; May 23–24 at the Wingspan Event Center in Hillsboro. Sign-ups will be sometime in April. We will have a MOC booth, with a panel on MOC building and a GBC workshop
- Zach H. is moving to Denmark, so PortLUG needs a new Social Media manager. This is currently mostly posting on instagram, including adding PortLUG members insta posts to our Story. Contact Eli B. (director@portlug.org) if you’re interested in helping
- Yay donations! Please continue! Also buying things from our Swag Shop helps PortLUG get funding for events and prizes.
- LAN update: PortLUG qualified for one botanical event package but it has not yet arrived.
- There may be a community build opportunity for Maersk – we do not yet know the results of our application.
- The LEGO website has a bunch of free mini builds!
- March 19: Bricks & Booze at Central Station Taps, Beaverton; 6:30–9pm
- March 24: Build Challenge at Shiekh Studio; TBA group-building game; $15 per person; Only a few spots remaining; Bricks will be drafted after the challenge
- April 2: Bricks & Booze at Beer Bunker, SE Portland; 6:30–9pm
- April 21: LEGO Bingo at 5 & Dime; 21 and over; Prizes!
- April 30–May 3: Bricks Cascade, Portland, OR; 15th Anniversary; $85 registration; Theme is “Out of this World:” Numerous collabs to participate in; brickscascade.com
- May 23–24: Westside Comic Con, Hillsboro, OR; Registration coming in April; westsidecomiccon.com
- June 17–21: Brickworld, Chicago, IL; brickworld.com/brickworld-chicago/
Please register your MOCs for Bricks Cascade sooner rather than later! If you have a large MOC let your theme coordinator know directly – the Bricks Cascade discord is the best way to find them, or you can reach out to the theme overlord at drew@brickscascade.com and he will put you in touch with the right theme coordinator.
- Casey
April 11
- Shiekh Studio at Washington Square
- Build Challenge: Minifig habitat on 8×8 plate
- Advanced Building Techniques panel
- Kevin H. – Knights of Columbus emblem, to celebrate 120-year anniversary of local council
- Cass M. – Polybag display cases idea: N64 game cases. Can be bought cheap as a pack online, or used game stores will often sell them individually for $1 or so
- Steve E. – New smaller weight class battlebot (lifter)
- Rick V. – “woke up this morning and built a cheese ball”
- Janene – Cattle drive river crossing for the Old West collab
- T.C. – Black & white quilt designs using the white wedge tiles from the pick-a-brick wall