Lego fest at convention center

[Tater36]

Taking my son to Lego fest at the convention center and sad to see this on their website:
"prohibited items: weapons of any kind, to include off duty police officers"

if I didn't already buy tickets I wouldn't go.

 

[RobbyMaQ]

Thanks for the heads up. I didn't realize they had a lego convention. I will look it up, as my son would love something like this.

Sadly, any event I have been to at the ICC has been pretty much 'gun free' except the nra convention.

 

[RobbyMaQ]

ok wow, this looks more like an interactive guided tour thing. I figured it was like any other convention.
Please post some pics or an aar if you can. Might help us to better determine if it's worth trying to schedule next year!

 

[Tater36]

Don't think it's guided. Just tickets have time brackets so they can get more people in and out..

 

[88GT]

What is the Convention Center, in terms of private property or government-owned?

 

[Twangbanger]

The policy stinks, but "...to include off duty Police Officers" sounds like a death wish. Do they think police response time is all they need?

 

[Tater36]

Yup... Exactly.

 

[glockednlocked]

lego metal detectors work? gun up!

 

[Dead Duck]

You should OC a Lego handgun. And of course CC your EDC.

 

[Tater36]

You should OC a Lego handgun. And of course CC your EDC.

Thats an awesome idea!!

 

[eldirector]

What is the Convention Center, in terms of private property or government-owned?

Public.

https://www.icclos.com/about.aspx

The Indiana Convention Center & Lucas Oil Stadium is managed by the Capital Improvement Board of Managers (CIB) created in 1965 by the Indiana General Assembly and empowered to finance and manage capital improvements.

About | Capital Improvement Board

The Capital Improvement Board (CIB) is a municipal corporation of Marion County

So, the Convention Center may NOT make firearms policies. However, the exhibitors MAY.

And, from their own policy book:
http://www.icclos.com/pdf/ICCLOSFacilityGuide.pdf
Page 30, bullit #8

As of July 1, 2011, the CIB may not regulate Firearms in its facilities

 

[yeti rider]

I looked all over the convention center website and the lego kids fest website for firearm information. I found nothing on the lego website. We went to the same festival in Cincinnati a year or two ago, and I don't remember any security being in place.

 

[Turfweazel]

The lego convention was in Fort Wayne not to long ago. The family and I went with two of us carrying. We had no problems getting in and there was no security. It is very cool to see all the lego stuff set up. There was a guy who had a operational lego hand gun that had removable mags and shot little lego pieces.

 

[RobbyMaQ]

We go to Gencon each year, and it's a similar policy. Any 'fake' weapons have to be clearly fake, and peace bonded.

Anyways, there is a robotic game, made entirely from legos. The robots are legos, and you select your moves for your robot prior to the game beginning. In a sense, you have to predict what you want your robot to do (accomplishing tasks along the way) in addition to predicting what you think everyone else robot is going to do. Because if they block your path/moves, then it affects every other move you chose previously. Good fun.

Even the conveyor belt computerized 'card reader' (the order of moves you wish to perform) is made of legos. Pretty cool.

 

[88GT]

Public.

https://www.icclos.com/about.aspx


About | Capital Improvement Board


So, the Convention Center may NOT make firearms policies. However, the exhibitors MAY.

And, from their own policy book:
http://www.icclos.com/pdf/ICCLOSFacilityGuide.pdf
Page 30, bullit #8

So it's a concealed means concealed kind of thing. I thought so, but wasn't sure.

 

[Tater36]

No metal detectors or pat-downs. Only half-hazard bag searches

 

[yeti rider]

Just walked right past security. They do not check anything if you don't have a bag.