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I really can't advise you as everyone is different. I don't think I'd go to just a convention's public days but that's because I wouldn't enjoy wandering around just looking at bricks. AFOLdom is about community for me.
I did go to a BrickFair public day before I attended the convention but I had my daughter and we took friends and I knew people to talk to. One of them added a MOC of mine to his train layout that year.
I guess the question is - are you the kind of person who'd go to LEGOland just to wander around miniland?
Hope that helps a bit.
You'd better get working on something just in case :)
This is a very different experience than a traditional fan convention. It's broken up in "sessions," which means you can only access the room during the time you purchased your ticket for, during which you will be able to do the hands-on activities or see some of the presenters they have travel for the event. It's not like BW where the public hours run all day. That said, you can pretty much do/see everything in the session time frame.
This is the first time we've done a BrickUniverse event, but all comparisons I can find show it's closer to something like BrickFest Live. There's tons of fun for kids, but AFOLs might find it a little less exciting.
If you have one of their stops coming to within an hour or two of your area, I would say it's worth your time to check it out.
What's your opinion of the "sessions" concept? It sounds to me like something that wouldn't work well with a large show, so are they planning on keeping these small enough to be absorbed in 2-3 hours?
If the show was much larger, I think the three hour cap would be difficult. This was just the right size though.
@Jenni - The organizer (who is all of 17!) seems to really know what he's doing. I was very impressed with how smoothly everything ran.
Also, I retract my earlier comments about there not being much for AFOLs. I talked to so many people who were there this weekend without kids and they seemed so surprised to see a group like my LUG there. I have a feeling we're about to see a membership boost in the coming months.
Favorite pic from the weekend (Members of the 501st were there)