MODEL EXPO ITALY 2026 On March 7th and 8th, the largest modeling event took place, featuring a large area dedicated to brick-built creations. By now, attending the Brick Arena (as the LEGO pavilion is called), managed by CLV, has become a tradition for me, and as every year, I’ll try to describe what you missed if you stayed home. First of all, I need to clarify something: I’ve come across several complaints about a scaled-down version of the event with fewer exhibitors. I wonder whether those who made such criticisms watched the same movie I did. It’s true that the area dedicated to us AFOLs was smaller than usual, and part of it was occupied by general market stalls (which isn’t the first time, by the way); nevertheless, there were well over 300 exhibitors. Even though we were “packed” into a smaller hall, which was still "packed", I wouldn’t say we were neglected. Many people probably don’t know that the CLV team had to work incredibly hard due to issues related to the ...