Sam displayed next to me at that 2018 convention, and I’ve gotten to know them quite well since then. I reached out to Simon myself as an “orphan” back at Brickworld 2016, and I have been displaying there ever since. As the name implies, it’s a place for those coming to Brickworld who haven’t yet been “adopted” by a LUG, and that reach out in need of a displaying family at the show. Fortunately, Simon Liu always reserves a little extra table space at Brickworld in an area affectionately known as “OrphanLUG”. That was the year Sam showed up to the convention not realizing that you needed to reserve table space in advance to display. I added Samuel Hatmaker (Wildflower) into my “AFOL Family” back at Brickworld Chicago 2018. I greatly expanded on that collection of friends this year by teaming up with many other like-minded, community-focused contributors and patrons here at BrickNerd, and there is always room for more in this altruistic “AFOL Family”. or the one” These are the people that coordinate and volunteer at various conventions, that covertly give out recognition to the overlooked, that host building contests, that act as the “ LEGO Parents” and mentors to new MOC builders, that donate to Creations for Charity, that walk miles to donate LEGO to a hospital, etc. These are the like-minded people that always tend to give more back to the community (and others) than they take from it, with no hidden agendas and without any thinly-veiled self-promotion… or as Spock might put it, the people that recognize “ the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. I alluded to it during my past “ White Brick” article, but to spell it out - my mission is to meet and make lasting friendships with all of the truly genuine and kind-hearted people in this hobby of ours. Since we have written quite a few articles about different types of AFOL collections on BrickNerd, I thought it was about time to confess to having a special type of collection myself a literal “Collection of AFOLs” (Adult Fans Of LEGO) that I am proud to call my “AFOL Family”. However, before we teleport ourselves back to mid-August and the “ Roddenberry Interactive Stage” of the recent Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas, I’d first like to tell you about a “mission” of my own.