The Adventures of Flat Tommy

A large contingent of the Brothers Brick were in Seattle to celebrate BrickCon 2015 last week. Unfortunately Tommy Williamson, our good friend and BrickNerd‘s Nerd-in-Chief, was unable to make it up from the in-bred backwards Gold Rush ghost town of Lompoc, California to join us.

The rumor was that a light mist had been reported approaching the water-starved Golden State from the North, so everyone was camped outside with their tongues out to try and capture droplets of precious moisture. In the end, it actually turned out to be a mysterious cloud of pleasant smelling smoke wafting down from the Portland area.

In an attempt to cheer Tommy up about this, and to give his hoards of adoring BrickCon fans something to throw their underwear at, we decided to create a substitute we called Flat Tommy. Flat Tommy fitted in perfectly. Most people couldn’t even tell the difference, even when talking to him, and soon enough he was put to work on various tasks:

Running contests…

Giving presentations…

Consoling contest losers…

And judging builds…

However, about two days into the event, Flat Tommy mysteriously vanished. Despite a thorough search that I assume we conducted, he could not be found anywhere. Meaning that he is now no more than a memory. Was that actually the real Tommy hanging out with us all along? There’s really no way to be sure – he’s just that two dimensional.

Here is the final known image of Flat Tommy, texted to me by one of Tommy’s amorous fans. No ransom demands were offered. If anyone knows of his wearabouts, please contact the Brothers Brick immediately. He is about 6 foot tall, weighs about three pounds, and is a quarter inch thick. Flat Tommy, that is. The real Tommy is much thicker.

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