Another LEGO exhibit at the Museum of Surrey has opened to the public with much excitement! The VLC (Adult LEGO club) has a great exhibit on until Sep 13th. It called Worlds of Wonder, and feature Wonderful things about our world in three categories; Technological Wonder, Natural Wonders and Historic Wonders. All Illustrated with LEGO!
My Big contribution this year is a world map, which highlights some ‘Historic Wonders’. The map is 16 feet wide, the largest footprint of any build I have done.
At home, I was only able to set up a few continents at a time. Here are the Americas taking over my living room. Once finished, I boxed them up and continued on.
The map is 16 feet across, at a scale of 55km/1-brick/stud. I chose to exagerate the topography by 20x, so that the tallest mountains in the Himalayas would be 3 LEGO bricks tall, rather than being half a plate tall. The map used about 40,000 LEGO pieces and half of those were green plates, most of what I have. Time to go back to the LEGO store. 🙂
A few days ago, I finally got to lay the whole thing out at the Museum.
Credits to Thanh, Keith, Allan, Melinda, Dave, and many others for contributing little historic builds and animals to the map.