First off, I should mention that this had nothing to do with Trump. David Guedes, Keith Reed, and I started planning this project in Late 2014, and we completed it in April 2016.
Based on the giant Ice Wall from Game of Thrones, this large lego build was 4.6 feet tall and 5 feet wide. While we never counted, it’s fair to guess it’s about 100,000 pieces.
We finished the wall at BrickCan 2016 and it was a big hit. So a few months later, we brought it to BrickCon 2016 in Seattle. During that set up, I took a time-lapse video of us assembling the wall modules, and doing all the decorating. The process took about 8 hours, with 2 or 3 of us working on it most of the time.
And while at BrickCon, some guys came over and took some video of me talking about the wall. My eternal apologies for not getting the others! I didn’t know what Beyond the Brick was till I saw it weeks later. :\
I have only build a few corporate logos, and this one was a pretty easy build. The bigger challenge was the giant LEGO play area for 40 kids at their big family event, which was fun. And, of course they kept the logo at the end.
The funny part is, years later I was asking a lawyer friend about finding a lawyer for a project and he recommended his sister. I walked into her firm and there was my brick-built logo sitting in the entry! Small world.
I built the imperial fort for the recent Surrey Museum’s LEGO® Pirate exhibit in 2010.
(Credit to Allan Corbeil and Dave De Gobbi for the houses behind the fort)
While the fort is a unique creation, the architectural style is loosely based on a Dutch fort I visited in the north of Brazil, Fort Natal.
Both the stone and LEGO forts have the same thick wall for repelling cannon balls and heavy crenels to hide the troops and cannons.
While the fort was based on reality, the whirlpool was entirely fictional 🙂
The motorized whirlpool spun along side the Coral Castle I build. Random fact; I used approx 800 1×1 round white plates and 500 round bricks to make the coral, mostly jammed sideways into the open holes of Technic bricks. The best part is that I didn’t have to do it alone. I had many hours of help from fellow builders Pierre and Pascal.
A new LEGO exhibit open April 25th at the Museum of Surrey!
If you want to see a lot of LEGO, mark your calendar and head out to the Museum of Surrey. 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 pieces.
When Building a LEGO project, I don’t ever imagine that I will make kids cry, but it happened once. I built this McD’s for a 1950s layout, based on the original location with the golden arches.
And stealing a joke from the Simpsons, I put a truck in the back, unloading one of every animal into the kitchen. I built this in 2006 so there were far fewer LEGO animals available. But there were Polar Bears, Monkeys, Snakes, Rats, Cats, Frogs and Horses!
Anyway, a kid saw it and started crying “Mom, it’s not true! It’s not true!” 🙂
