Newsletter - May 2021
We have had our first tour open this month at the National Museum of Flight. Amazing to be back out building our tour in a venue! Full credit to the venue too, the COVID safe measures they have in place themselves and for visitors are so good and during build up certainly for us things were a little different. Building Concorde in situ was brilliant and in this months newsletter we are delighted to share the time lapse video. The tour has been a huge hit for the museum already and will be open until June 27th. It was also a great opportunity to use some of our new kit to support social distancing, more on that later too!
6-metre-long Concorde!
At the National Museum of Flight our first venue in 2021 for the Brick Wonders exhibiton, travel around the ancient, old, natural and new 'Wonders of the World' recreated in half a million LEGO bricks by Warren and the team. Plus as a special addition, the team created a Big Build of their own Concorde. Six metres long and made of over 60,000 2 x 4 bricks, it was built by the team over 4 days on-site directly under Concorde and will be on display throughout the exhibition.
Our timelapse video of the Concorde build gives you some idea of the work involved, but it was a great challenge and it’s fantastic to see our model underneath the real thing. For more detail on how we designed and built the model, you can read our blog post here.
COVID-19 safety & temporary walling panels
It’s been great working with such a good partner venue as the National Museum of Flight. Their COVID-19 safety measure have are excellent and work well with our new temporary walling panel. We introduced these panels to you in our March newsletter, but this is their first outing in a venue. If you’re interested in the detail of how they work, we’ve written it up in this blog post.
Tickets Giveaway! 104th Edinburgh NE Scout Group Talk with Warren
It all begins with a brick... Join Warren live from his workshop on Thursday June 3rd June at 7pm where we'll be speaking about his LEGO journey and his role as an author and artist in LEGO. Warren is donating his time and his help to raise funds to renovate a Scout Hall in Edinburgh, which also needs some new bricks (unfortunately real ones rather than LEGO Bricks....!)
The webinar will be held on zoom for one hour and feature a live presentation from Warren’s workshop followed by a live Q&A session. You can sign up for the webinar here and we have four free tickets to give away!
For your chance to win, simply:
LIKE our post about workshop on our Facebook or Instagram page,
TAG in who you would like to join you to watch the interview and
make sure you have liked our page
All funds raised from this talk will contribute directly towards the 104th Edinburgh North East Scouts Group hall refurbishment project. Thank you for your support.
Entries close at 5pm on Thursday 27th May 2021.
And Finally…
We were recently reminded of our friends over at Beyond the Brick featuring our DFDS Ship in the number 2 spot of their round-up of ‘Top 10 Epic LEGO Ships!’ Thanks, guys - always a pleasure to see you and hopefully it won’t be too long until we can all catch up!
Our full-size (12metres) and prototype (3metres) LEGO ships, a full-size DFDS Ship
