We build a 3 meter tall Saturn V for the National Museum of Flight

Paxton House, in Berwickshire invited us to help celebrate Easter with a BIG Build of a suitably seasonally accessorised Easter Bunny!

Venues often commission us to build a model of local or topical importance to accompany their run of one of our touring exhibitions. The National Museum of Flight has an amazing collection of aircraft on display and they asked us if we could do a version of Concorde for them. Not one to shy away from a challenge we jumped at the chance to recreate the beautiful shape and lines!

We were back at the National Museum of Flight for Awesome Bricks, and it was awesome! It is always an incredible experience and it was wonderful to be back for our third year at the museum - making things even bigger and better! There was a wealth of attractions and activities for visitors of all ages!

Well, at least one of the droids! It was Edinburgh Comic Con this past weekend and, as it’s our local con, we thought it was time to do a BIG Build. Actor Jimmy Vee was one of the guest this years, best known for his roles in Harry Potter, Doctor Who and - of course - Star Wars! Jimmy played R2D2 in episodes VII and VIII, so it was great to get his seal of approval on the final model.

A few weeks ago, we were in Berlin for Fruit Logistica 2019 - more on that soon! Only a couple of weeks later and we are back again!

This weekend we were at the Carnegie Birthplace Museum in Dunfermline for another BIG Build - Dippy the Diplodocus.

To help make their stand out at the enormous Fruit Logistics Trade Show at the Messe Berlin, Chiquita hosted a live build of the star of The LEGO Movie 2, Bananar La Star!

Over Summer 2019, we worked with the Forge Mill Needle Museum on a number of a LEGO events. Alongside exhibitions of our Brick Built and Museum collections, we hosted two interactive build events.

A red squirrel in fact! And far more complex than it looks, this big squirrel was built for the Clackmannanshire Third Sector Interface (CTSI to you and me!) as part of an exhibition that we put on over the summer.

Now for one of our biggest BIG Builds. Built over a full 6 days, this got almost all of the team involved. Nottingham Castle (yes, that one with the Sheriff of Nottingham) are closing this summer for a huge 2 year renovation.

Our latest BIG Build was at Dollar Academy. One of the top private schools in Scotland, they were celebrating their bi-centenary.

Awesome Bricks is back at the National Museum of Flight!

When we were deciding what our BIG Build should be for 2018, how about a world famous stunt display team?

Game, set, match! The Nottingham Tennis Open asked us to build them a HUGE tennis ball. Really huge. 

Kicking off our 2018 BIG Build summer season, Kirsten and Alastair were at the Midland Railway Museum. We were tasked to re-create one of their locos in LEGO to start 'Butterley Brick Week'.

I was pointed to an article on LinkedIn this week, which happens to cover our DFDS ship - and is a great explanation of what we and DFDS were trying to achieve. And just in case you don't speak Danish, here's an English translation, courtesy of Google translate:

Around this time last year, Teresa and I were in Portugal for the first LEGO fan weekend. Not their first event, but the first as a fully fledged hub event. Anyway, the event last year was fantastic. I'll be honest in that we had no idea what to expect, but whatever ideas we might have had were blown away by the hospitality, generosity and professionalism of the event. Obviously......

If you were in the Kennet Shopping Centre in Newbury last week - you can't have failed to notice this going on! Highclere Castle is the real life building that is used as the setting for Downton Abbey. A TV show that a few people have seen apparently!

‘Tis the seasons for Pumpkins! At this year’s BrickLive event at the Birmingham NEC, we went Pumpkin-crazy - making not one, but two giant pumpkins with the help of our Master Builders, volunteers and visitors to the show.

This is probably our biggest, and most incredible build to date, and when we say big - we mean Guinness World Record breaking BIG! Built in collaboration with DFDS, the Danish Shipping Company, Jubilee Seaways is the world’s largest (supported) LEGO(R) ship. The ship was launched in Copenhagen on August 17, 2016. At 12.035m long, and built using over a million LEGO(R) bricks, she is a world record breaker!