In East Anglia and looking to get your 'science on' next week?

On Monday, Warren will be appearing in Norwich as part of the 2018 Science Festival!

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:

'Jurassic joy' was brought to the Harris Museum and Art Gallery in Preston Lancashire, during the summer, swelling visitor numbers to the gallery. Brick Dinos paid a visit to the awe-inspiring museum in Preston's City Centre for two months, and visitor numbers exceeded 40,000 during that time!

August was a busy month for all of us here at Warren Elsmore, as we welcomed thousands of visitors to our ‘Brick City- The Backstage Tour’ as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.  For one month only we moved our studio into the Scottish Historic Buildings Trust's newly refurbished headquarters at Riddles Court, just off the famous Royal Mile, right in the heart of 'the fringe'.

The Warren Elsmore Team were busy towards the end of August with an event called Awesome Bricks at the Scottish Museum of flight at East Fortune Airfield near North Berwick. We were on hand all weekend to assist with lots of LEGO activities and to have some fun with bricks.

Brick Wonders Exhibition has arrived at Banbury Museum in Oxfordshire

Come and see over half a million bricks used to create amazing 'wonders' of the world, including Geographic Wonders such as the Grand Canyon, Ancient Wonders such as the building of the Pyramids, and Modern Wonders such as medicine, transport and space exploration. The exhibition runs from Sept 16th to Nov 18th.

After a successful Edinburgh Fringe Festival run (Brick City - the Backstage Tour) things are starting to get back to normal, and we recently returned a lot of models, bricks and equipment back to our studio. But the two huge LEGO brick arches that highlighted our location on the Royal Mile had been sitting outside for a month, and needed some TLC. They have now been carefully dismantled, cleaned and returned to our Warehouse. It's not all glamorous work being professional LEGO® artists!

Most of the time, when we build a commission - it belongs to our clients so they can do whatever they like with it. Even a 2.8 tonne, 13 metre long ship. But sometimes, there are special circumstances!

It's all been a bit hectic here lately, that's for sure! We're right in the middle of putting our studio back together, following on from the Festival. Don't worry - we'll be posting lots of pictures soon.

As we continue to add more buildings and scenery to Brick City - the backstage tour, we realised last week that we really did need some more roads. Specifically, roads that could fit between our houses and waterside. LEGO road plates are actually pretty large and not that pretty, so why not make them ourselves?

If you're in Edinburgh this month and you like LEGO (well, you're reading this - so I guess you do!) then we have a challenge for you and a chance to win free tickets to our Edinburgh Fringe show!

Pop quiz! What's the oldest continually running parliament in the world? Hint - it's not the UK but it is nearby....

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!