Brickman Awesome – Adelaide Convention Centre
– now till 27 January 2019
Words Geoff Jenke
Ryan ‘The Brickman’ McNaught has bought his latest exhibition, Brickman Awesome, to Adelaide, running from Thursday 10th January until Sunday 27th January at the Adelaide Convention Centre. Brickman Awesome marks Ryan’s fourth exhibition made entirely from LEGO® bricks. It features 39 models – none of which have ever been seen in Adelaide before – and is made from more than two million LEGO® bricks, taking over 5,000 hours to build.
Included will be the only life-sized LEGO® Harley Davidson ever made, and the largest ever LEGO® Caterpillar 797 dump truck. An outstanding model is a NASA SLS rocket, standing a whopping 7.5m tall and built from nearly half a million bricks.
There is also the fun of the zoo with a kangaroo, giant orca whale and a crocodile amongst other animals to be seen. However, for me the highlight was a full-size TARDIS from the TV show Doctor Who.
With 39 magnificent models to see it is a fun day for the whole family. Also, besides being a visual experience, it is also a hands-on experience. Lego fanatics get the chance to show off their building and creative skills by building a colony of penguins, their own time machine next to the TARDIS and help the team smash yet another LEGO® record by contributing to Australia’s longest LEGO® model – a giant snake. The Brickman team has already built the head and the tail but it needs all budding brickies who visit the exhibition to help build the belly. According to Clay Mellington, one of the Brickman’s builders (he used to be a carpenter before changing professions) there are a million pieces of Lego for the children (and adults) to play with onsite.
Hours of fun for the whole family.
Tickets from Ticketek.
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