LEGO Big Builds: Overwatch D. Va
Apr13

LEGO Big Builds: Overwatch D. Va

As reported yesterday, to coincide with London Games Fest, the huge brick-built version of Overwatch character D. Va has appeared in London’s Trafalgar Square this morning and BricksFanz very own London correspondent Mark Campbell has been to the popular tourist spot to check it out. The build measures 9ft tall, and features D.Va together with her Mech Suit MEKA. The whole build weighs around 570kg and it contains 145,276 LEGO...

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LEGO Big Builds: Harry Potter Ford Anglia
Mar16

LEGO Big Builds: Harry Potter Ford Anglia

Towards the end of last year at London Comic-Con, a large-scale LEGO® Big Build of the magical Ford Anglia from the Harry Potter films, was on display at ExCel. If you didn’t attend the event then you can check out the build being created, thanks to a recently published behind the scenes video. This life-sized build was made from over 500,000 elements and took LEGO Master Builders over 920 hours to design and build. It was...

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Building A 13ft Tall LEGO Saturn V
Mar04

Building A 13ft Tall LEGO Saturn V

Last weekend the National Space Centre in Leicester celebrated the 50th anniversary of the launch of the Saturn 9 rocket. One of the activities taking place as part of the attractions ‘Gumdrop Sunday’ event was a live build of a huge LEGO® Saturn V rocket. Visitors to the Space Centre helped Brickish members Jon and gary, to build the 1/32 scale LEGO Saturn V model. At just over 13ft in height, the structure is one of the largest...

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Behind The Scenes LEGO Silverado Big Build
Feb18

Behind The Scenes LEGO Silverado Big Build

A behind the scenes video has been released for the life-sized LEGO® Big Build of the Chevrolet Silverado. Although the build is impressive enough, what’s most intersting about the video is the process LEGO model builders go through to create the builds and what happens to them once finished. Many of these builds end up outside during events or at LEGOLAND parks, to the have to be protected somehow and this video shows just...

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Help Build A Huge Emmet At Selected UK LEGO Stores
Jan30

Help Build A Huge Emmet At Selected UK LEGO Stores

At the start of January US LEGO® fans could help build a huge version of Emmet at a couple of store opening events and now UK LEGO fans can join in the fun as the event makes its way to our shores. Join in the building fun with LEGO master builders, and help create an 8.5ft tall Emmet model, made completely out of LEGO Bricks. There will also be DUPLO® play tables for little builders to unleash their creativity. Everyone who takes...

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Great Brick Safari Arrives At RHS Garden Wisley
Jan26

Great Brick Safari Arrives At RHS Garden Wisley

If you missed The Great Brick Safari at Twycross Zoo towards the end of last year, it has now taken up residence at RHS Garden Wisley in Woking. Over eighty different brick-built beasts and creatures will be dotted around the Garden’s Glasshouse, making it another unique way to check out Bright Bricks travelling creations. Plus as an added bonus on February 16th, you’ll be able to meet one half of the Series 1 LEGO®...

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LEGO Nifflers Unleashed Across The UK
Nov16

LEGO Nifflers Unleashed Across The UK

To celebrate the launch of the latest film in the Fantastic Beasts series, The Crimes of Grindelwald, LEGO Group have created seven naughty Nifflers made out of 11,000 LEGO® bricks and weighing 30KG each. The incredible creatures, native to Britain are best known for escaping from Newt Scamander’s suitcase and attempting to rob a bank and jewellery shop in New York, have been spotted causing mischief at some of London’s best-known hot...

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Overwatch D.Va Gets The LEGO Big Build Treatment
Nov01

Overwatch D.Va Gets The LEGO Big Build Treatment

With BlizzCon kicking off tomorrow in Anaheim, LEGO® has unveiled a new Big Build model which will be on display at the event. The 9ft tall model is based on recent addition to the Overwatch lineup D.Va, The giant LEGO model of Overwatch’s iconic mech pilot and her mech suit MEKA, will be on-site protecting fans at BlizzCon 2018 in Anaheim on November 2-3. At over 9ft tall, together D.Va and MEKA weighs around a whopping 570kg....

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