Bring the whole family together to play, to create and to explore the world of design. “What a great spot to encourage creativity and free-form thinking. We can’t wait to spend an afternoon with you and your loved ones over a big bin of LEGO®, reading stories about the building blocks of architecture, and quenching your child’s thirst for building and creating. Drop in and stay for a few hours during one of our studio programs or dig in for a week-long camp. Whatever your family’s schedule looks like, we have something to help you explore and design together. When your creative gears are really turning, sometimes one afternoon just isn’t enough! CAF offers camps throughout the year that'll keep those wheels spinning for your 7- to 14-year-old. Alongside other campers of his or her age, your child can explore the built environment and dive into the design process. Nathan Sawaya sees worlds and universes when he looks at a little rectangular brick of plastic.
Right now his universe is a 10-foot-long speedboat he's building out of Lego bricks at the Qwest Field Event Center. The Seattle Boat Show commissioned Sawaya to build a replica of a sleek, navy-blue Chris-Craft speedster, to be completed at breakneck pace during the 10 days of the boating extravaganza. "It's my passion," Sawaya says of Lego sculpting, while slapping blue tiles to the top of his boat's hull. "Maybe that's trite to say. But when I take on a big project, that's all I dream about at night." Sawaya, 31, hopes to be finished this morning, but he has until Sunday evening to beat the clock. Show organizers hope the sculpture makes it into the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest Lego boat. This is the biggest project that Sawaya has attempted, considerably larger than the 7-foot-tall orange and red T-Rex he made last year. By birth and childhood, Sawaya is a local boy. He was born in Colville, spent the first six years of his life in Olympia, then lived in a small town outside of Eugene, Ore., until he went to college in New York City, where he's lived ever since.
Last year, Sawaya got his childhood dream job -- working at Legoland in Carlsbad, Calif., as a Lego master builder for seven months. He was hired after winning a national contest, in which he beat 26 contenders. Ever since his grandparents sent him a Lego set for Christmas in 1978, Sawaya has loved expressing his artistic side through the famous Danish brickettes. He soon took over the family's living room, building his 36-foot-square childhood masterpiece -- a Lego city that grew and grew, with police headquarters, a bank, even a fast-food joint called McLego's. "In high school, it's not the coolest thing, I found," he says with dry wit. Same with college, so he kept his Legos under a bed in his dorm room, a time he wryly refers to as "the dark days." But, in the years after college, he made peace with his art. Friends have accepted it," he says. "It's become something I cherish." Now he prefers to be called a professional Lego artist, and says that one actually could make a living at it, albeit a bit of a Bohemian one, with enough trade shows, corporate logos and company events.
But, Sawaya does have a full-time job, as a lawyer who handles corporate mergers and acquisitions. It is, however, the Lego-ing, not the lawyering, that has landed him on TV on the "Today" show and in magazines such as Newsweek. What was a late-night, blurry-eyed obsession is turning into a second career, with commissioned projects. Sawaya said his work generally starts at several hundred dollars and goes up. A two-dimensional Seattle mosaic-style skyscape is tagged at $1,100. For the Chris-Craft speedster -- a real 20-foot one sits just behind his model -- Sawaya is using dozens of shapes of bricks in eight colors. He's a detail-oriented artist: the chairs swivel, the propeller spins, the steering wheel will turn, and the American flag -- with anchor instead of stars -- even appears to undulate. Sawaya won't disclose the estimated number of bricks the boat is made of, because there's a contest to win a trip for four to Legoland for guessing the closest. But he does let on that there are more than 100,000 in the 10-foot-long, 4-foot-wide sculpture, which he estimates will weigh about 1,000 pounds when done.
Michael Campbell, president of the Northwest Marine Trade Association, which produces the Seattle Boat Show, said he saw Sawaya on TV and thought it would be fun to have him build a boat. "Every time you put on an event, you're trying to make it fun for the people to come, and you want to do something different," Campbell says. On Thursday, the boat was about 60 percent finished, with the sleek hood, rear section, clear windshield and bench seating to be done. The first few days, Sawaya worked 14 hours, then ramped up to 18-hour days. He said a project of this size, which took about 80 hours to design and draw on graph paper, normally would take about eight weeks to finish. As Sawaya works, people often stop by to admire the boat and chat. "So, if the RV show comes along and says they want an RV?" asks spectator Gene Schnell.Boeing hasn't talked to you yet, have they? But I'll be in Seattle a few more days." Another man surveys the boat and says: "Not too bad -- you can be a kid forever.
If I bring my grandson down here, he's going to go crazy." But the question Sawaya hears all the time is: "Will it float?" It probably would, if it were glued together. But, the 10-day turnover is too short to individually glue all of the pieces. So, this baby, she won't be seaworthy. But Campbell said he may have the boat taken apart, then shipped to other boat shows around the country. They could then hire Sawaya to put it back together.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Boats and ship sets are essential for every Lego fan. The big boats or mini boats of Lego are indispensable in the product range and belong to every Lego city boat set or city harbour. Let‘s begin with the Lego sailing boat or maybe you like more the long Lego cargo ship which ships into other countries. The Lego firefighter ship or the city fire boat (7207) should not be missed at the city fire brigade, the Lego city coast guard boat is always needed during a boat crash to prevent them from sinking. The Lego police speed boat (7899) is also a must have as a police boat (4010) when on duty on high seas and why not going fishing on a Lego city fishing boat (4642).
You can attach the many boats at your city port where you have also enough space for a Lego speed boat, a police boat (7287) or a hover craft. Let your celebrities party on a ferry boat, or let your pirates have a battle like in the movie „Pirates of the Carribean“ and let your ships sink in the sea. If you have had enough of your boats on sea go deep into the underwater world with a submarine. Gird yourself for the battle offshore like in Pearl harbor and ram other ships on their boat hull underwater. Try and build a Lego Ninjago ship and let the it fly through unknown worlds. The Lego chima boat is a big and complex building project which is not always easy to construct it. Even a big boat needs a lot of time and you must have a passion for doing it. If you feel lost and you have no boat creator or any ideas on how to keep on going on, a Lego boat instruction can be very helpful to construct the perfect boat of your dreams. You can find the Lego instruction for boats, ships and submarines in our shop.