Walk past the test tubes filled with LEGO bricks and wait for the doors to LEGO Factory to open! Meet Professor Brick-a-Brack and help him make some LEGO bricks! Over 100,000 special bricks are made in our factory every year. So, push those buttons hard, listen to the bells ring and watch for the lights to change. What kind of special brick have you created? LEGO® Ninjago City Adventure OPENS 23RD MARCH! LEGO® CITY: Forest Ranger Pursuit LEGO® Racers: Build & TestA WORLD record-breaking Lego sculpture of Tower Bridge has been built to mark the launch of a new Land Rover car. The replica landmark was built using 5.8 million bricks — breaking the previous record by nearly half a million — and took five months to complete. Laid out end to end the bricks would stretch from London to Paris, a distance of 200 miles.The new Land Rover Discovery beside the record-breaking four-storey Lego bridgeBear Grylls abseils down from a helicopter to land on Lego Tower Bridge
Time-lapse video shows how record-breaking Lego Tower Bridge was built It was revealed at Packington Hall in Warwickshire alongside the new Land Rover Discovery SUV. TV adventurer Bear Grylls and sports legends Sir Ben Ainslie were there to mark the spectacle -- with Grylls abseiling down from a helicopter onto the four-storey Lego landmark. Taking a dip ... Sir Ben Ainslie drove the new Discovery under the replica landmark Out the other end ... Sir Ben and his sailing team drove through the trough of water symbolising the Thames Meanwhile, sailing star Sir Ben took his America's Cup team for something they're not used to -- a trip UNDER the water in the new seven-seater. He was even towing another Lego creation -- a replica of his racing boat made from 186,500 bricks. He drove the car through a deep trough of water representing the Thames during the big reveal on Wednesday. Bobbing about in the waterZara Phillips jumps over two Discovery cars
New Land Rover beside mega bridge and sporting celebs There was also a chance for expert equestrian Zara Phillips, the Queen's granddaughter, to show off as she vaulted over the bonnets of two Discoveries parked nose-to-nose. Emma Owen, LEGO UK and Ireland spokeswoman, said: “We are thrilled that Jaguar Land Rover has used Lego bricks to add some Guinness World Record-breaking creativity to the launch of the latest Discovery." 1. Land Rover Discovery Tower Bridge (2016) – 5.8m bricks 2. Star Wars X-Wing Fighter (2013) – 5.3m bricks 3. Lego house created for James May's BBC programme Toy Stories (2009) – 3.3m bricks 4. Herobot 9000 A mecha robot (2011) – 2.8m bricks 5. Allianz Arena scale replica of the spectacular Munich soccer stadium (2005) - 1.3m bricks Do you have a story for The Sun Online news team? Email us at tips@the-sun.co.uk or call 0207 782 4368TALE AS OLD AS TIME – LEGO REPLICA OF DISNEY’S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST CASTLE GETS BRICKLIVE PREMIERE
Professional LEGO artist and graphic designer Kevin Hall from Brick Galleria is hoping for a fairy-tale ending for his latest build – a replica of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast Castle that is currently being completed ready for its premiere at BRICKLIVE. Based on the iconic animated classic, the staggering 250,000-piece build, using LEGO bricks, plates, tiles and arches, will be on show at Birmingham’s NEC from Thursday 27th to Sunday 30th October. Standing at around two metres tall at the highest tower and covering one-and-a-half square metres at it’s base, the castle is built at mini-figure scale and has taken nearly three months to build. Kevin has spent hours watching and re-watching the 1991 film in order to include all the details that fans will be looking for, as well as interpreting the main structure. “The biggest challenge has been getting the angles right on the parts of the castle that you can’t see in the movie,” explains Kevin. “The film is two-dimensional so in order to build a replica that is as near to the one on-screen as possible, I’ve had to study every second to gain as much info as possible.
I even looked at the various castles at the Disneyland resorts but each of those are different to the film so any gaps have had to be filled by artistic licence.” Visitors can expect to see the glass encased rose, the fairy-tale book, but the biggest highlight is the stunning ballroom complete with the giant windows, internal balcony, grand piano and of course Belle and the Beast dancing on a slowly revolving floor. Adding to the magic are 150 LED lights placed inside the castle so the structure glows not only in the ballroom ceiling but also from the 100 plus windows, each made of around 40 LEGO parts, throughout the structure. When finished, the tower roofs will be made up of around 20,000 LEGO tiles in four different colours, each individually clipped onto LEGO tubing within the roof cavities to create the unique pitch of the original castle towers. It is also estimated to weigh around 100 kilograms. Kevin decided he wanted to be a professional LEGO builder when he was just six-years-old and has over 30 years of design and building experience, with a fondness for creating castles.
“The Beauty and the Beast structure has given me the opportunity to combine my longtime love of Disney with my passion for LEGO. I’d never had the time or the resource before so this has been a fantastic project.” See this stunning model and many more at BRICK LIVE. Book your tickets now and take advantage of our four tickets for the price of three offer by quoting code BL43! Welcome to Citizen Brick Congratulations on finding your way to Citizen Brick, home of the finest custom printed LEGO items around. We offer truly unique products for the LEGO fan looking for something a little off the beaten path. Whether shopping for the perfect one-of-a-kind gift, or just something for your own collection, Citizen Brick has the solution! Why are Citizen Brick products so awesome? Well, it starts with the freshest ingredients.. We use authentic LEGO and LEGO-compatible parts, and print in-house at our Chicago print shop. Other sites claim to print on LEGO, but only Citizen Brick uses authentic pad printing – the same process used to create factory-made LEGO products.