Page Not Found (404) Sorry, what you're looking for can't be found! The page might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavaible. Or it probably just doesn't exist.World's largest LEGO store opens in Leicester Square The world's biggest Lego store opens in London on Thursday marked by the unveiling of a six-metre high 200,000-brick Big Ben. The structure dominates the two-storey 914 square metre store in Leicester Square after taking 2,280 hours to build, and features a working clock face which will be illuminated at night. The opening also includes the unveiling of a new Lego mascot named Lester, an English tea-drinking Minifigure, and the first Lego London skyline replica set ahead of its worldwide release in January. The phenomenally successful Danish company reports having sold more than 72 billion Lego "elements" or pieces last year. Loren Shuster, executive vice president and chief commercial officer at Lego said: "We want to inspire and develop children across the globe through creative Lego play experiences, and our Lego Brand retail stores allows children, parents and fans to explore the many different Lego products while getting a truly unique and immersive experience of the Lego brand."
Lego made headlines last week when it announced it had no further plans for free giveaways in the Daily Mail following a campaign calling on advertisers to boycott newspapers promoting "demonisation and division" during the Brexit debate. The company - which ended its relationship with Shell in 2014 after a Greenpeace video highlighted the oil group's plans to drill in the Arctic - declined to say if it was responding to the campaign or if it had changed its marketing plans.Mind the gap … between all 637,903 Lego bricks used to make this life-size Tube carriage. It is on display at the world’s largest Lego store, which opened today in Leicester Square. The London flagship has been two years in development and also features models of a dragon, the Elizabeth Tower and Big Ben and a Royal Mail postbox. The creations on display are made from 1.7 million bricks and together weigh five tonnes. More than a third of those bricks went into the London Underground carriage, created in partnership with Transport for London.
It took 4,000 hours to make and features an unusual passenger — a model of Shakespeare. Dylan Collie, 12, was given a sneak preview of the store and said: “There is so much to do. It was bigger than I expected and sitting on the Tube carriage makes it feel like the whole world has turned into Lego.” The 914 sq m store also has a 1:15 scale model of the Elizabeth Tower and Big Ben, which is 6.5m tall and weighs 1,035 kilograms. It took six model builders nearly 3,000 hours to create from 344,030 bricks, features a working clock and chimes with the sound of Big Ben. There are also models of a telephone box, the Leicester Square Tube roundel and an Underground map. Attractions include the world’s first Lego Mosaic Maker, which allows shoppers to buy a personalised Lego mosaic portrait. The machine captures the portrait before producing instructions and the bricks required to complete the image. There are also play tables where children can sit and build. John Goodwin, executive vice president and chief financial officer of the Lego Group, said: “We want to inspire and develop children through creative play experiences — and this store is all about that.”
I love deciding which sets I am interested in, I like reading and researching it, building it, playing with it and then making something else from it. I play with it for hours. With the world's biggest LEGO store opening its doors in Leicester Square I took my love of LEGO one step further and actually became a LEGO masterpiece Among the 1.7 million bricks used to build the vast models in the store there is a booth that turns people into 4,502 pieces of LEGO. The Mosaic Maker is a world exclusive to the London store which scans the face like in a passport photo booth, and then converts the image into a LEGO pixels. I am now officially a LEGO set. For me it was the highlight of my visit to the store, which began by walking through the Victorian tube station 'iron gate' made out of tens of thousands of black bricks. After just a few minutes taking it all in I realised the shop had been made just for me... and the millions of other LEGO enthusiasts. The flagship store is made up of two floors with jaw-dropping replica models which took 10,000 hours to create.
The centrepiece is a beautifully intricate, two-storey chiming Big Ben with a working clock face. The hourly chimes were the only clue to how long I had been in there. Brickley the dragon, complete with iconic London accessories of a bowler hat and black umbrella, is also coiled ready to welcome visitors. As I sat in between life-size models of William Shakespeare and a Queen's Guard, and just a few inches away from Her Majesty the Queen, I thought there couldn't be anything more English. The walls of the store are lined with sets to buy, from Architecture, Star Wars, Ninjago, Nexo Knights, Friends, LEGO City and to the cars and buildings of the Creator series. It is an experience where you can play at the activity station, although you might be rudely interrupted by an insistent remote control R2-D2. There is also the pick-a-brick wall- the master build station where you can add your own flair to London landscapes but get help to build an original design.
It is the subtle yet stunning details that make LEGO so appealing to all ages and all levels of ability, from the stunning 3D landscape that cascades on the stairwell , to the "Mind the Gap" tube station platform for people waiting to get in the lift, complete with dirt, litter and a tiny spider. The store will be a must-see for Lego enthusiasts of every age, as well as tourists from all around the world descending on the capital. Find the store at 3 Swiss Court, W1D Follow Lizzie Edmonds on Twitter @LizzieEdmo /2017/02/19/march-sets-now-available-through-lego-shophome/ on this server. Your technical support key is: 36b3-d2a1-1756-6707Sign In or Create Account0000Tony Stark's goatee, in particular. There's only one thing that every male between the ages of 5 and 105 can universally agree on: the key to world peace can be found in Kate Upton's cleavage. Oh, and also, that Legos make everything better. The third installment of Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man franchise hits theaters on May 3rd, and while Iron Man 2 was kind of a snooze, these brand-new Lego replicas of the Iron Man 3 movie posters have us pretty amped to see what Marvel has in store this time around.
Check them out below, along with our predictions for what they reveal about the new movie's plot. Ok, so as far as we can tell from this poster, Iron Man 3 is all about spaceships exploding in the middle of the ocean, and little alien creatures with jetpacks who look like Darth Vader! Also, in the time since we saw him last, Tony Stark was involved in a mysterious accident that left him fingerless (cue dream sequence!), and now he must find a way to save the world—without opposable thumbs.So, as if it wasn't bad enough that he's got no hands and gets his grooming advice from V of V for Vendetta, apparently Tony Stark also has nothing to wear! Oh wait, yes he does. He has all these fucking baller Iron Man bespoke suits, and Pepper Potts makes him keep them all organized in this superhero closet from the future. Honestly, if you really want to know what happens in Iron Man 3, you should probably just watch the trailer. Sure, we could've just done that ourselves instead of making all this shit up, but it's a weekday during business hours;