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I have to say it was an amazing show, so many great models, so many great people, I had a real blast, also a huge thanks to my mum and father in law; Alan  who helped me! Couldn’t have done it without you both, and of course Qantas for getting me over there!.

So now where do I start well I think this picture explains a lot:

Yes the good people (yeah right!) at American Airlines totally destroyed one of the boxes from the airbus, as you can see they sure gave it a working over. (over 3,000 pieces missing) – it was clearly my fault for marking it “fragile!”

 So after several long days and nights, and calls & favours with people for parts, the plane was able to be re-assembled.

The Lego exhibition went very well,  with just over 800 exhibitors building some of the most amazing creations it was an amazing event, they do an academy awards style competition with the top 4 exhibits in the running for the grand prize, which I was lucky enough to be one of the four nominated! I didn’t win, but felt very honoured to have at least made it in the top 4, and it has inspired me to do better next year!

 
They had over ten thousand people come through on the public days, an amazing experience, and as Qantas had sponsored me I had a box of A380 brochures which people could take, they all disappeared very quickly and I had a constant stream of people over the public days tell me they always wanted to go to Australia, and everyone was very impressed by the flying kangaroo. I even had a couple from Canada who were booking their flights to Australia, and decided to change it to fly on Qantas so they could fly on the A380.

Watching the jaws drop of both children and parents alike when seeing the Qantas A380 is a great feeling. Having the touch screen active which allows everyone to control different functions on the plane made it even more special; watching a 5 year old fly a plane was very special and made the model even more fun.

Along with Australia’s Lego show in Melbourne in January – Brickvention, I’ve been invited back for next years event, and all going well I’ll be making another large model, this time the ship from the 80’s classic TV show, the love boat!   How I’ll get it over to the USA, well that is another question........

Reported in todays tabloids:

DAVID Beckham wants to be a professional Lego builder. The soccer star, who raises three sons, Brooklyn, 11, Romeo, eight, and five-year-old Cruz, with his singer-turned-designer wife Victoria Beckham, loves playing with the toy bricks and admits it would have been great to turn his hobby into a career.

He said: "What would I like to do if I wasn't a footballer? I love drawing cartoons and building Lego with my sons. "When I was in Milan I had such a big amount of spare time. I found online that you can buy a Lego model of the Taj Mahal so I bought it and started building it."

I think that means that my wife is now an official WAG!   - see i told you honey, LEGO is in fact for the rich and famous!