Building a life-size LEGO® Technic McLaren Formula 1 Race Car
We are super proud to finally be able to reveal our latest massive project for The LEGO Group – a life sized LEGO Technic® McLaren Formula 1 Race Car !This enormous model is over 5m long and weighs more than the real F1 car its modelled after! It took our whole team nearly 1,900 hours […]
Kmart presents Jurassic World by Brickman at the Australian Museum Sydney!
We’re bringing more than fifteen dinosaurs to Sydney’s Australian Museum when the Jurassic World by Brickman exhibition opens on Saturday 5 March 2022! Our biggest ever exhibition brings to life Jurassic World – the blockbuster franchise from Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment – turning it into the largest LEGO® exhibition in Australian history. The latest […]
Castle Hill LEGO Certified Store Models!
For Sydney’s third LEGO® Certified store in Castle Hill we decided to make our giant LEGO® minifig a Conservationist cuddling some cute koalas! We always try to localise our models to make them represent the area of the store and with so many wildlife parks not far from Castle Hill, it gave us the perfect […]
Building the LEGO® Masters Bricksmas Tree!
Merry Bricksmas everyone! For the two Christmas LEGO® Masters Australia specials this year we built both a giant LEGO brick Christmas Tree as well as new Christmas-themed version of the LEGO Masters Trophy. The Christmas tree was designed as huge upscaled version ( 16 x to be precise) of a small LEGO build, with giant […]
Perth LEGO Certified Store Models!
For Perth’s first LEGO store in Karrinyup we had the task of building both a giant LEGO minifigure as well as a mosaic for the store wall. Being the first store in WA we couldn’t go past a chance to build some of WA’s most iconic creatures- some Quokkas!When it came to building this model […]
Townsville LEGO Certified Store Models!
We are super excited to be able to finally reveal some of the models we built for the new LEGO® certified stores opening in 2021! As with all of the stores so far we built one giant minifig model and a huge mosaic for the new store in Townsville.The builders, from left, Darren, Eamon, Jordan […]
Canberra LEGO Certified Store Models!
The models we built for the Canberra LEGO Certified store were actually some of the first ones we finished in 2021, but unfortunately lockdowns meant a major delay in the store’s opening. That said, I think you can agree the store was worth the wait! For this store we chose to create our minifig posing […]
Building Zion Williamson for NBA2K21 from LEGO® bricks!
Earlier this year we got to build a whole new kind of LEGO® brick model which we can finally reveal- a life-size version of NBA superstar Zion Williamson for NBA 2K21! Getting the model’s dynamic pose- looking like he’s about to land an epic slam dunk-was the first challenge. Being a model that was going […]
Building for a life-size VIDIYO Beatbox!
Last week a life-size LEGO beatbox model was unveiled at Sydney Harbour in celebration of LEGO’s new theme, VIDIYO. Our team created the LEGO part of the model, made from 56,217 bricks and took over 300 hours!The life-size replica of the 43105 Party Llama BeatBox was displayed in-between the Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge and […]
Dinosaurs on The Tan!
After two years of designing and building, we were thrilled to surprise people at The Tan Track in Melbourne with an up-close preview of our latest exhibition opening April 1. The three dinosaurs we took to The Tan were Blue, a fan favourite Velociraptor, and two adorable baby Triceratops and Sinoceratops. The world-first exhibition features […]
Marion LEGO Certified Store models!
We can finally reveal the models we built for the new (ish) LEGO Certified store at Westfield Marion in Adelaide! (Like the Highpoint cricketer, we built the models early last year in 2020 just before the pandemic hit, and the opening of the Marion store was also delayed thanks to the COVID pandemic.) As with […]
Building Team New Zealand’s AC75 America’s Cup super yacht from LEGO!
As part of bringing Brickman AWESOME to Auckland Museum we’ve also built a brand new LEGO brick model just for Auckland- a version of Team New Zealand’s epic AC75 super yacht that will compete in this year’s America’s Cup in Auckland! The AC75 is an amazing piece of nautical engineering and features some very specific […]
Newcastle LEGO Certified Store models!
Last week the newest LEGO Certified store in Australia opened up in Newcastle NSW! Which means the models we built for them way back in February and March can finally be seen! As with all our LEGO Store builds we had the opportunity to build both a 3D minifig sculpture as well as a LEGO […]
Behind the Build: LEGO® Britten Bike
Building a life-sized Britten LEGO® brick V-1000 motorcycle was a real challenge. Like the other two life-sized motorcycles we have built, we started with the wheels, working around a central vertical channel to allow for a metal support to keep the model vertical and safe for transport. The front wheel was built separately first, including […]
A Brickman Brickvention 2020 wrap-up
Halfway through 2019 Ryan decided that the whole team could build whatever that wanted to for Melbourne’s premier LEGO® Fan exhibition, Brickvention 2020. Needless to say, the whole team was pretty excited! The idea was for every team member, from our Inventory Manager through to Ryan himself, to build LEGO® models to showcase their skills […]
Myer’s new Harry Potter Lenticular LEGO® mosaic!
The massive 500sqm basement of the flagship Myer Melbourne store on Bourke Street Mall has been transformed into an entire Harry Potter world and we were asked to build something totally new for us- a lenticular LEGO mosaic that changes depending on what angle you look at it! The mosaic features both Harry Potter and Voldemort […]
New Zealand’s first LEGO® Certified Store!
For NZ’s first LEGO® Certified Store in Newmarket, Auckland we built an enormous upside-down bungy jumper LEGO® minifig! This giant minifig took us 119.5 hours and 39,722 LEGO® bricks to build! It’s the only one we built upside down from head to feet. The water was a challenge to build as not only did it […]
Australia’s new LEGO Certified Store models!
We’ve been working around the clock over the last few months creating massive mosaics and LEGO® brick models to go in all of the brand new LEGO® Certified Stores opening around Australia and New Zealand! Please tag @brickmanexhibitions if you take any photos with our models or mosaics! We would love to see them! The […]
How Ridiculous smash our LEGO balls!
A few months ago LEGO sent us through a particularly awesome job- to make lots of LEGO® brick balls for the boys from How Ridiculous to throw off their tower! All together we made 10 models, including 7 bowling balls, 1 basketball, 1 watermelon and a mammoth 30kg solid LEGO® ball! We made 2 of […]
Life-size LEGO Honda Civic Type-R
After the mammoth effort it took to build our last life-size car from LEGO® bricks we said that we’d never do it again. But when Honda Australia asked us to build their new flagship Civic, with full Type-R extras, we just couldn’t say no! We mean- just look at this thing: Being our second life-size […]
LEGO® brick Parliament House
2018 marks the 30th Anniversary of Canberra’s iconic Parliament House and as part of the celebrations they commissioned us to build an enormous LEGO® brick version of Australia’s Parliament House. You can can visit Parliament House this Saturday 6th October to be one of the first to see it! Parliament House is a vast structure […]
