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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Building NZ’s largest LEGO® brick mosaic for LEGO Star Wars 20th Anniversary!
Star Wars Force Friday celebrations in Auckland were a bit bigger than usual this year because it’s also the 20th Anniversary of LEGO® Star Wars this year! So we teamed up with LEGO® New Zealand to help build New Zealand’s largest LEGO® mosaic- a massive image of Rey and Kylo Ren from the upcoming Star […]
Wonders of the World hits New Zealand
After a massive tour around Australia we’ve brought our second touring LEGO exhibition, Wonders of the World, across the Tasman to New Zealand! We had a huge run at the amazing Museum of New Zealand Te Papa in Wellington where 100,000 people saw the show and now we’re heading north to Hamilton, then Auckland. We’re […]
Throwback Thursday LEGO® Brick Auckland Skytower
Here’s a Throwback Thursday especially for a Kiwi friends! Back in 2013 Ryan was given his first commission for Auckland’s Toyco toy store- and given floorspace was at a premium he decided to build a vertical model, and what better than Auckland’s tallest building the Skytower? As with many of our builds it all started […]