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Inside Blackpool's lego brick festival
Blackpool Gazette
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07/04/2025
Meet some of the lego enthusiasts who brought their colourful displays to the Blackpool brick festival.
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I've seen adults come in here during the day and they've gone from being adults and they've
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got all those kind of adult worries you have on the outside and they've come in and they've
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just sat and played like they did when they were kids.
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Basically it's just a celebration of everything LEGO.
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So we have everything from displayers, builders that come and bring their amazing MOCs and
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then we also have vendors that come and sell everything from Pocket Money LEGO all the
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way up to really rare retired sets.
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It started about two years ago and I just thought, oh I can make the Olympic rings out
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of LEGO.
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I thought, oh that looks quite good.
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And then I saw that LEGO, as part of London 2012, they released nine official TNGV minifigures
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and then one idea led to another, led to another, led to another.
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London 2012, that was the year after I finished my A-Levels, just before university, so I
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had a whole summer off, so I spent the whole summer just watching the Olympics pretty much
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non-stop and it really did inspire me.
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I took up rowing at university because of that and I got into cycling much more seriously
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because of London 2012 as well.
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I lost count after 20,000.
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I don't want to know how much more than that there is in the build.
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It's three and a half metres across in total and it's 75 centimetres deep.
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It started about nine years ago and I was just sat in my living room with my daughter,
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building from a bucket of LEGO and Star Trek came on the TV and I looked at the shape and
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I just said, I really like that one.
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My daughter, innocent as anything, turned around and said to me, well why don't you
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build it daddy?
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So I sat there and I started building the prototype ship and from that point on I've
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just continued and built every ship I ever wanted.
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It was a passion project but yes, I do find it very relaxing just sitting there and playing.
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I love an engineering challenge.
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It's been one of those things where I'll sit in an evening and I'll just literally play
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with a box of grey bricks and just start building them up or I'll see something on a newer show
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that I liked, I'll go, I want one of them and I'll just start building it from scratch.
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There are some evenings where I've literally come down out of bed, there's some things
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in my head, I need to get it out and I've started building them.
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