LEGO Creator Show in Sydney
5th Floor, David Jones Elizabeth Street Store,
Wednesday 31st December 2003 to Sunday 1st February 2004 (store trading hours)
Hazel, with croc.
| | To appreciate a store based show like this, it really helps to go along with one of the target demographic. Fortunately, I had one of the target demographic at home, and it didn’t take much persuasion to get her to agree to visit the show with me.
So off we went to see the show. We had more than thirty five years of Lego building experience between us.... and an old digital camera to record the adventure.
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Richie, with parrot.
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| | Harry Potter was rendered in Lego, but - curiously - he had a ‘real’ Nimbus 2000.
By contrast, Jango Fett was rendered entirely in Lego... but he was just a little, well, short, to be properly imposing.
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The highlight for me was the model of the Sydney Opera House. Properly
proportioned, but presented with minifigs (to which it was not scaled, but
with which it did not look out of place) on a fantasy waterfront. Definitely
‘doable’ by an AFOL or two that I know.
The fantasy waterfront included an interesting tower, a rather
large lion head fountain, an a particularly nice waterfront
building. The white fence on the waterfront outside that
building was cleverly made from skeleton legs and white
lightsabre blades/hp wands. A nice effect (and I for one
seem to have more skeletons than I know what to do with!).
The other side of the waterfront was a representation of china, featuring a not-so-great Great Wall (again,
to proportion, smaller than minifig scale, but presented with minifigs) and
a very nice red building. If the pictures were less fuzzy, you’d be able to
see that the balcony fences were made from SNOT 2x2 turntable bases. Very effective.
| | The show also included a timeline highlighting some of the milestones in Lego’s product range, and a small diorama of a Lego production facility.
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No Lego show is complete without a play area where the target demographic
can get a chance to show their parents their building skills (and therefore
be better able to persuade their parents to buy them some Lego product
to take home!).
The organisers of this show are to be complimented on the variety (and utility, and quantity) of bricks provided. We visited late on a Sunday afternoon, and there was plenty! (I have memories of the Powerhouse show, where the play tables seemed to be stocked very sparingly with little but Mos Espa pod racing sets.)
The Duplo/Explore pit was amplyll stocked as well, and the presence of several large duplo towers around the pit, indicated that duplo might be popular with one or two people outside its target demographic too.
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