Pete White, David Drew, Anthony Zavaglia and myself assembled outside the Powerhouse
Museum, Sydney, at about 11 o’clock on a fine Saturday morning. Upon entering the
museum we proceeded directly to the LEGO Action Show. According to the LEGO/Powerhouse promotional material, this is the only Australian venue
for “the most advanced LEGO show in the world. [The exhibition then travels to] 13 locations throughout Australasia, Japan and India between 2000-2003.
The show has taken 4,601 hours to develop and 182,300 LEGO bricks have been
used to build each of the models.” Some of the models are large, but I think that’s meant to be 182,300 bricks for the whole show.
Star Wars
| | A merrily chirping R2-D2 greets you at the entrance. However it is not long befor the dark side of the force manifests itself (it’s a long time since anyone called me Obi Wan).
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| | The battle droid display rotates: the other side has a droid in compact fold-away mode. There is also a Rebel hangar with a mixed assortment from Episodes IV-VI, and a diorama of Episode I. Some activity tables are there for kids to build their own Podracer (from surplus 7171s). Just opposite, the cantina band plays when you stomp on the footpad in front of it. (Maybe it’s Max Rebo’s day off.)
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