Yours truly has always been a big fan of LEGO, having spent his childhood creating all manner of trucks and space ships with varying degrees of success. But it’s fair to say I never managed to put something together quite as spectacular as the LEGO landmark about to be built at Macau’s City of Dreams.
Construction will start next week on an incredible 2.15 meter high LEGO model of Melco-Crown’s new Studio City – complete with art-deco exterior and iconic figure-eight Ferris wheel!
To be built by Andy Hung – Greater China’s LEGO Certified Professional – the model will comprise more than one million pieces and will reproduce the 1,600 room twin hotel towers straddled by the “Golden Reel” which in real life will be suspended at 130 meters.
Hung has planned the model by working from building plans and artists’ impressions of the Studio City complex.
Andy Hung
“This is certainly one of the most complex, and indeed largest, LEGO design and build projects I have ever undertaken,” he said.
“The fact that the Studio City building consists of a two-story platform, with two hotel towers, a Ferris wheel and a podium garden is challenging. We, together with the Macau production team, have to work from floor plans and artist’s renderings to plan and build this new landmark in Macau.”
Visitors can witness Andy and his team hard at work during the final build-out period, in the City of Dreams’ Main Portal, from 29 to 31 July.
