Two big weekends of local Lego on show

IT’S nearly Easter and that means the local Lego community is set to show off their work over two big weekends.

It starts with the Easter Festival display during the long weekend and that’s followed by the annual Lego festival, Bendigo Bricks 2023.

Bendigo Lego User Group president Michael Peebles said this time of the year is the busiest for local fans of the creative building blocks.

“There are two parts to it,” he said. “We have the mosaic that we will build at Easter time as part of the Easter Festival and it is a lot of fun getting the public to build it rather than us.

“Then the big thing, at least on our calendar anyway is Bendigo Bricks, which is the week after and it’s our big exhibit.”

Mr Peebles said lessons had been learned from last year’s mosaic build, which was their first.

“It won’t be as detailed as last year,” he said. “We discovered last time even little fingers had trouble with really tiny bricks.”

Bendigo Bricks 2023 will be at the Prince of Wales Showground on the 15 and 16 April and Mr Peebles said there will be plenty on offer.

“As far as exhibitors are concerned we have over 110 lined up,” he said. “They are coming from as far afield as Adelaide, Sydney and Canberra.

“We have got a train club coming, so there will be a big train layout as well as a play area for big and little kids.

“The local Scouts are going to have a sausage sizzle and there is going to be a coffee vendor as well.

“We have tried to have a bit more of everything this year. We will also have vendors there selling entire sets and spare parts.”

Mr Peebles expects a good turnout and said love for Lego is as high as it’s ever been.

“It doesn’t discriminate by age, a kid can get in there and create something, and so can an adult,” he said.

“They will look at them in totally different ways but they are still using the same medium.

“I have a tendency to build big stuff, upscaled buildings and things like that. Other people will build smaller things, the best part is it’s whatever your imagination can come up with.

“You don’t have to be a talented artist and anyone can do it.”