Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Melbourne's LEGO Love Boat sails for Chicago

Yes, the background is the Melbourne Town Hall (not Docklands). This is the much admired Love Boat LEGO creation from Melbourne's Ryan McNaught, who is one of the only 13 LEGO Certified Professionals (LCP) in the world. Melbourne readers may have seen it in January this year at the LEGO Convention - Brickvention 2011 in the Melbourne Town Hall.

The recent USA Today article chops a few years off his age, and makes a LEGO Certified Professional disappear (they said Ryan is one of only 12 - not 13) in the world!). They report, ""LEGO Love Boat," as it's being called, will be on display this month in Chicago at Brickworld, the world's largest LEGO convention. Made up of more than 250,000 LEGO bricks, the ship is McNaught's largest creation ever and designed to evoke the Princess Cruises ship that was the setting for the Love Boat television show of the 1980s. The LEGO ship includes over 450 miniature LEGO people "enjoying a fabulous cruise and the best holiday they have ever had," McNaught writes on his website, thebrickman.com. The vessel measures over ten feet long by nearly five feet high and includes powered functions such as a moving anchor, bow thruster and propeller. The lifeboat also can be raised and lowered.
(via usatoday.com)