Celebrate the Lunar New Year with Life-Size LEGO Displays in Hong Kong!

Sunday, January 21st, 2018 by Brickfinder

LEGO Hong Kong is ushering in the Year of the Dog in a big way with another life-sized LEGO display!

It is located at the central lobby of the New Town Plaza Shopping Mall which is in the town centre of Sha Tin.

The main attraction is the a traditional Chinese Lion Dance LEGO sculpture that consists of 150,000 bricks which reaches a height of 1.6m (5 ft) tall and 2m (6 ft) long!

Other original LEGO sculptures created for this event include a pair of stone guardian dogs and a mosaic that spans 1.6m by 1.2m to celebrate the Lunar New Year.

This project is the combined efforts of Andy Hung, who is a LEGO Certified Professional for the Greater China region, and his team from Legend Creatives.

 

They spent more than a month to construct these amazing builds along with the life-sized LEGO structures that transport you into a minifigure world.

For this Lunar New Year, they have outdone themselves with creating an scaled-up traditional Chinese pavilion, a traditional Chinese lobby entrance along with a mahjong table, kumquat trees, rickshaw and a host of ‘minifigures’ to populate the scene.

There is an exclusive LEGO Chinese New Year Lion Dance model that is redeemable when you spend a minimum of HKD 3,600 (SGD$607) which is limited to only 800 in the world.

But if you are unable to get those, there are also mini-builds for the kids to take home when you attend the event during specific periods.

Also making a return this Lunar New Year are the LEGO themed ‘red packets’. It is a tradition for the Chinese to give a monetary token sum every Lunar New Year to kids and unmarried individuals in these packets and they have become somewhat of a collectors item too.

It’s a pity that I won’t be able to check this out in person but if you are traveling or in Hong Kong at the moment, do check the event out as no one celebrates the Lunar New Year with LEGO quite like Hong Kong.

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Behind the Scenes

Andy Hung has shared with us some ‘exclusive’ behind-the-scenes photos of the 150,000 piece Chinese Lion Dance LEGO sculpture construction which gives a rare insight as to how these are made.