Last night my wife Kara, friends Ben and Kelly Young and I went and checked out LEGO® Star Wars: The Exhibition at Melbourne Museum.
The exhibition was conceived and expertly crafted by renowned LEGO Certified Professional, Ryan ‘Brickman’ McNaught and his team from over eight million bricks and is presented as an immersive adventure taking you on a journey through a galaxy far, far away. I was lucky enough to be invited along by Ryan to attend the Wednesday 22nd May family and friends session.
Here is a description of what you can expect at the exhibition, from the Melbourne Museum website:
LEGO® fans and Star Wars enthusiasts will experience the Force like never before, with iconic characters and scenes brought to life in stunning LEGO® brick detail. Step into a world of epic battles, gargantuan spaceships and stunning landscapes from a galaxy far, far away. Using over 8 million LEGO® bricks and taking more than 25,000 hours to complete, LEGO® Star Wars: The Exhibition is built right here in Melbourne at The Brickman headquarters.
Visitors are also invited to help build massive LEGO Star Wars landscapes brick by brick, take part in hands-on build activities, and see their LEGO Star Wars builds digitally come to life as they choose their allegiance and face-off against their friends. From building starfighters to creating custom lightsabers out of LEGO bricks, there will be interactive elements and engaging experiences for fans of all ages!
I was thoroughly impressed with LEGO Star Wars: The Exhibition, obviously – and it probably goes without saying – with the expertly designed and crafted large scale builds realising all the beloved characters, ships and locations from the Star Wars Universe that you would expect to see from The Brickman team but specifically with the level of interactivity and thought put into how the audience moves through the exhibition and interacts with each zone.
Key stand-outs for me were all the build zones where attendees can get hands-on with bricks and build ships, droids, lightsaber hilts and mosaic tiles contributing to the exhibition itself but also their own experience of the exhibition. The use of technology in the spaceship battle, lightsaber fight and even the mosaic system were particularly great.
My favourite exhibits would have to be the lifesize emperor’s throne with praetorian guards and Milennium Falcon cockpit photo opportunities, through I also loved the cutaway Imperial Star Destroyer and Death Star as well as the Endor display.
Well done to Ryan and the whole Brickman team on LEGO Star Wars: The Exhibition, I thoroughly enjoyed my experience taking the time to explore the whole exhibition, it was easily the most immersive LEGO exhibition I have ever seen.
If you are heading to Melbourne in the near future, make sure you head over to the Melbourne Museum and check it out. Tickets can be purchased via the Melbourne Museum website or at the door.
