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A Christmas tree built brick by brick
A Christmas tree built brick by brick
A LEGO enthusiast used 8,000 bricks to build his special Christmas tree
24.12.2021 - 05:55
From a distance, this Christmas tree looks pretty much like any other Christmas tree. But look a little closer and the differences start to appear.
“Three years ago, I started wondering whether it would be possible to build a full-size Christmas tree with LEGO bricks,” says Faroese LEGO enthusiast Helgi Toftegaard.
After several attempts, Helgi realised that the easiest method was to use a trunk of wood as the base.
"I ended up drilling holes into the trunk and then I used green LEGO Technic pieces as the needles on the tree,” explains Helgi.
After designing the entire tree and its structure, he asked a group of young people to help out with assembling all the pieces.
These people are part of the Danish Specialisterne academy, which aims to foster the special potential of autistic people.
"They spent 150 hours putting all the pieces together,” says Helgi.
The tree currently decorates the living room in Helgi’s home in Brønshøj, Denmark.
The design allows for easy disassembly for reuse, and the tree has been on display outside of Helgi’s home, including in the display window of the BR toy store in Copenhagen city centre.
You may have seen some of Helgi’s other LEGO works. He was one of the organisers of the LEGO exhibition in Tórshavn’s SMS shopping centre, which also featured young people from Specialisterne.
Helgi has also built the LEGO version of Tórshavn’s Glasir college, which is on display inside the actual college.
Together with fellow LEGO enthusiasts, Helgi has set up a Facebook group for LEGO fans in the Faroes.
"We want to create a kind of meeting place for LEGO enthusiasts in the Faroes, a forum where people can post photos of their LEGO creations.”
Merry Christmas everybody from all of us here at Kringvarp Føroya.
Read the Faroese version of this article here.
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