First Look: Lego’s Bricktionary interactive exhibition opens in Dublin

Finn Ryan, with a Lego sculpture of Animal from the Muppets sculpture) gets a sneak peak of Bricktionary: The Interactive Lego Brick Exhibition ahead of the European debut opening in Dublin on Sunday. Photograph: Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland, one of the world’s most flexible building toys, is based on a blocky system. Sure, they have are all sorts of fancy pieces and components these days, but the basis of Lego is the brick. And it’s notoriously difficult to get a face right in Lego.

Newstalk presenter Kieran Cuddihy with a piano sculpture at the exhibition. Photograph: Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland E is for Eagle, and for Earthquake. There are smaller, intricate items and displays in Perspex display boxes, and larger models, some of which you can touch. Along with the way are displays with information about the models, challenges, techniques, tips and titbits about the Lego world, including I for Illegal, or the use of bricks that Lego frowns on because they strain the pieces.

There are four interactive areas among these, where visitors can build. Open counters with tubs of miscellaneous invite you to a challenge: In the Earthquake area, to build a stronger structure that will withstand placing it on a vibrating pad; wall displays suggest ways to make it stronger. “There’s about 6,000 hours worth of building in this exhibition. That’s like a year for one person full time”, says Challoner. “There’s about a million bricks in the builds. And there’s about another half a million bricks for people to play with.”

Finn Ryan and Kieran Cuddihy with a Super Mario sculpture. Photograph: Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland

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