S.A. boy stacks up votes in national Lego contest
A boxy little penguin helped 10-year-old Langston Baker become San Antonio’s first Lego Mini Master Model Builder.
Now Baker is vying to become a national champion with his plastic brick ode to the Alamo City, complete with a Texas longhorn looming over a rustic squared-off landscape dotted with a mini Alamo, an oil derrick and a lasso-twirling cowboy on his horse.
Baker is one of 14 contestants facing off in a contest on Facebook for the title of Lego’s National Mini Master Model Builder. Legoland Discovery Centers across North America have posted photos of all 14 contestants with their builds on their respective Facebook pages. The public can vote by liking the picture of their favorite build. The contestant with the most likes wins.
Voting concludes at noon Monday, and the winner will be announced on social media Wednesday.
You can vote for Baker by liking his photo on the Facebook page for Legoland Discovery Center San Antonio (@Ldcsanantonio). Baker is in the first pic of the bunch, the boy in the red shirt with a Lego longhorn display. Hey, nothing like a little home court advantage.
Baker is quite invested in the Lego-verse, creating his own designs with a supply of plastic bricks stored in a “huge overflowing tub.”
Earlier this month, Legoland Discovery Center San Antonio introduced Baker as its first Mini Master Model Builder with a Facebook post featuring the young brick stacker with his prized Lego penguin.
Baker said he would love to be a Lego Master Model Builder when he’s an adult. Ironically, there is one profession he’d like to avoid.
“I would not want to be a construction worker because I realize how destructive they are,” Baker said.