Brickspo: Thousands take in two days of all things Lego at Western Development Museum

In between his time organizing and plan - na’s Ray Morton also just happens to be a pretty good Lego designer himself. Morton had several creations on display during the annual celebration of the tiny building blocks at the Western Development Museum, and while they weren’t the expansive and sometimes breathtaking scenes put together by others, the intricacy of his work was most certainly on display.

“There’s always some trial and error. I’m an engineering technologist so I have a - ton said in explaining his work. “There are some limitations with Lego, and it’s a challenge to meet and exceed those limitations and build the most interesting

For himself, that often involves the addition of motors to his builds, with impressive results.

Take the ‘injured’ Star Wars AT-AT walker that rocked back and forth in pain holding its knee, for example. “That’s right from pop culture and Fam just see something and be inspired, and I saw the Lego set for it and I thought ‘there has to be a way to put a motor in this’. Turns out there was and it turned

Or The Tripod, depicting a scene from War of the Worlds, complete with a proximity sensor that brought the machine to life if anyone came near.

“We actually had a build contest where it had to be something involving the number three, and tripod is three legs, so throw a motor in it and a sensor and scare And the most intricate of all, a mock-up of the scene from Spiderman: Homecoming where Peter Parker literally walks vertically around his room.

“The idea for the layout that was pitched is that you’re driving through a scene thinking I could do a helicopter or airplane scene, but that day I watched Spiderman and Peter Parker was going around his room, so I was wondering how they did They actually rotated the room and Peter In addition to Morton’s smaller works, Brickspo patrons could also check out expansive Star Wars displays from The Empire Strikes Back and The Clone Wars, a fully detailed build of a large city neighbourhood, large-scale scenes from various fantasy movies and even detailed Lego artist Jim Jo. And, of course, Trevor Lien’s always-popular Rube Goldberg machine, The Great Ball Contraption. “With Lego, the sky is the limit, and builder will usually build what they know or something they’re passionate about, “And we had some guys who do just mosaics, so you see a lot of that in the arts builders so we try to put on a well-round There’s no question the entire event is wildly popular – a steady stream of pa throughout the two days Saturday and to be well into the thousands by the time all is said, done and counted up.

“So far it’s been very successful, ev as things wrapped up during Saturday’s show. “We made a couple of changes this year, we spread out through the museum - ing at the displays because the crowds aren’t show bunched up anymore. So, it’s

One of the more intricate builds of the show came from the mini movie studio tour and this ‘how was it done’ mockup of Peter Parker’s room from Spiderman: Homecoming by Ray Morton.

There were plenty of unique fantasy scenes, like Is It Really a G? by Christine Wilkinson.

The table of car builds featured a wide variety of vehicles.

Caleb Flutur had a host of steampunk insect builds, including Steampunk Mosquito.

The Battle of Geonosis from The Clone Wars was depicted in this build by Kevin Lariviere.

You could even check out an impressive big city build compete with a train in It’s a City! by Trent Redekopp.

A set of mini-scenes depicting a mov between Daniel Larusso and Johnny Lawrence from The Karate Kid.