The bricks are back

May 14, 2026

It's been too long since Playwell Events brought their amazing LEGO® creations to Oberon, but they were back at the Malachi Gilmore Hall on May 9. 250,000 blocks assembled into things that most of us couldn't imagine, including some that moved! There were tables set up so anyone could try their hand at building things. And even though bare feet were banned care was taken to make sure no blocks were on the floor anywhere.

I could write a whole lot about the display, but I already said it back in 2023.

Apparently LEGO is the most popular toy in the world, but most of us think we've achieved mastery when we can successfully build a car from a boxed kit without having too many pieces left over.

And it's definitely a show for kids and even parents who become youngsters again when seeing what can be done with a few plastic blocks. And by "a few", I mean sometimes tens of thousands.

The works on display ranged from amazing to awesome. It was hard to pick a favourite, but the machine built of some sort of computer and LEGO that could solve Rubik's Cube always had a crowd watching in awe. Another one that caught attention was a model of a semi-trailer transporting a huge LEGO brick, made of LEGO, of course.

Nobody could come away from this show and still think that building things with small plastic blocks is easy. Television shows like "LEGO Masters" have driven increased interest in LEGO, but seeing some of the actual constructions in real life makes the point even better.

Let's let the pictures tell the story.

And I mentioned things that moved. (Sorry about the shaky camera work. A Nikon D5600 still camera is very much second best when it comes to holding the thing steady at arm's length to make moving pictures.)