Lego fans, watch out! At the Bricklive at the Muba in Basel, you can make your own bricks or marvel at them. The show shows: Two million colorful bricks can be used to create some works of art.
Everyone loves Lego! It's impossible to imagine a family household without this cult toy. Today, as in the past, children spend hours every day putting together castles, ships and space stations. Even adults' living room shelves contain works of art made from the famous colorful bricks. During Muba, Bricklive, the world's largest show for Lego fans, will take place over an area of 15,000 square meters.
Popular: Brick pits are pools filled with Lego bricks.
For ten days, so-called brick pits - pools filled to the top with two million building blocks - invite visitors to dig around. Every visitor can or should create their own marvel. Once again, adults also have the opportunity to really let their hair down. The event has already enjoyed great success in England and Asia. Now the show is making a stop in Hall 1 at Messe Basel.
A joint work of art
Everyone gets their money's worth at Bricklive. Very young visitors make their first building attempts with Duplo and giant Lego, little engineers test their self-developed cars at the Race Track, and princesses realize their dream of having their own castle. Adult Lego fans can help the children or design their own creations. There are also works of art that all visitors work on at the Bricklive. In the giant mosaic picture, everyone adds their own bricks until a large whole is created. The little ones and their parents build their own house on the Swiss map.
Professionals show how it's done
If you don't want to build it yourself, just marvel. Artists show what masterpieces professionals can conjure up from the colorful bricks - in the Lego worlds or in the form of life-size statues with popular motifs from the Friends series or comic figures such as Homer Simpson. Lego has also long since arrived in the digital world. That's why Bricklive also has game and movie zones. From May 12 to 21, Lego fans will be able to marvel at the building blocks or live out their creativity themselves.
5 facts from the world of Lego
Lego is the abbreviation of "leg godt", Danish for "play well". The company was founded in 1932 by master carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen. Initially for the production of wooden toys. Incidentally, six of the typical Lego bricks with eight studs can be combined in 915 million different ways.
If they were a real people, the Lego figures would be the largest population group in the world, with a population of around five billion. Every day, 1.4 million of these little people are produced - including famous people such as William Shakespeare, the Beatles and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Why is the skin color of the Lego figures actually yellow? This color was chosen so that the figures can be used neutrally and without ethnic affiliation. This allows players to determine the role of the figures themselves. They only have a skin color other than yellow if they can be clearly assigned to people.
The 1:1 replica of the X-Wing spaceship from "Star Wars" is the largest model ever made from Lego. It is 13 meters long and weighs 20 tons. 32 model builders spent four months assembling the 5.3 million blocks. The spaceship can be admired at Legoland in California.
The international companies Bridgestone, Continental and Michelin are considered the three largest tire manufacturers in the world. If it weren't for Lego. The company produces around 306 million tires per year, more than any other manufacturer. Albeit in the size of toys.
The 1:1 replica of the X-Wing spaceship from "Star Wars" is the largest model ever made from Lego. It is 13 meters long and weighs 20 tons. 32 model builders spent four months assembling the 5.3 million blocks. The spaceship can be admired at Legoland in California.