LEGO Exhib

26 September 2015

Thank you for supporting our 3rd and final Lego Exhibition. What a fantastic day! It was a truly spectacular event and the models on display were incredible.

Thank you also to everyone who has assisted in any way with this event. It would not be possible without everyone’s help, hard work and generous sponsorship. And finally a huge thank you to Russell Chapman for sharing his private collection of Lego with us. This was the third time we have run the event and Russell truly outdid himself with this year’s display, using over a quarter of a million carefully constructed bricks!

There were loads of Lego activities for kids of all ages:

* Enormous range of Lego models on display
* Voting for your favourite Lego competition entry
* Duplo play area for under 3’s
* Lego building mats / play tables
* Mini Figure hunt
* Play Lego PlayStation
* Cinema room
* Photo opportunities – kindly provided by John Lewis
* Colouring in / craft section
* Face painting
* Refreshments
* and much, much more…!

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“My whole family had a fantastic time” – Mary
“It was great fun and really well organised” – Cally
“Thought it was a fantastic event. Well done” – Ali
“My children loved it” – Julie
“It is one of the nicest events that happen in Harpenden” – Tania

The ‘Build Your Own’ Competition

Thank you to The Bangkok Lounge Thai Restaurant, Harpenden for sponsoring the ‘Build Your Own’ competition.

The standard was very high this year and we had over 15 schools take part – including Aldwickbury, High Beeches, Manland, Roundwood, SS Alban, St Helen’s, The Grove, The Lea, Woodend, SJL, Roundwood Park and St Albans Girls. We had some incredibly creative models and we are pleased that all our visitors were the judges as we would have found it a very difficult task!

Congratulations to the winners, who were each given a lovely bag of Lego goodies, which included donations from Argos, Awesome Engineers, Bricks 4 Parties, Bricktraders, Cuthberts, Lego UK, Putterills and The Entertainer:

Reception	1st	Barnaby Chapman	The Lea
	2nd	Harley Mitchell	The Lea
	3rd	Caden Jones	The Lea
Year 1-2	1st	George Jackson	The Grove
	2nd	Alexandra Crowe	The Lea
	3rd	Lex Mitchell	The Lea
Year 3-4	1st	Max Tillotson	High Beeches
	2nd	Leo Buttarazzi	Roundwood
	3rd	Arthur Lines	St Helens
Year 5-6	1st	Oliver Datta	The Lea
	2nd	Sol Ashton	SS Alban & Stephen
	3rd	Elijah Green	n/a
Year 7-11	1st	Amelia Kinghorn	St Albans Girls School
	2nd	Alfie Heffer	SJL
	3rd	Sheldon Ashton	Sandringham

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Raffle Prize

Congratulations to Dylan Smith who won the raffle prize (worth over £130!) which was generously donated to us by Putterills, Cuthberts, John Lewis and Bricktraders.

Silent Auction

Thank you to everyone who put in a bid for the silent auction of the rare Chima and Friends display cases which were kindly donated to us by Cuthberts Toys in St Albans. These are real collectors items and not available in the shops.

We can confirm that Toks Jones put in the winning bid for both cases.

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A Special Thank You

Our 3 Lego Exhibitions would not have happened were it not for Russell Champan. Russell is a dedicated AFOL (Adult Fan of Lego) and he selflessly volunteered to share his Lego with us.

The entire hall was filled with Russell’s private collection of Lego. The exhibition did not just contain box set models, but also Russell’s own bespoke creations. He used over a quarter of a million bricks in this last exhibition alone! For the entire year before each event he was planning what to build, how to lay out the exhibition and physically building the models. His family lived with Lego models on every available surface in their home – FOR THREE YEARS!!

Russell works full time and has 3 sons at The Lea Primary. It must have taken every minute of his free time – WE THANK YOU!!