The company behind HS2 commissioned a model of Old Oak Common, the station being built in west London, that is the size of a kitchen table and took about 15,000 Lego bricks and cost £20,000 to complete. The state-owned company paid the consultancy, Bricks McGee, to recreate the planned site in Lego form, costing more than £1 per brick. It has been used at about 20 events in the two years since it was made, according to the Sunday Telegraph, the Times and other news sources.
Bricks McGee said on its website that it first developed a “digital model” and, once this was approved, started “the laborious process of building it with real Lego bricks — all 15,000 of them”. The website quoted an HS2 project manager who said the model was “an outstanding success, everybody loved it”.
Our Lego model of HS2’s Old Oak Common superhub is an informative way to engage local communities, businesses, rail users and the general public about construction of part of Britain’s new high-speed railway
A spokesman for HS2 said: “Our Lego model of HS2’s Old Oak Common superhub is an informative way to engage local communities, businesses, rail users and the general public about construction of part of Britain’s new high-speed railway.”
HS2 CEO, Mark Wild, said that HS2 had been “a drip feed of bad news,” adding that he was dedicating the next 18 months to getting the project’s costs under control.
Bricks McGee was founded in 2012 by a Lego superfan, Richard Carter, and today is a team of workshop facilitators, model designers, builders, sorters and Lego enthusiasts who bring plans to reality with the world’s most popular plastic blocks.
