Whole lotta Lego going on

Lego show with The Small One, shown here with a Lego bust of the queen. 

This is part of a huge contraption for moving little footballs from one place to another -- 

it went all the way around this huge enclosure - the black table on the far side of this photo is still part of the same contraption.

It was lots of little mechanisms for moving balls around, joined to one another, from things like this ball slide

to things like this ball picker (shown here in motion, and thus a bit fuzzy). This was my second favourite thing at the show.

We took part in building a giant Lego mosaic - 

here's our little square of it, nearly finished, 

and here it is being put into place.

There were Lego models of everything (not surprisingly) from St Pancras Station

to Westminster Abbey

(love the stained glass effect)

(more of St Pancras)

...to animals such as this turkey, 

this rockhopper penguin, 

this blue jay

and this cockatoo. 

Lots of scenery, like this snowy village

and this street scene, done in black and white (and grey, of course) - this was actually very clever - it really looks like a black and white photo but as you can see from the red carpet in the background and the tiny bit of lego in the upstairs windows, it was just built from black, white and grey Lego.

Of course there was a fair share of geeky cross-over stuff, like these Star Wars models

But there were also some more topical things, like this little model of The Great British Bakeoff tent.

My favourite Lego creation, though, was this amazing fantasy world - the Brick Abyss (you can see more on their own website) - a German and Swiss creation. It was truly amazing. 

See what I mean? Words can't really do it justice. (This was was came first in my list of favourite things - you can probably see why!)

I also liked this possibly recognisable Lego picture -it looked even more striking from a distance, as it appears pixilated up close, but from farther back it was hard to get a photo without someone's head in the way.

We took part in other Lego activities as well, such as seeing how many bricks Alex could stack in one minute

and building in the white "architectural Lego" area

...a rather precarious tower.

Having purchased a wee bit of Lego for the upcoming winter festivity, we stopped back by the mosaic to see how it was coming along - quite a ways on from this morning, though a long way to go, I reckon!  (Earlier sections of the mosaic from other venues weren't on display, so I'm not sure how large the final thing will be...)