Right beside the Official London 2012 Shop on the third floor of John Lewis inside the Westfield Stratford City shopping centre is a massive Lego replica of the London 2012 Olympic Stadium.
Based on the original concept and design by Warren Elsmore, the rather large mini-version of the stadium is an amazingly detailed work of wonder constructed by a team of four who worked on the model over a period of two months. The team put in approximately 450 hours building the model and used around 100,000 Lego elements. The model weigh about 100kg.
The stadium is free to view (take the lift so you don’t get stuck online to actually visit the shop or the £2 a pop viewing area next door) and well worth the visit just to see the “wow” expression on the kids gathered round. Though honestly, there were more grown men ogling the model than small children the two times I’ve visited John Lewis to see the model.
Yes #IwasThere … again. I’m loving the buzz around Stratford at the moment and having a blast coming upon all this stuff to photograph and blog about.
Thanks to Westfield for sponsoring this post.
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