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Experience the Force like never before. Thanks to LEGO® and Star Wars™, you’ll get to see iconic characters and scenes from your favourite franchise brought to life in stunning LEGO brick detail.
From June 2026, Tākina in Wellington will be home to the international debut of LEGO® Star Wars™: The Exhibition. Epic battles, gargantuan spaceships, and breathtaking landscapes from the Star Wars universe will be on display. It’s a world-first experience created by Ryan ‘Brickman’ McNaught and The Brickman team. Together, they have spent 25,000 hours and used more than 8 million LEGO bricks to create models at jaw-dropping scale. The exhibition features the largest-known collection of life-sized LEGO Star Wars™ models ever created.
Brickman
The exhibition includes activities and millions of LEGO bricks for fans to experiment with. Help piece together massive Star Wars™ landscapes, craft a custom lightsaber out of LEGO bricks and face off against your mates. There’s also the chance to bring your creations to life digitally in epic space battles.
Ryan ’Brickman‘ McNaught is one of the world’s leading LEGO brick artists and the only LEGO Certified Professional in the southern hemisphere. He is the judge and LEGO expert on Australia’s award-winning TV show, LEGO Masters Australia. Ryan and his highly skilled team have built some of the largest and most detailed LEGO brick models in the world, including Jurassic World by Brickman®. This exhibition visited Tākina in 2023.
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