All the best LEGO builders are mad as a hatter
When you go chasing LEGO rabits, you never know where you’ll end up. Perhaps, like Alice, you’ll find yourself at a mad tea party, like the one created by Centuri Chan and Wendy Graham from over 80,000 bricks! This entirely bonkers display took home Best in Show and People’s Choice prizes from Christchurch Brickshow 2024, and it’s easy to see why with the incredible characters and whimsical details at such enormous scale. To get a sense of just how big this scene is, squint and you can see a minifig-scale tea party under Alice. Curiouser and curiouser!
Uninvited Alice sits at the head of the table with yellow hair that only a very rude host would say wants cutting. If you want to ask Alice how she got that lovely powder blue dress, it took three copies of the LEGO Creator expert Vespa 125 to source the required bricks. (The builders added a cheeky tattoo tribute!) I love the use of pies tarts for buttons. Hopefully there are no knaves around to steal them.
I appreciate that the builders take some inspiration from Disney’s version of the characters, but overall found unique looks for the ensemble. The Mad Hatter in particular is a singuler take on the beloved character with wild hair and a cocked smile. The outstretched pinky as he sips tea is a nice touch.
The March Hare is perhaps my favorite of the cast, with his frock coat and an expressive face that reminds me of an Aardman animated character. Perhaps he just figured out how a raven is like a writing desk.
The other lagomorph at the party, the White Rabbit, anxiously regards his pocketwatch. Perhaps he’s late for an unbirthday party. The builders manage quite a balancing act with the rabbit’s digitigrade legs.
In the tree above, the Cheshire Cat looks on with his enormous grin. The colorful cat is wonderful, complimented by surprisingly colorful leaves using a bowed plate element that could only work as foliage at this enormous scale.
Last we have the humble Doormouse, suitably sleepy in a pot of tea as he’s woken from his treacly dreams to tell a story. From this angle we can also apprecaite some of the sweet treats built in cupcake liners from the Creative Party Kit.
Seeing as you’re still here amongst these mad characters, you must be mad as well, so why not have a look at these other Alice in Wonderland builds?
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