Travelling to other countries and places has become less common due to the pandemic, but people in Regina can visit some of the world’s most famous landmarks closer to home — and made of a common household toy.

The Saskatchewan Science Centre’s upcoming exhibition, called Towers of Tomorrow, features 20 of the world’s most famous skyscrapers constructed out of Lego on a 1:200 scale. 

Famous landmarks represented in the exhibit include Toronto’s CN Tower, New York’s Empire State Building and Kuala Lumpur’s twin Petronas Towers.

The Lego towers needed to be strong enough to be taken apart, put into crates and shipped all over the world. Ryan McNaught, an Australian certified Lego professional, was the lead builder on the project.

The installation of the giant Lego creations at the Science Centre in Regina, however, was overseen by Robin Sather, a Lego certified professional based in Abbotsford, B.C.

“This display took about 2,400 hours of people working in studios and making all kinds of stuff — designing them, putting them together,” Sather said.

“We have almost 600,000 bricks that went into building all of these.”

One of the buildings, the Shanghai Tower, has more than 100,000 Lego pieces in that building alone, according to Sather. He also said that the towers are built out of regular Lego bricks.

“Theoretically, if you could find this many bricks, you could build this all yourself — no special bricks, no special colours.” 

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