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Build Lang Syne
Build Lang Syne
For more than 20 years, Bricks by the Sea has been the premier LEGO® Event in Halifax. The passion project of MariLUG member Owen Grace with a host of friends and guest contributors over the years, it's an annual extravaganza of original brick creations alongside an unbelievable array of retail sets, sprinkled with a bit of seasonal magic!
Debuting at the Dartmouth Sportplex in 2003 as 'City by the Sea', moving to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic for a few years and finally settling into its current home at the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History, this MariLUG mainstay has a storied past – just like Halifax itself!
2025-26
2025-26
The one with the transformers
The one with the transformers
You've never seen the Harbour Hopper or the ferries like this before! This season's show featured 'terrors' from the depths along with all the familiar elements of Bricks by the Sea.
Other novelties included Owen's Museum of Natural History MOC, a futuristic microscale Steinman city, an expansion of Trevor's Whoville, and fresh additions to Owen's One Piece display.
2024-25
2024-25
The one with the ornaments
The one with the ornaments
For this year, we invited our members and all our friends from other groups to send in Christmas tree ornaments for a dash of festive flair. Those all went on the tree, while the rest of the displays made their usual splash.
Shawn coordinated a mosaic build, keeping visitors (and LUG members!) busy piecing together a whimsical vision of the busy Halifax harbour.
2023-24
2023-24
The one with the nutcrackers
The one with the nutcrackers
This year was a little different than before... the display featured a bigger investment from MariLUG, and we invited some friends from across Canada to sent us some of their pieces to be included as well!
A feature of this event was the collection of brick-built nutcrackers from across Canada, including an utterly amazing rendition of the local Christmas spirit itself... Woody the Talking Christmas Tree!
There were be trains and lights and planes and knights! Wizards with cheese and birds on plumb trees!
2022-23
2022-23
The one with MariLUG
The one with MariLUG
This year ended a gap between the NovaLUG era, when Owen had received support for Bricks by the Sea from LUGmates, and the renewed MariLUG era when we opened a new round of cooperation.
Almost all the displays are from Owen's collection, but with the rest of the LUG on deck we were able to provide some extra hands to smooth out the process – and that opened the door to bigger and better displays with even more to see and do in the years to follow!
Location
Location
Museum of Natural History
1747 Summer St.
Halifax, N.S.
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