Sadly, I had to leave Germany and Europe. It was a blast living there even if part of it ended up being during a pandemic. Thankfully, I made it to the Gartenschau Kaiserslautern one more time before I left and got to see the LEGO display.
The entrance to the park is in a facility that they used to use for ice skating in the winter. Now you pay the entrance fee there, they sell LEGO sets there, and for the first time they have a LEGO display available. This year it was something I had not seen them display before. They built Fritz-Walter-Stadion - home of 1. FC Kaiserslautern or for those of you not familiar, home to their local football club (what Americans refer to as soccer).
Instead of putting a ton of pictures up, you should have the ability to swipe or click on arrows to go through the pictures in the slide show. If it doesn’t work right, let me know.
The next batch of pictures are right as you enter the LEGO display. It includes:
-A case with large scale minifigures with masks and various MOCs
-A large 2x4 red brick (made of ~24,000 bricks), a globe, and a large scale minifigure
-Some LEGO© House exclusives and a brick build LEGO logo
-A close up on the Lego logo
-Numerous Technic car sets
-Two pictures of a European street by Brick-Fans Rhein-Main including a building from the Old City in Budapest (picture #7 if you are counting)
-A display of London Buses, some race cars, some trains, and some MOCs of VW Beetles
-Some close ups of the VW Beetles
I probably should have gotten someone to stand next to this build of the Statue of Liberty to show it’s size. It is 2 meters tall maybe? An impressive build…
The lighting in the display area is not the best for pictures as you can see by these next to. The first one (on the left) is a Minecraft scene. It pours into a US Western scene. The western scene has been around, but the Minecraft portion is new this year from what I can recall.
Some Elves and Castle sets…
The picture I posted of Das Hambacher Schloss doesn’t do it justice. I think the actual castle is the upper left portion of the picture. You can look this one up, but it’s a castle near the city of Neustadt in Germany. In 1832, there was a protest that took place there and it is now considered the birthplace of democracy in Germany. This build is approximately 82,000 pieces and I think I saw it last year too.
Kleinkastell Pohl was a small fort used in Roman times that was located in Germany. Search this one online for more details, but it’s a great re-creation in brick form.
Here’s a pretty impressive Ninjago scene for those of you who are fans of that genre.
The builders merged the Ninjago display into a display of some of the Chinese Festival Theme sets along with a few MOCs. I like how they did this almost seamlessly.
The City scene they have there is always impressive and they evolve the scene every year with changes. You can click through the pictures I took and then go back to some of the previous years to see if you spot any differences.
Another large scale build of an individual LEGO piece.
2 MOCs… the first looks like it is part of a GBC where the robots pass the balls down the line. The other is a fun display of some collectible minifigures. Now sure who or what “TA” is.
The Empire State Building in a much larger scale than the Architecture set.
Here are two more cases with some more great MOCs and sets inside.
Here is a fun brick built rubber duck.
I’ve seen these before, but here’s the Reichstag and Brandenburg Gate. You can see more of them from my visit last year.
I don’t remember this one from last year or I didn’t take a picture of it, but here’s a version of the Berlin Wall.
This one was there last year, but here’s Frankfurt am Main Hauptbahnhof (Frankfurt Train Station).
Star Wars and Space were mixed into the same room this year. Instead of individual displays, they had a large display of various space vehicles in the same room. It was hard to pick everything out with all that was on display, but it is definitely an impressive collection. Click through to see below.
I gush over this one ever year, but the Cologne Cathedral build is phenomenal! If you’re going to visit this display, this is the one you have to take some time to check out. It’s very impressive!
Here are some vignettes of super heroes and a few others along with some animals.
A few close ups of the vignettes.
Die Sendung mit der Maus literally translates to “the show with the mouse.” This is a children’s program that has been on in Germany since 1971.
Last up are a few sets where they either added to them, modified them, or changed them completely into something else.
There’s a lot more there, but I didn’t take pictures of everything since some of them are unchanged from previous years. Still great builds, but you can see them in posts of previous visits I made there.
Hope you enjoyed my visits to various places in Europe to show some bricks off. I’ll miss it there, but I hope to go back some day. Hoping the Gartenschau Kaiserslautern will still have a LEGO display to check out when I go.
