Celebrate 20 Years Of Modular Builds with LEGO Fan CoLab X Brickish ‘Modulars Around the World’!
The 20th anniversary of the LEGO Modular Building Collection is next year, to celebrate Brickish and LEGO Fan CoLab are going BIG!
The Modular Buildings series of sets are some of the most popular amongst fans, myself included. These were the first LEGO sets aimed at adult fans, originally known as Creator Expert, they are now a part of the Icons theme. They are sought-after by City builders, display enthusiasts, and those that like a lengthy build. To celebrate the 20th anniversary, 22 LEGO Fan Communities from around the globe have taken on the challenge to make giant versions of these sets, as part of the Modulars Around the World initiative. The scale of the supersized sets is a whopping four times bigger than the original builds, a true case of ‘go big or go home‘. Seeing these in person will surely be a spectacular sight.
To learn more about the initiative and the 22 communities involved, please read through the press releases below. Check out some behind the scenes photos below thanks to members of the Brickish team.
Press release:
Modulars Around the World
22 LEGO® fan communities come together to celebrate 20 years of the LEGO Icons Modular Building Collection
In 2027, the LEGO Icons Modular Building Collection will celebrate its 20th anniversary.
To mark this milestone, 22 Recognized LEGO Fan Communities from around the world are taking on an extraordinary challenge of recreating iconic LEGO Modular Buildings at approximately four times their original scale.
Together, the communities will use millions of LEGO elements to bring a collection of giant Modular Buildings to life, with the creations eventually coming together at events and exhibitions around the world.
The participating communities represent a truly global collaboration, spanning North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.
The LEGO Fan Communities Taking Part:
United States
• BuffaLUG
• Charm City LUG
• ColonialLUG
• Houston Brick Club
• IdahoLUG
• Lincoln Omaha LEGO User Group
• LUGVegas
• Western Michigan LEGO User GroupCanada
• Fraser Valley LUG
• Southern Alberta LEGO User Group
• ToroLUG
• Vancouver LEGO ClubSouth Korea
Australia
• Bendigo LEGO User Group
• Canberra LEGO User Group
• MUGs
• SYDLUGDenmark
Germany
France
United Kingdom
Japan
Each community will be responsible for designing, engineering and constructing its own Modular Building. While the communities will work within shared standards to ensure that when the buildings can come together, they create a cohesive collection, each group will have significant creative freedom to determine how its building comes to life, while maintaining the overall exterior DNA of these iconic buildings.
And this won’t be a small undertaking.
Most communities will work with approximately 500,000 LEGO elements, while two of the largest builds will use approximately 750,000 elements. Across the project, that represents approximately 11.5 million LEGO elements.
Throughout 2027 and into 2028, we hope to see the modulars appearing at major LEGO fan events and public exhibitions around the world. Where opportunities allow, multiple buildings will come together to create even larger displays and celebrate the scale of what these 22 communities have accomplished together.
Follow the journey
Building at this scale is going to take time, creativity, problem solving and a lot of LEGO elements. But most importantly, it will take communities coming together.
Over the coming months, we hope you will follow these communities as they take on the challenge. Watch their designs develop, see the builds take shape, celebrate their progress and discover the stories they choose to tell.
Where opportunities arise, we encourage LEGO fans to visit the events where these Modulars are displayed, meet the communities behind them and experience the builds for themselves.
And if you are part of the wider LEGO fan community, get involved where you can. Share their progress, cheer them on, ask questions, celebrate the milestones and help us recognize the incredible work happening in communities around the world.
This is a celebration of 20 years of Modulars, but it is also a celebration of the people who have built, displayed, talked about and been inspired by them over the past two decades.
Follow the communities, follow the builds, and help us celebrate Modulars Around the World.
22 communities. 22 Modulars. 11.5 million LEGO elements. One global celebration.
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