Winter Village: Candy House

[jaredchan]

Hi all,

First of all, I must apologize for the messy background and the quality of the pictures, I didn't really have much time photographing the model.

This Candy House is built for a LEGO event that is currently taking place in Times Square, Hong Kong. My fellow Legend Bricks members and I started designing and constructing LEGO models for the event in late March 2012. Houses like this Candy House are enlarged to life scale by wood and plastic to accommodate life-scale LEGO models, such as bread, cakes, paintings, flowers, grandfather clock, and all sorts of interior deco that you can think of for a winter village. While this model is never published, I guess pictures of its life-scale cousins should have been floating around the internet since mid-Nov. Anyway, I am just posting it for sharing so feel free to disqualify me ;-)

The timeframe for the initial stage of the project is quite tight so I didn't fit in any interior (nor do I had to, cos that was taken care of in the second stage), but I did gave it some signature features such as a candy cane lamp post and a balcony.

I contributed 3 buildings for the project [From left to right: Music Shop (The Music Shop was repurposed as a Toy Shop for the event with a spinning teddy bear on the first floor balcony, which was temporary removed in the picture), Candy House, Bakery]

Big... and small... and me

Pic with my Carousel~

The event runs from mid Nov to 2 Jan 2013 and opens to public. If you happen to be in town, feel free to pay a visit! (Note: half of the life-scale buildings and the brick built models inside them will be taken down on 26 Dec 2012 for the countdown to 2013. TIme Square Hong Kong is a popular tourism spot and the event is often very crowded.) If Hong Kong is too remote for you, you can also check out some pictures of the event here: https://www.facebook.com/legendbricks

Merry Christmas and I wish you all a joyful and prosperous new year!

[lightningtiger]

Delightful work and merry Christmas to you too 'jaredchan' !

[PsyKater]

This is nice!

[Hey Joe]

Very impressive, thanks for sharing. Who pays for those large models at Times Square? Lego?

[HundredHander]

It's a nice build, and that street scene at the end is terrific.

[Wedge09]

Really nice work :thumbup:

Impressive diorama

[ResIpsaLoquitur]

Lovely! Too bad the rumored CMF Gingerbread Man isn't out yet--if it's true and looks good, it might compliment the scene nicely!

[LegoFan03]

Wow! Beautiful works!

[twenty6twelve]

Breathtaking work. Your miniature models have translated fantastically to life-size scale - it must be any AFOL's dream to see their creations brought to such a huge scale!

The photo of you and your work is certainly front page worthy.

[Kristel]

The candy shop looks great in minifgure scale, and even more amazing in life-size scale. I really like the colour combination you have used. You must be very proud! Well done.

Merry Christmas!

[TheLegoDr]

Those are awesome Definitely some good competition this year. I would say those fit in really well with the regular line.

[LEGO Guy Bri]

Excellent work jaredchan! You did a fantastic job miniaturizing that house.

[soundwave_sw]

very impressive

[King Aragorn]

The huge layout with the ski slope leaves me speechless!

[SilentMode]

That is a really cool build! Good luck with the competition.

[AlcoEmmen]

Wow! Great build, feeling and idea.

Also a really nice carousel!, the original one is way to big for my village, but this would fit perfectly...