Australian Lego enthusiast Ryan McNaught, 37, also known as the “The BrickMan”, spent more than eight months constructing a 7 ft replica of a Qantas Airbus A380 that he plans to enter in the 2010 Brickworld Lego event in Chicago this June.
His red, white and grey model boasts a range of fully automated touch screen controlled functions including front landing gear, two rear landing gear doors and airbrakes on the wing. Ryan also fitted functioning landing lights, engines, air brakes on the wing and a tail fin on the rear wing.
Among his two-inch-high cast of crew and passengers are iconic characters from well-known films including Indiana Jones, Yoda, and the Samuel L. Jackson character from ‘Snakes on a Plane’.
”I used to work for an airline so had a bit of knowledge about planes, said Ryan, “but it is harder to get information these days because of the world terrorism threat. ‘Most of the designs came off the internet and I had to adapt the scale of the Airbus because your average Lego man is quite fat for his height
