Puffin Festival inspired LEGO design needs your vote
Q: What happens when a bird watching LEGO enthusiast visits Amble Puffin Festival?
A: He creates a puffin scene made entirely of LEGO bricks and submits it to the company, with the hope that it could become an official set.
đź“· Steve Thomas and his LEGO puffins
An adorable puffin family feeding their puffling has been created from LEGO by Steve Thomas from Gateshead. After visiting the Puffin Festival he came up with the design, and entered it into LEGO’s Ideas platform. If it gets enough votes, it could be made into an official set.
The LEGO puffins have visited the Northumberland coast
Steve is a keen LEGO builder and runs two clubs at the school where he works as a High Level Teaching Assistant. He often takes his own creations to exhibitions around the North East, and has made several animal designs.
Steve told The Ambler, “The puffin was developed after visiting last year’s puffin festival. I made a puffling and took it to the random object exhibition.”
His design is called Clown of the Sea. It consists of two puffins watching over the entrance to their burrow, a rocky grassy habitat, where their puffling (baby puffin) is hiding, munching on freshly caught fish. One of the parent puffins even has a fish in his beak which can be changed to a different colour.
If the idea gets more than 10k votes, LEGO will review it and consider it for production. So far it is proving very popular with voters, with 2.4k votes after only a week, Steve says the support he has received on social media has been incredible.
He said, “I have been taking photos of my puffins up and down the Northumberland coast to try and promote my idea, and during May I plan to visit the Farne Islands, hopefully getting real puffins in the background.”
If he can, he also hopes to visit the Puffin Festival again.
You can see the Clown of the Sea design and vote for it here:
