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All,
Another one of those cool things I just LOVE to announce! Let’s get the word out
about this, and maybe it can help bring some closet-AFOLs out into the open!
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LEGOLAND® MASTER MODEL BUILDER SEARCH IS COMING TO YOUR BLOCK THIS FALL
National tour kicks off Oct. 30 to find newest member of elite building team
CARLSBAD, Calif. (Sept. 25, 2003) – LEGOLAND® California will leave no brick
unturned in the national search for the next member of the LEGO® Master Model
Builder team. In an eight-city tour that will span the country, LEGOLAND
representatives will interview thousands of adults who desire to join the elite
6-member team that brainstorms, then builds, the models that make the Carlsbad
family theme park one of the nation’s most popular and unique vacation
destinations. LEGOLAND California has partnered with The Art Institutes,
America’s leader in creative education, as the official host location in each
city.
“We’re looking for someone who is passionate about playing with LEGO bricks,”
said Courtney Simmons, LEGOLAND spokesperson. “For anyone 18 or older who can
take an idea and recreate it in a three-dimensional form out of little
rectangular bricks, we would love to talk with you!”
Candidates will have the opportunity to pre-register on line for an interview at
www.LEGOMasterBuilder.com, and then meet face-to-face with LEGOLAND team members
when the master model moderators arrive in their city. A limited number of
interview slots will be available in each stop on the tour. Applicants who are
approved in the first round of the search move into phase two – an on-the-spot
model building competition.
“Participants will have 2,000 LEGO bricks, and 45 minutes, to create a model.
The specific theme of the project will not be announced until the clock starts,
so contestants will truly have to exhibit creativity, strategy and calmness
under pressure,” said Patrick DeMaria, head of the building team and a Master
Model Builder himself. “Each city’s competition will have a different theme.”
After kicking off at The Art Institute of California - San Diego on Thursday,
Oct. 30, the official LEGO Master Model Builder Search will head to Art
Institutes in Washington D.C., Boston, Charlotte, Las Vegas, Phoenix, and Los
Angeles before its final stop in Orange County, California. Winners from each
city will be invited to travel to the LEGOLAND theme park in Carlsbad in
February 2004 to interview for the ultimate job – and the chance for the coveted
spot as the seventh LEGO Master Model Builder.
Currently six Master Model Builders work their magic at the park, maintaining
more than 5,000 models composed of more than 30-million regulation LEGO bricks,
and constantly dreaming up new creations. Their projects have ranged from an
animated T-Rex towering 40-feet to a tiny “duck” hanging in the window of a
Chinatown grocery store in the Miniland section of the park.
“We’re all excited about what we’ve built here at the park,” said DeMaria, “but
we’re more excited about what we haven’t done yet. It’s the thrill of dreaming
something up and creating it that makes this the coolest job imaginable.”
Park guests of all ages are astonished at accurate geographical landmarks, like
the nation’s Capitol, the Empire State Building, and New Orleans’ Bourbon Street
at Mardi Gras. They quickly recognize LEGO brick celebrities, like a life-sized
Shaq and Darth Vader, or Albert Einstein’s 25-foot face. Even the rides at the
128-acre park showcase the ingenuity of the Master Model Builders, like the
14-foot, 200,000-brick octopus draped over the popular AQUAZONE Wave Racer, and
the 6-foot race car driver standing guard at the TECHNIC roller coaster.
The Master Model Builders have developed a celebrity-status among park guests,
and frequently answer a barrage of questions while they share building tips.
Some youngsters proudly bring their creations to LEGOLAND to show the Master
Model Builders how they’ve successfully copied a creation they admired during a
previous visit.
As a creative group, Master Model Builders have defied labels. They’ve studied
architecture, sculpture, media design and art history; they’ve been postal
workers, graphic artists and homemakers. They have been special effects
technicians who built, then blew up, models for movies; they skydive, camp, play
music and travel. They do have two things in common – they’ve all been playing
with LEGO bricks since they were kids, and they’re passionate about their work.
People will be able to track the progress of the Master Model Builder Search on
a special dedicated Web site, and see photos of the winning models from each
city. For more information about the competition, visit
http://www.LEGOMasterBuilder.com.
LEGOLAND California is a 128-acre family theme park dedicated to families with
children between the ages of 2 and 12. Just like with LEGO toys, kids are the
ones who make things happen at the Park. They drive, pedal, squirt, climb,
jump, stomp, slide, steer, pull, click, push, gallop, laugh, build and program
their way through more than 50 rides and attractions. There are only three
other LEGOLAND parks in the world -- LEGOLAND® Billund in Denmark, LEGOLAND®
Windsor outside of London and LEGOLAND® Deutschland near Günzburg, Germany. For
the most current information, log on to http://www.LEGOLAND.com or call (760)
918-LEGO.
The Art Institutes system of 29 education institutions is located throughout
North America, providing an important source of design, media arts, fashion and
culinary professionals. The parent company of The Art Institutes, Education
Management Corporation (www.edmc.com) is among the largest providers of private
post-secondary education in North America, based on student enrollment and
revenue. EDMC has provided career-oriented education for 40 years, and its
education institutions have more than 150,000 alumni. For more information
visit The Art Institute website at http://www.artinstitutes.edu.
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Thanks!
Jake
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Jake McKee
Community Liason
LEGO Community Development
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