May the 4th is a special date for any Star Wars fan, but in 2025 it'll be one to remember. A brand-new Lego Star Wars exhibition is making its world premiere, and it won't be in a galaxy far, far away but right here in Melbourne.
Lego Star Wars: the Exhibition at Melbourne Museum comes from revered Lego genius Ryan 'Brickman' McNaught, who's back with his latest mind-boggling project of massive Star Wars brick creations – some standing at a whopping four metres tall.
There'll be Lego replicas of many of the iconic characters, fan favourite scenes, spacecraft and more, from both the classic films and newer releases. Plus, the exhibition will include interactive brick-based activities inclusive of all ages.
While there's still some time to wait for the exhibition opening, building has already begun, and it's expected it'll take more than 25,000 hours to finish and use a wild 8 million Lego bricks.
If you can't contain your excitement, you can see a special preview of one of the impressive Lego models right now. Until December 2, a three-metre-tall red X-wing spacecraft is on display in the museum's foyer. It's made of an astonishing 64,759 bricks and took 382 hours to build – which is just a taste of the scale of the full exhibition.
"Fans will be blown away by the scale of the experience," Brickman says. "Building these iconic scenes and characters in Lego Star Wars form is an extremely complex task – taking the humble Lego brick and using it by the millions to translate into Star Wars builds and models at an epic scale the world has never seen before.
"My team and I are super excited to launch this mind-blowing experience right here in Melbourne. My inner 7-year-old self still can’t quite believe this is happening. I can’t wait till May the Fourth next year to be able to share this incredible galaxy-first exhibition with the fans."
Tickets for the exhibition will go on sale in early 2025, and you can join the waitlist here.